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“Office Meno - #2 ¢ UNITED ‘* OVERNMENT To ' PRE DIRECTOR pate: 9/19/50 —~ a - ‘ FROM + He He CLECS fa . Cpe wo ta, 4s Tere fw / SUBJECT: FLORENT 2, “°LOUFAGE ene ae 4 PRESIDENT, I0PC ( Moneg Tracy, Karoo, V Preagident Florent EF, Louwage of the ICRC, — Incpector General of the Minister of Juatice ‘Of iviscels, o> fas weasel Beloium called. ffe t9 @ amali, wizened-lIooking tadtuidual bi jing th a disstpated countenance who speaks very poor English. He oan took up one by one, in the following order, his explanations Be ey the action of the IckC, and ata statements on each of the points” 77" 7"'' cotncide with what he had placed tn Ats letter previously. The additioncl information or added emphasis given i3 Itsted as followss . I . de. hat the ICPC membership was of no benefit to the Bureaus _He incicated that ‘he organization wos young and growing. He felt that it was advantageous. JI told him tt had been tin operation four years, . yhad £0 employees, tts record was unimpressive and we had found Gbsolutely no advantage or no benefit whitch could not have been obtained japsodutel ; 2. As to the high membership fee, he said tf the Bureau could not pay any fee or only €20.60 or $300.00 1t would be oek., that they wanted the Sureau's membership. I explained that a chart hed been shown te a Bureau representative showing that we should pay $7, CGU.00-and that Soderman had mentioned to me the question of the Sureau's contribution when he was here; that perhaps they Aad need for the funds, but tt Seemed strange that their ézecutives were meeting at varicus expensive spas tn Europe instead of conserving the funds. Also, the FBI did not beneftt and could not justify the appropriation ony Jlongerse ee ee, 3. Concerning direct dealings with other American agencies, _ fe had nothing new to add, and JI explained how embarrassing tt was for ithe FAI to be the liaison agency and not to know what is gotng on tn Amertea,. He agreed that tt was bad, and that it would stop in the Juturée vw @. Concerning the appointment of’Goddard and}anning as techntcal adutsors, I told him that although we would not put it tn ssa due to our long friendly relationship with him I could tell hin that one of these technical ‘experts had a bad standing tn professtonal law enforcement circles tn Amertca, and the other had ne | nattonal standing; that they had, Para Be stsie the Bureau two montis itn ! | advince, and the first time it’as called to] the,jureay's attenpton was! wien Sodernan bruskly taformed Agent West a therr—intention to elect i these individuals, and that the dypesiris. aide Adiisalemerobjected to the _prinetple of such appointments. Jf tald Ain flere was no chance for Soderman to have misunderstocd anything that Agent Fest satd or any nessage from the Bureau. JI told him that further, os a personal statement to hin MO Ae had reliable information that Soderman had