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ChE ee IN States mekes toward the running of this United Nations! agency amount to 45,57 percent. (Senate Report 1274, 8lst Congress, 2nd f Sessicn, Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments,pre- peared by Subcommittee on Relations with International Organizations.) At the time that Acheson's man attempted to ridicule my statenent, he etther. did not kmow the facts inthe case or he was covering up the information which 4s in the files and which should have been known to him This information, which I shall document for the committee, was known or was available to the State Department, It shows that Duren was (1) well-'mowm for his rabid Communist beliefs and activities, (2) that he Republican was active in secret Soviet operations in the Spanish Sepubhtcc Army, (3) that a highly corfidertial report was sent to the State Department by the Militcory Attache ct tne American Embessy in Madrid which accordire to all existinz rules called for Duran's inmediate dismissal — unless aan Bs a es =i = a a a. thw aweee [ a on ie . * . ee ee ee as CVS Were Proven tO DG wrong. WTiginaily, » 4 WIKIES lad 1. Was au t toy Lar] eloimed that this was a case of mistrken identity, That claim, I believe, has been subsequently dropped in view of the fact that om intelligence preduced pictures of him in the uniform thet he wore at the time he wos the wgional head @& S.I,M., witch wos the antsh Counterpart of the « 1 Rassian NKVD or OGFU, JI now hand the com-ittee one of those picturos, v At the time this intelligence report recachod the State Department, Duran was a hignly placed officiel in a eonfidertial ecpacity with the State Department in South America,