CIA ATTACK EXAMPLE OF CONGRESSIONAL HYPOCRISY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100090071-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: January 18, 1976
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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BRADc.ivTON, FLA.
HERAT JAN 18 1916
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The great flap,'that blew up in
Washington a few days ago over the
"revelation" that the U. S. may have
given $6 million to anti-Communist
political parties In Italy is a prime
example of congressional hypocrisy of
the sort that seems determined to drive
this nation down _ the road to self-
--destruction. destruction. Or to dump more of the
world into-the-lap of the.-Kremlin,
which adds. up to the same-thing..-
WHAT IS AT issue is not the wisdom
of shelling out more cash for anything
in Italy. That is -a judgment call
certainly open to question, for the
Italians appear bent upon handing
themselves, over to- the Communists
The big to-do over the $6 million was
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BY JERRY GREENE:. HERALD COLUMNIST*
It has scarcely been a secret ...
that the U.S. has been passing out
cash and credit in huge amounts for
the last 30 years to stave off the
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Soviet Union
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and is a phony, a political stunt pulled- - -?-_-.
for purely partisan or perhaps personal,:: ~;. tiw= :, ~r='~ =
purposes; It was designed to damage
the Ford administration and 'never
mind the-good of the country.
IT HAS SCARCELY been a secret to `- b iication of { the information and
anyone who can hear or read or listen Investigating -Committee, the spy pu
that the U. S. has been passing out cash agency was. wide open for another insisting that leaks were justified if
and credit in huge amounts for the last haymaker they can stop such distribution of funds . .
,,:,30 ears to 'stave off the push of the -THE FACT THAT members of.
y SO WE ARE confronted with the congressional committees. receiving
Soviet Union. That was the idea behind spectacle .of a member of Congress
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President Harry Truman's original; leaking word of the $6 million for Italy, reports on CIA operations, are pledged -
Greek-Turkish aid program, back of to a small newspaper in California, to secrecy seems to matter not at all if
the Marshall Plan, underlying the whence the story spread quickly to a an individual decides his personal
creation of NATO itself where massive i couple'of eastern metropolitan papers judgment - not the. will of the
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amounts of money, munitions an
and the television networks.. Big deal. majority, not laws or regulations - is manpower have been shoveled into New scandal. to guide the affairs of state.. -
Western Europe.,,,,.;,
?~, ~, -t The Leak has been widely attributed ---
-- to Rep: Leo J. Ryan; a Democrat.from If the- California congressman has
Naturally the CIA has had apiece of _r, South San Francisco and a member of been selected as the people's choice to
the action in the. political arena; serve as the instrument for exercise of ..._~
military relationships are conducted ? :u ,the , House _ International Relations
the national -.conscience, the
through formal channels. Now with the Committee. Whether or not there was
designation has escaped general notice.
CIA bruised and battered after a year's any admission of leak dribbling, Ryan Indeed; one is inclined to wonder why
presidential campaigning in the Senate,. appeared before TV cameras defending
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