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Mike Mansfield member_of
Senate Select Committee documented
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“Last January when the Senate Select Committee was created Senator Mansfield and Senator Scott asked that the Central Intelligence Agency not destroy any material that would relate to the committee's investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.190
Mike Mansfield proposed
Joint Congressional Committee on Intelligence documented
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“Creation of the Board was also intended to preempt a move in Congress at the time led by Senator Mike Mansfield to establish a Joint Congressional Committee on Intelligence…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.71
Mike Mansfield proposed
United States Congress documented
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“In 1955 Senator Mike Mansfield introduced a Resolution for a Joint Oversight Committee…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.58
Hoover Commission proposed
Mike Mansfield documented
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“It was on the basis of the Commission's recommendation that Senator Mansfield introduced his resolution on January 14 1955…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.59
Mike Mansfield met_with
Benjamin Gilman documented
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“An exchange between Mansfield and Saltonstall during the floor debate is indicative of the pespective existing in the Senate at the time…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.59
Mike Mansfield proposed
United States Congress documented
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“when Senator Mansfield and I introduced the legislation which has resulted in this investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.34
Mike Mansfield met_with
CIA documented
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“Senator Mansfield the majority leader and Senator Scott the minority leader advised the CIA and other agencies that we will be investigating not to destroy anything for obvious reasons…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.137
Mike Mansfield worked_for
Select Committee documented
document
“Last January when the Select Committee was created Senator Mansfield and Senator Scott asked that the Central IntelligenceAgency not destroy any material that would relate to the Committee'sinvestigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents · p.162
Mike Mansfield member_of
United States documented
“Soon there was a score of bills before the Congress proposing to regulate the intelligence community, including one submitted by Senator Mike Mansfield from Montana with no less than 34 co-sponsors. Though he initially requested the Hoover …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 6:13
Mike Mansfield member_of
United States Congress documented
“B-52 bombers took place on the night of February 17th and 18th. More followed, yet Vang Pao relinquished his last position on the plane of jars. Strikes by the B-52 were enough in Kissinger's mind, quote, to trigger the domestic outcry, unq…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31A @ 54:33
Mike Mansfield exposed
CIA documented
“The push for an additional CETO, which is that treaty organization, and U.S. troops in Laos is now clear from released documents. Senator Mansfield asked the Senate on September 7th whether the president and secretary of state Harder still …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Drugs, Oil and War Part 10 @ 35:04
Lyndon B. Johnson opposed
Mike Mansfield documented
“The McCarthy bill posed a challenge to the existing minimal legislative oversight, and now Mike Mansfield was the majority leader in the Senate. Lyndon B. Johnson, as majority leader in 1956, had helped oppose Mansfield's original bill, but…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 12:13
Dwight D. Eisenhower opposed
Mike Mansfield documented
“Soon there was a score of bills before the Congress proposing to regulate the intelligence community, including one submitted by Senator Mike Mansfield from Montana with no less than 34 co-sponsors. Though he initially requested the Hoover …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 6:13
Mike Mansfield proposed
U.S. Congress documented
“a congressional joint committee on intelligence, similar to the joint panel that exercised oversight over the atomic energy program. Soon there was a score of bills before the Congress proposing to regulate the intelligence community, inclu…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 @ 4:52
Lyndon B. Johnson opposed
Mike Mansfield documented
“calling for an investigation of the CIA by a panel of the Foreign Relations Committee. The bill was approved by the committee and went to the floor. The McCarthy bill posed a challenge to the existing minimal legislative oversight, and now …”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 @ 10:53
Mentions (15)
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The push for an additional CETO, which is that treaty organization, and U.S. troops in Laos is now clear from released documents. Senator Mansfield asked the Senate on September 7th whether the president and secretary of state Harder still …
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Senators Eugene McCarthy and Frank Church, among the Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, depored the escalation. By February 25th, Symington, with Mansfield and Senators Charles Mathias, Albert Gore, John Sherman Copper, and Charles Perc…
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Soon there was a score of bills before the Congress proposing to regulate the intelligence community, including one submitted by Senator Mike Mansfield from Montana with no less than 34 co-sponsors. Though he initially requested the Hoover …
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Previously, such approvals had been made only on an ad hoc basis by individual congressmen and senators. The Mansfield bill was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 59 to 27. 14 of the senator co-sponsors turned against him on the floor, as …
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The McCarthy bill posed a challenge to the existing minimal legislative oversight, and now Mike Mansfield was the majority leader in the Senate. Lyndon B. Johnson, as majority leader in 1956, had helped oppose Mansfield's original bill, but…
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up the strong opposition of William Rayburn, who by that time was the director of Central Intelligence. And on June 1966, Mansfield met with other principals to seek a compromise. The president, in turn, met with Mansfield and the Senate mi…
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was given advice from the White House and basically was having communications with Bill Moyers, the same Bill Moyers that ends up being a journalist. The strategy was worked out in meetings and phone calls between McPherson and Senator Russ…
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Soon there were a score of bills before Congress proposing to regulate intelligence, including one by Democrat Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, with no fewer than 34 co-sponsors. Although Ike had requested the Hoover Commission report, he…
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There were also supporting supervision by existing secret subcommittees of armed forces panels in both the houses of the Congress. The subcommittees gave form to these arrangements. The Senate defeated the Mansfield bill with a vote of 59 t…
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I would venture to say they were all bought off. For years, bills similar to Mansfield was introduced at every session of Congress, but none of them ever passed. Despite the more formal structure, this could not be called oversight. Intelli…
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mind, quote, to trigger the domestic outcry, unquote. Senators Eugene McCarthy and Frank Church, along with the Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, deplored the escalation. By February 25th, Symington, with Mansfield and Charles Mattias,…
▶ 16:37
Both argued that oversight had become necessary. Blackstock viewed controls as helping legitimate intelligence, part of a process to counteract the dangers of blowback from these activities. Congress had its own concerns, and some of its me…
▶ 17:09
McCarthy introduced legislation for several years running. His best chance came in 66 on the heels of the time series. Mike Mansfield, the Senate majority leader, summoned top legislatures to discuss the bill in that late May. The legislati…
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And the CIA remains strongly opposed to the oversight, of course. They don't mind the civilian board because they actually work for those people. President Johnson's national security advisor told him of the impasse in early June. Mansfield…
▶ 18:39
Wasn't Johnson just in the Senate? Yeah, but he doesn't want the Senate to know what the CIA is doing. Mansfield developed a further compromise that added a couple members of the Foreign Relations Committee to existing CIA subcommittees. Si…