REP. MILLS DOOMS WIDER TRADING WITH THE REDS

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THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1966.
CHECK REIN
GAINS IN SENATE
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tai % now the majority leader,
? .bro *ht a resolution for a joint
penre-House oversight corn-
matte to the Senate floor with
34 Tisponsors. Ultimately, the
restOution was beaten, 59 to 27,
wltJ14 of the sponsors aban-
do g it on the roll-call. ,
e likely prospect is that the
McIthrthy resolution also will
facty a hard fight on the floor,
wit defenders of the present
"w hdog" system expected to
prevail.
'rap Senate now has two in-
forittal subcommittees, one of
thers;Armed Forces Committee
andQinother of the Appropria-
tions Comm ttee, that meet to.
getnr to review C.I.A activi-
ties17,,,, Senator Richard B. Rus-
selriDemocrat of Georgia, is the
sen member of the nine-man
'w hdog" group, which em-
ploy no staff.
SjJeral weeks ago, Senator
J. N. Fulbright of Arkansas,
chaiTman of the Foreign Rela.
tioi9 Committee, proposed that
thr members of his committee
be .padded to the watchdog
gro
the
Senator Russell rejected
oposal, in a letter not yet
ma public.
McCarthy resolution went
bey ed the Fulbright porposal.
effect, it would replace
the conformal watchdog group
witiDa nine-man standing com-
mit , with three members
eac frem the Armed F7rces,
Apgrppriations and Foreign Re-
latinis committees.
, ?
111 ^f
known here as the "intelligence
community?' Inaddition to thel
C.I.A., that woOld include thel
Defense Intelligence Agency,1
the Bureau of Intelligence and'
Research of the State Depart-
ment, and other Governmen
I.
Rep. Mills Dooms Wider Trading With the Reds
Will Not Offer `at This Time
Bill Johnson Wanted
Special to The New York Times
WASHINGTON, May 12 ?
The Administration's proposal
to liberalize trade with Com-
munist nations of Eastern Eu-
rope was dealt an unexpectedly
swift and fatal blow in Con-
gress today by Representative
Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of
the House Ways and Means
Committee.
The influential Arkansas
Democrat announced that he
would not introduce the legisla-
tion, submitted yesterday by
the State Department on behalf
of the White House, Further-
more, Mr. Mills ruled out any
committee hearings on the leg-
islation this year.
"I want to make my position
clear," he told 'reporters. "I am
not for it."
He later added the qualifica-
tion that he was no't for the
legislation "at this time."
Mr. Mills's negative stand on
the proposed legislation came as
a distinct disappointment to the
Administration.
The Administration had no
hopes that the legislation would
be passed at this session of
ilbur D. Mills
Congress. But it had hoped for
extensive hearings and discus-
sion as part of an educational
process designed to overcome
the opposition and lead the way
to passage of the legislation
next year.
The legislation, long under
consideration by the Adminis-
tration, would give the Presi-
dent discretionary authority to
House Leader Opposes Lower
Tariffs for Eastern Bloc
lower tariffs to the Soviet Union
and Communist countries in
Eastern Europe?with the ex-
ception of East Germany?by
granting them "most favored
nation" tariff treatment.
In submitting the legislation
yesterday, Secretary of State
Dean Rusk said the authority
would give the United States
an important political tool in
Eastern Europe.
From the %start the Adminis-
tration realized that because of
the war in Vietnam the political
climate on Capitol Hill was
hostile to any move toward in-
creasing peaceful trade with the
Communist bloc.
It was largely for this reason
that the White House hesitated
for weeks in submitting the
legislation, first promised by
President Johnson in his State
of the Union Message.
The Administration, however,
apparently underestimated the
extent of the political opposi-
tion. Illustrative of the adverse
political reaction was the fact
that it was still uncertain rhich
Representative was going to
introduce the bill for the Ad-
ministration.
agencies dealing in foreign in-
telligence or counter-intelligence.
The Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation would be included,
too, to the extent that it deals
7-ith 1nt2lligmcc natters,
Proponents of the resolution,
long restive at what they con-
,
tna the major significance of
their move would lie in getting
the Senate to approve the estab-
lishment of a formal committee
that would include Foreign
Relations members.
