Richard B. Russell, Jr.

The group, which included U.S.

Senator Richard Russell, a U.S. military service member, and two U.S. government officials, reported observing a luminescent greenish-yellow phenomenon as seen from aboard a train while traveling within the Soviet Union in present-day Azerbaijan between Baku and Tiflis, Georgia.

The document concludes by stating that the observation can probably be explained as steep climbing aircraft or missiles and that the evidence does not appear sufficiently firm to warrant the conclusion that the Soviets have developed a radically new type of aircraft.

Now this document is interesting for two reasons, as far as I'm concerned.

Czechoslovakia today ended a state of war with Germany following the lead set by Russia and Poland last week.

It's told for the first time in Washington today by Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, who is the chairman of the Armed Services Committee that this Senate group has for years kept in close contact and close check on the operations and activities of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Heretofore, it had been believed that the CIA was pretty much on its own without any outside check.

But Russell says they've been watching it closely, and a three-man subcommittee has been named to continue this work.

And he was the most powerful person in the Senate.

So he brings in Richard Russell and John Stennis and all the other se- uh, Southern senators, and he says, "You're gonna do this for John F. Kennedy."

Mm.

"If you don't do this, I'm telling you right now, you're not getting your Army base, and you're not getting your Air Force base, and you're not getting this kind of patronage, and you're not getting that in your state, and you...