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...Sealed Envelopes. A few members of Congress have protested vigorously against the spreading cloak of governmental secrecy, notably Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, who is concerned about national security affairs, and Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina, who regards the proliferation of domestic intelligence activities as a serious threat to individual civil rights. It should be added, though, that the House and Senate are often less than candid about their own operations. The requirement that politicians report their campaign spending, for example, is honored more in the breach than the observance, since only a tiny fraction of funds actually...
...Army investigated these men during their campaigns for office and while they were in office," said Ervin...
Army intelligence agents have spied on Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson IH, former Gov. Otto Kerner and about 800 other civilians in Illinois alone, Sen, Sam J. Ervin Jr. said yesterday in Washington...
...Ervin, a North Carolina Democrat who heads the Senate subcommittee on constitutional rights, said his information was supplied by a former Army agent who was assigned to political surveillance in Illinois...
Aside from Stevenson and Kerner, Ervin said, the Illinois target list of the 113th Military Intelligence Group-with jurisdiction over the Midwest-included Democratic Rep. Abner Mikva and a host of state and local officials, political contributors, newspaper reporters, lawyers and church figures...