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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700400003-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 2007
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: February 17, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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?onunent? CeABLE SAID: "I think
maybe the State Department
ought to subsidize the students'
travel abroad instead of the
CIA, and I think it's foolish to
1hoj cret involved in this cloak and
rea
dagger stuff when the situ ~i..n
doesn't have anything to do with
intelligence."
The investigation plans are
"p erfectly . proper," Conable
Tidies-Union's Own Bureau said, but Congress shouldn't be
Washington - Rochester area `, prying into all. of the CIA's work'
congressmen differ in their om now on.
,,
assessment. of the tactics used
by the de rural Intelligence NORTON SAID it would be
Agency, especially in connection toa bad if the NSA incident led i
with the subsidization of the to an investigation that might
National Student Asscciation Aamage the standing of the
(NSA). CIA, which he said is perform-
Rep. Samuel S. Stratton, D- jug a vital role in protecting the
Amsterdam, opposes an investi country.
gation of CIA activities but Rep. ou re getting into a very
Frank Horton, R-Rochestcr, and''ldlicate area of national secur-
'Barber Conable, R-Batavia, say'?ity when you begin investigating
I they think the CIA owes Con- ;t'e CIA," Horton said. "The
gress an explanation of the NSA ,' (:FA's not all bad, and while. this
incident. :incident is a great: cause for
l alarm,' and the problem ought
STRATTON SAID he is get-!,'to he aired, we don't want to''
ting "a little bit tired" of people throw the baby out with the
who "latch onto every pos.,ibi .ath wafer.
occasion to ? demand a public
I investigation of the' operations
of the CIA." He said it is time
,to, he realistic about the Culd
War struggle.
"American o f f i c e holders
ought to know by now that ;tve
live in a very. :.dangerous and[ !even conspiratorial world," the!
Amsterdam Democrat s a i d. L
"For responsible ' Arner.ican i
legislators to insist that Ameril
ca's attitude always be the
attitude of Pollyanna in a. world)
all too often peopled by cut
throats and dirty, players, would
be a perfect formula for failure
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