CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES OF THE CIA

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• Publication Date: January 28, 1975
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H 332 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD'-HOUSE January 2:8, 1975
mined to violate the right 'of every citi-
zen in th? Nation. It was their purpose
to obstrudt the work of policemen and
firemen, *t social security payments,
old age as stance, service to constitu-
ents by Me bers of Congress, and to stop
the enforcing of rules, regulations and
They stage
fic blockades,
elation of liters jly dozens of laws. They
were arrested b law enforcement offi-
m for safekeeping.
All of them were fe and given proper
care to the extent pos 'ble under trying
circumstances. When tl@@y~ were released
after a relatively brief %incarceration,
some having paid minimum fines and
others simply sent on their way, they
brought suit claiming that those who set
out to shut down a governmert,, without
_
jhe Na,
regard to the consequences to
tion, were illegally arrested wife en-
gaged in this effort.
It is this case which resulted in 1 ul-
less moderate and low priced homes built in
the Nation that was built during 1968, the
last year of the Johnson's Administration.
This should have been a signal that the old
policy of raising interest and increasing prof-
its was leading the Country in the repetition
of the 1920 period. Arthur Burns still seems
in complete control of our economy regard-
less of the curbing of Housing, industry,
manufacturing and employment.
The Congress. enacted legislation In the
summer of 1970 giving the President abso-
lutely power to curb interest rates, rents,
food, wages, etc. President Nixon signed this
anti-inflation bill but did not enforce the
legislation. Fifteen months later President
Nixon in August 1.971, announced his cele-
brated 90-day freeze which was a failure. The
press media have also failed to remind the
people that during the last 5 years, the Con-
gress enacted legislation for our economic
welfare but during this period of time ap-
proximately 18 vetoes of. Congressional leg-
islation have been the cause for staggering
our economic progress.
LOST JOBS
In this Session of Congress, we must limit
and also set quotas on all products manu-
factured by American own foreign factories
using cheap labor and placed on.'American
markets to under sell domestic manufac-
ing by a lower court granting a total of tured products made by American workers.
$12 million on the premise that their cljl' TAX REFORM
rights were violated. ' I ?. ~ Imm.ediate enactment of a Tax Reform bill
Mr. Speaker, the members of this' which will repeal the fabulous tax loopholes
group were not deprived of their rights. 'kpnjoyed by corporations and oil conglom-
Instead, the rights of every other Amer-
ican were violated on that day. Isn't it
time 'for the rights of the public to be
protected for a change? Hopefully the
appeal now pending will right the wrong
that has been done our system of justice.
permission to extend his remarks at this
point in the RECORD and to include ex-
traneous matter.)
Mr. MADDEN. Mr. Speaker, since the
94th Congress convened 2 weeks ago, nu-
merous letters have come to my office
from Indiana, but other sections of the
Nation requesting immediate action on a
number of various legislative proposals
and programs concerning our economy.
The vast majority of these communi-
cations specifically refer to about a half
dozen major problems which this Con-
gress should, without delay, consider and
enact, to prevent the recurrence of a
devastating depression similar to the
1930 economic catastrophe. I submit to
the Members a summary of some legis-
lative problems which the various House
committees should undertake to hold
hearings on immediately:
INFLATION AND UNEMPLOYMENT
REDIICE INTEREST RATES
In the Spring of 1969, the leadership of
the government's financial operations and
economic controls have been under the con-
trol of Arthur Burns, Chairman of the Fed-
eral Reserve System. Under his direction, we
have had. another identical blueprint of the
financial policies under the Andrew Mellon,
the multimillionaire banker, during the
1920's who was Secretary-Treasurer under
Presidents, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover.
They used the same old "trickle down" the-
ory of economics. They led us into the great-
est depression in history, with approximately
14 million idle over the nation.
PROFITEERING ON INFLATION
In the first year of the Nixon Administra-
tion of 1969, there was approximately 95,000
ates who are escaping their just share of
ation. Economist have reported that ap-
pr6kimately 15 to 18 billion dollars In escaped
taxeecan be brought to the Federal Treasury.
