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Wisconsin Republican Robert Kasten could take no more. Before his colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee last week, he angrily addressed Chairman Otis Pike, a Democrat from New York. "Do something," he demanded, to stanch the leaks that were discrediting the committee with its friends in Congress as well as its foes in the Administration. With an irate glare, Pike shot back: "What do you recommend? Lie detector tests? I do not know where the leaks have come from...
...Pike's testy confession of helplessness only served to intensify the growing backlash in Congress against his committee's six-month investigation of the CIA, FBI and other U.S. intelligence agencies. Week after week, confidential information gathered by the committee's investigators had wound up on the front pages of U.S. newspapers. Last week the leaks turned into what outgoing CIA Director William Colby angrily called "the bursting of the dam." The committee's entire final report was given to newsmen. The leaked report contained little that had not been disclosed, and the revelations tended...
...headed Italy's military intelligence agency. The money was to demonstrate U.S. support of Italian antiCommunists. According to a story in Turin's La Stampa, the $800,000 for Miceli was small potatoes: the paper claimed that one of its reporters had obtained secret documents from Pike's committee showing that the CIA had given Italian political parties $74 million from...
...Ford made one last attempt to get the committee to stick to its original pledge, the report was leaked. Although Pike insisted that the source of the leak was not known, committee investigators told TIME that members of the committee's staff were responsible...
Still, Kissinger had at least some encouraging news to savor late last week as he was beginning a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels: Representative Otis Pike's House Committee on Intelligence dropped a request that he be held in contempt of Congress. The Administration had angered the committee by refusing to give it internal State Department documents on U.S. covert activity abroad. But Pike finally agreed to a compromise under which the White House told the committee what was in the documents without actually handing them over. The White House's capitulation rescued Kissinger from...