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.L... Kr. Date: March 6 To : The Director Mr. Eobo FROM : D. M. Ladd Mr. Hing Mr. Mohr COMMUNISTS IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT SubJECT: PURposE: To furnish you with additional information concerning and were mentioned by Senator McCarthy and on whom we were checking to ascertain they were currently employed by the State Department.. BACkGrOuD: You will recall my memorandum of February 24, 1950, included You will summaries of 68 individuals who were referred to by Senator McCarthy. further recall that. there were four individuals, namely, whom we could not and It has been. State Department records to ascertain if they were currently employed. ..t. ascertained by the Liaison Section of the Bureau that is currently emnloyed by the State Department; that and is presently employed and apparently is identical'Yith. that I not the individual mentioned by Senator McCarthy since there is no record of a being employed by the State Department. For your information there is a brier. sumuary of inforration available concerning each of these individuals. A Senator Joseph R. McCarthy referred to this individual as "Case No. 40,. FIL who was another person employed in the State Department since i947.' He stated he did not have too much information on this, except the statenent by the agency that As previously. there is nothing in the files to disprove Communistic connections. furnished you in ay memorandum dat.d Februaay 2t. loso.. RECORDED