I want to say that I do not believe anybody on the subcommittee is against the new passport system. if it can be proved to be more efficient and less costly. But we do not really know enough about this. and we did not want them to go ahead on it until we knew more about it. We expanded the Soviet refugee assistance section to include any Communist country in Eastern Europe. and we cut the amount we give. We put in a provision that no more than 20 percent of the money may be used to settle refugees In any other country than :Vsrael. The reason for that was that we found that refugees from the Soviet Union in the beginring were resettled in Israel and this money was used to settle them In Israel. but a lot of these people got exit visas to go to Israel and ultimately when they got to Vienna. it was found they were going to other places and our people were giving them the money to send them there. We do not think this ought to be an ironclad thing. So the primary thing was to meet this problem. and so we said that no more than 20 percent could be used for this purpose.
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