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STANDARD FORM WO. Be Office Memorundum + ontren sta. es GOVERNMENT f . TO : MR. BELMONT by ce DATE: May 16, 1950 FROM: Vy Py mE a Clegg | SUBJECT: CHARGES AGATIST THE SIATE DEPARTMENT BY SENATOR MC CARTHY — atarin : . ne eee a ee ae Nichols , 7 Ronen. ae... me confidentially that he had reviewed the ae files at the State Department which are to be made available to the wee Senate Committee strictly from the standpoint of seeing that there ‘ Tele. Room was nothing in the files which would be harmful to the Department of Nenoe, Justice and which did not belong in the files. He stated that he wanted; to pass on the following information with reference to Bureau information ~~ ——— he observed therein. P.....: in the Loyalty file on Fl he noted a | copy of a long letter from the Bureau to Seth Richardson, Chairman of the; Loyalty Review Board, dated April 21, 1950. ‘One paragraph of this letter| furnished for Richardson fs conf ial information the identity of one of. our confidential informants. tated that he _puegested to the State Department that they block out this parapranph as no pertincney sna | might be ha Also he noted in the casg a memorandum fro to Mr. Nicholson of the State Department dated October : al, . saying something to the effect that tha did not make as complete an investigation as was possible on husband. | \ stated there was no indication as to why estigation on husband was pertinent in this file. It . noted that thg gation was conducted dg and the only references ra to her husband were incidental or were related to her activities, also advised that in the file involving no neil notations on the Bureau report which was written by a’: Washington, D. Co, in April, 1944. These pencil notati ified the various informants in the report. According to there was no information as to_hoew the informants had been identified ! by the State Department. tated he noted there were two original | ' copies of this report in = and one photostat. The photostat did not have any notations on it. tated he suggested to the State | Department that they remove o White copies of the report which ; U contain notations and leave only the photostatic copy in the file, te. 1 /2l- 39-78 “13x t Peg, , es oy in Nem aray Stat anand VI es ee: TEE hs Aaa eae CRT PETER mrs tyro