AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION FROM
FEDERAL DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

PART 5-Department of Defense, First Section

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

JULY 9, 10, AND 12, 1956

Printed for the use of the
Committee on Government Operations

UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1956

Statement of

Page

Gardner, Trevor, president, Hycon Manufacturing Co., and former
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research and Development. 1045

Moss, Hon. John E., a Representative in Congress from the State of

California, and Chairman, Special Subcommittee on Government

Information___.

Parks, Lt. Gen. Floyd L., United States Army (retired), executive
director, National Rifle Association, and former chief, Army Public
Information Office..

Ross, Hon. Robert Tripp, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Legislative

and Public Affairs; accompanied by Philip K. Allen, Deputy

Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs; Leonard Niederlehner,

deputy general counsel; C. Herschel Schooley, Director of Public

Information; and Bert Saymon, Legislative Programs Division---

Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by-

923

1075

925,

961, 995

Fascell, Hon. Dante B., a Representative in Congress from the State

of Florida:

Excerpt from Department of Defense directive:

5122.5, July 30, 1954.

5230.9, March 29, 1955.

Excerpt from statement of Hon. Robert Tripp Ross..

1010, 1011

1013

933, 934

Hoffman, Hon. Clare E., a Representative in Congress from the State

of Michigan:

Excerpt from minutes of press conference held by Hon. Charles E.

Wilson, April 12, 1955.

957

Excerpt from news conference re public row over defense policy. 980, 981

Mitchell, John J., chief counsel, Special Subcommittee on Government

Information:

Excerpt from Circular 380-8, Department of the Army, Wash-

ington, D. C., January 30, 1956.

Excerpt from Executive Order No. 10501.

Excerpt from Joint Committee print, Report of the Panel on

the Impact of the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, January

1956

1062

1030

1066, 1067

966

985

Excerpt from news conference re public row over defense policy.

Excerpt from statement of C. Herschel Schooley-

Excerpt from statement of Dr. Lloyd Berkner in hearings held

March 7, 1956_-
1046, 1052, 1054, 1069

Excerpt from statement of Dr. M. Stanley Livingston, in hear-

ings held March 7, 1956-

1057

Excerpt from statement of Dr. William V. Houston..

Excerpt from statement of Hon. Robert Tripp Ross..

1066

939

Excerpt from the National Defense Establishment, title V,
section 171, paragraph 6......----

982

Excerpt of letter from Hon. John E. Moss, to the Secretary of

Defense, June 18, 1956____

1067

Excerpt of memorandum re the story of the Indianapolis, June 6,
1956

989

Letter from J. D. Lamade, Acting Chief of Information, Depart-
ment of the Navy, to Capt. G. W. Campbell, June 6, 1955...
Letter from Navy Department, to Hon. John E. Moss, June 30,
1956.

Letter from Robert S. Bray, chief, Technical Information
Division, Library of Congress, to Hon. John E. Moss, July 6,
1956.

Memorandum from Secretary of Defense C. E. Wilson, to the
Assistant Secretaries of Defense, the general counsel, the
special assistants to the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and the directors of the offices, Office of the Secretary of
Defense, March 29, 1955---