SENATOR MCCARTHY INTERVIEWED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100130047-2
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 2, 1998
• Sequence Number: 47
• Publication Date: June 21, 1966
• Content Type: TRANS

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PROGRAM From the Capital
DATE June 21, 1966 7:30 PM
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SENATOR MCCARTHY INTERVIEWED
GUEST: Senator Eugene McCarthy, Democrat, Minnesota
PANEL: Wally Bruner, Bill Gill, ABC News Correspondents
BRUNER: "Senator McCarthy, there has been some specula-
tion that the suddenly announced resignation of the Admiral
as chief of CIA -- Admiral Rayborn, may have come about as
a result of some of his attitudes toward your motion for a place
on the CIA Watchdog Committee in the Senate. Do you have any
information concerning the retirement?"
MCCARTHY: "No, I don't have any -- well, the information
that he has retired is the only information I have. And no indi-
cation that his retirement bad anything to do with.h.is attitude
toward the Foreign Relations Committee as a possibility that the
CIA might report somewhat more fully to our committee than
it now does. I've always assumed that the position he took was
the position which, was recommended to him by his principle in
the White House, and that there'd be no reason as to why his posi-
tion with. reference to reporting to us would have been a factor
in his resignation."
BRUNER: "Would we assume then that the appointment of
Richard Helms as his successor would not h.erald any change in
the CIA position?"
MCCARTHY: "Well, I don't know whether it would herald any
change in the position of the CIA with, reference to the Congress
or the Foreign Relations Committee. Helms does have a reputation
of being a rather sensitive person and somewhat concerned about
not just the objectives of the agency, but also its relationships
to Congress and it smeth,ods of operation.
"My judgment of any recent directors of the CIA among the
recent directors go back as far as Allen Dulles at least. He
is -- in advance of his appointment indicated a greater sensiti-
vity on this matter than any of his immediate predecessors."
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