MORSE ATTACK ON HELMS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500310019-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• 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 29, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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PROGRAM News STATION WGMS Radio
DATE July 29, 1966 2:00 il'i
MCF, SE A`i'TACiL ON HELMS
ocratic Leader Mike Mansfield, he says Helms made a mistake
and he faced up to it. And as Mansfield put it, we all mistakes,-
ix we had to resign when we make mistakes, the whole Senate would
have to resign.
"In his attack on Helms, Senator Morse criticized the entire
CIA setup, he says its becoming increasingly active within Amer-
ican education and 'tries to influence public opinion with planted r
Washington, DG
idEWSCASTER: "Senator Wayne Morse has called for ,
the resignation of the Central Intelligence Agency's new
Director, Richard Helms. The Oregon Democrat is unhappy
because Helms lauded a newspaper editorial which attacked
Sonator Fulbright, Chairn;an ox' the For?ign Relations Committee.
Helms already has apologized to Fulbright and his Committee
for writing the letter which endorsed a St. Louis Globe Democrat
editorial describing rulbright as 'crafty' Fulbright himself
doesn~t go along with Morss's demand, neither does Senate Dem-
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