CIA SUPERVISION PROPOSAL PUSHED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200900054-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: May 13, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

MAY 13 1966
Washington,' May 12 t The
sated that the committee's sen-
timent is In favor 'of the resolu-
tion. '
tally on the tabling motion ;ndi-
'c6mmittee chairman, said the
committee agreed to put off,a fin-
al vote until Tuesday but said the
telhgence Operations. - ,
Senator Fulbright (D., Ark.).
ce
Miles. g g
At a closed session the commit-
,tee refused, 11 to s, to table and
;.thus kill a resolution by Senator
McCarthy (D., Minn.) to establish
a new select committee to be
known. as the "Committee on In-!
seeing the CIA and to establish a
single, group to supervise all Unit.
ed States fore] n intell] en
ct;
rescnt Senate system for over
I a U&Cl n ncmuvIw %,vur
mittee moved today to scrap the
',, 'The proposed Intelligence open-~
ations committee' would replace
,the Senate's so-called "secret sev
en" CIA panel made up of senior
members' from the Armed Servl,
ces and Appropriations Cohn
mittecs.
Fulbright' said the present
,group was established informally
without any specific longressional
action.,
Fulbright said if enacted the
1lize" the Senate-CIA relationship.,
~eongressiohaf supervision:
the Armed Services and Appropri:P
the Foreign Relations Committee,
plus three' members each from ;
A- Ira..I,wouU wuuuuiee WUUIU1 .: ~
be made up of three members of:
foreign Intelligence and counter- I
intelligence activities of any Unit?i
review budgets and appropria.
tions and keep itself Informed of,.
ed States agency.
Bureau of Intelligence and Rei!
Agency, the Defense Intelligence!
Agency, .the State Department's
tion are the Central Intelligence;
'solution Is afMed particularly ati
the supersecret ClAwhich be said,
search, and the FBI.
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