ADMISSION OF ALIENS AS COMMITTEE WITNESSES Recommendation The Congress should by law authorize its investigating committees, after consultation with the Attorney General, to bring into the United States as witnesses aliens whose admission will not endanger the national security, and whose testimony is desired. SANCTUARY FOR COMMUNIST DEFECTORS Recommendation The Congress should enact legislation to assure sanctuary in the United States and a decent standard of living to Communist defectors who bring valuable information. EVIDENCE IN PROCEEDING BEFORE SACB Recommendation The Congress should by law give the Subversive Activities Control Board authority to find Communist domination of a union on the basis of all the available evidence, thus eliminating arbitrary limitations and restrictions upon evidence which the Board may consider. FALSE NON-COMMUNIST AFFIDAVIT BY UNION OFFICER Recommendation The National Labor Relations Board should be given power to suspend a union from benefits under the Labor Relations Act when it finds that an officer or officers of that union have filed a false affidavit or affidavits of non-Communist affiliation, until such officer or officers shall have been outsted from union office. PROCEEDINGS BY MEMBERS TO DETERMINE COMMUNIST DOMINATION OF THEIR UNION Recommendation The Communist Control Act should be amended to provide a procedure by which union members may institute a proceeding for determination by the Subversive Activities Control Board of the question of Communist domination of their union. USE OF LABOR UNION FUNDS FOR COMMUNIST PURPOSES AS A CRIMINAL OFFENSE Recommendation The Congress should enact legislation making it a criminal offense knowingly to give or transmit funds of a labor union to a Communist or Communist organization, or to use such funds for Communist purposes. WITHDRAWAL OF NLRB BENEFITS FROM UNIONS CONTRIBUTING FUNDS FOR COMMUNIST PURPOSES Recommendation The Congress should consider legislation to withdraw NLRB benefits from any union organization which knowingly contributes funds to a Communist or a Communist organization or for Communist purposes. PROTECTION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE PREMISES Recommendation Congress should enact legislation to strengthen the laws against sabotage by broadening the definitions of "war premises" and "national-defense premises" to include premises which may be used as war premises or national-defense premises, so as to protect such plants even in the process of construction. PROTECTION OF STRATEGIC DEFENSE FACILITIES Recommendation The Congress should enact legislation authorizing the President to guard strategic defense facilities against persons believed to be disposed to commit sabotage or espionage. PROTECTION OF COMMUNICATIONS FROM SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY Recommendation Appropriate committees of Congress should undertake speedily a study to determine what legislation is necessary to protect private and Government communications by telegraph, cable, telephone, and radio from subversive activity. Recommendation RECIPROCITY OF PRIVILEGES There should be a thorough review of all existing laws and regulations with a view toward amendments thereof which would deny TASS representatives privileges and rights not accorded foreign representatives of the press in the U.S.S.R. DENIAL OF POLICE CREDENTIALS TO TASS Recommendation TASS representatives should be barred by United States Government agencies from all confidential and off-the-record press conferences and should be denied police credentials. IMPORTATION OF FOREIGN PROPAGANDA Recommendation Legislation should be enacted to provide that any person not within the United States who uses the United States mails or any instrumentality of interstate or foreign commerce within the United States to circulate or disseminate any political propaganda shall be regarded as within the United States and as subject to the provisions of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. DISSEMINATION OF SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA BY FOREIGN DIPLOMATS Recommendation The Congress should enact legislation making dissemination of Communist or other subversive propaganda in the United States an improper activity for foreign diplomatic or consular personnel. MAIL SUBSIDY TO COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA Recommendation The Congress should by law deny all forms of mail subsidy to Communist propaganda. DENIAL OF SECOND- AND FOURTH-CLASS MAILING PRIVILEGES FOR Recommendation COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA Since second-class and fourth-class mail is carried at a deficit, which means partially at the expense of United States taxpayers, Congress should by law deny second-class and fourth-class mail privileges to foreign governments and their representatives who engage in Communist propaganda. REVIEW OF UNITED NATIONS PERSONNEL FROM NON-COMMUNIST Recommendation COUNTRIES Because all persons who are subservient to the Communist international organization are in fact agents of the Soviet Government, the subcommittee urges the President of the United States to instruct the American delegation to press for a thorough review of the entire United Nations personnel from