BROADER REVIEW OF CIA URGED BY CONGRESSMAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100400023-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: May 14, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Approved For'Release 2M66/d&2 'SCIA-R
CPYRGHT,
.Broader Review of CIA`
Urged by Congressman
`Su?prsecret Agency's Acts Alter Course
of Foreign Relations, Committee Told
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bers of these committees, tive oyersi ht;, u 4tl' fir
(plus some from-the Foreign('
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gress.'received another.pro-
,posal Thursday, to broaden
,congressional review of the
ydoerations of the supersecret
;Central Intelligence Agency.
Rep, Jonathan B. Bing-
,ham (D-N.Y.) told a joint
congressional committee
that CIA'-successes or fail-
ures ? "materially' alter the
course of our irsiternational
relations."
Bingham said he under-
stands that special subcom-
mitteea of Senate and House
,Appropriations and Armed
Services Committees now
,scrutinize CIA. operations.
Joint Group Urged
He proposed that a joint
.Senate-House review group
be ' formed to include mem-
Relations Committees. Con-
rgress has rejected similar
proposals in the past.
Sen. A. S. (Mike) Monro-
ney (D-Okla.), chairman of
,the joint committee studying
reorganization of Congress,
,said he is on the Senate Ap-
propriations Committee and
doesn't know which mem-'
hers are on the special CIA,
,study, group, "but I have my
suspicinnst
`Bingham said the CIA pre-
?fers the present system, and
In 1g56 Its influence was suf
ficient to'defeat it proposal to
Create a ' joint :committee of
review. t
k. But Bingham, a former
member-of the U,S, `delega-
tion to the United Nations,
,said that since then
-,"The. ''world has learned
that,CXA Is operational in In-
tLrnatioi7ki actiyft AS.
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mas ermine the con-
struction and use of the .U?2
aerial reconnaissance plane
. was also responsible for
the planning and execution
of the Bay of Pigs operation'
(in Cuba) In 1981 . . . was(
responsible for giving criti-
cal aid in the overthrow of a
Communist government in
Guatemala.. . . encourages
Indigenous forces involved
with political affairs In other)
Bingham said he wasn't)
criticizing the operations of,
the; CIA, adding,. "I do not
claim to have .sufficient In;
formation on which to form
such a judgment.
"All that I suggest is that
there be at joint committee
composed of, those' in whom
we . do have ': confidence
which can give 01 guidance
in discharging otlt 'le
Isla.