RUSSELL DENIES C.I.A. MAKES POLICY

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: May 17, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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can be provided where it has
done so:' Mr, Russell denounced a New impact on American oreign'
~y7 n n '~ }~ York Times editorial. He said policy, he added.
',~ `} -~ ~, ,.,." 1 ~~ N I J.1 S Mr. Russell said these "er- it stateii tliat' the supervisory I think in many countries it
t. E ,y roncous charges are calculated subcommittee m is more influential than our
C. T embers, had Ambassador and I have had
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1. A. j, 1 AK S P0LIaY to deceive members of Con-. I been,"screenca"by, the C.I.A. Ambassadors who have told me
grss.i He added that,they af"The C.I.A, had no,?rnorc con- this," Mr. Fulbright said,,
- -- feet the sources available to nectlon ;Nvitlx,, the,. s 1ection of He called the re.. elution 0 add
'~ ^.l'to sal to Ea) d the C.I.A., which are easily'dis- tliese siibcq,~}vnit;tgq,,, iembcrs three Foreign Relations mem-
~a -^ turbed." than, it ad.,.wjth,.il1C., icIcc on bees to the 'oversight panel "not
Watchdog Panel He is malting a public state- of the ,editorial staff of The a radical proposal at all, but
-~-- ment, Mr. Russell said, because New Yorlc.Tin~es;^ 2Wsal.. .. rather a modest one."
By The AcwClattd Prt>s the C.I.A. Is, by its nature, Mr. RisacH1 praised . hi$,.com- Mr. Russell commented that s FLY WASHINGTON, May 16 --- "compelled to stand mute" when nroof.' He record. 4lip c.I..,1cak- unMr. i der Fther imght pressions that the
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Senator Richard B. Russell told P-9 Wghb grelar 121m
He noted that the C.I.A. was But the of ed informal committees.
the Senate today It was "sheer possibility "These are not informal at
~-- -?~set up under the National De- increased public discussion and
~?coclt''.,to contend that the all, the are dul
h.?ois* r ~~- fence Act of 1917. The Armed leaks through an enlargement Y y ' constituted
tCentral Intelligence Agency Services Committee shepherded of the Congressional panelSLbcommittees of the Armed
makes . or takes over fore'rt that act through the Senate, he "might cause them to close up' Services and Appropriations'
policy. like clams . or worse than Committees," Mr. Russell said.]
said, and thus inherited the duty; that, to lose their lives." i -Senator Ernest Gruening,I
heads . The a Georgia subcommittee Democrat, charged who of overseeing the C.I.A.'s aetiv Another ranking Democrat of Alaska said the!
itics. the C.I.A. e member of l
panel, Senator Salton- failure at the Bay of Pigsi
with overseeing the- activities . ' Senatorial supervision of the stall, supported Mr. Russell. He showed that the C.I.A. does'
of the intelligence organization, C.I.A. is shared by senior mom-reminded the Senate the C.I.A. make foreign policy.
,rejected vigorously proposals hers of the Armed Serviccs'and,Was. "an important effort for They were able to persuadei
that the Senate F'orI Rela- the security of our country." two Presidents to go ahead ead wi with)
c gn Appropriations, Committees, that project," he said. "'They'
itions Committee share in his which make funds available for Raborn Silence Noted completely misinformed that
supervision: Mr. Russell also clandestine operations. Senator' Young suggested President." I
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heads the Senate Armed Serv- Members Are Listed LhaL the. i r. Russell replied tha t
Fcrcirn ' Iteiaticrs,,'what you are saying is that))
Ices Committee. Committee set up its ownlthe C.LA. "sold' the President
"There is no justification Mr. Russell noted that he "'special subcommittee on . the
and Senator Leverett Salton- C.I.A;" a bill of goods."' ,
whatever for any other ' corn- (stall, Republican of Massachu- Senator J. W. Fulbright, "But the C.I.A. couldn't -luave
moved one foot without the app
:mittee to muscle in on the juris- setts, Margaret Chase Smith, Democrat of Arkansas, chair- of the President,
added.
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diction of the Armed Services Republican of Maine, and John man of the Foreigp Relations
Committee so far as the C.I.A. Stennis, Democrat of Mississi Committee, interjected that this Added.
i1s 'concerned," he said. 'pi, were members of both com-,had been proposed before. .
As for charges he said h"ad n'uttees. Other "members of the! But ' Fulbright said Adm.
supervisory subcommittee are' Vr 1T ;,t ?r~"2!?Y. n '.flee' pp T.tl s
ioeen made that the C.I.A. at "Senators Carl Hayden,' Demo-'di; ctor, wTicn appearing Tici'oie ? '
'tames operated independently crat of Arizona, Stuart Syming_: tine Foreign. 12c1 ~CionS ., glrim.it-
,of the State Department and'ton, Democrat of Missouri, and tee, "fbii the~ositio ?he was
':Influenced- foreign policy ac-;Milton R. Young, Republican;not authorized:un e`r_the,~law
~tions, Mr. Russell said: ''of North Dakota. Mr. Sym.ing-! to respond'to our qquestions.r'
"There simply is not a scan=;ton is a member of the Foreign) - Mr. Fulbright addedthat"the
ti11a of truth in such a char g;Relations Committee as well asipropbsal in his committee com-
g t'he Armed Services Committee.) ing up for a ; vote tomorrow,
and not a single concrete case W
eying a piece of newspaper, to add three members to 'the
C.I.A. oversight group, was "in '
no 'way a : reflection" on Mr.
Russell.,
But, he'said,,"the ivay.things
have developed in the world has
brought the C.I.A,'into far more
activities than was contemplat-
ed when it was created.
,And Wis. clear on the' record
'that the C.I.A. dews have ,an
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