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said the FB] had Adams in custody and the State Department ordered the FBI to he release him and that Adams was a top Russian spy. I stated that this was not correct at ell; that we had not had Adams fn custody at any time; we had him under surveillance and while he was under surveillance an ex-Agent of the Buresu went to the New York Journal American and told them the story shout Adams and they printed it over my protests and Adams disappeared. I further commented that Winchell called me last night and steted that someons in Washington had called him for details regarding Adame ané he was advised that his informetion sis on Adams was incorrect, ‘and that if the person in Washington who waemking for: this information was some Member of Congress or in a position where they think ~ they can use such information and he did mot want to disclose his source of oe informetion he ought te tell them so. I stated his source wasa party in New York - City who, I thought, had gotten it from an ex-Agent and I did not know whether this ex-Agent was deliberately lying or whether by lapse of time he had gotten his memory twisted because these statements Were not true. [ stated it was | merely a surmise but I felt probably the same thing had happened to McCarthy | and of course if was even possible that some disgruntled State Department employee could be feeding him a lot of stories. i] os a, . = I commented that I i" = _ me arthy had staked all on this martes case and 1 was only assurning it was Lattimore. I stated that when these cases were mentioned in the papers they were unnamed and we tried to match them with our wees information but did not know how successful we were and that at first we thought wa McCarthy was referring in this particular case Se ern cth but finally figured it must be Lattimore. I stated that I felt is cose a9 1 did in the Coplon . Case that any material in our files should be kept confidential; that if one committce ~ were permitted access to our files then there was no reason why enother committee should not have access to them, and of course there waa the possibility that they vi tm _ 4 Lo 2 an ae