DEFER VOTE TO KILL INTELLIGENCE PANEL
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December 20, 2004
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Publication Date:
July 10, 1975
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THE HE 1 YORK DAILY N JS _
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Maxwell B..Taylor, former i4lastivell .-Taylor on hand to
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Kennedy and Johnson, Gordon
se adviser: and Associated Press photo
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rules paneLwould vote to do -away;
with= .the squabbling.. intelligence`
panel, which .one:. rules.. member,
Rep. James-H. Quillen (R-Tenn.),
described as a:?;"source of ernbar-
rassment'.' to, ;the=.,whole House.,..
However'. the postponement did
give Speaker Cal -Albert (D-01a.)
time to'try,once more to mediate
-
the dispute between the chairman
'of-7-the, Intelligence -: Committee,
Rep. -Lucien N. Nedzi(D-Mich.),
and".five of its. Democratic 'mem-.
bers.
VThile the House committee ar-
gued;:= . the', Senate-; Intelligence
Committee, which 'has been con-
ducting its own probe-for months,
was - expected to release a report
on : alleged CIA.. assassination
plots within. a month.- Today, the,
co .r,anel heard from- Walt V
Rules Committee,'- considering a resolution do abolish the
stripe-torn -Intellio'ence Committee, heard five hours of !
often conflicting .testimony today, then `decided to post-i
pone a final-vote on the move until tomorrow -1
;There was little .doubt that the
By JOSEPH VOLZ .._ .
W eliinoton'':~July 9 (NTews Bureau) The -Ho'tse,
ador
$uaffand ambas to Saigon.
Some type of new House iutel-
ligenee panel, or an already exist-
ing zcommitteo, may - continue a
less sweeping:. investigation, but
it-is unlikely to delve into alleged
-CIA.` misdeeds.:
hWhat pari:iculrlyeriped some
Roles, Committee. members at- to-
day's,hearing were -alleged- "se-
curity leaks"' from' the House in
telIigence panel::
''Ncthmg to;,Leak"
.,What leaks?.' asked Rep.
Michael J. Harrington (D-Mass.),
one of Nedzi's.-bitterest oppon-
ents.on the, Intelligence Commit-
tee,,:who.: was.testifying in an
effort to keep the,_panel alive.
Harrington. contended -:that the
committee "has nothing to leak
because. little . substantive. mate-
rial..-has been turned over" by
the: CIA. -
`A' few hours earlier, the House
Ethics Committee, which rarely
conducts a n y investigations,
voted to look into charges that
on CIA involvement, in Chile to
reporters last fall.
Washington, July 9 "(News Bu-
reau) -Anthony (Little -:Pussy)
Russo," a Mafioso from, Deal,
N.J,;. has claimed he turned down
efforts by ?the Central. -Intelli-
gence - Agency to, recruit him,
The = News has learned. ,
Russo, once rackets boss. in
the- Monmouth Cornty. -resort
area, ' on the Jersey. shore, was 1
heard by a hidden FBI micro-:t
phone on May- 2-1, .19d5,-as ? hey
talked to fellow mobsters. An
FBI..memo about. that meeting,
made available to The News, de-'
scribed. Russo as -contending that.
he -had been interviewed by menj
who said they were C-IA agents)
and were "bigger Chant-he FBI."
Interpol Invoked -
The ' memo said that "the CIA1
agents told Russo they were,
representing Interpol (an inter-I
national police organization)."l
Russo replied "that he was in
the building, 'drug, and liquor
businesses, and did not want toj'
the Armed Services .Committee, waste his time and refused tol
had leaked classified information talk further with them." ...
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