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Office Menz.: | - 2dUI2 + UNITED S$. ‘§ GOVERNMENT: | TO : KR. D, Me LADD ob DATE: June 1, vale _ ee ; co ‘iene aie - FROM : UR. Ay He ay oo - sonncr\ e5 SURVEY OF THE SECURITY AND INVESTIGATIVE DISIVION | aes Nop va& STATE DEPARTMENT, APRIL, 197 oo "po, Y “ Marbe, ——<—$<$ You will recall that in April, 19,7 at the request of i. Fred Be wor _ Lyon, State Departuent, the Bureau conducted a survey of the then Security ang, “**"— Investigative Division of the State Department in which a complete study wa " “made of certain procedures in the Investigative Division, together with recommendations for certain changes. if Oa::ty In connection with this survey, Mr. Donald L. Nicholson, Chief, Securi ( j Division, State Department, inforned (> today that Senators Lodge and Green - of the Tydings Subcommittee have receivec wledge of this survey and have m-: . “inouired of the State Department of the action they have taken on the recommendaticns, ~ maje by the FBI, ir. Nicholson inf orned Qa? that a number of the reconmendeiphs™ , ‘were placed into effect while some were not. he stated that the Senators want tc ‘see | the report, together with the State Departnent's explanation of vhat they have done | by way of conforming with the recommendations, Mr. Nicholson's question is whether ". the Bureau has my objection to the copy now in the possession of the State Departnent _ being shovm to the Senators. He advised that the State Department would like to do ‘ | this if the Bureau had no objections. RECO! VENDATION: It would seem that there would be no objection to the State Department disclosing the recommendation made by the Bureau when compiling the answers that they must give to the Senators, however, there appears to be no valid reason why the State Department should turn over our survey report to Senators Lodge and Green for their perusal. If you concur, ii will so inform Mr. Nicholgon of the a State Departments U i a” : le [yg LE Uap ee) Se BOLSTER PEE NT rs - -