HELMS CRITICIZED IN SENATE FOR ANTI-FULBRIGHT LETTER

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200890013-2
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: July 29, 1955
• Content Type: NSPR

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who is also chairman of t
had1had the full support of ever had.",
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Armed Services Committee. heard reports, lie said, that-1 bright and had boon sent to Coming to the dcCciiqc of Mr.
The proposal to expand the "this agency takes part in thol.the floor by a.vote of 1.1-to-5 Fulbright, ' Senator Mansfield
-lections of union.j." i in the Foreign Relations Com.. Said th',11t tile point made ~by Mr.
_tli6se' 6-Ti
watchdog group was sponsored other niember of .1the watchdogj - ~'ho Globc-D,mccrat editorial clu.,;ioi0l of wombers o~f his com-1
1by Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, gi-oup, Loverott ,Saltonstall, Be -~said tbo Sonate had given "thel Illittce in the watchdog com-.
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mittec-namely that the Intel-
Democrat of Minnesota, but it publican of Massachusettsi, woziti crafty J~rkansan," Mr. Vul-;
as Involved in
into the cloakroom to tolophopolbright ,his come-uppance.,, It! liggence agency w,
'dog committee then joined in .1.
I On rcturning,kr. Sal tons tall.' ":11'ulbright's proposal should one.
.the criticism of Mr. Holms. Mil-
l of said Mr. Helms Pad told hh*have b.~en dooinca froya.,the No one, -Mr. Mansfield said
'ton R. Young, Republican I
he had written the letter, that' tart, It could in
lNorth Dakota, said lie -was can the, end of had ever accused Mir, Fulbri,h
it was a mistak a was of being "crafty."
c; th t lie tile C.I.A. if the agency were
diSUPPointed and shocked," and arthy said that Mr.
John Stennis, Democrat of Mis- sorry, and that: there wer.o nojsuWccto~ to slaws [claws] of Mr. -'TcC,
sls.;ippi, called the letter "yory other, such letters. tho'milit'Lt doves on Fulbi-ight'sj Holms owed an apology no' only';
i - . . Later, ' the '. Foreign 'Re- t 11 to, the. Senators who had' supw!.
Iations Committee announced. On July 27, The Globe-Demo-'I ported his resolution but also'
Mr. Ir'ull)rIght said )to wos Mr, Helms will meet with itAnicrat priated tho following Jet- ! o every momber of the Senate.;
!.not offentled by the editor4il, closed session at 10:30 A.M.iter: Senator Frank E, Moss, Dom-
but he was surprised that Mr. tomorrow. The meeting was ar~, ocrat of Utah, said the ag
1161ns, a career man, would "To the rditor: , _ i, cncy,
1!*tn~cd during ;a' convces~tionl, "I WaIlt to let you, know 011, ;was supposed tr~ - w,,,ric "clart-,
have so little discretion, and,hctw,een Mr. Fulbright and Mr. my pleasure In reading the c' .~stincly," was found
had misconstrued the penate Helms;, 4ter thq debate..'.. torial 'Brickbats for ulbri"r... praising "an,
One, reason he wa~tcd wopre-
isentatJon for his Committe,,, Mr.
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Iqe n, ~ r-1 ? c zc 4 + y2 Senc to
`or Anal-Fulbright Lett
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C.I.A. Chief Apologize
for Praising Editorial
Attacking Arkansan
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"Director, Ccntrall
Intelligence Agency;
Washington, D. C,!
