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in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of
Transportation acting In cooperation with
the Interstate Commerce Commission shall,
within one year after the date of enactment
of this Joint Resolution, prepare and submit
to the Committee on Commerce of the Senate
and the committee on Interstate and For-
eign Commerce of the House of Representa-
tives a master ground transportation plan
for the United States.
SEc. 2, Until the 60th day after the sub-
mission of the master ground transportation
plan' to the committees of the Senate and
House of Representatives as provided by the
first section of this Joint Resolution, the In-
terstate Commerce Commission may not ap-
prove any consolidation, unification, merger,
or acquisition of control of a railroad cor-
poration, nor may there be any discontinu-
ance or change, in whole or in part, of the
operation or service of any train or ferry
subject to part I of the Interstate Commerce
Act, unless such discontinuance or change
is approved by the appropriate State regula-
tory agency of each State affected by such
discontinuance or change. During the pe-
riod while the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion may not approve any consolidation, uni-
fication, merger, or acquisition of control of
a railroad corporation, the operation of any
provisions of antitrust laws applicable to
mergers or consolidations that are not opera-
tive while the Commission has such author-
ity shall be in full force and have full
effect.
(Mr. MOSS (at the request of Mr.
'MONTGOMERY) was granted permission
to extend his remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to include extraneous mat-
ter.)
[Mr. MOSS' remarks will appear here-
after In the Appendix.]
1 A BILL TO IMPROVE THE DIREC4
TION AND SUPERVISION OF THE
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
(Mr, REUSS .(at the request of Mr.
MONTGOMERY) was granted permission
to extend his remarks at this point in the
RECORD and to include extraneous
matter,) '
Mr, REUSS. Mr. Speaker, I have to-
day introduced H.R. 7107, a bill to pro-
vide for better direction and supervision
of the Central Intelligence Agency and
other U.S. intelligence activities.
The bill would place the political ac-
tion activities of the CIA under the
President's personal direction. It would
also establish a. Joint Congressional
Committee on Intelligence to supervise
CIA activities. The membership of the
committee would be changed every 4
years in order to bring fresh insights to
bear on CIA operations.
I am distressed by recent revelations
of the extent of the Central Intelligence
Agency's secret involvement In American
civilian life. Americans have discovered
that the hand of the CIA has been laid
on student organizations, universities,
labor unions, and the press. How much
further the CIA has woven itself into the
fabric of American life no one on the
outside knows. The Washington Post
recently reported that only about $15
million of CIA largesse has been traced
and that "unsubstantiated rumors"-
place the actual amounts in the hun-
dreds of millions of dollars.
On February 16, I said in a speech
here on the floor that if the valuable
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE ' March 18, 1967
work of the National Student Associa-
tion, the Peace Corps, and other private
American groups Is not to be destroyed
by suspected ties to the CIA, we must
initiate an immediate house cleaning.
If there is to be tidying up, it falls
upon Congress to do It. I sincerely hope
that we will get on with the task.
The first Sob is to be clear as to what
we are about.
The CIA is in a sense a front for it-
self. Its publicly announced function
is to gather intelligence; but, in addition,
it has the covert assignment of carrying
out political action in furtherance of
U.S. foreign policy.
Allen Dulles, whose excellent book
"The Craft of Intelligence," is the most
straight-forward statement on the CIA
which I have seen, puts it this way:
CIA is not an underground operation. All
one needs to do is to read the law the
National Security Act of 1947-to get a gen-
eral Idea of what it is set up to do. It has,
of course, a secret side, and the law permits
the National Security Council, which in ef-
fect means the President, to assign to the
CIA certain duties and functions in the In-
telligence field in addition to those specif-
ically enumerated in the law. These func-
tions are not disclosed.