The ecutive Department must discard
the old ixon policy of Presidential im-
poundme of Federal money which Con
gress autht$ized and appropriated. The
President m t immediately start the Mass
Transit progr enacted by Congress In the
last Session o Urban projects which will
put several hum ed thousands of people to
work within the rlkxt six months. In the laet
session, Congress Started a crash program by
the Federal governny, t to create additional
employment for idle rkers. This new Con-
gress must expand tha grogram.
OIL AND AS
The Administration's p cy of raising the
tax an gas arld fuel with e :ideal that it
would reduce consumption i , mistake. Mil-
lions of workers must use th automobiles
daily to either go to work or V k for em-
ployment. People with high i omes and
wealth will not reduce their gas . nsump
tion one gallon. The increase p:rlce ll only
benefit the Oil Shieks in the Middle fkpt and
inflict more of a handicap on the em-
ployed and the low income citizen._,
new Freshmen must carry out the mandate":
given them in the November election.
The Congress and President must act now
on Inflation, High Interest, Crime, Taxes,
Pro'section of Privacy, Unemployment,
Corruption in Government, Anti-Pollution,
Mass Transit, National Health Insurance,
Educational Expansion, Veterans and Elder
Citizens' Legislation.
EVANS INTRODUCES BILL TO ELIMI-
NATE OUTSIDE EARNINGS LIM-
ITATION ON SOCIAL SECURITY
13ENEFITS
(Mr. EVANS of Indiana asked and was
given permission to extend his remarks
at this point in the RECORD and to in-
elude extranSous matter.)
Mr. EVANS of Indiana. Mr. Speaker,
today I have introduced legislation to
repeal the outside earnings limitation on
social security benefits. Under the pres-
ent law, a social security recipient may
not earn more than $2,400 per,year with-
out suffering a reduction in social secu-
rity benefits. I strongly believe that this
restriction in the law works a severe
hardship on older Americans who are
struggling to make ends meet, and that
this provision in the law must be elimi-
nated.
Mr. Speaker, one-half of our 21 million
Americans over 65 have no income ex-
cept social security benefits or supple-
mental security income- SSI. The aver-
age social security benefit for a retired
individual is $186 per month, or $2,232
per year, and for a retired couple, the
average benefit is $310 per month, or
$3,720 per year. This is below the Bureau
of Labor Statistics minimum budget for
elderly persons, which is pegged at $5,200
a year for elderly couples, and $2,860 per
year for individuals. While the elderly
compose only 10 percent of our total
population, they constitute nearly' 20
percent of the Nation's 24.5 million poor.
Poverty routinely translates into poor
nutrition and inadequate housing. Al-
most 30 percent of older Americans'
budgets are used to purchase food, com-
pared-to 16 percent of other Americans'
budgets. Those under 65 pay 23 percent
of their incomes for housing, while the
elderly pay almost 35 percent. Six million
older persons live in dilapidated or sub-
standard housing, and 1.6 million live in
units without even basic plumbing
facilities.
Our Older Americans cannot afford to
work, because they cannot afford to for-
feit their. social security benefits, They
cannot afford adequate housing; some
cannot afford adequate food. When the
price of the necessities of life is too high,
some just cannot afford to live.
Retired Americans who are receiving
social security have earned the right to
these benefits, and we should not deny
them the right to supplement this pov-
erty-line income. The outside earning
limitation on social security benefits can
justifiably be likened to enforced pov-
erty.
Mr. Speaker, I hope that the Ways and
Means Committee will give this bill its
early and favorable consideration.
INTRODUCTION OF TAX
REDUCTION BILL
(Mr. ULLMAN asked and was given
permission to extend his remarks at this
pojpt in the RECORD and to include ex-
traieous matter.) ,
LLMAN. Mr. Speaker, I am to-
day iducing a bill (H.R. 2166) pro-
Mr No
vidinr tax cuts and investment in-
centives an alternative to the admin-
istration's mporary tax reduction pro-
posal. I belicye that my bill is more re-
sponsive to thlse who have been hit the
hardest by infie,tion and, at the same
time, does the Bost to bring us out of
the current recession.
