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Ahis bill included a stricter provision, written by Representative * Porter Hardy of Virginia, which ? would have suspended use of appropriated funds, in certain cases, when • Congressional requests for data were refused. The Senate. modified this, however, and the House-Senate conferees ag/eed on the milder requirement cf a Presidntal certification.)
In last week’s incident, it was a request of a Senate subcommittee that Mr. Eisenhower turned down. He took the position that the investigation report sought was an internal matter of the Executive Branch, subject to review and evaluation at higher administrative levels, and that the department concerned could not expect its employees to make full and frank comments if these comments were not to be kg>t confidential within the department.
In this instance, what sort of information could this be? We do not know, of course, what the report says about our foreign aid work in Viet Nam, which hi been the subject of some shaiply-critical comments. Condevably, a member of the investigating team might have made a statement that one of our field administrators was incompetent, that another drank too mu<h, or that Viet Namese officials were corrupt. Mr. Eisenhow
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