JOHNSON MAY BE CALLED ON IN CIA CLASH
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CIA-RDP75-00149R000400230004-2
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Document Creation Date:
November 16, 2016
Document Release Date:
February 1, 1999
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Publication Date:
June 2, 1966
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Approved .F.or.Release 20 (QA4M;;rt30ARa075.-0
JUN 2 1966
Johnson May
Be. Called On,
In.CIA Clash
By the Aseocjated Pm m
may be
President Johnson'
sked to step in as the ultimate,
elligence Agency, sources said
Approved for Release':2000104/14 CIA-RDPI5-00149R000400230004=2'
oday.
Johnson may be- asked by an
emissary - probably Senate
Democratic leader Mike Mans-
field-to direct the agency to
accede to the Foreign Relations
Committee's desire to get full
reports on -CIA activities, the
sources said. .
This, they said, is one of the
compromises being discussed-
but not yet approved-in _effort
supervision of the agency from
erupting, on the Senate floor.,
Mansfield got both sides yes-
terda' to agree to put off. a
showdown on the Foreign Rela?
that would revamp the' present;
CIA watchdog committee.
Sen. Richard B. Russell, D-
Ga., who heads the CIA panel.,
made up of seven senior mem-,
bers of the Armed Services and
Appropriations committees, has.
denounced the. Foreign Rela.!