HANDS OFF CIA, SAYS RUSSELL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700140038-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2006
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: May 16, 1966
• Content Type: NOTES

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Chairman Richard B. Russell.
MAY '16 1966
pecking under the cloak, of the
'Central Intelligence Agency.,.
q The Georgia Democrat's
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"into the-handful of congressmen'.
who oversee the CIA's.;
clandestine operations.
Sen., Russell cited the "rules `
.:,,.. ;pvututy out nrmty rejecting the
,move to broaden congressional
ti CIA watching in a letter to Sen:
F Sen. ' Fulbright, chairman of.
the Foreign Relations Commit'
tee, has expressed, concern over
CIA involvement 'in U.S: foreign
policy.' One of his' group's.
committee men, Sen.- Eugene4.'++
McCarthy (D., Minn.) sponsored
the resolution, ' to . enlarge the;
number of mnrt?overseeing CIA,
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