SECRET DEBATE ON C.I.A.
(N.Z.P.A. Reuter—Copyright)
WASHINGTON, July 15
The Senate held a closed session yesterday to debate the Central Intelligence Agency and then virtually shelved a motion to extend its control over the secret organisation.
It was the first closed session since April 11, 1963, when the Senate discussed funds for an anti-missile system. The last session in secret before that took place during the Second World War.
The main issue in yester-
day’s debate was a bid by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, headed by Senator William Fulbright, to put three of its members on the present seven-member Senate panel which oversees the work of the C.I.A.
The move was vigorously opposed by Senator Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and head of the C.I.A. panel. The Senate debated the matter for three hours and a half and then reopened its doors just before a vote was taken.
The proposal to change the make-up of the C.I.A. panel was passed on to the Armed Services Committee by a vote of 61 to 28—tantamount to side-tracking the resolution.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31113, 16 July 1966, Page 15
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