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vote In favor of the referendum. We have
.0 found through past experience that the Na-
tional Student Association does not function
for the benefit of college students. All ac-
tivities engaged in by the Association are and
have been in the past for the benefit of cer-
tain select Individuals. The American ool.
lege student is merely being used as a
front."-Elmer Blumenkamp, Executive Sec-
retary, Theta Xi.
"The organization is controlled by a select
group and is not representative of the mem-
bership in the organization, and the con-
trolling group is more politically minded
than is proper. The group which issues
statements in behalf of the organization is
self-perpetuating to a large degree and does
not reflect the attitude and opinion of the
general membership. There is, of course,
question as to the democratic nature of the
organization. I know that many schools
have withdrawn from the organization re-
cently for the above reasons. My recom-
mendation to you would be to oppose the
affiliation."-Jack L. Anson, National Secre-
tary. Phi Kappa Tau.
Most fraternity and sorority leaders op-
pose affiliation and with good reason. I
think the motives of the organization and
the quality and direction of its leadership is
extremely suspect. I would urge you to give
more careful consideration to this question.
NSA has proved to be a most disruptive in-
fluence with very little to recommend it."-
Mrs. Russell Strickland, National Panhellenic
Delegate, Delta Gamma.
"We have been unable to learn of any bene-
fit that would accrue to the members of
fraternal organizations by virtue of the
affiliation of the student body with NSA".-
Harold Buchanan, Executive Secretary, Delta
Chi.
"This organization is divisive and does
not truly work for the best interests of the
students in many cases. There is a new
organization called the Associated Student
Governments of the United States, and if
they live up to their stated principles, I
think this will have much more value to the
student body than does NSA."-Bruce Mel-
chert, Executive Secretary, Tau Kappa
Epsilon.
"Alpha Phi believes that the National Stu-
dent Association as presently constituted is
antidemocratic in character and is unrep-
resentative of the majority of the students
in the United States. We are opposed to
man from New York [Mr. FARBSTEIN] The Central Intelligence Agency is an
is recognized for 20 minutes. arm of the executive branch, sitting on
Mr. F'ARBSTEIN. Mr. Speaker it is the National Security Council in an. ad-
reported in the morning press that Pres- visory role to the President. Yet he did
ident Nasser has once again resorted to not know of these connections which
his habit of blackmail against the United have existed since the early 1950's.
States to keep his hands free for The House Committee on Un-Ameri-
troublemaking in the Middle East. can Activities must be chagrined that
The Egyptian President, according to left-leaning students and labor leaders
this report, has said he contemplates de- who have so aroused its ire are repre-
faulting on his debts to the United sentatives of organizations financed and
States. These debts, let me remind you, perhaps guided by a Government agency
have been incurred not because this it previously considered an unimpeach-
country is engaged in any profitmaking able ally. It would be an amusing spec-
endeavo s in Egypt but because we tacle to see the House Committee on Un-
answered Nasser's pleas to help feed his American Activities and the Central In-
starving countrymen. To some extent, telligence Agency investigate each other.
the Egyptian people are starving because The CIA could use as a motive that every-
President Nasser diverts his agricultural thing In the universe belongs properly in
resources to buy arms from the Commu- its bailiwick; HUAC might forthrightly
nist bloc. Now he has the audacity to insist upon its mission to expose all truly
say he will not pay us what he owes us, un-American influence, covert and ob-
though his is a solemn obligation in- vious, on the American way of life.
curred by one sovereign state to another. Last summerkMembers of the U.S. Sen-
I wonder if President Nasser understands ate solemnly refused to increase the
the obligation of sovereignty. membership of the CIA Oversight Com-
Mr. Speaker, it is one thing to use aid , mittee. In the words of one Senator:
as a lever to influence a country's The primary objective has always been to
domestic practices. Of this, we must be avoid leaks.
very careful; but it is another to use aid
to influence a country's foreign policies
in the direction of peace. That is.a legit-
imate, in fact an essential, characteristic
of our aid programs, in my mind. But
that is precisely what President Nasser
is complaining about.
