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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200940120-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 21, 1999
• Sequence Number: 120
• Publication Date: June 29, 1960
• Content Type: PREL

Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : C AkW 5=00
UR:I f D PRESS
UPI. 55
R 2A81 AT 1100 ?
(err)
MU s8, 1960
son J. Williass Yulbright declared today that the powtip a" iaflusnse of our
,omntry on the affairs of nations has rsaohed a mwv loan" In the vahs of the U-2
spy plans fiasco.
And, the Arkansas Dowerst slid, No have cat yet sees the last of the results
3)f the bumbling .od ftmibligg of s gaited $tstS lsverwwat during the first tvo
taeaA.eka of Wavy , 1960. "
ilbright, Chairman of the 8esate Pbreigan Relstionr 0000ittsf, said in a speech
?;rvapaavd for Swnste delivery that "the gravest mist Ake teas made when the President
w**kwwd reepoausibility for the U-2 flight."
Then, he added, "Afte:r the truth became known, the &tate Department and the White
Kuuwm assumed a self righteous attitude which further oosplicasted our situation in
F141bright *at forth his own views I formally presenting to this Senate the Foreign
R# i.at i ons Coeuni.tta "s majority report on its inquiry into the U-d 'light and the
*rebee que nt Par .s summit collapse. The report was made public laturisy night.
The Arkansas Democrat reserved his strongest criticism& for President disenhover's
taking re spons ib it i tyy for the ill fated May 1 flight and for the "lack of direction"
which marked U.S. handling of.this affiair.
"If Chiefs of State begin the practios of personally admitting the violation of
each other 'a sovereignty, the orderly conduct of international affairs will quickly
become impossible -- as, indeed, it did beo~ in Paris last month," he assehted.
As for the handling of this incident, ftlbrigkst said "'What is lacking is not so
suab coordination as direction. It is not the machinery which is at fault so n h
at the people Who operate it.
"a sboratee at: t ments for coordination any really nothing more than a
poor substitute for a firm hand directing affairs. It is the ditferenoe betvesn
uwkins a 1,ia3rried phone call to Gettysburg for approval of a coordinated position
#. td r* tm l a' ng, clear instructions based upon reflective, consideration from the
'Teti ny during the committee's hearings showed that Eisenhower personally
acs s,;, rnly one of the top-level meetings on handling of the U-8 incident and
+r;;yrt~rr+-d .=ip major 3ev4arion by telephone froal Gettysburg, where be is veskending.
w":aa hr ! ovA t. aaIA~o xw t.-d with slarasz reports that many pereahs in the administration
I;. rr rweti+uiln$ the V,? i'.ligbts over Russia. "Short of the madness of preventive
ever , c.s thl"k of nothing more dangerous than to resume ovdrflights of the
;'Ilan, UVc Jl an,"' he declassed.
Approved For Release 1999/09/17 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000200940120-7