They said that if the resolu-
tion were approved, they would
not necessarily press for the
employment of a staff, which
presumably would also be privy
to the agencies secrets and
claEf..fied
The proponents contend that,
the senior members of the A p-
",_
watchdog group are too pro-
tective and do not sufficiently
inquire into the effect of the
agency's activities on the na-
tion's foreign relations.
Some sources suggested that
if the Foreign Relations Com-
mittee approved the resolution
Tuesday, as it is expected to,
Swnator Russell and the pres-
ent watchdog group mightac-
cept the change in order to avoi
2,,i do4-Jate
its activities and the effficacy
of Congressional control proce-
however, that Mr. Russell would
be able to muster the votes to
defeat the resolution on the
floor. N proposal to broaden
Congressional oversight of the
intelligence agency has been ap-
proved since congress estab-
lished it and the informal wa
tch-
The size of the vote against
tabling the McCarthy resolution
was surprising. It was made pos
sible when Mr. McCarthy cast
proxy votes against tabling for
Senators Gale McGee of Wyom-
ing and Thomas Dodd of Con-
necticut, both Democrats. They
had generally been regarded as
reluctant to change the present
system.
All of those against tabling
were Democrats. Joining Mr.
Lausche and Mr. Symington in
opposition to the MoCarthy res-
olution were Republican Sena-
tors Rourke B. Hickenlooper of
Iowa, Frank Carlson of Kansas,
John Williams of Delaware and
Karl Mundt of South Dakota.
Long a C.I.A.. Critic
Mr. McCarthy, long a critic
of the C.I.A. and of the Russell
Group, offered the resolution as
a substitute for another that
would have provided $150,000
for an investigation of the for-
eign policy effects of C.I.A. ac-
tivities.
Mr. Hickenlooper moved to
table the McCarthy motion, and,
lost. Mr. Lausche then moved,
to send it to the Rules Com-
mittee, which ultimately will,
have to consider it and approve
a budget for the proposed staff.
That motion, in the nature of
a delaying action, was defeated.
Then Mr. Lausche left the
committee room. Mr. Symington
objected to further votes and
the whole matter was put over
until Tuesday.
Senator Fulbright told re-
porters he thought estab-
lishment of the new committee
would &'tend to modify and eve
eliminate" uninformed criticism
ot the C.I.A. and aoid be J a
step toward better relations"
with the agency.
,
aiu
.,11.1.
tabling resolution were Sena-
tors Mansfiedl, Dodd, McGee,
John Sparkman of Alabama,
Albert Gore of Tennessee, Frank
Church of Idaho, Joseph S.1
Clark of Pennsylvania, Clai-
borne Pell of Rhode Island and
Wayne Morse of Oregon, all
Democrats.
Senator Clifford P. Case of
New Jeey, a Republican, ab-
stained from voting on the tabl-
ing motion.
LOCALLY MADE FILlf
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Early this year, a young le-
phone company manage int
trainee was asked to tackle
problem of recruiting applicants
for jobs as telephone operatirs
in Plainview, Tex. His sol on
to the problem may result ff a
new method for attracbing
women to the business. ms(11
Dick Phelps, 26 years Tld,
decided to bypass the usua -
cruiting movies and litera e
used throughout the Southmtst-
ern Bell Telephone Company
system, and started fm
scratch on a local level. is
He wrote and produced a
or filmstrip featuring a Intel
operator, Mrs. Wanda Tyleigs
a typical telephone com y
employe. The film showed s.
Tyler's job, what she did
her income and what she dito
promote good community ra-
tions. Other ideal employes ware
also shown in the film. CO
Entitled "The Hidden Inns-
try," the film was shownto
civic and social groups in Plan
view?groups from which wan-
en ready to go to work mit
immediately come.
Though no figures were 41-
able, telephone company a:fa-
cials said the shortage of o2r-
ators in Plainview is over, Xi,.
termed the filmstrip "extreme-
ly successful." 0
The telephone companygis
ileis-
sible application in other as
of the country.
!ter:- Ce-e"a!
WASHINGTON, May 12
(UPI)?The Pentagon accorded
full military honors and award-
ed the Legion of Merit with de-
gree of commander to Gen.
Giuseppe Aloia, Italian Chief of
Staff.
THE NEW YORK TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1966.