I would not give Nasser another grain
of wheat if he pursues the practice of
disturbing Middle Eastern tranquility.
It is my view that we should tell him, in
the face of the blackmail threat, to find
some other way to feed his people. It is
he, after all, not the United States, who
is responsible to them in the first in-
stance. I suggest we give President
Nasser no further assistance until he
learns we will not submit to his threats,
his insults, his blackmail, until he learns
to grow up and behave like a responsible
Declared another Senator in the same
debate:
Senators are not always good security risks.
It seems to me that anybody who is involved
on a Committee of this sort should be picked
by those who are best at keeping secrets after
they have had several years to observe him
as one of those who keeps secrets best.
Well, they kept the secret all right. If
the CIA would not tell the President,
then the Oversight Committee in not in-
forming him, itself, completely lived up
to its name by committing the biggest
oversight possible.
In Intelligence operations I am in-
formed that overclassification-that is,
classifying information "top secret"
when it should be treated merely as con-
fidential, for instance-is considered a
great bottleneck both to security and
this organization in its present form."- resident of the United States as to the
LaVerne Harvey, Executive Secretary, Alpha THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE full extent that the CIA's tentacles had
Phi.
YOU MUST DECIDE
The solution of the NSA question is up to
you. The National Student Association has
a number of paid staff people who work
full time attempting to convince the Ameri-
can student community and the general
public that NSA is, in fact, the legitimate
representative of the American student.
Thousands of students have recognized this
deceit and have worked diligently on their
individual campuses to obtain a decision to
leave the ranks of NSA. The list of schools
which have either ousted NSA or which have
rejected membership in the Association has
grown tremendously since 1961. Today,
NSA "represents" less than fifteen per cent
(r5 ^ ,) of the colleges, universities, and ju-
nior colleges In the United States which are,
according to the NSA Constitution, eligible
for membership in the Association. If your
college or university is presently affiliated
with NSA or if your school is presently con-
sidering affiliation with NSA, then it is up
to you to act and expose NSA for what it
really is--a fantastic fraud.
NASSER THREATENS THE UNITED
STATES
The SPEAKER -pro tempore. Under
previous order of the House, the gentle-
AGENCY
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under
previous order of the House, the gentle-
woman from Oregon [Mrs. GREEN] is
recognized for 10 minutes.
Mrs. GREEN of Oregon. Mr. Speaker,
the disclosure of CIA links to the National
Student Association, to the American
Newspaper Guild, to American business
foundations, has caused an uproar in
high Government circles and in the little
precinct.
The President has called for an investi-
gation, the Vice President is appalled, the
Secretary of Health, Education, and Wel-
fare is deeply concerned-and under-
standably enough-the president of the
National Student Association, according
to a Washington newspaper, "has gotten
sick to his stomach."
This whole sad story is tragic indeed,
especially to the reputation and worth of
the Nation's largest student organiza-
tion. But in an area where the right
hand is never supposed to know what the
left hand is doing, it is completely ludi-
crous to discover that the left hand did
not even know what the left hand had
been doing.
wound their way into America's private
life has to be one of the biggest overclas-
sification blunders in which the Agency
has ever partaken. Lord grant that
there are no others.
In a month when the birthdays of Lin-
coln and Washington give occasion to
prideful speeches about our Republic
and the liberty and freedom that it has
fostered, it is ironic that simultaneously
another creation of this same Republic
should be the object of indignant head-
lines which augur up the haunting image
of "Big. Brother."
What is this organization that deems
it necessary to make secret connection
with the educational, labor, and business
communities of the United States?
What is this CIA that it should be the
arbiter of what Is right and just?
The chairman of the House Education
and Labor Committee has announced his
Intention for an inquiry into the CIA's
links past and present with U.S. univer-
sities. I support him in this endeavor.
Perhaps indeed it will be found that a
law is needed requiring the registration
of Government agencies trying to in-
fluence education just As. we have laws
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requiring lobbyists who try to influence
Congress to register.
