SENATE DELAYS DEBATE ON SUBVERSIVES BOARD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200600036-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: August 30, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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y CECIL HOLLAND-
Star Staff Writer
Senate pointed today
i a Labor Day recess after
pping for the present, at
floor battle over the
-live Activities Control
recess will start at the
of tomorrow's session and
until Sept. 12.
a reshuffling of plans,
Nate Majority Leader Mike
' ctnsfield yesterday accepted a
-louse resolution starting the
-ecess one day earlier than he
,. +d scheduled.
Proxmire Prepared
At the same time, Mansfield
off Senate action on all
,,tef i oversial matters except the
ru:tiation of Solicitor General
:iurgood Marshall as a mem-
7er of the Supreme Court.
e,la,us De
Y
their members.
Proxmire readily acknowl-
edged that he and Tydings were
set to talk against the bill. He
said he also expected some
assistance from Kennedy, who
was among members of the
Senate Judiciary Committee
voting against reporting the bill.
Peroxmire said lengthy dis-
cussion was in order since the
committee held no hearings on
the measure. He said he planned
to move for the recommittal
when the bill comes before the
Senate again.
Favors Abolishment
Proxmire had " introduced a
bill to abolish the board as
useless. He did this when a furor
arose a few weeks ago over
President Jol?nson's appoint-
ment of 29-year-old Simon Mc-
Hugh Jr. as -a $26,000-a-year
member of the five-man board.
Last August, McHugh married
Victoria McCammon, one of the
President's former secretaries.
Among the matters put off
until after the recess was Senate
consideration of an independent
offices approriation bill carrying
funds for the model cities and
supplemental rent programs.
The Senate Appropriations Com-
mittee restored to the bill the;
Action on.a Subversive Activi-
ties Control Board bill was
called off yesterday after Sen.
William Proxmire, D-Wis., came
to the Senate floor prepared to
carry on an extensive battle
against it.
Senate Republican Leader
Everett M. Dirksen, sponsor of
the bill,, told reporters he had
"learned by the grapevine" that
Proxmire, Sen. Joseph D.
Tydings, D-Md., and Sen. Ed-
ward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.,
were planning to talk against
the bill through Friday at least.
The bill would redefine the
functions of the board in keeping
with rulings of the Supreme
Court and an appeals court that
the board could not require the
registration of persons belonging
to the Communits party or the
party itself.
The Dirksen bill was intended
to allow the board to function
within the framework of the
court' decisions by determining
Communist organizations and
drastic cuts the House made in
funds for these Great Society
undertakings.
The appropriation bill was
scheduled to be reported by the
committee during the day. But
.two Republican senators, it was
versilves Board
understood, objected to taking
up the bill before the committee
filed its report.
In floor debate, meanwhile,
Sen. Sam J. Ervin, D-N.C.;.
sponsor of a bill intended to;
protect the privacy and rights of
federal employes, rapped thel
Central Intelligence Agency and;
,National Security Agency for
seeking exemptions.
Ervin said the two ageneiesl
"want the unlimited right to
kick federal employes around,
deny them respect for individual
privacy and the basic rights
which belong to every American
regardlesa of the mission of his
agency."
Mansfield announced Monday
the bill would be brought up
yesterday, but at the request of-
the CIA, action was delayed,
1 until the week of Sept. 19.
Ervin was joined by Sen.
Roman L. Hruska, R-Neb., in
-protesting the CIA's action after
.the bill already had been ap-
proved by the Senate Judiciary
Committee and placed on the
Senate's legislative calendar.
Hruska said the CIA has been ..
"one of the greatest transgres-sors of -the rights of govern
ment employes.
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