AMENDMENTS TO THE FOREIGN ASSISTANCE ACT LIMITING CIA INTERVENTION IN THE INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES

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• Publication Date: August 2, 1974
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youngest in spirit of any resident of domestic affairs of foreign countries is According to the Times, it is now doc-
Florida's 13th Congressional District. simply the other side of the coin and umented that the CIA operated the Phil-
Arnold Levien earned this honor, not deserves equal congressional attention. lipine campaign against Huk guerillas.
as we do in Congress because of senior- Such intervention is equally illegal and The CIA organized an unsuccessful coup
ity, not just because of a lifetime of is a manifestation of the same drive for against President Sukarno of Indonesia
personal accomplishments and creative unchecked. power on the part of the ex- in 1958. According to Vincent Marchet-
business developments, but primarily be- ecutive branch of Government. ti's book, "The CIA, the Cult of Intelli
cause he has targeted his spirit and his This committee should feel a particu- gence," the CIA spent an excessive
energy toward the service of his fellow lar obligation to limit CIA activities amount of energy in hunting down Che
nian. which intervene in the internal affairs of Guevera in 1966-67. All of these opera-
For all these reasons, it is my privilege foreign countries. As reported in the tions clearly affected this country's for
to insert in the RECORD, the Arnold Washington Post on October 21, 1973, eign policy.
Levien Day proclamation of metropoli- CIA Director Colby in hearings on the In Chile, according to an April 6, 1.973`,
tan Dade County. Chilean coup told me that he would not Washington Post article by Laurence
A PROCLAMATION testify before this committee to specific Stern quoting knowledgeable official
whereas: Arnold Levien has reached the CIA operations. Yet, it is this committee sources, major intervention by the CIA
young age of 84 after a -full life as a philan- which formulates foreign policy. If the helped to defeat Allende in the 1964 elec-
thropist, humanitarian and benefactor, and CIA will not teiL:us exalt ' rl'o"w tion for President. The CIA funded trade
as a good neighbor and friend to all who and inwhat respects the CIA is in- unions, farmer organizations, student
know him, and 1'1uencing !Orel ;y, 15 COinmit-
whereas: During his long span of life, to groups, and the media in order to defeat
mention a few of his philanthropies, he EM 3 y e e i i lie -MA and discredit Allende. According to testi-
was a founder of the Albert Einstein Medical Me eaten-~__ in anywaT' "= mony given before a Senate subcommit-
College, is deeply Involved In the success of eof ing" 'T)relgn po loy cte ei?inii s. tee and printed in the October 21, 1973.
Brandeis University, and in Dade County, is The L U ow ?e ) c i Washington Post, the CIA earmarked
a founder of the Miami Beach Taxpayers wo" terms oTi s i'rllterVenTion in-for-
Association, and an ardent supporter of the elfin po icy o y to ]I>ise 'iGlein cis media $400,000 shortly support anti-Allende news
Bascom-Palmer Eye Clinic of Jackson Me- media . Iii t
and
morial Hospital, and angressiEliasi noC'fiTt~r expeiT' timoiiy befo fore before this the committee election.
nd
whereas: Arnold Levien has had a leading ilce in _oi 1 1301 7C9' M printed in the Washington Post, Director
career as a builder and developer and his Me lder11 X=, - Zli`i~eis Colby refused to say that this money was
four sorbs, Arthur, Henry, Edward and Robert in eres an e. SCCR71~]T0i M.- not spent. The latest CIA manipulative
have followed in his footsteps and have made T;IL orelgri p0 Cy that CIA meddling. attempt exposed by the press and ad
a tremendous Impact in the construction nr o u ~rh-^ p ay; -g usi- mitted by the Government was the-fak-
es'
Industry in both Dade County and other . 11L clearly anny I lug of a letter to Bangkok government by
areas the is Alma States, Mater, Whereas: p envision these amendments as only a CIA agent. The agent accredited the Union -7 His , Cooper
College of New York, in recognition of f his s a first step in regaining for the Foreign letter to a guerilla leader in order to
philanthropies and technical ability, will Affairs Committee power over the CIA's discredit him.
bestow upon him the signal honor of being direction of foreign policy. Certainly, CIA interference in other countries'
selected "Alumnus of the Year" on Feb- full support should be given to that part Internal affairs through military assist-
ruary 17th, 1974, of the Bolling committee reforms which once has also been egregious and docu-.