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we "rather dim" but that he
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fai4jred the effort.
fa- IT)r. Lodge apparently silenced
hat rureiprs that he was opposed to
>nal elections, at least for the time
said beieg. Members of both parties
hey agirleed that he supported them
will as broad participation as
nator John J. Williams, Re-
pu 'can of Delaware, said the
assador, in discussing the
el ions scheduled for Septem-
ber, was "very insistent that
they are going ahead as sched-
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Ribicoff Criticizes Ky
WASHINGTON, May 12
(AP)?Senator Abraham A.
Ribicoff said today that if the
military government of Pre-
mier Nguyen Cao Ky super-
vised elections in South Viet-
nam, the outcome would be
contested and perhaps rejected.
And Senator Albert Gore said
he hoped Ambassador Lodge
would return to Saigon with ex-
plicit instructions from the
White House to support free
elections in the warring South-
east Asian nation. Mr. Gore, a
Tennessee Democrat, spoke be-
fore Mr. Lodge testified before
the Foreign Relations Cornmitt
of which Mr. Gore is a mem-
ber.
Senator Ribicoff, Democrat of
Connecticut, urged Senate ap-
proval of his resolution asking
President Johnson to seek su-
pervision of the South Viet-
vietnamese elections by United
Nations observers. "Elections
must take place," Mr. Ribicoff
said. "They must be honest and
free.
"If the Ky government su-
pervises elections, the results
will be contested?and may
well be rejected?by the othr
lements of the Vietnam power
struggle."
At the State Department,
Press Officer Robert J. McClos-
key declined comment directly
on Mr. Ribicoff's proposal.
Arms Talks With Peking Urged
' WASHINGTON, May 12 (AP)
?Three Democratic Senators
urged today that this country
invite Communist China to dis-
cuss nuclear weapons controls
and participate in international
disarmament efforts.
Senator Robert F. Kennedy,
Democrat of New York, told
the Senate that a third nuclear
blast by Red China should
cause United States and other
world nuclear powers to ask an
immediate conference. Senators
Mike Mansfield of Montana and
George S. McGovern of South
Dakota, both Democrats, sup-
ported Mr. Kennedy's com-
ments, calling them wise and
timely.
"Not only the fate of the
United States but that of the
whole world may be at stake,"
Mr. Kennedy said. He added
that United States leaders
should offer publicly to confer
any place and at any time.
BOSTON MAYOR JOINS
RACE FOR SENATE
Special to The New York Times
BOSTON, May 12 ?Mayor
John F. Collins of Boston an-
nounced today his candidacy for
the Senate.
Mr. Collins, a Democrat, pre-
dicted that Republicans would
spend "millions of dollars" in
Massachusetts to test the mettle
of the New Frontier and the
Great Society.
The only Republican in the
field so far is the state Attor-
ney General, Edward W. Brooke.
The seat at stake is that of
Senator Leverett Saltonstall, a
Republican, who will retire this
year.
Mayor Collins, an unofficial
candidate for many months, has
a war chest of some $250,000
from the proceeds of a "friend-
ship" dinner last year. Two
Democratic rivals are former
Gov. Endicott Peabody and
Thomas Boylston Adams, a re-
tired Boston businessman, who
is a direct descendent of two
Presidents.
Mr. Collins said today in a
prepared statement that he was
"supremely confident" of win-
ning the nomination and de-
feating any Republican oppo-
nent in November.
The Mayor, 47 years old,
served eight years in the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, four in the
City Council and filled out an
unexpired term as Register of
Probate for Suffolk County be-
fore winning the first of his two
terms as Mayor in 1959.
Senate Panel Backs Wheeler
WASHINGTON, May 12 (AP)
?The nomination of Gen. Earle
G. Wheeler for another two-
year term as chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff was ap-
proved today by the Senate
Armed Services Committee. Also
approved was the nomination of
Robert Emmett Quinn of Rhode
Island, 72-year-old chief judge
of the United States Court of
Military Appeals, for reappoint-
ment to another 15-year term.
Plans for New Air Museum
Announced in Newfoundland
HARBOR GRACE, Nfld. (Ca-
nadian Press) ? Even before
Newfoundland's first Air Mu-
seum is completed at Gander,
its second has been planned.