The cloak of intelligence shields the
dagger of political action.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
Subsection 102(d) of the National Se-
curity Act of 1947 lists as the intelligence
duties of the CIA:
(1) to advise the National Security Coun-
cil in matters concerning such intelligence
activities of the Government departments
and agencies as relate to national security;
(2) to make recommendations to the Na-
tional Security Council for the coordination
of such intelligence activities of the depart.
ments and agencies of the Government as re-
late to the national security;
(3) to correlate and evaluate intelligence
relating to the national security, and pro-
vide for the appropriate dissemination of
such intelligence within the Government us-
ing where appropriate existing agencies and
facilities;
(4) to perform for the benefit of existing
intelligence agencies, such additional services
of common concern as the National Security
Council determines can be more efficiently
accomplished centrally; '
Intelligence is not defined In the
statute. A widely accepted definition
found in the Dictionary of U.S. Military
Terms for Joint Usage describes intel-
ligence as: "The product resulting. from
the collection, evaluation, analysis, inte-
gration, and Interpretation of all avail-
able information which concerns one or
more aspects of foreign nations or of
areas of operations, and which is imme-
diately or potentially significant to
planning."
Simply put, intelligence is information
culled from numerous sources. There is
a common misconception that intelli-
gence work is wholly espionage-the
secret gathering of information by agents
or mechanical devices, such as the U-2.
In fact, about 80 percent of all peace-
time intelligence comes from open
sources-from reports of State Depart-
ment officials, military attaches, or tour-
ists, or from a careful reading of news-
papers, periodicals, and other published
documents.
Most of us would agree, I am sure, with
the 1955 task force on intelligence activ-
ities of the Hoover Commission that-
The fate of the Nation well may rest on
accurate and complete Intelligence data
which may serve as a trustworthy guide for
the top-level governmental decisions on pol-
icy and action in a troubled world.
In the present anarchic world of in-
dependent nation states, great powers
must continue to gather information by
straight forward and by devious means
about the military capabilities and inten-
tions of rival nations.
The 1962 Cuban missile crisis is an ob-
ject lesson. Only our highly developed
intelligence system, including our aerial
surveillance of Cuba, gave us the oppor-
tunity to avert the Installation of offen-
sive Russian missiles 90 miles off our
shores.
Intelligence activities, though distaste-
ful when espionage work is involved,
must be viewed as a necessary evil.
SPECIAL OPERATIONS
The dark side of the CIA is its special
operations in political action. Para-
graph 102(d) (5) of the National Secu-
rity Act authorizes the CIA:
(5) to perform such other functions and
duties related to intelligence affecting the
national security as the National Security
Council may from time to time direct.
Many rumors as to what in the past
two decades have been CIA special op-
erations. CIA's most notable effort was,
of course, the abortive Bay of Pigs In-
vasion. Also on the public record are
two CIA-engineered palace coups-one
in 1953, in Iran against Mossadegh, and
the other in 1954, in Guatemala against
Abenz.
The recently revealed CIA' subsidies
to all kinds of private groups are an-
other form of special operations. The
principal purpose of giving financial as-
sistance to the National Student Associa-
tion was to prevent the other side from
capturing world youth conferences, not
to gather intelligence.
Allen Dulles has been quite forthright
about CIA's political action activities.
He writes that it Is the task of the CIA
to assist the internal security services
of -countries which are the targets of
Communist takeovers wherever this can
best be done on a covert basis.
Mr. Dulles justifies covert special op-
erations as a necessary weapon against
Communist subversion. Perhaps this
too is a necessary evil. But, if it is some- .
times justified to carry on covert special
operations, it must be done sparingly and
with the greatest selectivity and sensi-
tivity. For it is a weapon with vast im-
plications for deepening United States
Involvement, as President Kennedy
rightly foresaw at the Bay of Pigs, It is
also a weapon which should be used only
where the stakes ai'e high. Secret
U.S. Government meddling in the affairs
of state of other nations or in the affairs
of domestic or foreign private organiza-
tions is so alien to our traditions that it
can only be justified when the national
security is genuinely at stake.
A large part of the difficulty of justi-
fying the recently revealed CIA subsidies
to private organizations is the very real
doubt whether the efforts of these
groups, no matter how laudable, are
really vital to our national security.
