CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS BAR SPECIAL INQUIRY INTO C.I.A.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200260001-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 25, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Congressional leaders said to.
day that there would be no spe-
clal investigation the legis-
lative '):anch of the Central
Intelligence Agency.
Republican leaders, who have
bee. critical of the Johnson
Administration on almost every
'other issue, said at a news con-
Ireronce that they saw no reason
to look Into the intelligence
agency's involvement with pri-
' vate organizations and institu?
.1itions.
Senator Everett McKinley
Dlr1cscn' of Illinois, the Senate
minority leader, said disclosures
lfthat the agency had been.giv-
ing money to educational and
labor groups and foundations
r,
amounted to little more than
a Roman holiday."
Representative Gerald R.
Ford of Michigan, the House
thin aftornoon, senator Vance
Ititrgco, Democrat of Indiana,
renewed the charge that the
n used to combat Communist
propaganda in the cold war.
Senator Mansfield said later
!in responso to questions that he
(agreed there was sufficient
ICongreasioifal oversight of the
student: mern'aer's' :or' Senate watchdog committee, re.
officers of the National Students cently enlarged to 12 members,
Association as undercover' questioned Richard Helms, Di.
agents. . rector of Central Intelligence,
Mr. Hartke said that during about the subsidies.
the revolution in the Dominican Senator Richard B. Russell,
Republic in 7.065, the agency Democrat of Georgia, who is
sent American student leaders head of the committee, report.
to the Caribbean island "osten- ed that `r. Helms had said that
sibly to talk with studs t in view u- the disclosures, agen-
leaders Ili that country about cy assistance to a number of
university modernization:' . organizations would be suspend.
He said the United States ed.
students also gathered infor- Senator Mansfield, a member
mation on local students and of the committee, was asked if
dispatched .1t to the agency and the committee would make fur.
that. reports..vere used by the ther inquiries into the agency's
agency in preparing intelligence operations.
evaluations of the revolution. "For the time being, I think
IIowever, Philip Sherburne, it is enough," Senator Mans-
president of the association in field said, "I am sure the Kat-
1065 and a key figure in Lhei zenbach committee will go into!
.association's break with the, this. thoroughly and Lin--I
agency, said. tonight that he' partially."
was. "not, aware that anyone' Serving with Mr. 1Caatzenbacy,
from N. S. A. was there during e.re Mr_ Halms e?.d the se
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"epiloncan lea er, said Jere a ., ~un~ ?~,JLY, JVan W. -saner.
as far as', 1, know, that was STATI NTL
is enough Congressional sur- - ,,,,r .inn.. h...,,.,. ____
Mansfield of' Montana, Senate i And I Was pretty well aware
Democratic leader, a and of the relations between the
N. S. A. and C. I. A. people
said he believed an Investigation then."
of the subsidies should be left; The Republican position was
to an antra-Administration'com-f brought out at a news confer.
mittee; appointed by President once in the Capitol by Repro-,'
Johnson and directed by Under sentative Ford and Senator
Secretary of State Nicholas deB.I Dirkscn. They opened the con-1
itatzenbach. '
The h ouse -11 bronco by reading prepared
Labor
Lion Committee, which was re-
ported last week to be initiat-
ing an investigation of intelli
gence agency subsidies to the
National Student Association,
plans no hearings or inquiry
that ' Would increase Congres-
sional oversight of the agency.
A. spokesman for the com-
mittee said that the chairman,
Carl D. Perkins, Democrat of
Kentucky, had asked the agen-
cy and the student association
for written reports on the mat-
??ter but was not expected to
pursue the subject further.
Members of Congress who
have.bcen asking for new Con1-
gressional inquiries do not
have the authority to bring
them about.?A proposal by Sen-
ator Eugene J. McCarthy, Demo-
crat of Minnesota, to appoint
a select Senate committee to in-
vestigate the agency's Involvc-
jment with domestic institutions
l;; considered dead by Senate
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