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DIRECTOR'S LOG
8:30 AM,30 Nov. - 8:30 AM,l Dec.
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The Army has arranged totransport to Okinawa the captured
Chinese Volunteer Corps (Korea) captain who was broughtto
the US for intensive interrogation in early August. Although
under AFSA sponsorship, the captain has been in the custody
of Contact Division. His departure will free facilities
which can beused to house a defector--a Soviet tank captain--
who now is living at the Virginia Plantation.
A sub-committee of the House Judiciary Committee visited 'The visitors were shown
the-Defector Reception Center (Germany) on,20 Nov. 1951. some of the DRC(G)'s
The group was headed by Representative Francis E. Walter facilities, given a
(D., Penn.) and included Representatives Frank L. Chelf general picture of its
(D.,Ky.), Michael A. Feighan (D., Ohio), Angier L. Goodwin mission, and allowed to
(R., Mass.), and Chauncey W. Reed (R., Ill.)) 'They were talk with 2 contented
accompanied by their legislative counsel, Walter y. defectors, 1 a Soviet and
Besterman. the other a Czech. They
appeared to be favorably
impressed.
Through the British Foreign Office and State Dept. The DRC(G) has agreed to
representatives in Germany, the BBC has asked per- make its Soviet guests
mission to interview Soviet defectors at the DRC(G) available to the BBC
and to make records of their statements. Presumably, during the second week of
parts of these recordings will be beamed back to the December. Gen. Truscott
USSR by BBC. has approved this agree-
ment.
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