'CIA WATCHDOG' BID TO FULBRIGHT MAY HERALD END OF LONG FEUD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP69B00369R000100200139-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2004
• Sequence Number: 139
• Publication Date: January 8, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

By John A. Goldsmith' ducted, in an unusual closed, "My present purpose Is to
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CIA" Wathdog ' "Bid to . u' lbr ht.
Chairman J. William Ful-
bright (D.Ark.) and two other
members of the Senate For.
cign. Relations Committee
were Invited yesterday to
!closed sessions of the CIA
!.Watchdog subcommittee, ap-
1.harently ending a long.squab.
j ble over supervision of the
spy agency. .
Sen. Richard B. Russell
(D-Ga.), who heads the in-
formal intelligence. group,
.aid the three foreign policy
ax,perts are being invited to
a session Monday with Rich-
ard .ll. Helms, director of the
.Central Intelligency Agency.
? In addition to Fulbright, in-
,vitations were extended to
! Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper,
Iowa, , senior Republican on
;the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, and to Senate Demo.
..cratic Leader Mike. Mans
field, -Mont.
Enlargement Rejected
session of the Senate.
At that time, members of
the Foreign 'Relations Com-
mittee contended that they
should have a role in over-
seeing intelligence operations
because they involved foreign
p o i i c Y. Russell called the ex-
pansion proposal an attempt to
"muscle in" on- jurisdiction
of the Appropriations and the
Armed Services Committees.
The six-member CIA group
is drawn from the latter two
committees.
Invitation to All .
Russell said the represents.
tives of the Foreign Relations
Committee will be invited to
attend all watchdog subcom
mittee sessions-ever} t h o s el
which deal, primarily with ap?;
? Last July, after considerable
controversy, the Senate voted
down a proposal which would
have enlarged the present
,Watchdog subcommittee so as
to include Foreign Policy
:Committee members. , The
01.28 'Vote followed 1i five.
;h4u debater most"of it col}
invite them to all the meet:
ings-at least for this session
of Congress," Russell said
when asked if the new ar
rangement would be perma-1,
vent.
As to the role of the three
Foreign Relations Committee;
in e m b e r s, Russell said they
will be allowed full participa?,
tion in the Committee. sessions'
The Monday sesssion w?ithi
Helms will provide the sub
committee wibh a full briefing;
on world events Russell saidi?
including the intelligence as-j
pects of the war in Vietnam,
the turmoil in Red China and
the Rhodesia situation.
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