SEN. SYMINGTON REPS CHARGES AGAINST CIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700430012-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2004
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: January 15, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

GLOBE DEMOCRAT ?'3
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January 15, 1966 (1
Jnly ti,,ice, he said, has he
?cove: a "anything to the con-
;cn '... .'id, riot: explain, could
resent CIA roles.
CC! iPLETE APPROVAL
c.;r;7ei1 throughout the far
.M.. sec- .., 'i
j in .0,
Policy Overseas
_1y EDWAGD :i. O'BBRIEN
Chief of Tha Cioba-Deniecrat
Washi:cgton Bureau
WASHINGTON - Senator
lulls
Stuart Symington. (Dem.),
just buck ,roni an exten-
A s i a n tour, r,idicuicd
Friday that the Central
,.ielligenee Agency is a biun-
c:ePing, Tree rvheeling irrvis:Ste
government.
lie told robe Senate he found
in Vietnam and every other
country that CIA operations are
ainned at carrying out official
United St-:.tes policy and are
fully approved by the American
ambassador.
"The Arne:ican public should
,.,o proud of this organizat:icii
and its !mop Lay a group who
curve their Country with Via-
stinting CleVotioriy" S C rI a t o r
l;: caa. "o Rincitioning Of tile
3C`.
:1 Lit under a system
ruu,,s anti controls, it. would
if n,-,it intp:oss,ibie,
r C',-> tic, got aut Of bounds.
CIA _);-z a difficult and
times a very dangerous m,iss-
on to perform, ithe senator
said.
Not ;;il men or women of this
any ogler agency are per-
But he said he agrees with
Sec e:a,ry of late Doan Rusk
recently bra:;sed the "gal-
i?n,try ,c.n.n high degree of com-
;::tense in those who have to
.help us with that part of the
ru,ggie for fre:ed;om."
Senator Symington was op-
noan?ted bills week to the select
group of senior members of the
Senate Armed Services Com,mIt-
Le:e who oversee the CIA.
Symington said.
IL is easy for critics to niche li
false accusations against tiie
secret spy organization becaurs::
CIA does not talk about its :;..c-'
lions and cannot defend itself,
.the Senator said.
IVIO E RECKLESS
In the last few years, there
have be,-:n increasing attacks in
this country, often from leftists,
on the CIA.
The theme has been that the
agency is reckless and wax-pro-
voicing, operates without ap-.I
pravat of tiie President o;- Secre-
tary of State, and is staffed in
incompetent adventurers.
In his, reply, Senator Syming-
ton said he has had
knowledge of CIA activ,ces ;cr
over 10 years.
"i have ;:I.snys A:i-
I pressed with the Z d
professional competence of the
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