CENTER OF A STORM IN THE SENATE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200890076-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 76
• Publication Date: July 28, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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July 28, 1966 4:00 PM
CENTER OF A STORM IN THE SENATE
Morgan Beatty was giving the news headlines.
BEATTY: ~"The nation's number one cloak and dagger
-man is the aen~er of a storm in the United States Senate."
BEATTY: "The nation's number one oloak and dagger
-~ man, Richard Helms, dust appointed and confirmed as Direotor
~'. of Central Intelligenoe is now the center of a raging storm
aver intelligence in the Senate. Helms praised an editorial
in the St. Louis Globe Democrat of yesterday. The editorial
attaoked Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Senator J.
William Fulbright as a crafty man.
PYRGHT "Several Senators took the floor 'today to express shook
and surprise that Mr. Helms would express pleasure over suoh
an editorial. 'And the Senators included the Majority Leader,
~~1~? Mike Mansfie]~d .
"Senator Fulbright recentl~- demanded a voioe for his
committee in overseeing the wont of the CIAO and he was re~eot-
- ed by other leading Senators.
"senator Eugene MoCarthy of Wisoonsin said today that
Direotor He1roa owes an,apology to. every member of the Senate~'~
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