Hearings on Attempts at Subversion and Espionage by Diplomatic Personnel: Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. May 10 and 11, 1956Reviews Soviet efforts to obtain information from armed services employees. |
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Page 5816 - The Committee on Un-American Activities, as a whole or by subcommittee, is authorized to make from time to time investigations of (i) the extent, character, and objects of un-American propaganda activities in the United States, (ii) the diffusion within the United States of subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated from foreign countries or of a domestic origin and attacks the principle of the form of government as guaranteed by our Constitution, and (iii) all other questions in relation...
Page 5816 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Housing Amendments of 1957".
Page 5816 - Constitution, and (iii) all other questions in relation thereto that would aid Congress in any necessary remedial legislation. The Committee on Un-American Activities shall report to the House (or to the Clerk of the House if the House is not in session) the results of any such investigation, together with such recommendations as it deems advisable. For the purpose of any such investigation, the Committee on Un-American Activities or any subcommittee thereof, is authorized to sit and act at such...
Page 5853 - Will you raise your right hand, please? Do you swear the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Mr.
Page 5825 - I think you should qualify your question with an explanation of what the word "confidential" denoted at that time. Mr. ARENS. Use your own description and characterization. What was the nature of the information to which you had access in the course of your supervision of this survey or these surveys? Mr. LEVINE. The information I had access to was statistical reports from industrial establishments. The CHAIRMAN. In other words, you knew exactly what our defense potential was at that moment, did...
Page 5845 - Now, may I ask you, did he identify himself in that conversation, the telephone conversation? Mr. HATKIN. Yes. Mr. ARENS. What did he say ? Mr. HATKIN. As far as I can recall he said, "This is Mr. Machoff." Of course I didn't have to have his name mentioned to me. As soon as I heard his voice I knew who he was. His voice was perfectly familiar to me by that time. He said he would like to meet with me the next evening, that is, Friday evening, and he fixed a time and place for that meeting. Mr. ARENS....
Page 5842 - ... that, do you recall ? Mr. HATKIN. It was a Tuesday. Mr. ARENS. Do you recall what time it was ? Mr. HATKIN. It was 9 : 30 in the morning. Mr. ARENS. Tell us in as much detail as you can what transpired. Mr. HATKIN. I took him into the house, and meantime my wife had left. I was left with him alone. And he asked me to tell him about myself. I told him I had worked for the Government, but I am doing free-lance economic research work now. And I asked him if he would like to see a resume of myself...
Page 5837 - ... that, sir. Mr. ARENS. Do you now know that Al Bernstein has been a subject of interrogation by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee? Mr. HATKIN. I was not aware of that. Mr. ARENS. Because of the identification of him under oath as being a member of the Communist conspiracy ? Mr. HATKIN. I see. I was not aware of that. I was not aware of that interrogation. Mr. ARENS. How did you first meet Al Bernstein ? Mr.
Page 5818 - ... that the testimony you are about to give this subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God ? Mr. KRAMER. I do. TESTIMONY OF SIMON KRAMER, BROOKLYN, NY, ACCOMPANIED BY DAVID REIN, ESQ., WASHINGTON, DC Mr. ARENS. Will you kindly identify yourself by name and residence? Mr. KRAMER. My name is Simon Kramer. I live at 122 Fenimore Street, in Brooklyn. I am generally known as Sidney, but Simon is...
Page 5838 - ... him remuneration for his services ? Mr. HATKIN. No. Mr. ARENS. What was the basis upon which he represented you then? Mr. HATKIN. He just undertook to represent me. Mr. ARENS. Did he tell you why ? Mr. HATKIN. No. I was referred to him, and he said he would represent me. And it was agreeable to me. I asked him if he was a lawyer, and he said he was. Mr.