POVERTY PROGRAM UNDER ATTACK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000600040029-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: July 28, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT;. . D,, R%0BERT S. ALLEN
D PAUL SCO '
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Haryou - Act also has join
IlvAsIiINGTO\? - 'PInG explo- he campaign of other civil iv, fights groups .in dttnetimt New York in Fsues lated to be one pf e key is- enranditi~ the suspension of
in next week's House de- ieutenant Thomas It Gilligan, .
billion dollar aatli-poverty Pro- ,Doting of 23-year-old James
gram. Dwell sparked the Harlem '4
Opponents are planning a iots,
series of blistering speeches In its memorandum calling
House members to vote
spotlighting how the sweeping [dvupM
powers President Johnson is bs on Shriver's unprecedent-
seeking for his "poverty czar- powers, . the Frelinghuysen
may be used to undermine the stresses
the bitter con-
New fork Cify administration sy. going. on among city gJtiless 'restri'ctions are ? w~7 -
?.hy pouring vast sums of money
nd private d otups for control ten into. this legislation, there
into private Harlem civil rights of the proposed funds to AMA is d:reat danger that federal
bate on President Johnson's 1C policeman whose off duty
groups.
'-Headed by Representative Pc-
ter Ftcl ighuysen, RN.J., these
le islators will warn that Sar-
gent Shriven, acting director of
;Line poverty program, plans this
amnrecodented use of federal
of Economic Opportunity (Shri-
ver) is emposvered to personally
select private groups to receive
funds under the billion dollar
,nog ram.
In launching their attack, the
Sh.?elinahuyscn group is circu-
lating to all House members a
mne norandam warning that such
use of federal funds could "stir
vp a nightmare of trouble" in
New York rather than stamp
out poverty.
As an example at their fears,
they point out 'd:at Shriver al-
ready has intervened in this
tense dd.uation by forcing
merger of I-Iaryou; `? Hasten
Youth Group, and Act, a mill
tant ncro civil rights organ
nation's largest city if Congress
Notes him the authority.
Under the President's pro-
lrosal, the director of the Office
in New York, funds. will be used for .political
poverty
71i blights of this memoram advantage by private groups a%
dum include: the local level."
"The. bill opens the way for Otto Otepka;. State Depart-
direct federal involvement in anent sccurid. official, is going
.the activities of every private to get his long delayed hearing
clas-
e
organization in Now York with= !on charges that he gav
out the necessity for partidpa=: ? sifted infotunati-on to a Senate
Lion or . approval of the city ! committee investigating securii
government. ? : risks in government.
The hearing was ordered af-
"We have had for a period ter Otopka turned down an of-
of weeks now a struggle going `
Secrc+tany of State Res..1-
f
f
or nu
tro
on in New York City between
several groups for control ? of drop the Charges if he would
some $LLO to $173 mi]lion, .. agree to a transfer from the
"In order to qualify for as- niceState Department's security of-
? "sistance, two groups, the so- ,
__ f7tentka. refused on the around
have been ordered' by Mr.
ShAver, director of the pro-
gram, to merge, and a powV
struggle has developed over
who should control the new or-
?
moral right to his Old job --
as chief security evaluation of-
ficer--since he has done noth-
ing w ro n~ , _
gaaization,
fen to Otepkka through Senator'
"In anol;her fiat: