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New ‘Charges | By McCarthy Called ‘ ‘False’ Senator Says State Dept. Has 3 Branded Soviet Agents in °46 By Alfred Friendly | Post Reporter Joseph RB. McCarthy (R., W a tid bis Seiate cotTenaios yere - F y that a minimum of three peq-| sons ta as Soviet “agents” by; the FBI four years re still in the State Department. He said he knew their names andl] that the individuals were still hold- ing high position, Last night the Slate Department said McCarthy’ 5 statement was “ab- lutely £2 false.” eCarthy’s new informa ion,_he igdicated, came from a 1948 docu-|' ent prepared by a State Depart- ment investigator who made refer- ence _to an FBI “chart” of cate- gories of “Communist agents, Com: ist sympathizers). unists, Commun [suspects d susp LS mea ale Depa =| “ment as mle Phoiostats Released efit aa pgs oe Bt sbulation as showing Uh, that_date the : -} Agents weve ee eeseneeees 20. : Communists ve caveneeee h | Sympathizers waanestece Lh The State ment's com- {ment on M "s newest deluge} fof numbers of eged | subversiven) n its Fanks read in part: ~ “The enator based 1 _chargs oot TS) CON From Te FEL oats POE The Deparment of Justice| hu infaomet ut that no zuch chart o« sane chart. ques oa was ere! relimina: document a by_ one ihe State Be- = vs fi bit a “prepar oughly checked, evaluated and reviewed under the President's Loyalty Review Board.” ! ‘The department promised it would issue a further statement ‘on the subject. In the mean- time, officials indicated that the ‘document was a working paper of an investigator, comprising list- ings of all people under suspicion, or against whom charges had been fee ‘ hata eet ‘passage in which the Sta - tent investigator and author of pared & chart, now In the possesion (name deleted) which SS ene for h ou th duced noc merely to, describe lose affiliations as te lend « of to a hypoth esis that the ‘gon in qi stlon was & mem = eae tgs ae mbes ak | een Post Mobr Tele. Room__ Neas ng to accep That to DOOR tia ig proo he screaming and sques Gose who say, “McCarthy, yo Esho Nid Hot ERDUse Ehem because jyou are injuring | those poor pecple;f Vyou are sie B-Tirem enacor Knowland ; allt; jjcommenting on the disclosure, sald]: jthe material was “by far tha most]. significant direct evidente” so far]? presented irl the controversy over]: !McCarthy's charges of “Communis infestation’ or the Government in]: ‘igeneral an e State Departmen ; -[in particular. : ~ i now A) Foreign Bela ttee investiga ing. Fations would duty if it did no \subpena powers to ob documents lnclus He added that unless ns ‘waned by the FRI we rcharged, “it seems to me thertT be 9 case for lmpeachmers mewhere along the ling,” 232) Wash. News om —_ Ce 2 i ell S— = ™n. Y. Mirror __— “rT 8s is Date: