SENATOR CLARK HITS F.B.I. AND C.I.A. AS DANGER TO U.S.

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

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Senator Clark Hits
F.B.I. and C.I.A.
As Danger to U.S.'
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toda describer
Y 1 the "mllita r1?
industrial con plc,," the F.B.(.
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and the C.I.A. a.s major 4.hreats
to American deniorracy,
The Pennsylrani,l. Democrat
charged the Fcdrrai Bureau of
(Investigation posing a.
threat of "bI;arkm;rj ' agr1111st.
those critical of is dircntci.,:
J. Edgar Hoover. The Central'
Intelligence Agency, he said, is
necessary, but is accumulating.
a dangerous degree of power.
Broadcasting oSys,tcm' s Mradl of
Interview program "Reporters';
Roundup" Mr. Clark said..
"There are three major threats-
to the successful survival of
American democracy,"
The first
he
id
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sa
is,
that military-industrial complex
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va
rious parts'
mous Impact which the military
and their industrial partners
exercise over public opinion and,
on the members of Congres
the Senate.
'The second danger is the
C.I A., an intelligence agency
1wh ch we've got to have, which
!Practically 'ever
oth
y
er nations
ha, which I think in our coun.1
try has achieved a position of
p01 er pretty close to the da
n-
ger line," Mr. Clark continued.:
nd the thi
d
r
is evidenced
by recent disclo.;ures in ', the
ne papers of the P.l,I. and
the threat they prise to the
prl cy of the individual ciilzerL
J
and the further threat hhey
Pose by way of blackmail,; di-
rect or , Indirect, on ar>,yt dy
who has the effront ?r t to 'lsa;y
any in unkind about Uri J,I
]OOV'er."
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