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Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations S. Prt. 107–84 EXECUTIVE SESSIONS OF THE SENATE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS OF THE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS VOLUME 2 EIGHTY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION 1953 ( MADE PUBLIC JANUARY 2003 Printed for the use of the Committee on Governmental Affairs U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 83–870 WASHINGTON : 2003 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866) 512–1800; DC area (202) 512–1800 Fax: (202) 512–2250 Mail: Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402–0001 VerDate Dec 13 2002 00:47 Mar 29, 2003 Jkt 083870 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 E:\HR\OC\83870PL.XXX 83870PL COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS 107TH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN, Connecticut, Chairman CARL LEVIN, Michigan FRED THOMPSON, Tennessee DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii TED STEVENS, Alaska RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois SUSAN M. COLLINS, Maine ROBERT G. TORRICELLI, New Jersey GEORGE V. VOINOVICH, Ohio MAX CLELAND, Georgia THAD COCHRAN, Mississippi THOMAS R. CARPER, Delaware ROBERT F. BENNETT, Utah MARK DAYTON, Minnesota JIM BUNNING, Kentucky PETER G. FITZGERALD, Illinois JOYCE A. RECHTSCHAFFEN, Staff Director and Counsel RICHARD A. HERTLING, Minority Staff Director DARLA D. CASSELL, Chief Clerk PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS CARL LEVIN, Michigan, Chairman DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii, SUSAN M. COLLINS, Maine RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois TED STEVENS, Alaska ROBERT G. TORRICELLI, New Jersey GEORGE V. VOINOVICH, Ohio MAX CLELAND, Georgia THAD COCHRAN, Mississippi THOMAS R. CARPER, Delaware ROBERT F. BENNETT, Utah MARK DAYTON, Minnesota JIM BUNNING, Kentucky PETER G. FITZGERALD, Illinois ELISE J. BEAN, Staff Director and Chief Counsel KIM CORTHELL, Minority Staff Director MARY D. ROBERTSON, Chief Clerk (II) VerDate Dec 13 2002 00:47 Mar 29, 2003 Jkt 083870 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\83870PL.XXX 83870PL COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS 83RD CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION JOSEPH R. MCCARTHY, Wisconsin, Chairman KARL E. MUNDT, South Dakota JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas MARGARET CHASE SMITH, Maine HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Minnesota HENRY C. DWORSHAK, Idaho HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, Illinois JOHN F. KENNEDY, Massachusetts JOHN MARSHALL BUTLER, Maryland STUART SYMINGTON, Missouri CHARLES E. POTTER, Michigan ALTON A. LENNON, North Carolina FRANCIS D. FLANAGAN, Chief Counsel WALTER L. REYNOLDS, Chief Clerk PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS JOSEPH R. MCCARTHY, Wisconsin, Chairman KARL E. MUNDT, South Dakota JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas 1 EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, Illinois HENRY M. JACKSON, Washington 1 CHARLES E. POTTER, Michigan STUART SYMINGTON, Missouri 1 ROY M. COHN, Chief Counsel FRANCIS P. CARR, Executive Director RUTH YOUNG WATT, Chief Clerk ASSISTANT COUNSELS ROBERT F. KENNEDY DONALD A. SURINE THOMAS W. LA VENIA JEROME S. ADLERMAN DONALD F. O’DONNELL C. GEORGE ANASTOS DANIEL G. BUCKLEY INVESTIGATORS ROBERT J. MCELROY HERBERT S. HAWKINS JAMES N. JULIANA G. DAVID SCHINE, Chief Consultant KARL H. W. BAARSLAG, Director of Research CARMINE S. BELLINO, Consulting Accountant LA VERN J. DUFFY, Staff Assistant 1 The Democratic members were absent from the subcommittee from July 10, 1953 to January 25, 1954. (III) VerDate Dec 13 2002 00:47 Mar 29, 2003 Jkt 083870 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\83870PL.XXX 83870PL VerDate Dec 13 2002 00:47 Mar 29, 2003 Jkt 083870 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\83870PL.XXX 83870PL C O N T E N T S Page Volume 2 State Department Information Service—Information Centers, March 23 .............................................................................................................. 913 Testimony of Mary M. Kaufman; Sol Auerbach (James S. Allen); and William Marx Mandel. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, March 24 .............................................................................................................. 945 Testimony of Samuel Dashiell Hammett; Helen Goldfrank; Jerre G. Mangione; and James Langston Hughes. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, March 25 .............................................................................................................. 999 Testimony of Mary Van Kleeck; and Edwin Seaver. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, March 31 .............................................................................................................. 1015 Testimony of Edward W. Barrett. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, April 1 .................................................................................................................. 1045 Testimony of Dan Mabry Lacy State Department Information Service—Information Centers, April 24 ................................................................................................................ 1071 Testimony of James A. Wechsler-published in 1953. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, April 28 ................................................................................................................ 1073 Testimony of Theodore Kaghan. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, May 5 .................................................................................................................... 1115 Testimony of James A. Wechsler-published in 1953. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, May 5 ... 1117 Testimony of Millen Brand. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, May 6 ... 1123 Testimony of John L. Donovan. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, May 13 . 1135 Testimony of James Aronson; and Cedric Belfrage. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, May 19 . 1161 Testimony of Julien Bryan. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, July 1 .. 1193 Testimony of Richard O. Boyer; Rockwell Kent; Edwin B. Burgum; Joseph Freeman; George Seldes; and Doxey Wilkerson. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, July 2 .. 1217 Testimony of Allan Chase. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, July 7 .. 1223 Testimony of Eslanda Goode Robeson; Arnaud d’Usseau; and Leo Huberman. State Department Information Service—Information Centers, July 14 1231 Testimony of Harvey O’Connor. State Department Teacher-Student Exchange Program, May 20 ............ 1235 Testimony of Naphtali Lewis. State Department Teacher-Student Exchange Program, May 25 ............ 1245 Testimony of Helen B. Lewis; Naphtali Lewis; and Margaret Webster. State Department Teacher-Student Exchange Program, May 26 ............ 1267 Testimony of Aaron Copland. State Department Teacher-Student Exchange Program, June 8 ............. 1291 (V) VerDate Dec 13 2002 00:47 Mar 29, 2003 Jkt 083870 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 5904 Sfmt 5904 E:\HR\OC\83870PL.XXX 83870PL VI Page State Department Teacher-Student Exchange Program, June 8—Con- tinued Testimony of Rachel Davis DuBois; and Dr. Dorothy Ferebee. State Department Teacher-Student Exchange Program, June 19 ........... 1305 Testimony of Clarence F. Hiskey. State Department Teacher-Student Exchange Program, June 19 ........... 1311 Testimony of Harold C. Urey. Trade with Soviet-Bloc Countries, May 20 .................................................... 1321 Trade with Soviet-Bloc Countries, May 25 .................................................... 1329 Testimony of Charles S. Thomas; Louis W. Goodkind; Thruston B. Mor- ton; Kenneth R. Hansen; and Vice Admiral Walter S. Delaney. Austrian Incident, June 3 .................................................................................. 1349 Testimony of V. Frank Coe. Austrian Incident, June 5 .................................................................................. 1367 Testimony of V. Frank Coe. Communist Party Activities, Western Pennsylvania, June 17 ................. 1373 Testimony of Louis Bortz; and Herbert S. Hawkins. Communist Party Activities, Western Pennsylvania, June 18 ................. 1395 Testimony of Louis Bortz. Special Meeting, July 10 ..................................................................................... 1399 Alleged Bribery of State Department Official, July 13 ............................... 1415 Testimony of Juan Jose Martinez-Locayo. Internal Revenue, July 31 .................................................................................. 1431 Testimony of T. Coleman Andrews. Security—Government Printing Office, August 10 ...................................... 1439 Testimony of Mary S. Markward; Edward M. Rothschild; Esther Roth- schild; and James B. Phillips. Security—Government Printing Office, August 11 ...................................... 1473 Testimony of Frederick Sillers; Gertrude Evans; and Charles Gift. Security—Government Printing Office, August 11 ...................................... 1497 Testimony of Raymond Blattenberger; and Phillip L. Cole. Security—Government Printing Office, August 12 ...................................... 1515 Testimony of Ernest C. Mellor; and S. Preston Hipsley. Security—Government Printing Office, August 13 ...................................... 1527 Testimony of Irving Studenberg. Security—Government Printing Office, August 13 ...................................... 1533 Testimony of Gertrude Evans; and Charles Gift. Security—Government Printing Office, August 14 ...................................... 1547 Testimony of Howard Merold; Jack Zucker; Howard Koss; and Isadore Kornfield. Security—Government
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