My distinguished colleague, the gentle-
man from New York [Mr. ROSENTHAL],
has my sincere support for his resolu-
tion, House Concurrent Resolution 207,
which would set UP a joint congressional
Committee on Central Intelligence. It
is high time that this overclassification
be ended and that this Congress know
-what is going on for the interests and se-
curity of the American people. In the
words of the intelligence community, Mr.
Speaber, this Congress has a "need to
know."
Another sad commentary in this epi-
sode which has undeniably weakened
citizen trust in government and further
widened the so-called credibility gap
is the obvious mistrust the leaders in this
democratic society have had for demo-
cratic institutions.
If such governmental support was nec-
essary to further international contact
between students and labor leaders, it
not only would have looked better had it
been done openly, and it not only would
have avoided the embarrassment which
now faces us, but it would have made it
possible for these private ambassadors to
claim that this Republic is proud of it
diversity in ideas and ambition; it would
have made it possible for this Republic
to proclaim that apologists and critics
are equal as patriots.
My colleague, the gentleman from
Minnesota [Mr. FRASER], has suggested
the establishment of an independent
foundation supported by Government
funds which would give assistance to pri-
vate bodies, political, professional, and
educational, in their endeavors to help
represent their segment of American so-
ciety to the world at large. This is a
proposal which merits study and con-
sideration.
At this point I include several out-
those who are caught in such a conspiracy Imperiling the "integrity aria n,ueyc ,u :_.
cannot hope to regain credibility. of educational institutions.
The Central Intelligence Agency, whatever When a government finds It necessary to
good It has been doing, has been, at the set up an agency to fight subversion with
same time, busily engaged in diminishing the subversion everywhere, the tragic danger it
credibility of all nongovernmental associa- opens up is that among the people it sub-
tions and organizations. This is a profund verts are its own. The defense against such
and serious national loss that it will be weakening of America's institutional fabric
difficult to repair. We can only begin to re- must rest with the President and Congress.
pair it if the Government promptly and Even with the recent broadening of Senator
plainly puts an end to all such secret sub- Russell's watchdog committee, Congress is
ventions and if private establishments join not doing its part of that job.
in binding themselves to a policy under
which they are committed to refuse any [From the Washington Post, Feb. 18, 19671
secret Federal subsidies. THE CIA: A CASE of ADDICTION
Shortly after the CIA's fiasco at the Bay of
[From the New York Times, Feb. 20, 19671 Pigs, a leading figure in the Kennedy Admin-
SUBVERsioN By CIA istration who was asked to perform a dis-
The disastrous effects of the systematic passionate post-mortem observed that this
pe:.etration of American educational, cultural country's foreign policy, over a dozen years
labor organizations by the Central In- of intense Cold War strain, had come to rely
telligence Agency daily become more ap- on what he called "two kinds of dope~litical
parent. The strength of these organizations, "When all the usual, conventional p
both in the structure of American society remedies failed," he said, "the first impulse
and in their relations with their opposite has usually been toward foreign aid-`to try
from government dom nation. sort has been way dump the mess on CIA. re-
th ir freedom other
their through the deviousness of C.I.A. op- The result, he concluded, was that the In-
erations, thousands of scholars, students, telligence organization, while manned by
unionists and professional leaders discover men of exceptional competence, was being
long after the fact that they have performed asked to perform all manner of ou s ndis 5h-to
unwitting and undesired duty as secret and in some cases imp
agents. recoup the mistakes of Cabinet Secretaries
The integrity of pro-American positions, and Presidents. Cuba, for one example, was
honestly taken by groups and individuals in a terminal case when it was handed to CIA.
the mine The battle of Ideas, has been un- What we are witnessing-and may be wit-
de
dermined. The independence of America 's nessing on an ever-widening scale-are the
private foundations has been brought into ravages of this addiction laid bare. The case
question. In short, faith in American insti- of the National Students Association doubt-
tutions has been besmirched in a way that less began innocently enough in the grim
would have eluded the reach of any foreign Cold War atmosphere of the late 40s and
early 50s when communism and McCartlty-
enemy.
