'CIA WATCHDOG' BID TO FULBRIGHT MAY HERALD END OF LONG FEUD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200870038-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 8, 1999
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• Publication Date: January 8, 1967
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. era d En oflo~~g Feud
By John A. Goldsmith' ? ducted ? in an unusual closed
Unitca Press International I session of the Senate.
Chairman J. William Ful? At that time, members of
-bright (D-Ark.) and two other the Foreign 'Relations Com-
;members of the Senate For- mittee contended that they
sign Relations Committee should have a role in over-
were invited yesterday to seeing intelligence operations
closed sessions of the CIA because they involved foreign
!Watchdog subcommittee, ap- p o 1 i c y. Russell called the ex,
parently ending a long squab. pansion proposal an attempt to
ble over supervision of the "muscle in" on jurisdiction
spy agency. of the Appropriations and the
Sen. Richard B. Russell Armed Services Committees.
(D-Ga.), who heads the in- The six-member CIA group
s drawn from the latter two
formal intelligence. group i
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;aid the three foreign policy committees.
,?xpeits are being invited to Invitation to All
a session Monday with Rich-
ard M. Helms, director of the " Russell said the representa-
our, debate, most ; of it, co-q.,
mittee, and to Senate Demo.
,cratic Leader Mike, Mans
field, -Mont.
Enlargement Rejected
Last July, after considerable
controversy, the Senate voted
down a? proposal which would
have enlarged the present
P'iRG4ommittee so as
to include Foreign Policy
Committee members. ; The
61.28 'vote followed '.a: five.
in addition toFulbright, in-
vitations were extended to
Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper,
Jowa, senior Republican on
the Foreign Relations Com,
"My present purpose is to
invite them to all the meet"
ings-at least for this session
of Congress," Russell said
when asked if the new ar=
rangement would be perma-
nent.
As to the role of the three'
Foreign Relations Committee;
m e ni b e r s, Russell said, they'
will be allowed full participa
tion in the Committee sessions..
The Monday sesssion withi
Helms will provide the sub-'
committee with a full briefing;
on world events Russell said
including the intelligence as-S
pests of the war in Vietnam,
the turmoil in Red China and
the Rhodesia situation
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Committee will be invited to i
attend all watchdog subcom-:
mittee sessions-ever; those,
which deal. primarily with ap?;
propriations...,,,,)..
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