Senator FULBRIGHT. Here is a letter sent obviously from a computer, and that means probably 100,000 or maybe a million copies, because they can be put out very cheaply, soliciting funds, and you can see it is two pages. The fact is that the President of the United States has stated publicly, certainly with my approval and with most of this committee, that we would like to improve our relations with China and with everybody, for that matter, but specifically China; isn't that the current policy?

Mr. PORTER. Yes, sir.

PROPAGANDIST LETTER SUBSIDIZED BY UNITED STATES THROUGH KOREAN CULTURAL AND FREEDOM FOUNDATION

Senator FULBRIGHT. Here is a letter subsidized indirectly at least, if not directly, by the Government of the United States making the kind of charges to uninformed people which would be directly contrary to the President of the United States' policy, and, I hope, the policy of the Government of the United States.

This is the kind of disassociation of activities or a better word than that, "alienation" that makes no sense at all. It is absolutely crazy, it seems to me, because, on the one hand, the President is trying to do one thing; on the other hand, you are subsidizing an activity that is, it seems to me, the most extreme kind of propaganda designed to stir up the passions and emotions of the American people against having anything to do with these terrible people who send heroin here, who are responsible for pornography; it associates all the bad things that take place in this country with them, and by a subtle form of attribution it attributes it to the Communists of Red China or North Korea.

The whole letter, I think, ought to go in. It says that many of the campus riots, the seizures of buildings, the looting and burning of offices and the holding of school authorities as hostages are engineered by Communists many of whom follow and implement the teachings of Mao Tse-tung.

It goes on, as I say, pornography, heroin, atheism, everything, and it is subsidized by contributions of American citizens to the Korean Cultural and Freedom Foundation.

(The material referred to follows.)

U.S. SENATE, Washington, D.C., January 16, 1970.

DEAR MR. TILLMAN: I am writing to you because I'm certain you share my conviction that the fight against Communism is the responsibility of all Ameri

cans.

It is now time for the Directors of Radio of Free Asia (ROFA) to prepare the budget for 1970. But not until they know how much you, Mr. Tillman, can contribute, will they know how many broadcasts they can send into Red China and North Korea.

These are the broadcasts that tell of freedom, of God, and of life in America. But these programs cannot be scheduled for 1970 until they hear from you. I am happy to report to you that Radio of Free Asia made impressive progress in 1969. ROFA broadcast a total of 1,930 hours and 30 minutes in 1969, a substantial gain of 639 hours more than the 1,291 hours broadcast in 1968, and a remarkable increase of over 32 times more hours broadcast since 1966.

As you well know, Communism is an international conspiracy. The foundation of that conspiracy is to bring about a Communist takeover in the United States and to capture the hearts and minds of our young people.

Many of the campus riots, the seizure of buildings, the looting and burning of offices, and the holding of school authorities as hostages, are engineered by

35-205-70-pt. 6- -12

Communists, many of whom follow and implement the teachings of Mao TseTung.

One of the weapons used in the destruction of the moral fibre of our youth is drug addiction. A U.S. Bureau of Narcotics report states that in the first six months of 1969, the number of known drug addicts under age 21 increased by 41% over the year 1968.

Nor should we ever forget that one of the deadliest drugs of all-heroin-isn't grown in our back yards. Much of it is smuggled into this country from Red China.

The Chinese Communist effort to destroy America is not limited to drugs. It includes hard core pornography and Communist writings that are widely distributed on college campuses to our children.

They broadcast their propaganda to lonesome and homesick American soldiers in South Vietnam and South Korea.

The only way to eliminate Communism is to stop it at its source. If Communism can be defeated in Red China and North Korea, it will have suffered a devastating and probably fatal blow to its goal of world conquest.

The fight against Communism means the fight to stop the flow of drugs to our youth, the flood of pornography and to stop the Black Panthers who look to Red China for their leadership.

No one likes to be told what he could or should give. Your friendship or assistance is too valuable to do this. But I do know that whatever you can do to help ROFA will be deeply appreciated. This is the reason why I am writing to you now. I feel just as strongly about ROFA and its goals as do my many colleagues who are members of its Advisory Council.