It is no excuse to say that the C.I.A.'s de-
cision to use a limitless range of philan-
thropic fronts to funnel its funds into youth
groups, universities and other private insti-
tutions was designed to Meet a very real
problem of the cold war: the need for assur-
ing that the Communists would not have an
unchallenged field in the youth congresses
and cultural conferences they were arrang-
ing-and subsidizing-on a global basis ten
and fifteen years ago. That problem should
have been met openly-by direct public sub-
sidy.
It should have been clear long ago to the
C.I.A.'s overseers in the White House that
the end effect of clandestine subsidies to
groups representative of the detachment and
diversity of a free society must inevitably
taint the genuineness of their detachment.
standing editorials on the events of the
last few days in the RECORD:
[From the Washington (D.C.) Post,
Feb.16,10671
Kiss OF DEATH
The National Student Association is re-
portedly giving consideration to folding Its
whole organization because it has been fatally
compromised by the disclosure that it has that have now developed of the assignment tempting to continue along the covert route,
been the recipient of secret subsidies from of C.I.A. operatives to influence the policy rather than battle Congress for more money
the Central Intelligence Agency. The leaders statements and choice of officers of the Na- for the State Department's restricted budget.
of the student group will be wise to terminate tional Student Association-a practice that Covert operations are seductive in this, and
its existence. It is not likely to recover may have extend_d to other organizations as
y other ways. When they work, they can wor.
its ach credibility at home or abroad to make well. remarkably well, as testified to by any num-
fts activities at all worth while. The health of a democratic society depends ber of unsung and unsingable succesc,es, and
The covert, concealed, dishonest support on the certainty that its free institutions- some, such as the overthrow of Iran's recalci-
of the Government is the kiss of death for its press, its educational and scientific trant, uncooperative aossadegh, which have
any group holding itself as a private, bodies, its publishing houses and television come to light long after the fact. But suc-
independent, non-governme mental agency. networks, its unions and business organiza- Cass has a spoiling effect, carrying with it a
arc e: organizations which have similarly tions-are truly free. That does not mean false sense of security. Complacency sets in.
accepted undisclosed governmental support government is barred from underwriting in- Ends begin to justify whatever means. Moral
will be well advised to quietly fold tents and ternational exchanges or research study; it issues evaporate. So does simple prudence.
give up the field. Even the open financial means that, where such support is appro- Who bothered to check up on the U-2 light
support by Government of nongovernmental priate, it must be given openly through its -plans (another stunning intelligence siic-
academic and professional groups is some- own public agencies. toss) as the day drew near for the abortive
;out secret very resort to
portitis mes is invariably The very
t to The worst part of the current mess is that Big Four summit meeting in May, 1960? secrecy cries ies out out against the integrity of the the very nature of the C.I.A., with its man- Who is now asking whether the program o
recipient. Every such subsidy indicts both date for espionage and subversion all over aerial reconnace over C ba, and the
e of gives and receiver. The Government agency, be world, rules out any thoroughgoing pub- contingency plans ', lri now, hand given in sesible im-
on its port, it tacitly acknowledging that dis- 1 r. , rrc c v into its activities. That means hap, are s ill I \
p1 i :'s. T110 some re u ,.,- a i=ion is sure to remain- hrovemcn in Soviet antiiircr:ft technology,
to end, is both in this 0.u. .~ ru:: ~fv. ~l i,urtter ,is iucy were when t:
touched with fraud and evasion. The very how conscientiously the Cabinet Committee reviewed.
f .pct of secrecy transforms even what might appointed last week by President Johnson If addiction is what's involved, the cure sug-will
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ism were both riding high. Communist
groups were grabbing for control of inter-
national organizations of all sorts-students,
professional, labor. Private American groups,
affiliated to these international bodies.
lacked the money and in many cases the
know-how with which to fight back, and
many were leftist-oriented, by American
standards, which ruled out open United
States Government support in the McC,,rthy
age. Congress, moreover, would have wanted
any Government-backed delegation to fol-
low the Government's line with fine ficielity.
(Ironically, those who are covertly subsidized
and don't know it are more likely to be faith-
ful to their true feelings.)
