CIA WANTS LIE BILL SENT BACK TO SECRET HEARING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200600044-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: August 28, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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CIA officials, whose identi.
ty could not be learned,
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cedent." But Ervin said he
would be willing to have the
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WASHINGTON contacted Sen. James O. East- CIA testify in a public session.
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-land (D-Miss.), the~udiciar
entral Intelligence Agency, in Y IN AN INTERVIEW, Er.
highly unusual move, ? has Committee chairman, and Sen. uietly asked the Senate Judi- Birch Bayh, (D-Ind.) to re- vin elaborated his position.
0010ary Committee to" hear its quest a secret hearing on thee "They apparently don't want
!private objections to a bill al- agency's objections. any law applied to them," he
.ready reported to'the Senate for Eastland promptly p ass e d. said. "They seem. to think they
action. along the CIA's request to the ought not to be accountable.'
The bill is a measure de- other committee members. He for anything."
signed to safeguard the privacy also distributed a letter from As f or the' hearings re- .
pf government errhployes from Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D-N.C.) quested by the CIA, Ervin de-
unwarranted i n t r u s i o'n s. principal sponsor of the privacy Glared, "I'm opposed to secret
Among other things, it would bill. hearings. It's ridiculous to ask
limit the use of lie-detector and Ervin's I c t t e r to .Eastland for secret hearings on legisla-?
[psychiatric.tests by all federal warned that recommittal of the tion affecting the rights' of
agencies, including, the CIA bill would "sot an unusual pre- Americans."
:.. ..: ---- - -=--, Twice during committee
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consideration of the bill, he
went on, the CIA was invited
,to testify. On both occasions,
the invitation was declined, he
invitation was declined, he
said.
THE CIA apparently is most
i, concerned about the bill's lim-
'' itations on its use of lie=
detector and psychiatric exami-
t nations, devices used to screen
applicants for CIA jobs.
Ervin's original bill pro-. hibited any federal agency, in, cluding, the CIA and the equal-
ly sensitive National Security
Agency, from asking any em- `"
i ploye or job applicant about
his sex life, his religion or 'his
family relationships as part of
a lie-detector test
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