OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL JOURNAL TUESDAY 12 APRIL 1949

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000100100009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 12, 1949
• Content Type: NOTES

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Tuesday - 12 April 19+9
STATINTL 1. Spoke with Mr. Wheeler (House Un-American Activities)
to see if we could get for Mr. 0 (0S0) translation of certain
.-Polish documents regarding their espionage nets in the U.S. He informed
me that 27 of the 45 documents were about to be published by the
Committee, and that the translations of the remainder would be made
available to us.
2. Mr. Houston and I conferred with Mr. Godfrey, of the
Patent Section of the Claims Division, Department of Justice, regarding
CIA copyright problems and possible legislative action in connection
therewith. The problem is to be canvassed further throughout the
Government by us.
STATINTL
4. Spoke with Mr. Fisher, Associate Register of Copy-
rights, and he agrees that the proposal for National Archives exempting
copyrights from the provisions of the Federal Tort Claims Act is unten-
able, b t than For e eleas1e
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should be initiated. The main attempt should be concentrated on
removing the doctrine of Towle v. Ross, and remove the liability from
the individual Government employee to the Government itself. WLP
5. In response to Mr. Pelletier's (Rep. Bates).,/in-
him that if we contacted Bela Balassa so
formed a l
in New York), that due to security we would not be able to give him any
information.
6. Mrs. McCuen (Rep. Smith, Wisc.) spoke with Mr. P. re
a student at N.Y.U. She was informed that their problem was one for
the FBI.
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