Right here. I may say that although the admissions into the United States of aliens in diplomatic status from behind the iron curtain alone is currently running at the rate of approximately a thousand a year. the officials of the Department of Justice have testified that under the present laws they are powerless to exclude from our shores any alien who presents a diplomatic passport. Moreover the Chief of the Visa Division of the Department of State testified before our subcommittee that in every case in which the Visa Division had disapproved a visa application on security grounds involving an official of a foreign government or an affiliate of an international organization. the case had been approved by the higher echelon in the Department of State. He further testified that these cases in which the Visa Division had disapproved the application on security grounds but in which the division was uniformly overruled were running at the rate of about 8 or 10 a month. It was further developed by our subcommittee that the Passport Division and Visa Division of the Department of State are precluded by directives of higher officials of the Department of State from direct contact with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other internal intelligence agencies of the Government. The only intelligence information available to the Visa Division and to the Passport Division of the Department of State is filtered through intermediate offices of the Department. About a year ago I transmitted to the Chief of our Central Intelligence Agency a list of 100 names which were taken at random from names of several thousand aliens who have gained admission into the United States in diplomatic status. The Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency was asked to report upon the background of these 100 typical cases on the basis of the information contained in the files. but without revealing the Identity of the individuals or the sources of the information.
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