CHURCH SAYS HE'LL VOTE TO CLOSE DOOR ON BUSH

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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2007
• Sequence Number: 160
• Publication Date: November 5, 1975
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ts, CIA Don't Mix, Prober Warns
By Norman Xeznpster
Washington Star Staff Writer
he chairman of the Senate Intelli-
r.~e Committee says that he will
against confirming George
Bush?as CIA director because the job
s not one-that should go to a former
political paity chairman.
"It used to be the custom of presi-
dents to appoint former chairman of
political parties as postmaster
general," Sen. Frank Church, D-
Ida^o. said. "That was done because
the ostri aster's office was the most
icsl and the least sensitive of all
agenc es.
?-esident Ford has turned that
custc-- on its head and appointed a
fo.--er chairman of the Republican
ecm ri ttee to the least political and
most sensitive agency in the govern-
he said.
oublican national chairman
December 1972. to September
ON ANOTHER subject, Church
made public a letter from FBI Direc-
tor Clarence Kelley which said an
FBI investigation turned uo no evi-
dence that the Soviet KGB-had inlii-
traced any congressional staff.
Several lawmakers, including Senate
Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield,
requested the investigation after
hearing rumors of KGB activity on
Capitol Hill
The House Intelligence. Commit-
tee, meanwhile, shied away from a
confrontation with Henry A. Kissing-
er, agreeing to a "compromise" that
removes the threat or a contempt of
Congress citation against the secre-
tary of state.
Chairman Otis G. Pike, D-N.Y., in
a mild rebuke, suggested that a
majority_of the committee seemed to
be afraid to challenge Kissinger to a
test of strength.
"I FEAR that there has been a
conclusion on the part of a number of
our members that this isn't the right
the actual Boyatt memo. if the s
had rejected Kissinger's comprrt
tempt of Congress and urge th
House to back up that p~ositio='t.
committee would get the info_`'m
said the full House would censi
enforce the letter of its subpoei..
.THE '30YATT memo wuas
of symbolic importance. Kissw
implied he- was ready to fight
refused to accept his proposaFfa
compromise. Some members of
committee were anxious to atl
to test Kissinger 's substantial poi
But more members were clearly
willing to take that step.
The original sub?oena for
the committee's i ivestigation of
teat th-e committee had been pre performance of intelligence agenc
-ch also said the committee's re-
show that -, former President
ard M. Nixon personaly ordered
A to undermine the govern-1
:: of :Marxist President Salvador
A'le-.ce in Chile.
ende died in the military coup;
that toppled his government:
But Church said the report' also.
will indicate that at times the CIA
acted without specific approval of the
White House.
"Theclis much evidef;ce in the re-
port that will, bear- Out that at times;
the agency has behaved./in ways that:
might well have a ceeded its author-i
ity," Church said. "At other times,
as is the Chilean case, it was operat-
ing clearly at the president's direc7
supplied documents the panel had presidency of Uyprus too. U.a. pOI
demanded. makers by surprise. The commit
In the case of Kissinger, the com- staff said Bovatt's post-port
mittee agreed to accept what could Memo would help the commit
substitute for a report critical of U.S.
policy in Cyprus which was written
by T homas D. Boyatt, the State De-
partment's chief of Cypriot affairs at
the time of last year's coup in the is-
land republic.
KISSINGER SAID he would supply ;
the panel with an "amalgam" of
internal reports on Cyprus with
paragraphs of the- Boyatt memo
interspersed among passages from
other documents, a technique remi-.'
niscent of the literary spoof "Naked
Came the Stranger
None of the authors would be iden-
tified.
"We have subpoenaed a docu-
ment; we are offered a puzzle," Pike
said.
But by an 8-5 vote, with four
Democrats joining four Republicans
in opposing five Democrats, the
committee accepted the Kissinger
plan.
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