Enclosed is a contribution card and return envelope. Please send ROFA your maximum contribution, as much as you feel you can possibly afford. Radio of Free Asia is depending solely on your generous support to meet the great Challenge for Freedom in 1970.

Radio of Free Asia, in turn, will record your name in its 1970 Broadcast Sponsorship Honor Roll as part of a permanent file in the archives of ROFA's headquarters in Seoul, Korea.

It is my duty to remind you that ROFA receives no subsidy or financial assistance from the U.S. Government or any other government. Your donation to ROFA is completely tax-deductible and your company or foundation can also make tax-deductible contributions to ROFA.

May I close with this thought. Your contribution is a double edged sword, striking out at Communism both at its source and at its attempt to gain ground in America.

Sincerely yours,

ROBERT DOLE, U.S. Senator.

P.S.-If there is any way you possibly can, please respond by return mail, today. ROFA's budget meeting will be held very soon. To know that they can count on your maximum support will be most helpful.

RADIO OF FREE ASIA,
Washington, D.C.

DEAR SENATOR DOLE: I share your concern for the vital need to strike at the roots of Communism in Red China and North Korea.

To help Radio of Free Asia in 1970 in the fight to stop Communism at its source, I am enclosing my maximum☐ Personal Company or (Foundation) contribution for:

Radio of Free Asia is a project of the Korean Cultural & Freedom Foundation, a non-profit organization. All contributions are tax-deductible.

This can certainly undermine anybody's activities. I think you ought to look into it. I think it is your responsibility to do so.

Mr. BROWN. I think, sir, we share your views on the subject, and we do not consider this as a very good operation, and we have spoken to the Koreans about it, and I believe we are talking with the Government on this.

Senator FULBRIGHT. Of course, I am sorry this letter is signed by a colleague of the U.S. Senate, but it happens to be the only one I have got. I don't think that ought to deter you.

Senator GORE. Who signed it?

Senator FULBRIGHT. The Senator from Kansas, but this is obviously a very widespread thing because it is on a computer. I have seen letters like that during the last election that I know you can get out for a few cents, and they get a response from uninformed people because it scares them that we are about to be destroyed by the Communists to whom they attribute all the ills of society.

Senator GORE. May I ask Ambassador Brown a question?

Senator FULBRIGHT. Certainly. I am just trying to get information here.

Senator GORE. Ambassador, from your knowledge, which I am sure is more than cursory, do you think a larger amount of dope comes to the United States from Red China than from Thailand?

Mr. BROWN. I don't know, sir, anything about it. As I said before I didn't think a very large part of our supply came from Red China. Senator FULBRIGHT. He said a very small amount.

Senator GORE. I would like to ask the staff to find out just what kind of cooperation we are receiving from Thailand, one of our current dependencies, and Laos on the question of dope traffic.

Senator FULBRIGHT. Yes, the staff will make an inquiry.

I have read in the paper, of course, that-well, I ought not to get off onto that subject right now of Laos.

Mr. BROWN. I think the short answer to your question, sir, is that we have a real question in our minds about this operation. We have taken it up with the Internal Revenue Service.

Senator FULBRIGHT. You have?

Mr. BROWN. This is a private organization which has a great many prominent people associated with it, so that it is not something that we can directly control, but we are concerned about it.

Senator FULBRIGHT. I am very concerned about it because I think this creates an atmosphere and a mood and a feeling of prejudice in the country that directly is contrary to the President's announced policy which, of course, I am in favor of, and I think it is a terrible thing to have the Government itself doing it.

It is not quite private, I mean in the true sense when it seeks tax exemption.

SUPERVISION BY IRS OF TAX-EXEMPT FOUNDATIONS

I will agree the IRS is very negligent, in my opinion, in supervising all these tax-exempt foundations. There are a great many of them. This current bill made an effort or a gesture toward trying to do something about it. There are somewhere around 30,000 of them. But to have the Government of the United States doing this and partic

ipating in this, and then, I assume the Government of South Korea, which is our client, subsidizing it, if they are, and according to the Ambassador's suggestion-he didn't say he knew, but they use free of charge their broadcasting—this is equivalent to a very substantial subsidy.

Mr. PORTER. We are not yet sure of that.

