LETTER TO HONORABLE EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN FROM C.P. CABELL

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Honorable Everett Mckinley Dirkeen
d States Senate
aehin ton Z5, D. C.
for responding to
which was forwarded with your letter of 26 June 1961 addressed
to 4,.:r. Dulles. The following information concerning the
Central Intelligence Agency is provided ais a suggested basis
The Agency functions under the direction of the
National Security Council. It was established by the National
urity Act of 1947 for the purpose of coordinating the intel-
ligence activities of the several vern m?nt d.partrne
agencies in the merest of national security and performin
services of common concern and such other functions and
duties as are directed by the National Security Council.
For some years there have been established cubeoarrn.ittees
of the Appropriations and Armed $ervicee Committees of
both houses of Congress which maintain continual review
of Central Intelligence Agency smatters. In addition, the
President's 'oreignIntelligence Advisory Board monitors
and reviews the intelligence activities of the Executive
each of the Government and reports to and advises th
President with regard thereto.
ith re ect to the screening of personnel men.
tioned b our security review of applicants
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and employees of the Central Intelligence Agency is a
continuous process. Upon application for employment, a
full investigation is conducted and the findings carefully
evaluated. prom time to time after employment and when-
ever available information indicates the need for further
review, additional checks or investigations are made and
the security file updated. Such investigation and evaluation
of information received is necessary for the protection of
our nation and the protection of each individual. Whenever
it appears that a communist affiliation or connection may be
involved, the matter is immediately sent to the Department
of Justice for handling by that Department.
Of interest with regard to this general question is
the current congressional review of national intelligence
agencies. Last fall Representative Carl Vinson. Chairman
of the House Armed Services Committee, appointed
Representative Paul J. Kilday of Texas to act as Chairman
of a subcommittee to review the personnel security practices
of national intelligence agencies. As you and no
doubt recall, this resulted when Bernon W. Mitchell and
William H. Martin abandoned their posts at the National
Security Agency and went to the Soviet Union. The opera-
tion of the Kilday subcommittee was continued over into
the present session of Congress.
I am enclosing for your information an extract
from the Congressional Record of Tuesday, 10 May y 1960,
wherein the remarks of the Honorable Clarence Cannon of
Missouri and the Honorable John Taber of Now York on
the floor of the House of Representatives were reported
concerning their review of Agency activities and the U-2
mis Sion.
Should you require any further information. please
advise rne.
Sincerely,
C. P. Cabell
General, USAF
Acting Director
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9146. CONGRESSIONAL"R.ECORD - HOUSE L) A May 10
mitten on House Administration may sit The answer of the subcommittee Is-
today during general debate. absolute and unavoidable military nec-
The SPEAKER. Is there objection to cssity, fundamental national defense.
the request of the gentleman from During the Second World War the
United States succeeded In breaking the
Japanese naval code. Through this
in- Rood fortune the U.S. com-
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
AND FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRA-
TION APPROPRIATION BILL, 1061
The SPEAKER. The question is on
the motion of the gentleman from M1s-
i,issippi [Mr. WHITTE ].
The motion was agreed to.
Accordingly, the Mouse resolved Itself
into the Committee of the Whole Mouse
on the State of the Union for the consid-
eration of the bill (11 R. 12117) making
appropriations for the Department of
Agriculture and Faint Credit Admiliis-
tration for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1961, and for other purposes, with
Mr. KILDAY In the chair.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
By unanimous consent, the first read-
ing of the bill was dispensed with.
The CHAIRMAN. Under the unani-
mous-consent agreement, the gentleman
from Mis.'.issippi [Mr. WnIrrKNl will be
recognized for 2 hours and the gentle-
man from Minnesota [Mr. ANDSRS[Itl
will be recognized for 2 hours.
The Chair recognizes the gentleman
from Mississippi IMr. WIIITTEN 1.
Mr. WHIT'rEN. Mr. Chairman, I
yield 15 minutes to the gentleman from
Missouri [Mr. CANNON).
Mr. CANNON. Mr. Chairman, on May
1 the Soviet Government captured, 1,300
miles inside. the boundaries of the Rus-
sian Empire, an American pL'uie, oper-
ated by an American pilot, under the
direction and control of the Central In-
telligence Agency, and is now holding
both the plane and the pilot.
The plane was on an espionage mts-
sion authorized and supported by money
provided under an appropriation recom-
mended by the House Committee on Ap-
propriations and passed by the Congress.
