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- ‘Memorandum to Sos - ACTION: %. 2° from L. B. Nichols with Messrs. Carey and Scofield of the Leeds and Northrup Company. SAC McCabe should call on them and point out that the Agent who made the contacts with the Leeds and Northrup Company in 1950 and 1951 has been identified and that he emphatically deries having ever made any statement threatening to take the Leeds and Northrup Company. off-the.eligible list of. -'---- companies to receive classified contracts. should also be told that quite naturally we furnished the facts of the refusal of his company to cooperate with the FBI in the plant informant program to ONI and G-2 with no recommenda or evaluations whatsoever, and that any action taken thereafter was strictly the action of the Department of Defense. Scofield should be contacted first inasmuc as Carey, in talking to me, indicated that our Agent had made the original cortact with Scofield re establishment of plant informants, It is therefore only reasonable to assume that Scofield has told Carey about the alleged threat _madc by our Agent, In addition to above, SAC McCabe shoul also tell Scofield that the matter of plant informants was fully discussed when Scofield and Reddin the President, called by our Philadelphia Office on 4-6-51, and that the Leeds and Northrup officials certainly mentioned no “threat” at the time. He should © -be asked for specifics, With.respect to future cooperation with the American Friends Service Committee, it is apparent that they evidently want things their own - way with respect to furnishing information, Iam of the opinion that we should continue to make requests to this committee for information and that in the future, *we cansider each case upon its own merit; i.e., in the event it is necessary for us to contact a staff member personally, we will so advise the ‘committee. 1 think it necessary that we continue to get as much information as possible from this committee in conscientious objector cases so that our . investigations will be as complete as possible. ee ——ee S me re rn There is attached a letter to SAC, Philadelphia, regarding the recommended action, ° 3 -¢ _ . -7- ; . Sem - eR, - wwe = re peer a ney = « 7 2 7 : ” it on al mae a ; : ‘ .. . -oge ~ ve . —_ - ‘ ras —_ Se ! w 4 * » . ~ + i 4 '