LBJ SHOULD SPIKE CIA 'MCCARTHYISM'

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2006
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: May 3, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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LBJ Should Spin' CIA 'McCarthyism'
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Worse, the CIA claims its man is sibility the CIA is and who just last..
immune. from court action, asserting week reaffirmed his dedication to civil,.
that he is covered- by the same im- rights, should not meanwhile counter
munity that protects members of Con- mand his agency's,- anti - libertar
igress from. actions based on statements policy.
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CIA agent,' "and his superiors say he shrift to this mischief-making pr oposi- ..
made his allegedly slanderous remarks tion. However, we can see no reason
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,sander, the second having called the case the offense is compounded by the
first a : Soviet secret police agent. The' claim' that'44evidence" to support the
CIA gets into it because the accused;. alleged slander must remain secret
slanderer is an admitted, occasional We hope the federal
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sential terms, the CIA' is proposing. to.. CIA or FBI official or bureaucratic
make er\lc~Carthyism" an instrument of" hatchet-man could call any. citizen a
official, domestic policy. `-'Communist, Fascist, moral leper, or
Involved 'is- a'civil slander suit: One what have you, and escape behind a
Estonian emigre is suing another for barrier of "immunity." In the CIA's
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For, to`' put the matter in harsh, es- after the present case is far otter A
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nthe` circumstances, Wilson could .T1iis-.is-a perniclqus doctrine indeed,
hardly have been too caustic. one whose effe
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IN HIS COLUMN of comment on made in the House or Senate, an im-
this page yesterday, .. ichard .Wilson munity which has been extended to
had some caustic things to say about some degree to- senior, policy-making
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