A storehouse of historical in-
formation at this Conception
Bay community will replace the
abandoned gas pumps that were
used decades ago for early
transatlantic flights. The
Gander Museum will deal pre-
dominantly with military avia-
tion, although Gander is now an
international civil airport.
A likely site for the planned
Harbor Grace museum is the
134-year-old court house, al-
though a decision on the site
has not been taken. It was here
that sailors and engineers cele-
brated the completion of the
first transatlantic cable a cen-
tury ago.
The military museum at Gan-
der, to be housed in a $32,000
municipal building, is a centen-
nial project. The decision to
build a museum at Harbor Grace
was announced recently by the
Deputy Minister of Provincial
Affairs.
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TO SENATE TODAY
Measure Would Add Three
to Watchdog Committee
were greatly alStUrDeD about
the refusal to answer questions
ena or Russell refused on,about possible use of the Ful-
the ground that he did not have ,bright scholarship program.
the authority to make such an, Senator Fulbright conceived
agreement. I this program in 1945 when he
When Mr. Mansfield likewise
failed to make a dent in Senator
Russell's opposition to any in-
crease in the watchdog com-
mittee, Senator Fulbright wrote
on June 13 to Adm. William F.
Rmborn r,tirerl
,wi. w. No WI 1,1t.11-4 T71-r";
Mr. 1+ ulbrigiat asked Mi. Ea,
WASHINGTON. June 21? born whether he would give
Cora' n t'nnar nc; reroznition t ic'llhorqn rr4+,P?np
of the Foreign Relations Com-
Committee will report to the
mittee and supply it with the
floor tomorrow a bill to add information furnished Mr. Rus-
three of its members to the
.vec.a.1 tcr e tut* Jorx .t.nf s
sell 's group.
committee supervising activities Senator Fulbright recalled that
of the Central Intelligence when Mr. Raborn appeared be-
Agency. fore his committee last Febru-,
With hopes of a compromise ary to discuss the question of
faded, Senator Mike Mansfield, supervision, he declined to an-
the majority leader, said today swer some questions.
that he planned to call the con- In his reply last Wednesday,
troversial bill up for action Mr. ,Raborn said of the Febru-
when the Senate returns from aa-y meeting:
a Fourth of July recess on "The questions to which I
July 11. stated I was unable to respond
r The bill, which was sponsored were questions directed to the
by Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, activities of the agency as tc
Democrat of Minnesota, was ap- 'sources and methods' rathei
proved by the Foreign Rela- than to substantive intelligence
tions Committee on May 17 byinformation."
a vote of 14 to 5. Mr. Raborn made plain that
It would create a Select Sen- the C.I.A. would continue to re.
ate Committee on Intelligence fuse to members of the Foreiefi
Operations composed of nine Relations Committee any infor
members. The Armed Services mation on "sources and
Committee, the Appropriations methods."
Committee and the Foreign Re- Scholarships Cited
lations Committee would each
supply three. It was learned that one of
- the questions on "sources and
Russell Is Chairman methods" Mr. Raborn refused to
E
ver since the C.I.A. was answer was whether the C.I.A.
ever used the Fulbright schol-
created by the National Security
Act of 1947, Senate supervision
has been the province of a group
made up of ranking members
lof the Armed Services Commit-
tee and the Defense subcom-
mittee of the Appropriations
'Committee. To chairman of the
watchdog committee, now num-
bering seven members, is Sena-
contract to the Government by
Michigan State University from
tor Richard B. Russell' 1955 to 1959.
'Democrat of Georgia.
The decision to take the Mc-
Some members, it was said,
arship program as a cover for
its agents.
Mr. Raborn, it was learned,
also declined to answer any
questions about the cover sup-
plied C.I.A. agents by a techni-
cal assistance program in South
Vietnam that was run under
Carthy bill to the floor for a
showdown followed repeated
failures by Senator Mansfield
and Senator J. W. Fulbright,
chairman of the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, to reach a
compromise with Senator Rus-
bell the Administration.
Arguing that his cammitee,
because of its jurisdiction over
foreign affairs, should be rep-
resented on the watchdog com-
mittee, Mr. Fulbright suggested
to Mr. Russell that three For-
lieig,n Relations members be
'introduced a bill to use the lo-
cal currency proceeds from the
sale of United States surplus
property abroad to finance ex-
changes of students, teachers
and artists. The Fulbright Act
. 1015.,
? ?
