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Page 10866 . Colums 1-3 In speaking of Senator McCarthy's charge that the files of the State Department had failed to substantiate his allegations of Communists in the State Department because the files had been "raped," Senator Tydings told of his actions taken to determine whether such was the case. He advised that he had called the Depertment of Justice and told the Departmeit that he wanted the FSI to go to the ithite House and check the files ) see whether or not they had, in fact, been stripped. He continued that upon learning later that Attorneys from the Departnent of Justice had checked the filed and not the ¥BI, he again called the Department and stated that he wanted the #BI itself to check the files to determine whether there was any material missing from the State Department files, Senator Tydings then told of a letter which he had received from the Attorney General advising that FBL Agents had mde an examination of the State Department files. He said the Attorney General's letter to him advised that the examination of the State Department files made by the FBI disclosed that the files contained all FBI reports and memorandums furnished to the State Department in all cases prior to the tine they were turned over to the Tydings Cormittee, with the following exceptions, re- garding which the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported as follows ~~ WOne file — Case No. 51. ‘'File complete except summry, dated May 13, 1947, not in file, although substance of summary set forth in State Department investigative report dated July 19, . 1947.14 It is noted that Case No. 51 pertains ‘ It is noted that Bureau menorandum to the Attorney General dated July 13, 1950, notes three exceptions instead of the one exception mentioned above. These three exceptions are as follows: . bé1IC Comment