CONGRESS MUST INVESTIGATE THE CIA

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• Publication Date: May 7, 1973
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113402 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -II-IOUSE May 7, 1973
Co. and Alcoa, received $42,000 and $22,- rial on the CIA and its operation, At the
000 respectively for farms in Kentucky. conclusion of his address he said we now
Oil barons, who receive a record ruin- had our first-and probably last-oppor-
ber of tax breaks from the. Federal Gov- tunity to ask the CIA any question we
crnnlent, also have learned to tap the wanted to.
Federal faucet for fa rnl payments. I raised my hand and asked:
In Louisiana, two oil companies drew How many employees do you have and
payments of $40,000 and $29,000 each for what Is the also of your annual budget?
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arms. In Texas, a drilling com-
pany dug up a subsidy of 537.000.
Numerous land development com-
panies collected huge subsidies in the
His response was:
There are only 2 questions which I cannot
answer and those are the two.
South last year. One New Orleans land I said:
company collected $195,000. Two other Are you telling me that as a Member of
Louisiana land developers got over $50,- Congress I do not have access to the records
000 apiece. which would show me your annual payroll
In Florida, a land developer collected since I vote on that?
$73,000 and. in Mississippi another de-
veloper received just a little less than
$60,000.
Three years ago Congress put a $55,-
000 ceiling on subsidy payments for cot-
ton, wheat, and feed grain crops. Many
large farms have avoided this payment
limitation by the simple device of subdi-
His response was:
The CIA's appropriation does not appear
in tho annual budget passed by the Congress
and Is buried in some other department.
I responded:
Are you telling me that your appropriation
might be Included under Social Security?
viding the land and incorporating under He said:
various navies. We haven't used that one yes but it's a good
My choice for the biggest subsidy sub- idea.
.terfuge comes from Brownfield. Tex. In
that town there are 15 subsidies listed in
15 different names but all at the same ad-
dress. Twelve owners received identical
payments of $54,390 apiece, and the
other three each got $54,265. Together,
the owners shared a total of $815,000.
In South Carolina, four members of
one family ph:s two family corporations
divided up payments of 1;310,000 six ways.
Four coowners of a Texas farm split up
a total of $295,000. In Alabama. three
members of a family and a family cor-
poration collected almost S160.000.
The next time you are pushing a gro-
cery basket., trying to balance the family
budget with the outrageous price of food,
think, about why food prices are so high.
One reason is the wasteful faun sub-
sidy program. It pays farmers not to
grow some crops, and for other crops it
underwrites an expensive system of price
supports and supplements.
I got a laugh out of some of the naives
of farms that received large payments.
The "]lard Scramble Plantation" and
'SShoesti inf!, Inc." are two that stand out.
They collected payments of $52,000 and
$27,000 last year.
With subsidies like these when food
prices are so hi^h, it is not the farmer
who Is scrambling on a shoestring-it is Gen. Robert F. Cushman, Jr., the Marine
the consumer. 4/Corp:; commandant who in 1971 was Deputy
Director of Central Intclli:;ence, authorized
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CONGhESS MUST INVESTIGATE TIlE aerial and research In the burglary of that
CIA office.
(Mr. KOCII asked and was given per-
mlesion to -ddress the House for 1
minute, and to revise and extend his
remarks.
Mr. KOCII. M.ir. Speaker, when I first
Came to the C'onr:ress in January 1::60,
I received ilivitatioas from nutny Gov-
ernment af:cur ics to v,sit their offices and
see hots Ito'y worked. E:1 1'01 V I accepted
Illany of then] and one with particular
iuicre.st, the CIA. Along 'aith 1C other
freshmen C' m ;re sou n, I went to tho
CIA hcadqu:u'tcrs in McLean, Va., for
breakfast.. There the then Director Iti-
I recall that story now because of re-
cent events involving the CIA.
I called the attention of this House
last February 6 to the fact that the CIA
in violation of the 1947 act which created
it, was giving special training to local
law enforcement ofcers, including 14
officers from the police department of
the city of New York. It was revealed
that at least 12 local law enforcement
agencies throughout the country had re-
ceived CIA training in the last 2 years.
