WHY DOES STATE DEPT. BLITHELY IGNORE FACTS?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000200110091-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 1999
• Sequence Number: 91
• Publication Date: October 18, 1961
• Content Type: NSPR

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Soviet brutality and aggression In"- ' Lodge. Mr. Bang$enseb refused'?
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he had taken testimony. Many of Mr Barco
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these witnosies bud relatives be- cgrding to the suheommlttee,
hind the Iraq Curtain. saW Liar on a total of eig-
the discharge of Mr. Bang=den- Dulles was not Informed that.
sen, a dedicated career diplomat, Bahag-Jensen wanted to tee,
u?:is Andrew Cosdiet. an Ameri- until May. S. 1957. By tom,
can and the euecwtive assistant woW -be, defectors were,tigi fly;
to the Secretary General. in Soviet hands and tlhefr tnfatt
matlon ' lost to the U.S.
But the Bang-Jensen case, as a The CIA and the FBI, which
retort issued by the Senate Sub'; was also alerted, properly refUed
committee confirms, goes far to see Mr. Bang-Jensen without
beyond the death of a single some simple suggestion f . the
Haan. (Parenthetically. R May be State Department that they `do
asked why the State Department so. To do so independently
under both the - Eisenhower' and might have seemed like ln*fet'?
Kennedy administrations fought enee in United-Nadong ae lvitisa.
to dei perately to suppress this de- -gut for some reason." the Sen-
tailed and. carefully researched .ate Subcommittee notes; "this
document.) suggestion was not forthcoming."
r xperts n Soviet political ter- In point of fact, Mr. BangJeusen
rer- are convinced that Mr. Bang- was treated with some hostility
Jensen was killed be.:ause he had .by U. S. government representa-
intervened in an effort to help fives
.
several would-be Communist de- THE STATE Department ad-
teeters. These men, who believed wits to knowledge of part of the
ttyai Mr. Bang;-.lt;nsen could In, Bang-Jensen story, but it has no
tercede for them with the U. S. explamtica for its dilatory attt-
government, were suddenly ship- (ode. Cle:trly, 11e attitude pr(
ocd hack to the. Soviet Union nailed that wa; -, t ;ho pints the
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