OUTSPOKEN YOUNG AGAIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170111-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 111
• Publication Date: August 24, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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face up to' them. r same ?srove as w .
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T people are fully acquainted with the facts P- Unfortunately, this is a fact of life ``
long and controversial debate on the sub scare that threatens to block a treaty which'
`j ect at this. session, could be of great advantage t9? ',American
It certainly is the reason why timid see= tourists and businessmen and 'fr'ight help
} ators-who know better themselvesorease world tensions?
should-"will fight this consular, exchange, r Mincing no words, Ohio's outspoken, see 1,
which Pre4 ent Johnson and Secretary `of-
ator sums, them up in one, two,.-three order,-:j, State. Rusk are"'6~dvocating.
- It is a fact that in all of our em_
AR FROM truckling to uninformed or bassies overseas we have, l~ (Central
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i misinformed public opinion, however, Intelligence Agency) opera ves,orspies, ,
Senator Young has made it big practice "to who are on the embassy staffs.
at9te the matter blunt; '! tp,GAtroversies a Of course, the Soviet Embassy in
,of this kind. Washington also is staffed with spies,
who are listed as officials of.the em-,.
E id tl he believes that if the American bass .
. cision of the Senate leadership to avoid' a`.. And what 'are the fasts about this ?py-
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Outspoken Young Again
EFORE the Senate leadership dropped s
- its effort to ;'.get a Soviet consular
treaty approved this' year-lest it precipi.
late a long?and controversial debate 'that
would delay adjournment of Congress-Sen.
Stephen M.'Young was given another op- i
portunity to demonstrate his; most' dis-
tinguishing political trait.
This is, to borrow the phrase from one of:
his speeches, his exceptional ability 'to'';
state the matter bluntly."
Chief opposition to-letting the Soviets
,open consular offices in this country-with .!
the United States doing the same in Russia,!
-comes from those who are afraid the re
ciprocal arrangement would. , plant more'
Communists as secret agents amongst us:
"Spies," 'senator Young bluntly calls
them.
But whether the senators who would de-
lay or block the consular treaty are more
,
.",afraid of spies or the seinsitiveness, o0,
American opinion is' problematical.
'FOR SO LONG-before the United States'\
became the dominant world power, play-
ing power politics to the hilt, Americans
were, by and large, the most naive of peo-
pies in foreign affairs.
Everything, they thought, ought to be'
amoral. Since spying wasn't, they- wanted;
no part of it.
This attitude, which still prevails in many
quarters, may account `an part 'for the. de-::;
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