My package consists of six parts:
A 10-percent tax rebate for 1974 taxes
that is phased out for people with in-
comes between $20,000 and $30,000.
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January 28, 1975 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -HOUSE
through a government organization called
Women, Infants, Children. Supplemental
feeding Is being provided under careful medi-
cal supervision for 835,000 women and chil-
dren.
The origins of President Ford's proposal to
boost the cost of food stamps to the poor
are cloudy. The tendency is to blame that
popular villain. Secretary of Agriculture Earl
Butz whose department has the say-so on
foodand nutrition. A candidate given credit
by those in the know is Roy L. Ash, director
of the Office of Management and Budget.
But the President took it and, short of action
by Congress, his order will prevail.
CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES OF THE CIA
(Ms. HOLTZMAN asked and was given
permission to extend her remarks at this
point in the RECORD and to include ex-
traneous matter.)
Ms. HOLTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, today
I am resubmitting, with 24 cosponsors,
a resolution of Inquiry calling on the
President to disclose to the House Judici-
ary Committee all Information he has
regarding possible criminal acts commit-
ted by the Central Intelligence Agency.
I originally submitted this resolution on
behalf of Congressman.JoHN BURTON and
myself at the beginning of this Congress.
The resolution has been referred to the
judiciary Committee.
Our resolution is narrowly focused. It
does not Inquire into the CIA's adherence
to or violation of its own charter. Other
legislative proposals will-and should-
deal with those questions. Rather, the
resolution is concerned with the extent
,o which the CIA has engaged in sur-
'eptitious entry, burglary, intercepting
mail, wiretapping and electronic sur-
veillance not pursuant to court order,
. ,nd maintaining files on U.S. citizens-
?.hereby engaging in the violation of Fed-
cral criminal statutes.
The Judiciary Committee has over-
sight responsibility for the enforcement
of our Federal criminal laws. The recent
allegations regarding the CIA make it
imperative that the committee deter-
riiine whether the existing laws are them-
selves sufficient to deter Government
a-rencies from violating the laws and
a.husing the rights of citizens.
Allegations of high-handed and crimi-
n-11 behavior by the CIA are a very seri-
ous matter. Surely one of the principles
on which our system is based is that no-
b, dy is above the law-not the President
and not the CIA. It is imperative that
a,,,?encies of Government, as well as priv-
ate citizens, be made to abide by our
laws.
t urge my colleagues to support this
reolution when it comes to the floor.
the 24 cosponsors of the resolution
arL,: Ms. ABZUG, Mr. BADILLO, Mr. BAUCUS,
Mr. BROWN of California, Mr. CONYERS,
Mr. DELLUMS, Mr. FORD of Tennessee, Mr.
HARRINGTON, Mr. HAWKzNS, Mr. HELSTO-
sx , Mr. JENRETTE, Mr. KOCH, Mr. MET-
CALFE, Mr. MITCHELL of Maryland, Mr.
RA 7GEL, Mr. RICHMOND, Mr. ROSENTHAL,
Mr. ROYBAL, Mr. SOLARZ, Mr. STARK, Mr.
STOKES, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. WEAVER, and
Mr CHARLES H. WILSON Of California.
H 331
WHO BUT THE PEOPLE WHO SEEK who collaborate with CIA, if their se-
TO DESTROY US WILL BENEFIT crets are compromised. Therefore, I am
FROM -COMPROMISING AND IN- going to err, if I must, on the side of
TERFERING WITH CIA? zealousness in protecting these matters.
But, Mr. Speaker, I also believe in con-.
(Mr. SIKES asked and was given per- gressional oversightand the checks and
RD his and de to in to inc atclude ex- this balances of our constitutional system. I
point RECORD extend
point am aware that the CIA Is specifically
traneous matter.) proscribed from internal security func-
December, cembe ,';th the New Speaker, on York the Times Lions., If someone has evidence that CIA
charged that hat o ine has disregarded this limitation, I want
service, the CIA `directly our foreign violating en its s to know. I am in a situation where such
charter, can be discreetly explored and
c, conducted a massive illegal do- corrected if need be.
