CIA INTEREST IN ADMISSION OF ALIENS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00610R000100170032-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 15, 2003
• Sequence Number: 32
• Publication Date: March 2, 1949
• Content Type: MF

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
SUBJECT:
2 March 1949
?Kr. J. R. Blandford
House Armed Services Committee
CIA Interest in Admission of Aliens.
1. Reference is made to Section 8 of LB. 2663 as
amended and reported by the full Committee of the House
Armed Services Comm1 ttees. which section deals with the
admisaiam of 100 aliens a year into the United States.
2. This Section as reported has the full support
both of the Committee and this Agency. It should be pointed
out that the purpose of this Section is one intimately tied
into the naticmal intelligence mission, and is not in any --
way cannoned with the broad humanitarLanprcpcsals
ing general immigration legislation dealing with quotas,
displaced, persons and other applicants for entry into the,
United States.
3. Throyefta misconception that this Section deals
primarily with problems of substantive immigration the -
House judiciary Committee has made it known that they pro-
pose to move to strike the Section from the bill when it
reaches the Floor, and have the whole matter referred to
their Committee for further study. As the Section is not
basically one which would oome within normal immigration
legislation,. but deals with policy matters whiah come
exclusively -within the jurisdiction of ?the Armed Services
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Committee, we Irish to woritain this Section in the CIA
legislation as reported from the Armed Services Committee.
. 4. The Central Intelligence Agency has a Melly
specialized interest in the ax3niasion to the United States
of a very limited number of aliens (100 per year). The
problem has been discussed with the Department of State,
representatives of the Displaced Persons Commission, and
officials of the Immigration and Naturalization Service,
and it was the unanimous agreement of all concerned that--
no present or proposed general legislation for the admis-
sion of aliens would adequately fulfill CIAts needs. The
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IMMORAID131 FOR TEC FILES
SUBJECT: Comments received by the House Armed
Services Committee an proposed CIA lesialati
1. The House Armed Services Committee bee re-
ceived a telegram addressed to its Cliairson, Congresomeu
Vinson, dated 23 Febrftry, fimmn Mr. George Periusler?,
Executive I Secretary or the American Slav Congress. The
Congress is an the Attorney Generals subversive list.
The letter urges the Committee not to approve the MCA ?
1411, and is quite vituperatively_ indicating that a, Com-
mittee which passed this bill had sunk to the ultimate
degradation and was an insult to the liberal forces WELL*
bevel:gaped to build America, particularly those or Slavic
origin.
2. A three-page telegram dated 24 February,
from New York City was received from a. Mr. James3E.Gilderdes
ini4catil that he knew of no public trust in CIA comparable
to that o J. Edgar Hoover nnd the I. He indicated that
the powers and secrecy granted CIA in the bill were not
warranted by the organization, and that the Committee
should not approve it. It contains long and laudatory
plugs for the FBI and Mr. Hoover.
3. There is a telegram from Mr. August L.
Roberts of Hemmen, New York, urging approval of the billy,
and suggesting that the law include for the 100 aliens a
year a guarantee of employment for then as a reward and
extra compensation.
4. There is a letter from Mr. John H. Bow. Jr
of the law firm of Crenshaw, Hansen, Ware & Brandon, of
Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Bowman stated that be has only
written his Congressman once before, but felt that the
principles of the CIA bill were so sound and essential
that he wished to urge its passage.
Walter L. Pforzheimer
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