So the clandestine tack was almost irre-
sistible, what with all those unvouehered
CIA funds for which no public accounting
need be made. For this same reason, long
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for banning medically supervised use of bar- THE FUTURE PROBLEM about it, we cannot conduct the affairs of
hiturates. The cure lies in tight control. So much has been written about this in the the United States in a cloud of suspicion.
The first move, long advocated by this news- last week that everybody here is bored with We must dispel the suspicion and restore
paper, ought to be a clean break between it, and the Administration is so vulnerable confidence in our good faith.
CIA's intelligence-gathering and its "opera- to criticism that it is almost embarrassing We may begin by noting that the cloud of
tions," or as they are better known, "dirty to continue the controversy. But looking to suspicion Is much wider than the actual
tricks." Intelligence data can too easily be the future, there is still a fundamental and operations of the CIA could possibly war-
bent into a compelling argument for this or unresolved problem. The machinery of the rant. Anyone with experience in the outer
that covert project when the two are con- Government for reviewing policies which be- world must realize that the CIA is almost
ducted under one roof. Secondly, covert come obsolete with tile passage of time is automatically suspected of being implicated
operations need the closest sort of case-by- obviously defective. The officials now deal- in or of being the prime mover in all man-
case supervision by the White House and by ing with the controversy concede the point, ner of happenings abroad. It would be no
me:I in the regular departments, whose main and they are trying to deal with the limited exaggeration to say that outside the United
concern isn't dirty tricks, but the day-to-day, question of the C.I.A. and the students, but States the CIA has become the universal
aboveboard conduct of foreign policy in a they are still not really dealing with the scapegoat for any rightist activity which
way which takes into account the Govern- larger question of policy-making that pro- people on the left and in the center dislike.
ment's moral standing at home and abroad. duced the C.Z.A. controversy in the first place. The CIA has acquired a legendary character
But even this is not enough; covert opera- That question is how can the Government and its activities are rather like the exploits
tions corrupt everybody involved in time. keep policies up to date? of superman.
The eve becomes jaded, the sense of outrage The interesting thing about this is that The CIA legend feeds on the fact that the
dulled; what's been done before becomes the the Administration had various committees agency has in fact done somewhere some of
norm. Nor can the watchman's role be to perform precisely the function of answer- the things it is accused of doing everywhere
played by Congress, where pragmatism is" ing these questions in relation to the C.I.A. all the time. It has overturned governments
rampant and morality too often expressed In Bobby Kennedy headed one to review the in Iran and Guatamala. It has organized an
terms of an Adam Clayton Powell or a Bobby C.I.A.'s activities after the fiasco at the Bay invasion of a foreign country in the Bay of
Baker; where practical politics has a covert of Pigs in 1961. The Secretary of State was Pigs. In the old days it interfered with
quality of its own. given the task at that time of supervising money in elections in France and Italy. It
What's really needed, beyond a fresh start the C.I.A.'s activities overseas. Senator has subsidized the foreign activities of stu-
to wipe away as much as possible the stigma Richard Russell of Georgia was assigned the dents, scholars, journalists, churchmen, labor
past conduct has cast on almost every pri- job of watching the C.I.A. for the Congress leaders; it has paid for radio stations and
vatic institution in the land, is a new kind of And the President's personal friend, Clark magazines abroad. Although these opera-
control mechanism, capable of bringing to Clifford, was asked to preside over an out- tions have been visible enough, they have
bear a chronically jaundiced eye. This prob- side committee to watch the intelligence ac- been financed secretly. The secrecy has pre-
ably means a panel whose personnel is con- tivities of the Government. vented reliable knowledge as to where the
scantly changed to refresh its innocence. Apparently none of these committees, real CIA activities end and where the sus-
The old establishmentarians won't do; too however, either knew anything about what pected and imaginary ones begin.
many of them were involved in the pre- the C.Z.A. was doing with its secret funds In this way the cloud of suspicion has been
scription which produced the addiction. In- for students, labor unions, magazines, and generated which envelops so large a part of
deed. the search for unsullied individuals or radio stations such as Radio Free Europe, or American action in the rest of the world.