Although the Members of the House
have not generally been Informed on the
subject, the mission was one of a series
and part of an established program with
which the subcommittee in charge of the
appropriation was familiar, and of which
it had been fully apprised during this
and previous sessions,
,-manders were able to read every order
!;transmitted from Tokyo and all inter-
i fleet communications. This advance and
intimate information had much to do in
preparing the way and increasing the
effectiveness of our great victory in the
battle of Midway which broke the tower
of Japan in the Pacific, lint some in-
cautious member of a enne1i' ;: Tonal com-
mittee or its staff leaked the information
to a reporter, and 30 minutes after the
next edition of his newspaper hit the
street Japan changed her naval code and
all further advantage was lost.
This appropriation, and its purpose, is
justified by honored and established
precedent. This subcommittee, includ-
ing the same personnel with the excep-
tion of two members who have since
died, was the same committee which
for something like 3 years provided in
the annual appropriation bills a sum
which finally totaled more than $2 bil-
lion for the original atomic bomb. Ses-
sion after session the money was pro-
vided, and the subcommittee visa .ed Oak
Ridge where the work was in progress
without any Member of the House with
the exception of the Speaker of the
Ilouso being aware of this tremendous
project or the expenditure of the money.
According to the testimonv of all mili-
tary authorities that bomb ended the
war and saved the lives of not less than
!half a million men who would have had
to be sacrificed in the conquest of .Japan.
,No one has ever sold that the subcom-
mittee was not justified in expending
an amount that eventually ag;regated
more than the assessed valuation of
some of the States of the Union for that
purpose.
Espionage has been throughout re-
corded history an integral part of war-
fare. Before occupying the Promised
Laid Moses "by the commandment of
the Lord" sent out from the wilderness
of Paran 10 men under the direction
of Joshua to spy out the land.
And no nation in the hi; Cory of the
world has practiced espionage more as-
siduously than Russia. The United
States and every other allied nation to-
day literally swarms with them. Within
jugation we were surprised to learn that
while all other nations were disarming
and returning to a peacetime status as
rapidly as possible, Russia was feverishly
driving her factories and continuing to
increase her armament at top speed.
Simultaneously they announced th?+t
communism and free enterpri,._ could
not live In the same world.
Every effort has been made by Amert-
cat, adniini?;tratinns to reestablish con-
ditions under which we could discon-
tinue excessive expenditures for anna-
ment mid divert these vs. ' sums to bu. -
Illc ?s and hilmattitarrati purposes. Lilt
each year Itu aia has become mom, arro-
gant and tlueatcnin and more demand-
ing.
Under our American Ideals and sys-
tem of government, a declaration of
war against any nation, however pro-
vocative, is unthinkable. Our military
authorities have no choice but to give
any enemy the advantage of first at-
tack and then depend on massive re-
taliation for defense The Communists
have taken every advantage of this sit-
uation.
In modern warfare surprise is a tre-
mendous advantage. Less than a week
before the Communist attack on Korea
it congressional committee from this
House returning from Seoul reported
that permanent peace had been estab-
lished and the land was returning to
prosperity. There was no shadow of
war; not the slightest cloud appeared
on the horizon. The sudden rush of a
vast army of well armed, well trained,
and well munitioned Communists across
the border made it necessary for us to
throw precipitately into battle raw and
untrained troops who were wholly un-
able to protect themselves or hold their
positions. And there followed one of
the rn,,st disastrous periods in the his-
tory of American arms.
During the hearings on this appro-
priation for the last 2 or 3 years, I have
each year asked the CIA representative
before the committee. "How could the
enemy mobilize an army of such size
and accumulate hundreds of tons of
supplies and munitions and the trans-
portation facilities necessary for its
movement without our learning that
.such an attack was in prospect?"
And each year we have admonished
the Authority, the CIA, that It must
meet future situations of this character
with effective measures. We told them,
The appropriation and the activity the last few weeks we sent to the Federal "This must not happen again. and it
had been approved and recommended by penitentiary at Atlanta a Russian spy is up to you to see that it does not
the Bureau of the Budget and, like all convicted In Federal court who was happen again": that the American forces
military expenditures and operations, regularly transmitting information di- must be apprised of any future prepara-
was under the aegis of the Commander rectly to Moscow every night. Their tion for attack in time to meet it. And
in Chief of the Armed Forces of the spies stole from us the secret of the the plan they were following when this
United States, for whom all members of atomic bomb. Every Russian embassy plane was taken, is their answer to that
the subcommittee have the highest re- and consulate has today time and again demand.
gard and in whose military capacity they the number required for routine diplo- And I want to take advantage of the
have the utmost confidence. matic and consular service. When we opportunity to compliment and thank
The question immediately arises as to were at Oak Ridge we were told there Director Allen W. Dulles and his re-
the authority of the subcommittee to were eo many Russian spies there that markable corps for the admirable way
recommend an appropriation for such only by a policy of strictest cornpart- in which they have met the situation
mentalism were they able to maintain through these later years.
