A LOOK INTO CIA'S IMPACT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500020065-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 30, 2003
• Sequence Number: 65
• Publication Date: February 6, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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NEVIS
E-12, 159
S-12.372
FEB 6 1966
' A Look Into
-CIA's Impact
Sen. Eugene McCarthy has revise
it a new twist. Basically the idea is that'
there should be better congressional'
!,;oversight of the activities of th l
D:ont., now Senate Majority leader,
jo ed 34 cosponsors in urging a Joint
Congressional Committee on Central
elligence. This was a concept first
.iivisioned by the late Sen. Brien
c Iahon, who led the fight to create
e Joint Committee on Atomic Energy.
seems ,tQ W_t;hPt?t e.atomic energy
ammittee has worke well, without
eopardizing national, security in a field
oily as sensitive as intelligence.
McCarthy's proposal is less ambi-
~1us b
perhaps
more pointed. He
tyyQnts a i era t,
Senate (Qm ittee
,
, prefe ably, a new subcommittee of
the Senat Foreign Relations Committee
to invest gate CIA's impact on foreign
policy. How far has CIA moved from its
1tial assignment of gathering, analyz.
tg and coordinating intelligence infor-
n
. . .. ,,i-o,-
Pal ing..ioreign policy?
and
ra -r '. ~,r:~Y.
dial =interest in the aetvties, p -
"'cCarthy would have to be exceptionally
Greet bt ithld bd Ad
,u soue mae.n we
ink it might lead to a joint congression-
committee to keep a legislative eye on
an agency with disturbing power to alter
e course of the United States in world
airs or at least trigger dangerous
ents.,
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