SECURITY COMMISSION PICKS GENERAL COUNSEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP58-00597A000100160024-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 30, 2004
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: March 1, 1956
• Content Type: NSPR

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,FLHEWAShIAI'c, cr,id TIMES HERALD
6 Thursday, March 1, I9ir6 ****R
curity Commission
'icks General counsel
e new. Commission on Gov-
4 ~ Security yesterday an-
nounced appointment of Sam-
419 H Liberman, city counselor
of St. Louis, as its general
Commission also has
Stanley J. Tracy, retired
;rector J. Edgar Hoover, as ad-
wutxusg un a suppiementalideclined. I
budget for the next fiscal year.1 Other members of the Conn
The present payroll of 15 em- mission are:
ployes is ,expected to be in- Senator Stennis, vice chair-
creased to 60 or 80. It is housed man; Sen. Norris Cotton!
on the *rd door of the Gen. (R-N. H.); and Susan Riley, edu
eral Accounting Office Build-, cation professor at George Pea
ing, former quarters of the body College, Nashville. These
Hoover Commission. {-with Wright-were appointed'
The Commission will collect j by Vice President` Richard
ing statutes. interview Govern-I _Tames v 11inf armor., for-1
2 ~~~kJ. 411aclallu, V1lUG1 ucl:lcl.al Jl~
rnia at os Angele,s law industry and funnel the corre of Commerce; Carter L. Bur.!
a,aia1i. caivi ?i usie viiavcl-i
grams to investigate the Fed- Bred to send its report to Con?? - IsN,ayity, of Kansas-all appointed
erl- loyalty-security, program. gress,' but also to make legisla- by President Eisenhower.
Its members were named Nov.tive recommendations. Rep. Francis E. Walter (D
10 and have held three meet "It's not our job to snoop Pa.); Rep. William M. McCul-
in in as many months, The i out Communists," Wright exloch (R-Ohio); Edwin L. Me-
Commissions final report must plained. "The procedure is all chem, former New Mexico Gov
b .,3vritten by Dec. 31 and its that we're dealing with-to see ernor, and James L Noel Jr
business wound up by March that it is fair, that it is Ameri- Houston attorney-all appoint
3 57. can, that every citizen has his ed b
Speaker Sam Ra
burn
y
y
.
started from scratch and.Irights preserved, and that at'
't+- art that if wac cn nlncn fn"_ .r_ .. -
f g," Loyd Wright, Commis-' mission staff, disclosed last
a ;chairman, said yesterday. (month are: Executive Director
The Commission has been' Douglas Price, 26, formerly
granted $50,000, but has asked assistant to the deputy director
an !dditiona-1.X00,000 to carry of the International Coopera-
tion Admtiiistration and before
that an e;nploy6 of the Repub-
lican Natiioottal Committee; Re-
j search Director, Richard A:
Edwards, associate professor of
government an law at 'tafay-
ette Colliege, Pa.; Associate
Counsel Robert A. Collier,
Washington attorney, former
FBI agent and associate c9unsel
in the Army-McCarthy hear-
ings; Assistant Counsel Elwyn
J. Darden, New Albany, Miss.
attorney and former legislative'
assistant to Sen. John Stennis
Cart I1 4rland, president of
Montana Ate University, orig-
inally was Se!Acted as general
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