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* One of the nay votes was cast by Senator I. William Fulbright, the Arkansas Democrat and chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee. Fulbright said he could not vote for McCone because his committee had not been
consulted about the appointment nor given an opportunity to question McCone about his views on foreign policy.
*Ten days later, at three o'clock in the morning, Fulbright was roused from bed by a phone call from McCone,
who wanted to inform him of the exchange of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and Soviet spy Rudolf I. Abel.
Annoyed, Fulbright made it clear this was not the type of consultation he had in mind.
* All figures on the number of persons involved in intelligence work are highly classified. But the ONI's figure
slipped out through the oversight of a Pentagon censor in testimony released in 1961 by the House Defense
Appropriations Subcommittee.
