THE CIA AND NSA

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 22, 1999
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• Publication Date: February 15, 1967
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FebruarJ ~?pf9~Y~d For
We recognize the world need for more
food, iout when the American farmer is
asked by the Agriculture Department to
increase productions, he should at least
have t;he assurance that his cooperative
efforts do not result in a price decline. .
Having flrat raised the subject of in-
creased production versus farm prices
last summer when the Department an-
nounced that wheat acreage would be
increased, I now ask: Does this news wire
service story herald another attempt. to
keep farm prices down2 Is the Agricul-
ture Department willing to use tactics
to encourage production without assur-
ances to farmers that the price structure
will be improved?
With the most unfortunate develop-
ment that farm parity recently dropped
to 75 percent, I have written the Agri-
culture Department to obtain more in-
formation on the new farmer-persuasion
campaign as reported by Associated
Press, and its impact on American
agriculture.
This news item also reported that
those farmers ignoring Government pro-
ductian goals "face loss of Government
subsid',ies."
Exactly what "subsidies" are the farm-
ers going to lose? Does,the Department
view diversion payments and price sup-
ports :as merely devices in its compliance
THE CIA AND NSA
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"watchdog" committees for the CIA
should be broadened to include by law
members oP the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions and the House Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee along with rnembcrs of the Armed
Services Committees. The CIA opera-
tion is clearly related to this country's
foreign policy as well as its military pos-
ture. Indeed it may well be that the
agency's influence on foreign policy is
greater than it is on defense policy. It
therefore seems logical. that members of
the committee which handle foreign pol-
icy legislation should be included on the
watchdog committees.
In view of the revelations concerning
CTA's flnancirrl support of what most
Americans had believed to be a. com-
pletely private student group it is essen-
tial that Congress bring this agency un-
der control. The American people may
reasonably wonder how much subterfuge
is financed by tkre Government right here
at home. "
(Mr. FINDLEY (at the request of Mr.
CARTER) w&6 granted permission to ex-
tend his remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to include extraneous
matter.)
CMr. FINDLEY'S remarks will appear
DRAFT STIMULATES YOUNG
MEN TO ENLIST
(Mr'. FINDLEY (at the request of Mr.
CARTEn) was granted perxtri?sion tO ex-
tend his remarks at this point in the
RECOnD and t0 include extraneous
matter. )
Mr. FINDLEY. Mr. Speaker, the re-
cent disclosure that the Central Intel-
ligence Agency has been subsidizing vari-
ous activities of the National Student
Association is indeed shocking. This.or-
ganization supposedly represented or
purported to represent a segment of stu-
dent opinion In this country on various
political issues.
This is but one more indication that
the C][A is obviously getting out of con-
trol. These revelations may gravely
dama(;e our? national prestige. The
large-scale cloak and dagger activities
of the CIA and the often ridiculous ex-
tremes taken in the name of national
security are clearly against the principle
of an open society which we hold our-
selves to be. No great power can exist
without a well-organized intelligence
service, and certainly not in the cold war
era. :But the gathering of secret infor-
mation in the military, economic, and-
above all-political fields is one thing.
The manipulation of this country's for-
eign policy and the intrusion of CIA ac-
tlvitie;s in legitimate functions of a uni-
versity or private organization is some-
thing entirely different.
I am preparing legislation, the adop-
tion of which I believe will greatly
strengthen congressional control over the
activii;ies of this agency. I am propos-
ing that the CIA come before the Con-
gress each year for annual authorization
in order that its activities may be more
closely scrutinized. Under this pro-
cedurc;- the Congress would have two
avenues for review: first, the authoriza-
tion a:nd, second, appropriation.
(Mr. SCHWEIKER (at the request of
Mr. CARTER) was granted permission to
extend liis remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to include extraneous
matter.)