even categories, in the present atmosphere, they approved what President Johnson's own We may go on to note that the Americans
becomes nearly ludicrous. Would you be- closest associates now criticize. are the only people who have not shared in
lieve a lighthouse keeper, an Arctic explorer, The Administration, under-both Presidents this general suspicion.
or perhaps a forest ranger or the headmis- Kennedy and Johnson, had an interdepart- There have, of course, been charges and
tress of a young ladies finishing school? mental committee to deal with the Intel- exposures made by minorities on the Ameri-
ligence activities. Johnson, now U.S. Am- can left and right. But until recently the
One might begin the nssemngng a panel great majority have taken for granted the
from the ranks of Lh unwitting and recon- bassador to Japan, and Cyrus Vance, Un- purity of the government's motives and the
tiled past members, over the years, of NSA, der Secretary of Defense. worked with Rich- Innocence of its actions. The secrecy of the
and Helms. head of the C.I.A., on this prob-
Where the Administration cannot afford to operation shielded it from suspicion in this
begin-much less end in an age where credi- lens. country, and with very little questioning and
bility has become a household anxiety-is Under President Johnson now, Walt Ros- argument the Congress has voted secret funds
with the old, familiar palliatives of an in- tow of the White House staff, Vance of the of unknown size for which there is no public
house review, or even the threadbare standby Pentagon. Foy Kohler, former U.S. Ambas- accounting.
of a one-shot inquiry by distinguished pri- sador in Moscow, and Helms still meet regu- If we push deeper into the matter we find,
vate citizens. Shocking revelations call for larly to supervise intelligence problems, but I believe, that the root of the trouble is that
shock treatment, however agonizing the none of these committees of extraordinarily the Central -Intelligence Agency has been
wrench of withdrawal may turn out to be. able men apparently felt that the secret used for much more than genuine intelli-
financing of students, labor unions, mag- genre work. It has been used as a propa-
(From the New York Times, Feb. 22, 19671 azines, or radio stations was a major political ganda agency, as a superior diplomatic for-
WASHINGTON: THE CIA AND THE issue. eign service, as an agency for clandestine
UNANSWERED QUESTION SOMETHING 15 WRONG intervention in foreign countries. The
(By James Reston) Even the Johnson intimates in the Govern- breadth of the CIA's authorized activities
ment concede that something is wrong here, has not only generated the cloud of suspicion
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21-After all the mys- They are irritated with the press for expos- over American action abroad but it has
terious disclosures about the Central Intelli- ing the facts. They concede the C.I.A. po- spoiled the CIA as an intelligence agency
genre Agency's secret operations among the licy toward the students should be changed. here at home.
students and foundations of America, one But they have still not dealt with the major The prime example of this was the fiasco
mystery remains: Why did all the intelligent problem, which is that the Administration's of the Bay of Pigs. In that affair tbz CIA
people around the President not intervene to machinery for reviewing policy is defective; organized an invasion of Cuba. As an in-
change the policy before it became a public that the Cabinet and the National Security telligence agency, however, it was supposed
scandal? Council are not operating to check over- to advise the President about the propects
Almost all of them are now saying the all policy, and that the State Department of the invasion and the probable reaction
policy was o';lsolete if not wrong. The Presi- still does not really know what the C.I.A. is of the Cubans. Because the same CIA men
dent has stopped it. The Vice President has doing. who were running the invasion had also to
criticized it publicly. The Secretary of This is the issue that is troubling Wash- advise the President on its prospects, their
Health, Education and Welfare, John Gard- ington now. It is really the same issue that Optimism got the better of their intelligence
tier, has condemned the C.I.A., directed by has been bothering the capital about Viet- and the President received wholly wrong
his friend. Richard Helms, for carrying it on. nam-a tendency to drift into unintended advice. Thus he was led into a disaster
Bobby Kennedy. who presided over it when situations; a failure of the machinery of which very nearly wrecked the Kennedy
he was Attorney General, has sniped at it government to review old policies until it is Administration at the outset.