Al Leil the surplus property
\?,- ,,^11:1, the program was
? -
oeed, irom the sale of surplus
agricultural commodities.
Under the program, 28,998
Americans have studied abroad,
I and 53.372 foreigners have rarne
to the United States.
, The Fulbright program has,
been a source of pride to the
4enator. Consequently, he
spoke with some feeling on May
16 when Senator Milton R.
young, Republican of North
Dakota, who is a member of the
Russell group, suggested that
the Foreign,fFtel.ra,t,ions Commit-
ticyrsM, R hn r, ?af used to
answer, Mr. Fulbright said the
admiral had conceded that he
would answer them if asked by
the Russell committee or by
the Foreign Intelligence Advis-
ory Board.
Mr. Fulbright noted that
eight of the nine members of
the board were not Government
officials. He said:
"While I do not ti r.i.ff
elected rcpresentati-v-es they ate
as much entitled to informa-
tion about this activity as are
these private citizens who come
from the business life of the
nation and also from the ranks
of retired generals or semi-re-
tired generals."
It could not be learned today
whether Mr. Fulbright had tak-
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Senate CIA
Watch Plan
Wins Vote
Hryee Nelson
Wash ngton Post Staff Writer
resolution sponsored by
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-
Minn.), authorizing a Senate
select committee to supervise
the work or the Central Intel-
ligence Agency, won a test
vote in the Foreign Relations
Committee yesterday. The
committee is expected to pass
the resolution next Tuesday.
The proposed group would
be named the Committee on
Intelligence Operations and
also would scrutinize the work
of the Defense Intelligence
Agency, the State Department
Bureau of Intelligence and
other toreign intelligence
agencies of the U.S. Govern-
ment.
It would consist of the six
Senators from the Senate
Armed Services Committee
and Appropriations Commit-
tees who uresently keep
watch on the CIA, as well as
three new members from the
Foreign Relations Committee.
Sen. Richard Russell (D-
Ga.). who runs the existing
CIA watchdog group, already
has refused chairman J. Wil-
liam Fulheight's request to
add to it members of Ful-
bright's Foreign Relations
Committee
Even if the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee gives its en-
dorsement next Tuesday, the
creation of anew CIA commit-
tee must be nproved by the
Senate Rules Committee and
by the whole Senate. Many
conservative Senators oppose
the change
Fulbcigh, n d McCarthy
were suprio.i..4 yesterday by
other Fore tti nelations Com-
mittee m P miler's who thoi n1;
that the ('1 nls further SW
pervision neemign its role in
the implementation of U.S.
foreign policy. Both Fulbright
and McCarthy said that they
believe the CTA itself is not
opposed to the creation of the
Senate select committee.
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0,1.1!iil.cilYst A C.I.A. CHECKREIN
WINS SENATE TEST
tied
ave Plan for an Overseer Group
Gets Tentative Approval of
the
Foreign Relations Panel 3
over,
on's
t,t to By TOM WICKER ti
lent Special to the New York Tkoes t,
?ntil WASHINGTON, May 12?A a
new 124'01)0sal for a new and
ea, broadened Senate committee to ti
on, oversee the Central Intelligence si
.d wry Agency won a surprisingly easy rf
victory today in a test vote in, ei
the Foreign Relations Commit- ist
tee. 01
Opponents of the proposal 1
It'
om-
ruined
laugh-
al, the prevented its final approval!
i! Joint only when BerWor Frank J.
funds Lausche. Democrat of Ohio,
of the walked out of the meeting room
gic air- and left no quorum present.
Iget for Senator Stuart Symington,
httgins Democrat of Missouri, then
now be- exercised a parliamentary right
$n and objected to a vote when
a quorum was not present. d:
develop ir
hies. he Final action was thus post-
nr
ry Har- poned until Tuesday, when the di
sought committee meets again.
'se-arch The test vote was 12 to 6
, ir
vtr, mc.. against tabling, and thus kill-
ts back
ing, a resolution by Senator Eta-
gene J. McCarthy, Democrat of
noent" Minnesota.
The resolution would establish
-ufm13 a formal Senate committee of
nine members, empowered to
employ a staff, to oversee the
nations foreign intelligence op-.
erations.
