COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
WILLIAM L. DAWSON, Illinois, Chairman

CHET HOLIFIELD, California
JOHN W. MCCORMACK, Massachusetts
EARL CHUDOFF, Pennsylvania
JACK BROOKS, Texas

L. H. FOUNTAIN, North Carolina
PORTER HARDY, JR., Virginia
JOHN A. BLATNIK, Minnesota
ROBERT E. JONES, Alabama
EDWARD A. GARMATZ, Maryland
JOHN E. MOSS, California
JOE M. KILGORE, Texas
DANTE B. FASCELL, Florida
MARTHA W. GRIFFITHS, Michigan
HENRY S. REUSS, Wisconsin
OVERTON BROOKS, Louisiana
ELIZABETH KEE, West Virginia

CLARE E. HOFFMAN, Michigan

R. WALTER RIEHLMAN, New York

CECIL M. HARDEN, Indiana
CHARLES B. BROWNSON, Indiana
GEORGE MEADER, Michigan
CLARENCE J. BROWN, Ohio
GLENARD P. LIPSCOMB, California
VICTOR A. KNOX, Michigan
WILLIAM E. MINSHALL, Ohio
EDWIN H. MAY, Connecticut
ROBERT H. MICHEL, Illinois
H. ALLEN SMITH, California
FLORENCE P. DWYER, New Jersey

CHRISTINE RAY DAVIS, Staff Director
ORVILLE S. POLAND, General Counsel
JAMES A. LANIGAN, A880ciate General Counsel
HELEN M. BOYER, Minority Professional Staff

SPECIAL SUBCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
JOHN E. MOSS, California, Chairman

DANTE B. FASCELL, Florida
WILLIAM L. DAWSON, Illinois, ex officio

CLARE E. HOFFMAN, Michigan

SAMUEL J. ARCHIBALD, Staff Director
JOHN J. MITCHELL, Chief Counsel
PAUL SOUTHWICK, Professional Staff Member

CONTENTS

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Index

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Statement of-

Donohoe, William J., Chief of Security Review Office, Department of
the Army...

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Kinney, Brig. Gen. A. J., former Director, Office of Information Serv-
ices, Department of the Air Force--

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Lamade, Capt. J. D., Deputy Chief of Information, Department of
the Navy-

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Luehman, Brig. Gen. Arno H., Director, Office of Information Services,
Department of the Air Force..

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Meloy, Maj. Gen. Guy S., Jr., Chief of Public Information, Depart-
ment of the Army.

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Moss, Chairman John E.

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Taylor, Rear Adm. E. B., Chief of Information, Department of the
Navy--

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Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record:

B-58 photos:

Cover of Aviation Week, December 17, 1956..

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Photo of B-58 landing and editorial, Aviation Week, December
24, 1956.

Staff memorandum on chronology of B-58 photos----
Defense Department censorship:

Excerpts from letter of assistant editor of Foreign Affairs maga-
zine about failure of Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor to obtain clear-
ance for article requested by the magazine (also exhibit IV-B).
Excerpts from speeches by Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, Chief of
Naval Operations, and DOD changes..

Memorandum of Navy Under Secretary Thomas S. Gates..
Missile secrecy:

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Order by Assistant Defense Secretary Murray Snyder restricting
information about Air Force missiles__

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Photos and news story about June 11, 1957, missile firing at Cape
Canaveral, Fla..

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Need to air service views: Excerpt from testimony of Lt. Gen. Idwal
Edwards...

Number in Army who can classify: Excerpt from report of the Wright
Commission on Government Security-

Reluctance of service Secretaries to hold press conferences:
Excerpt from story by Brig. Gen. Thomas R. Phillips, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch, December 1, 1956–..

Staff memorandum on interview with Gen. John E. Hull, member
of the Coolidge Committee on Classified Information (see also
exhibit III-A)__

Wright Commission: Letter from Loyd Wright to Congressman
Hoffman on contacts made by the Wright Commission with the
Department of Defense___

ADMINISTRATION AND PERSONNEL OF ARMy, Navy, and AIR FORCE

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EXHIBITS

INFORMATION OFFICES

Exhibit I-A. Analysis of answers to questionnaire on operations and per-
sonnel practices of the military service information offices...
Exhibit I-B. Limitation on public information funds: Defense Department
Directive 7210.1 of December 22, 1954, and subsequent instructions;
instruction of Navy Comptroller, January 15, 1957--

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Exhibit I-C. Army, Navy, and Air Force answers to subcommittee ques-
tionnaire on administration of information offices__ -

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ARMY INFORMATION PRACTICES

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Exhibit II-A. Search for qualified information officers-page 4, Army
Liaison Bulletin of January 1957..

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Exhibit II-C. Your Career in Information-Army Liaison Bulletin, Janu-
ary 1957

Exhibit II-B. Army Regulation 616-140-Personnel utilization, informa-
tion specialization

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SERVICE SECRETARIES' RELUCTANCE TO HOLD PRESS
CONFERENCES

Exhibit III-A. Correspondence between Gen. John E. Hull, a member of
the Coolidge Committee on Classified Information, and Congressman
Moss, June 28 and July 1, 1957__

DEFENSE DEPARTMENT CENSORSHIP OF THE SERVICES

Exhibit IV-A. Story by Monte Bourjaily, Jr., in the Army Times of
January 5, 1957, revealing details of plans for new pentomic division, and
an editorial from the same issue, Prying Up the Lid_
Exhibit IV-B. Letter from Philip W. Quigg, assistant editor Foreign
Affairs magazine, March 25, 1957, stating that Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor
was unable to obtain clearance for an article he had written at the maga-
zine's request - -

Exhibit IV-C. Staff memorandum showing Defense Department censor-
ship of speeches and articles by Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker and
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor.

NAVY CENSORSHIP

Exhibit V-A. Staff memorandum on Navy censorship of Collier's story on
Navy frogmen....

ALLEGED "LEAKS"

Exhibit VI-A. Ballistic missile contractors: Staff memorandum of alleged
"leak" cited by the Coolidge Committee on Classified Information, in-
cluding Wall Street Journal story of August 3, 1956; speech by Brig. Gen.
Don R. Ostrander, Assistant for Guided Missile Systems, Headquarters,
ARDC; and letter to Congressman Moss from Assistant Defense Secre-
tary Murray Snyder, June 28, 1957-

Exhibit VI-B. X-2 speed: Staff memorandum on alleged "leak" cited by
Coolidge Committee on Classified Information, including excerpts from
speech of Gen. Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff; New York
Times story of August 2, 1956; and excerpt from Postscripts column of
September 23, 1956, Washington Post and Times Herald.

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