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Te al oan Eley 2 erliette yatta HMR ame BE nn Apne Es om 1 | tthrough all the State Department lpersonnel (sic) files and remo ail papers, letters, memorandu and reports except administrative, forms.” One ts Now FBI Agent 3. Paul E. Sullivan, now a stu- dent at Georgetown University. | “All the clerks on this project) were to pull out of the files all matters considered - derogatory| either morally or politically.” ; The fourth statement, McCarthy! |said, was signed by Burney Thread-| gili, jr., now an FBI agent. Thread-' ]l didn’t work on the files him-! lf, but did typing in an office: wn the hall. “This projett was very confused, rried and very little supervision § tatements Read to Senate Oat talbing to one agi) said. Later, McCarthy read the four clerks (I can't recall his name at gned statements to the Senate,/this time) when he told me that d put part of his letter to MT-\he knew some of the employes of uman in the Congressional Rec- the State Department had come ord. ; to the files and removed deroga-( He said he wasn’t going to put tory materfal which was in the file! it all in because he had referred) 4p ‘themselves.” to Tydings ‘in a way that might! pe statements were all in the’ be a violation of the Senate rules.” handwriting of one of McCarthy's! This obviously was an allusion te | investigators. They were signed, his statement that Tydings had/ put not sworn. McCarthy said the made a “studiously false asser-|investigator had no authority to tion.” take sworn statements. -According to McCarthy, the fol-|) There was no comment fro lowing three men were hired tol either the State Department or th take out and throw away deroga-! white House on McCarthy's lette ‘tory information in State Dep, oo. iment files: ~ : 1. A man who still is in the ‘State Department, and whose ‘name MeCarthy therefore with- jheld. In the statement, thie man sald: “All the derogatory material in the files was destroyed or thrown aways, 2. Francis Eugene Brien, 25, who mow works in a Sears Roe- buck store. He said: "J and the other clerks re- jeeived instructions orally and by a form paper that we were to go. —_———— —_———— 7 a * = 4-26 Tolsen Ladd Clogs Glavin Nigbois_ Page Times-Herald ____ Wash. Post .. - Wash. News ° ee Wash. Star = N.Y. Mirror Date: