Mr. Speaker. it is essential that the Department of States Passport Division maintain records concerning persons whose citizenship is questionableare in the United States contrary to law. smugglers. revolutionists. subversives. convicted criminals. violators of immigration regulations in the past. military deserters. selective service delinquents. airplane hijackers. adjudicated mental incompetents. and so forth. The maintenance of such records by name In the Department is appropriately designated a "lookout" file and is under the jurisdiction of the Director of the Passport Office. a staunch though oft misrepresented American. Miss Frances Knight. Last week. the New York Times again indulged itself in dissemination of semiparanoid editorializing in the form of remarks in a column by Tom Wicker referring to Director Knight as "the dragon lady of the State Department." and to the lookout file as some kind of an invasion of privacy in the nature of snooping.
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