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A Office: Mer “lym « UNITED 8s? jOvE | [ oan TO $ DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: Marc BNiy,1,950 FROM “ff GUY HOTTEL, SAC, Washington Field SUBJECT; Mz. Mobr Tele. Boon tee Mt. Keert on. Mim aid na mabe COMMUNISTS IN THE STATE DEPART pT —_—_—_— (TESTIMONY BY SENATOR JOSEPH Ry’ McCARTHY) LGE oe Attention: Assistant Director D, M. LADD tn accordance with the verbal instructions of Assistant Director D, M. LADD to Special Agent in Charge GUY ROTTEL on March 1950, Special Agents a attended a hearing held by the Subcommittee a Senate Foreign _ Relations Committee in the Caucus Room, Senate Office Building Prior to Senator McCARTHY testifying, Senator TYDINGS announced that the Chief Counsel for the Committee was EIWARD P, MORGAN, who was formerly an Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investi- gation, Assiatant Agent in Charge of Federal Bureau of Investigation Field Offices, and Special Agent in Charge of Federal Bureau of Investigation Field Offices following which he had been made Chief Inspector at headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D. C. He advised that MR. MORGAN had made a4 special , study of Communists and Fascists and had lectured to police all ove the world regarding this subject. He advised that MR. MORGAN was no longer affiliated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and waa presently)a member of a law firm in Washington, D. C. “Tastisony before the Comittee was opened by Senator McCARTHY, fh which he presented the name of GUSTAVO/DURAN. Senata> McCARTHY stated that this individual was employed by the State De~ ' partment and voluntarily resigned on October h, 1946. Following ate his resignation, he was employed by the United Nations and at the eae sialee Present time, Senator McCARTHY advised he was informed DURAN was eee with I.R.0, at the United Nations, . Ea NM : + Senator McCARTHY then proceeded to give considerable ert background information concerning DURAN, which included his activie ~ ties in Spain, at which time he was an officer in the Spanish 8.1.4, which was the Spanish counterpart of the Russian NKVD or OGPO. he - -- GI1- Xd presented the committee a picture of DURAN in the uniform of this - organization.” Senator McCARTHT aso: Pict shad the Committ. -9329 x - 46 . . oY ta. TSE On DEXED.- 39 ; n rm . _ - “TS pay WN 4 Pag: § ~ i a ns 5 A te \ ae b G8: 1 owen et : “i cf