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under the general direction of the Na- In the National S u en
tional Security Council. in addition, case, it is clear that the top Presidential stroY records to the Joint Committee on e, which
have
would
the t the CIA can only undertake special uties, charged
appropriate c binet naonal re sources, oand au hority to make certain
operations which the National Security duties,
from time to time directs. their representatives, and the Congress- that all important CIA records are pre-
The National Security Council, whose men and Senators who serve on CIA served for future historians.
sole function is to advise the President, watchdog committees all knew of this Mr. Speaker, I ask the House to give
as a body does not make decisions. It CIA activity and approved of it. It is serious consideration to this bill.
therefore cannot itself direct the CIA. unclear whether members of the Presi- Its sum and substance is to strengthen
So far as I can determine from published dent's Foreign Intelligence Advisory the control of the Nation's elected repre-
sources (for this is not a part of the offi- Board knew of it, but it is probably fair sentatives-both the President and Con-
cial information on the CIA), the. Na- to assume that they did. They should gress--over the CIA. Its enactment
tional Security Council has delegated have, if they were doing their job would would not hamper would the help ectiveness of thee
the direction of the CIA to a high level properly.
n
interdepartmental committee, some- I can only conclude that the CIA this cy odirected secret Aarm of merican our for ign Is by v
times known as the Special Group. policymakers were mistaken because, not by the values of our adversaries.
'tsar-:I s .~ .,I- to'1 of a high- being Insiders for so long, their perspec-
raniling member of he \Vhite House tlve had becwno distorted. The keen AV 4P7 Of IIJ',Z104 follows.
The CIA abandoned this kind of compact- rective to authorize each special opera- gressional Committee on Intelligence.
neithe
mentalization which so often leads to tion, and an annual Presidential review All Government 'agencies, including
nelthor the right hand nor the left knowing
what the other is doing. of the operation. This amendment will the CIA, are now subject to the statutory
WEAISNESSES IN PRESENT CIA DIRECTION AND underline the extreme seriousness of requirement that the Joint Congression-
SUPERVISION special operations and the extraordinary al Committee on Disposition of Executive
There are two major weaknesses in to- importance of their being limited in Papers approve any record destruction.
day's administrative set-up for directing number and nature, precisely directed, With this immense task before it, under-
and supervising the CIA: and carefully supervised. standably, the joint committee cannot
First. The special operations of the In addition, I have designated the give much attention to any single request
CIA are not necessarily under the per- President as the person to give general for permission to destroy records. And
sonal direction of the President. direction to the intelligence activities of in the case of the CIA, even if the Joint
Second. The people who supervise the the CIA, since the National Security Congressional Committee on Disposition
on CIA change is amt chnical o e bwhi h wThis of Executive Papers wer to pursue a ill quest to de t oy recordse t would h vea
are not
f esh viewpo nt to bearenough
activities. probably not alter present White House difficult time ascertaining the importance
1. PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTION supervisory arrangements. of the records, since it is not privy to CIA
Subsection 102 of the National Secur- 2. PERIODIC CHANGES OP CIA CONGRESSIONAL operations.
SUPERVISION Thus, it is logical to transfer the func-
ity Act places all activities of the 'CIA
d t Association tion of passing on CIA requests to de-
but- a provision requiring a Presidential di- without the approval of the Joint Con- -
March 13, 1967 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE H 2615
A CRITICAL DISTINCTION staff, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, edge of common sense had been dulled
To properly direct and supervise the and the Deputy Under Secretary of State by lengthy contact with the intelligence
CIA, foreign intelligence activities must for Political Affairs. The committee and military communities.
be carefully distinguished from special meets weekly. The need for men of clear insight to
operations. Mr. Dulles says: I pass on intelligence matters can only
The two activities differ in kind. In- All operations of intelligence character be supplied by periodic changes of CIA
telligence work produces neutral infor- which involve policy considerations are sub- supervisors.
