BURY THE SKELETON

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200600052-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: August 11, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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.1Ervin said, that legislation should recent years.
Is sad," just as Sen. Sam ent increase in these tyrannies in
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;be considered to keep the constitu-.;.;: TO RIGIFr THESE wrongs, Sen...;:t .
;, tional rights of U.S. government Ervin, a Democrat 'from North?,,
'employes from ...being trampled Carolina, has introduced a "civirl
servants' Bill of Rights'."
asunder by their employer.
?' But, as Sen. Ervin added,
'"Such* legislation is necessary." ?
. 'And the senator is right.
Witness the recent, clandestine
:search of the home of %Central Th.
lelligence ?Agegg employe by a
'couple of CIA sleuths who feigned.
',interest in buying the house. ,
,
Examine,' if you will, the way
lie detector tests are being used to
ipry into such personal realms as .
religious beliefs and sexual habits;
and the many ways government
temployes are being pressured and
fl'Indoctrinated in the management.
of their off-duty time. s :1, ' '''''?-? ' ' .
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Witness,, L ; 6 -.,' ,. especially,:' aPPars:
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, In introducing this bill, Ervin'
isn't acting as an alarmist. That's ;):
not Ervin's way. He and his sub-,1
committee on constitutional rights
enjoy one of the finest records of.
'responsibility to be found on Capi-
tol Hill.
The tyrannies he sees invading.,i;
the privacy and molesting, the dig-)
? nity of our government's employes
are all too real. .;
Sen. Ervin has performed a'
I servic to federal employes and
.
all Americans by filially drag-
gisg this skeleton fr.om, the closl.r,
et.
Now :Congress should bury' the. r
skeleton by adoppfig
solution he's pro '