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President Louwage wrote to the Director concerning ene George H. Le Defarve, an tadtutdual in Belgium whe, according toe Belgtan newspapers, clatmed to be an “expert graduate” of the Internatienal Assoctation fer Identiti fi- cation and "President for Belgtum™ and who was ealling for experts in tdentificatien to attend the IAI Congress to be held in Ottawa, Canada, tn July 24th. Louwage ad- vised that the individual tn question was not considered by Belgtan offictals as an expert and that he “does not know the ABC of identification". President Louwage re- quested that the officials of International Assoctation of Identification be advised of this individual's status as "expert". This incident ts an indicatien of Louwage's realization that foretgn agenctes may not be aware eof the technical qualtfications of so-called “ezperta", end of the need for checking thetr qualificattons with the author- tttes in their own countries. It ts of interest in view of the derogatory Information available to the Bureau cen- cerntng Goddard. Louwage, Ducleur and Fepote have all dtsclained any responsibility for the appointment of these indtviduals without the Bureau's approval. When apprised of the facts by West, Duclour tndicated his chagrin but apparently Louwage has endeavored to smooth the matter over, indicat- ing that Soderzan must have "misunderstood" the reply given to him. It will be noted that he received no reply after the cable he requested was sent to the Bureau, tnasmuch as tt was not possible to reply to West's cable advising hin that it did not appear that the Eureau's opinion had been requested and that honorary positions are undestrable in police assoctations and commissions prier te the tine West had to leave the conference on other business. . At the time the dectsion was reached to termtnate men~ bership in the ICPC, Feat was advised of the fact that Goddard has been thoroughly dtecredited tn the field eof Ballistics. He was told that it was not desired for hin te furntsh that tnfornatien to ICPC effictals, however, tr view of the fact that the Bureau's advice waa not sought ta sufficient tine te tndicate an honest opinion regarditag Goddard was destred. It was felt that any concrete tnfernma- tion regarding Geddard which might be furnished to Duclous and Nepote would be promptly passed on to Soderman and Geddard which would probably result in fruttless charges and counter- charges. Fest did let Duclour understand, however, that the Buréau was very dissatisfied with the way the Commisaton had handled these appointments. It further appears that thts information has been passed on to Louwage by Duc loug 5 wey i ws, - 19 =