ACTIVITIES OF THE CIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: March 13, 1967
• Content Type: OPEN

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'.:sing the general ticket for the election of designed to be-and as It must be if the We also have learned that the U.S. Infor-
tcpresontatives. In 1842, to stop the' prat- separated Legislative and Executive powers mation Agency has long had a secret
pro-,ice, Congress prescribed that Representa- ' are to be founded on constituencies most gram of causing books to be written and pub-
tives be elected in single-member districts closely resembling each other. If the present fished in the United States. Part of this
(it was 1846 before all Representatives were system Is dangerous, as the Commission ar- subsidy also came from CIA, all unknown to
so elected) . gues, then the danger 11 e a In the states' the buy;: nd reader.
On the general question of representation, general-ticket system anu not within the I have ..:en appalled and astonished that
a select committee headed by John Quincy Constitution, in the latter days of the Eisenhower Ad-
Adams (who had been President and Sena- The present evil distortion between the ministration, and the Kennedy and Johnson
tor) reported in part: constituencies of the Executive and Legisla- Administrations, conspiratorial thinking at
"The representation of the people by single tive Powers is not through Constitutional the highest level dominated these decisions.
districts is undoubtedly the only mode byoprequirement but was created a long time It is difficult to understand why Congress
which the principle of representation, in pro- ago, by the State Legislatures in a misuse of could not have been asked openly to provide
portion to numbers, can be carried into exe- their authority, under the whip of partisan- money to finance the international conven-
cution. . . . politics. This does not furnish good reason tion of the National Education Association;
"A more unequal mode of assembling a to embed within the Constitution an equally to pay U.S, unions to train journalists, and to
representation of the people in a deliberative evil distortion between the constituencies of teach unionists in Latin America, Africa,
body could not easily he contrived than that the President and Congress. The result and Asia how to organize workers and how to
of one portion chosen by general ticket would be a political monstrosity, with Con- bargain with employers.
throughout the State, another portion by gress based on a federal union of States- But secrecy begat easy money, and more
single districts, and a third portion by single and the Executive, an elected "king" of a easy money begat more secrecy. The neces-
and partly by double, treble and quadruple unitary government. . sity to explain the purpose, to educate public
districts. The Electoral College is the most mis- opinion, and to obtain permission was cir-
"This forms, in the mass, a representation understood of American political Institu- cumvented by funding these things secretly.
not of one representative for the common tions. Almost every man has his own set of Conservative members of Congress who say
standard number throughout the whole mistaken ideas on the subject, and the Coiaa- now they knew about these CIA activities and
Union, but of States, and cities, and sectional mission's report-in what it said and in approved of them, did not have to explain'
divisions, in knots and clusters of popula- what it didn't say-is conclusive evidence to their constituents what they were sup-
tion, of different dimensions and propor- that this is true. porting, and why.
tions. . . . This is all rationalized on the ground of
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Mr. MCCARTHY. Mr. President, the
Senator from Oregon E Mr MORSE I in his
transform the constitutional government of , .. took k the fofoeau f'ricnas of the middle
recent report to citizens of Oregon, states East,
the United States into a mere confederation East, rm of propaganda at home
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vote would eliminate the federal-national secrecy and hypocrisy of CIA sponsorship of
I ask unanimous consent that the section
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THE CIA: HAS I
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SOCIETY MORE THAN IT HAS PENETRAMD
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ganized themselves nationwide; and the pros- w6 ~.,,a luau --v as minions or sneir govern.
A young man from Seaside, Oregon, named
ent intra-state election of Electors under meat, We should stop making false claims,
Phil Sherbur
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His
per)
ence on the Central Intel-
ligence Agency for much of its budget has
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d argument
the popular vote would cut asunder the tap-
root of the two-party system which is ma-
jority requirement in the Electoral College
to elect a President, and would bless, Consti-
tutionally, a President opposed by a large
majority of the voters. -
The recommendation that the places and
manner of holding the Presidential election
and the inclusion of names on the ballot
should be prescrbied in each State by the
Legislature thereof, with the provision that
Congress may at any time by law make or
alter such regulations, would violate the
principle of separation of powers, Congress
now has no authority whatever over this
subject. The proposal would compel Con-
gress to regulate party conventions for Pres-
idential nominations and every detail of the
election. - -
The Commission calls the Electoral Col-
lege system of electing a President "archaic,
undemocratic, complex, ambiguous, indirect,
and dangerous." If the system is archaic
then so is the Constitution. If the system is
undemocratic, whatever that means here, it
is certainly unrepresentative-but only be-
c.ause its representative members are elected
on a statewide general ticket. If it is am-
biguous the Commission should explain.
Certainly the system is indirect-as it was
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produced another round in the
whether ends justify means. In recent
weeks, every day has brought new stories of
unions, student groups, academic and liter-
ary associations, even church organizations,
receiving secret CIA money through dummy
foundations.
The defense of secrecy in financing these
activities is a curious one. It holds that the
decision to finance these "fronts" was made
in the period of 1952 to 1954, an era domi-
nated by McCarthyism. It contends that in
many contests around the world where Com-
munists were in competition with non-Com-
munists, it would have been Impossible to
persuade Congress to appropriate funds to
send our representatives abroad at public ex-
pense. So in the interest of assuring that
liberals, even leftist Americans, who could
better compete with Communists than could
conservatives, would be on hand at interna-
tional meetings, CIA slipped them the money.
The odd thing about this official defense,
however, is that long after the demise of
McCarthy, the programs not only continued,
but were expanded. In these years, 70 and
80% of the NSA budget, which included ex-
tensive civil rights activities in this country,
came from CIA. A wildly mismanaged book-
store venture by University of Chicago
students lost $140,000, a tab picked up by
CIA.
If the forms of democracy are too incon-
venient, too exacting,. for us to respect, who
else in the world will respect them? We re-
quire candidates for office to disclose their
campaign funds; we punish elected office-
holders for misuse of public money; we en-
act federal laws requiring citizens to disclose
more and more of their business practices in
'labeling, packaging, and interest rates. But
while the federal government requires more
forthrightness from the American people, it
retreats further into the world of deception
and stealth in its own operation. This scan-
dal has shown us what a long way we have
travelled down the road to a pollee state.
AMERICA'S CLEAR AND PRESENT
DANGER
Mr. TIIURMOND, Mr. President, the
President has announced that Soviet
Premier Kosygin has agreed to discuss
the possibility of a mutual disarmament
program, one in which the United States
would be expected to refrain from estab-
lishing an anti-ballistic-missile system.
In light of the incontestable fact that the
U.S.S.R. has already deployed an ex-
tensive ABM system around its principal
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