CONGESSMAN ASKS TIGHTER REVIEW OF CIA'S OPERATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100400022-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: May 14, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

WASHINGTON POST
AND TIMES HERALD
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Congressman `A1sks
Tighter -Review of .
'CIA's Operations
PYRGHT
Rep. ? J ona on n am
(D-N.Y.?)' called yesterday' fort
of,. the Central Intelligence
Agency and all Intelligence
operations. of the Executive;
Branch.
In'partIcular, Bingham
urged addition of members of
the Senate Foreign Relations
'
was
system, that members of .thi
House be elected for?four-yeas
terms, instead , of the presen
Foreign Affairs
and, House
Committees to the select group
of Congressmenwho,. scruti-
nize CIA. affairs. He said the
successes' or failures of the,
Agency "materially alter-the
course of our international re-
Bingham madf his proposal
to a Senate-House committec
studying the reorganization bf~
Another, witness before. the
Committec, Rep, Morris IX:.,
porations operated like Con-'
gress "the 'oldest janitors
would be running the show.
The object of his scorn , wast
the seniority system of select.,
ing committee chairmen..
Udall proposed that commit-.
'tee chairmen be Chosen in
secret ballot "by the majority,
party from among the three..
senior committee members.:
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