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ing out of closed Senate hear
ings and asked:
Are we going to ball up the
agency that gets information.
that has done such a tremen-
dous job?"
At another point during Sem
ator Cores questioning of Sec
retary Herter, Senator Wiley
said:
1T is not the business of this
committee to expose to the
people of this country a mech
aniSm that is so important to
preserve the life and integ-
rity of this country, and I mean
the CIA 1t is that mechan-
ism that made possible this
series of 312 years of explora-
tory missions over the Soviet
Union"
He protested against the
committees plans to call Mr..
Dulles as a witness. Senator
Fulbright, in reply, pointed out
that the inquiry had been ap-
proved by President Eisen-
hover and that Mr.. Dulles
had agreed to testify.
The program of flights in
volving the one on May l was
approved a few weeks before
the summit conference, Secre-
tary Herter and Undersecre-
tary of State Dillon told the
committee.
Mr.. Herter said the question
of halting the flights was mot
in issue at that time although
I knew that the summit con-
ference was coming up"
When the matter came be-
fore me, I had the opportunity
OF disappearing it and did not
do So" the Secretary contin-
ued. Not it, but the program. "
He said this was "a matter
of weeks" before the summit
meeting.
Asked at one point if he
could have vetoed the plane spy
program, Mr.. Herter said:
mo. could only have given
my advice to the President"
The President, he said, took
the responsibility for any final
decision.
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One of the most heavily CEN
Sored parts of Mr.. Herter's tes-
timony came late in the day
while the Secretary was being
questioned by Senator Fulbright
about a statement of his that
was interpreted at first as in
dicating the United States
would continue flights over
Russia.
Senator Fulbright noted that
Mr.. KhruShchev had referred
in his May S speech to over
flights July 2, 1856, April 9,
1860, and the May day flight,
and had said the one on April
8 resulted in orders to the So
Wet military not to let it
happen again.
Then three pages of the tram
script were left bank and then
picked up again with Senator
Fulbright asking:
THE evidence is quite clear
that Mr.. KhruShchev, if he
didn't know positively, he Ger
tainly suspected that it was
our planes going across his
territory, didn't hep"
Mr.. Herter: That is what I
assume.
Senator Fulbright: And it
comes back to this point that
he hadn't raised such a terrible
fuss about it until this g.
May / flight. But isn't the rec
oncillation in the fact that
our Government did take
the position regarding the May
l flight and this program, that
this is a deliberate program
which we intend to con-
tinue?
Mr.. Herter: Not which we in
tend to continue. That was
never said.
Senator Fulbright: He inter-
preted it as such
Mr.. Herter: 1t might be if
one wanted to interpret the
words l spoke that way .
Certainly from what I said,
that is a very far-fetched in
depreciation. I think he was
interpreting it that way for
his own purpose -.
The exchange referred to
Secretary Herter's news con-
ference comments defending
the overfights but which he
insisted in the closed hearing,
the transcript seemed to show,
indicated in no way the flights
would be continued.
Senator Fulbrlght: Do you
believe that any head of state
of any important nation at least
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