OUTSPOKEN YOUNG AGAIN

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170111-6
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November 11, 2016
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April 30, 1999
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111
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August 24, 1965
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0 C Sanitized - Approved For Release : `i0'''~0, G:ito { 3LADE face up to' them. r same ?srove as w . J. - 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 IF 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- E. 181,542 S. 182,833 AUG 2 4 1965 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-::; 'Sanitized - Approved For Release ; CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170111-6