purposes, and especially the failure of
the subcommittee to divulge to the House the integrity of their work. They are entitled to the highest corn-
and the country the justifications war- The need for espionage in this in- niendation by the Department, the Con-
ranting the expenditure and all details stance was exceptional and compelling. gre:ss, and the American people.
connected with the item at the time it At the close of the world war in which We cannot permit another Korea. We
was under considerati I o I c e had ro Wage and na-
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19760 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - HOUSE
tlonaI devastation which might involve require to the gentleman from New York
every American city. We cannot take [Mr, Tessa).
the 'risk of the consequences which Mr. TAKER, Mr. Chairman, that was
would follow a similar attack from the most magnlflcent and courageous
across the Russian borders And since speech I have heard on this floor In many
the Russians refuse to cooperate
efforts to establish in our a day. It is true that we have ap..
permanent peace- preached these summit conferences with
refuse even to agree to ethical standards the Idea that each bide must be given
of warfare-we have no choice but to the right to Inspect and examine what
protect our Nation and our people the situation might be on the other side.
through the age-old methods of defense That is the only way we can have peace
so long in use by the Communists them- as the result of these summit conferences.
selves, lest we wake tomorrow, or do not We must have that right When the
wake tomorrow, as a result of our failure leader of Russia refused us that right, the
to know In time what they are planning only method we had and the only chance
against us. we had was to
The world has been appalled by the was being done tby outnisnd do Ju.at what
vicious vindictiveness of Khrushchny'5 pilot. It was
tzed the policy of the United States"as
Stupid and blundering. Ills fury is in-
cited by the fact that it is neither stupid
nor blundering. On the contrary it has
been infinitely successful and effective.
When we have answered his thr
t
ea
s-
and he has been very free with them on
all occasions, even when he was here
as our guest in our own country. When
we have answered his threats by basing
our Strategic Air Command in a position
to defend ourselves and our allies, he has
boasted that he could stop them at the -
earnestly developing our submarines ao I
ab .tr.
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se our, went Into the questions of supplying the we have before us, illustration of what
Strategic Air Command then we willCIA and the other branches of our Gov- Yes, Mr. Chairman, our suboommit
tee
have to take its place a fleet of nuclear-9' eminent with funds necessary to take has a tough Job in trying driven missile-firing submarines that will = care of and protect the United States and reductions in the cost, ng beuse so to bring abbo t
be Just as effective a halter upon him as:: Its people. For my own part, just so of them are beyond our reach, We on
manuy
SAC is today, long as I am here, I intend to su our His discovery that since 1966, for 4`= that position. We brought in fronlp he in a billi briny ommittees
have
tried on which we could all
years, CIA has been sending plane". Committee on Appropriations under the doubt there is an Item in this bille that
across his border--and as far as 1,300'- leadership of the gentleman from Texas suite all of us on this
miles Into the interior without his know- s_ and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. But the bill as
produced it--is the occasion of this outburst. FORD) a military a subcommittee.
IL ppropriation bill de- composite ued represents the
ability It tocompletely disproves his vaunted signed to maintain the advantage that mittlbeviews lieve. of I the
haveholn sover It
stop SAC at the border, we have today over the Soviet. Let us o very closely, trying to gone over d
The only reason he was able to appre- on and maintain it. g ~I y make It as sound
hend oven this plane or its pilot was that (Mr. WRITTEN asked and was BSI ~t toapable of doing.
pay trib W the members
U developed Some unforeseen and un- granted permission to revise and extend of my subcommitt euwho have worked
avoidable mechanical or physiological his remarks.) col-
defect, the first in 4 years. He was un- Mr. WHI
able Mr. Chairman, r leagues
T'I so hard s ooil n the majority his ma.Mqside. friends and Congress -
able to hit it or to overtake It at its yield myself 20 minutes.
cruising height of 70,000 feet. So in Mr. Chairman, I realize that In pre- nntn FRED SAN n MARSHALL, BILL era dR and
lly
order to leave the Impression that he senting the agriculture appropriation and have helped In have cooperated The
captured this plane he distributed a pic- bill it is somewhat of an anticlimax in minority members, Congressmen H. CARL
tore of a pile of rubbish which those who view of the wonderful s d in every way, The
know the plane recognized as absolutely been made today. It probably that have have doRSEN, WALT HORAN and BOB this bill
spurious. The plane and the pilot were propriate that this probably is pre- have lls in their part best to bring possible e.
evidently taken comparatively ut pre t. because an a many to the floor would the best pss)b}e shape.
