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WASH FIELD LETTER TO DIRECTOR RE: SUBCOMMITTEE OF SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE General TEOREE was then asked by Senator HICKENLOOKER if the General had access, while investigating LATTIMOHE, to the files of other US Government y agencies. General THORPE was unable to give a complete answer to this question but said that he was not sure whether or not he did have access to other Govern- , ment agency files but believed that he did not have access to such files. i i { Senator HICKENLOOPER then asked what sort of confidential documents \ LATTIMORE saw. General THORPE was unable to answer specifically but said that, | in general, documents were classified all the way from "top secret" to "restricted," Senator HICKENLOOPER persisted and said that he presumed that LATTIMORE must have | had confidential documents when he was advising the General and the General ad- ; mitted that this was probably true that LATTIMORE did see confidential documents. | General THORPE said then that he did not favor recognition of Communist | China and said that he considered Communism a great threat and that he had volunteered to appear at this hearing because he was concerned that innocent people were being labelled as Commmists. General THORPE was then asked if i he recalled a report that had bean pre pared by one ©, HE RBE RT, NORMAN (ph), which report was presunably sent to General WILLOUGHBY (General WILLOUCHBY was an AC of S, G2, to General MacARTHUR). It was brought out that BE. HERGERT NORMAN was a Canadian representative. General THORPE was unable to recall such a report and said that, to his knowledge, NORMAN did not file that report with him and further that he was not within the scope of WILLOUGHBY's command but reported to the Chief of Staff of General MacARTHUR. (It is noted that MacARTHUR's Chief of Staff was General RICHARD SUTHERLAND, and that General NILLOUGHBE, as G-2, wag concerned with compat intelligence). General THORPE then advised that he had begun military intelligence : work shortly after World War I. In response to a question, General THORFS i said that LATTIMORS was an adviser of his during World War II and in part of the CIC Section. LATTIMORE's role as adviser to General THORPE was never entirely clarified. The General then said that he did not know very much . about China and his interests were chiefly in Japan and Russia. The General said he would need a release from the Secretary of War before going into =. greater detail and Senator HICKENLOOPER then said that he wanted the whole . ; relationship between LATTIMORE and CIC brought out. RL my } ee te LEE atl . e iIt is noted that, ‘General THORPE lives in Minnesota but has a 1 bouse in Rhode Island about which he is now concerned, and that he had flom in-: >) | to Washington, D. C. yesterday to appear todays _He said that he felt it his os public duty to appears , mo ° (5) . ‘ ME eamyeer con perce zeae SIRO MRICINN pre mE nd Toe ert NT Pah NEE SR MEE oat Stee RT TS NM Sm ewe Te