C.I.A.'S CONGRESSIONAL IMMUNITY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200900058-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 58
• Publication Date: May 8, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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,C..A.'s Congressional Immuni
ongressional supervision of the Central Intelli-,
!gence Agency is seriously deficient. Tha 150 resolu-'
tions introduced in Congress on this subject over the
past two decades reflect a persistent concern. Yet
successive Administrations and the C.I.A. itself have
''blocked approval of all of these resolutions. The latest,
effort to establish more effective controls over this;
clandestine infra-government is encountering the same
resistance.
Senator Russell and his "Secret Seven"-a Senate
subcommittee seleo ad, ? with C.I.A. screening, from
the Armed Services ''.nd Appropriations Committees--'
'have just rejected - nator nilbright's proposal that'
their group be bro:._ened and revitalized by includ-'
ing three members -if the Foreign Relations Com-.
, .. V4 ~ .uu f)v{~iaR..vn, n
q:tt?c1tA 13''ti2Y'iffin't3?
c~. tho t9aocil s t'GC Lea.
....
.,qua incident. Be-
yonc t-Fts"; it_is equally recessary~to adopt:',Senatnr;
C~-"tny'a resolution calling fora "full and com
plete". study of the C.I..'_. and its 'ef'fect on foreign
l
policy by a special s ' 3::mittes o2 tho ~orol
(Relations Committee. Bch' snore 'Con Nsfona$1
re e77 is ne d^i M, ~-u... , 4 4
n
- J.W.
n
I Q official to do so,particularly_ when?his'id
enti_ty
t'hot. revealed.
Senator Fulbright is on sound ground in? asking g
ro l?
Admiral Raborn to explain th' C
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is -1LVU11Uli LnaL Tile
,National Liberation Front of South Vietnam is noth-,
:ing more than an instrument of North Vietram's4
rmunist party. It is quite another thi
!spokesman of the Government openly to present the
.activity. It has no ' Zz'sinessta seek to infIu6nce or color,;
:domestic opinion. ZI:t is one thing for an authorizd}
rma-
'tion Agency, is restricted by its charter to overseas
.... ..... ,
all u1iu reuver agency,
i'e G.7 A., along. ,with the United States Ynfo
that the agency merely cleared it for "security.`"
fine ?a line of responsibility cannot be drawn in the
me article on the Vietcong in the current issue of I.
Foreign Affairs ' by George A. Carver-whose den-;'
tity as a full-time i empl~as rot disclosed
daises any questions. nt f little justification to
'argue, as the C.I.A. evidently does, that the article
was written by Mr. Carver in a private capacity and'
the first essential, has been imposed since the Bay of
Pigs fiasco. But such control is no substitute for
legislative supervision as part of the system of checks,
and balances of our constitutional government. The
latest proof of inadequate control concerns the'
propriety of t ie Administration ettirig-C.I.A: analysts ~
preseh-t official arguments to Aniericari:readers in tho 1
mittee. This mild t, t u::eful proposal was designed:
'to permit closer sc~?'tiny of C.I.A. activities affect-'
ing foreign policy w: bout going to the extent of es-,
tablishing a powerful new monitoring body compara
,ble to the Joint Comm.ittee for Atomic Energy.
Tighter control of .he C.I.A. by the Administration,
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