Even thougintelligence, in t the eeanssuing catinow - This Nation has been fortunate to
a Even drwesiddenen as ap- have had a distinguished succession of
pon esiona telion was
committees Directors of Central Intelligence-Mr.
are lint aci up and to cogate the char the charges, r, Colby, Mr. Schlesinger, Mr. Helms, Ad-
it is already abundantly lnvs 'ate nd clear that the nliral Raborn, Mr. McCone, Mr. Dulles,
activity ato name some. They are dedicated men-
may have e been eused purposely dr to and stir ir u u which dedicated to our Nation, the need for ob-
the have Iective intelligence. They have been
the fuss: served by equally devoted professionals
Was not a domestic CIA who helped give us the type
Was not in violation ation of CFA's operation; charter; of intelligence product which:
and
Was not illegal. Made possible treaties on nuclear The Director of Central Intelligence, weapons, SALT;
Monitored crises;
Mr. William E. Colby, has flatly denied in Saved the Nation literally hundreds of
sworn testimony given to congrgssianal millions of dollars by accurately assess-
committees, this New York Times alle- Ing the force structure against us; and
gation.
Mr. Speaker, the essential facts !have
already been well -publicized:
CIA was asked, starting in 1967, to
help determine If anti-American for-
eign elements were exploiting dissident
Forestalling miscalculations by our
ov n leaders.
Mr. Speaker, such people are the pre-
serrrers of our system, not its destroy-
er:;. Let us not, in the aftermath of all
that we have gone through -these re-
cent years, indulge ourselves in an emo-
dividuais and organizations, were identi tional binge which could conceivably un-
fled in leads supplied mostly by the FBI; ;dei'mine that one institution in our Fed-
and erJJ structure which is assigned the es-
CIA's job then was to report back to
the FBI or other appropriate authorities
on their foreign travel-where they
went, who they saw, what they did
abroad.
Mr. Speaker, I submit that theforeign
aspect of this situation fits foursquare
within the CIA's foreign intelligence
charter-there simply is no other Fed-
eral agency intended for or capable of
the job of intelligence collection abroad.
In fact, failure to carry out such an as-
signment would be tantamount to a der-
eliction of duty
Re' dial task of giving us the unvarnished
Outh about the world around. us. Let
uE remember, institutions after all are
only the length and breadth of the shad-
ow:, of those who work within them. Let
us not now unfairly besiege and be-
leal;udr those who have served so well. .
Let us give them the tools and the over-
sigl-t they deserve and need. Who but
the people who seek to destroy us will
benefit from compromising and inter-
fering with CIA?
Now It is clear, Mr. Speaker, that this. WHO WILE, AWARD DAMAGES TO
Intelligence collection program abroad THE VIC' IMS OF THE MAY DAY
has either been misunderstood or some- Dx MONSTATION?
one has been the victim of intended dis- (Mr. SIKES'asked and was given rer-
tortions. But to confuse matters further, ml&.ion to extdild his remarks at this
someone has lumped together with this point in the RECORD and to include ex-
program several undertakings within the traneous matter.)
United States-activities anyone is free Mr. SIKES. Mr Speaker, one of the
to either applaud or deplore-designed more ridiculous court actions of recent
to protect intelligence sources and meth- time, is an award of $10,000 each to law-
ods-an obligation Imposed upon the Di- brea:~ers who sought to shut down our
rector of Central Intelligence by the Na- coun try. Nevertheless, that is what has
tional Security Act of 1947. happened In the case of 1,200 demon-
Mr. Speaker, I am one of those privi- strators who were booked by police in
leged to sit on the Appropriations Com- Washington during the May Day in-
mittee which considers, evaluates and vasion of the Capital in, 1971. It is to be
rejects or approves CIA's budget. I know hoped that a higher court will overturn
how costly some of our intelligence col- this absurd decision.
countermeasures can deny us the bane- Washington vowing to shut down the
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