CIA ASKS TO PROBE EMPLOYES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200600005-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 1, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Senate Protec'is
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Personal Lives
Agency (CIA) wants its spies
The CIA request has caused
grilling about intimate details
? of their family relations, sex
the Senate for
the proposed
rights" to,,
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the leadership; to delay debate
senators and recommenaea
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Race, Religion
The bill, product of long
hearings by Sen. Ervin's con-
stitutional rights subcommit-
tee, would put an end to such,
questioning.
It would also prohibit indis-
criminate requirements that
employes and applicants for
Government employment dis-
close their race, religion or
national origin; participation
in outside activities unrelated
to their employment; reports.;
on their outside activities, or :?
support of political candi-
dates.
It would make it illegal to
coerce an employe to buy':,
bonds or make charitable con-
tributions or to require him
to disclose his personal assets,
liabilities or,expenditures or
those of any member of his'
family unless such items.,
would tend to show a conflict
of interests.
"Why," asked Sen. Ervin,
"do these. two agencies. want
the license to coerce their
employes to contribute to
charity and to buy bonds?
?ersonal Questions
" bo they not know how to
evaluate a secretary for em-
ployment without asking her
if she loved her mother,
if she goes to church every ;
week, if she believes in God, -
if she believes in the second
coming of Christ, if her sex
life is satisfactory . . . what
she dreams about, and many
other extraneous matters?"
Moreover, Sen. Ervin said;.
A he bill already allows CIA
and NSA to use lie detector
or psychological, tests to
elicit information from an
employe or applicant on his
personal relations with any
person connected with him by
blood or marriage, his re-
ligious beliefs, or his attitude
or conduct with respect to
sexual matters.
"The basic premise of (the
i `bill of rights') is that a man
who 'works for the Federal
Government sells his serv-
iees, not his soul," Sen. Ervin
snid
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