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Role of Pro-Israel Groups
Tested Under Registry Act

Israel's Envoys
To Sign Partial
Test Ban Treaty

JERUSALEM (JTA) — On the

eve of the signing of the Soviet-

American-British treaty to ban
further testing of nuclear weap-
ons in the atmosphere, outer
space or under water, the Israel
government authorized its Am-
bassadors to Moscow. Washing-
ton and London to sign that pact.
The envoys w e r e instructed
simultaneously to request the
Big Three powers to support Is-
rael's proposal for a regional dis-
armament plan for the Middle
East, under which the Arab
states and Israel would agree to
disarm under mutual control.
The Israeli proposal for Big
Three backing of the Middle East
regional disarmament plan, was
relayed previously to the Ambas-
sadors here representing the
United States, Britain and the
USSR. Dr. Hayim Yahil, director-
general of the Foreign Ministry,
held separate meetings with the
three envoys, and made his re-
quest while informing them for-
mally that Israel would sign the
treaty calling for a partial ban of
nuclear testing. That treaty .is
scheduled to be signed in Mos-
cow tomorrow.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Is-
rael Electric Corporation allo-
cated 250,000 pounds ($83,000)
for the initial research and sur-
vey work on the setting up of an
atomic energy power station in
Israel. -
The decision was made at a
meeting of the company's board
of directors, at which Develop-
ment Minister Yosef Almogi pre-
sided. The Government, which
holds shares in the corporation,
is represented on the. board.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Chairman J. W. Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
at an open Committee hearing sought to establish that pro-Israel organizations and individuals supported.
by the Jewish Agency came under the provisions of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The witness at the hearing was Isadore Hamlin, executive director of the Jewish - Agency—Amer-
ican Section of New York.
The main threat of Sen. Fulbright's detailed line of questionina pertained to interlocking relation-
ships of various groups with the Jewish Agency, and whether the Agency
sought to accomplish covertly
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through others what it did not register as openly performed in its statements to the Department of Jus-
tice. He alleged that others received payments indirectly through the Agency, which is registered as
a foreign agent, and claimed that they were, in effect, also foreign agents.
Opening the hearing, Sen. Fulbright stressed that "this committee's interest in the Agency's activi-
ties in Israel are not at issue. There can be little but respect for an organization which over the last 15
years has resettled 1,150,000 refugees in Israel — indeed. American Jews have shown their support for
the Agency through contributions of over one billion dollars, and the United States Government has
over the past 15 years supplied another $878,000,000 in grants and loans to Israel for similar purposes."
Sen. Fulbright said that he was interested. • however, in the activities of the Jewish Agency's agent,
acting in the United States "not because of the nature of its foreign principal, nor because of the cause
or nation it espoused, but rather because of the methods and techniques it has employed in the United
States and their relationship to the workings of the Foreign Agents Registration Act."
He pointed out that, while the representative of the Jewish Agency had been registered with the
Department of Justice for almost 20 years, it was within the last year "when this committee called
attention to the matter" that the registrant was required to itemize two large items of expenditure within
the United States — "grants and subventions" and "payments to affiliates."
Sen. Fulbright drew attention to the fact that from Jan. 1, 1955, through Dec. 31, 1962, the Jewish
Agency made payments totaling $5,100,001.02 to the American Zionist Council. He recalled testimony
that the Jewish Agency had provided about 80 per cent of the American Zionist Council's funds and
"at the same time used the Council as a conduit for Agency funds destined for other groups, organizations
or individuals."
The Senator charged that "through its failure to require itemization, the Department of Justice
and therefore the public was unaware of the public relations activities in the interests of Israel
carried on within the United States by the Agency. And the Jewish Agency supported organizations
and individuals without itemization of such financial support publicly in its Justice Department re-
ports."
Sen. Fulbright was sharply challenged at one point by Maurice M. Boukstein, who appeared as
counselor for the witness, when the Arkansas Democrat referred to the Jewish Agency as an agent
of the Israel government. Boukstein described the Jewish Agency as "a completely independent body
composed of representatives of Zionist organizations from all over the free world."
The main target area of the Fulbright attack appeared to be the issue of why the Jewish Agency
acted through the American Zionist Council instead of directly. Sen. Fulbright emphasized that his
interest pertained to •only those activities conducted in the United States. He stressed that he was more
concerned with finding what was, in effect, the actual relationship of various groups to the Jewish
Agency than to a "rigmarole," involving "narrow, technical legal distinctions."
It was Sen. Fulbright's allegation that the Jewish Agency did this circuitously through interlocking
relationships with others, and thus avoided making a full statement of its activities to the Department
of Justice. He repeatedly made a point that the Jewish Agency had failed to be specific in its filed
statements. But Hamlin replied that the Agency had complied with everything asked by the Justice
Department and received no complaint from the Department. When the Department asked for more
details. Hamlin said, the method of reportino - was changed.
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Throughout this questioning, Sen. Fulbright
repeatedly asked why the Agency failed to make pay-
ments direct to the ultimate recipient, specifically citing I. L. Kenen, editor of the Near East Report,
and a Russian research project into current Soviet anti-Semitism carried on by Dr.. Moshe Dector.
He also cited arants to a number of universities through the Hebrew Cultural Foundation out of funds
allocated to the Foundation by the Jewish Agency. He wanted to know if the benefiting universities were

Report Or amazed Anti-Semitism Used
as Political Tool in Nations of Strife

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The results of a year-long survey of organized anti-Semitism in 11 European and South
American countries, conducted by the American Jewish Committee's overseas ofifces, are
revealed in a 36-page report entitled, "Current Anti-Semitic Activities Abroad." Publica-
tion of the survey was announced by A. M. Sonnabend. AJC president.
In summarizing the results of the survey. Sonnabend reported that:
1. Anti-Semitism is being used as a political weapon in countries which are in the
midst of political turmoil or instabilty. This is especially true in South America.
2. There are several neo-Nazi, Fascist and anti-Semitic groups in the countries sur-
veyed. HoweVer, only a comparatively- small number pose any major threat.
3. There is no indication of a strongly organized neo-Nazi or anti-Semitic network.
However, their publications promote one another and there is evidence of unified propa-
ganda campaigns.
4. Anti-Semitic movements are aiming their propaganda particularly at youth and
youth groups in some countries. This is especially true in Austria.
5. The Soviet government continues its official anti-Semitic policies. In spite of the
fact that Soviet spokesmen keep reiterating their country's constitutional guarantees of
religious freedom, the Soviet government continues to "abridge the religious and cultural
rights of Jews and restrain Jewish community life."
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United Synagogue Will Join
March. on 'Washington Aug. 28

The United Synagogue of America will join the Civil
Rights "March on Washington" on Aug. 28 in support of the
civil rights legislation proposed to the Congress by President
Kennedy.
George Maislen, president of the United Synagogue, who
attended a recent White House Conference of religious leaders,
announced the organization's decision to participate in the
march. He said "the United Synagogue of America has sup-
ported a broad civil rights program, and we are pleased that
this year the full weight of the federal administration has been
thrown into this campaign." He added that the President's con-
ference with religious leaders had impressed him with the
urgency of the civil rights issue. America's major domestic
problem. The March on Washington, he said, would convey to
the Congress and to the whole country the demand for the
fullest kind of civil rights legislation in this session of Congress.

