Memorandum from H. Gates Lloyd to David Lloyd

CONNULNIAL DECLASSIFIED JEGURITY INFORMATION DOD Directive 5100.30, June 18, 1979 E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402 By NLT. HL NARS, Date 11-25-20 5 March 1952 i Alla A MEMORANDUM FOR: MR. DAVID D. LLOYD Administrative Assistant to the President SUBJECT: Message from the President to the Congress of the United States Regarding Immigration into the United States and Assistance for Refugees from Communism (Draft 3/3/52) 1. This is in response to your informal note received this date requesting my comments concerning the above subject. 2. Your consideration in providing a draft for study is appreciated since the activities involved have an impact upon programs of CIA. 3. In general, the reaction of myself and associates whom I have been able to contact on this short notice is very favorable. The major portion of the message pertaining to immigration into the United States is not an area of our detailed knowledge and no comment is offered thereon. I am taking the liberty of commenting in some detail concerning the second mat- ter treated, that of care and assistance for refugees from communism in Europe. 4. Your attention is invited to the following portions of the message, and my comments thereon: a. At page 3, line 18, it is suggested that the statement read: no "heard from our own Voice of America, over the unofficial Radio Free Europe and the other ways of communication which no Iron Curtain can obstruct. b. At page 4, line 17, the estimated flow of #almost 1,000 non- German refugees" into Western Germany is considerably greater than the estimates arrived at by a canvass of State and Defense Departments during the recent study of refugees by the Psychological Strategy Board. A total of 6,000 escapees per annum into the West, not including ethnic nationalities of the receiving countries, and possibly Yugoslav refugees into Italy, was indicated in the cited PSB study. C. At page 5, lines 14-16, there is apparently confirmation of wide=spread failure on the part of the West to satisfactorily meet refugees. This statement by the President of the United States might offer the Soviets very powerful psychological warfare material with which to deter defections and might offend programs now in existence doing at least part of the care-resettlement task. It is suggested that this CONFIDENTIAL