A BILLION FOR CIA HIDDEN AMONG GUNS AND BUTTER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700170023-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 4, 2006
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: January 30, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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11ERALD Approved For Release `206
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WASHINGTON - Hidden in I gressional eillance are tak? New York, who would .strip'
years. -CIA of all operations and limit.'
the Johnson administration en more seriously, than in past, its role to research and analy- r
budget for nest' year is ?at least I The major bill, which would Isis-
$1 billion to be spent by the set up a joint congressional I ? o
Central Intelligence Agency. ."wbtchdo?^" committee for cen-? SI;N. SALTONSTALI, mnde'-
r The fait that the suns, about' tral intrili?race, has been it clear he' will stand firm In
1:1 per cent of all Federal ex- pushed 'iii Ihe Senate for many, this, his final year in public
Is years by Montana's Mike Mans- Ilfe, against any change In
penditurcs for fiscal e1967, ral field, now the majority leader. CIA's a t a t u s.. He was chief)
-concealed In the budget estl- In 1956 lie was successful In sponsor of legislation In the Re
-mates Is no secret. getting the bill to the floor for publican-controlled 'Roth Con-'
But the way in which it 1s a vote, where it was rejduted gress setting up CIA as a de-
57-29. The opposition of Chair- scendant of the wartime Office
t?onccah'd is known only to a nit+n Carl, llay:Icn, la-Ariz., of 'of Stralegic We r V i r e a, voiti-
hantltUl of veteran lpglslaiurs.;lhc Alsprupr'iailuns Committee,;m:rtill rd by the Irate MAJ. I;1en,
Many of,Ah (hers have long Chairutan Richard B.%Russell, William J. (Wild hill) Donu-'
resenter~CIA's rivacy. ; D-Ga., of the Armed Serviscs van.
The t?glvwc? s the largest of Committee, and Sen. Leverctti Saitnnstall says CIA Is
several comprising the "intelli. 5allonslati, It-Mass., now the fact-finding agency wins ne
gence connnunity. For nearly' ranking minority member of, policy-making powers. The-.
-20 years, it has never been sub- bosh units, were responsible for agency provides information to
mrn--toppling In the Middle
In the past. year,*the )louse conditions In the ,world today.!
}?:ast, Cuba, the Dominican' Re- forces favoring the watchdog Hr.' cites British Intelligence.
public., Viet Nam; Singapore unit hive increased as liberal which goes back to the Wars
and elsewhere-that has whet- lof the Roses, In the 15th Ccn-
I ed the curiosity ;of long scat Democratic ynung Turks have tury The funds used by, this
t
congressmen. offered companion bills. They orinization,? oldest of Its kind
-' a o. w would go further than toughel' in the woFid,,are. known to very
AS A RESULT, pending bills surveillance, howevcrr.. 'I`ypleal few _ goverl~ment r leadeTL 'Tile
jected to review by congres- Mansfield's siefeal? the military,' Service;: and The
sional investigators.. Although in the It?n ?.r th' chief spon- National Security Council far{
the main work of the more sor i. in a,lministrtion star- decision-making. The 'guerrilla'
than 15,000 employes hcadquar- ;w?art ;,ndi nankin, Foreign Af- warfare' activities are under-
tered in a huge building In his Cnnvniltee D c m o c r a t, (taken by CIA on orders from,
'nearby Langley, Va., has to do rClrmrnt: Zablocki of Milwau- higher authority. CIA ? Is as-'
m e r e I y with research . an;l 'keg. Zablocki? has long felt signed these because no other,
analysis, the agency also gets there should be a check on the governmental agency is set up
involved In cloak - and - dagger c.oalp,.tence of CIA agents a.- for such tasks."
,work. signed to strategic overseas Sfn? Saltonstall says a1 great
It is the rum!n?ed blunders In service, and on the t 1,I C 5Mlh , Ilosvrr must have such secret
tile, cloak-:end-dagger depart-which huge, unvouchered sums intelligence services, Including
grcnt--rspionagr and govern- are silent, covert operations, because of
roved For Release 2006/08/09: CIA-RDP75-00149R000700170023-5
V&B IA-RDP75-0014
SON, to subject T IAAo closer con-? s Rep. William Fitts Ryan of
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