DANGER SEEN IN PROPOSAL ON CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700140024-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: May 18, 1968
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHIN ;TON SEAR
MAY 1,8 1966
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dealt with casualty and Senator Russell's subcommit='J
should the Senate Foreign "leaked" to the press like'. tee has "distinguished itself'~;Y
Relations Committee wish to : domestic news, this could by not, leaking information;
ti~al way, keeps in touch with respect to what's going on in'!- dent, of course, has access tb'
'the . operations of the Central '.. foreign countries, there has to everything the CIA is doing. r
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Senate which in a confiden- ' 'domestic policy. But with as in -a "hot war." The Presi-'
own to the "legislative over, to divulge things trey nave ? This kind ? of caution is just
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:proposal to allow the Senate cy. always ask the- commander in
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the eye in the innocent-looking.. with the secrets of the agen-' what was Coming, he could
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influence foreign y ~_
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wLU eatlC the devious efforts of foreign gathering of information,
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representation ? from the .over, the late Admiral Ernest';, develop contacts in foreign l
Foreign itelations Committee,,, `King, chief of naval opera '. countries, ralmost a16ng with members of the tions, told this correspondent .' To'
~,:'Appropriations Committee A hat in two of the important ;requirethe agency to reveal
and the Armed Services.. engagements in the Pacific he much of its . information to
Committee'truth would be logical. never even told the secretary, members of the Sei~ate who..
But the is _ that the of the Navy -,ahead of time are themselves , involved in'~
operations of the Central : ;. that a certain battle plan was s foreign-policy., mitroversles.
?Intelligence Agency could be', about to.be'put into operation, could r cult In fa substantial
a?: imperilled of members of the "Myy job" ' he saidl "was ,y drop "hi tho a lc~ency off Q.,1hl
!'Se~-ate who mire' cirimaruly strictly c:tvithin ; the`. "srzned ':;'Prgantzsklon, .o.''A ?
>. On the surface, it ? might the people who knoRvv anything some of the CIA informants
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,.., see ,.,m- that the whole thin is 'about the operation, the better.,,,, even in the national capital.
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%that "it is just pure poppy- with the technique of keeping discussion of what appears tot
cock that the CIA fixes, and,.
things really secret, the CIA ?
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L -ichard B. ? Russell, D-Ga., themselves may not know just their identity became known,.;..'
i,ichaininan ' of the special . ~ who is behind the request for T1
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But, in rebuttal, Senator employ go-betweens who ` rear of eventual reprisals if