HAYS FIGHTS ADMISSION OF JOURNALIST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000300230003-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: September 9, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

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Associated Press
Chairman Wayne L. Hays,
D-Ohio, of the House A(Imin-
istration Committee says he will
fight against the admission. of
a member of radical press to
the Senate and house press
galleries.
Bays last night termed ''ab-
surd and ridiculous" the 3-2 vote
of the Standing Committee of
Correspondents of the U. S. Con-
gress to admit Thomas King
I?orcade as Washington corre-
spondent of the Underground
Press Service.
Forcade, a self-styled revolu-
tionary, obtained national atten-
tion in Alay J.970 when he threw
a cottage cheese pie in the face
of Otto Larsen, a member of the
U. S. Commission on Obscenity
and Pornography, to protest the
commission's existence.
The Standing Committee of
Correspondents, composed of
elected representatives of Capi-
tol I-Till newsmen; voted last
Thursday to admit rorcade to
membership after wrestling with
his application for weeks.
Hays, an outspoken critic of j
the press, said. I+ orcade's past
conduct should disqualify him
from membership. He will put
the issue on his coznznittee's
agenda, he said, . I
Repeating views he has ex-1
Pressed during committee con-
sideration of House press facili-
I
ties, flays said the action of theil
standing committee lends sup
port to his feeling that maybe
Congress shouldn't supply they
facilities that it does to the
pi css.
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