That coo uninjured. ceded by those statements, bemany Now I like to discuss some of
pletelyy destroys his claims of of our problems in the field of agricul- the maJor factors with which we had to
invulnerability against American attack. Lure are tied directly into the defense deal.
So he as usual resorts to subterfuge, effort of this country. LZVrL
And now the most gratifying feature Back In World War II, and subsequent
The records meO1~= a=Low toe
of the entire Incident, thereto, the American farmers were a the Government is show
The world has always recognized the asked to Produce world without end. that the Federal In tee name of now
remarkable success of our form of gov- They did that magnificently. When the culture far more before the name of aan -
ernment. It has been the wonder and war was over they were not given yet Income than ever rmin in 1history 959, fn and
admiration of mnkind. But they have refunds or tax reductions, Some =15 a in soil bank payments,
n 1t th i lowest
said that It was at a great disadvan given g l since bank paents, was at the less
in a4) war with an loge $18 billion were to business after level sbefore World War II. 7Rti
snip authoritarian dictator- World War 11. No such thing was given is true despite the fact that national in-
We have here demonstrated to the American farmers, come has Increased consistently each b
today sively that free men confronted be the are embarrrrassrd by It sls . We aree we meats ode Per capitaation income for all ag ii-
most ruthless and criminal despotism barrassed because under the present cultural producers is at the highest level
can under the Constitution of the situation it Is our subcommittee that has in the history of the country.
United States protect this Nation and to pick up the check "after the fact," The farm
Price Preserve world civilization. where we have little if anything to do created in 1933 to preserve andgmaiintain
Mr. ANDS SEN of Mtnne.sota. Mr. with the amounts that are involved.
Chairman, I yield such time c~~
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were requested to appropriate the sum
of $4,135,263,190. Our subcommittee a-as
able to reduce that by $170 million.
However, may I say, Mr. Chairman that
in the budget request regular activities
were something like one-third of the
total. Another one-third was for
restoration of the capital impairment
of the Commodity Credit Corporation,
another more than one-third was re-
imobof bursehenndlit ngfor special activities, the
J
which
am has been ass+i,,,,,i
to the Commodity Credit CorMr;t:,,r;.
I have before me the U.S. News Av
World Report for last week. which
points out that the United States h a
entered into an agreempT,c a,+th -,-
at all. Today, the leader of Russia lio e wto India orth of rice 9 have e
h knows that he could not overcome the Senn in the papers the fine statements
United States with the airplanes and mis- made as to how wonderful this Is on the
sues that we have available. But we part of the United States. I am not tak-
could not know what the proper targets ing issue with that. But whatever that
were or know where they were or where is, I do not know of anybody who feels
they would be unless we had some means it would lead to any agricultural mar-
of checking up on them-and he left us kets in India. However fine it is from
no course to pursue except the course a good Samaritan point of view, how-
that we did pursue. That sort of RP- ever good it is from the standpoint of.
proach was the only approach that we our international policy, our subcom-
could make. I have served, as has the mittee will have to sign checks for it in
gentleman from MisRouri, on the sub- excess of $300 million, c
committee that went into the question of ~.,,e.
r - -- charged up to the
can fa
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Acting
MEMORANDUM FOR: THE /DIRECTOR
The attached letter to Senator Dirksen
provides information for his use in responding
to a complaint of a constituent concerning CIA
activities and screening of personnel. I
believe it should be sufficient for the Senator's
needs. We will hand carry this letter to tk
Senator.
LAWRENCE R. HOUSTON
General Counsel
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Dear i for Dtrkoens
keference is made to the latter tr+s
carning e en r gence ncy which was forwarded with
your letter of dune db. 1961. The owing information concerning
the Central Intelligence Agency r4laationships Is provided as a
suggested basis for responding
the Central intelllgende Agency functions under the direction
of the National Security Co nidl. It was established by the National
Si curityr Act of 1947 for the purpose of coordinating the intelligence
activities of the several Go4ernment departments and agencies in
the interest of national seCurity and performing services of common
concern and such other functions and duties as are directed by the
National Security Council. For some years there have been
established subccrmunittees of the Appropriations and Armed Services
Committees of both tt ses of Congress which maintain continual
review of Central k` &tslligeac. Agency matters.. In addition, the
4'resident's Board Of Consultants on Intelligence Activities n"Mitars
and reviews the intelligence activities of the . necutive branch of the
Government and reports to and advises the President with regard
thereto.
-VVUUI-regard to the screening of personnel mentioned by
I I our security review of a icaatn and amulova.^ of
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the Central Intelligence agency is a continuout process, Upon
application for employment. a full investigation is conducted and
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