USIA files, lot 56 D 581, “Notes on McCarthy Committee”
Memorandum by the Acting Assistant Administrator in Change of the International Information Center Service of the United States Information Agency (Humphrey) to the Acting Chief of the Center Operations Division, United States Information Agency (Simpson)
- Subject:
- Restoration of Works by Fifth Amendment Authors
The re-evaluation of materials by authors taking refuge behind the Fifth Amendment called for in the July 15, 1953 Report on the Book and Library Program,1 and our recent discussions of the program utility of the works involved lead me to the conclusion that the Agency should not authorize restoration of any of the materials previously removed from the libraries under instructions by the Department of State. This conclusion does not, of course, affect the authorization given in that Report for the restoration of the works of Dashiell Hammett.
Accordingly, it is to be the position of this Service that subject authorization is not granted. Any indications which we may have that the field may have undertaken restoration on its own responsibility should be appropriately dealt with.