CONGRESSTIONAL RECORD - SENATE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500010020-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: August 15, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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controlled by the Department of De-
fense.
There is no difference in substance
and there is no difference in principle
between this amendment and the one the
Senate rejected.
I think it is somewhat regrettable, but
not surprising, that the attempt it made
to cast this discussion in terms of the
defense of the free world and the con-
test going on for underdeveloped coun-
tries of the world. Almost every time we
bring up a proposal to put some limita-
tion on the Pentagon, not necessarily in
terms of amounts, but in terms of pro-
cedures-or when the Committee on
Foreign Relations suggested that the
CIA, as an arm of the executive branch
of the Government, or as an arm of the
State Department, be placed under some
kind of congressional control-the Issue
is raised that somehow that proposal, if
It were acted on, would undermine the
security of the Nation.
Here again a proposal on the part of
the Committee on Foreign Relations to
set some limit on procedure by which
arms sales are financed is made the sub-
ject of the argument that this is some-
how endangering the security of the
Nation. Mr. President, if the security of
the world depends on what we do on
this amendment we should have a hard
look at what the Subcommittee on Pre-
paredness has been telling us, and we
should take a hard look at what the
Department of Defense has been doing
with approximately $60 to $70 billion a
year we are appropriating for that
Department for expenditure in defense
of the United States and the free world.
All we are trying to do is define a
procedure to direct the Department of
Defense, because it has been acting-
while not illegally or outside the law-
between the law and the regulations we
have laid down. This Is understandable
when we appropriate money for them to
spend amounting to $60 to $70 billion.
A department as large as the Depart-
ment of Defense must develop a state df
mind similar to the situation reported to
enlist in the great dirigible hangar in New
Jersey. That hangar was so big that It
had its own weather inside. There might
be sunshine on the outside, but rain in-
side; there might have been calm inside,
but a tornado outside; there might be
storms inside and calm outside. They
were never aware of the weather outside
because the hangar was so big. They were
never aware of the realities. This seems
to be what is happening in the Depart-
ment of Defense.
In the discussion earlier it was ob-
served that the Department of Defense
has developed its own educational sys-
tomi. The Department operates one of
tine largest educational systems in the
world. The Department has developed its
own public relations program, its own
there. The process is developing a kind Mr. MuCATTTTY. T yield.
of Plato's Republic inside the Depart- Mr. SYMINGTON, I nag glad that time
mont of Defense In which everyone is able Senator from Minnesota has brought
trained for particular functions in up the point he just mentioned. Some
society. people hnve felt that the major dirretlnhl
It appears that the one thing missing and thrust today In this direetiuii lum
to satisfy their needs was a banking sys- to do with the grle..tion of the power of
tem. Someone said, "We have fellows the State Department, the Department of
here interested in banking and credit. To Defense, and the President to give or
keep them happy lot us get a little re- lend arms to other countries. It has
volving fund and let them work with nothing to do with that principle funda-
credit. This will satisfy them and, to a 'mentally.
certain extent, it can make a contribu- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time
tion to what we are doing in the Depart- of the Senator has expired.
ment." Mr. SYMINGTON. Mr. President, I
I think the situation has gotten out of ask unanimous consent that I may pro-
hand and has become a force operating coed for 30 seconds.
tee on Foreign Relations is attempting to
do Is to bring them back into channels
and into some kind of perspective so we
can look at the operation more carefully.
I do not think what we are doing is going
to stop them. I think they are resource-
ful enough over there so that if they need
to provide arms some place around the
world they will be able to do it.
I note, in addition to this credit facil-
ity, the report on page 12 indicates that
there are also a number of sources,
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The time
of the Senator has expired.
Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent that I may proceed
for 3 additional minutes.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Who
yields time?
Mr. FULBRIGHT. I yield 3 minutes.
Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. President, page
12 of the report states:
There are also a number of sources under
the Foreign Assistance Act which will still be
available. Authority remains to sell from De-
partment of Defense stocks with up to three
years credit.
Mr. President, they can sell anything
on the rack. They can sell to anybody in
the world on 3 years' credit. They do not
have to use the revolving fund or any
money that is around. They have their
own stock; just take it off the rack;
tanks, guns, ammunition, bombs, all
available on 3 years' credit. Who do
we want to sell it to? We have country
x. We will sell it to country x on 3 years'
credit. Take it away. Three years later
they foreclose. They can go out and re-
possess and sell to them again because
Another provision provides for the re-
objection, it is so ordered.
Mr. SYMINGTON. Mr. President, it is
an effort on the part of the Committee
on Foreign Relations to see that Con-
gress is properly informed when these
transactions take place. Again, I refer to
the fact that in testimony before our
subcommittee, as the Senator from
Minnesota will remember, the repre-
sentative of the Department of Defense
admitted that a transaction to sell highly
sophisticated aircraft to a country in
the Middle East-in fact, the most highly
sophisticated aircraft we have-would
not have been become known by Con-
gress for at least 6 to 8 months after
the transaction,
Mr. President, I do not think that we
fulfill our obligations under the concept
of our constitutional responsibilities If
we continue to pass laws which make
possible the continuation of that type
of operation. That is the point at issue
in this amendment.
Mr. McCARTHY. I thank the Senator
for his contribution. I think our mini-
mum responsibility is to know what Is
going on and the Senate should be told
what is going on even though we cannot
exercise real control over the process.
Mr. TOWER. Mr. President, has all,
the time expired under the control of
the Senator from Arkansas?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. One min-
ute remains.
Mr. TOWER. I would be prepared to
yield some of my time to the Senator
from Arkansas.
Mr. FULBRIGHT. Mr. President, do
I have any time left?
The PRESIDING OFFICER. One min-
ute
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allocation of $250 million if the country Mr. PULBRIGHT. Well, Mr. President,
Is in danger of communist aggression or there is not much further to be said. I
subversion. This would provide an addi- have a statement here from one of the
tional $250 million to use. outstanding leaders of Latin America
Mr. President, all that we are really concerning the arms race problem oil
asking in the Committee on Foreign that continent.
Relations is that the Senate give us sup- Two sentences summarize the issue.
port in trying to clarify and purify the This is from a recent article written by
procedures under the Constitution. It is President Frei of Chile:
appearance that we are asking for so that
. The armaments race encourages mistrust
it will appear that the Senate is bei
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are in making decisions on the chief enemies of Latin Amerman inter'
propaganda program, and its own diplo- ,,..... s
Current policy. We want the procedures gration. It also divertw important raaourcej
niatic corps, It runs the largest retail to look right. We do not have those proce- which should be realized to satisfy the urgent
distribution operation in the world in dures now. At present it is made to ap- need for economic anal social development,
the PX. Pear that the Pentagon makes the deci-
It seems that as this kind of momen- sion and that they are so wise and all- e We hnd Indicating received many other nder-
tum Is developed, and there is not a knowing that we should not question the developed ut th at the poor, u l ss
major war, nearly everyone in the De- procedure. buying ing sophisticated countries ries have weaponry business
credit,
partment of Defense has a desire to be Mr. SYMINGTON. Mr. President, will such as through the 3inancing naticing procedure
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what he would have been If he were not the Senator yield? ,ve,.u. --I,. I ._
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