SENATOR URGES SCOUTING OF CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200130005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 21, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

W.ASHINC' ()' S
Approved For Release 19~! :bX-bP75-00149
JAN 21 1966
won foreign policzv-"
Department so far as thew ment of Defense and its
a.tiyitiQS, a f ect , formation of activities, including such
seer of the Chent~ al Intel~i,~ ' [ needed he said is an
gence Agency and the~efense examination of "the Depart-
the`. .responsibility and obligations
of other nations which have
tions "and executive interpre-
tation of those --obligations, as
well as of acknowledged
--
picure a ena a as_ a signed treaties along with
body with ower but little us."
04 c t g er se Its "espe- Asked during a question
ct in the e d of foreign period how these recom-
pulicy- w'~heretoc7ay the rather mendations related to this
clear constitutional responsi- country's commitment in Viet
attention," he declared,?
"A great commitment may
be made without consultation
of the Senate which may
eventually lead to war," he
warned, unless the Senate
itself takes steps to reap-
praise and change its proce-
dures.
"In` need of Immediate
ate t r one ." He
aaaea raiat ne was thinking
not so mucri i terms of one
man's decisions as the Bevel-
opment of a type of mi'titar
methodology t}aat would reach
such a point you would discov-
er you're fighting a war
determined by method."
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