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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170100-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 100
• Publication Date: September 30, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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Sen. Stephen Young (D-O.) is right:4
i A joint congressional committee should$
be established to oversee the Central In
telligence Agency. Probably nothing willi
come of the senator's plea, however. ItT
arrives too late. Congress is a centipede.
1with itchy feet, eager to start traveling.
- Yet Congress doesn't know how much!
money it gives CIA. Lawmakers appro-z
priate for the agency under a varietyI
of false labels. Nor does Congress knowl
how, or where, the'CIA operates.
Obviously, the entire Congress cannot!
know-without a serious threat to CIA's
vital secrecy. But aselect committee!
could monitor the agency. The Atomic
-Energy Commission, for security . real
sons is controlled in just such a way.:
The system has worked well. No secrets`
have been compromised because of it. t
Through occasional ineptness and bad
judgment-some of these probably inevi-
table in such a large-scale enterprise-
t
CIA h
i
e
as
nvolved the United States
several serious crises. It ought, for
~e good of the country,- to be subject to`l
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