Archive Report
Archive Report
Reorganization of Intelligence Operations
Hearings on Plan for Supervision of C.I.A.
A Review in public of the functions and performance of the highly secret Central Intelligence Agency is likely to provoke intense controversy at the approaching session of Congress. Soon after Congress convenes, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is expected to set a date for opening hearings on a joint resolution introduced by Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D Minn.) last April 27, ten days after the abortive Cuban invasion.1 The resolution provides for creation of a Joint Committee of the House and Senate on Foreign Intelligence and Information. The committee, in the words of McCarthy, would “establish some kind of continuing supervision over foreign policy activities and foreign intelligence and information programs by the U.S. government.”
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