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Office Mem “ dum ° UNITED 4. * ¥ ;OVERNMENT TO + The Director DATE: March 9, 1950 FROM : D, M. Ladd } : rosea SUBJECT: COLSUNIST IN THE Care, DEPARTLEMID ' i “Chllegations by Senator Joseph R. JeCarthy) witha LOYALTY OF GOVERNEENT EiMPLO TYERS PURPOSE tarte, “~~ _ “fo inform you of the identity of the State Department employee re~ *™ ferred to yesterday by Senator iillard u.\fydings at the hearings of the Senete ene. nom Foreign Relations Subcommittee as being terminated by the State Department on February 19, 1946, for "homosexual acts and connection with the Young Comm- nist League,"the terwination being rescinded April 1, 1946, through intervention of a "high official of the State Department." The identity of the "high officia 1 of the State Departuent" is also set forth for your information, a PAGKGROUND You will recall the Washington Field Office, by letter dated March 8, | 1950, advised the Bureau regarding certain details taken up at the opening session of the Foreign Relaticns Subcommittee hearing on State Department personnel. 1 f Senator Tydings referred to prior testimony of Senator NcCarthy in which he had Mme stated on the floor of the Senate that one employee of the State Department who ™ _ was eulployed in December, 1945, as a translator had been investigated during 1946 any this investigation showed evidence which caused his later dismissal due to homo- sexual acts and connection with the Young Communist Leagues that on January 22, 194657 ~ the Division of Security and Investigations, State Department, recommended the. dis- | charge of this individual and on February 19, 1946, his services were temninated; N that on April 1, 1946, this termination act was rescinded; that a CSA report, dated % September 27, 1947, was replete with information that a high official of the State > Department tampered with the records of the State Department and personally contacted 4 wilnesses asking them to retract their testimony concerning the aforementioned employee. Senator Tydings asked Senator McCarthy whether he could furnish the a mittee with the name of this official in the Stete Department who was charged with aa tampering with official records and covering up activities of 15 oya 18-34 ~ } You noted concerning this intone 1 Ant AA tae 1 z INPererka, af eepeneeaote ssi From @ comparison of Senator Tydings x0 88 ; setts eet > wi ith ot the previous testimony of Senator McCarthy before the Senate,f4s' ¢ublished in the = Congressional Record under date of February 20, 1940, it is Obvious that the State e Department employee he is talking about is ;t~—SY who cCarthy originally referred to as "Case No. 14." . .