Foreign Ex-Spies Admitted to U.S.A.

Grey River Argus, 19 July 1949, Page 3

Foreign Ex-Spies Admitted to U.S.A.

WASHINGTON, Juiy 17. Tim Central Intelligence Agency reported to Congress that 32 representatives of foreign Governments who had been given visas to enter the United States had records of spy work abroad. Rear-Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter director of the agency said his report concerned the operations of persons concerned outside the United States and that information on their activities in the United States would have to be obtained from other Federal Government agencies such as the F. 8.1. The agency said that, in addition 29 persons listed as high-ranking Communist Party officials, had been admitted to the United States. Admiral Hillenkoetter’s report was made to tne Senate sub-committee which is studying legislation to prevent alien subversives from entering the United States and to expedite tlie deportation of those now in the country. The deputy Under-Secretary of State, Mr John Peurifoy, told the sub-committee that his approved the entry of about 10 aliens to the United States de,spite recommendations against their entry on the ground of security. In all of these cases the Slate Department decided that the securitv phase of each case was not sufficient to outweigh other aspects.