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tg mm me aerate ee ce ee term Mink i A ma I A ag gl i el a Department employees who were investigated py the Fy and "not one | (case has been found of a present Communist working in the State Depart- ment."' He added that "over that period eight employees have been held _ to be security risks, but not one of these admitted present membership * in the Communist Party, nor was there evidence of present membership....’ About 40 other employees have elected to resign during the process of investigation and adjudication of loyalty. hat might have been found | ys +h x hb +1 th” bh in their cases, had they gone to hearing, of course, I do not kmow." COULENTS BY THE LOYALTY SECTION: Ko final disposition has been received from the Loyalty Review Board of the Civil Service Commission under Executive Order 9835 in a case involving a State Department employee where the employee has been declared “ineligible” for Government employment. As General Snow has pointed out, several employees have elected to resign during the Lh ~+ - eee ee ween t tae i adjudication or Tr ioyg ty. One of the recent resignations has been that of Labor &conomist for the Department of State (Bureau Tile » who was reported to have been a Communist in Switzerland prior to his emplo the De nent of State. etter commented that the information which he was furnishing d indica the advisability of an adverse decision in the case ' ip With regard to General Snow's statement that no case has been found of a present Communist working in the State Department, you will recall that the Communist Party has not been issuing Communist Party membership cards and is not maintaining membership lists by names. Highly placed Government employees would naturally be very secretive concerning their mem ‘bership in the Communist Party and their identity would be protected by the Communist Party. For example, when Louis Eudenz was eryiewed in 1950 in connectio ith the gation of wyho was then (EFureau fi he advised that although he was not personally ecqueinted vith Arle believed that was under Communist Party discipline in about 1943 and 1944, Mr. budenz explained that less under Communist Party discipline were equivalent to members af the farmintet Baerkty hut had nn yacties anf memhershin and such nersons Mw Se hd ok ee A MPA 2h LE ed Re Oe i ee dd iE = ivere often told by the Conmunist Party not to have any Communist Party wey menbers about them or tp their immediate circle, The final disposition 4 in the loyalty case cn in: not been received from the Loyalty Review Board, was transferred by the State Department to the position of LL =m 2 -2-