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    "ocrText": "11 (7/5 1.50 p.m.)\nGENERAL TWINING: Well, if we go to sleep and don't\nkeep working, that could happen, certainly. There is no\nquestion, those people are on the move.\nQ. General, how do you feel about flights of civilian\nUnited States citizens into the Soviet Union, such as Bill Lear\ndid a couple of weeks ago?\nGENERAL TWINING: Well, Mr. Lear got his passport\nand visas -- American citizen -- taking a trip -- and he went\non in there. That's all I know. What he had in the airplane,\nI don't know that. What he did with it, I don't know that\neither. But I reported that -- ordered investigation --\nthat's not true.\nQ. General, if I might go back again to the\n$900 million, if that was not discussed this morning with\nDefense Secrétary Wilson and President Eisenhower, when will\nit be, sir?\nMR. HAGERTY: It was not discussed. This was a report\non his trip.\nOkay?\nQ. General, you just made the remark that we will be\nall right if we don't go to sleep and if we keep moving. That\nseems to collide with this decision of the Pentagon not to use\nmoney that Congress has voted to keep us moving?\nMR. HAGERTY: There is no such decision, Eddie.\nWhoever said there was such a decision?\nQ. There has been no announcement that the money will\nbe used.\nD.\nMR. HAGERTY: All right -- why don't you read Mr.\nWilson's testimony?\nQ. I would like to ask the General if he thinks we\nshould use that money?\nGENERAL TWINING: I have been out of the country.\nI don't know what it's for, or what it's all about. I haven't\nany idea. I haven't had a chance to even read about it.\nQ. I would like to ask Secretary Hagerty if the\nmoney will be used, since I was wrong in my statement?\nMR. HAGERTY: You were wrong on your statement, Eddie.\nThere has been no announcement whatsoever. And you said that\nthere was.\nQ. Well, I was under that impression.\nMR. HAGERTY: I think you are wrong on it.\nQ. Jim, I believe Mr. Wilson told the Senate\nCommittee that he would not make any attempt to spend that\nmoney until after he had talked with General Twining. He has\nnow done so, but this money did not come up.\nMR. HAGERTY: No, he has not talked to General Twining.\nThis was a report on General Twining's trip.\nQ. Well Mr. Secretary, at least no announcement has\nbeen made that any decision has been reached to spend the money ---\nMR. HAGERTY: Now you are trying to work it around\nanother way.\nQ. Darn right I am."
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