LESLIE ARENDS AND THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100150018-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: April 1, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHiNGTOIN L)AJLY
NEWS
APR 1 1964
WASH NC N
A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER
'Give light and the people will find their own way"
John T. O'Rourke, Ray F. Mack,
Editor Business Manage
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1964
1013 13th ST. N.W. (20005)? DI. 7-7777.
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AST week Congressman Le ' s1 i e tee to oversee the CIA, a step a vo-
Arends of Illinois took to the House cate.d by the Hoover Commission of
;f oor with a thoro-going defense of ? 1955, by numerous members of Con-
t e Central Intelligence Agency. He gress-and by ordinary c o m m o n
Aid he did this because" the CIA, our':.sense. He said the House Armed
s per hush-hush undercover outfit, Services Committee has a subcommit-
- d been falsely accused-and he tee, of which he is a member, which
led, some examples. adequately polices the CIA. CIA also,
theoretically is watched by other Sen-
So far as we know,, Mr. Arends' ate and House sub-committees.
rsion of the "facts" were correct. If a joint committee were "super-
He also said the CIA is the "finest imposed on all these 'fragmentary
I telligence . agency in the world to-
y," which also may be correct; we ? watchdogs,.. Mr. Arends suggests, too.
many would know all ' the secrets.
ve no way of knowing. -.Well, one carefully chosen joint comp
The assurance from Mr. Arends is mittee certainly would be more likely
mforting, because he is the No. 2 to hold its tongues than a half dozen,
epublican leader of the House, and ? scattered around the. Capitol. -
(an. be quite p a r t i s a n when he Indeed, it boils down to the issue
noses. He is the top Republican stated by another responsible member
i .the House Armed Services Com- of Congress, Sen. E u, g e n e Mc-
ittee, and, in this capacity, he said, Carthy, a _ Minnesota Democrat, who
e has been privy to much of the says that only with a specialized joint
inside" of CIA operations, and what
committee can Congress live up to its
e knows gives him. full confidence in
own .obligations in. this. field.. The
e. agency, more secret an agency's operations,
But ' Mr. Arends went :on to argue the more need for competent," outside
gainst a joint congressional commit- ;checks.
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