FALLOUT SHELTERS INDORSED BY STATE DEFENSE COUNCIL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200430086-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 86
• Publication Date: February 24, 1960
• Content Type: NSPR

DISCUSS SHELTERS---Gov. Rockefeller, Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff (center) andpnb.
li:,her Henry R. Luce yesterday at Albany prior to meeting of State Defens4 Co smell
to consider the Governor's fallout shelter program.
By Charles N. Quinn
ALBANY, Feb. 2 .-The 5tat
Tense council today indorse
n administration commit
eport recommending legisla
ion to require anti-radiatio
allout shelters in most build
ngs in the state by July 1,106
However, (Jar. Rockefelle
till declined to say whether h
?ould submit any legislatio
?ith & ,mandatory provision a
he current session of the Sts
Rlsiature.
And the seven Republica
nd Democratic legislative Its
-rs, who are members of th
ouncil, refrained from aignin
he council , -report, bees
hey said their ' signal
night be interpreted as co
misting their colleagues to su
port it.
CPYRGHT
t The annual Legislative Din-
er of the American Legion. he
td:
''` Iby; do I t in follow-
Vh_ e. pular course of
Italy aaddvocatlltt fallout
t Marotection for'. the entire
pulation of New York 8tstet
ecause I am absolntsly con-
11lved that such proteCtiOt-?,is
asentlal In this dangerous
orld; essential to saving lie,
r it that great effort should
fail, essential to saving million=
of lives."
Fear Without Hope
Gov. Rockefeller said Amer
ica's basic problem was that i
had been "harboring a suboon
scious fear withotu any lope--
a fear that protection was un
Ensctment Seen Doubtful obtainable." He said that thi
Responsible Republican legs - country had lived for year,
lators have predicted a mand - 'wittx is profound oontradic
tory program would not psi a lion:' adding:
this year. One said today .Are have lived on the un
proposal "doesn't have a prays " provable assumption that nu
and another said enactment tIclear war would never be visitei
the current session 'is in gra a upon us--even as we have b"ej
doubt." our national strategy and .
Gov. Rockefeller.. conoedi g multi - billion - dollar defeTO
almost insurmountable od s budget on the -premise the
against enactment of a mand - nuclear war can bappen.' .
tory program this year, nevc -11 To substantiate his Orgumen
tele ram from Leo A. Hoegt
dr fieIdvsLQ >;? 4ir(~
and Defense Mobilisation, whit
Inaid his proposed l Ilatao"
all out shelters Indorsed taxa t an
i plementation of the national
p r eater policy announced by the
I
.ley State j~ Del s Council government."
$eeate Malority Leader liial:'
peaker Joseph P. Carlin ax-
ined their position Ins Joint
tatement issued" utter; the
ger of radloactived .fallout;
uestion. have bees :raised,
be public to accept a mend'
rn ent should play .I fib
res. ~;t {~ ,tom ai
in eseance. the`;1J E ih ve-
port cps
:most" for f~vt tGb ftW= In ,flip state by " 2, 1162.
and In new str'es ? ata>