WATCHDOG PRAISES THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800160025-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 1998
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: December 16, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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DEC 16 1964'
Watchdog
Praised
The CIA:
CPYRGHT
WASHINGTON (AP) -'Sen.
Milton R. Young (R-N.D.) tells
of a cloak and dagger type over-
seas rendezvous with top secret
agents' of the Central Intelli-
genre Agency. He called their
work outstanding.
? J
"In fact." Young said in an
interview before flying to Far-
go, N.D., "I am inclined to
think the job they are doing is
superior to that done by the
{ KGB, their Soviet opposite num.
berg, and KGB has twice the
'personnel."
Young went abroad as a rep.
resentative of a special Senate
I watchdog committee which
keeps an eye on espionage and
other activities of the CIA, and
of the Senate Appropriations
Committee on which hp also
CIA work is so secret its
budgets are largely hidden by.
Congress in appropriations for
other agencies. Few Congress
members know how much it re-
ceives or what it does with the
money. -
Because of this, Young said,
,the special watchdog commit-
tee - one of the few to which
it reports - felt an in-the-field
checkup on CIA would be time.-
ly.
Young said he had Glandes-,
tine meeting.s with CIA agents l
in 14 of the 16 countries he vis- i
sit9d .on the five-week trip.
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