JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL MONDAY - 21 SEPTEMBER 1953

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000200090066-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 29, 2002
• Sequence Number: 66
• Publication Date: September 21, 1953
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal
Office of Legislative Counsel
Monday - 21 September 1953
1. In connection with newspaper reports that McCarthy's
Committee is in touch with Beria, no action is to be taken at the
present time.
.2. In connection with the trip of Senator Mansfield to the
Far East (State Department Instruction No. CA-1425 dated 14
September) it appears that a mutual friend has advised Senator
Mansfield the name of one of our senior people in the Far East,
whom the Senator may contact. An appropriate cable is being sent
to the field.
3. Mr. Walter Hamilton, of the staff of the Joint Committee
on Atomic Energy, advises that he is leaving on 22 September for
Paris where he will meet Mr. Allardice, the Committee Staff Direc-
tor, and proceed to England to study certain British atomic installa-
tions. He may be reached through Mr. Penfield at the American
Embassy. They will return to Paris to study certain other problems,
returning to the United States on 8 October. They do not plan to visit
Allardice and Hamilton are thoroughly knowledgeable of the U. S.
atomic energy situation, but it is not believed that they will be in any
danger. I have informed I I of the
4. Congressmen Frank T. Bow (R., Ohio), Sam Coon (R., Ore.)
and Prince Preston (D. , Ga), members of the House Appropriations
Committee have sailed for a two months' study of Europe and Asia to
see "how wisely" the VOA budget and allied projects are being spent.
As they will be in th Iwe may wish to alert hat 25X1A
they might receive a visitation.
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