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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700450054-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 5, 2005
• Sequence Number: 54
• Publication Date: February 9, 1960
• Content Type: PREL

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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL ft- 7,-119601-
UPI-219
ADD 9 DEFENSE (UPI-179)
SENATE INVESTIGATORS ANNOUNCED TONIGHT THEY WILL RECALL INTELLIGENCE CHIEF
ALLEN W. DULLES TO CLEAR UP "CONFUSION" BETWEEN HIS TESTIMONY ON RUSSIA'S MISSILE
STRENGTH AND THAT OF GEN. NATHAN F. TWINING, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF
STAFF.
THE UNEXPECTED ACTION FOLLOWED A CLOSED-DOOR MEETING BETWEEN TWINING AND
MEMBERS OF THE SENATE PREPAREDNESS AND SPACE COMMITTEES.
THE SECRET SESSION WAS ORDERED WHEN SYMINGTON HAD CONFRONTED TWINING WITH
APPARENTLY TOP-SECRET FIGURES ON RELATIVE U.S.-RUSSIAN MISSILE STRENGTH, TWINING
DECLINED TO COMMENT ON THE FIGURES IN PUBLIC.
IN HIS PREVIOUS PUBLIC TESTIMONY TWINING SPLIT SHARPLY WITH OTHER U.S.
MILITARY CHIEFS IN THEIR DEMANDS FOR MORE MISSILES, MORE POLARIS SUBMARINES AND
SWIFTER ACTION TO SET UP A CONTINUOUS AIRBORNE BOMBER ALERT.
DETAILS OF THE GENERAL'S SUBSEQUENT CLOSED-DOOR TESTIMONY WERE NOT MADE
PUBLIC, BUT PREPAREDNESS COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN LYNDON B. JOHNSON (D-TEX.) SAID
IN A STATEMENT ISSUED LATER THAT THE MEETING "WAS DEVOTED PRIMARILY TO INTELLIGENCE
ESTIMATES."
JOHNSON ALSO SAID IT HAD BEEN DECIDED TO PUT OFF THE SCHEDULED TESTIMONY
OF DEFENSE SECRETARY THOMAS S. GATES JRr ON THE MISSILE CONTROVERSY "PENDING
FURTHER TESTIMONY BY DULLES,"
JOHNSON SAID THE DELAY WAS GRANTED AT THE REQUEST OF REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
MEMBERS.
"IT WAS FELT" HE SAID., "THAT CONFUSION ARISING FROM DULLES' RECENT TESTIMONY
AND TODAY'S TESTIMONY BY TWINING SHOULD BE CLARIFIED BEFORE SECRETARY GATES'
APPEARANCE,"
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THE STATEMENT DID NOT ELABORATE AND AN AIDE OF THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER
REFUSED TO GO BEYOND JOHNSON'S LANGUAGE.
ANOTHER SOURCE, ASKED IF THERE WAS A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE DULLES AND
TWINING TESTIMONY, SAID HE WOULD NOT GO BEYOND THE WORD "CONFUSION."
TWINING'S PUBLIC APPEARANCE WAS MARKED BY A THREE -HOUR DEFENSE OF
EISENHOWER'S MILITARY POLICIES, WHICH WAS CLIMAXED WHEN SYMINGTON CAME UP WITH
HIS SECRET INTELLIGENCE FIGURES.
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