mation as an aid to the President in ject to [the committee's] approval. My bill establishes a Joint Congres-:
reaching decisions involving the national ' Ultimately, the CIA is under the con- sional Committee on Intelligence. The
security. But in its political action ac- trol of the President; and I assume that joint committee's job would be to ex-
tivities, the CIA Is an arm of already the Interdepartmental committee refers amine continuously the foreign intelli-
established policy. questions which it believes to be of great gence activities and the special opera-
The two activities differ in seriousness. importance to the President. tions of the CIA. The joint committee
Intelligence activities, even espionage It is clear that the CIA is subject today would be reconstituted with new niem-
activities, very seldom, if ever, have the to higher political authority; namely, the bers every 4 years, at the beginning of
potential for more deeply Involving the directives of the interdepartmental com- even-numbered Congresses. In this
United States. There is evidence that mittee, the policies of the National Secu- way ? Congress can periodically take a
even the U-2 incident, which was an in- rity Council, and, ultimately, the direc- fresh look at the CIA.
telligence activity, was seized upon by tion of the President.. No criticism is meant of the Members
Khrushchev as a pretext for torpedoing For example, in the case of the Na- of Congress who now devote themselves
the Parts Summit Conference, and not tional Student Association subsidy, the to oversight of CIA matters and appro-
the basic cause for its failure. recently appointed Katzenbach commit- priations. Theirs has been a job under
On the other hand, secret political tee has reported: difficult circumstances. But the present
warfare which threatens other govern- When the central intelligence Agency lent system of Congressional oversight is too
ments could become a casus belli; and financial support to the work of certain piecemeal to produce the close supervi-
less ambitious activities, such as the Na- American private organizations, it did not sion which is called for.
tional Student Association affair, have act on its own initiative but In accordance THE JUDGMENT OF HISTORY
wider philosophical and ethical aspects with national policies established by the Na- Secrecy is essential in the tasks of the
which must be carefully weighed. tional security Council in 1952 through 1054.
The two activities differ in sensitivity. Throughout it acted with the approval of CIA-whether intelligence gathering or
senior interdepartmental review committees, political actions. Yet this same secrecy
Espionage is, both at home and abroad, including the secretaries of State and De- is the chief problem in assuring that
an accepted international activity; sub- tense or their representatives. These policies CIA actions are in keeping with Ameri-
version is not. If the United States is have, therefore, been in effect under four can values.
not to remake itself in the mirror image Presidents. But, as President Kennedy suggested
of its adversaries, it must use the latter This direction is not good enough, when speaking to CIA personnel on No-
instrument, if at all, with the greatest however, when questions concerning CIA vember 28, 1961, it is "in the long sweep
discretion. special operations are up for discussion. of history" that the efforts of the CIA
Mr. Dulles confirms that foreign in- These operations are so serious and so will be judged. By this judgment of
telligence activities and special opera- sensitive that the President personally history the American public retains a
tions can be separated. Traditionally, should authorize each and every one in subtle control.
he says, intelligence services have kept writing, and should periodically review To assure that the full record is avail-
espionage and political and psychologi- each of them. able to the histor s Tie 6ilr provides
cal warfare in different compartments, I have therefore included in my bill that no-`CIA"-recurs can be destroyed
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March 15",'1967
H.R. 7107 comprehensive description of the special op- services, information, facilities, and person-
A bill to amend the National Security Act of eration, Its history, its objectives, the num- nel of the departments and establishments
1947 and the Records Disposal Act of July her of persons engaged In the operation, the of the Government on a reimbursable basis
7, 1043, to provide for the improved direr- total annual expenditures planned for the with the prior consent of the heads of the
tion and supervision by the President and operation, and the total expenditures made departments or agencies concerned.
by the Congress of the foreign intelligence to date." "(7) The expenses of the joint committee,
activities and special operations of the IMPROVEMENT OF CONGRESSIONAL SUPERVISION which shall not exceed $250,000 per year,
United States BY ESTA13LIS11MENT OF A JOINT COMMITTEE ON shall be paid from the contingent fond of the
Be it enacted by the Senate and House INTELLIGENCE House of Representatives upon vouchers
of Representatives of the United States of Sec. 2. Section 102 Is amended by inserting signed by the chairman."