non-Communist countries, and to cooperate with delegations from such countries for the purpose of eliminating all personnel from their respective countries who are members of the Communist international organization or who are subject to its discipline. Similar instructions concerning the desirability of eliminating Communists who come from non-Communist nations should be given with respect to personnel of specialized agencies of the United Nations, including the Monetary Fund, Bank for Reconstruction and Development, UNESCO, and the International Labor Organization. Recommendation DUTIES OF U.N. EMPLOYEES The United States should take steps through proper channels to cause the United Nations to define the duties of its employees in such a way as not to put a premium upon disloyalty to an employee's own country. Recommendation REVISION OF UNITED NATIONS RULES The subcommittee urges the President to instruct the American delegation to the United Nations to press for revision of any United Nations rules or contracts which limit the power of the Secretary General to dismiss any American employees who are members of the Communist international organization or are subject to its discipline. POWER OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS EMPLOYEES LOYALTY Recommendation BOARD The International Organizations Employees Loyalty Board should by law be given authority to summon witnesses and compel testimony. DISLOYALTY AMONG AMERICANS EMPLOYED BY INTERNATIONAL Recommendations ORGANIZATIONS The Congress should enact legislation to deal with the problem of disloyalty among Americans employed by international organizations. LIMIT ON MOVEMENTS OF COMMUNIST DIPLOMATIC PERSONNEL Recommendation The Government of the United States should take steps to limit more effectively the movements and activities of Soviet and other Communist diplomatic and semidiplomatic personnel in this country. INTERFERENCE BY FOREIGN DIPLOMATS Recommendation Congress should enact legislation designed to limit the interference by foreign diplomatic or consular personnel with the internal affairs of the United States. U.N. EMPLOYEES WORKING AGAINST MEMBER NATION Recommendation The United States should take steps through proper channels to procure recognition by the United Nations that it is just as bad for an employee of an international organization to be working against the interests of a particular member nation as to be working for the interests of a particular member nation. STUDY OF LAWS AGAINST INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE Recommendation Legislation should be enacted to protect the internal security of the United States by the enactment of laws to more effectively deter and punish industrial espionage. Recommendation STUDY OF ESPIONAGE ACT That a continuing study be made by the Committee on the Judiciary, in cooperation with the Department of Justice, of the Espionage Act and related legislation with a view to determining what revisions may be necessary to deal effectively with present-day security problems. Recommendation BAN ON SLAVE LABOR GOODS The subcommittee should continue to support legislation similar to S. 3632, 83d Congress, making it a felony to import or ship in interstate commerce any commodity or goods produced by slave labor. ACTION BY SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES CONTROL BOARD Recommendation All cases brought before the Subversive Activities Control Board should proceed to hearings as speedily as possible. HOLDOVER IN OFFICE OF MEMBER OF SACB Recommendation Legislation should be enacted to amend the Subversive Activities Control Act so as to provide that a member of the Subversive Activities Control Board whose term has expired may continue to hold office, during a period not to exceed 1 year thereafter, until his successor has been appointed and qualified. EVALUATION OF SECURITY INFORMATION Recommendation Legislation should be enacted providing, under the Subversive Activities Control Board, machinery for evaluating, for purposes of initial employment by the Government or by a Government contractoremployer, derogatory security information respecting an individual who applies for such evaluation. Such evaluation should be neither a substitute for nor an appeal from the security evaluation resulting from regular security procedures in any Government agency or department, nor should such evaluation be permitted to supersede or be substituted for the security clearance required by any agency. Such legislation should, however, operate to give an applicant a place where he can explain derogatory information of a security nature respecting him, and give him also, if his explanation is satisfactory the same opportunities for employment by the Government or by a Government contractor-employer that would be enjoyed by a person concerning whom no derogatory information was of record. CONTINUATION OF PROCEEDINGS BEFORE SACB AFTER DISSOLUTION OF RESPONDENT ORGANIZATION Recommendation The Congress should consider legislation to permit proceedings before the Subversive Activities Control Board to continue against a respondent organization and its officers and members even though, after the case has commenced, the organization purports to dissolve or change its name. |