REPS. KELLY AND ST. GEORGE. DISCUSS U.S. INTELLIGENCE

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 27, 2004
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• Publication Date: March 14, 1969
• Content Type: TRANS

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KFP`3. }(YZ,LY AND ST. GEORGE DISC`~5.; 1`?`.;; 'r'",:i.l.l
Congresgional Closeup at 1:00 p.:r, over 'r.CBS?-TV
Guests: Representative Kati:erine St. George, ttepublican, of New
'fork; Edna F. Kelly, Democrat of Newyork.
Moderators Stuart Novins.
THE TELEVISION SCREEN SHOW:D
?NOVINS AND HIS GUESTS SEATED IN THE
STUDIO.
NOVINS: "Well, Mrs. Kelly, let's take the whole subject of these alliances
that we have, NATO and SEATO, and -- and the Baghdad Pact, which we're not
really a member of but for all practical purposes are involved in. In. the Middle
Fast, for example, we have seen the situation in Iraq develop where a Communist --
supported government has now come into power in.Iraq. King Hussein of Jordan is
on his way to this country will be here this month, presumably to ask for more
financial aid. We've been told that the United States has probably spent more
money per capita in Jordan than in any other country in the world. And-yet we
have an artificial situation there. Is this something we can continue to do
indefinitely? What is our policy? You're on the Foreign Affairs Committee --
what should we be doing in the Middle East? Why are caught short?
KELLY: "Well, I'd hate to say we're cut short at this point, but I do fail
that -- the -- that there has been a failure of intelligence both in the Middle
Fast, the Far East, Latin America, on (SIC) many instances. That is why I have
al.rmays hoped that we would have -- a -- a corm ttee established in Congress
,. :ere we could .review and evaluate the int.ei::.:ence that comes from these
.L_ f f erent sections of the world, so that we s ^ould have a better insight.. Because
1)n in no country did we have --- sl rnoj,;.: 'tc: be the friend 1.y relat ons as
wr. had in Iraq, and look at the situation toja?:. And you can follow that up in
all of the Middle East, the Far East and Latin America."
NOVINS: "You -- you feel we were catvht h^ surprise there?"
KELLY: "I think definitely we were caught by surprise."
?NS: " And we were caught by surer isn i1; Cuba, would you say?"
0'L','( Yes, definitely."
';a : "And in the Suez?"
~?.'..' ""Ir. the Suez. You can ro bac tt~ _y~,~, and I just am ,,oin? to take
h_s date because that was the date that, t- N Kreril in sent the arms to
'.'id : e Fast, and I think that was the :,e Of ',ne downfall of the present
1.rt.icn. I think Mrs. `fit. leorge wi11 C: a,?rce wwt. no on. that. T_'m
t; iamni ng this on any -- the Administration or anytcir ;, but someth i no has
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