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Hr, Chairman, I understand that you have now Fired a staff to ob- tain the complete information on anyone in the State Department or closely related afencies, who are suspacted of being bad security riske I an, therefore, submitting to the chairman for the attention of tha eteff, a list of 25 names, which requires further investigation. ; of these individuals to the best of my Imowledge ars either in the State . Department, or in closely related agencies, I understand all of them have deen investigated by the Federal Bureas of Investigation and that such F,£,1. investigations have developed information, which is now in the files -—- information which, according to aécheson's om “yarestick of loyelty" would stamp many, 1f not all of them as being bad security risks. With the very linitad staff which T heve available (and, as the Chair imows, I have beon allocated no funds for this investicetion — I have conducted it complctaly on my own), it would take me a considorable period of tine to dovelop all of the information on all of these individ- uals and subhbit individual cases on cach of them to the comittca, I intend, of course, to continua my investigation and essomble 4 se te oe eae 2) eke Set pee oo 2) Eoo8 AInble inforretion vhich comes te my attention on any of those individvals, which information shall bo available to tho steff of this committees. In the moantimo, in order to got things stertod, I belicva the ~~ staff might stert chacking on these indivicuals, Obviously, the staff could do a much spocdior job in that the filcs, which are not casily available to me, will bo available to the camittce, Hono of tho namcs which I now hand tho Chair cover tho cases f. which I covored.on tho Sonato flocr, i ben "Fy shat? tentinuc’ to asvorey! as mich informetion 7 bn fbesc casos as possible and san, of onde, submit to tho committoo all such informatio as soon as I herve it properly doeumcnted, I have remaining a conaiccrable amount of information on the balance of thesc cascs covored on tho Sonate floor, which information 1s boing assomblcd es rapidly as possible and put into shape to bo prcsontcd to the Comitteo, This task will be completed as soon as possible. , Jae ar al 0 A ee ELSE i ae