FAILURE OF AGENA BARS GEMINI TRIP

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2012
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: May 18, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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the U.S. Court House here yesterday. Bonanno had been obk,ct of a widespread hunt.
ponanno Gives Himself UprIF AILURE OF A6ENA
Ifter 19 Months in Hiding~gARS GEMINI TRIP
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n hunted around the world by Government agencies fgri About Three Weeks With
months, unexpectedly walked into the United States,
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FULBRIGHT PANEL
VOTES FOR A ROLE
IN POLICING C.I.A.
Russell Expected to Oppose
Move for Equal Voice in
His Watchdog Group
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 17 -
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee approved today a
resolution that would give it
dent Johnson, in his most out-
spoken attack on the opponents
of his Vietnam policy so far, 'first if we v
called on all Americans tonight Pitt it abo
to unite behind him. rant it te.
Mr. Johnson, gibing at "nerv-
ous Nellies seemed ] t t O.
an equal role with the Armed "'
for an end to criticism of Put? e
cerv;roe ,,nA Annronriatinnsi I
Committees in supervising the
activities of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency. The vote was 14
to 5.
The resolution would create
a select committee of nine
members to be known as the
Committee in Intelligence Oper-
ations. The chairmen of the
Armed Services, Appropriations
and Foreign Relations Commit-
tees would each name three
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Senate's "legislative oversight"
~]/asp Wants NATO
of the C.I.A. lVJ J
Committees Sleet Jointly To Develop Policy
The two Senate subcommit-
tees meet jointly when looking To Reduce Tension'
the House, two subcommittees'
By BENJAMIN wELLES 2 Killluk#
of the Armed Services and Ap- special to The New York Times
pro friations Committees also WASHINGTON, May ii- ACtiOp ? W)
checkaon the C.I.A. They meetPresident Johnson has orderedi Troo r
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Before the vote was taken.INorth Atlantic Treaty Organi-
e sponsor of the resolution, zation to start thinking more in
Eugene J. McCarthy, Democrat terms of a lon
of Minnesota, amended it by easing
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Europe
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suit, Gemini 9 never left thel,view of the expan ed watch-I y
former Secretft of State, and
dog committee.
consultant
ground. son enior the White current House NATO crisis.
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control of his lucre.;ive Cmpi.e,
engines swiveled over to "anI The second and third would ~'T,e situation has arisen from
taken over in part by other extreme position" after two, have given the committee pow- President de Gaulle's challenge
Maria leaders. minutes of flight, plunging bothjer to hire a staff and draw onto the alliance's integrated
derworld The swarthy, gray-haired leader, Jun. oe I the Atlas and the target rocket the Senate's contingency funds military command.
with Jo his e, into the sea 185 miles fromifor expenses. Mr. Acheson told the House
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here, space officials said. Mr. McCarthy had two ob-.Foreign Affairs subcommittee
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law under which the $35- rendering. Then deputy mar-
n mutual fund industryshals placed him under arrest the Soviet Union are negotiat-
on an outstanding warrant. ing for the launching of a
business was written to in
jectives in these revisions.1on Europe that while the al-
First, he hoped to win add)-Iliance had devoted its atten-
tional support for his resolu-, tions to a strong defensive
tion in a floor test by meetytgdeterrent to Soviet aggression,
criticisms raised yesterday by, the time had come for an
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at was 26 years ago andlof justice for willfully failingtator said. "Gemini 9 will not the Rules Committee, where it, Such discussions, he asserted, formal states
law has stood ever since,
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FULBRIGIIT PANEL
VOTES C.I.A. ROLE
watchdog . committee argue
that expansion would almost
certainly increase the likeli-
hood of leaks that would en-
danger national security and
possibly Imperil the lives of
"deep cover" C.I.A. agents and
their Informants.
tartan, Floyd M. Riddick, told FWee' L Chad
reporters that the deletions Advocates of expansion eon-
would eliminate the need to tend that the present Senate
send the resolution to the Rules committee has been largely
Committee. content to receive without
The outcome, it Is now agreed, question what the CIA. wishes
Is very nueh in doubt to tell It; that it is clued in" an
Nevertheless, the resolution operations after, not before, the
will face two other hurdles be- event and therefore has little
fore it reaches the floor. restrstni inllue an the
Richard B. ? Russell, who is C.I.A., and that it has been too
chairman of the Armed Services prone to judge C.I.A. opera.
