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FOR RELEASE: | | SATURDAY, CCTCBER 3u, 1943 3970 a DEPARTIGNT OCF JUSTICE en Attorney General Francis Biddle announced today that since Pearl Harbor it has been necessary for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to taxe into custody only 14,739 aliens of eneny nationality a9 persons ‘potentially d dangerous to ene seoura ty of the United Stetes, ny Sets tly c+ ta mumher 7 0 Foal 3 e 2? end 1,444 released outright after hearings before Local Alien Enemy Hearing Boards, The remainder were released after * preliminary hearings “before United States Attorneys. é “Mr. Biddle revealed that the 3, ™”. aliens interned represent less than one-half of one pereent of the more than 938, 000 alien enemies ‘ dn the United States. He explained that the comprehensive files main- tained by the FBI make it possible to determine the beliefs and sympathies of ‘al aliens of enemy nationality, and that it is the policy of the | Department of Justice to take “into custody for further 7 Anvestigation and hearings all} whose Loyalty ‘to the United ‘States is in doubt However, ‘only those Fegarded | as dangerous to the internal security « of the country : are interned. | ' J@ ’ ‘Among those interned are 1,85 53 Germans, ni Heattans,, A, 798 C. fo : a @ = on = i= 8 fo se | fete - Psy a 2. a ad 4] 5 ioc) lj _ B . ees oa ce ° In all instances, aliens are taken before Hoaring Boards who make reconmendations t to the ittorney General in each case, He then determines vhether the alien eneny is to be interned, ‘poreled 0 or released. ; Long before the outbroak of war, the attorney Generel said, the ' FBI becan Snvestipating persons suspected ~ pro-Axis sympathies, On ) (OVER) | ENCLOSURE, oo 62 f0o-R-2FIVO J ee