SENATORS QUIZ RUSK ON GOA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200330037-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 1999
• Sequence Number: 37
• Content Type: NSPR

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SECRET SESSION
Senators Quiz Rusk on Goan
Senate foreign policy.
leader, said today after a
;secret lirlefing try Secre-
tary of State Doan Rusk
that hti, gave no indication
that t'. S. policy India was
sing c'.hatnged because of
the (ua'niiliLiry se1ZUt'e.
:L1r. husk di'(ussed a nurn
bet of world trouble' spots at
the ttto and it half hour
led door meeting With "he
senalors. including the Cot
go, the Dorninieati Republic
and Dutch New Guinea its
well ati t .Ilia
. Hubert H. Humphrey
(D, Minn.) reported that
U..3. Js.)liry in the Goa situa-
tion was exactly as stated by
Ambassador Adlai E. Steven
son at the United Nations.
Mr. Stererhson urged that
India and Portugal negotiate
under terms of the UN ohar?
ter. lie stressed that force,
clearly forbidden by the char
it-r, has !lean opix>x-tl by the
C :~. ill the past.
-Mir. It us k 1 s appeal once
cause as Otte rnernbers of
the I~ amigo Relations Curn-
mitttre termed the Indian roil
itary- action against Goa as
ieprehensible' a n d "out-
rageous. naked aggresslon...
While Goa was expo-cted to
1w the chief topic at itie ses-
sine, members also were cpn?
,-vini a h it u I I ndonesta's
threat to "lib rate" Dutch
it'w (,ulnea unit tile silUF1
ti rn tit the Congo.
men. J. A1"lliiauh Fuihri1 ht
IT).. Ark.), conunltte' chair.
lildii, V -iS pier tired :ts anxious
to avoid the hnpression that
1411.. Itusk's informal briefing
si.~nified Borne major polity
development
Only a half-dorm members
of his committee were in the
capital and others tvere not
summoned for tilt: closed-
door meeting.
COMPARISON
-Bu t Sen. Humphrey said..
"It's regrettable that India
used force, particularly when
the example has a way o:
spreacui1g disordilr and vio
!cn