Speech #810325031

I received a response from Mr. Peurifoy. as followspage 369 of the printed hearings: ANswER. The Department has no recollection of any case. in the course of the last 5 years. where a visa has been withheld from a person applying as an affiliate of an international organization or an affiliate of a forejgn government. upon the basis of subversive activities of the nature referred to in your letter. Mr. President. in my principal address I presented to the Senate a r~sum6 of the facts on a number of typical cases of aliens who have entered the United States over the course of the last few years with diplomatic passports. It is inconceivable that any sane American would contend that these aliens do not constitute a definite threat to the security of the United States. and yet. Mr. President. under the present system of administration. these aliens and hundreds like them are being freely admitted into the United States over the protest of the Visa Division of the Department of State on the theory that we must do so in order to avoid giving offense to Communist Russia. Mr. President. the segment of the bill against which the State Department is waging a campaign of propaganda does just this and nothing more: It creates in the Department of State a Bureau of Passports and Visas to be headed by a director with rank and compensation not less than that of an Assistant Secretary of State. The Director shall have not less than 10 years experience in the Foreign Service of the United States and shall be appointed by the President. by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. He would have statutory authority to maintain direct and continuous liason with the internal security officers of the Government. Thus. the Director would have the same relationship to the Secretary of State that the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization now have to the Attorney General. I hope and trust. Mr.