SEEN FOR REFORM OF CIA CONTROLS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020054-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: September 21, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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f ~ee~ for Ref~rr~a
Of CIA Controls
21 SE? '1974
other hearings on Chile that the staff of Church's mul-
tinational corporations subcommittee demanded per
jury and contempt action against some witnesses and
the recall of.Kissinger for more testimony on his con-
firtnation.
Fulbright and the majority of the Foreign Relations
Committee this week acted to take charge of this mat-
A perceptibly growing ground swell,. reportedly in-- incident after a. staff investigation has been completed.
eluding President Ford; is developing to overhaul The intensity with which Church- tried to interrogate
e:csting procedures by which the Central Intelligence Kissinger yesterday was interrupted several times by
Agency is held accountable to the.legislative branch Fulbright who told his colleague to wait until the inves-
for the way it operates.. I tigation is complete. : -
This zeal for making the CIA more accountable to CHURCH CALLS the CIA action in Chile "unfettered
Congress may be more apparent than substantive but ;:interveation:" He said that in the past influential sena--
recent revelations about the agency's . operations in tors have not wanted to know what CIA was doing but
Chile have aroused more interest than any of its activi- said he believed -that- feeling has disappeared in the
ties since the Bay of Pigs more than 13 years ago.-. wake of Vietnam and-Chile.
It was Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, presid- The New York Times reported that most of the
tag officer of the "40- Committee" .at the National: Se--, money authorized for the CIA activities in Chile was
curity Council which in turn has the final. word on-all used in 1972. and 1973 to provide strike benefits and
CIA cover operations,.. who revealed 'yesterday:, that other means of support for anti-Allende strikers and
Ford is ready for some-kind of change in espionage workers.
intelligence operations. ? . - The wave of notoriety about the CIA actions against
Kissinger told the Senate Forign Relations. Commit- a controversial. but democratically elected. president
tee that Ford had told congressional. leaders the such as Allende in a friendly neighbor state brought
administration is ready to-work out procedures' Ford into the situation yesterday. When he and Kiss-
Congress for accountability of the CIA:: = nger called congressional leaders to the White House
Sen.' Stuart Symington,. D-Mo., who-often..sits in ort in the morning for a foreign policy meeting, Ford
CIA briefings and hearings as a member; of the Senate: volunteered to try to work out some new and better
Armed Services Committee, announced yesterday that Procedure.
he hoped the President and Kissinger.will support of-- A veteran CIA agent, contacted separately about the
forts in Congress to review existing procedures under-- Chile affair, commented merely, "We can't conduct
which CIA operates; vitalize and broaden the over- our business in a goldfish bowl.
sight- committees of `the Congress and obtain broader
access for members Of Congress to the.product of the
CIA so their deliberations may be better informed.
"A'QUICK cosmetic fix will not suffice but will lead.
the continued erosion of the confidence in and effec-
tiveness of the agency," Symington said. .
"The Congress and past presidents are to blame, not
the personnel of the agency," Symington said..
Sen. Frank Church, D=Idaho, told reporters, "The-so-
called watchdog coi:unittee had never really watched -
the dog-
Sen. J. William Fulbright, D-Ark,, chairman of the'
Foreign Relations Committee, and others support-
:a,-recurrent proposal to create a joint committee of then
Senate and House to oversee all espionage and intelli-:_'
genes activities. At present, the overseeing of the CIA-
is best described as ad hoc, since only a handful of sen-
ior members of the Senate and House Appropriations
and Armed Services Committee handle this chore.
it is generally conceded that even these legislators
get only limited accounts of what the CIA is doing and
more often than not it is well after the fact. As Church
said, "We don't even have a way of knowing how much
money CIA spends, let alone what for." The CIA budg-
et is concealed among other departmental budgets.
It was the S11 million CIA operation. in Chile against
Marxist politician Salvador Allende that set off the
current wave of demands for reform. The instrument
of disclosure was a letter written by Rep. Michael J_
I-Tarrington, D-Mass., after he had been allowed to
scrutinize, but not take notes from, some of the testi-
mony of Colby befor the Nedzi subcommittee., This
testimony was given long after the CIA operation in
Chile allegedly had been terminated.
The Colby testimony was at such wide variance from
testimony of State Department and CIA officials at
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