STATE DEPT. ORDER TO CHECK TEACHER STIRS UP STORM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400110013-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: March 24, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/09/14: CIA-RE 7,:
LOS A?:GELES, CALIF. FOIAb3b.
TIMES
U. 768,503
S. 1, 094,990
MAR 2 419bb
STATE DEPT. ORDER
TO CHECK TEACHER
`STIRS UP STORM
Tim.s fill writer
State Department order for two U.S.
embassies to comply with an FBI re-
Harvard professor's European tray-
els kicked un a storm Wednesday.
Sen. Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy (Dw
tween the Stale Department's Pass-
port office and government investi-
The central figure in the case 1, 911.
tuent of Sen. Kennedy but ran as an
;ndenerident' third-party_ candidate
in the 1062 1,'lassac auset
Senate race that gave Ken-
nedy his seat,
Robert J. McCloskey,
i. man, said an o~d~e ^ask-' C.I. that once a pas~;port 1s
(,,in b a s s ile s to wat.Chllgranted o? --
Hughes had been sent out'~travel freely In the coun-
March 8 by the Passpart~tries Of his intention he ill be Office, headed by MissIifr.nms..Otherdif izentiated
Frances G. Knight. He-
SAM by
said it was countermandcdl pl'ior message81o our em-,
Match Iii by Philip p,lhassles concerning his po-
I-leymann, deputy admi- litical beliefs and calling
nistrator of the State Dc-, for some sort of surveil-
CPYRGHT
Security Reports
McCloskey said it has
practice to :'cooperate
t ravelcrs. IcCloskey said
it, does no more than pass
along germane informa-
tion which it may receive.
He said. the practice had
been followed for "a num-
ber of years," but he was
unable to estimate the
number of requests the de-
partment had acted on.
Kennedy wrote Rusk
that he personally knows
his onetime opponent and
considers him "a gentle-
man of integrity who has
eXpre;sed his convictions
in an honest and forth-
right f;ishinil,
"Itegardllcss of the indi-
vidual involved, howev-
er," Kennedy continued,
1.()61 at the second trial of
a news briefing, because It 1,nist." He further request.-'the Paris and Moscow em-
edt Ibassies that "Mr. Hughes
failed to comply with new procedures which require 1 --- An explanation of'had testified nn behalf of a con-
that lieymann's office the relationship between Robert A. at Soblen a he; r ing for
clear any such requests. !the" Passport yOffice_ andlvietedlspy,
gatory agencies, which Work in OS`S
presumably would iclude
Agency ,7, the
U.S. citizens traveling Passport Office to rcquesti"~ttse of my specialized
abroad. embassies to undertake in-lknowledge as a former
Denying that the State vcstigations of private U.S.~OSS (Office of Strategic
Department conducts tic- 1citizens traveling abroad, Services) officer of the
ar 0109d+ with details on the hum
sort of work Dr. Soblen
her of such surveys and had done for that organiza-
who contl}ictsi them. +tion" during World War
Reached at his home in!II
Cambridge, Mass., Hughes's '
for renewal of his three-
year-old passport, mainly
He plans a sabbatical year
doing his job for the OSS
he did not have informa.-
tion on highly secret wea-
pons," the statement said.
Hughes took the posi-
tion that his views nn Coin;
No Russia Visit public rccnrll" and re-
Denving any intention; ferred questioners in. his
department's order to the
book, ",\n Approach to
Peace," published in 1`162.
On this score, Hughes
said he expected to spend' said he had been an early
But he also said het ry A. Wallace, the Pro-
planned to visit Britain, gressile Party- Presiden-
Italy, West Germany andj fiat clndidate in 1'.148, but
scene" during the cam-
paigr because he "felt the
movement was dominated
by Communists."
gnslavia; 1Tiighes said he
has visited Russia once, on
i 10-day "tourist trip" hi
Ilughes also issued a
statt2nuCnt, in It, he blamed i Schwartz Issue
the "sudden interest on, The Hughes case is the
tl4c part of the P1111" .on his, second difficulty to beset
the war in Vietnal."''He isi and Consular Affairs sinecl,
McCloskey said the ltrstttlirnet's are C~dldb,C?? 'at Committee for a i anel Schwartz, after disclosur
girder, which stated tliat~protection, not, invbestiga Nuclear Policy (SANE), of plans to reorganize th
I Hughes "in the past has ttons from U.S, cm as., , which advocates interna-; bureau.
had strong convictions toabroad, Kennedy asked 't i o n a 1 nuclear d i s a r-I Schwartz sought to ton
i
hard communism," fol- Rusk for a copy of the mcs mament. ? . , down rigid passport an
quest Feb. 6 for a report
"to deter::: 'lie who malces; .~ .,;,? -
ference in the Passport Of- In the Passport Office b
ing citizen is pro-t;ommu-; . y4 0? r ns ia. d' `
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