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...McCone in two days of closed-door testimony. McCone assured the committee that Powers had lived up to his $30,000-a-year CIA contract. During and after his Moscow trial. Powers had been criticized in the U.S. for admitting too much. But McCone provided the committee with a memorandum explaining that U-2 pilots had been instructed, in case of misadventure, to "surrender without resistance," "adopt a cooperative attitude," and to feel "perfectly free to tell the full truth" about the nature of their missions and their employment by the CIA-withholding only some of the specifications...
...share Strauss's desire for the Bomb, but there is a rising clamor in many quarters for a more "active" foreign policy in Bonn. Adenauer's Free Democratic coalition partners, led by Erich Mende, constantly press the government to be more independent. And recently a memorandum approved by top leaders of Germany's Protestant church took a similar line: "The foreign policy of the government appears to us too one-sidedly defensive . . . We expect our Western Allies to assume the risk of a nuclear war in order to defend West Berlin's freedom" and to reunify...
...find out which of 14 Pentagon censors had made which changes in which speeches, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara balked. "I do not see how finding that a particular military officer in a particular case exercised a mistaken judgment would advance the purposes of the inquiry," he said in a memorandum. He reminded the Senators that he had given them the names of all the reviewers and supplied background information on each, but insisted: "These individuals are acting under policies for which my senior associates and I must assume responsibility." While the Senators met privately with him to try to break...
...shrug. It was a long and rambling document without address or signature, but it was obviously important. For one thing, it referred to the "gifted" German people and used other flattering words that contrasted with the insults of the past. Pointedly ignoring Moscow's East German satellite, the memorandum declared: "The Soviet Union and West Germany are the greatest states of Europe...
...delegates, observers, staff members and special guests (plus 275 newsmen) met in a world unused to organized religion. A memorandum prepared by General Secretary Visser 't Hooft and Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the Church of South India reminded them that the mysterious East was accustomed to a different brand of holy man. "To go to the capital city of India and proclaim that Jesus Christ is the light of the world is a daring action," the memo noted. "It is difficult for most people in India to take seriously a claim to religious insight which is not accompanied...