I asked our colleague, Chairman CIIET
HoLn 'I#LD, to investi rate the matter. Ile
took it up with the CIA and advised the
House on March 5 that as a result of his
discussions with the new Director, James
R. Schlesinger, he had received assur-
ances that such activities would be un-
dertaken in the future only in the most
compelling circumstances and with the
Director's personal approval.
Within the last week we have been
alerted through the diligence of newspa-
per reporters, and not, I and sorry to say
throu h the cliorts of Members of Con-
gre: s, that the CIA was linked to the
burglary of the orrice of Dr. Daniel Ells-
berg's former psychiatrist. It is reported
The National Security Act of 1947
provides that the CIA :Hall have no po-
lice, subpena, law enforcement powers,
and internal security functions. The CIA
11as violated that law in at lea st tic-se tv: o
cases. I suspect these two are the tiniest
tip of the icchcrg. I have asked Chairman
Iior.1FFir:I.1, to-.lay by letter to undertake
an extensive review of the CIA activities,
and not sinip'y rely on the assn auICes of
the Director of the CIA that this particu-
I.m. l:girl of viu]atiotl v. 111 not be repealed.
NV C In list :1;:C'f`rt alit I lo\'. lilaihy ill Li vities
of this kind about, which we have 110
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knowledge at all, have taken place since
1947.
I recognize the need to maintain the
legitimate confidentiality of CIA opera-
tions. But there is a balance to be main-
tained and the Congress has a responsi-
bility to be sure that an agency does not
violate the law which created it. If Con-
gress is duped once by an agency, then
the Congress can say it made a mistake.
But if Congress is duped twice and does
nothing, then it is no longer duped; it
becomes a conspirator in the violation of
the law. These violations of law are al-
ways couched in the pretext that na-
tional security interests are being pro-
tected. I trust this response will no longer
SEX DISCRIMINATION BY THE AIR
FORCE
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a
previous order of the House, the gentle-
man from California (Mr. BELL) is rec-
ognized for 10 minutes.
Mr. BELL. Mr. Speaker, blatant sex
discrimination persists in the U.S.
Air Force, despte recent attempts
at reform to bring the armed services
into line with the Constitution.
That such repugnant unequal treat-
ment of our men and women in uniform
still exists was forcibly brought to my at-
tention recently by the case of 1st Lt.
Regina Flcissner, a constituent of mine.
I am today introducing legislation to
correct part of the problemn, but since It
is the discriminatory application of exist-
ing law 'which has afflicted Lieutenant
Fleissner, I ask the help of all my col-
leagues in persuading the Air Force to
abandon Its archaic and regressive im-
plementation of the law of the United
States.
Lieutenant Fleissner is currently being
denied BAQ, and may be subject to reim-
bursement claims for the costs of trans-
portation, housing, and medical care,
otherwise freely given, because of the
mistaken application by the Air Force of
the law which defines the dependency
status of her adopted daughter. It is im-
portant to remember in the following
recitation of Lieutenant Fleissner's case
that none of her present problems would
have occurred if she were male.
In 1971, while stationed at Grand
Forks, N. Dak., Lieutenant Fleissner, as a
single parent, adopted an I3--nnonth-old
child of Sioux Indian descent. Shortly
after the adoption procedure v.as coin-
pletcd, except for the final decree, Lieu-
tenant Fleissner married a sevfeo ant who
is also in the Air Force and who ::hort]y
after their marriage began a tour of duty
at CCK Air Force Base, Taiv:a.n. In the
meantime, Lieutenant Flcisaner anplied
for and was granted a "Joint Spouse
Tour" and application was made for au-
thorization for travel allowance for Her-
self and her dependent, and al:iluacitt of
household roods. I,icuten:uit F)e]ssner
and her dan;:iiter joined Sert.cani. F'leiss-
ner on December 6, 1972, in Taiwan
when! they presently reside.
During the latter part of llecerl!ber,
the I.7cissnt?!:s were advised that a c!ues-
tion had arisen regarding the clif'ibility
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