America in Congress assembled, after subsection (g) the following new DEFINITIONS
IMPROVEMENT OF PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTION subsection: SEC. 3. Section 102 is further amended by
SECTION 1. (a) Subsection (d) of section "(h) (1) There Is hereby established a Inserting after the new subsection (h) the
102 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 Joint Committee on Intelligence to be com- following new subsection:
U.S.C. 401) Is amended to read as follows: posed of seven Members of the Senate to be "(i) As used in this section:
"(d) For the purpose of coordinating the appointed by the President of the Senate, and "(1) 'Intelligence' means knowledge which
intelligence activities of the several Govern- seven Members of the House of Represen- Is the product resulting from the collection,
meat departments and agencies in the in- tatives to be appointed by the Speaker of the evaluation, analysis, integration, and in-
terest of national security, It shall be the House of Representatives. In each Instance terpretatlon of all available information
duty of the Agency, under the direction of not more than four Members shall be mem- which concerns one or more aspects of for-
the President- bers2 of the same political party. eign nations or of areas of operations and
"(1) to advise the President in matters "(2) The entire joint commute shall be which is immediately or potentially sig-
concerning such intelligence activities of the reappointed on January 3, 1072, and every nificant to policymaking or planning.
Government departments and agencies as re- four years thereafter. No Member shall serve "(2) 'Intelligence activities' means those
late to national security; more than four successive years as a member activities-undertaken for the sole purpose OP
"(2) to make recommendations to the of the joint committee, except that a Member producing intelligence, and does not mean
President for the coordination of such Intel- originally appointed to fill a vacancy may covert operations which, in whole or in part,
ligence activities of the departments and serve the incompleted term and four years are undertaken to carry out the foreign
agencies of the Government as relate to the thereafter, policy of the United States.
national security; "(3) The joint committee shall make con- "(3) 'Special operations' means those
(3) to correlate and evaluate Intelligence tinuing studies of the foreign intelligence covert operations undertaken by the Central
relating to the national security, and provide activities and special operations of the Intelligence Agency or other departments or
for the appropriate dissemination of such United States, and problems relating there- agencies which, in whole or In part, are un-
intelligence within the Government using to, Including problems of the gathering of dertaken to carry out the foreign policy of
where appropriate existing agencies and fa- Intelligence affecting the national security the United States."
cllitfes: Provided, That the Agency shall have and of Its coordination and utilization by police, subpena, law-enforcement powers, the various departments, agencies, and my PRESERVATION OF INTELLIGENCE RECORDS
or internal-security functions: Provided strumentalities of the Government, and the SEC. 4. (a) Section s of the Act of July 7,
further, That the departments and other advisability and problems of carrying out 1943 (44 U.S.C. 370) is amended by adding
agencies of the Government shall continue special operations. The Central Intelligence an additional sentence at the end thereof
to collect, evaluate, correlate, and dissemi- Agency and other departments and agencies as follows:
nato departmental Intelligence: And pro- engaged in foreign Intelligence activities and "Except that all lists or schedules of the
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ex-eresenatives relating prhnar-eont Committee on Intelli-
isting intelligence agencies, such additional fly to the Central Intelligence Agency and to genre, and the joint committee shall examine
intelligence activities as the President do- activities of other departments and agencies such lists or schedules and submit to the
termines can be more efficiently accomplished engaged in foreign Intelligence activities shall Senate and House of Representatives, respec-
centrally and directs in writing; be referred to the joint committee includin lively, a report of such examination and its
"(5) to perform such special o
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rsacg preeer. affecting the national security and to expend vation value submitted to Congress by the (b) Section 6 of the Act of July 7, 1943 (44
such funds thereon as the President may Administrator of General Services pursuant U.S.C. 371) 1s amended by inserting, after
from time to time direct In writing." to Section 4 of the Act of July 7, 1943 (44 the words "joint committee" and before the
(b) Section 102 is further amended by U.S.C. 369)). The members of the joint word "reports", the phrase, "to which the
redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as sub- committee who are Members of the Senate lists or schedules were referred".
