JOURNAL OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL WEDNESDAY - 25 AUGUST 1954

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 10, 2001
• Sequence Number: 56
• Publication Date: August 25, 1954
• Content Type: NOTES

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Journal
Office of Legislative Counsel
Wednesday - 25 August 1954
the text of a message
ith Congressman
Hillings and his Subcommittee on itc trip to that area. A
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i ings, who indicates that he may now make the trip alone with a staff
man. In connection with a briefing of Cong. Hillings (which has been
approved by Mr. Kirkpatrick), he would like such a briefing to be largely
restricted to the political situation in Central and South America, with
particular emphasis on the Communist conspiracy and penetration of the
various governments. The countries in which he expressed a particular
interest outside of Guatemala were Costa Rica, Panama, Chile, Brazil,
British Guiana. The Congressman would like the briefing on Monday
morning, 30 August.
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2. and I called on Gong. Kersten in furtherance of
MM instructions from Mr. Wisner to keep the Congressman
informed of the situation in Guatemala. -acquainted him with 25X1A
additional documentary material which we are getting, and promised to
send him copies through this Office as the material becomes available.
3. I reviewed with the cur -
rent status of arrangemen s for surfacing is set forth
in para. 3 of the Journal of 24 August. It was the General's feeling that
operationally considerable impact might be lost by surfacing as late as 20
September and that in his opinion Mr. Wisner might wish to turn to other
media than the Jenner Committee if appropriate arrangements could not
be made. It was agreed that I should explore the possibility of using another
Senator with the Jenner Committee on a time schedule which would call for
a release of the State Department noted to n 8 Sept.
with Executive sessions to start on that date open sessions on 13 Sept.
We explored the problem of press coverage if the hearin s were concur-
rent with the McCarthy censure hearings, had asked me to
re-explore the entire problem with Committee Counsel Carpenter at the
earliest possible time. I urged to have the appropriate case
officer start preparing material on the so that we might
forward it to the Committee when desired.
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