COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS.
UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

H.R. 11040

AN ACT FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT, OWNERSHIP, OPERATION,
AND REGULATION OF A COMMERCIAL COMMUNICATIONS
SATELLITE SYSTEM, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

87607

AUGUST 3, 6, 7, 8, AND 9, 1962

Printed for the use of the Committee on Foreign Relations

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1962

CONTENTS

Statement of-

Cohen, Benjamin V., attorney, Washington, D.C.

Dryden, Hon. Hugh L., Deputy Administrator of the National Aero-

nautics and Space Administration..

Gross, Ernest A., Former Deputy U.S. Representative to the U.N.
Kennedy, Hon. Robert F., Attorney General of the United States
McNamara, Hon. Robert S., Secretary of Defense; accompanied by
John H. Rubel, Assistant Secretary of Defense, Deputy Director of
Defense Research and Engineering; and Jack L. Stempler, Assistant
Counsel, Department of Defense..

Minow, Hon. Newton N., Chairman of the Federal Communications

Commission; accompanied by T. A. M. Craven, Commissioner;

Max D. Paglin, General Counsel; Bernard Strassburg, Assistant

Chief, Common Carrier Bureau; and Marion H. Woodward, Chief,

International Division, Common Carrier Bureau___

Murrow, Hon. Edward R., Director of the U.S. Information Agency;
accompanied by Stanley Plesent, General Counsel; Robert Mayer
Evans, special assistant to the Director; and Edgar T. Martin,
Engineering Manager, Voice of America..

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346

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412

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289

16, 43, 59

125, 154, 226

Rauh, Joseph L., Jr., attorney, Washington, D.C..

Rusk, Hon. Dean, Secretary of State; accompanied by George C.

McGhee, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Harlan

Cleveland, Assistant Secretary of State for International Organiza-

tions Affairs; Abram Chayes, the legal adviser, Department of

State..

Insertions for the record:

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171

Text of H.R. 11040_

2

Foreign Relations staff memorandum on H.R. 11040_-

13

Letter of July 26, 1962, to Senator Mansfield from Newton N. Minow,

Chairman, Federal Communications Commission.

25

Letter of July 25, 1962, to Senator Mansfield from Under Secretary

of State George McGhee...

30

Letter of July 27, 1962, to Senator Mansfield from Deputy Attorney

General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach..

30

51

Letter to President Kennedy from Senators Morse, Humphrey, and

Kefauver, and 32 Members of the House of Representatives..

Memorandum of the FCC setting forth its reasons for preferring com-

mon carrier ownership of proposed satellite corporation...

Estimated Telstar launch and other costs paid to the National Aeronautics

and Space Administration by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co..

Industry-Department of Defense cooperation in satellite-based telecom-

munications___

Address of John A. Johnson, General Counsel, National Aeronautics and

Space Administration, Washington, D.C., before the section of inter-

national and comparative law, American Bar Association, San Francisco,

Calif..

Letter of August 7, 1962, to Senator Fulbright from Assistant Secretary

of State Frederick G. Dutton...

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264

290

311

345

Reply of Edward R. Murrow to questions raised by Senator Stuart Syming-

ton on August 7, 1962.

407

Statement by Senator Stuart Symington..

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