HELMS OKAYED AS CIA CHIEF BY SENATE UNIT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100130035-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: June 23, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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JUN 2 3 1966
tee that overseas its acti
Helms Oka
vltles.
'17ie present watchdog commit-,;
tee is composed of seven rank-1
ing Democratic and Republican':
members of the Senate Armed'
Services and Appropriation.;
committees.
Helms, 53, in intelligence work'I
since 1943 and with the CIA;
since its formation, has beeny
,deputy director of the agency.i
]He will succeed William Fri
'Raborn, who has held the posit.3
tion since April 1965.
Not Forming Policy
~lligenc icusseii and other members ofr,
Agency official, to be director o the committee in. - L.i_f
seal :(
received unanimous approval o ? Questioning, by 'sen. I,everett: 1, the Senate Armor) Service
posed by the President and the policiesl and submits reports as
..., a committee chairmant went and others to make policy.
said the exceptions would hd ,...
will be reported to the Senat `' In to overseas
Monday gnr confirmation ,inlay !aeration, Helms testified, the,
ben?c/ o representatives ore,
there is a valid request foti inder this country's ambassa.
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Frosch, Blee Approved l nresolution by Sen. Eugene J.
gene Plannin , . an effort win
Y g oreign flotations Committee ee to;
Tha
easing the controversy that nas One senator said he under,l
developed over the CIA and th tands that '65 senators opposed;
demands of the Senate la oreig a McCarthq~ ; resluti IA'
oon Relations Committee eSf repre- u n1 nil it And i1 are`uncommI -
~en ion. watch4ogC 1n1gnLt 9't? i is ,' ? li,ei iis~ r~
As CIA Chief
By Senate Unil
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