JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL TUESDAY - 10 JUNE 1952

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2006
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• Publication Date: June 10, 1952
• Content Type: NOTES

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Office of Legislative Counsel
Tuesday - 10 June 1952
2. Mr. Harvey informed Legislative Counsel and Comptroller
that Congressman Busbey, a junior member of the Appropriations Com-
mittee, had queried him some weeks ago as to the amount and location
of the CIA budget. Mr. Harvey told him that unfortunately he was not
able to answer that question and mf referred Busbey to Congressman
Taber. Harvey told Mr. Taber that Busbey would query him on this
point and Mr. Taber indicated that he would find some means of brush-
ing him off.
3. In response to CIA request, the conferees of the House and
Senate Judiciary Committees have included two amendments to the
Omnibus Immigration bill to take care of certain CIA operational
problems.
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Mr. Sourwine requested the loan of Mr. H's affidavit in
the matter for Senator McCarran. The Senator wished to show
it to the Assistant Attorney General, McInerney, who is considering a
possible perjury case againstII I again impressed on Sourwine
that we had a pledge from Senator McCarran not to make H's name
public and that therefore the affidavit would not be useable in legal
proceedings. Sourwine assured me that he would remind Senator
McCarran of this pledge upon handing him the affidavit (he requested
this information not be mentioned to State Department).
5. Reference memorandum to Legislative Counsel
dated 6
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STATINTL June 1952 from Gale Allen, Secretary of the Interagency Defector Com-
mittee, Subject: F- I I discussed this memorandum on
9 June with Mr. Wisner. Mr. Hulick informed me today that Mr. Wisner
had brought the memorandum to the DCI's attention and that I was authorized
to informs the ATzpc appropriate persons: 1) that had STAT
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recently emerged from behind the Iron Curtain; 2) that he is prepared
to testify as to his knowled e of the Katyn Massacre; 3) that it would be
difficult for us to bring I Lo this country for at least a month,
but that it would be possible to bring him here later in the ear; and
4) that we would secure the best possible deposition from if the STAT
Committee desired one. I informed Mr. Mitchell, Committee Counsel,
of this matter and he stated that there would be no further Committee
hearings until after 1 July and possibly not until September. At that STATINTL
time he felt it might be desirable to bring to this country to testify.
STATINTL He was already aware that 0 had arrived as far as hl and I STAT
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did not inform him as to his present whereabouts other than to state that
would be willing to testify in public or whether such public
testimony would endanger any relatives behind the Iron Curtain.
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