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*) Tey. ae sti, . . Pia Pa ‘ a i Office “Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT To : HE DIRECTOR DATE: May 9, 1950 -~ . : . 4 yun vr FROM : D. M, Ladd a CN asa be —“- wv. . - SUBJECT: INVESTIGATION BY SENATOR TYDINGS' COMMITTEE oy OF THESTAGE DEPARTMENT LOYALTY CASES a . . tracy -Harbo Mobr. Clive Palmer called at my office at 5240 PM tonight tw, sxe__ and left the attached memorandum listing the names of the - wense | eighty-one individuals named in the subpoena by Senator. EF ae McCarthy. oT : | | Mr. Palmer stated that Peyton Ford had been in conference all afternoon with Senator Tydings; that Senator Tydings insists that h 9 wants a letter signed by the Attorney General listing the dates. Joy reports on loyalty cases sent to the Civtl Service Commissions Apparently they are fearful that the State Department's files have’ been stripped. Therefore, Mr Palmer stated that the Attorney General and the White House had instructed that the Bureau prepore| a nemorandum to the Attorney General sending over acpy of the letterof transmittal in écch tnstance where loyalty reports were trensmitted to the Civil Service Commission inasmuch as this cover detter will show the itemization of thereports. Another paragraph should indicate that the individuals |ristea thereunder were the subject of a preliminary loyalty investi- “ gation which was discontinued when it was learned that the employee en had left the Government service and, therefore, no reports were ers: sent to the Civil Service Commission, A third paragraph should list any cases where no investt- lon ition was conducted because no derogatory information was available, a He also advised that Serntor Tydings suggested that a cut- off date of February 20, 1950, be set and that nothing be listed thereafter. ; I told Mr, Palmer that the Bureau would not prepare any =< be list until we got @ memorandum from the Department in writing ; testing exactly what it was that the Department wanted. He promised o have this prepared and sent tothe Bureau tomorrow, May 10, 1950, Lae ‘In the, meantime, I would auggest | that we start working on nid @ would suggest that a photostatte copy of the letter of | tranent tial to the Civil Service Commisston be fePe SRE which will only show the name of the Agent modes o> Ase the date of: ,_ the report and the office where made. so Yaa d34 18° [']¢ 2 JUN 13 1950 Also, I would suggest that the i Z use a cut-off date but include everyting up to the present t me's he Department 4 can use whatever cuteoff date they want after they get the Bureau's Y amo . a UL: aoa‘ FC JT A050 ee Peau Hf ee aa ror aro in ea ne red