SENATE SHOWDOWN ON CIA IS POSTPONED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500270004-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: May 25, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON-The show-
down battle over how the sen-
ate should ride herd on the
'central intelligence agency
committee for study. It is an-
ticipated he will suggest ei-
ther the armed services com-
mittee, of which he is the
chairman, or the appropria-
tions committee.
'(CIA)' was postponed Tues-I McCarthy will pick up some))
day until next week. new support for his proposal
Chairman William Ful- I today from his fellow Minne-i
bright, D-Ark., of the senate I sota senator, Walter Mondale.1
foreign relations committee
told the senate that his com-
mittee will wait until next
Wednesday to file its formal
report urging that three of its
members be added to a new
nine-member sir v e i 11 a n cc
committee.
At the same time, the pros-
ient informal watchdog sub-
committee, which Fulbright
aims to replace, reiterated its
stand against the proposed
measure.
After an hour-long closed
mccting, Sen. Richard Rus.
sell, D-Ga., chairman of the
watchdog group, said any
compromise appeared "ex-
trmnely doubtful.
Son, Milton Young, R-N. D.,
a member of the watchdog
body, was even more explicit,
1 think there will be a battle
on it now," he said.
Russell met late Monday
with Fulbright and Sen. Eu-
gene McCarthy, D-Minn., au-
r thor of the resolution that
asked for a new committee,
but a hoped-for compromise
failed to materialize.
After Tuesday's postpone-
ment, 'Russell indicated that
when. the report is filed, lie
will igsist the proposal be
seat to an appropriate senate
Mondale said he will sup-
port the McCarthy proposal
ina senate speech because lie
feels "there is a need for, in-1
quiry into, some aspects oft
the CIA activities."
Mondale also will suggest',
that the new committee look
into "the degree to which our:
foreign intelligence activities I
may properly extend". into,
the U. S. itself. 4 f ~?