Its tentative approval by the
Foriegn Relations Committee
was the strongest move toward
strengthened ? Congressional
oversight ,tt the C.I.A. since
1951
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C.I.A.'s Congressional Immunity
Congressional supervision of the Central Intelli-
gence Agency is seriously deficient. The 150 resolu-
tions introduced in Congress on this subject over the
past two decades reflect a persistent concern. Yet
successive Administrations and the C.I.A. itself have
blocked approval of all of these resolutions. The latest
effort to establish more effective controls over this
clandestine infra-government is encountering the same
resistance.
Senator Russell and his "Secret Seven"?a Senate
subcommittee selected. with C.I.A. screening, from
the Armed Services and Appropriations Committees?
have just rejected Senator Fulbright's proposal that
their group be broadened and revitalized by includ-
ing three members of the Foreign Relations Com-
mittee. This mild but useful proposal was designed
to permit closer scrutiny of C.I.A. activities affect-
ing foreign policy without going to the extent of es-
tablishing a powerful new monitoring body compara-
ble to the Joint Committee for Atomic Energy.
Tighter control of the C.I.A. by the Administration,
the first essential, has been imposed since the Bay of
Pigs fiasco. But such control is no substitute for
legislative supervision as part of the system of checks
and balances of our constitutional government. The
latest proof of inadequate control concerns the
propriety of the Administration letting C.I.A. analysts
present official arguments to American readers in the
guise of independent scholarship.
The article on the Vietcong in the current issue of
Foreign Affairs by George A. Carver?whose iden-
tity as a full-time C.I.A. employe was not disclosed
?raises many questions. It is little justification to
argue, as the C.I.A. evidently does, that the article
was written by Mr. Carver in a private capacity and
that the agency merely cleared it for "security." So
fine a line of responsibility cannot be drawn in the
case of an undercover agency.
The C.I.A., along with the United States Informa-
tion Agency, is restricted by its charter to overseas
activity. It has no business to seek to influence or color
domestic opinion. It is one thing for an authorized
? spokesman of the Government openly to present the
evidence for the Administration's contention that the
National Liberation Front of South Vietnam is noth-
ing more than an instrument of North Vietnam's
Communist party. It is quite another thing for a
C.I.A. official to do so, particularly when his identity
is not revealed.
Senator Fulbright is on sound ground in asking
Admiral Raborn to explain the Carver incident. Be-
yond this, it is equally necessary to adopt Senator
McCarthy's resolution calling for a "full and com-
plete" study of the C.I.A. and its effect on foreign
policy by a special subcommittee of the Foreign
Relations Committee. Much more Congressional
review is needed than the occasional private hearings
of the Russell subcommittee
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THE WASH '1GION POST
1\./. 1 )6 ()
Fulbright and the CIA , , By William S. White
What Lola Wants She Sometimes Doesn't Get
The extraordinary ? and
fortunately foredoomed?at-
tempt of the Foreign Rela-
tions Committee to muscle it-
self into a
position 'of
s u pervision
over the
Central In-
t e 11 igence
Agency in-
volves far
more than
some dusty
jurisdictional
putsch. White
It reflects
one of the most subtle and
most troubling realities of
our days. At bottom, it is
another manifestation of a
growing and all but automat-
ic hostility within the Sen-
ate's Democratic left wing
to any and every agency of
Government which repre-
sents actual power and has
the hard duty sometimes to
use it.
The Defense Department,
simply as such, and the gen-
erals and admirals, simply
as such, have long felt the
breath of this curious and
fretful antagonism. The CIA
?which, too, is compelled
in an imperfect world to act
for national interests in
ways not always agreeable
to the understandable but
Irrelevant scruples of aca-
demic types?now joins the
list of the bad fellows.
The new, sophisticated
half-isolationism of the Six-
ties, a creation of these
half-pacifist Senate forces,
is falling more and more
Into the evangelical pattern
of the rustic isolationism of
the Thirties.
In the Thirties, pacifist-
minded liberals like Sen.
Gerald Nye of North Dakota
equated the mere possession
of military strength with
evil and arrogant national
intentions. A resulting at-
tack by Nye and Company
upon the munitions makers
as "merchants of death,"
and similar hot-gospel over-
simplifications in England,
helped enfeeble the Vest
against the clearly rising
challenge of Adolf Hitler.
