SYMINGTON LAUDS GLOBE'S POSITION IN SENATE TALK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200880018-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 1999
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: August 7, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

ST.. LOUIS GLOBE-DEMOCRAT
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CPYRGHT
NOT PRESENT
Sen. Symington said he ha
ton Laos not been present in the Sena
chamber on July 28 when Se
Futbright criticized The Glob
. P o (Democrat as a "rather r k
newspaper" and one which "tatakes
a radical position on foreign pol-
l Senate Tale
Senator, Pulbright's criticisms,
were expressed during a series'
of speeches set off by a letter:
,written to The Globe-Democrat;.
.by Richard Helms, the Central'
Intelligence Agency director.
In the letter, which was pub- .'!
lished in The Globe-Democrat,
By EDWARD W. O'BRIEN
Chief of The Globe-Democrat
Washington Bureau
WASHINNGTON. - Critlois?m of
The Globe-De?ntocra+t by Senator:: Mr. Helms said he had been.,;
Futbright (D&&), Arkansas, last pleased to read a Globe-Dem-
Senator Symington (Dem.), Mis-) Senate for rejecting a proposal
souri. by Sen. Futbright and others
Senator Symington told the to create a new committee to1
Senate that, contrary to Senator: oversee the CIA.
Fulbright's statements, The The editorial said the Senate
is a "rather had done the right thing in giv
band that Its ing Mr, Futbright "his come-'
',position on. Vietnam "has, been uppance."
o1lise to my own-'move forward Senator Futbright and others-
r ,
or
Senator Symington also de- they construed as intervention'
Glared that The Globe-Demo- by the CIA In a domestic politi-'
orat's publisher, Richard H. Am- cal issue. Senator Symington,.
berg, "is a man of, high aharac was among, those expressing re-~
'ter and an able and patriotic, gre < that the letter had been.
had
b
th
I
een on
e
mate floor at the time the.Ar
kansas senator made his re-
marks, I would have so stated."
"Some 11 years ago, Mr. Am-
On Friday' Senator Symington',
told the Senate he had not'
learned until later about Senator.,
Fulbright's criticism of Tha;
Globe-Democrat,
over this newspaper," Mr, Sym-,H th"u peal was on the tloo w hen`I?;;ple
ington said in a Senate address. JJ i
"Since then he has worked aE he :?pade his remarks," Senator'
souri to make our town a finer 'nr the record I do not agree'
place in which to live. with the , senator's characteriza
supported are Legion, and the
area is a better area because' of
the nrany fields of civic progress;
in which he has been a leader.
V "I, would not want a Y:record