sections (f) and (g), respectively, and by shall from time to time report to the Senate, (e) section 7 of the Act of July 7, 1943
inserting after subsection (d) the following and the members of the joint committee who (44 U.S.C. 372) is amended by inserting, after
subsection; are Members of the House of Representatives the words "Joint committee" and before the
m' (t) (1)thistaine ixty dayshof thDirectore ct- shall from time to time report to the House, word "fails", the phrase, "to which the lists
their recommendations, by bill or otherwise, or schedules were referred".
Central Intelligence, and the heads of other with respect to matters within the jurisdic-
executive d
epartments andi tif
agences havingOn o their respective Houses which are (1)
responsibilities for special operations shall referred to the joint committee or (2) other- VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL
report in writing to the President on each wise within the jurisdiction of the joint SCHOOLS IN FLORIDA
special operation in which the department or committee. then eng, Each re shall
iric ude is comprehensive descriptionr of the joint )coittee Vacancies hallh nott affect the ofwer (Mr. PEPPER (at the request of Mr.
po MONTGOMERY) was granted permission
special operation, its history, Its objectives, of the remaining members to execute the to extend his remarks at this point in
the number of persons engaged in the opera. functions of the joint committee, and shall the RECORD and to include extraneous
tion, the total annual expenditures planned be filled In the same manner as in the case matter.)
for the operation, and the total expenditures of the original selection. The joint commit- M1_ made to date. The Presid
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n whether thil
e speca operation "(5) The joint committee, or any duly had an excellent record in moving for-
shall be continued or terminated, and, If authorized subcommittee thereof, is author- ward strongly In the development of the
continued, at what level of effort and expend- iced to hold such hearings, to sit and act building of some 29 area Vocational and
iture it shall be contined, at such places and times, to require, by sub- technical schools and in an overall ex-
" (2) Thereafter, at least once a year from Pena or otherwise, the attendance of such pansion of its vocational program in the
the date of the Presidential directive estab- witnesses and production of such books, State.
lishing the operation (or, in the case of an papers, and documents, to administer such Florida has been one of the fastest
operation under way on the date of enact- oaths, to take such testimony, to procure
ment, annually from the date of the Presi- such printing and binding, and to make such growing States in the country and has
dental directive issued in accordance with expenditure is a
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deems advisabl expanded greatl iti
e.ys Vocatonal schools
paragraph (1) hereof), the head of the do. "(6) The Joint ContmittcO is empowered to and has presently five more schools in
partment or agency ongaged In the special appoint such experts, consultants, tech. the planning stages. It is, therefore,
Operation shall report in writing to the nicians, and clerical and stenographic assist- apparent that we must appropriate the
President on the current status of the oper- ants as It deems necessary and advisable, full authorized figure for fiscal 1968 as
anion. This annual report shall Include a The committee is authorized to utilize the authorized tinder Public Law 83-210.
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bee, John Osborn, Peter Weiss, Beckett, Those who bemoan the theater's dwindling Communist governments employ intelligence
Court, Sartre or the one-shot shockers which audiences on a diet of nihilist philosophy operatives for such purposes abroad does not
dub their authors, as "white hopes." may be too self-involved to grasp the obvi- mean that the United States must utilize
id s road the saute device In getting a hearing for
w c
h
ere s
And "only a musical"1 What nonsense is ous: that for affirmation t
I American views. Secondly, there 1s not now
this? Tevye, of "Fiddler on the Roof;" also hunger. ,,,,,t never has been nnv iustiflcation for the
has his Impossible dream. wnas is uwru - ------ -
philosophical than "Mamic's" cry: "Life is a ?~ C.I.A. to penetrate, Influence and secretly
banquet and most poor sons-of-bitches are } ? SUBSTITUTE FOR CIA. COVERT subsidize American private organizations.
