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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79-00957A000100070041-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2006
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: October 2, 1974
• Content Type: TRANS

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By BARRY SCHWEID
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON AP -- The House Foreign Affairs Committee has gained
assurances from Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and CIA Director
William E. Colby that it will be advised :in advance of any future covert
operations abroad.
"We wanted to get this first step done, " Rep. Dante B. Fascell, D-Fla. ,
a principal proponent of broader House review, said in an interview
Wednesday.
"The other issue that ought to be examined now as a matter of national policy
is whether our country should be involved in such operations, " he said.
Until now, on the House side, the Central Intelligence Agency has briefed
only an armed services subcommittee headed by Rep. Lucien Nedzi, D-Mich.
As a result, Fascell said, the foreign policy implications of CIA operations
such as the activities in Chile against former President Salvador Allende
were not reviewed.
You would know covert activities were occurring, by normal conclusion
and osmoisis, " he said, "but it was not possible for our committee to get
the information. We could never get a direct answer. "
In hearings last year after Allende was overthrown, Fascell's inter-American
subcommittee called State Department and CIA officials. "All of that testimony
led to one specific end, " Fascell said. "Either the State Department people
couldn't tell us or wouldn't tell us. State's response generally was 'you'll
have to get it from CIA. ' And when Colby testified he said, 'I can't give you
that, I can and will give it to the appropriate subcommittee. '
"This whole arrangement has been totally unsatisfactory. "
Colby's testimony before the Nedzi panel led to disclosure last month of
covert anti-Allende programs in 1946 and from 1969 to 1973. Kissinger
heads the supersecret Committee of Forty which gave itsapproval.
On the Senate side, covert information is given only to a special subcommittee
headed by Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss. The staff director of the Foreign
Relations Committee, Pat M. Holt, said no senator had requested a comparable
arrangement and that none was in prospect.
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