CIA TO SHARE OPERATIONS DATA WITH FOREIGN AFFAIRS PANEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP09T00207R001000020017-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: October 1, 1974
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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-By Laurence Stern counterpart, an Armed. Scrv- would be told before rather
Washington PostStn..'f writer ices subcommittee chaired byll than rfter."
eecratary of State Henry A. Sen. John Stennis (D i11i: s.) The Michigan Democrat,
Kissing:er and Central Intelli- The agreement was greeted who has said that he person-
gence Director Wiliam L. with a note of skeptical appre- ally disapproves of the Chi-
Colby have concurred in an elation by Rep. Michael Har- lean operations, said the un-
unpr' cedented agreement to rington (D-Mass.), the man derstanding with Colby and
share CIA secrets on covert who touched off the recent Kissinger covers decisions of
political operations abroad Chile controversy with his let- the "Committee of Forty" of
,with members of the House ters demanding further con- the National Security Council.
Foreign Affairs Committee. gressional inquiry into U.S. co- Until last year the existence
At a closed meeting on Cap!- vert activities against the late of the "Forty Committee" was
;col Hill last Friday the two of- Salvador Allende in Chile.. virtually unknown on Capitol
ficials also affirmed that no "It's a positive, though be. Hill even among the members
.covert operations comparablellated, start," said Harrington of the CIA oversight commit-
hose targeted against the who is petitioning along with tees.
,Allende government in Chile f Reps. Benjamin J. Rosenthal
_____ ,,,.,'U, ....,,, n...,eia .E7 V4.0.11 Nedzi's subcommittee
n the world.
v The assurances stopped
t1short, however, of a guarantee
`by Kissinger and Colby that
the agency would not engage
ti"n future operations against
'Incumbent governments or
-ther political targets.
Until now the CIA has
briefed only a subcommittee
"bf the House Armed Services
;Committee now headed by
step. Lucien Nedzi (D-Mich.)
-on secret political operations
hearings on the U.S. role in
Allende's election, and subse-
quent downfall.
Nedzi, a prime mover in
working out the new agree-
ment, said Kissinger and
Colby had also provided assur-
ances that the congressional
subcommittees would be
briefed on any pending covert
activities before they were un-
dertaken. "Nobody said we're
going to give you veto power,"
Nedzi commented "But my
also provided the Senate liunderstanding is that we,
learned for the first time of
the scope of U.S.-financed anti-
Allende activities-some $11
million worth-last April 22.
The covert programs were in
effect in 1964 and again from
1969 to 1973, according to a
summary of Colby's testimony
before Nedzi cimpiled'by Ha -.J
rington from he secret t, ar
script.
The new greemr.ent v.ir
hinted at in a Announetanent
yesterday by house T'or i
Affairs Committee Chaino +n
Thomas E. +brgan (D Pat.)
that his cone ttee would re- I
ceive information about over-1
seas activities of the United
States "which affect our for-i
eign policy an United States
relations with foreign coun-
tries - includ ng covert activ-
ities."
It was unclear whether a
corresponding a -rangement is
being conside 4 in the Sen-
ate, where ipf smation on co-
vert action is restricted now to
the Senate Imed Services ,
Committee.
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