SENATE PROBE OF CIA BACKED BY FULBRIGHT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200870022-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2003
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: February 1, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2003/12/02 CIA-RDP75-00149
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es Of Private T'nternatio a1. ,Activities
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Alarm Foreign R claiions Co2211 s tt He t
By PHILIP PO'rT),Tt
[Wasisingtor. Bureau of The Sun;
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VL !.Ile Senate Foreign Relationsldcr` Johnson was u.lawa:e Ci
!Corn: !Lien, today supported the1repo- ts that CIA grants were
I ea of a special Senate invest! !fu-re d through various f0 7
brother o: t",e head of t-?e
t.,ation c Cenu'a1 Intelhgenced,,t,o s to tl;e':1,S.!., and such'
A el.cy financing of cold war other organizations ;Stile An1Cr State Department. I think cer
war U s i . tabor, jour,.aiist andjican Newspaper Guild for use' twin relations grew up here that!
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By PHILIP Porr .it
(Continued from ?ci c A 1)
?tt; ae quiie an ac equate response
to this."
F ulbright said his Own vies'
T-
Ther e is some fear that CI t disclosure will further set
barb establishment of I
dian?Ameriean fntindation to
p o 11otc e uCnt oral progress in
financed
, vi':ln 5300.C'OI~,003
Nvorth of Indian currency held!
Iy the United States re. t!iin
!from silos of Surplus agricul-I
t,i Il p c ducts,
` rime ~4inlster Indirm Gdndhl
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nson disclosed IL I
was that the CIA should bei
t during hPr white House ViSlt
restricted to the "gathering of I
I apt March,
information" and taken out ofi 3 she-told a \atio~al Press;
the operational activity which lie (llib alld;enCC care Si)ot:ld bC
said It got into "under the Eisen-i exercised that foundation be
bower Administration when you 1iormed and administered &:i as:
video covert support for various
groups "dui in- the height of the)
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'C.:' \,'ar when Stalin was still'
lulls, he said, he believed the
Sennate should institute more
formal supervision of such ac-
t"he .,w
? tiiF.rs ii. has hiu, n.l .
)Meanwhile, various agencies,
such as the United States In
IVI+:fat Jil Ate,n,y and the
Agency for i clnational De el
Iy crib ;ger ir1
cpme t are
asscss.nb any aarges taey
newly free country highly sebsi-;
Live to the threat Of foreign In-)
1 Those agitating again t the
foundation in India has raised
the CIA bugaboo already Last!
week's uevoiopme!its will give,
them more ami,lunit,on, it i5!
.feared by AID and irldiao Em
hassv nfErials `here. i
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htsaid:Th
at doesn
t ?e2;i
Of " bri
kind
-kind 0 aCtiVlty. I , b _ - =he Cit''. tertacl .s -cached out
II In India, for instance, it is
th
t
the radical feet has
;feared
a
been given a new handle which
. to attack suoh USIA projects as
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cutta, opened in 10;35 In the
visited the' first year by 50,0001
,students land faculty..
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