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SUCROTARY aCHsSON'S LOYALTY YAROSTICK — From testimony of Dean Acheson, Secre- tary of State, vefore Senate Appropria- tions Comittee Tuescay, February 236, 1950 The first cétepory constituting a security risk is a person Who engages in, Supports, or advocates treason, subversion, or sedition, or who is a member of, affiliated with, or in. sympathstic association with Communist, Nazi, or Fascist Parties, or of any foreign or domestic party or novenent wien secks to alter the form of government of the United Stetes by unconstitutional means or whose policy is to ad- vocate or approve the commission of acts of force or violence to deny other persons their rights under the Constitution of the United States; or a person who consistently believes in or supports the ideologies and policies ef such a party or movencnt . The second category is a person who is engaged is espionage — eee ‘ ‘ bh or uno is acting airectly or indirestly under the instruc= tions of eny foreign covernvent; or vho deliberat ely per- forms his duties, or otherwise acts to serve the interests of another overnaent in preference to the interest of the United Stctos, The third category is a person who has lnowingly divulged clausified infornation without authority and with the knowledge or belief or with reasonable grounds for the knowledge or belief tnat it will be transmitted to agencies of a foreign government, or who is so consistently irres- ponsible in the handling of classified information as to compel the conclusion of extreme lack of care or judgment. The fourth category is a person who has habituel or close assoeration with persons known or believed to ve in cate- gories A or B (isee, first and second categories}, to an extent which would justify the conclusion that he might, through such association, voluntarily or involuntarily divulge classified information without authority. toe em