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sopyaral { ; nd De ag —-.... made. available "to" ‘the Buroau certain aA files maintained by him for. examination for information of possible pertinence ee . ‘sypueere: LOYALTY, oF _ SOVEREN F EMPLOYEES: mont entitled "Photostats of Excerpts ‘From Chief Investigator's noport of . " State Department Loyalty Files.” . They asked pele Se ‘papers: ‘missing “pro ’ 5 silva P. Apdipate whereabouts; jof misain B- PAPAS ATeid Fy 24 U2 te BER Me ies . ¥ cG _ at CRFICE hi oat RAN DU - UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT M oot Me. A, He Belmont pare Jane 39, 1950 _ uw. woe ane INFORS VATION CONTAINED | . HERRIN 1§ UNCLASSTFIED » _EXCERT VER RE SHON FROM: C. dH, Sten ley aoxe “PURPOSE Sooners toe “Po comnent. on a dogapent. entitled i "Pro tostate of Excerpts From, Chief. Investigators Report of State Department Loyalty Files" found bye the New York Offic in going, through the files of “BACKGROUND = re to the loyalty investigations cof Philip Jessup, John Stewart Sorvice, and Haldore Hanson and the, nm conracticn with this: exanination : ‘OSS a7 te locus’, 7 where he had. obtsined+ it and, although he gave a rathor ‘evasive answer, ne very raadily offerad to’ ~give thea Agents a photostatic CODY of thu document, Furthermore, ha did not: Seon conesrmed thet this dogumant was in his files nor id he malca any atfort to cerujal its crssence thare. ; An exaninaticn of the document In question reveals that it is obviously incomplete. It is labelled "Cbservatiéns @fid Findings” and‘dotainis’ paragraphé | numbered 8, 9, 10 and 17,_ From the nature of the document it apparently is the. , observations and findings, of sokeona who conducted a survoy of the security | rilés Se ‘of tha State’ Department. ‘SGerierally, the observations | and findings indicata: that’: the Security Division of the. st tate De par tment has RO. Tedords te clearly show Whos. eve or who have not been” ‘investigated and who is.ahd who is not préegéntly ‘ema F ployed. A comment 1a médo that instancés werd’ ‘noted where the Division had pend aS ing investigations on applicants although’ rieither ‘O.P. (Domestio Parsonnel) Nor. -F.P. (Foreign Personnel) | had a record. indicating they, were considering these... . applicants. The ‘document’ iakea a‘ further comfisnt ° eoncem ing. tho. distribution ‘of ae _the caseload of Agents oon ducting: investigations for the State Department: in “the =, s, B “Washington and Naw Yorka reas and. dn: this donhection it. is mentioned that a mumber. of alleged Communist Party, peticion signers had’névar baen chécked dut. and cites: : mo - : ag examples. oases: Hos, 28, . 29, 30, 81 and $2, . Tha aoe in quastion. also. aera ‘refers to ‘the inadequacy’ of the” State “Da partment. ays tem ef oharging out Piles ona r > the ov rareall’ Jaxmess in | the handling” ‘of docuitente, citing as, Gxamplos file. jacketed, fo ‘for. whigh there ware no. ‘Oasas. in. RS. files and Jacke ta: being | ont of file without ey . files “obvidusly: “belong ing thére andno' charge-dag-. 2%. In furnishing a oop of this document to the Bureau, by letter ‘dated June 8, 1950, the New York Office pointed out that the ‘cases referred to by number in the document possibly might be identioal with the numbers used by Senator MoCarthy in Me so . aoe “a