NEED SEEN FOR TIGHTER PASSPORT AND ALIEN LAWS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100140005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: NSPR

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The Red U?der ;round FOIAb3b
Need Seen for Tighter
Passport and Alien Laws
B Herbert A. Philbrick f;;-The Rorie aftmittee re-
A story of how a woman ae-i &.0001M III
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cused of conspiring to deliver, United States. They found,
United States defense secrets to' 2towe' . .that -thousands of
the Soviet union successfully warra>6ts outepyaing for the
circumvented State Department portatieet Of pommunists,
Passport restrictions, told in list ? de almlbele sad qtbW subversives'
week's "U. S. News and World' wea completely unipfosaable."?
Report" magazine, points to the R&ewd Arms. research- di-
need for tougher. tighter laws rft-W., at @a g Committee
dealing with the activities of, on ~etivIties. In
Communist agents in the Unite!', an MOU& d0Tmd before the
States. of? the Afberkan
Specifically, the story con- R, ygp.gde ela tat Indicated
cerned Jane Former Slatovski, s that that Zlstovald case 'is far
former employee of the 0. S. S. from an eseeptlon, and that It
who was Indicted July 8, 1667, points up a problem which has:
by a Federal Grand Jury in long been a concern to Congress
New York on charges that the and the House Committee on }}'
conspired to deliver United. L"W ?ottvl~ttes.
States defense secrets to the 80- e oaad," raid Mr. Arens.
viet Union. "a complete breakdown in the
It is a serious matter that Mrs. enforcement of the immigration
ZIatovski may have infiltrated laws. In New York City, alone,
the super-secret office of Stra- or example. in one year's time
tegic Services. But it is shock- we have found that they had
ing to learn that although the stamped 'closed' and filed away
activities of Mrs. Zlatovskl were between 50,000 and 75,000 cases
apparently known to the au- of Illegal aliens."
thoritles and the State Depart- Situation in Miami
ment, weaknesses and loopholes "We went to Miami. Florida. and twenty-one in oth'ebsubver-!
In the law prevented the State and there we saw stacked up on give activities.' In otjl t
Department from taking any '
action. the desk of the District Director out of the 100 names tvb l lenent to to;
Fsasport Eiiired of the Immigration and them picked at random, eighty
Naturalization Service scores of five were In the subversive Bate
"U. S. News and World Re- files on cases of foreign sub- gory: as to the remaining fifteen
port" reveals that in 1956 the versives, international agents. there was no information."
Passport of Mrs. ZlatovWd. who en route to the United States Waiter Blames Courts
had formerly been in France via Cuba. We said, 'how can you than
as Arens
andxrt then In San Francisco, intercept these people?' And Mr.
any way did nreflecting ot not imply upon'
expired _t`rf$ State Department they said, 'We can't. There is the good citizenship and loua
refused to renew it. Mrs. Zlat- an outstanding order by the of the hundreds of and loyads
ovskl appealed to the Depart- State Department that all docu- of the foreign born who are-
legitimately ment's Passport Appeal Board, mentation is waived for all per- in me United
headed by Thurston D. Morton. sons coming into this country States. pointed out that last)
now the Republican Senator from Cuba obstensibly for less year alone po0,000 people Ernes
from Kentucky. than twenty-nine days.' other nations were brought Into
The Appeal Board decided, on The trial of illegal and sub- the United States for permanent'
the basis of information pro- versive activities found by the residence; 730,000 under the,
vided by the F. B. I, that it House probe led the investi- McCarran-Walter act and 170,
would be "dangerous ... for the gatora to the consulates and 000 others by various special
security of the country" If Mrs. embassies of Communist na- enactments.
Zlatovski were to receive the tions which, said Mr. Arens.
passport and ruled against her. were found to be "spy nests." But the committee did find, ee ss~
Mrs. Zlatovakl then appealed to reported by the committee!
the Courts. Records on Envoys through its chairman, Francis
Dulles' Warning "We picked at random." 1,e;E. Walter, of Pennsylvania, than
Despite the fact that Seere:,said. "from the thousands of **the security of this nation Is
diplomats f,c,tn behind th,threatened by loose passport
'
tars of State John Foster Iron Curtain in the Unites' , practices which are spearheaded'
that the passport tfaffidavit antt avfoor binrs, States 100 nan is We sent then by court decisions."
that .:
Zlatovaki "would be inimical tato the Ceutrv Intelligences It would not, be far wrong to
Judge Burnita S. Matthews your informaton nr the identity
of these indiviri, l%. tell us ties.,
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ing weaicnex,r g of the law and,
coupled u;th twenty-t,ee 8u
preme Coin. t decision' in the:
last elghte!on monthf favoring:
In 1947, the House Committee Itwo active Inc 1meL'!;a :r f agent is itSer from harm in the:
began an investigation of peas- Service r, rhea rer c:ac;C:,,ted Suites than he is In the
port and immigration policies'crntntr:es: r:" my-nine acts:! ;n:SO`iet r ntnn itself.
and came up with some startling 'COmmu, .' r ] aknlza; ions! a n; k : 019 7, N. Y. Herald Tribune l
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