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al 2 ory pity u STINDARG Povtid pm. 4 Off LCC Memore adn - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ‘TO 1 yp, roLson [74 fr DATE: 10- 24-50 FROM; UR. He He CLLCC pitt, : =a SUBJECT: PRESIDENT FP. 2a LOUHAGE oo, Gas INTERNATIONAL CRIZNINAL POLICE COMMISSION ee 8 ee ie ee teat ee iti Coonceees ro aa I_saw Louwage at the—IAce—Convention_at Colorado’ i ory Sprin As per pians, I informed Aim that : 1.4ad heard. from Mez hoon Jaskuweat and that he had not tn any way approved the Wanted ra | vacires which the ICPC had sent out for the Czechoslouakians, but that, to the contrary, West had called at Duclour's office at which tine Duclour exrhibtted to him the Wanted Notices and stated they were about to be dispatched and _ West requested the names so ‘ta i he could adufse the Bureau not to file Wanted Notices due to the fact that they were “political refugees" and not criminal fugitives, that Hr. Yest was of the opinion he would never have had an opportuntty rE to see them before their circulaorization except for the ctrcumstances beataieenaaaanll of his having business there on that day and Mr. West stated that he did not give any approval, actual or implied, Jor tactr distribution in Qny way. if Louwage believed Duclour | | version that Fest had approved B, fs and I told him I believed West's story because Fest knew better i i? a - Es . Ce than to gtve any approval of that sort and he Aad no authority to _gtve such approval, which he knew well and understood, and, thus, he would 7 not have done 80, who had made critical, caustic comnents concerning the Bureau during lene IoPC meeting last summer and Sederman affirmed that West had iyistated © “that the Bureau would have no objection to the designation jlo? the 2 scientific consultants and I told Louwage that this was ridiculous because West cabled immediately and stated that Soderman had informed him that they were going to be approved. anyway and he - luould not have sent the cable if he had approved them or had authority : to anprave them for these tndtuiduals and that the procedure which “Gi. was followed tn the IcPC's approving them without advance notice was i:trregular. He gtated that_Soderman professed that West had given ; Ats consent to these designations and he indicated he was inclined to bel teve Sodernan and I indicated I was definitely convinced ‘that west's verston was true and the circumstances verified that and Yogernan's activities made him, to me, "beyond belief.” Louwage was ~ Personally cordial and I left him rubbing Ats brow and shaking his fead de jeetedly. LHC: DUG fooaste wat if . po “a ¢ wre . f’ oe . He stated that he had also heard from Soderman of Sweden *. *