INSIDE REPORT: KAFKA ON CAPITOL HILL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200320023-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 23
• Publication Date: July 26, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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(on transparently spurious char es of spying y 9
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C o e the U. S. Legation ,in' 1945, she was ;%.-Ald 0 L; o tz,YNsw,York? Herald Trans Inc.?r i d y, ~~ry
;,:arrested by the Rumanian government - J
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, hazi-controlled Rumania. After the war she fared e-len rs on Capitol
Hill such ' as Talcott and F'el.g}ian. r? ,,,,++,,,.~ ..::..,. _
er a opted g wng Feignan,. a fanatic denouncer'
'ountry; the U. S. A. Rather, she has specifically asked of communism, somehow can't find it in his heart to
that her story not be written for fear it would' give the 1? compensate Miss Samuelli -for her years of loyalty.
Communists fresh propaganda to blackjack Eastern Euro? ! . The State Department admits that it needs a law ;
:.pears nationals out of working in' U.. S. embassies. automatically, pProviding compensation for all the Miss
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Her story,goes back to World War II when Miss ` Samuellis in Communist countries. But t} at doesn't -
''Samuelli' was an impoverished, Jewish intellectual, in ! help her today with the lar
e me
of -11-1
?- ?~ ?v~a. ... ~?? -1-C.. i w,ce a wouna up in the deep-freeze of ?j3
their public denunciations of communism:. Ohio Rep. Michael Feighan's immigration subcommittee.;,;
None.of this has shaken her faith in h d T); I,+
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g s summer go-.,;-
V 1965 concerns a victim of Communist around. 1 "Ma 1111) 1264 W801
persecution sto ed b another conservative Re
i who has spent four' years in Kafka-like struggles with r : pp by publican-a second?'>
the U. S. octopus of government.. ! termer from. California named Burt Talcott. Nora 'Samuelli, a Rumanian national. employed by `'' ' Why? Under. archaic procedures, Rep. Talcott is
the U. S. , Legation in Bucharest, spent 12 years in "a , one of the official objectors" appointed to serve as :;{
Red prison on trumped-up treason charges-a, pawn of ::.~, watchdog on minor bills.
;the cold war. Not once during those bleak years did He hadn't bothered to'talk with State Department.~:
}:'the take the easy way out\and denounce the U. - S. -.-officials or Miss Samuelli herself. But he decided the .;l
And yet today, four years after her release, the bill sets a "dangerous precedent" for some 60 ex-inmates
U.' S. bureaucracy in its infinite, befuddlement has 'still' of Communist prisons. Meanwhile, Miss Samuelli waits.,;~*,)
iot given what is her, due: salary covering her' years ~.. - Even if the Grosses and the Tal'cotts eventually let.;;}
ln'prison. She also wants to become a U.'S: citizen. the bill through.. thorn
1 Deparlment officials pleaded wit. V V ~~~ V 'V4n4G
WASHINGTON.
' +i,; gree to withhold his objection on the second '`
? A grotesque' story of Washin ton i
une the cold war was at its hottest..}
Rumania rv4s trying to close the U.'S. Legation. Had she?1
not worked there, she wobld not have been arrested.
After nine months of solitary confinement waiting
for "trial," she went to jail for 12 years as an American
"turncoat
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1961
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, she was ransomed by relatives.
Then began her incredible_and degrading-Kafkar
esque adventures with ' the U
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governm
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er sister,
also imprisoned by the Reds and then ransomed, was ;1
quickly com en t d
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as Samuelli is,
entitled to $45,000 in back
pay plus $10,000 in compen-'~
sation for a prison injury, The bill for this easily cleared
the Senate and the House Judiciary Committee.
But when the bill reached th H rp~
.,c~.c.aiy m.'otaie' Wil-'
Liam Crockett has determined -that M' +l
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the Federal a ndifference of, 4
government-until 'last 'year when Sen."$
.Thomas J. Dodd. of Cnnnonti.,..+ +,;,a: -- ..__- ___ .
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y her employers-the British gov. l
ernment. But Nora Samuelli collided with State Depart-
meat bureaucrats who could find no regulation covering,
her case. Miss Samuelli was frozen i
th i
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Y owe, s .Rep. H. ' R.
Gross, a Right-wings Republican and,. self-appointt-,ti
j~tlardian 01 the Federal trees
e ouse floor last
month under a procedure requiring unanimous consent,.
'lhe fatal objection was voiced
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