Mr. SCHWEIKER. Mr. Speaker, in
connection wit$ my proposal for draft
reform, which I outlined February 7, I
would like to point out that the draft
stimulates young men to enlist and about
one man enlists for every one actually
inducted through selective service. The
effect oP my proposals would not be to cut
enlistments, but simply to force young
men to enlist sooner than they do now.
They would have to decide before 18 r/z
whether to enlist, risk being drafted, or
enter college on a student deferment with
liability for the draft after college.
FLAMMABLE FABRICS ACT OF 1954
(Mr. QUIE (at the request of Mr.
CARTER) was granted permission to. ex-
tend his remarks at this point fn the
RECORD and to include extraneous mat-
terJ
Mr. QUIE. Mr. Speaker, I have today
reintroduced a bill which I believe is of
vital importance to every American con-
sumer and offers Protection that is long
overdue. I am referring to a measure to
strengthen the Flammable Fabrics Act of
1954. The purpose of my bill is to reduce
the danger of iniux?y and loss of life by
providing, an a national basis, standard
methods of testing and rating the flam-
mability of textiles and textile products
for bedding use, thereby discouraging the
use of any dangerously?flammable bed=
ding textiles.
Specifically, my bill prohibits the man-
ufacture for sale, the sale, or the offer-
ing for sale in commerce, or the importa-
troduction, delivery for introduction,
transportation or causing to _be trans-
ported in commerce or for the purpose
of sale or delivery after sale !n commerce,
of any article of bedding which under
conditions and in the manner pr?escr?ibed
in a commercial .standard is so highly
flammable as to be dangerous when used
by individuals. All of these activities
shall be deemed unlawful and shall be
unfair methods of competition and un-
fair and deceptive acts or practices in
commerce under the Federal Trade Com-
mission Act.
The term "bedding" is defined to mean
sheets, covers, blankets, comforters,
pillowcases, quilts, bedspreads, mattress
pads, the outer covering oP pillows, mat-
r?esses, and box springs, and all other
products used or intended to be used on
or? about a bed or other Place for re-
clining or sleeping, but shall not include
furniture.
Where the prescribed commercial
standards-originally set up to test items
of wearing apparel in a vertical posi-
tion-are inadequate for proper testing
of the flammability of bedding, provision
is made for the Department of Commerce
to be given full and continuing authority
to revise and strengthen the current
sonabie safety of the consuming public.
The Flammable Fabrics Aet was cre-
ated in 1954 as a result oP the so-called
explosive sweater incidents. 'These
sweaters were brushed viscose rayon, a
very inflammable fabric, and the same
fiber that is going into millions of
brushed blankets today. Fox? some
strange reason, the act applied to ap-
parel only and never covered such vital
items as sheets, covers, blankets, com-
forters, pillowcases, quilts, bedspreads,
and so forth.
At the same time this bill was passed,
most of the new synthetic fibers were
dust in the process of being developed and
introduced to the American market.
This includes all of the acrylic fibers
such as Orlon, Acrilan, Cresland, Zefran;
the modacrylics such as Verel and Dy-
nal; the polyesters such as Dacron and
a host of other less-known Ynthetics.
Since that time, many of th~se flber?s
which are not only quite flammable but
also productive of a dangerous hot melt-
ing liquid that may result in serious or
possibly fatal burns have been adapted
and are in widespread use today. Es-
pecially when used for bedding, these
fabrics ar?e potentially dangerous to the
user because of the speed and the in-
tensity of flame -with which they bw?n
and their ease in ignition. Millions of
homes are being filled with many fabrics
of this description with no consideration
to the flammable qualities. The -situ-
ation is most critical because the public
is generally under the impression that
the Flammable Fabrics Act protects
them against all significant flammable
fabrics. In many cases the impression
of protection is an illusion and i feel that
protective legislation should be updated
and made genuinely effective.
Let me cite a few examples: take the
case of blankets-where millions of con-
sumers own highly flammable viscose
rayon blankets and blankets made of
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