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it was his personal opinion that the preposed statement contained
as much information as could te released without compromisiag
sensitive information about new design developments,
Mr. Strauss said he would diecuss the dreit statement
with the Secretary of State and Assiziant Secretary of Defense,
Mr, Gurdon Gray, and then send it to the White Houce at once.
General Lopez said that he believed such a statement
would help to allay public fear but he added that it seemed
necessary to him to transmit additional infcrmation on new
weapons design to our aliies, With regard to General Gavin's
testimony, he said that under the conditions of attack which
General Gavin hae cited; that is, the bombing of three to
four thousand air fields in the Soviet Union, casualties up
to three or four hundred thovgani could be expected,
At this point General Loper left the meetiag,
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Ad Hoc Committee on Accountability of Materials Overseas
Mr. Strauss said that he would see Mr, Robert McKirney
on Friday and he thought one of the purposes of Mr, McKinney's
visit was to offer his further services to the Commission. He
said he would like ts request Mr, McKinney to chair an Ad Hoe
Committee to study the system of fissionable materia! acccunta-
bility overseas,
suggestion,
The other Commissioners accepted Mr. Strauss’s