Nomination of George Bush to be Director of Central Intelligence: Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Niney-fourth Congress, First Session ... December 15 and 16, 1975

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1975 - United States - 94 pages
 

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Page 4 - Notwithstanding the provisions of section 6 of the Act of August 24, 1912 (37 Stat. 555), or the provisions of any other law, the Director of Central Intelligence may, in his discretion, terminate the employment of any officer or employee of the Agency whenever he shall deem such termination necessary or advisable in the interests of the United States...
Page 38 - Chair quoted will also be made a part of the file. (The documents referred to will be found in the files of the committee.) The CHAIRMAN. Are there other questions?
Page 66 - ... Exchange Commission calling upon that organization to investigate the American Electric Power Co. for violations of the Public Utility Holding Company Act? which, as I understand it, prohibits public utility holding companies from interfering in the political affairs of communities. The mayor also wrote a letter to the President of the United States asking that his good offices be used to keep an eye on the proceedings that might take place before the Federal Power Commission and the Securities...
Page 16 - Huntington, asserts that the military institutions of any society are shaped by two forces: "a functional imperative stemming from the threats to the society's security and a societal imperative arising from the social forces, ideologies, and institutions dominant within the society.
Page 48 - But for the proper judging of the situation in any foreign country it is important that information should be processed by an agency whose duty it is to weigh facts, and to draw conclusions from those facts, without having either the facts or the conclusions warped by the inevitable and even proper prejudices of the men whose duty it is to determine policy and who, having once determined a policy, are too likely to be blind to any facts which might tend to prove the policy to be faulty. The Central...
Page 1 - Chairman, distinguished members of this committee, it is a great pleasure for me to be able to present to you the administration's views on the proposed Americans with Disabilities Act.
Page 15 - There is a coalition of groups against the death penalty, but that is not what you are talking about. You are talking about a wide-based popular movement that would address Mr.
Page 23 - no," because you see I think, and maybe—I have the advantages as everyone on this committee of 20-20 hindsight, that this agency must stay in the foreign intelligence business and must not harass American citizens, like in Operation Chaos, and that these kinds of things have no business in the foreign intelligence business.
Page 85 - ... political needs of a sitting President rather than the duties of the agency and the best interests of the nation. The need for solid intelligence analysis is too important to be mixed up with the pursuit of elective office. A willingness to seek or accept high elective office presents a clear and present danger to the agency's mission and morale.
Page 23 - George, I would like to see you." You go in the White House. He takes you over in the corner and he says, "look, things are not going too well in my campaign. This Reagan is gaining on me all the time. Now, he is a movie star of some renown and has traveled with the fast set. He was a Hollywood star. I want you to get any dirt you can on this guy because I need it.

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