Now, therefore: Be it resolved that I, John give the Foreign Affairs Committee some mented. The CIA has now admitted that
E. Orr, Jr., mayor of metropolitan Dade oversight powers in regard to the CIA. it armed, trained; and operated an array
F Florida, hereby proclaim Sunday, Independently, it is also necessary to of Meo tribesmen in Laos during the
February 1 177, ,197 1974, , as s "Arnold Leviers Day."
In observance thereof: I call upon the work for reform which will create a CIA 1960's. The Times articles on April 25-28,
people of Metropolitan Dade County to join oversight committee which would in- 1966, documented that the CIA supplied
with me in honoring a man who has assumed elude members of Foreign Affairs and pilots, mechanics, and aircraft to the
many responsibilities successfully-for and would have the necessary powers to pre- government of Moise Tshombe in the
with his community in mind and who has vent CIA abuses of its charter. Congo.
earned therefore the plaudits of his college. According to President Truman, whose CIA involvement in training the mill.
administration created the CIA, the .. tary and police forces of other countries
agency was intended to gather, central- has also recently come to light. In Jack
r'MENDMENTS TO THE FOREIGN i ize and analyze intelligence and was Anderson's column of October 8, 1973. he
ASSISTANCE ACT LIMITING CIA never intended to to be a "peacetime exposed the existence of papers possessed
INTERVENTION IN THE INTERNAL cloak-and-dagger operation." The Na- by Senator ABOUREZI which documented
AFFAIRS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES tional Security Act of 1947 authorizing that the CIA was training foreign police-
the CIA gave. it permission to engage men under the auspices of AID in a re
? MICHAEL ~.~~R~Ci~d only in those activities "related to in- mote desert camp in Texas. Foreign
teiligence. ' Yet, the evidence is clear countries being trained included Chile,
OF MASSAC}rOSETTS that the CIA in conjunction with the Brazil, Guatemala, the Dominican Re-
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES National Security Counc:.1 has taken upon public, Bolivia, and Uruguay. The CIA
Wednesday, July 31, 1974 . itself the role of directing a secret for- taught these policemen the use of expio-
eign policy distinct from the one au- sives, electric priming, electric firing de-
%fr. HARRINGTON. Mr. Speaker, I thorized bl Congress vices, explosive charges, and booby traps.
am offering amendments to the Foreign Almost from its inception, the CIA has That the CIA is still involved in these
Assistance Act limiting CIA covert op arrogated to itself the power to secretly operations today is evident. A pattern of
erations which manipulate and Inter- Intervene in the internal affairs of for- intervention in the internal affairs of
verse in the internal affairs of foreign eign countries. According to a series of foreign countries has been clear since the
countries. artcles written collectively by the New creation of the CIA. There is no reason to
I consider the Foreign Assistance Act York Times correspondents Tom Wicker, believe that the CIA has suddenly
the natural piece of legislation for at- Max Frankel, Bud Kenworthy, and stopped these activities. Moreover, ac-
taching these amendments. For there John Finney and published in the Times cording to Marchetti, 1,800 CIA agents
can be no . doubt that when the CIA from April 25-28, 1966, in the early 1950,,s, are still working In the covert activities
intervenes in the Internal affairs of for- the CIA funded defeated Chinese Na- unit of the CIA-engaged in financing
eign countries, the CIA is usurping Con- tionalists and encouraged them to raid youth, labor, cultural groups, operating
ress' role and responsibility for formu- Communist China. In Guatemala, the clandestine radio propaganda outlets,
la.ting foreign policy. Such executive article noted that the C::A has admitted and conducting lare-scale efforts to in-
abuses of power must now be ended. that It funded and engineered the revo- fluence foreign elections. Andrew Hamil-
In the last couple of months, particu- lution against the Communist-oriented ton, former program analyst for the Na-
lar attention h ~P1 IF$-l e $ T/ 02ibC d11 Rt3R7 OAS5 AOOOtWG04 wouncil, reported in the
CIA interventio his country's do- well documented, the Bay of Pigs opera- September 1973 edition of the Progressive
mestic affairs. CIA intervention Into the tion was planned by the CIA. that according to informed sources the
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1971 CIA budget continued at about $100
million for covert operations in 1971.
