[THE ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT THIS MORNING, 29 JULY, CARRIED THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL]

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300020007-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2004
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• Publication Date: July 29, 1966
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Approved For Release
MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Helms
The ST. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT this morning, 29 July, carried the
following editorial.
With the problems of Vietnam warfare escalating, inflation, an
air line strike, foreign aid slashes and, of course, election year politics
pressing upon members of the U.S. Senate, it seems that they could find better
use for their time than crackling out a rubarb because CIA Director Richard
Helms wrote a letter commenting on an editorial in the GLOBE-DEMOCRAT.
The editorial praised the CIA for its accomplishment and noted
a Senate proposal rebuke Chairman Fulbright of the Foreign Relations Committee
for asking, as Sen. Russell has stated to muscle into supervision of CIA long
maintained by a special committee of Mr. Russell's Armed Services Committee
and the Appropriations Committee.
The Senate vote routed the Fulbright ploy with a whopping 61-28 vote
which by any yardstick seems like a crushing rebuke. Why would not Mr. Helms
feel'bouyed up by the Senate ballot and by our editorial approving it?
We print letters from Cabinet Ministers, Senators and other high
officials. Do Senators think the CIA Director should exist in a public
vacuum and not enjoy any rights of the speech they so forthrightly and fulsomely
use. He was not divulging or discussing intelligence matters.
It has been a long hot summer on Capitol Hill and the Senators
would like to get into the campaign trails, and maybe this accounts for the
tea pot tempestuousness over a minor incident that should not have rippled
the greatest deliberative body on earth.
Approved For Release 2004/10/28 : CIA-RDP88-0131-4R000300020007-4
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