BOBBY TOUCHED OFF LBJ-CIA REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400220043-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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By Drew Pearson midi were. Groves, however, gaveltie has been brewing in th
Y .. _ r. Ithe impression that the SUbSi- Mouse of Representati inn r,
-_ ?-?_u .,.,?., I uy had terminated. I garding the future policing
There was a significa r Y
backstage story behind , tr " :s.:s ~' acts ethical conduct.
conflicting news reports as Cater reported the matter I The battle is between of
whether President Johnso to the President, who referreditimers on the House Admini
knew about the $3 millio it to Under Secretary of State
CIA subsidy for America Nicholas Katzenbach, both for
student groups. What touch an investigation of the facts
ao ..,ug p>ua?cu
ports was a background pre s can policy should be. Hel bill...,to, .s. .e.t., up-
?a separate ethi
conference held by none oth chose Katzen;oaeh because'ill to et but
t littl
go
e su
than Sen. Bobby Kennedy ( Katzenbach had served in
port from "the Esta
N.Y.), who called in reporte both the Kennedy and John-, lishment."
son Administrations
and indicated to th
em veh
. Now that the Adam Clayto
clearly, though not for att Katzenbach is now investi-
bution, that President Johnso gating the entire question of Powell investigation is in th
student activities and the headlines, many Congressme.
had known all about the CI (realize the importance of a
subsidy. Government. th' 1
It was unfair for the CM
Bobby said, to "take the rap
The subsidy operation w s
known to "the highest leve
of the Government, Bobb
told .his press conferenc
again not for attribution.
This, was the source of t'
stories attributed to "one f
the highest officials in bot
the Kennedy and Johnson A -
ministrations."
Real fact of the CIA subs -
dy, however, is that Johnso
did not know about it unt 1
the end of January when
Eugene. Groves, president f
the National Student Assoc!
-
tion, called on Douglass Cater,
a presidential assistant at t
`a'Ihite House, to say that Ras
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,a, u> magazine was going
i y. Cater wanted
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The incident has not helped e ica~ conduct commute
improve relations between tae but they would feel mor
President and the voun?* man comfortable if their conduct i
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ical decision -as to whether to
place ethical conduct under
the complacent Congressman
Burleson or entrust the stand-1
arils of the House to -eager
beaver Charles Bennett and a?.
new live-wire ethics ? commit-;
tee. 1 1 .1 Reps. Howard Robinson, Re,'.':
publican, and Richard Ottin?
ger, Democrat, ?both of New'
York, are supporting Bennett'
on a fresh. deal for ethical'.
conduct
ti
who wants to be President -I scrutinized by such oldtimer
Burleson of Texas
namely, Sen. Robert Kennedy, as. Omar
In the first place, what chairman of the house. A
Bobby didn't tell newspaper- ministration Committee, San
men at his background press Priedel of Maryland, Rober
r Ashmore of.. South Carolina
beer, c chairman that he had Democrats; with.. Glen Lip
abeenppointed by an his a committee brother to scomb, Nixon's old friers
California, and Willia
review ail CIA activities after from L, Dickinson the Alabama he
the Bay of Pigs fiasco. He had
continued as chairman of the publican.
Interdepartmental Committee The House Adrninistratio,
in Charge of Central Intel- Committee was asked tw
ligence. As such, he knew years "ago to check o
every move made by the CIA Power's globetrotting, but i i
and every major appropria. did nothing until last fal
tion it allocated. He not only when headlines were rampant
knew of the subsidy to the At that time, Wayne Hays o
student groups, but had Ohio did an excellent job a.
enouraged more of this type chairman of a special commi
of activity. tee, but it took two' years fo
? r . .. oU,.ezluii w ithuve.
Battle Over ~.tihies . This week the House Rule .I
An important backstage bat- Committee will make the er'..,
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