CONGRESSMEN KNOCK SHRIVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000200910005-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 6, 2014
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: May 22, 1965
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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'MAY 2 2 1%5
, Allen-Scott Report
LL:'4 Congressmen
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Knock Shrivel-
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T.'we were able to obtain e itr .3- Working telephonn ist.
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formation frcim 0E0. ? . . "In ? the ? fixture, ?I hope' your.;
strongly ? suggest that hi liaison Office will receive . thee
the ititurt, if 'the White House II cooperation it needs from other:.
. should make announcements on I units: Thus making it ' possible'
. other 0E0 activities in our 1-* for ?me to serve the constituent
, state your ? ? liaison ? people 'of myt state An the way ? they de:.
. promptly notify our offices." ':1,' serve." ? ? ?
? In addition to, ?Senator Ander. ' Other Democratic congres4
By. ROBERT ? S. ALLEN I J son, the letter WaS signed by '1'.'sional delegations have served.:
and PAUL SCOTT ? mr. Allen Senator Montoya .and the state's 1,!-:.similar notices on Striver, and
.two ? representatives, , Thomas ? the White House. They frankly
on a single appointment -Necit'
WASHINGTON Sargent I
Mexico. His organization is ter
shrive r, the President's . conri
rible land his aides apparently
'pander ? in -? chief in the war
made all the appointments. He
against poverty, appears caught,
, can't run the 'Peace *Corps and
the eye of a growing political
the poverty ? program at the
;storm in Congress. ? ,
same time and expect to do a
?.. Encounageti by Shriver 's back-,
I half decent job with either or
Mown to Representative Adam ; g,anization."
:Clayton Powell's demands for a i
To underscore . his cornplaint;
:bigger voice in New ?? York's,
,,Anderson had all members of
:anti poverty ?? program, an
? n ; the New Mexico delegation sign
'creasing number of congression*1 a letter to Shriver, with copies
I, al delegations 'are' lambasting! to' the White House, stating:
Shrive'. for failing to con, suit i
"We are .distut*bed . that we'
?s, them on projects for their welt ? not notified Of tile:, Office
'.states. 6 Lot , Economic Opportunity's: air
' The. lawmakers . are 'keeping; proval .of Clamp ? lAma in San'
(the wires and mall to the White :.Miguel County as a' job corps
:House and Shriver, sizzling with conservation' camp.
!complaints 'that they ire. being. "We can. well appreciate the
'bypassed on local projects and: president's desire to announce
? job appointments. ? ? I '
. , . . , A new series of conservation
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t Illustrative ? is the . protest 1 ramps at his press conference
rlod ed with President Johnson ! We have no quarrel with that.
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. and Shriver by the entire New 'Following the press conference,
I
: Mexico , delegation, headed ' by ? our office received inquiries as
1 Senators Clinton Anderson and, to which facilities had been an.
%Joseph Montoya, D. , ? . I proved for New, Mexico. We had
; Senator Anderson, a , former I no information on which to base,:
Cabinet, member and one of the !replies.; , ,
; Poesident's original political ' !fEarlier, one of our offices-,
supporters, notified the:, White (Anderson's) inquired of ,the Ofr
House, "If Sarge .Shriver hasn't (Ice of Economic Opportunity
any more control over, this pro' to the status 0 C.:ainP Luna; `*
gram other ? states than he; there was no indication that ac-r,
has in New Mexico, it's a ? (ion Was 'imminent: . It% was not,
'mess." f. .1 " ? ' ,; runtil an- hour and a half after:
t , 'sardonically.. :r is.ited,..i,the press conferendei and ? ,iitteti:,
ffShriver neviir.needed ?nivi .help I, it good .deal*.of telephoning-, that.,
Morris and E. S. 'Johnny Walk,t,,Warned that 'if the administra-t,
, 13, . . . lion expects their help in voting!
The le,;islators were less ditrd.. larger amounts for these pro-,
lomatic In their telephone calls. Igrams. they must be given
They made it clear to . aides of-.1* "voice" in the projects and.
' the President ' that they wanted within, their states. ? ? ,)
to be consulted in advance onxf... Use of the anti-poverty .
- gram's Job Corps ? as a "disar ?
, poverty projects in their state, ..
. and all major, appointments ter brigade" in flood and storm-I
1 cleared through their offices. ? ?? strickeii areas hasn't worked':
out as hoped for by Johnson tidI
l'? Senator Carl Hayden, DAriz,,
!, -chairman of ? the powerful Ap , ministration officials. ? ' ?? ? ?
propriations Committee*: ' Many Job Corps recruits..
Soured on the government's pro"
i? has let &river know lie urr
happy about the way . the pro- )gram,.' .packed up' and %vent 1
a's
' ..gram :is being handled' . hmn
* in his s ,1?.: home t last
, Januaryafter bc-weetenk d n.rgesbignru-4 ....
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'state. ... ? ,
in the ? flood.ravaged areas.;
,,. ' ? prbbln -I have Is ..arV .
. eliciting the most ? . elementary .-.,. of Oregon and northern Cantor 1 .
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I information from the Office of ; 1 .111a.
Director Sargent . Shriver: re'l
1 ILConoinic Opportunity about '1 '
.,:' ports.' that ' Oregon's Governcq..,..1
projects In' ? my state,", wrote
. Hayden. "my 'staff has - repeat. ..Mark ?Hatfield was. enthu'slastic:.;
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? edly' found it :. diffiCUlt, ; 'if not about the Job' Cops' help,, but
. Impossible, to carry, out my re. ;::. the boys were. net, They .0onr,
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. quests for Various?-:?'Status Iit. fil ?Plained. ,... they 0 %?dicinsf, . loin: the"; .
\ports ' on ' aPplicants,:: linformation? ? ?3rPC2 t.O.,:ii!Pg :ditche4;ind , buil
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