340.1 AGB/3–2853
The Legal Adviser (Phleger) to the Deputy United States Representative at the United Nations (Wadsworth)
My Dear Ambassador Wadsworth: Mr. Tate, the Deputy Legal Adviser, conferred this morning with Mr. Rogers, the Deputy Attorney General, concerning the case of Mrs. M. R. Luckock, about which we have talked on the telephone and which was the subject of a telegram from the United States Mission on Wednesday.
Mr. Tate discussed with Mr. Rogers at some length the questions referred to in the Mission’s telegram, covering Sections 11 (4) and 21 of the Headquarters Agreement, Section 6 of Public Law 357 (80th Cong.), the relationship among subsections 212(a) (27), (28), and (29) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and the effort of the United States to terminate the consultative status of the WIDF. Mr. Tate recalled the past experience with cases of this sort, and the question raised by the Mission whether the viewpoint of the Department of Justice in the Luckock case reflected a changed United States policy toward the application of the Headquarters Agreement.
Mr. Rogers said that the Department of Justice would wish to consider the Luckock case further before giving us an answer; in particular, he wished to raise it again with the Attorney General. Mr. Rogers said that, if the Department of Justice adhered to its position concerning Mrs. Luckock, he would write to the Department of State a letter setting forth as fully as possible within the limitations of security the reasons for the Department of Justice decision that Mrs. Luckock could not be admitted to the United States.
We expect to hear from Mr. Rogers in a few days.
Sincerely yours,