SENATOR FULBRIGHT INTERVIEWED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200900052-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 52
• Publication Date: May 13, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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PROGRAM The Today Show
May 13, 1966 7:00 AM
CPYRGHT
STATION WRC-TV
NBC Network
Washington, DC
SENATOR FULBRIGHT INTERVIEWED
FRANK BLAIR: "Chairman J.'William Fulbrigh.t and other
members of his Senate Foreign Relations Committee heard closed
door testimony from our Ambassador to South. Vietnam, Henry
Cabot Lodge. And the Committee struck a blow against what a
majority of its members thought was too much. secrecy in the
operation of the Central Intelligence Agency. They took steps
to-put three committee members on the Congressional board that
oversees CIA activities. Fulbrigh.t told why."
FULBRIGHT: "The principi argument, I believe, is that
most of the at least publicized difficulties that have appear-
?ed in the press in recent years regarding the CIA have almost
always been in the field of foreign relations. And that the --
a number of the committee feels that this is the area which
has caused considerable question and in some cases criticism
-- that it would be the responsibility of the committee to be
represented there. And some of us, including myself, feel
that if such. a committee was created that it would improve the
relations of the Senate and the public with the CIA.
"Rather than being a reflection upon the CIA, I feel
that it would be an improvement in our relations and would
tend to modify, if not eliminate,' to a?great extent the crit-
icisms that I think sometimes. arise out of a feeling that there'
is not sufficient hand not as careful supervision' of this agency
ao t h e r e o,+off't.to b- "
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