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, » - @TANDARD FORM NO. 64 a ¥ 0 e aan yey - - Office Memorandum . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT To ; MR. TOLSON Lott ; pate: October 20, 1951 FROM : Le Be NICHOLS Be vi sunset: Hewe (Wall en While talking to Senator McCarran on other natters after having talked to Miss Adams about the situation, I aduised the Senator of the thoroughness of our check in ae an effort to identify the alleged incident of Wallace's qele, Room contacting a subversive agent in Philadelphia in 1943 or 1944 and in Miami in 1941 regarding the atom bomb. TI told the AG) Senator we had not been able to identify any such incident, that if any incident had occurred we felt that we should : immediately get to work on ite JI asked the Senator if there was soda i ‘anyway whereby they-could furnish us more information S06 we could Vine start the investigation. The Senator stated he appreciated everything we had done but they simply could not tell us who their informant wase I asked if t¢ would be possible for them to talk to their informant further to try to get further details. He stated I should talk to Miss Adams the first of the week but they just couldn't identify the informant. ; I told the Senator that we of course were not concerned. with the informant. He stated he thought we had done all we could do and they were satisfied if we had the information we would give them some indications I told the Senator he could Que rest assured on that pointe . SO } TT , EL wae c¢ ~ ure toag PAL EFC TON CONTAINED | “ nee . bi 5 ASSIFIED gad) 4 CC - Belmont ee yp ee YY a EAibso eo By agrees °2- 11 7b if. LBN:mb Le 303 ‘ In this connection, Jay Sourwine mentioned the other night "I of course didn't tell you that Surine was the source." I told Sourwine today that I had heard that Surine had been asked tf he knew about any contact between Wallace and a subversive Agent tn Philadelphia which he denied knowing of thise Sourwine stated for my strictly confidential information, Surine was the original source but was /4R é Senator's informant. I am inclined to call 9% BBE SG GI s95F _ '