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STANDARD PORM NO. 64 os > Office Metin nntin ¢ UNITE] "GOVERNMENT : To : in. D. M. anf DATE: 3-15-50 . 6. t wes oo” i PROM : UR. A, H, BELMON 2 tat —— i a Same * ce ke Fe SUBJECT: Poanamists in meSATE DEPARTMENT AREAS, ae — ed by to see Mr. Laughlin’ late bh. in the ernoon of March lu, 950, GHEY <ecorcea to a conversation a b * had with you regarding the list of State Department employees and you i suggested that in the event he had any information of interest to the Bureau that we would appreciate obtaining any data he cared to-tairn overe aa ect ah f. : - a= advised that approxinatary WE OF threo weeks ago PY . he receiv nformation indicating that Senator7cCarthy was looking for an investigator, Upon talking to the Senator to undertake - .. = on a fee basis the investigation of corte cases said that e he was assisted locally by nd mor itly for e recen ceria aslo of oe ¢ A oS WE 222: some of the leads in New York. ‘ explained that Senator McCarthy had spme information and it was the duty of he and his coworkers to endeavor to develop this 1 "material. He said it was a terrifically hard job in that ip Dut a few cases was there any substantive material and, further, since Senator i McCarthy was constantly "jumping the gun." ates at he and his coworkers did succeed in getting some information on approximately four or five good cases which the Senator was to use in his Statement before the ttee on Foreign Relations this week, Horeer, quite ; obviously, Et .2:, the Senator was not relying completely on . his "heehings ors but must have had some other sources, For example, | r 4 e i it ee DRT ay, ee A Te i a Flr ce pe ee nee ET OER ert te 4 tated, he and his group furnished the Senator absolutely no infor= mation on Dorothy Kenyon, Whoever made material _on her available to Senator McCarthy did it "via the back coor. "Mp sat a that he suspects that som newspaper reporter gave tha Senator the information on Kenyon, He added that the Senator's mentioning her came as a complete surprise to him and the other investigators, oe: stated that former Inspector E. P. Morgan had been named as General Counsel of the Subcommittee on Foreign Relations to probe this matter, He was of the opinion that no other members of the staff had been selected at the time of his conversation. He said that he was aware that originally it was intended that the Assistant Counsel U So enema letersi neers ee . would be a Republican but that ne CP « gathered from talking to Morgan . that Morgan wanted a free hand and was not concerned with the political : question. G ; ‘ 5 [Al AzaqK- 4 om: that he and the other investigators who assisted him were "out" ag of that timd@ and would have no further access to an ars material available to Senator McCarthy. _ PPI - ge /, 10 , vo : JULY vo RECORDED - Oy on AR 1? ed e (