By iu. \\r. TCuNNVOR1IIX fi i 1 , was xuu i,.u~-iwuc,w:u. wip
3 r la pioporal to a(I(I three e Fof oreign? When Senator McCarthy, in
SPeclel to The Ncw York Tlmc~ I1'e]?itions comrnittt cmen to the. midafteirxoon, read the editor!-~
WASHINGTON, July 28 ka1 and letter, criticism cunt,
~~rs fi Con cession I group that. over-.
d Helms, the new director $ fees C.I.A. o x i aliens. The pro- hurtling from both sides of the
' ' + 3 rposil m as dct, itc:l. aisle at Mr. Helms, who had!
of the Central Intelligence it I Uecn unanimou
sly confirmed a
Agenc? ?, was sharply criticized Mi Fulbri i t said he liad(month ago today after a round
attended a two-hour meeting
in i, ate today because of at the State Department with; ?f prolonged prase for` abilities
a ]ectcr he wrote praising an President T{cnncdy. Allen gild judgment displayed in
editorial denouncing Senator Dulles, then head of the C.T.A, , ,newly 20 years of service with
and 15 other persons he did.thn agency.
W
J. Fulbright, chairman of +' R
' y said it was "on-
the Foreign Relations Commit not identify. Mr. 1lcCarlh
"This was before the flay of tirrly out of place" for Mr.
tec. pigs," Mr. Fulbright Said. He Helms to have "endorsed an
Late this afternoon; Mr aid W. Dulles had presented editorial of this kind,' If he
Helms calved Tor. Fulbright and "the case for inter iontion had in fact written the letter
told him the The I'ulbri _li and if it had not been written
letter was a mis g t statement w.as for hlin by a subordinate, Mr.;
take and apologized for seeming the first on?the-record contir- ,
athe preinvatiion McCarthy said, then this "in=
fto endorse the editorial's views. nation from a p1r`icipall in'volvenicnt in domestic politics"
t:.illc.
The editorial, entitled "Briclc Mr. Pultir;^]it cited the Bay unarks now departure,
bats for Fulbright," appeared of Pig and other unspecified Which nihnht lead to letters
in The St. Louis Globe-Demo cases of C.T.A. intervention in publicly criticizing the agency's
foreign relations as reasons his ?9 iiic iils?
Montana,
crat on July 18, four days afters c 1Tansficld Of
the Senate had sidetracked by a the CIA i watchQoM5e unel~n the Democratic leader, asked.
tvote o: 61-to-28 a proposal to T think many- OZ.. ire C.I.A. on I Mike Ilc Mr. McCarthy to yield and said:
"I am more than a little sur-,
add three members of the For, i't c activities tend- to'.discredit the !prised that the silent service
ei^n Relations Committee to the integrity of our country, and
b has seen fit to write to a paper
unofficial subcommittee cliai ed ? rwc ~t` those activities raise a number n
g t x r ~~ ' `V of nuestions with res ect to the expressing critical opinions. with supcrvlsina the intelligence Y'`7 nfluence of our foreign policy,:,' aUBTr. Mansficldcsuggcsted that
,agency. r . >r' Mr Fulbright said. the Senate's displeasure Should
:Peat -subcommittee is made He asked,, "Flow can the (tlic , -AL
~gi be brought to Mr, Re insat-
~-f ranking members ive and advice
f '.e. e Services and A The New York Times (bycconicTamcs) ? that is worth anything if we tention 'so i.h v it will ,not!
p- become a habit with
1ticliard hellos are not informed as to what Ss Mr. fansfield said he had,.
(propriatlons committees under., was to have the going on and if we do not have
FulbiS
the chairmanship of Richard W glit:said the information on which to; i Veen louder the impression that
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lietliceortwiithty the t to. fiask :NTr. IIcims Mr. Helms could well be the"
'liasA a Judgment?
Russell, Democrat of G,~orgia, i cncY , "takes piri.. Ucst administrator the b.T.A.I
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CPYRGHT
Role Confirmed
bright has given a first-per-
I s?on confirmation th .t the Ccnm
tral Intelligence Agency "made
the. case:'-.for the disastrous
"It 'reflects so well your pa-,
in a censored version of secret i
Senatc debate of July 14 that ing what it believes to be wrong-
without regard to party pol itics'."?I
what had peen written about' l'
tGitArsn HF:~,ars'
,the agency's role before the
April ' 17,' 1061, invasion was,
"by and- large,,, absolutely cor-.