CIA HEAD TRIPS ON HIS PEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500020007-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: July 29, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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!' ? Mr. Helms, In office but 'a
month, was the target of Senate
outrage yesterday for a letter to
the St. Louis 0lobo-Damocrat
praising an editorial rebuke to
Chairman J. William Fulbright
of the Senate Foreign Relations
. Committee. Mr. Helms called
,I .;.,' : ;L t Sen. Fulbright later to say. he
was sorry about that.
Today, he will have a chance
to tell Sen. Fuibright in I.crson
during a scheduled appearance
'before the Senator's committee.
LIKED EDITORIAL
{ In the eyes of his.' Senate
critics, Mr. Helms blundered
when be. wrote the Globe.
Democrat in praise of an
4r. editorial applauding ? failure of
the Foreign Relations
Committee to got representation
Helms Now Says He?s Sorry About That
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Central Intelligence' Director
Richard Helms, widely
!'complimented for his care with
the cloak and dagger, faced a
.Senate, scolding today for.
Wielding a clumsy pen.
'OUT OF ORDER'
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D.,
Minn.), author. of the original
CIA expansion resolution, . told,
his Serrate colleagues yesterday
he thought Mr. Helms'. letter'
was "entirely out of.order , ..
he,'owes an apology to every
.
member of the United States
Senate."
Other senators from`
f the CIA. ?.D e m o c r a tl c leader Mike
The editorial labeled Sen...' Mansfield. on..down,"said they,,'.
rlllbright it "crafty Arkansan" . had to agree, some In "shock";.
'.and said. the Senate -'Oproperly and all with surprise, that suchal
rebuked: Sen. ` ~ Fulbrlght and ..public comment b
gave the CIA a round vote of "h e a d w a s unquestionably
confidence." .. indiscreet.:...
Mr. Helm's letter, published While the voices of
In the Globe-Democrat under disapproval' were still rising
the headline.. ' CLh ' Head, from the, Senate,' floor, . Sen.
'Pleased," said: "f want: ,to to let Leverett Saltunstall (R., ' Mass'.)
you know of my pleasure .In reported he talked to Mr. Helms
reading the editorial "Brickbats . during the debate and the CIA ;
for Fulbright" in the Globe, . chief said he `,'was sorry for It.
Danlorat of July 10? NPD
"It reflects so yell your.! ?
paper's policy of 'printing the'
news impartially, supporting
what It believes to be right and i
opposing what It believes to be,
wrong without regard to party ,i ? ?Lti'?
Politics.,
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