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DIRECTOR, F.B,I. ss | ‘July 8, 1950 GUY HOTTEL, SAC, WASHINGTON FIELD OFFICE ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED i FERN TUE ASSIFIED Pee TPO? Soa on, & EUTAL, INGUIRY COMLEyTit fi Re telephone call from Mr. D. H, Tadd, Assistant to the Director, © today. f this office interviewed , Arlington, ginja, tole number ce of employuent, i ington, Virginia, MPuring the course of this interview with hoe was not advised of the nature of this inquiry but ras questione relative to his enploynent with the State Depart tnent. advised that ha was an employee of the State Department from August 15, 1946, to Decenber 31, 1946, on a temporary basis. He stated that he had a rating of CAF 3 and wns assigned to the personnel departnent in the Walker-Jchnson Building doing routine clerical work under the suporvision ef lr. George Copp. He stated that during this tims the State Department was adopting a new card system wherein pertinent employment data of each employee of the State Depurtnent was reduced to one card, He advised that there were about ten employees in his section. He advised that the procedure to the best of his recollection was that the personnel file of the various State Department employees were reviewed and that the pertinent data such as date of birth, military preference, date of employment, former employment, , “ education, efficicncy ratings was reduced to a hand written rough dreft _ which was forwarded to the typing section. ‘There the hand written inforration was typed on a permanent type card and returned to his section. There on certain prescribed portions of the edge of the card the various data typewritten on the card was ched so that the card could be selected by an TBH sachice. i? explained that this punch syatem worked very similar to stem employed by the Bureau in the Identification Division in fingerprint work, stated that at first his duties were to mke WY ys ta as . 2. ee lk ke ee tee hh Py 7 4 a + an the hand written memos DUL thal suosequentiy ne wes Ens S . onicitaL Cory FILED (N Srey WeVG BHAI checking work done by other employees. He also advised that at tines he had been employed in reducing the employment data on the punch card, oe eo wa ewe | Ring LO. , , bic w Plaka Ve tS =. AUG 24 1950 wow 4