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1967 secret Senate hearings on CIA made public

Declassified transcripts of dozens of closed hearings of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1967 have now been
published.

The hearings feature testimony by Director of Central
Intelligence Richard Helms and other Johnson Administration
officials on Soviet nuclear weapons policy, anti-ballistic
missiles, Vietnam, the Middle East, and other topics of
contemporary concern.

See "Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee Together with Joint Sessions with the Senate Armed
Services Committee (Historical Series)," Volume XIX, 1967,
made public in 2007.
Read entire article at Secrecy News, written by Steven Aftergood, is published by the Federation of American Scientists