and at the President in private. The Under too late. After the Bay of Pigs President Kennedy
Secretary of State, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, was urged to cut the CIA apart, separating
Gardner. and Helms are now heading a John- 1Fronm the Washington Post, Feb. 23, 19671 sharply the business of intelligence from
son committee to transform the whole sys- DIRTY TRICKS the business of propaganda and interven-
tem, and all this raises a fundamental ques- INTELLIGENCE AND tion. Unhappily, President Kennedy d.d not
tion. (By Walter Lippmann) take this advice and, after a little tinkering
Why, If they all agree now it is wrong. The CIA problem is embarrassing and it Is with personnel and with the details, he left
calla mer=i:: 1 w:s;~di i.
d t ~h.r: t'ut tO t':' i'resi- it u ti..3ti b10 '.o talc about. hilt it Intact the secret
,out helmet Way, if they condemn the press is so important that we cannot sweep It un- known as CIA.
,or "en;';:.rrassing" the President and his Ad- der the rug and try to forget about it. For There will be and there can be no solution
ministration now, did they not protect him the good faith of the United States govern- to the problem, I believe, unless there is a
~pwhich ~separates true in-
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other activities. An intelligence agency
should deal with espionage, research and
analysis. The other activities, propaganda,
intervention and dirty tricks should not be
in the intelligence agency. They should not
be under the same roof, they should not be
manned by the same men and they should
not be under the same men and they should
not be under the same cloak of secrecy.
There is little doubt that this will improve
the integrity of the true intelligence work.
What will it do to the other operations if
they are divorced from the CIA as a secret
i telligence agency? Secret propaganda
would be abolished. This would make more
credible open and avowed propaganda. By
taking the business of intervening in for-
eign countries out of the CIA, the tempta-
tion to intervene will be diminished. This
would in itself be a good thing, and in the
rare cases where intervention was a vital
necessity, it could be set up secretly enough
in the Defense Department. As to the dirty
tricks, like bribing a politician somewhere
if Su
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT 50TH
ANNIVERSARY
(Mr. DADDARIO (at the request of
Mr. IcHORD) was granted permission to
extend his remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to include extraneous mat-
ter.)
Mr. DADDARIO. Mr. Speaker, when
President Woodrow Wilson signed the
'r t National Vocational Education Act
promote training in scientific and techni-
cal fields.
In order to meet the demands of our
growing economy, our workers must be
qualified in skills that will be useful in
the future. The Vocational Education
Act assists them in this regard and helps
us assure the continued prosperity of our
Nation.
is
on February 23, 1917, the act made pos- TO AMEND THE FLAMMABLE
sible the creation of practical vocational FABRICS ACT
education programs which have proven (Mr. MOSS (at the request of Mr.
to be of greater and greater service to the IcxoRD) was granted permission to ex-
people of Connecticut and of the Nation. tend his remarks at this point in the
Connecticut's programs over the past RECORD and to include extraneous
50 years have been of distinguished serv- matter.)
ice. The executive board of the Connect- Mr. MOSS. Mr. Speaker, one of the
icut Vocational Association has drawn priorities cited by President Johnson in
attention to the 50th anniversary date. his state of the Union message was the
The role of vocational education in need "to do more for the consumer."
constructing a better future and provid- Definite proposals toward this objective
ing more opportunities for all our people were contained in the President's recent
has been attracting increasing interest. message to protect the American con-
Mr. GALLAGHER (at the request of strengthened the abilities of our school for people against hazards in their
systems to furnish skills for today's and homes, there was a specific recommenda-
Mr. Icx0RD) was granted permission to tomorrow's jobs. It is fitting that we no- tion to broaden and strengthen the
to extend his remarks at this point in tice what has been done over the years Flammable Fabrics Act of 1953.
the RECORD and to include extraneous as we meet the needs for what can be The original act was designed to re-
matter.) done. move from the market certain highly
Mr. GALLAGHER. Mr. Speaker, I flammable articles of clothing, such as
was very much annoyed to read the story VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT 50TH the famous "torch sweaters." In this
in today's New York Times which at-
tributed to "White House spokesmen" ANNIVERSARY purpose, the act succeeded. However, it
statements that tend to cast a slur on (Mr. GIAIMO (at the request of Mr. did not affect thhe marketing of other
some
every person who ever served in the clothing, market today, soo
ICHORD) was granted permission to ex- of of which still l is extremely flammable. Fur-
Armed Forces. tend his remarks at this point in the thermore, the original act did not at-
The story concerned the recently an- RECORD and to include extraneous mat- tempt to deal with the broader problem
nounced decision to expand certain na- ter.) of interior furnishings, which can also
tional cemeteries, including the Beverly Mr. GIAIMO. Mr. Speaker, 50 years pose a threat to safety.
