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r] t STE Re gp eR STANT ALD FORM 10, 64 \ con vs é = * Office Memorandum + onirep STATES GOVERNMENT a TO : The Director DATE: May 15, 1950 > FROM :° Wr, D. Me Ladd oS te SUBJECT: EXECUTIVE BRANCH, U. S, GOVERICIINT Mea (Names identified by Senator McCarthy) cir LOYALTY OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES treey__ ; Rarbo, . Sehr PURPOSE tele. Noaee. . To recommend that the attached memorandum concerning the individuals omy identified by Senator McCarthy before the Tydings Subcommittee beNforwarded to Mr. Peyton Ford pursuant to his request to be advised regarding the Jissemination | 6i information in the Bureau's files and the results of investigatfonk regarding ~ thesé persons to the Department of State. ~~ ~ BACKGROUND ~* a You will recall that in my memorandum of May 9, 1950, which is attached, ; I pointed out that Clive Palmer had called at my office on the evening of May 9, 1950, and left a memorandum listing the names of the 81 individuals named in the subpoena of the Senate Subcommittees. Mre Palmer advised that Peyton Ford had been in conference all afternoon with Senator Tydings; that Senator Tydings insists that he wants a letter signed by the Attorney General listing the dates of reports on loyalty casea sent to the Civil Service Commission, as weli as information on the individuels who were the subjects of preliminary inquiry loyalty investigations, but which were discontinued upon receipt of information that the employees had left | the goverment service. Palmer further indicated Tydings also desired any cases where no investigation was conducted because no derogatory information was avail- able be listed. According to Palmer, Senator Tydings suggested that a cutoff date | of February 20, 1950, be set and that nothing be listed thereafter. Palmer was advised by me that the Bureau would not prepare any such list until we received a memorandum from the Department in writing listing exactly what it was that the Department wanted. It was also suggested that the Bureau not use a cutoff date, Ae pt ble aS Lut} but include everything up to the present time. You noted on my memorandum, "I concur.” The attached memorandum dated May 10, 1950, fram Peyton Ford requests the following specific information concerning the names included on the "subpoena® list received from the Senate Subcommittee: The Attorney General wishes to prepare a letter to Senator Tydings listing first those individuals in the group on whom | [/ loyalty investigations were conducted, attaching copies of the Bureau's transmittal | letters or memoranda to the Civil Service Commission; further, in cases where & tt loyalty investigation was never instituted because of the absence of derogatory information in the Bureau's files or because 1t was learned prior to the institution of the investigation that the individual had left the s e, e es tions were instituted but later discontimed because a 34) 4 a 70 ed s respect. Peyton service, information is desired regarding what tr pe) brewer.