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WASH FIELD LETTER to DIRECTOR RE: SUBCOMMITTEE OF SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE not developed. FORTAS brought out that THORPE had to be heard today inasmuch as he had to leave town tonight. The testimony of THORFE Was -coritained-.07°0.1% in the form of a press release given by THORPE. \ ; } THORPE advised that he had been in the US Army for soma 32 years; about | i one half of this time was spent in military intelligence and that he had served in military intelligence in the Pacifie Ocean Area, the Philippine Islands, Netherlands East Indies and from 1942 until 1946 had been Chief of Cowmter- Intelligence Corps under General of the Army, DOUGLAS A, MacARTHUR in MacARTHUR's Pacific Command. A copy of this press release has been furnished to the Bureau, Briefly, the release sets out that THORFE on three occasions caused an investigation to be made into LATTIMORE's loyalty and that he, THORPE, as a result of these investigations believed LATTINORS to be a thoroughly Joyal US citizen. THORFE, after the war, was Military Attache at Bangkog, Siam and served for a time at the Army Language School, probably in Monterey, California. After THORPE finished his statement, he wes interrogated chiefly by Senator HICKENLOOFER. THORPE said that he thought the investigations made under his direction were sufficiently thorough to clear LATTIMORE and he allowed LATTIMORE to see confidential documents in LATTIMOKE's capacity as Adviser to General THORPE. In response to a question, THORF® said that LATTINMORE did not shown partisanship for any country, other than the US. (At 4:25pm, Senator TYDINGS left, mentioning a previous engagement and gave his proxy to Senator GREEN . } THORPE was then asked if he had found any personnel of the IPR to be subversive. In answer to this question, THORPE said not so much subversive in the sense that subversive means undermining the US. but that there were a lot of people withMPR "making a living." The reat of his answers to this question trailed of d was unintelligble. Senator HICKENLOOPER then asked wen LATTIMORE cama cut to the Orient, and General THORPE said in 1944 and in 1946, and that on these occasions, LATTIMORE was included in the general investigation made by General THORPE's section of the IPR and that he was also investigated as a general security matter, THORFE was asked ty Senator HICKENIOOFER ar he, THORPE, had access to FBI files, and he said that he did not, nor did he turn over the results of hig investigation to the FBI. General THORFS then said that he had a re- presentative of his CIC Section with *"HOOVER® and that the FBI had representa- tives with the General's CEC Section. sce are) (4) a H ' ie rt ere ~ | | | | | \ | t | ‘ j | ‘ i |