HOUSE ESTABLISHES SPECIAL PANEL TO PROBE CIA

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• Publication Date: February 20, 1975
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WASFTr GTOIT POST
20 FEB 1975
Louse Estthiishes Special P
By George Lardner Jr. House Republicans, led by Ariz.), are Reps. Robert I%lc-
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WsEhln.gtonPonStatf Writer , Rep.-John B. Anderson (Ill.), Clory (I11.), David C. Tre
House voted yesterday pressed in vain for half of the (La.), and Robert W. Kasten
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seats on the committee as a
to conduct its own investiga? guarantee that allegations of During the House debate,
;tion of
Agency the 'Central Inteln illegal or improper intelli? both Anderson and McClory
genre other and the govern- genre .activities under Demo- complained that the heavily
iother into))?genre agog cratic as well as Republican Democratic makeup of the
cies after after beating down a Re -
administrations would be ex- committee would make the in-
publican bid for a bigger voice plored. quirt' look- like a "partisan ef-
I in the inquiry.
Speaker Carl Albert (D?, The Democratic majority re-
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seven Democrats and three) was rejected by a virtually
Republicans to the select corn- straight party-line rvote of f 26
mittee that will be in charge Ito 141; only six Democratic
of the investigation. representatives joined the Re-
Rep. Lucien N. Nedzi (D- publicans.
pointed to
Mheads a the The committee Democrats a? Nedzi
who already
standing House Armed Serv- are Robert N. Giaimo
ices subcommittee in charge Reps.
of CIA oversight, was named James V. Don rr Edwards (Calif.),
ames V. Stanton (Ohio), , Mi-
chairman. chael J. Harrington (glass.),
The House authorized ere- Ronald V. Dellums (Calif.) and
anon of the. committe,, by a Morgan F. Murphy (Ill.).
vote of 80 to 10. It will have T h e Republicans, who
-a maximum budget of $ 50,?
000.
ity Leader John J. Rhodes (P Lion would be even-handed. Ithorized disclosi:res of ~7uci
th 't h
t
sins of the CIA, the FBI and other agencies under the Ken- stun.
nedy and Johnson admi.nistra- Whhie Anderson'-, proposal
tions. I for heavier GOP repro: enta-
"We want a thorough job )flog in the House inquiry was
defeated, two other amenc-
for Democratic: admi.nistra- ments he offered were ac-
tions as well as Republican," cepted by the Democratic
McClory declared. "We don'tIleadership and approved on
want to have any cover-up of voice vote.
earlier activities . . :' i One limits the House in-.
Giaimo, one of the spokes quiry to a maximum budget
men for the Democratic resolu
tion creating the committee, i. of 000 of 0-ofwith no more than
$100 0,00 that to be spent
denied any intent to use thei'on outside consultants. The
inquiry for "partisan potshots"!;other ealis for tight N.ecurifv
The House committee was
directed. to submit its final
report by next ,tan. 31. The.
Senate committee has a Sept.
1 deadline for its report, but
the panel is still. in the organ-
-atinnnl ctaCP' anri will nrnh-
.... Bu
we In e malorl y aye 1mation' end- gars committee
obligation and a responsi-
Common Cause
Seeks CIA Report
Associated Press
Common Cause, a citi-
zens lobbying group, said
yesterday it has asked
CIA Director William E.
Colby for access to the
report on CIA domestic
surveillance of U.S. citi-
zens that was given Pres-
ident Ford in late 1974.
.Mr. Ford requested the
report from Colby after
published reports of un-
lawful CIA surveillance.
swfz nncmbers from pro#ttmg
bility to lead," Giaimo added. with books, articles or speech-
He said this would be almost es about the investigation.
impossible with a committee
divided down the middle with
five Democrats and five Re-
publicans.
Rep. William M. Brodhead,
(D-Mich.) said that "if the
people wanted this House to be
divided. 50-50 between both
parties, they would have voted
that way" last fall. The House
lineup is 289 Democrats, 1.45
Republicans, one vacancy.
The Senate created its own'
11-member select committee on
Both the House and Senate
inquiries were prompted by
news reports and allegations
of illegal and improper sur-
veillance of American citizens
and other abuses of power,
both by the CIA and the FBI.
As one of those who pressed
for the House investigation,
Harrington had suggested that
the chairmanship ought to go
to a neutral third party rather
than, someone like Nedzi who-
was supposed to be oversee-
intelligence operations eom-:ih-- CIA operations in the
past. The House leadership
,
posed of six democrats and,
five Republicans 'last month I;however, reportedly considers
11edzi a solid congressman and
Sen
anel's chairman
That
.
,
p
Frank Church (D-Idaho),
has indicated that he plans to
meet with Nedzi shortly in
hopes of reaching agreement on
a "division of labors" and
avoiding duplication of effort.
a posible counter-balance to
Sen. Church,
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