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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP64B00346R000200130004-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: February 4, 1962
• Content Type: TRANS

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QUESTION:U0"Sonater,q~ is rarnr abseaeo' In lit it be known i
tkesSisnalb tkat -eu would ,like to object te.;.tkoloonfirmation of KcCOO,
You werso*ot able, to return is time to participate in the dobpto. ,
Would , you ?tel1 us briefly why you objected, to, the cenf i reation of
Mr, .MaCoi Mto head the CENTRAL IN"TELLIGENCE~; AGENCY?w
SENATOR MORSEL 'Two rossoas-first in; a speech that I made
before 'I lefV'119, Senate to coo to the conferonce,~ ?I poiatod out that
I Lk?ink ",'that'-the extraordinary powers of CIAsj. whore., ,thee is so
Cenq'rass-'iNOnalt. check upon the CIA,, where ^o. ;oeaber:;?f Congress* for ~Pt
example, 01=has,'*sees s to the activities of the. CIA, as, different for
example 'is'our atomic energy program. Yet staff. me.abers, administrative
officers of the Pentagon and tho State Department, the CIA,, men who
bawl never been, elected do have access--violated what, I consider to, be t!hI I's p:ttit and, the intent of the check, and ,.balance system of the
COssfit'it"t' oa': A'a'd therefore, I said, anyone"`tbat its appointed to
the.Chairstaishfp" of CIA, or the Directorship'of the CIA,, until we
get some`vW14,g station psss ed such as the McCarthy proposal for a
Congressional :wetoh-do ,iova C1, a uu; ht to be beyond suspicion ar
to his.qualifications .
And I took note of the ifaot. and discussed it in ^y speech
on the floor of the Senate. that. I think there are serious questions
in regard:,to`4is sonfllct of Interests, I ,:think there are serious
questions in:~regard to his post performances that lead as to have
doubt 4s1tW4,whetber thL r extraordinary power ought to be vested in
this mans until at least Lhhtre ea first set up a Congressional
watch-dog committee, And theraf arc. I said In that speech the burden
of proof is ?n the administration to satisfy beyond the question of
a doubt that this man s fu U.1 qualified, And as far as I an
coaceraedi they did not sustain that burden:of proofs and basked to
be paired against the osinatco.?"
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QUESTION: "Sesotor? I take it you don't regard as sufficient
then the isvestigatleas or inquiry that was made Into the-CIA and
its activities by subaoms tt es of the douse and Senate Armed Services
Committees and as saboeaiitto.s to the appropriations Committee."
MORSEL "Not who$ we ean't ourselves see the evidence and see
the record. Because after a11, they Can only speak for themselves us
Senators, and I as a Senator have a solemn duty to keep faith with
^y oaths and to satisfy myself that each nominee does have the
qualifications to perform the very extraordinary power in this
instance that the CIA director has. And therefore they aaast speak
for ae--I have to spook for myself, and denied the evidence myself,
I couldn't vote for it."
QUESTION: "Semotor* I wasn't speaking to the point of the
qualifications of the mans only of whether there is any Congressional
checko and these poor subcommittees evidently make a Congressional
check every years of what the CIA is doing. Now you don t regard
that as sufficient. In other words, if you are not a member of one
of those subcommittees you would not know intimately what they were
doing anyhow."
MORSE: "But, plus this, Jack, they do not have the kind of
a check I'm talking about--they do not have full access to all the
files and all the activities of the CIA.Aad as Chairman-of the
subcommittee on Latin American affairs, may I say hereo as I said
on the floor of the Senate, I have been very much coecorned in the
past in regard to some of tlte. CIA aativities, in Latin America, You
know that I did not share the point of view that the so-called Bay
of Pigs expedition was a wise expedition, And I think that if a
watch-dog committee--"
QUESTION: "And this the CIA did?"
MORSE: "of course --They were a party to its and they recommender
Its and their Director so testified after the let before it. I'm
satisfied that a Congressional watch-dog committee, having access to
the activities of the CIA would have been in a position to have
prevented that mistakes and I don't think thot mistake would have
occurred, and I want to say quite frankly, that I think our problems
in Latin America would be less serious if it hadn't occurred."
QUESTION: "Such a committee would have brought pressure on
the President--that's what you're saying, in effect, isn't it?"
MORSE: "Nell it could result in a disclosureto the President,
of the facts that they thought didntit support the actions the CIS: was
recommending to him. That's part of the check and balance syst.ei0
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