The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1963-12-24
The Allen-Scott Report
Feighan Committee Demands End
To U. S.-U. S. S. r. Cultural Exchanges
WASHINGTON, Dec. q

WASHINGTON. Dec. q -
A House Judiciary Subcommit-
tee is demanding that extension
of the cultural exchange pro-
gram with Russia be held up
pending a thorough investiga
ton.
BY unanimous birar isan &C
tor, the subcommittee vigor-
ously called on Secretary Dean
Rusk not to engage in negotia-
tons for a new round Of cul-
tural exchanges on the ground,
The benefits are so heavily
weighted in favor of Russias as
to make further U. S. participa-
ton ridiculous and decidedly not
ir the national interest Of our
country"
The group exploded this bomb
shell in the form of a letter
signed by every member w Rep
resentatives Michael Feighan.
DO, chairman; Frank Chef.
D-Ky.; Peter Rodino. D N. j.,
Arch Moore, R w. Va. and
Richard Poff, R-Va.
This backstage breakdown
came as the U. S. and the So
Wet are preparing to resume
discussions on an extension and
broadening of the existing ex-
change program that expires at
the end Of this month. Negotia-
tons were suspended in Novem-
Der in retaliation for the arrest
of Yale Professor Frederick
Barghoorn on espionage charges
while in Russia in connection
with the exchange program.
Strikingly illustrative of their
contention that the Soviet is de-
irving great deal more from
the cultural exchanges than the
y. S.. the Judiciary committee
men cited the following:
During the period since 1860.
Russian graduate students in the
U. S. have studied: Theoretical
principles for computing and
designing machinery and tech
nology Of metallurgical produc-
ton: pelforation and percussion
drilling: rigs with pneumatic
bits: mechanism interaction Of
synthetic documents with sur
face of mineral particles in sus-
pension: bending and vibration
of beam spans and spars as a
complex plate: study of electri-
! cal transmissionS Of mobile agri-
cultural machines: low tempera-
ture processes: electrical depo-
sition Of alloys: computations
and specifications Of thermody-
manic functions of solutions Of
ions in various solvents: high
polymers.
In comparison, U. S. gradu-
ate students in Russia are TAX
ing the following courses: Com
parison of works of Maxim Cor
ky and Gerhart Hauptmann;
teaching of Russian language;
life and works of P. l. Pestel
(Decembrist leader; history Of
Russian and Soviet science; Rus
century: Central Asian history;
old Russian: works of Isaak
Babel: Russian activities in
Mediterranean, 1898 1907; Soviet
wage policy: influence Of Rus
sian intellectual history in 10th
sian revolutionary democrats
and Of Marxism on South Slavs
in period 1855-75."
| In the blunt opinion of the Ju-
dietary committeeman. the cul-
tural exchange program has,
provided legal cover for one
type Of Russian scientific espion-
age in the u S. Soviet students
and scholarly studies are pene-
trating into the vitals of our
scientific life while studies pur-
! sued by legitimate American
students in the USSR border on
boondogglng."
LOOKING 1T OVER - That
the Feighan committee means
business is evidenced BY the fact
that it already is investigating
the cultural exchange program.
Professor Barghoorn and other
participants have been question
ed at length at closed-door SEES
sions. and this probing will be
continued. Barghoor particularly
is due for further grilling.
The Yale expert on Soviet af-
fairs has disclosed to the COM
mittee that Oh all of his six
cultural trips to Russia, he
was under surveillance. He stat
ed he learned this during his IN
terrogation while in custody on
the trumped up espionage
charges.
The committee emphatic de-
mand that negotiations for
new exchange program be halt
ed has created a Juror in inner
State Department circles.
It is understood some top Of
ficialS favor taking this explo-
sive problem directly to Presi-
dent johnson with a request that
he intervene with the commit
tee to moderate it's stand. He
has long known some of the
committeeman. and the idea is
ne would 3pppaI IN them IN ,