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Cal• Oil Dulles __ , .. The Senate !o\rmed ServR · • · ~ G " ices Committee said ThursUSSla · ets day present plans \}'ill assure "effective defense"·. or the 

B h Off United Stales but there can be rus . on . no, guarantee or complete pro-

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1' . · ' · · tection' against an •atomic asM.issirig ·S pj. .. -·. · ~~~~;. \o~mitte~ ~ad~: the! 

': '.. '.;.:?:~•.,.:' .. , .. ( ,,,1slatement·'after. hearing whatl -~· · · ,,,. · ·, · ··:,'was described as "the most top- ·~, ' BY Lhe ,'Dolled Preu ·secret briefing ever given the' 

Tf!e United:States has given committee." · 

. the.£ diploillaUcf.Jbi;ush-off. · to The stftement was issued at, ';np~a·s:'secq~d. b~d •for infor- the conclusion of a specl~l study' , Uo · on·'~Yuri 'Rastvorov undertake!! last fall because _of ~~ . n . . ' "the growmg menace of Soviet 

missing Soviet diplomaL-s~y, development in• the nuclear 

the Stale Dep;μ-~ent di~- and"' thermonuclear fields." :· closed ;-a'hursd~Yi · . " ·, It said: "The measures now · . _Departm.en~ • " pre~s ~: offi~er under way" and planned for the ~ .Lincoln • White ·" said ~ Soviet future should, together with 

Ambassador Gce>rgl- N. Zlll'."U· our offensive forces provide •· bin '••raised· 'Ch~! question~ .of an effective' defense' for the 

"Rastvorov," who. dropped·)out United States commensurate,-,----...... ---:----"'.' i. of sight i.n Tokyo ·two ip.onths with the thr~al." · . '. ' ._- ago,~ during a;- call ·Wed~esday Sen. Leverett · Saltonstall all the facts he caq reveal on Secretary'· of :.state. John CR-Mass.), chairman 0 the com- abou~ the· full power of .. the 

Fosltr Dulles. .· .. , mittee gave out the statement atomic and hydrogen bombs. 

White said in respons~ to after the group secretly heard '.'-'hey join.ed -l?en. Alexander • questions that Dulles t~ld a two-hour report by Robert c. Wiley. (R·\~1s.) m ·the d~mand 

'the •mbassado,r ~e.would _giv~ Sprague, electronics expert and followmg disclos~re that super- \he matter his attention. manufacturer 'from N 0 r th weapon·. production schedy.les This .frequently.- is aJ ,diplo· Adams· Mass. . have been :revised, sharply qp- . matic ·"1'BY ~ of .. cons~gnlμg a ···Sprague ronducted the spe- ward. '.~ -'.·' - " · ·'·· 1 

mattl!ro':'to, tqe1 ·ple-and-forgel cial study and his report will I · , categow. · · ' · :·. ' "~ be · turnet over •lo President .. The ·.J.1nited · States has been Eisenhower Tuesday by .a playing·; a cat-and-mouse game group of Senators including !:with Russia ever si~ce Rast- Saltonstall. · ' · ' vorov, a former member of 'fhe committee said: . the >Soviet secret police, dis- · Inf or m a t'i o-n in Mr. 

appeared the night of January Sprague's reports·- strongly I ·· 24)ust..before,he wa.s scheduled supports the conclusion that , to · return to, ~ussia, possibly the . specific programs now "for• purgiiig. ·. ,;·· ' ·· ·• ~ underway ·combine, to constiWhile ·this••-, .countr)" has tute . a sound overall conti- . erected a·' t~ght :curtain of se- nental defense program.'._ . crecy about-ithe episode, .t,here The statement ·cautioned, I 

is every, indication· Rastv'orov however, that it 'will not be l 

' is in U. '.$}-hands., ':· :. possible to "buy complete as- 1 • · • ' ..! • surance that • we will not be . attacked, nor complete protec- · lion in the unfortunate event of an atomic attack." 

Sprague is known to be one of the Nation's leading experts 

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on .radar ·and other aspects 0£ 

air defense. · · Sen. Harry F. Byrd CD-Va.) in leaving the hearing described 

Sprague's report as "the mo!lt. , top secret briefing I have ever. · been in." Asked is he con· sidered that matter the "most \ 

secret" the committee has ever handled, Saltonsian said: • ;1•1 • think it is." · : · ~ 

The Senators designated to 

carry the report to Mr. Eisenhower are Saltonstall, Styles ~ 

I Bridges. (R-N.· J.l and Richard 

B. Russell (D-Ga.). They ·wm be accompanied by Brig .. Gen. 

Robert Cutler, director ofll,the : National Security Council staff .. · : ,.. Admiral/ Arthur W." Radford, 

chairman of the Joint Chiefs 

o! Staft','·sat'in. on''a·partl of 

I Thursday's report by Sprague . and then left without comment. 

' Sen. Lester C. Hui,t CD-Wyo.) 

described it as "the best, brief· 

Ing, by far, I have ever heard." 

Saltonstall refused to say whether Sprague's recommen- dations involve major budget changes, but .a phrase in the 

committee statement suggested that the measures regarded as . advisable have .already been 

started. • · • 'l'he' statement· 'said: "Substantial defense p r o g r a m s , both military and non-military, now have considerable momen- tum and there has been grati- fying cooperation with Canada 

to insure the development of a coordinated system. . ·"l.\ilr. Sprague's reports ••. Em· 

phasize that they are probably 

the minimum programs that 

should be accepted as goals, 

yet because of certain conlrol· 

ling factors, they are probably the maximum feasible programs · that can be obtained •• ," 

Earlier, two leading Democratic senators, Mike Mansfield 

of Montana and John Stennis of 

Mississippi, urged President' 

Eisenhower to give the Nation