starving to deathl" Dolly Levi, musical zed SUPPORT/ An essential step in unraveling the current
from Thornton Wilder's "The Matchmaker," N asked and was given mess is to transfer to a public agency the
Mr. MONAGAN
to address N as the and wa for 1 responsibility for helping private American
preaches that "money is like manure. For (
things to grow it has to be spread around:" permission organizations finance valuable international
Quite apart from the ingenuity with which minute, to revise and extend his remarks, activities that cannot be financed privately.
these most popular works of our decade have and to include extraneous material,) An agency drawn up along the lines of the
been staged and the zest with which they Mr. MONAGAN. Mr. Speaker, on National Endowment of the Arts or the
are acted, these affirmative notions are just March 9, 1967, I introduced in the House British Council-with distinguished private
as philosophical as conclusions that life is a H.R. 6990 which seeks to provide an open citizens as well as Government officials on the
board--.could deck. and publicly financed substitute for CIA both protect the national in-
This Is where the masses are infinitely covert support of student, labor, and terest and avoid any suspicion that American
smarter than the deep thinkers. The mass of private organizations are being subverteC.
people have every reason to suspect that the teacher activities abroad whose cover The report of President Johnson's special
cards are stacked, the dice loaded. From was recently rudely removed and whose study. committee on the C.I.A. should con-
ivory tower comfort this Is viewed as shud- operation was subjected to embarrassing tain a detailed project of this kind for sub-
dory news. international scrutiny. Liston to Congress. -
What people wish to find in the plays and Incidentally, the removal of this as-
films they attend are reasons for living. Why signment is one which the CIA will wel- FIRE RESEARCH AND SAFETY ACT
should they spend time, money or enthusiasm come with relief, I am sure. OF 1967
to be told they are better off dead? I was pleased to read in yesterday's
Of course, this does not mean that happy
endings, pink miasmas, "sheer entertain- New York Times an editorial which de- (Mr. MILLER of California asked and
mant" or escapism are the only fields for scribes perfectly the bill which I in- was given permission to extend his re-
dratna or that tragedy is too stark for com- troduced. In particular, does it delineate marks at this point in the Recoan.)
fort. the error in the past practice which it Mr. MILLER of California. Mr.
"West Side Story" was certainly tragic. "It describes as "tainting with the secret Speaker, on Tuesday, March 6, I intro-
stemmed from "Romeo and Juliet" and funds of an espionage agency a wide va- duced H.R. 6637, the Fire Research and
Shakespeare took that from French and riety of legitimate activities that should Safety Act of 1967.
the red his drama's of- father have been financed openly through pri- This proposed Fire Research and
and married his mother us but murdered
festiveness lies In his growing awareness of vate and public grants?" Safety Act of 1967 would amend the Or-
forces outside himself, not in his introspec- Both because of its general pertinence ganic Act of the National Bureau of
time, The meaning of tragedy does not stick and its relation to the legislation which Standards to authorize a comprehensive
in a character's Inward gropings but breathes I have introduced, I reproduce this edi- fire research and safety program to
in his relationship to life outside himself, torial herewith. gather comprehensive fire data, conduct
Thus, the triumph of Wasserman's gradu- I do point out, however, that the Brit- intensive fire research, educate and train
ally evolved musical play lies in the relation-
ship of Cervantes to his ultimate brainchild, ish council which is referred to in the in fire protection and safety and support
Don Quixote. What little is known of Cor- editorial Is exclusively a cultural orga- demonstrations of improved and experi-
vantes' life (he died within ten days of nization and has no connection whatso- mental fire protection and safety.
