SUBSIDIZED VACATIONS AND SCORCHING CRITICISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200890086-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: July 28, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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'PROGRAM Today in Congress
July 28, 1966
STATION WMAL Radio
6:50 PM
STATINTL
Washington, DC
SUBSIDIZED VACATIONS AND SCORCHING CRITICISM
JOSEPH MCCAFFREY: "A House Armed Services Subcommittee to-
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subsidized vacation periodically. The Subcommittee approved leg-,
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practices and policies, after a pitch. from the Director
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permit the Agency to send its overseas-based agents someplace toy
quote, 'relax.' Th.e bill authorizes such. a government paid trip.,
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"Over on the Senate side, th.e CIA Director himself drew
scorch.ing'criticism for having written a letter applauding a
newspaper editorial, which had attacked Senator J. William Ful-
brigh.t as crafty. When Helms' letter was published in the St.
Louis Globe Democrat yesterday, it voiced the new CIA's chief's
.pleasure in having read an editorial critical of Fulbri
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efforts to bring the CIA under surveillance of his Senate Foreign:
Relations Committ
ee, or at least some of its members.
"The latest explosion in th.e CIA dispute came as the Senate
published the transcript of that historic Senate session in
secret on July 14, when the Senate voted to send the CIA over-
sight proposal to the Armed Services Committ
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"Senator Eugene McCarthy, the Foreign Relations Committee
sponsor of th.e proposal, called attention today to Helms' Letter
and called Helms' action entirely out of order. McCarthy's re-
marks drew expressions of shock and surprise from fellow Senators,
including.the major Leader Mike Mansfield.
"And it prompted Fulbrigh.t to say that one of the things he
wanted his Committee to have a chance to examine was whether th.e
CIA takes part in domestic affairs -- whether, for example, this
Agency actually takes part in the elections of. unions. The
Arkansas Democrat said there had been such reports, and he felt
they should be answered, although he said he had never before
been willing even to mention them publiclyd
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