SPY AGENCY UNSPIED ON, GEORGIA SOLON NOT WORRIED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200780009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 3, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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small group of senators who
Fifth District Rep. Charles Li
Weltner, a second-term con
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ities of the super spy Central
Intelligence Agency apparently
gressional supervisory group
over the international spy or-
i
'about the CIA.
"It doesn't bother me much
"
,
are no, m o r e of a worry to
Georgia's lawmakers in Wash-
ganizatiori.
,
Weltncr said. "The thing that
:
ington than are those of the
The group knows where the
'
got me was that as you enter
girl next door.
CIA
s money is hidden in ap-
the foyer out there, engraved
'
'Pie Georgians, while not flip-
propriation bills and it has an
ear to some operations
but not
in stone
is YOU shall know the
truth and the truth .shall make
pant about spying activities,
,
all.
you free.','
expressed confidence in the CIA.
They don't view its highly se-
THE CIA IS an organization
ANOTIII;R lawmaker
not a
crctive operation as a threat to
th
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i
t
which you can't talk much
,
.Georgian, explained the reason
e
ee soc
e
y-an opinion
heard sporadically around the
about,'either because you don't
for the unspied-on system of
know anything or because you
Congress appropriating funds to
country.
do.
the CIA with most members
Most of the congressman feel
However, Russell said he be.
left in the dark.
this way although the CIA is
lieves the CIA is sticking to its
He said all of Congress is not
such a super :. py operation that
proper job of "collecting infor-
informed because all congress-
Congress as a whole does not
mation for. the executive depart.
men can't always be trusted
know when it is appropriating
ment."
with the nation's. highest level
funds-or how much to the or-
He thinks the CIA makes mis-
security data,
ganization.
takes, but that it is frequently
There have been U. S. con-
criticized unjustly.
gressmen who were not given
ANY LURKING doubts that
Sixth District Rep. Jack Flynt
complete security clearance, he
Georgia legislators might have
Jr., a member of the House Ap.
said.
about the CIA can be. comforted
b
the fact th
t S
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propriations C o m m i t t e e, 'de-
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Therefore, he explained, funds
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m not. concerned one
for the
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B. Russell knows as much about
the ' agenc
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in
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hidden spots within the series
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a
o, say, on the, sub-.
of appropriation bills that flow
Congress..:
ject
through the House and Senate.,!
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