Shakespeare's death) indicates failure, bar- ever with intelligence or propaganda. The best estimates available Indicate
assments and poverty. His final gesture was The editorial follows: that in 1965, fire in the United States
.to characterize the illusion, the quest, the DISPLACING CIA Sussmiss caused 12,100 deaths and property dam-
impossible dream, as Wasserman calls It, and Students have been making more sense age amounting to $1,741,300,000-$8.98
this . it was Ma which brought Immorality ells both h stories. than many of their elders in the controversy for every man, woman, and child. Our
S "bran tivpower which which took k the the over Central Intelligence Agency subsidies to per capita fire death rate is twice Can-
With h Imaginative
patience of some years to achieve, Wasser- private organizations. The latest case in ada's rate, four times.the rate for the
man places Cervantes in one of the Inquisi- point is the proposal of the Collegiate Council United Kingdom, and six and one-half
of the United Nations that Congress create
lion lls o D occupied d , this Imaginary Thar- an independent agency to continue-openly times the rate for Japan. While our
he tells of Don Quixote, this imaginary char- rather than covertly-financial aid to those much higher per capita death rate may
or reasons who for sees zestful the obvious to discov- of the C.I.A.-supported activities that remain reflect the hazards that accompany our
he concept, , which grew ng, from a needed despite the easing of the cold war. higher standard of living, this merely in-
some of the most vital 90-minute Some of the C.I.A.-financed financed activities prob- dicates that we must put forth greater
TV embraces grew
facets of contemporary m The most thrust ably should never have been undertaken and fire safety efforts as our living standards
stages on. tour ry theater. can n only be appr e others have been long outmoded. But the rise, if we are to eliminate excessive loss
mated, which only error in the C.I.A. program has been
matted, gathers The in tainting with the secret funds of an of life to fire.
and forwards audiencinto in time (so Over the past five years, the best pri-
shifting backwards tour
eloquently vital to the works of Arthur Miller espionage agency a wide variety of legitimate vately estimated per capita fire death
and Tennessee Williams) are precise enough activties that should have been financed rate from ml zed e has remained death
rela-
to avoid confusions. The break from real- openly through private and public grants.
Istic settings, the use of characters to em- Some useful activities-such as student tively constant-although U.S. Public
body other characters, even placing the or- and trade union participation in interna- Health Service figures for nontranspor
chestra on stage are as contemporary as the tional forums-may be liquidated unless a tation fires have increased 9 percent.
most ardent avantgardist could dream. The way is now found to provide open financing. Over the same period the estimated Per
United
dancing is the finest Jack Colo has created Other activities, still undisclosed, may con- capita number of fires in the
for the musical stage and the whole has been tinuo to receive C.I.A. funds. Recent state- States has increased 9 percent and the
for the with uncommon imagination by d1- ments indicate that some C.I.A. officials and
realized w their Congressional apologists, like the Bour- estimated per capita property damage
reTho Alhhe sthe tyre. tl star, kings, have "learned nothing and for- has Increased 4 percent. Our 1965 esti-
him I !s gotten nothing." mated Per capita property damage con-
takes the unstarlike a view that , this Jose fo this for hf Ferrer
ner ause he recognized the The worldwide ideological competition be- trasts with $6.85 for Canada, the next
never a the vehicle. . Because
work as a whole, he fought for the opportu- tureen Communism and democracy undoubt- highest per capita loss among major
nity to play an extraordinarily demanding edly will continue for a long time, even if countries. Japan, with a population of
role. There are any number of good major East-West political warfare gradually dimiee- about one-half that of the United States, .
roles and as Aldonza, Maura X. Wedge is ashes In volume and virulence. The role the has a per capita loss of only $1.32 and
magnificently stirring. United States needs to play in it-now that its total number of fires in 1965 is about
Yes, the details are as satisfying as Mitch governments in Europe and others elsewhere one-fortieth of the number that occurred
Leigh's melodic, never-trite score but the are strong enough to defend their own so-
root of this work's triumph lies in its philos. cioties against subversion-requires thorough in the United States.
ophy, Its belief in the glowing wonder of man, roappraisal. The ravages of uncontrolled fires have
Its defiant contempt for neation. But two things are Clear. The fact that dotted the pages of history from its be-
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