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~ \ \, : rr - pac Loy - & Comet NIST Du 7 ee nln i State Des TART IOEMT ADD 2 MCCARTHY LO°LG HALE ee THE LETTERS RELEASED BY MCCARTHY WERE FORWARDED ay THE SENATOR | ae ce a ee TS ES TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN AS EVIDENCE THAT DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS HAD “SABOTAGED" AMERICAN CHINA POLICY AND THAT TYDINGS WAS GUILTY OF A "STUDIGUSLY FALSE ASSERTION, " oe THE LETTERS WERE FROM A PRESENT STATE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYE WHOSE — NAME WAS NOT DIVULGED; FRANCIS EUGEN/O'BRIEN, NOW AN EMPLOYE OF THE ~~ SEARS~ROEBUCK CO,3 A TQ MCCARTHY A = PRESENT FBI AGENT, AND PAUL E, ULLIVAN, DESCRIBED AS A PRESENT 7 STUDENT AT THE GEORGETOWN UNtGEnsity FOREIGN Sek SERVICE SCHOOL, AT_THE SAME TIME MCCARTHY RE ER BY FBI DIRECTOR . - HOOVER WHICH IN REPLY TO A MCCARTHY INQUIRY SAID THAT THE FBI. MADE NO EXAMINATION OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL FILES HANDED THE TYDINGS GROUP. FOR STUDY AND THAT THE AGENCY HENCE WAS "NOT IN . A POSITION_1 TO_MAKE_ANY STATEMENT® ¢ CONCERNING THE COMPLETENESS OF~ © THE FILES, AT THE REQUEST OF REPORTERS MCCARTHY MADE PUBLIC A LETTER WHICH. HOOVER ENCLOSED WRITTEN BY PEYTON FORD, ASSISTANT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, TO TYDINGS ON JUNE 16, AND UPON WHICH TYDINGS BASED HIS. aoe REPORT THAT THE FILES WERE COMPLETE, FORD'S LETTER TO TYDINGS SAID THAT "THE FBI HAD FURNISHED HIM WITH A RECORD OF ALL LOYALTY MATERIAL PREVIOUSLY FURNISHED THE STATE DEPARTMENT IN THE ALLEGED CASES OF DISLOYALTY MADE BY MCCARTHY ON THE SENATE FLOOR, "THE STATE DEPARTMENT FILES HAVE BEEN CHECKED AND I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT ALL OF THE REPORTS AND MEMORANDA WHICK. HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN FURNISHED THE STATE DEPARTMENT ARE IN THE FILES,* FORD WROTE TYDINGS. THE LETTERS FROM THE FOUR PERSONS EMPLOYED ON A STATE DEPARTMENT CLERICAL JOB SHOWED THAT THE ALLEGED FILE STRIPPING OCCURRED BETWEEN AUG, 1946 AND DEC, 1946, A FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE PRESENT PRESIDENTIAL: LOYALTY CHECKUP SYSTEM WAS INSTITUTED, IT WAS DURING THE TENURE OF OFFICE OF FORMER SECRETARY JAMES F,. BYRNES AND AT A TIME WHEN PRESENT SECRETARY DEAN ACHESON WAS UNDERSECRETARY OF STATE. T/t2-nTS /TILASA & Yas: fo sin Sx UK: - ff ' \ NOT RECORDED Dy 135 AUS 11 1950 ah. s } 2 «WASHIN CITY NEWS 5 ICE