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7 Office Memorandum - UNITED stares GOVERNMENT DATE: Jamary 7, pee NITED TANKER CORPs3_ bloat ff] ‘/ UNITED STATES PETROLEUM CARRIERS, IN } 4 pemat co AMERICAN OVERSEAS TANKER CORB; : weer, SIMPSON, SPENCE & YOUNG Oo IN ee Ty esann ANATWOM mop Ape wmaet«,§:’€, - RN — - THAW L AVA ANA 21 WY Did . be \ : , Pod fo - a - To advise of the receipt of a request for an investigation from the Department of the North American Shipping and Trading Co. and several of its subsidiary and affiliated companiése The allegation is that thsse companies made false statements to the Government as to the nationality of the financial interests behind them at the time thay nurchased 40 aurniua veasels from tha Maritime Admint stration. Former Congressman Joseph Casey (De Mass.) is the ‘president of one of the affiliated companiss,. ees) BACKGROUND As you will recall, at the request of the Claims Division the Bureau is presently conducting an Admiralty Matter investigation into the purchase of the Tanker Meacham from the Maritime Administrae . tion by the American Overseas Tanker Corp., an affiliate of the YS North American Shipping and Trading Co., and “its subsequent resale to - alien Chinese interests. The New York Office is presently conducting an ‘accounting investigation in this mattere: - The December 19, 1951, edition of the Times~Herald contained an article to the effect that the Hoey Senate Committee contemplates a probe into the sale of 100 surplus ships by the Maritime Admintstra= tion, ; DETAILS Hy . By memorandum dated December 26, 1951, James Me McInerney, Assistant Attorney General, requested that the Bureau conduct an investigation into an allegation that the North American Shipping and Trading “Go. and several of its subsidiary and affiliated companies had made false statements to the Maritime Administration at the time they purchased 60 vessels from that agency. The false statements concern themselves with the nationality of the interested _ persons making the purchesese The purchasing companies cleim that they are backed solely by an American negroes wherein the Government alleges ile sont, —/ 7713 _/ iS | : 1140 - SAN 2S 2, ye ay