CONGRESS COULD GET ITSELF BUGGED AGAIN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400410067-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 67
• Publication Date: February 1, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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ire prestigious organs of the mass were probably being seriously infringed little sense as many another organized
2dia have been lathering themselves upon. Now the power babes and the big church, but since it's different and it
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gout allegations of CIA-FBI spying, on richies complain, and it's not difficrilt hasn't been in business for 300 years,
inc of the more influential power ba= to surmise why. . its members, can be robbed of their
First Amendment rights and no con-
=s In the upper class. The evidence Even at this date, tho, you don't -hear gressional investigations are convened.
ggests that since the mid-1960s federal a hue and cry about the treatment ac-
:encies have stopped confining their I corded even such innocuous groups as The American Civil Liberties Union
egal intrusions to politically unpopu- the Scientologists. These people have is making a major effort to use this
groups. been raided?bythe Food and Drug Ad- bicentennial period to locus . attention
Millionaires, members of Congress , on the violation of everybody's rights in
ministration and had the accoutrements hopes of preventing the government
-en have become vulnerable, or so it ? of their religion cbnfiscat.ed. They've ttooine our ngcial Security er mt
.pears. This last. has incited an inves- been put on some. of those neiar?ious frbooosm ta to oo foou So forearms. l y are n u m-
gatory zeal for the protection of their government lists. They've had the tax
wn rights which had not been aroused exemptions of some of their churches jag a national conference on the sub-
the defense of the rights of others. snatched by the IRS, and lately they've month.] Chicago at the end of this
Or am I being unfair? The other day been claiming that the CIA is spying on
te Washington Post ran a front-page them-an accusation, - given what we The ACLU understands that unless
tory informing the world that: "FBI know about the CIA; that ought not to everybody's rights are protected. no-
zpped King at 1964 convention." 'An be dismissed out of hand. body's are. It was the failuie to defend
rticle followed explaining that Dr. people like Dr. King and the Selentoio-
Sartin Luther King's hotel room at the The Scientologists have been harasser: gists that led ,he government to violate
-emocratic convention had been bugged by the g e v es r n m e n t for. years. the rights of the ultra-respectables and
rights .been so large forced, to the power babes. So, if Congress
gad his phone tapped. The legal ices they'
pay to sustain their riare so lthinks it can protect itself without pro-
WIIAT IS astonishing about this .. is. they constitute a fine levied against testing the rest of us at the some t-mat scores of mass media executives them, tho they're guilty of nothing Congress is going to get itself e time,
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.ave known for years that Dr. Kung more than practicing their faith. again.
as the object of illegal surveillance. And it's their faith, not their politics,
hey knew it when he was alive. Nor, . which gets them into trouble. Not only
.ras this information known indirectly is it different, but it inspires in their ~? L 5C i r J~ d o ~t
hru secondary sources. They knew it acthcr?ents an irritating, evangelical to
,ecause representatives of the FBI had nacity that Americans are supposed to
:ome to them peddling eavesdropped to reserve for sports.
-ecordings concerning Dr. King's sex
lie. . UNHAPPILY FOR the Sclentolog sts.
No newspaper, North or South, was they have invented a religion with a
going to, print that kind of stuff and special appeal for a certain sort of
zone did. Nevertheless they had been middle-class adolescent. You might call
given incontrovertible proof by the gov- it an electronic Buddhism in which the
--rnment itself of the fact that the same divine computer frees the soul or "the-
overnment made it an ordinary prat- tan" for I-leaven knows what delicious
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_ice to violate the civil rights of its reunions with the,lirst principle of the
:rilics. universe. This amalgam of psychology,
If this knowledge caused the media .technology, sci-fi and ethics fetches
:o crank up its investigatory macliin- young people; but, while we like our
eery, it has managed to keep news of it teen-agers td go to church, we also like
n closely held secret. The media per- them only to go thru the motions, so
tormance is singled out here, however, we assume, when they gel; caught up in
oonly because it is so conspicuous. All anything they're being brainwashed,
the upper layers of power and influence and the full power of the centralized
have had hints for years that pariah state may be invoked to stop it. Scien-
groups, ranging from the John Birch`
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