JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY - 25 MARCH 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000200100059-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 22, 2004
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• Publication Date: March 25, 1954
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal
Office of Legislative Counsel
Thursday - 25 March 1954
1. The DCI talked with Cong. Kersten at the Congressman's request.
Mr. Wisner and I were present. The Congressman discussed a proposed
revision of the so-called Kersten amendment which is currently being
considered by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Kersten
had previously discussed this matter with Gong. Vorys who in turn had
also discussed it with the Director. Mr. Kersten was concerned with
the possibility that they would remove from the original text the phrase
"residing in" which he considered to be a grave error in the light of the
history of the Vishinskys and other Soviet attacks upon the Kersten
amendment. The DCI felt, and Mr. Kersten agreed, that a dynamic
new package of legislation of this type might well be in order, but Mr.
Kersten urged that there be no backing away from the original language
in this one respect. The DCI touched only briefly on Mr. Kersten's
forthcoming trip abroad, saying that we would be glad to cooperate with
him. Mr. Kersten indicated the necessary delicacy in any hearings in
Germany and that if they were to be held they would necessarily have to
be held in executive session. (See memo for the DCI this date, Subject:
Visit of Cong. Kersten to DCI on 25 March).
A.Ltv views on the Mansfield and Brownson resolutions. I told him that we
took a neutral position in that it was primarily a Congressional matter,
but in. reply to his further question stated that we considered the Armed
Services Committees as our parent Committees. He stated that the
resolutions were of course of interest to NSA. I told him that if General
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