Speech #840235995

Charles Snyder Miner. a former newspaperman and a businessman in China. attempted for 5 years to get an exit permit. without success. and only a few weeks ago was able to get such an exit permit. Fourth. That governments of the free world were issuing "sight unseen" visas to these socalled White Russians by the process of granting a "blank check" for the issuance of visas by a representative of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration. and the International High Commissioner for Refugees in Hong Kong. This representative would issue such visas. supposedly on behalf of a country of the free world. to these socalled White Russians as they entered the crown colony of Hong Kong. This "blank check" visa system was necessary in order to get these socalled White Russians into Hong Kong because the British authorities very wisely would not permit any of these people to enter the crown colony unless one of the unsuspecting governments of the free world had promised an entry visa to them. The officials of the crown colony of Hong Kong obviously put the security of the crown colony first because they felt these characters were unwelcome in the crown colony and so long as they passed on to some other part of the world. that no security risk was imposed upon them. and therefore no responsibility was theirs. Fifth. The representative of the United States escapee program in Hong Kong. the program that uses American dollars to make this breach of the free world security possible. releases the American taxpayers money and makes possible the movement of these socalled refugees out of Red China. without any field security investigation made on them. into some 30odd unsuspecting countries of the free world. When I questioned the United States escapee program representative in Hong Kong on this matter he was very evasive. attempted to shift the responsibility to the British representative of the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration in Hong Kong. The function of the United States escapee program representative is supposedly to pass upon the adequacy and completeness of the field security investigation made upon these people because that is a specific requirement of the law authorizing public funds to pay the ocean transportation of such refugees. but the facts are that this representative of the United States escapee program could not pass upon the adequacy of the security investigation because no such security investigation was possible on these socalled White Russians. It is obvious therefore that both the letter of the law and the spirit of the law are violated through the use of any of the American taxpayers money on these socalled White Russian refugees. All these pertinent facts were made known by me in a report to the full Committee on the Judiciary on December 21. 1955. Since submission of that report I have sought a fullscale public hearing on the issues raised in my report in order that all the facts pertaining thereto might be put before the judgment of the American people.