WASHINGTON TRENDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700140094-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 2004
• Sequence Number: 94
• Publication Date: July 10, 1961
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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In l'tesideut is running into opposition from
Hi(liard Russell, chairman of the Senate Armed*-.
',wrs ices Committee, on plans to reorganize the
Central Intelligence Agency.
! I,. 1'to?siditnt wants to split the CIA into two
< wig . ,ins to gather intelligence, the other to.
'wulnc t cvlct operations.
''Iw pnuhlem: Kennedy wants to put the opera-
tion;hl "under military control. But Russell
i i . . ern lie ground that the new agency would
1 (floc I stepchild of the Pentagon.
It ssoli also argues that the purpose of the super-
?, (t world be defeated because it's al-
.t 111g)ossible to keep it secret in the Pentagon.
tac-rUen lIe?forrn
:'i.,,pccts arc looking tip for Congressional action
?r Icast one major change iii the method of
ci tint, a Pmsident. Namely, the abolition of
!'t, ,i l tidal electors.
This seas one of 21 proposals considered by the
tiei.at, Iiidiciarv Sttbconnnittee on Constitutional
ltncndnucnts in hearings last week.
Si,hconnnittee chairman Sen. Estes Kefauver
hopes the reform can be pushed through by the
ucst session of Congress.
l'ioposcd solution to the present confusion: Sim-
ply adding tip the electoral votes for each candi-
clate in each state and declaring a winner.
itarket itwsting; its Problems
Altorne% General Robert Kennedy's eight-point
anti-crime program will probably have to be re-
iscd to get Congressional approval.
I lerc's why: Critics on the Senate judiciary Com-
ntittec? complained that the original proposals
n too broad and vague.
"I 1w% particularly objected to a bill which would
Ii.,ce trade it a crime to cross state lines with
intent to commit a crime. The vague phrase,
with intent, lifted legal eyebrows.
1)rtniicratiC Sen. Sara Ervin snapped: "Tile pro.
posal is ineffective and dangerous." To Bobby
Kennedy, Ervin indicated that he believed the
bill could be called a "thought-control" WW
jv"tice Department lawyers; hav
s, already. drafted'
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a sul ititute proposal which does not 'inokide the?
fte bons lviehveen New Frontier c yilian.ddmin-
istra ors and military leaders--once, rntrk&l by
bitterness-are improving.
Inside" give much of the credits fqr smoothing
over zhe conflict to: Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs, and Defense Sec-
retary Robert McNamara.
Lemnitzer has liatiently reassured military chiefs
who feared they were befn$;sbypassed. by
And McNamara has belatedly' >