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“ee: Federal Bureau of Investigation United States Acpartment of Justice San Diego, California August 12, 1947 Director, FBI Re: HENRY WALLACE . INFORMATION CONCERNING Dear Sir: The following information concerning HENRY WALLACE was disclosed to an Agent today by Colonel FISHER, presently Director of the Museum of Natural History in San Diego, who, prior to the war, was for thirty years Director of the Bureau of Forestry in the Philippine Islands, and an advisor to President Quezon. He also worked closely with G-2 in the Philippines and is an intimate friend of years standing of General Van Deman. Colonel FISHER related that in prewar Manila, in 1936, two of the ranking Japanese in the Islands approached him with the query of whether WALLACE, the then Secretary of Agriculture, was a Communist and Russian. According to the Japanese, WALLACE had appointed a man named ROARICK, a known Communist and Russian intelli~ gence agent, to the official post of the head of an official mission then on a tour of Manchuria and Korea, studying what was being done in forestry. The two Japanese, who were pro-American, said that the members of this commission under ROARICK's direction were caught mapping installations, taking pictures of airfiields, etc. It was Colonel FISHER's reaction that as a result of this the United States - -was- playing right into the hands of the militarists and Jingoists, who used this as an excuse to tie up the United States and Russia in a "squeeze® play on them. Colonel FISHER took the information to KN ARYERSON , then a high departmental official of the United States Government in Manila, and now Dean of the College of Agriculture, University of California, Berkeley. RYERSON, although indignant at the appointment, paid that his hands were tied as it came originally from Mrs» SLEANOR NROOSEVELT. ENCLOSURE oT RECOR \ROARICK is now thought ¢ to be in ere ae Lae ta hf - 1. ‘last heard of in India. = CIXAGN | // 1g. sre is ape F skin : Sf A a bal Wan CONTAINED yf pe a Mogren: yo E30 a COPIES pEsTROvED.. ee bocihikD 22" 3° 7, 295 NOV4 1964 AYE 04/3 pyr iesk frp! Gskoe, f _