JOHNSON MAY BE CALLED ON IN CIA CLASH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700140012-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 17, 2006
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: June 2, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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WASHINGTON S.
JUN 2 1966
By tim AeeocSeled, Prnm
President Johnson' may be'
asked to step in as the ultimate,
1peacemaker to head off a Sen-,
,ate clash over the Central In-
telligence Agency, sources said
today.
Johnson may be- asked by an
emissary - probably Senate
Democratic leader Mike Mans-
field-to direct the agency to
accede to the Foreign Relations
Committee's desire to get full
reports on -CIA activities, the
sources said. .
This, they said, is one of the
compromises being discussed-
but not yet approved-in effort
to keep the dispute over Senate
supervision of the agency from
erupting, on the Senate floor.?
Mansfield got both sides yes-
terday ,to agree to put off. a
showdown on the Foreign Rela?
tions , Comiittee's; -resolution'
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that would revamp the' present;
CIA watchdog committee.
Sen. Richard - B. Russell, D
Ga., who heads the CIA panel.
made up of seven senior mem?,
bers of the Armed Services and
Appropriations committees, has..
denounced 1 he Foreign Relay:
tions group's bid-'as an effort;;
to
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