Finally, it should be briefly noted that
not only is there the abundance of evi-
dence mentioned previously tieing the
CIA to the formulation of foreign policy,
but there Is also evidence that some CIA
funding comes directly from FAA money.
First, there are the police training pro-
grams already mentioned. Marchetti re-
ports in his book.that AID's Public Safety
Division regularly provides cover for CIA
operatives all. over the world. In addition,
the staff of the Senate Foreign Relations
behoove us all to continue to conduct our
legislative affairs In a manner conductive
to maintaining and enhancing our com-
mittment to Civil Air Patrol endeavors.
Certainly our entire country will reap
the benefits of such action.
HON. JOHN N. ERLENBORN
Or A'.LINOIS
Committee revealed that the Loatian war IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
was financed from the budgets of AID Wednesday, July 31, 1974
and DOD. Mr. ERLENBOR:V. Mr. Speaker, dur
These amendments(,: to the Foreign Ing my tenure in this House, there has
Assistance Act limiting CIA activities Ing
those powers, which through neglect.
HON. LINDY BOGGS
- - - .- .: - Or LOUISIANA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- Wednesday, July 31, 1974
went is doing.
We are just now In the process of mak-
Ing the executive branch more open to
the pF:'rple's inquiry and study.
Unfortunately, at the same time, an
adverse trend back to secrecy has been
gaining a foothold In the `House-not
among all of us, but rather In some Dem-
ocratic circles. My colleague from Illinois,
JOHN B. ANDERSON
wrote about this
,
Mrs. BOGGS. Mr. Speaker, I would threat to good government in yesterday's
like to take this opportunity to extend Chicago Tribune. I insert his statement
my heartfelt appreciation and personal in the RECORD:
commendation to three members of the. SPECTER of R'7LE BY CAUCUS
Polaris Group Civil Air Patrol in An-
chorage, Alaska, who recently were hon-
(By John B. Anderson)
The thief deputy whip In the House of
Representatives, Rep. John Brademas [D.,
Ind.], recently advised the nation's governors
they should start thinking about the prospect
of what he termed "congressional govern-
ment" in the next two years-a situation in
which a House controlled by 300 Democrats
[there are now 2471 would confront a much"
weakened Presidency.
If the Democratic prescription for "con-
gressional government" is filled at the. polls
this fall, this country could well be launched
on a backward course to the "New Deal-
Great Society" eras :'n terms of domestic
policy-PA new proliferation of inflationary
federal grant programs, and a corresponding
elimination of "New Federalism" programs of
decentralization, including the repeal of fed.
eral revenue-sharing with state and local
governments. Such legislative directions will
predictably be charted by a "veto-proof,"
Democratic-controlled 'congressional govern-
ment."
But a second cons3,deration is bow the
Congress itself will change the manner in
which it processes legislation. I think there
is cause for serious concern about the poten-
tial ini pact of "congressional government,"
In 188.5, an obscure professor at Johns Hop-
kins University, Wocrlrow Wilson, wrote
"Congressional Government: A Study in
American Politics." In :his book Wilson advo-
cated a Congress patterned after the British
Missouri, but the real power behind the
throne of King Caucus was Oscar Underwood
of Alabama, who was both the House major.
ity leader and chairman of the powerful Ways
and Means Committee and the party com-
mittee which selected members for all House
committees.
Underwood exercised his considerable pow-
ers thru the Democratic Caucus In, the
House which passed resolutions right and
left instructing committees on what hills
they would and would not consider, and: in-
structing Democratic members how' to vote
on floor amendments.
