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“ STANUARD FORM NO. 4 *~ ( c Ly ae Lo 4 - eo | Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO bE an : THE DIRECTOR pate: July 14, 1950 4 FROM : D, Me Ladd Wy — fh x | LK ly Case _ 16 AUG Lai wetyped. This refers to ZBN:DML:dad Clage i SUBJECT: REVIEW OF STATE DEPARTUENT FILES moaned IN CONNECTION WITH ALLEGATIONS BY wicncty €7 SENATOR JOSEPH R.~McCARTHY anes Harbo wohr Tele, Room Weaze Mr. Peyton Ford called and stated that the Attorney General had directed that he write a letter to S¢nator Tydings based upon our memorandum reporting the results of a check we-. made on State Department files; that the Attorney General, of- course, wanted to help Tydings as much as possible and had out@ lined how the letter should be prepared; namely, limiting tt to that material which we had furntshed to the State Department; that Clive Palmer was with him and he wanted us to look at th letter, ZI told him that we had our memorandum and any lette hey": wanted to write was up to them, He atated he had a form he wu ed to show to us and accordingly, Mrs Palmer brought the letter up,” which was revtewed by Messrs. Laughlin, Johnson, Ladd and Nichols The letter was brief, and potnts out that the Attorney General hag requested the FBI to make an tnuestigation to determin tf the State Department files were complete; that the FBI had made such an tnuestigation; that the files were complete except in three. instances. The letter also referred to Peyton Ford's letter to the inventory of material we had furnished the Department and to Ford's report that the files were complete. The three exceptions were as: follows: [Rok on TouRA Aaletiom — Rasta Lar. The exception noted that the file was complete except that no record appeared therein of data furnished orally on January 17, 1946, and October 24, 1946. . The ftle was complete except summary data furnished | | May 13, 1947, was not ‘tn the file although the substance of the summary data was set forth in ; State Department, tnvestigative rep * baj< 275/43 AL r. There wos a question mark iN the letter betwk&n cases 1¢ and 51 and Painer advised thot they had missed Case 6, which they would put 1 i The file was complete except that there was no record