CIA VIET NAM ROLE CRITICISM UNFAIR, SENATOR ASSERT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200930041-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2000
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: October 17, 1963
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/08/27 : CIA
CIA VIET NAM ROLE.
CRITICISM UNFAIR,,
1 SENATORS ASSERT
WASHINGTON. Oct. It (AP)-
After hea ring Central Intelligence
Agency director John A. MaCone
in secret, the chairman and two
other members of' the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee de-
clared yesterday that criticism
of the CIA's role in South Viet
I Nam was either "grossly exag-
gerated" or "totally without
foundation."
The agency "has been unfairly
crltioize,d," said committee chair,
man J. W. Fulbright (Dem.).
Arkansas. Senator Stuart Syming-
ton (Dem.). Missouri, agreed,
and the committee's senior Re-
publican, Senator Bourke B.
Hickenlooper of Iowa, declared',
that there is "not a shred of
reliable evidence" that the CIA
has departed from its operating i.
function.
Symington recommended that
McCone's testimony be made
public. Fulbright said he opposes'
such a course. No action was
taken on the recommendation.
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy
(Dem.). Minnesota, proposed .in I
ative position and the general,,
were more than 15,000 spies
member Senate committee be
set up to investigate -the CIA. +t
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