Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-06-17

when special counsel received
the information from the Sc
'curities and Exchange Com
mission that the material in
question was not part of a
public record?
A. I'm sorry. Are you re-
ferring to the ETC matter?
@. No. The SEC now, the
Securities and Exchange Com
mission.
A. Exactly what material are
you referring to?
knowledge of File Denied
@. We are informed that Mr..
Meeker brought with him a file
containing information as to
the East Boston Co.. and that
Mr.. Morgan asked Mr.. Meeker
for a rundown on the commits
sion's case against the East
Boston Co. If I am wrong on
this information I certainly
want to have it corrected.
A. So far as I have any rec
election, I have never seen
that file and have no knowl-
edge of it.
@. Again I want to call at
tention that this was some
thing in which it would appear
and it will be developed
that under the rules and regu-
lations of the Securities and
Exchange Act of 1884 Mr..
Goldfine would not have been
entitled to know what is in
this file under Rule 244 of the
rules of the commission. So
again, and on this point the
record will be developed later,
it would appear that Mr.. Gold
fine had received preferential
treatment in the sense that
with this commission, as in the
case of the Federal Trade
Commission, he was able to
have information passed to him
which was in the files made
confidential by law and by the
commission regulations.
I have no further questions.
Blasts COunSel's Assumption
A. Mr.. Lishman, may I say
that this appears to me to be
an unwarranted assumption on
your part. AS far as I have any
knowledge-and I haven't con-
suited counsel on this question
i have no knowledge that Mr..
Goldfine had any access to any
information contained in that
memorandum whatever.
@. Mr.. Adams, your letter to
the chairman of June 18th,
and I will quote it, first about
the Federal Trade
A. I am not talking about the
Federal Trade. ! am talking
about the SEC. With respect
to the Federal Trade Commits
sion. let me repeat again, that
1t is routine practice, of myself
and my associates in the White
House staff, to make inquiries
concerning questions which are
posed to us about matters in
the regulatory agencies.
We received this information,
and We had no knowledge, so
far as I am concerned, and l
believe that also applies to my
associates, we had no knowl-
edge whatever that the infor-
nation that is given to us I
restricted unless the repsrts
which we get so state.
To the best Of my knowledge,
as l recall the situation. there
was never any condition at
tached to this.
@. Mr. Adams. for what pur-
pose did you arrange to have
the SEC case against East Bos-
ton run down if it was not to
get this information for Mr..
Goldfine?
A. Simply because I received
a complaint and I inquired
about the complaint I received.
When I was told that this in
volved a matter of non-com-
pliance in a certain respect,
there was nothing that I did
or my counsel did, or anyone
else in the White House staff
did, to the best of my knowl-
edge and belief about it at all,
nor did we make any report
thereon.
Payne, Cotton Links PrObed
@. Did. you ever discuss the
SEC case with Senators Payne
and Cotton?
A. / think there was some
discussion about that at one
time, but so far as ] am con-
cerned. it was a casual dis
cussi62. and there was no dis