THE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000700380002-5
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 2004
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: September 13, 1963
• Content Type: OPEN

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the 7.'1'easilr7Ab;,jttl we ere loslnit `the'
Department of ;Health. EducatioU,. and Dies, .f3tu ~ppM {The man who headed the
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objection, the editorial
printed In the RzcoRD,
IFrom the Washtnokiton (D.C.) Evening Star,
approved"thls taonsell6e. W
interesting ,ill uty:-oolleaBues to
the Department of H th, Education, and
Welfare. and which has do with educa-
tional Instruction.
One section, believe It o ot, Is concerned
with an "Official Obslwa 'a Manual."
Any males interested are to they will need
as prerequisites " 20/30 vlsto or corrected
as required." Additional Bugg ted material
Includes giaeses or binoculars. other sec-
tion. concerned with social lea. states
that there Is only one continent r than
Africa and this is Asia. Then an the
question: "Sa, the enormous chun of rock
that is Africa Is (a) the largest co Went;
(b) the second largest continent."
If Johnny can come up with the t
answer to this one, he Is, we gather, e
free. Not so the taxpayer. He will hav
make up the difference between the cost
producing these massive volumes and
receipts derived by the Government Print.
Ing Office from selling them at $3.50 a copy.
Fortunately. It isn't likely that this boon.
doggle will head to the best seller list.
"MARTIN DIES' . STORY"
Mr. THURMOND. Mr., President.
"Why did you silt by silence when.you
knew the truth?" These are.the words
of a great American In telling the world
Story.- Twrote the book. his patriot was mall
smeared, and persecuted 'because he
dared to expose a conspiracy that today
is threatening to bury us. If we had
heeded his advice the world would be
much nearer to the illusory peace we seek
today at the expense of our security. The
danger Martin Dies w}reed about has
been amplified a hundred times over. I
recommend that every American read
this dynamic exposure. Mr. President, I
ask unanimous consent that a review of
the "Martin Dies' Story" by William R,
Ruggles as printed In the Dallas Morn-
ing News. be printed In the RscoRD at
this point,
There being no objection, the review
was ordered to be printed In the RECORD,
as follows:
A ljooac rot Corraaavsrrvsa: "Msarnr Ores,
STOIT"
(Reviewed by William R. Ruggles)
"We lost World War rl. It was not the
brave men who offered and gave their lives
who boat It for us. It was the polltlciaf.s.
eo` introduces his 'grim account of whet'
am ounts'to betrayal of the Nation by dtvett`ie ,
1 ctorat, Political ambition; 1 eCkl+~aness Af.
methods misgulded, ignorance stimulated to i
falsehood and calumny: official stupidity and
lax security: unwillingness to admit costlT
fault; a small group of dedicated OommilaUt
agents infiltrated into olaotal position.
This is a terrifying story, a striking warn-
ing from to devoted American and Texan up=
whose head and political fortunes have bears
opened the visit of wrath of the Ignorant,
the dupe, the traitor, and the well meaning
fool.
Here is the record of what the Dies 00th
mittee did, what it tried to do and what
it was prevented from doing. Recorded are
the antecedents leading to the formation;Of
the committee with Dies at its head in'108g
and the events of the next 8 years when
it functioned through the most extraord!
storm of criticism. vituperation, and off
blocking maneuver In our political h
In a remarkable foreword. Dies, now
points out that he is writing- the record not
merely to inform posterity but to saw It.
"If our children do not learn of these ta.-
credible blunders, they are doomed to repeat
them. I must speak out, lest I be asked on
Judgment Day. 'Why did you sin by silence
when you knew the truth?'"
Here he does speak out, and bow. The Dies
committee directed investigation on no single
enemy target but on all. The Roosevelt ad-
ministration tried to keep It off the Com.-
muntsts, but It went after Reds as well as
the Nazis.
In logical result, it proved in the face of
disbelieving omclal opposition the existence
here of the Communist conspiracy.
Critics of the Dies committee then ignor(d.
as they do now, the careful documentation
of its facts. In the heart of this book.
Martin Dies asks how many of those critics
ow what they were talking about. The
:ord is all there. The report of the bear-
p has been preserved In 10,887 pages in
an later volumes on the executive session.
ere is retold the tragic story of Dar. Wil-
A. Wirt. Remember the Oary, lad,
ed who, after a Washington dinner,
that New Deal leftists planned do-
n ee ly "to overthrow the established fgctai
ord He was pilloried and harried to an
early d th.
On floor of pongreas,.a Representative
charged during world War S .Wirt':bad
been ,1 for pro-German activities. a ocip?
plate un th. New York's O'Connor, who
headed th committee that assailed Wirt,
6 years expressed his own regret for
his part, in ing a frank public apology.
Here is the site-known fact that the cotri-
mlttee rated before Pearl Harbor
a report that eluded a map of Japan's
strategic plan f. tie conquest of the Hawat?
tan Islands an the Par East. The agate
Department pr lied publication. The re-
port was viewed Arrity and Navy but still
Pearl Harbor o0c ed.
Itere'are derails t the Investigations of
Communist 'lntlltr on of American labor
against the investigators.
Here are the stories of Earl Browder and
Sam Carp, of the exposure of front after
front for the Reds. Here Is the tragic story
of gullible and/cc vindictive Americans. of~
the president's wife questioning the ccex-
mlttee's action. And of the Truman adm-
istration praising to oonratton a charge
against Parnell Thomas. a later chairman of
the eotnmltteq tpf a very.questionable prac-
tice but, one, t?: rNdah other congressmen
who
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THE NUCLEAR TEST BAN TREATY'"
. The Senate, as in Committee of the
Whole, resumed the consideration of
Executive M (88th Cong.. 1st sass.), the
treaty banning nuclear weapon tests In
the atmosphere, in outer space. ad
Mr. JACKSON obtained the floor,
Mr. MANSFIELD. Mr..President, will
the Senator from Washington allow me
to proceed for one-half minute?
Mr. JACKSON. Certainly.
ask unanimous colisent to have inserted
in the Racoon at :this point that excerpt
from the transcript of President Ken-
nedy's news conference on yesterday
having to do with the question of aittd-
Ing the treaty.
In this particular excerpt the queue
asked by the reporter Is answeredprqr
olsely and in -some detail. by the Fred-
dent, ' The answer. reafffins the con tl-
tutional right. that the senate has, and
has had since the founding of this Rq-
conference emphasizes what every one of
the 100 Senators.. here knows. and that
Is that if there is an amendment to'suay
treaty, that amendment will be reformd
to the Senate for its adlrfao,and conRnt
and approval on the basis ,of a votQ CC
two-thirds of the Senators present and
voting.
The PRESIDENT pro tempera.- Is
There being no objection, the ekoapt-
was ordered to be printed in the RSOOSDI.
as follows: 'ti
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Question. "Mr. President. some opponeAt f .
,of the test ban "treaty have expressed 'tits
fear that once the treaty has be" rails
:tied It Might then be possible later by I O-
utlve action to amend the treaty p 40,40
further limit the freedom of action of the
United States. What Is your teuitiofl to
Answer. "No; I can give a tategomw, ifs-
surance that the treaty. as you know, mot
be amended without the agreement. Of the
three basic signatories. The treaty Cannot
be changed in any way by the three basic
signatories, and the other, without the cn-
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