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“OG 100<19021 DETAILS: AT BASHINGTON, D.C, On July 10, 1955 ey Departwent of State, mace avallatie To Sx the passport file of PLUL ROPESON. «. review of at File disclosed the following information: TSSUANCE OF PASSPORT TO SUBJECT ON JUNE au, 1958 ' Passport aumber LIidSi8s7 was issued to PAW. ROBESON on June 25, 1958, This passport was marked not valid for travel to the following areas wader control of authorities with which the United States does not have diplomatic relations; Albania, Bulgaria, and those portions of China, Eorea, and Viet-Nam under communist control. The passport was also marked not valid for travel in Hungary. Under current passport regulations, an ordinary - fmerican passport, such as issued to subject, is valid for ea . period of two years, at the end of which time it may be renewed for an additional two years, making the maximum period of validity of such a passport four years. At the end of that period, a person must file a new application, It is noted that the regulations permit the use of a passport for Lawful travel within the period of its validity whenever and as often as desired without further priorrotification to the Department of State. Memorandum in file dated June 24, 1958, recommends that a passport should be issued to subject pursuant to decision rendered by United States Supreme Court on June 16, 1958, in the eases OF"KENT v. DULLES; BRIEML v. BULLES aad DAYTON v. DULLES," which involved cases of individuals who had been refused passport facilities due to their failure to answer questions or submit affidavits relating to their present or past membership fu the Communist Party. The opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the aforementioned cases writter by Justice WILLIAM 0, DOUGLAS states: "We do not reach the question of comiUtutionality, We ofly conclude that Congress did not delegate to the Secretary of State the kind of authority exercised here. We deal with beliefs, with associations, with ideological matters. We must remenber that we are dealing tere with citizens who have neither been accused of crimes nor found guilty, They are being denied their freedom of movement solely because of their refusal to be subjected to inguiry into their belief and associations,..,.." watt 4 : Roi! ~4— he Bey 5 j