SENATORS RAP CIA, ASK CLOSER CONTROLS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800170105-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 30, 1999
• Sequence Number: 105
• Publication Date: September 21, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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U. 538,780
S. 661.622
SEP 21 1965
CONGRESS
ROUNDUP S?1wtpi's
From Sun-Times Wires Sec. of State Dean Rusk had
WASHINGTON-The Sen- apologized in 1961 over a CIA
?te heard new charges ' Mon- operation in Singapore that
day of alleged "bungling by ended in failure and the arrest
of the. American agent involved.
the Central Intelligence Agency Youn called the episode "dis-
Council - predicts repeal
of laNy allowing so-called
state right-to-work legisla-
tion, Page 26.
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and a plea for establishment of graceful."
a joint congressional- watchdog U-2, Bay Of Pigs CIA "a police state institution"
!committee fbr.the CIA. ` "In addition to its mistakes which "has much to answer
for" in the' deterioration of
The attack on the secret in Southeast .Asia," he. said,
"everyone is aware of the dam- America's image in Latin
agency was voiced on' the Sen-
age to our prestige caused by America and for "mismanage-
ate floor by Sen. Stephen M. CIA bungling of the U-2 inci- nmcnt of affairs" in the Do-
Young (D-Ohio), who said the. dent of five years ago and of mi6ici-n Republic.
,.time was "long. past due" for the disastrous role CIA opera- Charges Overstaffing'*
Congress to establish its author- tives played in the ill-fated Young said he believes "the
CIA is "overstaffed" but can't
Ity over the intelligence agency. Bay of Pigs invasion."
However, prospects were dim The CIA has "in effect been prove it because of lack of.;
`
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t Congress will establish any making foreign policy," he said. accountability of the agency
juch watchdog panel. Similar "The CIA has gradually taken Congress.
proposals have been defeated on the character of an invisible "This a'g e n c y does `'riot.
bince the CIA . was born in -government, answerable only to account to anyone for the
'1947. itself.." expenditure of nulliolis of o
'Young's speech appeared to -Sen Wayne Morse' (D-Orc.) dollars," he said. "Undoubtedly
haye stemmed from the disclo- joined Young's call or a joint some CIA agents have been
sure earlier this . month, that committee Morse culled tir; corrupted along with attenint-
y. - ......r.. `ring to corrupt officials of other
Fi governments." '
11 The CIA's budget is secret,
but the agency is believed to
spend upwards of $1 billion a 1
year, and has more. than 13,-1
000 employes. Its headquarters.]
is at Langley, Va., across the
Potomac River from the capi-
tal. It is headed by.retired Vice
Admiral William F. Raborn,,
who succeeded John A. Mc-
Cone in -April.
Defenders of the. +intelli-
gencc agency argue that,sub-.
committees of the House and
Senate Armed Services and
1,Appropriations -committee's 'al
ready oversee CIA on an in-
formal basis. Proponents of t
the watchdog panel would like
to see a formal joint commit-
1tep with. a. professional staff,
much like the Joint Commit-
tec on Atomic Energy.
Other congressional develop- I
ments4?.
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