National Cemetery in New Jersey. The ago on February 23, 1917, President Accordingly, I have introduced a bill to
article stated that the decision had been Woodrow Wilson signed into law the first amend the Flammable Fabrics Act of
reached "reluctantly" and had been National Vocational Education Act-the 1953, to make it more responsive to the
made only because Vietnam war dead Smith-Hughes Act. This landmark leg- problems of today. A quarter of a mil-
were being turned away. islation as amended and supplemented lion people are burned each year in
Although there have been mny in- has been the basis of the Federal effort America from fires originating in highly
stances of men killed in Vietnam being in the field of vocational training. Fammmable fabrics. That is the prob-
refused burial in certain of these na- The Smith-Hughes Act was prompted lem in sheer numbers. When we take a
tional cemeteries, there have also been a by a realization that it was a duty of closer look, however, we find a dispropor-
much larger number of veterans of other the Federal Government to help prepare tionate number of victims are the very
wars turned away for the same reason- youth and adults for employment and to young and the very old, those least able
lack of space. We are naturally more assist the employed workers in gaining to protect themselves. There is another
cognizant of the sacrifices of our service- advancement through additional train- facet to stimulate all of us to action. As
men in Vietnam, but we should never ing. Furthermore, the Smith-Hughes is well known, burns represent a very deli-
forget the equally great sacrifices of Act established one of the earliest pro- cate medical problem, requiring a great
those who fought in prior wars. A man grams of cooperative federalism, with the deal of time, care, and expense in the
who fought in World War I, World War Federal Government providing funds and treatment.
II, or the Korean war should have no less helping to promote, develop, and im- The amendments in the bill I have in-
weight in coming to a determination to prove programs, but the States admin- troduced would authorize the Secretary
reopen these cemeteries. istering the program. This early experi- of Commerce to revise the existing
Ever since the Defense Department ment in joint cooperation has been a standards for wearing apparel, to give
first announced the closing of Beverly model the Congress has followed in es- people more protection. Standards
I have been urging expansion. The final tablishing many programs. The fore- could also be issued for interior furnish-
decision to follow this course is welcome, sight of our earlier colleagues in estab- ings such as draperies, rugs, blankets, up-
but long overdue. lishing this vocational training program holstery, foam padding, if the Secretary
I might also point out here that the is to be commended. determines that there is a need for flam-
Times story cited the figure of "half I am proud to have been a member of mability standards for these products.
billion dollars" as the cost of expansion. the Education and Labor Committee in There would be a study of the causes of
The correct figure is $642,500 to acquire the 87th Congress, and to have played a deaths, injuries, and property losses re-
and develop a total of 32 acres. part in reevaluating the Federal role in sulting from clothing and household ma-
I would hope that the decision to ex- these programs. Two important amend- terial fires, conducted jointly by the
pand these cemeteries was made in ments were recommended by my com- Department of Commerce and the De-
recognition of the gift of sacrifice made mittee at that time. Both became laws. partment of Health, Education, and
to < olictry by thy' veterans of every The first established the manpower Welfare. Finally, the amendments would
authorize the conduct of laboratory re-
our 111:4ory. training and do e.:,,:i.ent pio;;ram de-
period u
r e,. y
The contributions our veterans have signed to retrain workers with obsolete search into the flamma.biiit, c, f...
made in the past, and that are being skills for new jobs. The second amend- ings, fabrics, and materials.
made today, demand that we make the ment extended the title VIII program of I think these amendments are urgently
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