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College Station, Texas Thursday, May 11, 1961
Testimony Release
Shocks McNamara
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON—Secretary of
Defense Robert S. McNamara
was shocked when Pentagon
security experts released so much
of his secret testimony on mili
tary matters.
McNamara said so in testmony
released Wednesday by the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee.
He appeared before the com
mittee on April 4 and 5 at closed
hearings on the Kennedy admin
istration’s $43.79-billion military
budget, as revised from the one
submitted by former President
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
McNamara noted that he had
appointed Lt. Gen. Joseph F.
Carroll, Air Force inspector gen
eral, to devise ways of reducing
the release of information that is
“of benefit to our potential ene
mies.”
At the time McNamara testi
fied newsmen were given copies
of a prepared statement he took
into the hearing room. The state
ment first was screened by De
fense Department security spe
cialists.
The transcript just released
also was considerably censored,
but it showed the secretary ex
pressing shock that so many mili
tary secrets had been left in his
initial testimony for public re
lease.
He said the security screeners
left in statements about weak
nesses of U. S. military forces
“which, if I were a Soviet mili
tary planner, would be of great
value to me.”
Space Pay
Today
1 in l Hay
WASHINGTON—(A 3 ) — Astro
naut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., made
$14.38 by flying into space last
Friday.
The Navy came up with the
figure Wednesday after checking
his pay status.
As a commander on flying duty
Shepard gets an extra $230 a
month but has to fly four hours
a month for it. He draws regular
pay as well, but no special com
pensation as an astronaut.
The 15-minute ride 115 miles
high counts on the four hours.
The transcript then quoted
Chairman Richard B. Russell, D.-
Ga., as agreeing that too many
military secrets have been leaked
and published.
“About the public’s having a
right to know the most highly
secret of our defense plans, I
think that’s absolutely ridicu
lous,” Russell told McNamara. “I
have an almost unspeakable con
tempt for any man in politics
who would be frightened by news
papers telling him they would
attack him because he was not
giving them intimate details
about defense planning.”
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By RICHARD O’REGAN
GENEVA — (A?) — Secretary of
State Dean Rusk arrived Wednes
day night for the 14-nation con
ference on Laos amid doubts that
the sessions will get under way
on schedule Friday.
Rusk said he would take part
in the conference “if information
from Laos permits it.”
Rusk, as well as other Western
officials, have declared they
would refuse to take part unless
there is a real cease-fire between
Communist and anti-Communist
forces.
Three leading members of an
Indian - Canadian - Polish control
commission, whose job is to cer
tify that a cease-fire is in effect,
finally left for headquarters of
Communist and neutralist rebel
headquarters at Xieng Khouang
in Laos Wednesday after being
rebuffed on Tuesday.
Random fighting continued, but
there has been no serious out^
break for a week.
Despite uncertainty as to when
the conference may open, Rusk
was the fourth delegate to arrive.
He was preceded by Soviet For
eign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko,
who said the Soviet Union would
make “every effort to solve the
Laotian problem justly and with
out procrastination and stamp
out a hotbed of war danger.”
Gromyko was followed by
Chang Yen, secretary-general of
the Red China delegation. Chinese
Foreign Minister Chen Yi was
expected later.
Another Communist leader,
Ung Van Khiem, foreign minister
of North Viet Nam, also arrived.
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ister Quinim Pholsena from the
neutralist Laotian faction of
Prince Souvanna Phouma.
Aside from the United States,
Britain, France, the Soviet Union,
Red China, North and South Viet
Namahd Laos, these countries
have been invited: Canada, Thai-
laid, Poland, Burma, India and
Cambodia.
A spokesman in London said
Britain hopes for confirmation of
the cease-fire in time for the con
ference to get under way on
schedule.
“We are going ahead with
plans to attend,” he said.
Attendance of Thailand and
Cambodia remained problemat
ical.
Officials in Bangkok deferred
departure of Thailand’s seven-
man delegation, headed by For
eign Minister Thanat Kouman.
Thai authorities expressed little
hope that the control commission
would be able to verify the cease
fire by Friday.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk of
Cambodia, who originally pro
posed the 14-nation conference,
announced May 1 that he was
washing his hands of the Laotian
question because Laos’ King Sa-
vang Vathana opposed the talks.
Amid the preliminary bustle
came a complaint from the Com
munist Pathet Lao that royal
government forces were trying to
wrest back territories lost before
the cease-fire.
A Laotian government official
newly arrived in Tokyo said
Laotian leaders were disappointed
by U. S. policy in Southeast Asia.
This official, who asked not to
be identified by name, declared
in an interview, “The Laotian
people have completely lost faith
in the effectiveness of Western
help.”
“We do not understand,” he
said, “why the United States
talks now of sending troops to
South Viet Nam, which is not in
immediate danger, and refuses to
help Laos with troops. I believe
the thinking among Lao goveim-
ment leaders is in favor of im
mediate intervention by forces of
the Southeast Asian Treaty Or
ganization SEATO.”
Concern also was voiced in the
Philippines, a SEATO member
which has pledged to send troops
if the West decides to go into
Laos to stop the Communist
di'ive.
Foreign Secretary Fleixberto
Serrano told the National Press
Club in Manila that if the West
agrees at Geneva to predom
inance of the Pathet Lao in a
coalition government, “Laos is
doomed.”
“And the way of Laos,” he
said, “could be the way of every
free country in Southeast Asia.”
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