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There are also a number of trading commissions such as Amtorg. press organizations. and similar agencies. In addition to consulate and embassy representatives. It is important here to note that the Attorney General further stated that because of restrictive exemptions and provisions in our immigration laws the Department of Justice has not excluded from admission into the United States a single person to whom a visa had been issued as an affiliate of an international organization or as an affiliate of a foreign government. Some time ago the subcommittee submitted to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency a sample of 100 names of persons who had been issued visas as affiliates of international organizations or as affiliates of foreign governments. The Director was asked to describe the background abroad of these persons. His answer includes the statement that(A) Thirtytwo percent "have reportedly or allegedly been engaged in active work for the intelligence services of their respective countries." (B) Twentynine percent "are high ranking Communist officials." He stated that it must be assumed that by virtue of their positions that they are working ardently for the benefit of their governments. This activity. by definition. and in the light of known Communist methods. must be considered to be subversive and against the interest of the United States. (C) He further stated that 21 percent "have reportedly or allegedly been engaged in active Communist organizational work of an underground or subversive nature outside their homelands." Notwithstanding these statements of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency regarding a sample of these cases. recently. the Deputy Under Secretary of State and the Chief of the Visa Division testified that they had no recollection of any case in which a visa had been withheld from a person applying as an affiliate of an international organization or as. an affiliate of a foreign government. This Is so despite the fact that the State Department* had received adverse security reports on many of these cases. So it is shown that over 150.000 aliens have been admitted into the United States in the past 10 years as affiliates of foreign governments. and over 8.500 have been admitted during this period as affiliates of international organizations.