POT CALLS KETTLE WHAT?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100010121-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 19, 2007
• Sequence Number: 121
• Publication Date: November 11, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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`thF.v can't confirm- George Bush: as Allende.
he;,d of the CIA. He's too political, - Who, really, can restore the agen- f
ha, ing been a representative .from cy's credibility and efficiency while-t
Tezas, a defeated candidate for the the House and Senate roadshows are_
U.',.. Senate and a former chairman playing in the post-Watergate atmos-
of the Republican National Commit- phere?
tee. Bush, who is an able man,- cer-'-
Rep. James M. Hanley,' D-32nd tainly can't.
Dist., echoed that attitude last-week- Beyond a doubt, the CIA after 28
end calling Bush, horror of horrors, years of- secrecy needed a going over:,
an ambitious politician. But where are, the senators and rep-
In the Senate,. Frank Church, D. resentatives to whom the CLA direc-
Idaho,-has'assembled a staff of 120 to tors were reporting? Aren't they to
.-investigate ? charges against .the CIA be questioned- too?
that have been laying on the table for Finally, we've seen the investiga-
two years. tors' .showmanship. Where are their
Do Democrats contend this investi- solutions?
-ation along with the' inquiry directed We agree with Hanley. The agency
by Rep. Otis Pike, D.-N.Y., .in the should serve the national and not-a
House isn't for political effect? party interest. That's- obvious.
For example: But who, indeed, is calling the pot
Church promised. his Senate com- black?
mittee.would, produce a report on -
."political assassinations" after Nel-
son Rockefeller reported his commis-
sion had run across- the so-called.
plots but lacked time to investigate.
Church vowed:
"We won't duck -it." "
But his committee's researchers-
discovered..the conspiracies had been
dreamed up in both Democratic and
Republican administrations.- The
promised report hasn't. been pro.-
duced while the committee wrangles.
over its contents.
Democrats on the committee don't -
want to retell the story of the Kenne-.1
dys and Castro in Cuba but are more
than willing to unveil what the Nixon(
1 semocrats in the Senate are sayng administration did in Chile to
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