WHY DOES JOHNSON ALIENATE FULBRIGHT PANEL?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200910028-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: January 27, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

' .~ JUN 2 7 1966
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;~~LAY7ON FRlTCNEY
' President .Johnson, to. put it the clrainman; Sen. J, W. tiusua4ly so respanslble, should :? coon .nes an tcrnationai'
.politely, .has Termitted Adam... ; Fulbrig'ht, D,Ark., , k'or the ' scat Qtiave let their feelings ?' organizations fo deter or it
tVilliam F. Reborn Jr. to ' overvrhalmingl c o m m i t t e e inJalucnce them in ctrttirrb the necessary to defeat aggres-
, resign as tl-o director . of bhe";' votes a~galnst t:ho . administra- bi1~l and hedging i't with souk- ; I, Sion Fulbright said
~CentraS Intelligence, .Agency, ,....tun's toroi~g~n aid trill indicarte rovaTd restrictions, but they, ? the committee was determined
but ho also permitted I;/aborn,,?`? a' !w~ldesp~ad 'resentment .?~ too, are ~huma~t, and don't like : to avoid "any fancy rhotoric"
`ors his last important pact in,.T v~gaimst Ja nson; as well as a'~? Wo be called "nervous Nellies" ,` that later might be used to'
odficc, . to snub the Sena4e,.p, growing distmust of h4s ~fore3gn or have theia~ patriotism justify actions ip which it did
F'orcign Relations Committee. ' Trolley.. ' ', '?.' 'questioned,- tii~recbly ?os ind{- ; not concur.
And the President, sup=' , y~}ry does tips Pros{dent; ~, reo'tly. 7Chc final vote of 17 to 2, by
~{~rosedly the greatest grraoticaa choose to. a~ggr?evato this TV~o plain .Pact ins than John- ~ which tips emascu>!ated bill w~
' ~oli,tician in snodorn American ! + son and leis secretary a? spate, ultimately reported out, indi-
~~istory, wonders w'h ghat , ~ situation; rather than, as +his ~ f
y Dean Rusk nave provoked ? ,rates how suspicious this key'
powerful committee has put ~ ;~~~, 'aumvtiorate it? The ~Ghe present .~rostility: While `:committee has becomo over ihe?
this dvreign aid bill thmotrgir a" ,only answer seems Ito be bh~a~t,; the gaud bill was still beirHg i administration's foreign policy,
t'earsome emd obviously ~ +whore Viet Na+tn is concerned,! ,. considered, Raborct.riufgnmed. ?not only in Asia but elsewhere.
;w It is hard tole derstamd Crow .: ~aoid 6s aunab a tollcontrofl hhs' ,not con~fidonti'ally b~ef an0m" ! Aside from any. personal
~thls ?rra5ter polit7cian, who +. persona4 2eell~n'gs toward those ~,bers?aE,h6a?committee,. ras it animosities, there is a genuino
Ihas spent a successful lifettmo :, who .luaus oribicKized and do~es..a..so-~ca~led ,",paatchdvg'' ~ fear that Viet Nam bas serious.;
yak wheoling and dea'Iing in the ; ?opposed his Asian pallcy. ,g~noup', of._,senatars ,tram the I ly imbalanced ? U.S. policy.
Senate, wfio will go Ito any ; Lt i~s und'ortunate that tho, '-Ahmed Servlcas and Appa'opri- i Committee members were .
'length fb appease Sen. Ever- ~ foreign aid bill should end up ~.?,!abions committees. ?' it+ankly appalled at tho distort'
'~etk Dickson, R-Ill,, the minori- . 9reing the innocent bystander. '. , It goes without saying that; tionsyinvolved in earmarking
ty header, ar Son. Richard ! nn this conflict, The F'orci~ ?n ' 1 . ~ pearl ~FOO million in economic
Russell, D-G+a.~' t'ho leader. of ?. R?la~tions Committee, whichgis. the ~,~I~..L?d~;ector.,~cQtild ?rota aid for king Viet~NarrY, Nh(ch is
have_fiirushed?od'f ,the :Foreign ;more than is scheduled far
the Southern conservatives,.', ,composed of same of the most, ; ~ +
will at t`he same tune give the :yrespeeted'men im hho Senate? Rc'lationsti,.,Cam?'m~ttee? .wi~thout,l whole continents Dike Africa ,and.
track of his hand to khe pres3i- :;?. rele~tted considerably at. tho ~ the concurrence or .encourage- f Latin America. " ?
gious~ group of "senators who,( laxt minute, ~o bhat tore bill as ' rpent, of bhe Presi~tent,,Nobndy 1 Many of the senators share'.
damin~atc the Fot~eign Relay ?: Eina~ly reported: out is not in krio~vs"'betitsr,.`thap, .'Johnson ;the views of Gen. Ne Win, the
lions Committee. . ~ 4' Critical candlt3an, bwt?bherb is how . strongly Uhe committee 'Burmese chief of state, about';
." The hostility Ehe. President~~ ono doubt lQ~at it took a mauh ; fer,Is it should ? share,~in;t6o, the unleashing of huge U.S.
has ;inspired in , thFUt commit , $ng'. ' , a ~ ; ~ , ; :. ;', ',rsutvrihlance of t1Le~CIA~ ,... ?spending an Asian courrErie; like"
t,ee is b'y no aneaars confined td ~ , Prxdnaps'~'~ these ." senators ~ Ituak invited trouble when his ''
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,, { he tried to suggest that pre+ ; ~ This kind of +aid," says ?Ne
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i~veous V7et Nan old authorixa? iWrn, "does not help. It cripples.'
lion constituted . +at least , It paralyzes. The rec7 Tents,
~` neha'tnve approval at adminls? ~ never learn to do for tphe
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-, trollop policy ht .tna~tarea, ;selves, They rely more and' .
`.`ment of the bill's policy derL foreign-money. 1n lireycnd, they
laration to say that the "fur- lose control of their country." ,
" nskiing of economic, military ? There are a ldt of things
or other assistance under this ,wrong with Burma, but there is
act, shall not be canstr?ed acs no graft or corruption among '
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