History has a way of repeating itself, and
we are already beginning to witness the re-
emergence of King Caucus in the Houseto-
day, a development which Is bound to be
accelerated if the Democrats should control
300 seats in the next Congress.
While the Democrats have only resorted
once in recent years to the caucus two-
thirds vote rule to bind members' votes an
the House floor, they are. now employing a
more subtle device to restore the iron-grip
of King Caucus over the legislative process:
issuing binding instructions to Democratic
members on committees with respect to leg-
Islation under consideration. This procedure,
which was used most effectively during the
Underwood regime, requires only a major-
ity vote of those present in a caucus.
What this means is that If only a bare
quorum or half the total Democratic Rouse
membership was present in a caucus, as few
as 63 Democrats could constitute a majority
vote for the purpose of Issuing binding In-
structions to Democratic members of com-
mittees.
The most recent example of King Caucus
occurred on May 16 when the caucus, by a
voice vote, instructed both the chairman of
the Ways and Means Committee and the
members of the Rules Committee, to make
only two Democratic amendments in order
to an oil tax bill reported from the Ways
and Means Committee.
Because both the chairman of the. Wave
and Means Committee and some Democrats
on the Rules Committee are not happy with
these instructions and a fierce intra-party
battle is now raging as to whether they are
binding, the measure has not yet been
cleared for floor action, and the American
people are being denied the "windfall prof-
its tax" In oil companies which they hold
been promised by April.
More of the same can be expected in the
next Congress if the Democrats are given.
their "congressional government" of 300
Democrats in the House. The American pen
pie should consider well what this might
mean to our representative democracy as
we know it.
Finally, one must remember that King
Caucus reigns in secrecy, behind closed
doors. If. the legislative business of the coun-
try is permitted to be dictated from behind
closed caucus doors, I fear there will be fur-
ther erosion of confidence in Congress.- at a
time when it is already at one of its lowest
points In history.
available to me numerous files of many parliamentary system: Congressional com- OLDER AMERICANS COMMUNITY
mitteesouid be composed solely of members SERVICES EMPLOYMENT PRO-
earlier, successful searches in the area. of the majority party, subject to strict discip.
At this time, I would also like to com- linary actions if they deviated from the party GRAM IMPLEMENTED AS CON
GRESS INTENDED
mend Members of Congress, esneciaily line.
ored for their efforts to locate my hus-
band, the former House majority leader,.
and Congressman Nick Begich, whose
plane was lost In a flight over Alaska In
1972.
Receiving. the Meritorious Service
Award for their part In one of the long-
est and most Intensive searches ever con-
ducted by the Civil Air Patrol were Maj.
Dale Jepson, his wife, Capt. Diane Jep-
son, and 1st Lt. Ralph Thomas. These
public servants were among the members
of the Polaris Group that participated in
444 sorties In 310 aircraft to make a total
of 1,074 flight hours in a search which
lasted from October 16 to November 24,
1972.
During that period, I had the distinct
pleasure of visiting Merrill Field in An-
chorage and meeting with this outstand-
ing threesome. I was keenly impressed by
their competence and expertise, and am
immensely grateful for the services they
have performed. I.would like to extend
my special gratitude to Captain Jepson
who so kindly escorted me throughout
Merrill Field during the search period,
and allowed my inspection of the equip-
ment used in the probe She also made
HON. JOHN BRADEMAS
OF INDSANA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESE:'ITATIVE9
various CAP programs, and the services Democrats took control of the House in the Wednesday, July 31, 1974.
they perform for our citizenry are worthy fall electrons of 1910. The new Democratic Mr. BRADEMAS. Mr. speaker, the
of our SUP Wpp?&detPr8Y*e . t0Mi 1'IZ6 ,e 1*- P7T*MW G (J100O40*X58t8er business . may at times
Lnose wno nave aelonged or now belong Pernaca not coincidentally, Wilson's pre-
t.o Civil Air Patrol units, for their recog- scription for congressional govermnent came
nition of the Importance of CAP projects closest to fulfillment during his tenure as
and training programs. Men and women Presider t of the United States. Historians
throughout the Nation are involved in record he period lai,-leis as the era of
secret "King Caucus "