AMERICAN SPY INQUIRY
CONDEMNATION BY PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON. August 19. The current Congressional “spy hearings’’ were an infringement of the Bill of Rights and of the American civil liberties guaranteed by the bill, said President Truman to-day. . He disclosed that the Administration was studying the possibility of introducing new and more stringent
anti-espionage laws, but he emphasised that the drafting of such laws was very difficult without infringing civil and individual rights. “I am against any Gestapo law,’ he said. The President denied that any vita! war secrets had “leaked” from the United States Government during the war.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25579, 21 August 1948, Page 7
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