Hughes-Ryan Amendment event
also: Hughes-Ryan Act
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Church Committee proposed
Hughes-Ryan Amendment documented
document
“The Hughes-Ryan amendment to the 1974 Foreign Assistance Act restricts the 'CIA from undertaking 'operations in foreign countries…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.167
Hughes-Ryan Amendment linked_to
Foreign Assistance Act documented
document
“The Hughes-Ryan amendment to the 1974 Foreign Assistance Act restricts the 'CIA from undertaking 'operations in foreign countries…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.167
Harold Hughes founded
Hughes-Ryan Amendment documented
“it introduced before 1974 had ever passed. Now, however, bad feelings predominated the Congress. In an amendment to the foreign aid bill that year, Democrat Senator Harold Hughes of Iowa and Democrat Congressman Leo Ryan of California succe…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 35:09
Leo Ryan founded
Hughes-Ryan Amendment documented
“it introduced before 1974 had ever passed. Now, however, bad feelings predominated the Congress. In an amendment to the foreign aid bill that year, Democrat Senator Harold Hughes of Iowa and Democrat Congressman Leo Ryan of California succe…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 35:09
Leo Ryan proposed
Hughes-Ryan Amendment documented
“successfully sponsored legislation to require reporting of significant covert operations to relevant committees in Congress, which is why they hated him. In practice, this worked out to eight committees and 163 members and their senior staf…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 cont @ 42:42
Harold Hughes proposed
Hughes-Ryan Amendment documented
“successfully sponsored legislation to require reporting of significant covert operations to relevant committees in Congress, which is why they hated him. In practice, this worked out to eight committees and 163 members and their senior staf…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 cont @ 42:42
Harold Hughes founded
Hughes-Ryan Amendment host_asserted
“successfully sponsored legislation to require reporting of significant covert operations to relevant committees in Congress, which is why they hated him. In practice, this worked out to eight committees and 163 members and their senior staf…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 43:07
Leo Ryan founded
Hughes-Ryan Amendment host_asserted
“successfully sponsored legislation to require reporting of significant covert operations to relevant committees in Congress, which is why they hated him. In practice, this worked out to eight committees and 163 members and their senior staf…”
▶ The Colonels Corner_ Presidents’ Secret Wars chapter 16 continued @ 43:07
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successfully sponsored legislation to require reporting of significant covert operations to relevant committees in Congress, which is why they hated him. In practice, this worked out to eight committees and 163 members and their senior staf…
▶ 52:12
These events of the year of intelligence touched off a struggle to regulate the intelligence agencies, and it has ebbed and flowed ever since. Quote, unquote, oversight is the name of the game, a game that the executive branch basically tri…
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Paradoxically, by setting down reporting requirements for covert operations, the huge Ryan Amendment could be construed to have authorized them in the name of Congress. Much of 1976 passed while Congress set up the machinery for the intelli…
▶ 35:09
it introduced before 1974 had ever passed. Now, however, bad feelings predominated the Congress. In an amendment to the foreign aid bill that year, Democrat Senator Harold Hughes of Iowa and Democrat Congressman Leo Ryan of California succe…
▶ 35:38
in Congress. In practice, this worked out to eight committees with more than 160 members plus senior staff. Commenting on the Hughes-Ryan amendment, President Ford focused on the dangers of leaks rather than the advantage of oversight. Then…