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ccarthy Charges State Department Files Were Purged of Data Derogatory to Personnel : . , Bp The Auociated Press . Menator Joseph R. McCarthy fR., Wis) yesterday produced papers which showed, be said, that _Gov-, ernment files were stripped in 1848. of ‘all material derogatory th State‘ Department employes. fhe State Department issued a: — denial, terming McCarthy's blast! . distortion _ of a” Toharacteristle fact ; oy ‘fhe Department_sald_pereonnel information was_culled from_jits fifes_in 1946 but_that fhe data re moved did ‘not deal with loyalty or’ security matters, | tn fact, ihe agency stated, rec-' ords of employe loyalty and se- curity “were and are separately, maintained In a security division, whoily removed from the person- nel operation.” . a : McCarthy made the charge of Ale-stripping ih a six-page “Tt to.President Truman... fith the letter he sent fcur; stftements he sald had been sigepd{ b:| men hired to throw away ay dlétrediting documenta. * : The letter to Mr. Truman—and photographie copies of the slate-( ments—were made publie at ai} news conference. ... ¢ -» McCarthy told. reporters the- a! , leged. file-stripping . was done, loyalty program started in 1947. “Why would the State Depart-j; ment find ft necessary to strip the; nless the information, when ore loyalty boards, would! have calised the removal of those! individuals?” he asked Mr. Tru: man, mo, ‘The stripping was successful tol... int the extent that this Natlon was and: is being betrayed.” a Hits Tyc'nge “Falsehood” Then McCarthy sald: - vod "Someone in the State Depart! ment ordered the files .siripped.} Who was he? He must be found, t., President." -' >, fe 2 \ McCarthy-*is0 teed off on Sen-! ator MiBurd BE. Tydings (D., Mdp, who heads the committee invesg-| fing McCarthy's charges th t| Cbhramunists are In ihe State Ie- k 4 pprtment. yto Tydings “tn a way that might| shortly before President Truman's), ,be a violation of the Senate rules.” |pandwriting of one of McCarthy's, a {take-out .and throw away deroga- |w *s Jel lf eto Ti tate Depart! {White House on McCarthy's lette Timés gorse ; ayaen Post fet Last week, McCarthy said, Tyd-: ifgs’mace a “studiously <frtweae gertion” when he said the FBI had, examined State Department files and found them complete and‘a._ . , in.act. . od McCarthy included a cupy of a hrough all the State Departfent letter, dated July 10. :fromm 77 Fra. Personnel (c)- Gles ait restore gar Hoover, head of the % letters, metnorandum ea 5 except administfalTve _ this Jefter Hoover said Jn part: ae : e es 1 “The Federal Bureatt of Stl gation has made no such examin One Is Now FBI Agent : tfon ang therefore is not in. pe, 3. Paul EF. Sullivan, now # stu- sition to make any statemuntcon- dent at Georgetown University. cerning the completeness or_in-| “All the clerks on this project con, leteness_ of the State Depart, were to pull out of the files ali “ment files.” +” |matters considered derogatory nent newsmen asked Tydi if either morally or politically.” he had any comment, he first : e fourth statement, McCarthy "J don't think TH ‘bother with sald, was slened by Burney Threag- that” OO (am ir now an FBI agent. Thread: “Then be turned to the Hoover Tre wor ” him letter and said: self, buf_@ n Well, the, FBI. sent. the. studf down, the half TS er and the Justice Department| “This project was very confu udled it’ me : thurried and very Uttle supervi t ifaiements Read to Senata of the clerks,” Threadgill said. ¥1 lrecall talking. fo one of the othr Later, McCarthy read the four ciorke (1 can't, recall hls name ‘at signed statements to the Senate, ! him he , ‘this thme} whed he told me that and put part of his letter to Mr.ine knew some of the employes of ‘Truman In the Congressional Rec pioy , the State Department had come ord. ; ecnt . ; to the Ales and removed deroga- ' He said he wasn’t going ys Putltory material which was In the file ‘ft, all in because he had referred) on ‘themsetves.” . The statements were all in the ‘This obviously was an ailusion to'(nvestigators. They were signed his statement that Tydings had|put not awokn. MeCarth? said the made a “studiously false asser-linvestigator bad no av hority to’ j{take sworn statements, . the for There was no coment fro @ hired {¢lelther the State Department or t tlon.” .. . ; : According to McCarth ‘lowing three men w nt files: - 7 | "A man who stfil is in the dpie Departirent, “ami Bie yekarthy therele ; “wit anne \“¥ _ “AIL the. derogatory. material in) ‘ ¥ the files waa estroyed or thrown \ away. os * a. , { L | 2 Francis Eugene Brien, 25, a , whe, naw wots 188 } ? uck's Hevsaldr 7 : ¢ “TY and the other “clerks + { ' ret indfoicilna ale sud Yo QL “Baper thst _we were to 1b BP Reraar age, coe. NoT RECORDED N.Y. Mirror 1.' “N.Y. Compass___ 42 ty 4 : sep 195950 4B JULT SS Date: - ad *