JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL THURSDAY 26 AUGUST 1954

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000300040057-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Document Release Date: January 19, 2006
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: August 26, 1954
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal
Office of Legislative Counse
Thursday - 26 August 1954
in reply to his request for information for guidance regarding
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have informed Cong. Hillings that
which he is interested is the political orientation of Me governments
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cued in the same vein. We have arranged to brief Mr. Hillings on 30
August at 1000 in the Director's Conference Room. The main material
we do not have much information regardin and that the information
we have is quite conflicting. I indicated my personal reaction would be
nsidorable caution and Mr. Hillings indicated that he would pro_
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2. I talked with Assistant Secretary of State Thruston Morton to
keep him advised that we were in touch with Hillings. Morton said that
Assistant Secretary Holland and the Department generally was unhappy
about Congressional visitation at this time, but that nevertheless there was
nothing they could do to stop Hillings. He felt Hillings would not see any-
thing that was not already public, and their major concern, like ours, lay
in his travels outside of Guatemala. Mr. Morton felt that Hillings was
sound on security and need not worry on that point, but that basically all
Hillings was interested in was to get some personal publicity from a
political standpoint in view of the forthcoming elections.
Central and South America
DOS review(s) completed.
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