THE QUESTION RECURS. . . .

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100840014-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: April 30, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

WORLD-TELEGRAM &
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pointed his ow a r' fisted adviser, dark Cliff`
ford, to be chairman of the'Foreign Intelli-
gence Advisory Board.
This board keeps tabs -on the- Central
Intelligence Agency and other hush-hush
'outfits in the government.
As a I tird dog for the President, it no
doubt is useful.
But it is part of the administration, just
It 'doesn't answer the recurring ques.
Von: Why shouldn't Congress set up its
own.comnuttee to eagle-eye the spy outfit?
These agencies spent who-knows-how-
many billions of taxpayer money without
any real accounting to Congress, and thus
indirectly to the public.
A bi-partisan I o i n t committee of
Congress, functioning in this area as
similar Congressional committees do in
other fields (such as atomic energy), would
be an assurance, at least, that the country
is getting the results it is paying for.
ernment.
It is the more important because there
Is so much necessary secrecy in the Intel.
ligence game-yet it is the least policed of
all the innumerable branches of the ' gov
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