Our current pacifist-mind-
ed liberals, led by the chair-
man of the Foreign Relations
Committee, Sen. J. W. Ful-
bright of Arkansas, are
unintentionally and with
good motives going down
the same road.
They, too, tend to flinch
from power as a thing nec-
essarily had, in and of itself,
because of the incontestable
truth that power is indeed
sometimes used to bad
ends. So they fear the so-
called military mind, and
now the so-called CIA mind,
with irrational fervor. They
suspect CIA plots that nev-
er were. They see as "mak-
ing foreign policy" a CIA
that never did and never
could.
The simple truth is that
their campaign to Move in
on the existing and long-es-
tablished Senate committee
which lawfully has exclusive
oversight over the CIA has
a single and bizarre justifi-
cation. It is simply what
they want; it is a case of
what Lola wants Lola must
" get.
Though the pretenders
from Foreign Relations nev-
er say as much, their effort
implicitly suggests a dis-
trust in the capacity of th
CIA committee to kcp th
agency in check. Thoug
the CIA committee chat
man, Sen. Richard Rune
of Georgia, would neer sa
as much, the fact if. thi,
Notwithstanding all )f th
liberal anti-power fixatiot
he would not object to ha ,
Ing new members on th
CIA Committee but for
sound fear that it wou:
then begin to spring th
kind of leaks, on nece ;sari;
highly secret and som -timr
unpleasant operations, fo
which Foreign Relati,ms
Self is already so widel
known.
For this reason th
Foreign Relations thru
will never succeed. For tb
reason, and to avoid he F.
rious security breaches th;
a full Senate debate wou,
bring, Russell will _ry
settle this affair without ht
miliating the Fulbrigitt fa.
tion on a roll-call sho vdow
On such a showdown
would never receivi on,
third of the votes if th
Senate as a whole.
The great bulk of th
Senate is entirely sz., tisfie
with the half-dozen "onti'
uous checks already mai,
tamed on the CIA ?fro-
the White House dov
through the National gecul
ty Council, the State D
partment and dozens of .p
fectly reliable and seni, -
members of Congress. T'
simple fact is that :ITA
already supervised about
much as -it could be ar
still perform what is an u
avoidably cloak-and 4agg 4
responsibility.
CD 1966, 'United Features- 5- nfilca-
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THE WASHINGTON POST
Wednesday - I June 1966
Mansfield Calls Parley
On Supervision of CIA
By Bryce Nelson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Senate Majority Leader week that he would introduce
Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) has the McCarthy resolution to-
called a meeting for this morn-
ing in a last-minute effort today.
(D-Ariz.) of the Senate Appro-
work out a compromise in the
struggle over Senate super-I priations Committee, a mem-
vision of the Central ber of the Russell group, has
gence Agency.
advised Appropriations mem-
Called to meet with Mans bers that Russell will move on
field are Foreign Relations a point of order to refer the
Committee Chairman J. Wil-
resolution to his Armed Serv-
liam Fulbright (D-Ark.), Sen. ices Committee. Proponents of
Richard B. Russell (D-Ga),
the McCarthy resolution think chairman of the present CIA such a move would kill it.
watchdog group and Sen. En-
Senate sources indicated
gene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.),
yesterday that a possible corn-
sponsor of the resolution
promise could involve the dition of two senior Foreign
ad-
which would create a Commit- Relations members to the
tee on Intelligence Operations Russell group or an announce-
by adding three Foreign Rela- ment that the CIA was willing
tions members to Russell's to brief the Foreign Relations
group, aFulbright served notice last
Committee on CIA activities.
One of Fulbright's complaints
shout the CIA is that CIA di-
wctor William F. Raborn re-
used to answer questions be-
hire his committee earlier this
ear.
In an interview yesterday,
lansfield said that he hoped
10 work out a compromise"
,cause "you don't win on it
1- you take it to the floor."
ansfielci supports the Mc-
, 'arthy resolution.
-:ven if a compromise is not
worked out by Mansfield to-
Fulbright and McCarthy
Alay decide to defer introduc-
J.,n of their resolution be-
iiise many of its supporters
an- out of town.
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