FULBRIGHT PLEADS ANEW ON AIR RAIDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920026-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: October 25, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

FULBRIGHT PLEADS i ~entrai lnteutgence .Agency oni
lidminJstration thinking, Sena-
,. I for 'Fulbright warned against!
i luotving these two agencies to
~1~NE~ ON SIR RAIDS takes a; dominant tale In shaping
,, foreign policy.
"rho military, our tradlt[on
~~ is, should be subject to civilian
UCbOS Suspension by ~ U.S. ~ Policy-makers, and the C.LA,
~ is supposed to be an intelligence
to Induce Hanoi to~7alk i ageticyt only and. not an oper-
a ~ atin~ `agency in the execution
....___._..__ _.. ___ . ~. ?;'of`orP~ign policy," he said.
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' WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -I.lievod `an imbalance had been
.:Senator J. W. Fulbright renewed; developing between the State
:,today.; a call fora temporary
suspension of bombing ? raids
.,against North Vietnam to create
a better atmosphere for nego-
~ tiations'to end the Vietnamese
war, .
'" The Arkansas ~ Democrat,
I. chairman of the Senate Foreign
~ Relations Committee, first sug-
s: Bested such a step last Maroh.
;suspended raids for four days]
~,. The four-day suspension, Sen-
ator Fulbright said today, "was
not a very long t[me to allow
' 'any kind of negotiations to
..get under way."
Hls suggestion that bombings
',again be suspended "for a more
reasonable time" was made in
' ~.n interview on "Meet the
I'ress," a radio and televtsion
program of the National Broad-
~;casting Company.
dicate? how long he felt such al
suspension should last. How-
..ever~.~there have been stigges- "fit is reaching even into my
tions.,that he would favor. sus-!' state, which is one of the most
.pending the raids for severala` remot2 ones, and one af~ the
ter.-xn. canton he ? dlssenta #rom;
Critical of tubas he views as~,' the: current . Vietyg of -,the Ads`
a?n ingreasing: influence' of they' ~l~istration ".:;.~ 'tip :?~ ,;tiJ
ways: resume it and there would) or particularly ~~h[s SOnator,Iq
'be no commitment never to rP-~ s~hnntA nnl? en~ent+at,n,lFe