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the Board to entertain petitions from persons who claim to be so disadvantaged; to get from Government agencies and contractors available security information concerning any such petitioner; to disclose to the petitioner, so far as possible consonant with security, the nature of any adverse statements; to permit the petitioner to testify or submit the testimony of others in his behalf; and to get a professional security evaluation report on the petitioner based on all material presented. Provide that the Board shall make available to the petitioner a summary of the evaluator's findings, and the conclusions of the evaluation report, and upon request of the petitioner, shall (1) make public such findings and conclusions, (2) send a copy thereof to each concerned Government agency, and (3) send a copy thereof to any Government contractor designated by the petitioner.

XV

Amend the civil service regulations so as to permit transfer of loyal security risks to nonsensitive positions, or their dismissal under normal civil service procedures, without public stigmatization of such individuals as security risks.

XVI

Authorize use of the subpena power by any agency of the United States engaged in hearing a loyalty or security case involving an employee thereof or applicant for employment therein, for the purpose of granting any reasonable request of such employee or applicant for the production of any witness or other evidence in his behalf.

XVII

Require monthly reports, by all departments and agencies in the executive branch, of statistics respecting separations of employees as security risks. (Disclosure by name or otherwise of the identities of employees so separated should not be required by this new statute.)

XVIII

Provide that no person who refuses to swear or affirm his allegiance to the United States shall be entitled to receive, hold, or use any creditential issued by the United States which identifies him as one bearing allegiance to the United States.

XIX

Provide for regulation of the classification of documents for security purposes, within the executive branch, so as to preclude (as nearly as possible) arbitrary or nonessential classification.

XX

Prohibit falsification of identity in applying for a social security account number card, or the possession or use of such a card bearing a false, assumed, or fictitious name.

XXI

Deny postal subsidies to any organization designated by final order of the Subversive Activities Control Board as Communist in nature, and to any person, group, or association, or any business or trade organization, financed preponderately by any organization or organizations designated by final order of the Subversive Activities Control Board as Communist in nature.

XXII

Prohibit importation into the United States, or shipment in interstate commerce, of goods produced by slave labor.

XXIII

Protect State antisubversive laws from invalidation based solely on implied Federal occupation of the field. Effectively disavow congressional intent to preempt the field of internal security legislation, or to invalidate provisions of State laws in this area which are not in direct conflict with congressional enactments. Avoid including in legislation any provisions which might be construed either as expressing value judgments with respect to existing or proposed State legislation, or as attempting to exercise the judicial function of determining the constitutionality of any State enactments.

XXIV

Put the International Organizations Employees Loyalty Board on a statutory basis, as the agency designated to pass upon security clearance of U.S. nationals employed by multination organizations, and prohibit any U.S. national who does not hold such a security clearance from taking such employment.

XXV

Require that any person seeking to enter the United States with the status of a member of a mission to, or as an employee of, a multinational organization, must bear on his passport and any other official credentials his true and lawful name and the place and date of his birth.

XXVI

Give the Secretary of State statutory authority, with the approval of the President, to prohibit travel by U.S. nationals to, within or through any designated foreign nation or area, on the basis of his formal finding, published in the Federal Register, that such travel is contrary to the security interests of the United States or will substantially impede the conduct of foreign affairs.

XXVII

Require any agency furnishing intelligence to the Department of State to designate specially any item thereof which it considers to be of the highest level of importance from the standpoint of national

security, and direct that any intelligence item so marked, or a copy thereof, shall be transmitted immediately, as directly as possible, to the Secretary of State.

XXVIII

Require that the Office of Security of the Department of State shall be staffed entirely by employees under civil service.

XXIX

Prohibit any reprisal by any Government agency, or by any employee thereof acting in his official capacity or within the scope of his official duties, against any witness who testifies or has testified before any congressional committee, for or on account of his testimony or the fact of his having testified.

XXX

Provide that a claim of the privilege against self-incrimination shall not excuse any person serving or who has served an espionage organization of a foreign nation, or who is or has been a member of an organization which advocates the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States or any political subdivision thereof, from testifying about his activities in connection with such espionage or subversion; but that any such person required by order of a court of the United States, or by order of a committee of the Congress, with the approval of the Attorney General of the United States, to testify hereunder after so invoking a claim of privilege against self-incrimination shall be immune from prosecution thereafter with respect to any matter or thing disclosed by such testimony.

XXXI

Provide that a witness before a congressional committee may, subject to the approval of the Attorney General of the United States, be granted immunity from prosecution with respect to any matters or things disclosed by his testimony responsive to the committee's demand, following assertion by the witness of the privilege against self-incrimination as the basis for a refusal to answer. Provide that committee action to grant immunity to a witness shall require (1) a favorable record vote by a majority including at least one member of the minority party, and (2) inclusion, in the record of the hearing at which the witness is to testify, of both (a) a certified copy of the committee minutes evidencing the vote to grant immunity, and (b) a written statement signed by the Attorney General evidencing his approval of the grant of immunity.

XXXII

Amend the act of June 22, 1938 (2 U.S.C. 192) so as to provide that any question asked of a witness before a congressional committee shall be deemed pertinent if reasonably calculated to produce information within the scope of the committee's jurisdiction, including (but without limitation) questions designed to: establish the identity of a witness; qualify a witness as an expert; or provide information as to the good faith of a witness' claim of privilege against self-incrimination as a basis for refusing to answer.

XXXIII

Provide that any citizen of the United States residing in a foreign country may be subpenaed by Congress, and failure to respond to such a subpena, after having been tendered transportation expenses and witnesses fees, shall be a crime punishable in any Federal court district to which the person subpenaed shall return, or in which he may be found, within 5 years.

XXIV

Provide that, without regard to any other provision of law respecting immigration, any individual whose testimony as a witness is desired by a committee of the Congress may be granted temporary admission (or parole) into the United States when his entry is requested by a written resolution approved by at least two-thirds of the members of the committee desiring his testimony, including at least one member of the minority party.

XXXV

Provide that no court of the United States shall have jurisdiction to consider or decide whether a committee of the Congress is performing its duties satisfactorily, or in conformity with the mandate or will of its parent body. (Such a determination is the exclusive prerogative of the legislative body.)

XXXVI

Create a Communist Defectors Awards Board, to consist of the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, the chiefs of the intelligence branches of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and other appropriate officials of the U.S. intelligence community, with power and responsibility to grant admission to the United States for permanent residence, and other benefits as justified in particular cases, to defectors from Communist or Communistdominated countries.

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