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- Ferguson Raps Probe ,,, Report on McCarthy; Senator Ferguson {(R., Mich.),i q 7 | named in the memorandum. | ha 1 ore . 6 oa Tolgon ae aa Rosen Tracy. Harba_!) Ue Belmont! 5 Mobr Tele, Room Nease tharged yesterday that the report! “In addition, I expect to take an th «© McCarthy Communist-ins’ pn. action on two more cases within aan | ” tent Government investizati ee et few days, Peurifoy, ust “intemperate and abusive") “Of the remaining 55 cases of] wich document ever filed In the individuals employed in the de- Benate. partment, concerning whom de- “Tis phrasing, he said, was remi-/rogatory allegations have been niscent of Joseph Goebbels, Nazi/Mmade, three are either resigning ecopavanda minister, or Andreilor are being terminated by a re- vishinsky, Soviet foreign, minister,|duction in force, and recommenda- Ferguson carried into the second|lions for security clearance have’ veek the Republican criticism of.been made in eight cases, which eo report, which called the are still being considered. The: sharges by Senator McCarthy (R., remaining 44 cases will be investi-’ Wise), a “hoax and a fraud” and said McCarthy had utterly failed lo prove his allegations, MeCarthy will talk today. i Ferguson Said the report, issued} by the Democratic majority of a FOreign Relations Subcommittee, “ygsed soft words to shield those wero have been careless with na- tipnal security.” He wondered eioud who wrote it, saying it could not have been written by Senator, Tydings (D.. Md.), subcommittee chairman, or his twa Democratic associates, Senators McMahon of Connecticut or Green ef Rhode Island. (All three signed it.) Asks Probe of Staft Attacking dismissal of MeCar-) thy’s charges, Ferguson said there not only ought to be a new inves- figation of communism in the Gey-! ernment, but also an investigation! of the Tydings subcomuiaittee staff. He disclosed that in 1947, a Sen- convicted of lying when he swore he did not turn over secret gov- Ferguson presented a confiden- jtial Memorandum writ tinuing jpterest of the FRI a other security intelligence agen- ated further.” Touches on Alrer Hiss Ferguson touched on Alger Hiss. former State epariment official! a. —a ernment data to a Soviel courier, | [ { ' tss_is at Ii mn on_his appeal. nm Margh j 7. 1946, by J. Anthon anu State Department security*effic in it, Panuch vigorously opposed a departmental reorganization! plan attributed to Hiss. He said! it would give Hiss “working con-, trol” over decuments moving to! and from the United States dele-' gation to the United Nations, i setup, i ? . ishe would 5 tinni i nd ate Appropriations subcommittee|cies,” Panuch wrote, informed Gen. Gearfe C, Marshall, then Secretary ef State, of a “de- liberate, calculated program to protect Communist personnel in! high places” in the State Depart- ment, The same memorandum de- tlared that another purpose of the asserted intrigue was “to reduce security and intelligence protec- tion to a nullity.” Replying to the memo on June; . 1947, the then assistant sec-| etary of State John E. Peurifoy, ld the subcommittee that 10 em-; loyes, regarded as security risks,! had been fired, including five: Ferguson said he fears the Mec- Carthy investigation report is apt to “lull the State Department into a false sense of security.” Senator Lodge (R,, Mass.), one of the two Republicans on the investigating committee protested that the printed record of the hearings omitted 45 typewritten pages of questions which he thought the committee should ask, but which it didn’t. H Senator McKellar (D., Teng)| tried fruitlessly to get the Senate! headed back to debate on the $3§,- 700,000,000 single-package appio- priation bill. I Je ‘. ~ A oa Pee Soa Page, fA2°-X —— retiree . “Td, a . oT pee eS mt SEP 29 1950 “43 * Page “ ’ Times-Herald —__ Wash, Wash. Wash, N.Y, N. Y¥. Compass. JUL OF Date: Post 2 News Star Mirror — —erew — 1950 ww