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it i \ WASHINGTON *TELD OFFICE LETTER TO DIREC™R, FET RE: COMMUNISTS IN THE STATS. DEPARTMENT ~ Senator KeCARTHY then brought out the point that it would bea | valuable aic to tthe State Department to be aware of just what documents he had in his possession, if any, in the way of photostatic copies of their files, because if the story of rifling of files is true, then the Depart . ment of State would know just what documents to make available to the Cone mittee and would not “be caught short. 4 Bee an Senator McGARTHY then discussed the Loyalty Doard at ‘the State | Department and stated that he questioned their competence and ability to perform the job designated when a Board could review so many loyalty cases and only tind one person who had to be dismissed from the Department and Find every uther person loyal to the Government. Acnat dae meer wreaiitd i nee t+ 1+ mm an pe EOE irs 7 | ommittee then decided that they would call berore i it, at | future tine, all nine members or the Loyalty Board at the State Departments | with the latter decision being made that they would wait until they had re- ceived further information from Senator MceCANTHY relative to the exact number | of cases he knew of in which the Loyalty Board cleared the employees and \ where the Civil Service Commission Board, at a later date, noted that a mistake mist have been made and sent this information back to the State Departent ; Loyalty Board, ~ Sot, 4 rf r #] After considerable discussion serning the setup of the L Roards in the various agencies, together wi th the Appeal Boards, Senator MeGARTHY stated that he wanted to make this clear, that the FREI does no screening and mékes no recommendations wnatsoever, simply conducts the in- vestigation and sends the investigative report, upon completion, to the agency concerned which, in turn, makes the necessary decision, He stated {that in the case of DORMIRT-RENYON thatthe FRE did an excellent job and 3 OTE 3 tained inrorniation relating to her membership in organizations cited as. igubversive in excess of the twenty-= -eight, as mentioned by hin in the ori . accusations, “intimated that the FRI report, as furnished to the State Departuent, con- | Senator McCARTHY, at this point, also wanted to reiterate his prior statenent about the necessity of subpoenaing a1] files and wanted to state — . that the FBI file could be depended upon not. to have been tampered with in. i any way. . a , a mt, coe 4 fo anv persons con ‘i ae