CLARK LISTS 3 THREATS TO DEMOCRACY IN U.S.

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: December 19, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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Clark Lies 3 Threats
To Dentocracy in U.S.:
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opinion and on the members
of Congress and the, Senate.
"The second danger," Clark
continued, "is the CIA, an in-
!telligence" agency which we've
got to have, which practically
every other nation has, which
I think in our country has
achieved a position of power
pretty close to the danger
line.
"And the third," h~ said, "'Isi
Sen. Joseph S. Clark (1)-l~a.),
yesterday described the "n: ili-
tary-industrial complex," the
FBI and the CIA as the three
major threats to American
democracy.
Speaking on the Mutual
Broadcasting System's radio
program "Reporters' ilou ~u i-
up," Clark said the mint r -
Industrial complex w'aic,, i can.
oral Eisenhower warned 11:;
against . is evidenced in
very high quarters by our
strong support of military
regimes in various parts of
the world and by the enor-
mous impact which the miii-
tar and their industrial rt
evidenced by recent disclo-
sures in the newspapers of
the FBI and the threat they
pose to the privacy of the in-
dividuil citizen and the fur-
ther threat they pose by way
of ' blackmail, direct or indi-
rect, on anybody who has the
effrontery to say anything un-
kidd about (FBI Director) J.
1 flT ar ifLoover," C a~' k
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