SUPERVISION OF CIA IS BACKED ANEW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200600059-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: October 10, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

DURHAM.. N.C. OCT 1 0 1963
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Datpn. OCT 10 1963
aril Ervin's Colui !,
Supervision
Of CIA. Is
Backed .Aneav
By SAM Ir;RVIN
u.s. Scua y t hi? 1 (',
WASHINGTON - Two weeks
of Senate debate on the nuclear
test ban treaty have served a
useful national pul'pose. I was
glad to find that virtually all of
the members of the Senate en-
tertained my view that we must
be extremely diligent in the fu-
ture to maintain our national de-
fense in the highest state of
readiness, notwithstanding the
treaty. The debate made it plain
that the Senate is unwilling to
depend upon pious hopes in the
quest for peace. The public was
presented': with the arguments
which found'the Senate divided.
into three' opinions on the mer-'
its of, the' treaty rather than,
those 'who favored and those
taho opposed ratification.
Some Senators favored the
treaty without any 'misgivings.
Others opposed the treaty on de-
fense grounds. Then, there were Moreover, the frustrating
many, who like myself, voted events in Viet Nam bring into
to ratify the treaty, but who had t focus an old debate which has
individual misgivings about the been going on intermittently
wisdom of negotiating the agree- about the accuracy of our mili-
ment. Out of the debate came tary intelligence information.
the consensus that while we Some years ago, Senator Mans-
must pursue the path of peace, field proposed that Congress
we must also "keep our pow- should set up a joint Congression-
der dry." at Committee coml.used of
Indicative of this sentiment House and Senate members who
was the virtually unanimous vote would be charged with oversee-
appropriating $47 billion for our lug the activities pf the ..4;k
national defense in Senate action n'h1 h operates in I xecuti -'
which closely followed the rati- c'recy. I supported that sags,*cs-
fication of the test ban treaty. tion which was not adopted. Re-
Together with only appropriation cent reports of conflicting poli,
measures for military construe- ties being pursued by the CIA
Lion and defense needs, the mili- and the State Department in Viet
tary budget approved by Con- Nam emphasize anew that Con-
gress this year is likely to be tressional committee supervi-
in the neighborhood of $53 bil- 'ion of the CIA is still a meritor-
lion. lcus reform measure.
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