CIA ACTIVITIES UNDER CONGRESSIONAL FIRE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500030027-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 31, 2003
• Sequence Number: 27
• Publication Date: January 25, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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CIA ACTIVITIES COME UNDER CONGRESSIONAL FIRE
Senate Committee
Moscow TASS International Service in English 2317'GMT 25 January 1966--L
(Text) Washington, 25 January--The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today
discussed behind closed doors a resolution on creation of a special committee to
conduct a complete an all-embracing investigation into the activities of the
Central Intelligence Agency, particularly its influence on U.S. foreign policy.
The committee did not adopt a decision. Committee Chairman Fulbright refused to
say anything about the discussion or the further fate of the resolution.
Demands for an investigation into the activities of CIA. stem from the belief that
it has developed into a sort of "Invisible government" and that, in addition to
its usual espionage and subversive activities, it often influences the formulation
of U. foreign policy.
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Moscow Domestic Service in Russian 1630 GMT 25 January 1966--L
(Text) New York--Aleksandr Druzhinin dispatch--CIA, the ominipotent U.S,
department of espionage and subversive activities, is under a crossfire of
criticism from several prominent Washington politicians. Senator Eugene McCarthy,
for example, made a statement demanding a full and exhaustive investigation into
CIA activities. He was joined by his colleague, Senator Young, who even urged
the appointment of a joint congressional commission to supervise CIA's clandestine
activities.
The discontent voiced by the senators is easily understandable because they
themselves do not conceal the reasons for their apprehensions. Both said that
CIA is in fact planning and implementing U.S. foreign policy without taking the
slightest notice of Congress and other elected authorities,. CIA, Senator Young
said, has appropriated the functions of the President and Congress rolled into
one. It is gradually becoming an invisible government responsible only to itself.
The very fact that Capitol Hill can no longer conceal its displeasure over CIA
activities is in itself most noteworthy. In the past, open discontent with the
machinations of this department, whom many hold directly responsible for U.S.
aggressive policy toward Cuba, intervention in the Dominican Republic, and an
entire series of ignominous disasters anc' tunsnvory actions which has recently
characterized U.S. foreign policy in various parts of the world, has been voiced
in U.S. political circles.
Whether or not it will be possible to bridle this omnipotent and invisible
government, as demanded by certain senators, remains very much in doubt. During
the nearly two decades of CIA's existence, its activities have never been
scrutinized. No committees have managed to penetrate the impenetrable curtain
of secrecy that surrounds. this organization. It is not without reason that CIA
(?officials) feel entirely free of all control. They know how strong they are.
For this reason, there is no reason to doubt that despite the indignant voices
at the Capitol the department of espionage, subversive activites, and infiltration
will in the future continue to direct U.S. foreign policy with impunity.
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