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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
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
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
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
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…