LETTER TO COLLEAGUE FROM SEYMOUR HALPERN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP71B00364R000500190005-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 20, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 23, 1969
• Content Type: LETTER

SEYMOUR N "RY,ved For Release 2003/04/23 : CIA-RDP71 B00364R000500190005-8 BANKING AND CURRENCY
STH DISTRICT, N IWP COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON OFFICE:
HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
DISTRICT OFFICE:
89.31 161ST STREET
JAMAICA. NEW YORK 11432
Congrezz of the ?niteb &tato
Nowe of Reprezentatibez
Dear Colleague:
4.5bington, O.C.
January 23, 1969
SUBCOMMITTEES:
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
CONSUMER AFFAIRS
VETERANS' AFFAIRS
COMMITTEE
SUBCOMMITTEES:
HOSPITALS
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
HOUSING
I know you will be interested to learn that forty-three of our
colleagues (list attached) have agreed to join in sponsoring legislation
to establish a Department of Peace and a Joint Committee on Peace
in Congress.
We are planning to formally introduce the bill on February 6.
If you wish to join in co-sponsoring this bill, but have not yet informed
me, I would appreciate your letting me know not later than 12:00 noon
on February 5. Please notify John Mathews of my staff -- extension
2536.
Prior to the introduction of the bill, we are planning a conference
of the sponsors to date -- both Senate and House -- to revise the
legislation (copy of earlier bill enclosed). and to coordinate our plans.
The conference is scheduled for January 29, at 2:30 p.m. in Room
H202 of the Capitol. If you wish to attend this or to be informed of
any proposed revision, kindly call Mr. Mathews.
Public support for a Department of Peace and a Joint Committee
on Peace in the Congress is very encouraging. Favorable articles
have been published in more than twenty national publications and many
Congressmen have received volumes of mail urging this action.
I think it is significant that President Nixon pledged "to consecrate
my office, my energies, and all the wisdom I can summon, to the cause
of peace among nations. " This legislation can help to implement that
pledge.
I want you to know how much we would welcome your association
with us on this monumental legislation.
Since rely,
Encl: Peace Bill
Sponsors
HR 19650 (90th)
CRC, 3/6/2003
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PEACE BILL SPONSORS
as of January 21, 1969
Joseph P. Addabbo (N.Y.)
Mario Biaggi (N.Y.)
Edward P. Boland (Mass.)
George E. Brown, Jr. (Calif.)
Phillip Burton (Calif.)
James A. Byrne (Pa.)
John Conyers (Mich.)
Dominick V. Daniels (N.J.)
John H. Dent (Pa.)
Harold D. Donohue (Mass.)
Thaddeus Dulski (N.Y.)
Don Edwards (Calif.)
Leonard Farbstein (N.Y.)'
Donald M. Fraser (Minn.)
James G. Fulton (Pa.)
Richard Fulton (Tenn.)
Kenneth J. Gray (Ill.)
Seymour Halpern (N.Y.)
Augustus F. Hawkins (Calif.)
Henry Helstoski (N.J.)
Frank Horton (N.Y.)
Charles S. Joelson (N.J.)
Joseph E. Karth (Minn.)
Allard K. Lowenstein (N.Y.)
Richard D. McCarthy (N.Y.)
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. (Calif.)
Spark M. Matsunaga (Hawaii)
Abner J. Mikva (Ill.)
Robert H. Mollahan (W. Va.)
William 'S.-:!Moorhead (Pa.)
Robert N. C. Nix (Pa.)
Thomas M. Pelly (Wash.)
Claude Pepper (Fla.)
Bertram L. Podell (N.Y.)
Thomas M. Rees (Calif.)
Henry S. Reuss (Wis.)
Benjamin S. Rosenthal (N.Y.)
Edward R. Roybal (Calif.)
William F. Ryan (N.Y.)
Leonor K. Sullivan (Mo.)
Charles A. Vanik (Ohio)
Jerome R. Waldie (Calif.)
Charles H. Wilson (Calif.)
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