WILL CIA PROBE REALLY DIG?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500010042-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 2, 2004
• Sequence Number: 42
• Publication Date: February 21, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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V" ',SI-IINGTON - The first der the cloak of secrecy that her heycley may have pro- Relations Commillec to ex-
ret;.:in5 from the special com- is irrevocahle," said !hc au- ducccl a slightly more in- press doubt about the ohjec-
: ittee of three . nhoin!rd by thor of "']'he American bind". "gticith'C spirit anion" the iivity of the committee's re-
e Preside t to invesri ate to he Senate Foreign Rela- members. who have asked no port. He found it comparable
re Central Into ligenc:a A[en- lions Committee. que'tions about dirty work. to asking 't'reasurer Secretary
cg's campus spc::din spree When asked about the in Budapest but might feel Fowler "to audit.the funds of
came from John W. Gardner, C.I.A. in cap and gown. Prof. differently about colleges at the Federal Treasury."
Secretary of Health, Educa- Commager said while he home. But ivir. Johnson is always.
lion and Welfare. didn't know much about it. That at least is the hope of jealous of his prerogatives
Secretary Gardner, one of He thought it could mean Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D- and eschewed the clear ex-
t?ne most overworked nien in that "we may win the contest Minn.), who is introducing a cuse to step clear of the furor.
government, said he. thought with the Communist but lose resolution .reading a select Sen. McCarthy thinks it
C.I.A.'s student activities had the values we are defending." committee . to look into the would be helpful to both the
been a 'mistake, but added "We want the triumph of C.I.A.'s domestic activities. Agency and to the President,
oat he didn't know "any scn- the open mind," said Prof. The President, who was not to have an independent in-
sible person who believes that Commager. involved iii the initial deci- vestigation of activities that
this nation can afford to be Hitherto the Senate has sion to send the C.I.A. to col- have proved mortifying to
without a secret intelligence' shown itself something less ,]ege, girt. 'hoped to forestall the government at home and
1agency" than concerned with this such a move on the part of aboard.
,y At about the same moment, 'triumph," It has forfeited its Congress by appointing his McCarthy is one of more
1 a dissenting view was being "right to know" in connection own committee. In addition philosophical senators., who
expressed on Capitol Hill by with the silent service. It has to MVlr. Gardner, it consists of has always inquired, when he,
historian Henry Steele Corn accepted the burdensome Under - secretary of State got the chance, about the
maser, who said that the cold-war philosophy that the Nicholas Katzenbach and means the C.LA. have used
growth of secrecy in govern- less said the better about' C.I.A. Director Richard to achieve its ends.
meat had been one of the clandestine operations. Helms. He, led a fight against the
most disturbing post war But the revelation that the The appointment of Helms, appointment us John McCone,
phenomenon. C.I.A. has been more ubiquit- caused' Chairman J. W. Ful- who succeeded Allan Dulles
"So much can be done un- r ous than Mrs. Roosevelt in bright of the Senate Foreign as director, on the. grounds
posed to academic freedom. .
Now that the public knows
a little more about the meth-
ods used to "fight commu-
nism," Sen. McCarthy thinks
his attempt to call the agency
to account, may have a better
chance.
His last effort to enlarge
the "watchdog" committee,"
made up of members of the
Armed Services and Appro-
priations Committee, all
friends of the agency, was
overwhelmingly defeated.
Sen. Richard B. Russell of
Georgia, chairman of Armed
Services, knowing the fight
would be made again, per-
mitted three members of the
Foreign Relations Committee
to come in as watchdogs. But
Sen. McCarthy thinks it is
time to break up "the inner
ring" mentality which has
,,prevailed in the Senate's cozy
surveillance . of . the silent
service.
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