Foreign espionage services maintain strict supervision over their activities in this country. Before passage of the McCarran Act last year little could be done to keep out any alien who presented a diplomatic passport. The Visa Division of the State Department tried to exclude some Red spies with diplomatic status. but in every case the action was overruled by higherups in the Department. A key purpose of the McCarran Act was to provide an ironclad legal basis for closing that loophole. It gave the Government power to exclude from the United States all aliens. regardless of their status. who were coming to this country for sabotage. espionage. propaganda. or any other purpose that would endanger the public safety. and to deport from the United States any alien who slipped through the border and then engaged in these antiAmerican activities. But the recent report of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee makes clear that these provisions are being virtually ignored. From July 1947 to March 1951. a total of 3.616 visas were issued to diplomats from Russia and other ironcurtain countries. Not a single visa application for an alien diplomat has been formally refused since passage of the McCarran Act. although in two or three cases visas were not issued. Further. Walter W. Wiggins. investigation chief of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. admitted that not a single Red diplomat. out of the many thousands in this country. has been kicked out since the enactment of the McCarran Act. During the Senate investigation. Wiggins was asked what his department was doing to find out whether any diplomats could be deported for subversive activities. His reply: We are making no particular effort to investigate those. Yet even Wiggins admitted what almost everyone knows to be true "that the control and direction of the Communist apparatus in the United States is centered in aliens in the consulates. embassies. and international organizations." For example. the Communist spy ring that stole many Canadian atom bomb secrets worked through the Russian Embassy in Washington.
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Generalization that the control and direction of the Communist apparatus in the United States is centered in aliens in the consulates, embassies, and international organizations.