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TO DATE: February THE DIRECTOR 24 1950 MR. D. M. IADD 'olson FROM 1 SUBJECT: (ALLEGATIONS BY SENATOR ~JOSEPH R McCARTHY - Rep.-Wisconsin) PURP OSE : Tel+. Roo To furnish you with the possible identity of and/summaries of. information regarding tho individuals referred to anonymyhsly as employees Oandy... of the State Department by Senator McCarthy before the Sonate, as set forth in the Congressional Rocord dated February 0, 195o, Volume 96, No. 35,. pages 2043 through 207l inclusive: BA CKGROUND : Reference is made to Mr. Nichols' memorandum to you dated February 2l, 1950, advising that the Loyalty Section was endeavoring to identify the. cases. referred to by-Senator McCarthy bofore the Senate and was preparing a sumary a*onqtssod su yonu se ogppedaeu 'pagou not *eseo yoea uo There is attached hereto a. compilation of summary memoranda on the.. were.arrived.at solely on the basis of a. comparison of Senator McCarthy's testimony on individual cases with the material furnishod to the Bureau con- fidentially.on January 29, 1948, by. In some instances it was noted that Senator McCarthy's language on particular cases appeared to be direct quotes of portions of the individual. case write-ups in the material In other instances Senator McCarthy's remarks were so brier that it was nocessary to arrive at the identi-. fication through a process of elimination, as well as comparison of the case. write-ups in Lee's material. 12./- 232 It was also noted that Senator McCarthy uses the male gender referring to most cases although in several instances the cases apparently refer to women. Senator McCarthy also makes reference in some cases to the. person having signed an affidavit that he was a menber of the Communist Party,. whereas Lee's material shpws only that the individualy or a person of similar / RECORnED - 11C his remarks in the Congressional Roggptknows he pmstted 4 cases,'specifically case No. 15, No. 27, No. 35 and No.Yy. He also makes a general referonce to. cases No. 2l to 26 as being typical examples of many of ths employees in ths 1 1 : 4 : 0ebl ot Chor? Attachment 8 JUN 121950