Senator FULBRIGHT. I know you left that as a question, but it is very likely that they did. I think it is a disgraceful thing, and it is a very sloppy way to do business and an irresponsible way to do business. There ought to be one way or the other, and we ought to not have one part of the Government going around directly subverting the objectives of the announced, and I believe honest policy of the Government.

The Senator from Tennessee, I was just carrying on here, if you have anything you want to ask about it, please do.

Senator GORE. No.

Senator FULBRIGHT. I realize there are many prominent names on this. Lots of people get their names on these activities and they are deceived by the actual operation.

Senator GORE. I applauded the President's tentative move to establish more liaison, a faint step toward improvement of relations with China.

I agree with the Chairman that if China is doing all of these things that you just read, I am in a politically precarious position. Senator FULBRIGHT. You sure are.

Senator GORE. If dope, Black Panthers, pornography, riots on our campuses, if all these things can be traced to Mao Tse-tung, then President Nixon had better get ready for the next election.

Senator FULBRIGHT. Did you have any further questions?

Mr. PAUL. Mr. Chairman, we usually stop at this hour and resume at 2:30 unless you have questions.

Senator FULBRIGHT. Í think I have exhausted their patience for one sitting.

Mr. BROWN. You left us with quite a few questions.

Senator FULBRIGHT. You remember, incidentally, those hearings we had for about a 2-year study. That was Mr. Pincus' first connection, I think, with the committee-the Foreign Agent Registration Act. You were not here, you were abroad.

Mr. BROWN. I was abroad.

Senator FULBRIGHT. Well, it was amazing how many foreign countries maybe that makes us more allergic than some people-were carrying on propaganda in this country without its being identified. The law, as you know, requires them if they are being paid by a foreign country to come in here, and they set up these free editorial services, free documentary services, with beautiful films. They sent them around free of charge, they had agents working on it, and what they were seeking to do was to brainwash the American people in favor of their particular country and their particular policies.

This went on by all kinds of countries, without in any way indicating in many cases the origin of it. The law requires, it does not prohibit it, as you know, but merely requires that if you are going to do this you say so on the film or the pictures, the article or whatever it may be. They would just ignore this requirement which is again

a very odd thing for us to allow particularly when you have big programs like AID dispensing billions of dollars and are about to bankrupt this country, and have countries in here making up this most favorable and appealing case, you know, for aid to that country, and then they expect us to exercise some reasonably objective judgment. Well, we were very often confronted with situations we could not control and we were overridden. Somebody would get them on the floor of the Senate and make a motion to give a country $50 million, $100 million, and we were overridden, the committee was overridden. I think it is terrible for a country like us to put up with this when we obviously are in the condition we are in. This business, maybe it is a minor operation, but it might contribute to the kind of action we saw just recently on aid where without the approval of the authority, without the approval of the administration, the Budget Bureau or anything else, they get up and move and give Korea $50 million more, an extra $50 million of military aid in addition to the $160 million already in the bill. You get these private operations going on around here, and some Congressman or Senator gets letters from his constituents saying, "Why don't you do more for Korea," or X, Y, Z. It isn't only Korea. It makes it very difficult to deal with these matters in a reasonably logical manner when you get this kind of activity going on.

I think the State Department ought to keep a close eye on all agencies of this sort or you will never make any progress. We cannot do it up here when this kind of thing is going on in the country influencing the attitude of the people.

Well, we will adjourn unless you have anything further you want to ask.

Senator COOPER. No.

Senator FULBRIGHT. Thank you very much. You are all coming back at 2:30.

Mr. PAUL. I think we will resume with the regular session. There are a few more questions, and after that we will go into the special session.

(Whereupon, at 12:35 p.m., the subcommittee was in recess, to reconvene at 2:30 p.m., the same day.)

AFTERNOON SESSION

Senator SYMINGTON. The subcommittee will come to order.

Is there anybody here who was not here this morning? [No response.]

Gentlemen, you will consider yourselves sworn.

Mr. PORTER. Yes, sir.

Senator SYMINGTON. I am sorry not to have been with you all this morning.

Do you have some questions that you want to continue in the regular session?

VOICE OF UNITED NATIONS COMMAND

Mr. PAUL. We have a few more questions on U.S. forces and facilities that we were discussing this morning.

General Michaelis, concerning the Voice of United Nations Com