2 SENATORS ATTACK NEW KISSINGER ROLE IN INTELLIGENCE NET

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP84-00161R000400210072-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2014
• Sequence Number: 72
• Publication Date: November 11, 1971
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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2 Senators Attack
New Kissinger Role
In Intelligence Net
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 (UPI)
?Senators Stuart Symington
and J. W. Fulbright said today
that President Nixon had re-
shaped the nation's intelligence
network to vest more control
in the hands of Henry A. Kis-
singer, his adviser for national
security affairs, without obtain-
ing Congressional advice.
The White House announced
last Friday that intelligence ac-
tivities were being reorganized
to improve their "efficiency and
effectiveness."
Richard Helms, Director of
Central Intelligence, was given
control over all intelligence
activities while Mr. Kissinger
was placed in charge of a
subcommittee of the National
Security Council to review in-
telligence operations.
Senator Symington, Democrat
of Missouri, called in a Senate
speech for a full review of the
changes by the Senate Armed
Services Committee. He charged
that critical aspects of intel-
ligence analysis had been taken
out of the hands of career pro-
fessionals and turned over to
the military and the White
House staff.
Senator Fulbright, asked by
a reporter for comment, said
the reorganization was "a fur-
ther erosion of Congressional
control over he intelligence
community." The Arkansas
Democrat noted that Mr. Kis-
singer, in his position as a
White House adviser, was in-
sulated from Congressional
scrutiny.
Mr. Symington said the re-
organization might turn out to
be "a constructive move." But
he said it was impossible for
Congress or the public to know
since the White House an-
nouncement had not given an
explanation of what had caused
the shake-up or of the rem-
edies "which have now been
unilaterally decreed."
He said the White House
apparently "does not consider
either the organization, or the
operation, of the intelligence
community to be matters of
concern to the Congress. '
"To my knowledge there was
no advance consultation what-
soever with the Congress re-
garding this reorganization, or
even any advance notice of
what had been decided," he
declared.
Panel's Ttele Questioned
Senator Symington asked how
Mr. Helms's leadership role
would be "enhanced," as the
White House said it would be,
"by the creation of a new
and obviously more powerful
supervisory committee chaired
by the adviser to the President
for national security affairs,
on which new board not only
sits the Attorney General but
also the Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff."
"Has this new White House
committee been given authority
or and responsibility which
heretofore was .the responsi-
bility of the C.I.A., and which
the Congress, under the Na-
tional Security Act, vested in
the agency?" Mr. Symington
asked.
"How can the integrity of the
Intelligence product be assured
when responsibility for the most
critical aspects of intelligence
analysis is taken out of the
hands of career professionals
and vested In a combination of
military professionals and the
White House staff?" he said.
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