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...expenditure up to an incredible $900. The report was compiled after a visit to Laos last spring by Richard Moose and James Lowenstein, both former Foreign Service officers, who are the committee's staff experts on Southeast Asia. Their findings at least partially lifted what Committee Member Stuart Symington called "the veil of secrecy, which has long kept this 'secret war' in Laos officially hidden from the American people." The study also came to the discouraging conclusion that despite vast expenditures by the U.S., the military situation in Laos "is growing steadily worse, and the initiative seems...
...through the appropriations process and as Administration representatives. But not Kissinger; his stranglehold on policy, combined with his Congressional immunity, has cut off vast amounts of information on White House policymaking from Capitol Hill's purview. Congressional resentment on this subject reached a high pitch last March, when Stuart Symington, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged on the Senate floor that Kissinger was "Secretary of State in everything but title," and that the appearance before Congressional committees by William Rogers had become "a rather empty exercise...
Missile Moratorium. Ironically, such developments have tended to weaken the Administration's already questionable case for refusing to consider the Soviet ABM-only proposal. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington points out that Washington's stubbornness on the ABM raises suspicions about whether the U.S. ultimately wants a SALT agreement. More fundamentally, many respected disarmament experts, including Herbert F. York and Herbert Scoville Jr., argue that an initial ABM agreement would achieve an important break in the so-called "action-reaction" cycle that keeps the arms race in motion. Even if the basest motives attributed to the Soviets are correct...
There is a fantastic source of information, and it's contained in the hearings this last June before the Security Subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate. It's actually in print. And it's Fulbright and Symington grilling Administration personnel and other groups. That is spectacular. Of course much of it has been censored out. But what comes out is that the U.S. has seven major military installations in Greece, that in fact the Administration personnel does not deny that the coup was American. Fulbright puts the question: "They say you guys...
...deployment of an altogether new missile system." When top intelligence officials briefed the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy on Soviet missile plans that same week, no mention of an ominous new ICBM was made. But when the same officials briefed the Senate Armed Services Committee on March 4, Symington, who was present, now claims that the possibility was raised-with warnings that the subject was secret. Yet last week Washington Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who was not present at the committee meeting, spoke on national television of "huge new missiles" possessed by the Russians. Symington contended that the Administration...