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ce RS Sa Senne eee “becoming a ia Ger, 7-16-63) | y ———— d . sury political Friends Serv “infiltrated” a conference of 430 top military men and major Gefen: © contrac- closed his news conference yesterday- —— Arthur Fink of the AFSC New England re- gional office in Cambridge, posing at various times as a broadcast journalist and an “interested private citi~ zen,” paid a $7 member- ship fee to the American " Ordnance Assn., and a $40 registration fee for its an-~ wual conference at Estin Air Force Base near Pen~ eacola, Fia. us 1 SoA pistes sto 2 Hl abe bb bab ok —eee Payment of the fees “opened all the doors” to the p gathering on Oct. 4 and k said — even enti- im ta transportation in an “air-conditioned miii- tary car from the Pensaco- la airport to the base, as well as meats at officers’ clubs and access ta an open bar, where he Zobnotbed with generais and major industrialists. Fink said he was sure prised to find “virtually no visible security” at the conference, although he admitted he might have had a harder tine talking with conferees were he not a bespectacled, thirty:sh, short-haired and mild- mannered man whose at- tire tends toward gray flannel three-piece suits. The conference was the association’s 54th Defense Preparedness Meeting, ——— held at the Florida bas? oy invitation of the Air Ferce Chief of Staff, Gen. Jonn D. Ryan. Its theme was “Air Armament of the Fu- ture.” Although freely conced- ing he employed various subterfuges to gain the conferees’ confidence, Fink stressed that all conference sessions were billed as “unclassified” and ‘severat speakers “indicated they were apologetic about cut- ting short their talks on new weapons systems be- cause of the possibility of violating security.” Robert C. Seamans Jr., secretary of the Air Force, was the guest of honor and - principal speaker at the dinner which concluded two days of meetings. The first day's sessions were devoted largely to as- : —— 2 POSTON HERS TRAVELER AND — RECOKD ANERICAD BOSTON, MASS. 24 THE BOSTON GLOE BOSTON, MASS. Date: = 10/11/72 Edition: Morning author” Joe Pilati vec) Thomas Winsh AMERICAN FRI ~~ SEF VIC CO. MIT, Character: or Clesatfication: Submitting Offices: BOSTON Being Inveatigated