MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FOR PEACE THROUGH LAW

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00337R000100170009-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 2001
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: July 20, 1970
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT: Members of Congress for Peace Through Law
1. The following information regarding the Members of Congress
for Peace Through Law (MCPL) was obtained today through a blind telephone
call to their Washington office.
a. The organization has been in existence and has met
informally since 1959 under the name "Members of Congress
for World Peace for the Rule of Law. " In October 1966 it
assumed its present name and a small staff was hired.
b. The present membership of the group stands at 98.
It is organized into the following nine committees:
Military Spending
Arms Control and Disarmament
Southeast Asia
East-West Trade
United Nations
International Law
U.S. -China Relations
Middle East
Development
c. Two years ago a 16-man steering committee voted not
to make the names of its members public. This continues to
be the policy.
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4. The foregoing was obtained from one Mr. "Sandy" Persons
who said he has been on the staff since 1966. Before that time he had
been associated with the World Federalist organization as a lobbyist.
Former Senator Joseph Clark (D., Pa.), founder of MCPL, is now
president of the World Federalist and is a personal friend of Mr. Persons.
Another member of the present staff, Joan McKinney, was also on the
World Federalist staff. Persons pointed out, however, that the World
Federalist and the MCPL were not associated with one another in any
way.
Office of Legislative Counsel
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