■ Evenhandedness in the 94th Congress: Sen. Frank Church, head of the Senate committee that will investigate CIA, has chosen as chief counsel William C. Miller, who is technically, but only technically, a Republican. As an aide to liberal former Republican Sen. John Sherman Cooper (now ambassador to East Germany), Miller opposed the ABM, was behind the Cooper-Church amendment to tie the President’s hands in Vietnam, is a longtime anti-cold-warrior. . . . David Berlin, chief of staff of the Rockefeller Commission, is also a Republican, was a member of the Warren Commission, has been a dove on Vietnam all along, worked for Nixon’s election in 1968, but only voted for him in ’72. . . . Sen. Church, incidentally, has warned that any staff member who leaks information from his hearings to the press will be fired. . . . That warning came the same week that Sen. Richard Schweiker (R., Pa.) was sending what was alleged to be a secret CIA “work order” for secret information on Canada’s transport system to a buddy in the Canadian Parliament, Perrin Beatty, who made the most of it. . . . Sen. Russell Long (D., La.), meanwhile, has voiced his alarm over the fact that at least one Democratic senator on the Democratic Steering Committee is leaking information to the press. Long has doubts that the Senate investigation of CIA and FBI can be secure. . . . Counter-spy, a left wing radical publication based in Washington, is reissuing the list it first published last summer of the names of what it says are CIA operatives in 100 cities around the world. . . . Cover of many other CIA operations blown by Philip Agee in Inside CIA.
■ Americans for Democratic Action immensely heartened by the new breed of Southern legislator. ADA says Southern congressmen elected in 1972 had a liberal rating of 42 per cent as against a rating of 19 per cent for senior Southern Democrats; it believes class of ’74 (15 strong) will be even more liberal. . . . Liberal Sen. Joseph Biden (D., Del.) wishes both the ADA and organized labor would shut up about his voting record. “The ADA is like a plague,” he says. “They gave me a high rating and that hit my state like a brushfire.” (Biden has 80 per cent ADA and COPE ratings.) . . . One piece of legislation much favored by labor—registration of voters by postcard—has, say insiders on the Hill, a good chance to be enacted into law by the 94th Congress. . . . Introduced last week was Sen. Bill Brock’s (R., Tenn.) new Health Care bill (see NR, June 7) which will cost estimated $2 billion a year as against the $30 billion to $50 billion tab of alternative Kennedy plan.
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