SENATOR MCCARTHY INTERVIEWED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500020019-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: July 8, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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DATE July 8, 1966 6:00 PM
STATION WMAL-TV
SENATOR MCCARTHY INTERVIEWED
Washington, DC.
JOSEPH MCCAFFREY: "Next week the showdown comes on
that effort by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to win
representation on the committee which. keeps an eye on the
nation's spy eye, the Central Intelligence Agency. The chief
sponsor of the resolution which will hit the Senate floor
next week is Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy. The Senator
said today he didn't think a change in top CIA personnel changes
the rules of the game."
MCCARTHY: "I think the climate of Richard Helms as
Director of the CIA was a very good appointment. But our case
with reference to that agency did not really relate to who the
Director was. It's not directed at Admiral Rayborn, for example.
Our concern has over the fact that this agency in the years since
it was established has become increasingly difficult as far as
reforming foreign policy, not mixed policy, but in helping to gather
information and even to make policy decisions to incorporate
into policy that are so important as an instrument for executing
or for carrying out foreign policy.
"The Senate under the Constitu tion has a very clear
responsibility in this field and the Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee, which is the instrument setup by the Senate to exercise
its basic and primary responsibility in the field of foreign
policy, therefore, should be as well informed with reference
to CIA as any other committee of the Congress."
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