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ie : - . + a wn ee oa , Truman = Loyalty. Probe to Geb Information Demanded By WCarthy Sees No Precedent Set by Action; Bielaski Testifies On Amerasia Case By Alfred Friendly Post Reporter The State Department loy- alty files on Senator McCar- ihy’s “81 cases” will be made availabie to Senate investiga- tors, it was announced yes- ferday. Senator Tydings (D., Md.}. chalr- man ‘of the investigating subcom- miltee, said that President Tru, man finally had agreed to let the subcommittee examine the files] Mr, Truman felt, Tydings - alained. that because of the past history of the 31 cases—the dala n those files were examined two yeare ago by four Congressiqnal torivitlecs—no precedent will be violated by letting a fifth commit- tee look at the information, Thy agvcement applies only to ‘he Slate Department loyalty files, and ftot' to the FBI files, ich McCakthy has also demanded be discleted io the investigating Senators. Se = oe 7 oa) a” ~Aul_cines a full FBI “field inves- tigation” had been TUR Ommost if not all of the 31 persons, and since the data from those investigations Files ° are included in the State De- - partment files, Presumably all the pertinent FBI information will thus be included. The main omis= sion will be only the actual names of the informants, contained in the FBI “raw files.” Some Not Included | The files that will be opened i» ‘the subcommittee being - ron on the Senate floor the night of iF@bruary 20, will not include thos Ir@ating to persons he later named pblicly. There were ten of these, inctud- iw the “key case” of Owen Latti- ‘more, and the important cases of (John S. Service and Haldore Han- $on. McCarthy has repeatedly de-- ‘manded that the files be made i@vailable, and insisted that if they ‘were, his charges of Communist in- filtration of the State Department ,would be proved. | fHe has further insisted, again (4nd again, that one could be sure [fat if the files proved him Wrong, fir. Truman would have made the Na ratlable long since. Bielaski at Closed Session Earlier in the day, before Ty- dings’ unexpected announcement, his subcommittee heard tn closed ; session ils first witness on the 1948" Amerasia case, alicgedly involving the “wholesale theft” of secret Government documents, and link- ing the theft to a man since de scribed as a Communis rn The witness was Fran elasiti, former Office of Stra ic Seiv- es employe who led a raid rh e Amerasia magazine offices, McCarthy, barred from the subs — ae ARE ne “supe ih z “a jto the 81 cases McCarthy mae . 4 Win Release 81 commitlee—weasion, Téltasee—az! ‘statement giving what he asserted | “were to be the highspots of Bie- laski’s testimony. Of these, the most startling was thal six months before ihe A-bomb drop on Hiro- shima, “the people who operated Amerasia, with the assistance of iState Department personnel, were collecting and transmitting to So- ‘viet Russia the secrets of the atomic bomb." | Bielaski, caught by reporters a iween sessions of the hearing. a d shown that statement, That woe “T can’t say that. That word, ‘transmitted’ — there are some; |words there I should have to qual-| ify." | He said, however, “there was something to the alomic aspect.” ‘ Last night the Department of ‘Justice said in a statement: ; “When the FBI made their in- vestigation and their search of lithe Amerasia headquarters there lwas no information contained in any documents or otherwise relat- ing to the a-bomb.” nd if the OSS had gotten any isuph information, it was “never|' er of Justice.” menithertos the President has re- fused to releaseéthe files on thes persons MrCarthy accused, on grounds that disclosure of FBI data would breach promises made by FRI agents.to persons who Qn- jmmfde available to the FBI or the/'< inal division of the Depart- ; f Tolson Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele. Room__ ki ton f h. 7 . jormed\ithem Mhat, Heir identitles|+?* would be kept secret. Might Hamper FBI | ish. i =e ‘Chiet Execulirs; are atyate oof the files might; smear the reputations of innorentiagh. Star men, hamper the FBI in efuture! work and open up the psribility of ivresponsibie interpretation off, Y, Mirror contents of the files. as Director J. Edgar Hoovelr andy Attorney General J. Howa McGrath wag edamant on theme: puifite im taetimany before tl Ty dtr subrommittee, aah Tame | at ys News Nease os Page |mes-Herald a —TF o-_ ~ not Post