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a \, he Tei \|malioned the Bureau und had ertttetzed some of the Director's personnel [I] polictes tn private conversations during the Assembly meetings. Se Conceriing the ctreularization of the Creck wanted notteecs, he stated that Duclour had informed him that Spectal Agent \Weut And definitely epproved the ctreulorization of these wanted notice: ja fuer seeing then, aid that Agent Fest had indicated that the jpcireudar tration of such wanted notices would be of advantage to the . {i prere and to lr, Hoover as an offtctal of such organtpgation. JI informed him thot Agent West had stated he had given no approval for this whateo- ever, Gnd he was strongly of the belief that Duclouzr was reporting ji truthfully hts conversattona with Weot. I. accordingly, strongly erpressed my confidence tn west. I further informed him that fuclour stated he feared critictsm of the Crecis, thus he apparently was more interested in wootng the Czechs than tn following the by-laws of the massoctations trat Duclour had stated that the ICFC was trying to bea Wf eseceer of equilibrium between l£ast and West,” and that we did not want HI}to partictpate in any appeasement program of this sort; that Duclouz's ‘“asatatant, Nenote, had expressed the view that 1% would be embarrassing to turn down the requestof the Cerechs, but they didn't consider the j effeet it might have on some free nations, that their ctrcularization violated the spirit of thetr own by-laws, and that our State Department had contended that the tndtviduals about whom the circulars were - issued were political refugees and not subject to extraditton, and ‘that we adhered strongly to this views pone Le root ett te foek | | A ee: eI vate 6. IJalso adutsed kin, tn addttion to the matters he did not mention, that contacts with the United Nations had proven valueless from a law enforcement standpoint in the United States of America, they were time-consuning, that the ICPC did not have the status of independence that such an associatton should have, that we had no criticism of the French Government but that government was supporting the Commisston largely, and that we were, therefore, satisfied with our membership in the International Association of Chiefs of Police lwhich served our needs, together with our direct relationships with }{indivtdual law enforcement agenctes in vGrtous parts of the world. The basis of the discusston was first a repetition by Louwage of all of the arguments he had used in Ats letter concerning all of the points raised, and-then I answered each one of then Separately a3 above shown, Our conversation lasted for one hours Louwage felt that our refusal to continue to cooperate would make ao bad tmpresston because tt would seem that the great U.S.A. was not willing to jetn. hands with other nations tn this cooperative — enterprise, and there would be propaganda usage made of this foct by some of our enentes. JI pointed out that Russia was not a menber, yet its satellites obtained certain benefits of a poltttcal types that we had enjoyed a friendly tnternational relattonship with tndtuidual nolice denpartnents of free countries, and would continue to do 50. Ye agked tf lr, Hoover would reconsider his decitston, J told hin tt 7 =2e