AN OVERMODEST CIA -- EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON JOHN E. MOSS

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2004
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• Publication Date: July 12, 1966
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CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
12 July 1966
Approved For Release 2004/02/10 : CIA-RDP75-00149R000500350005-7
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EXTENSION OC I CMARKS
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iN TIIE HOUSE OIs ILIiPI1ESr..NTATIVES
Tuesday, July 12, 1966 I
Mr. MOSS. Mr. Speaker, the. follow
Ing article from the St. Louis Post-Drs-l
patch, which also appeared in the Sacra-~
mento Bee under date of July '1, 1D66, is
one. which deserves the thoughtful con
sidcratlon and reflection of every respn'I-
sible member of the Federal Govcrn
went:
i Pronr the Sacramento Dec. July' 1, 19661
AN OvrnmoOEST CIA
Only In the most nnrcow sell trchhicai
wino can It be considered nccurnlo to any
that the CIA has never main porn cy uml
h-vcr tried to Influence a preslrirI.;lal dent-:
Sinn. Those were the Inrulcsi, Ur,v'ten
which the agency's new dlrectm, a,l hl
Mein, gave sal aters when the A=- -'I :;rrv-
Sce Committee recommended app, oI 'sin
nomination. They can ncarcnly l.. y u, n,
vlth the record of CIA oporntioos r:,11, in
Cuntemnul, in the Day of Plgs Ins. ,m, mnl
In South Viet Neal.
Perlmpn It In technically precise try nv ti,nC
the CIA does not hake policy, 1111, crw,t r:;
ei tuntiorm. Tile was certainly JI", rr:,, In
the Day of Pigs Invnt;lon, which Roan start
to finish was n CIA enterprise, orlgii atcrl. rn
Arthur M. Schlesinger reports In "A Thousand
Days", by CIA Director Allen Duller and LLie
nsslstnnt Richard M. Dlsseli Jr. fly present--
hog a newly Installed President with the of t i-
Allon of no exile force ready to Invade Gun a
with American training and supple L. the CIA
created ,the ctrruvnstannee under own tile
policy decision It wanted-the President np-
proval--was virtually assured.
Thla may not he making poll, y III the
strict scnsc, but it in so close to It Wont the
dlgmronce is not important.
t lrnllarty ht South Viet Nam It wall the
CIA thnt undertook to Install Ngo Dlnh Dien
no bend of n military anti-Communist govern
mene offering a mtfltnry lodgment to the
United Ataten on the Asian trebrilmid still
thus undermining the neutralist bade of the
1054 Ocneva settlement. Out of that situn-
tlon grew on policy decision after another
adding up to deep American involorrnent In
at, Aaiun hand win,
It I. true tint At every stags of these end
other CIA operations the agency obtldned
nominal approval from the National .Seen city
Council and the President, So the responsi-
'allity of Its ventures has been widely shared.
Yet it 1s a fnmlllar fast of bur...... n tic life
that the agency which orlgi nntee prof core
controls the information shoat tr,om nnC
directs the day-to-day operntinus line sr,
fverwneirning infrueneo upon the in it grAlcy
unnerrying them. -
It is for Into Pennon thni, the CIA tgll to
be kept under strict and severe cool. Th.nt
means flint of nli, control by tae -i'r,. eldan c.
We do not see how such control nor. 110 axef-
clsed tntcss very rigid restricttona err npPhCC
to the Initiation of any cinndestiw? opern-
tlon (no dlatiuct from the gatheri;,r nI in.
formftttnnl at the very begsminag. 1( in not
the American mission to go around (l,o world
setting up governments and knockl,'g then,
down, and bo governmental agency should
enjoy carte blanche to engage In this hull-
nesn without strict supervision by the very
highest responsible officials. Tltat kind of
supervision. applied with a heavy dose of
ekeptlolem,as to the long-run pge tl acrloea
of clonk-and-dagger work, should cut the
CIA's "dirty tricks" division toe minimum.
Ercctlvo control ales mennn congrcnlotiat
knowledge of whet to going on. We tee no'
lined reason why members of the Brenta For.
elect Relations Committee Should not be
added to the "watchdog" group now noml-
nally responsible for keeping the CIA under
review. That the ngency'a work vitally at.,
forte foreign policy III obvious, and the Ben-'
store who are responsible for reviewing our
International relations should know whet the
CIA le,doing all the time, early as well as