Committee and also of the pros tions on the basis of "military
ent watchdog committee, said arguments" advanced to jus-
he would move to have the tify them, without considering
McCarthy resolution referred to their possible unfortunate po-
his Armed ex Committee. litical consequences.
If the We supports his These crit&ci of the present
move, tit. A Services Con-arrangement, believe Mr. Rus-
mittee is expected to bury the sell Inadvertently gave support
resolution or report it out un-Ito their atgt~r~enta during floor
favorably. Yesterday Mr. Rus-III ate yesterday when Ernest
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"muscle in" on the jurisdlctign
of the watchdog poarmittee.
If the Senate does not support
Mr. Russell's move, the timing
of floor action on the resolution
is up to the Democratic Policy
Committee. Although its chair'
man, Mike Manefteld of Moon.
rasa, the majority leader, sup
ports the resolution, at least
ruen
ng, Ocra
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cited The `ghastly fiasco >
the Hay of. Pigs Invasion of.
Cuba in April, 1961, as evidelzoe
bf the Influence that the CIA.
could have cn policy. Th# epi-
sode, Mr. Groaning . said.' was
pertinent to the question of
whether the Foreign Relations
Committee .should be represent.
ed on the watchdog committee.
Mr. Russell replied that "the
operation was hopeless, because
on the committee*?* bell evedifrom the beginning it was based
to be opposed to it. Three - of on mistaken" All those involved.
them-Mr. Russell, Carl Hay- I Mr. Russell continued, made
den of Arizona and Stuart gym- miatnkes "except the Senator
ington of Missouri-are on the from Arkansas," who "ad-
C.I.A. watchdog committee. vised against it."
E From G.O.P., 2 Democrats Mr. Russell was alluding to a
memorandum that Mr. Ful-
The five members of the For- bright gave. to President Ken-
elgn Relations Committee op- nedy on April 1, 1961, in which
posifig the resolution were the Senator. opposed United
Bourke B. Hickenlooper of IStates support for, or nartiaipa-
Iowa, Frank Carlson of Kansas tion in an invasion of Cubs. Mr.
and Karl E. Mundt of South Russell was also alluding to Mr.
Dakota, all Republicans; Mr. Fulbright's opposition later ex-
Symington and Prank J.1pressed during a State Depart-
Lausche, Democrat of Ohio, ment meeting three days later
Voting for the resolution at which the President's ad-
were Mr. Fulbright, John J. visors pronounced the plan mili-
Sparkman of Alabama, Mr. tartly feasible.
Mansfield, Wayne Morse. of Mr. Russell- told the Senate'
Oregon, Albert Gore of Tennes- yesterday that he knew about
see; Frank Church of Idaho, the training of Cuban.refugees
Thomas J. Dodd of Connecticut, in Guatemala but "did not know
Joseph S. Clark of Pennsylvania the timing" of the invasion.
Joseph S. Clark of Pennsylvania, "I onlywish I had been con-
Gale W. McGee of Wyoming suited," Mr. Russell d&clared,
and Mr. McCarthy, all Demo- "because I would have strongly
crats, and George D. Aiken of advised against this kind of
Vermont, John J. Williams of operation if I had been. That
Delaware and Clifford P. Case may have been one reason why
of New Jersey, all Republicans. 1 was not consulted."
Mr. Lausche proposed an
amendment that, would have re- Jelke Gets $3-Million Bequest
quired the members of the WAUKEGAN, Ill., May 17
watchdog committee to be elect- (UPI)-Minot F. Jelke, play-
ed by the three parent com- boy heir to an oleomargarene
mittees rather than appointed fortune' who once was charged
by the chairmen. This was re- with operating a New York vice)
garded, informed sources said, ring, was left a one-third inter-
as a "personal affront" to J. W. eat in a $3,077,900 trust fund by
Fulbright, the committee chair- the will of his father, it was man, and was defeated by a disclosed today. An inheritance
vote of 7 to 2. Mr. Lausche was tax return filed in Lake County
joined by Mr. Williams in vot- Circuit Court indicated that the
ing for the amendment. estate of John F. Jelke totaled
Members of the present $8,881,600.
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