CIA PROBE: CHARGES SHAKE U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100070093-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 93
• Publication Date: July 11, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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11 JULY 1975
beh nd-doors testimony on CIA. operations
abroad, including former Secretary of State.-
Dean Rusk on July 10.
SVashurgtun 'i ? ? Sources -here.: say.. Ashland Oil, Inc.'s '
Like a-man who feels' he is. being:"shad.- previously:unexplained governzrient contribu-
owed " .. but can't throw Doff his-pursuer; -the Lions covered costs of a CLA spy. operating five J
'American government has.been dogged fora years in Europe.as a company official.'
=. year- following President Nixon's resignation In particular;. the House select CIA inquiry
.Staff correspondent of
rflsolve : a- multiplying = CIA : row .within . the :
House?Intelligence Committee over. its. man-_
the. CIA, FBI, Internal Revenue Service, and > ? Rep.-Michael J.:Harrington (D) of Itilas
other agencies . :? - - sachusetts, member.of.the House committee,
Nothing like, it has ever. been known before ran acress-material in secret testimony about.
in-Arnerican history: CLA political -.operations, in Chile- 1870-71,
r - Anexplossion of new charges , suspicions, and which made him feel justified in conscience to
disputes this week. stems back to the central' disclose corJidential. material- -the: incident
point, observers believe- that Mr. Nixon, beset has brought efforts to discipline lir. Harring
by: Watergate and "mounting L internal and- I ton, who is fighting back.
external pressures, .set.:up-a kind of. White I' - ? Democratic members of the committee .House staff shadow government which partly seek to depose chair. Tarr Lucien N. Nedzi (D)
`'superseded the old Cabinet system and also" .of Michigan, who is disclosed' to have. been
'gave intelligence-agencies a-.freedom never--. briefed a year earlier on CIA assassination
equalled before. attempts in :Chile without telling other con-
The CIk activities "within the United., gressmen:..-.-
States" were outlined in?the.299-page Rock- , -? Just before the. House Rules Committee
-efeller-.:Commission: report, . June 10, which intervened in-the CIA committee row, two
purposely omitted- CIA:. activities abroad, cond. essmen',. Robert W. Kasten Jr... (R): of
:including charges` of connivance- in foreign Wisconsin and Ronald. Dellums (D) of Cal-
assa.t;r,ation plots: ": ":.. iforrua, made the charge of CIA :`.'infiltration"
New sensations appear regulai ly v'. ;:. ; " . of the White House and several Other federal
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%:The House Rules. Committee seeks to
(&ug. 1974) bynew revelations; or: purported'
revelations, of clandestine federal activities of
:Charges that the CIA-'`.`infiltrated'".the.
White House spokesman Ron Nessen said that
a.handful of CIA employees work at the White
:_House. "quite openly"'and pooh-poohed con-'
gressional charges of "infiltration." -
nonsense" by Director: William E. -Colby and
release of its half-inch thick internal report on
:domestic spying on July 8, -simultaneously :
`with providing the report to :Morton Halperin,:
former National Security -Council staff mere-
ber and CIA critic, whohad sued to get it..:-
= ? The family of Frank I :V. reportedly
planned to. sue, the government following
-disclosure by-the Rockefeller report that he--.'
had killed himself in the course-of CIA's 10-
year.- experiment with. the effects of LSD,
given tounsusnectinvsubjects
rows: -
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