SENATOR ON TARGET IN IDEOLOGICAL JOUST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170112-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 112
• Publication Date: August 20, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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'Senator on Target
it Ideological Joust
Ohio's peppery Steve Young, at 76
urely one of the nation's oldest junior "i
enators, continues to battle the militant
fight with an energy common to younger.:,
men. Current issue
in- t h e ideological
joust is the proposed
(U.S.-Russian treaty` f' 'I r
1consu4ates.
! In announcing for
;the treaty, ' Sen.
JYoun,, reported he
has received a "tre-
went to thl 'facts. ~* "All of our embassies
overse. s lia~p OT A operatives, or spies,
,who ara on 't1ip e6M sy staffs . . . I've
Ohioans objecting to the treaty. "These
citizens have unfortunately been misin-1-
formed," he said. "Right-wring extremists
have. circulated pamphlets distorting the;,
facts."
Main- popular objection has been the .'.
claim, that the pact will foster Sovietl
espionagp. With 'a candor rare when sen-
ators arl ress ? the subject, Sen. Young
mendous, volume of young.
pressure nail" from,
personally tatkDrlwith some of our CIA."
operative: `in our embassies in foreign.
countries And know''thie.'facts . . . The
danger of a few muore'Russian agents pos-
ing as dihlnmats is infinitesimal compared
to the benefits."
The senator, of course, is right. The
treaty would provide 'legal protection for
U.S. citizens in Russia, where some 12,000
traveled last year. It would drive a slim .r.'
edge into Russia's closed society. It
would advance trade between the nations.
It would help, in a small way, to ease, in- s
ternational tensions.
The treaty has been hanging fire for
more thana year. Its ratification now
!would stand as evidence of U.S. willing- k
mess for coexistence despite the policy
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