By Courtesy Of C.T.A.

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31501, 16 October 1967, Page 13

By Courtesy Of C.T.A.

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.

Senate “Doves” who oppose the Vietnam war are receiving more newspaper cuttings of their speeches than they bargained for. The Central Intelligence Agency keeps them well supplied with batches showing how their remarks are applauded by the Communist press overseas.

A C.I.A. spokesman acknowledged that the agency ran what he called a “courtesy clipping service” to keep Senators posted on how the Communist press is reacting to anti-Vietnam war speeches in the Senate.

Transcripts of the newspaper cuttings are printed up on a teletype writer and are sent to the senators with covering notes saying that the C.I.A. believed they “might be of interest.”

The “Washington Post,” which made the first disclosure of the C.I.A. action, commented that, in view of the strength of Vietnam dissent in the Senate, “some lawmakers suspect there is more than just courtesy in the C.l.A.’s special ’ clipping service.”