CURRENT TACTIC OF THE SENATE PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00682R000300090095-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 25, 2003
• Sequence Number: 95
• Publication Date: July 28, 1953
• Content Type: MEMO

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IMIORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director/Intelligence
SUBJECT : Current Tactic of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee
on Investigations
I am sending the following information forward to you as given
byl I an sure you are aware of the situation, but here
it is in writing.
2, Certain staff members of the subject Subcommittee -- Flanagan,
Kennedy and Adlerman -- have made recent moves portending an Inquiry
into world-wide illicit East-West trade, especially transit trade. The
most important of these moves have been:
a. An inquiry by Flanagan at OSD for information on "illegal
trade."
b. An inquiry by Flanagan at the Department of Commerce for
tithe strategic lists.":
co Inquiries by Kennedy, first at OSD and later at DNS, for
information on "free ports and transit trade."
d. A request by Adlerman to DMS for access to reports in
their files on shipments of copper, lead, zinc, nickel, cobalt
and molybdenum from the Free World to the Bloc. (These commodities
are believed to figure prominently in illicit transit trade.)
e. An interview by Adlerman on July 21, with Admiral Delany
and Kenneth Hansen of D11S. According to Hansen, Adlerman said he
was investigating the International Materials Conference allocations
of raw materials. He added that Senator McCarthy had told him he
"would not take 'Not for an answer" but would step in personally if
his staff failed.
3. At a special meeting held on July 23, by the Executive Committee
of EDAC, it was decided to scoop McCarthy by an advance release to the
public of information on illicit East-West trade. The text will emphasize
the success of international cooperation over the past several years in
improving and enforcing trade controls. Mr. Stassen will be asked to
hold a press conference within a day after the release (probably August 3),
and to air the entire subject.
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