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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 22

63 pages · May 11, 2026 · Broad topic: Politics & Activism · Topic: Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy · 61 pages OCR'd
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Pe ee nw an hes er ea a nee * Tolson w a ] oy Ladd 4-6 a Clegg Glavin ecret Record.of.1945 Probe. | Nickole rr oe | es t Of Amerasia Case Made Public. Roses, r Amerasia case is being thoroughly was sealed at the request of Rep- W ve 8 aay eens naneratee Harbo investigated, and he declared: resenative Dondero (R, Mich.) to “When a report is made, everyjavoid endangering the national, Belmont pertinent question which hes been/Security. Dondero later denied’ Mobr asked about this case is going to|this to newsmen. |. Teie., Room ‘be answere@ fully.” Representative Cox (D., Ga.) Neen ca a told the House that “if the ease) wea SS Tydings is chairman of a Senate! oa peen properly developed, the!. Gandy jaubcomm ittee investigating|staje Department would have been | jcharges by Senator McCarthy (R.. in up to its head” ' j Wis.) that the Stale Department! In related developments: , dreds of sexual perverts are hold. ig infested with Communists and a ven mabe eee enree ang Be US iii vernment jobs. McCarthy tha, the Amerasia case is the| denounced the current Senate in-[Well as Communists Inv the, State key|/to a Red network in the Gov-jyestigation as a “foul job.” Department, The department has ernnent. The Wisconsin Senator said thel denied it. | | e wartime case involved the|Senate inquiry group is “deliber- Perverts of both sexes afe re- ‘aided illegal removal of State ately” falling down on its assigned garded as poor security risks be-| Teperaert resiris aad the sub-task of “expesing allecsed Com@- cause they are potential targets| ‘sequent arrest Gf E.x perscie. 1- murists in the Gorermmer. fee hlagieail. Serator Wherry! cluding twa State Department ol-; As alternatives, he proposed R.. Nebr. said impounded records ficials and editor Philip Jaffee Of/either a Federal investigation di-lof the Washingion Police Depari- the magazine Ameraisia. rected by FBI Chief J. Edgar|ment, listing about 3750 homo-|. Two of the six were fined; Jaf-lioover and Admiral R. H. Hillen-‘sexuals in Federal jobs in the Ne-| fee paid $2500, The other fouTliositer head of the United States tion's Capital, will be available for [REE ee koetter, head of the United ofates jwere cleared. Central Intelligence Agency; or, study. ; Some Statements “Unwarranted” | an independent inquiry guided by| The comraitiee Is expected to|' On the House floor, the Amer-/such men as former President assign the investigation to a sub-| asia incident cropped up when Herbert Hoover and Federal Judge |committee headed by Senator Hoey |: Representative Hobbs, who headed! Medina of New York. (D., N. ©), Senator McCarthy lihe 1946 investigation of the case.!“Mystery Man” Net Invelved = |? member of the subcommitte {gut he told newsmen that in vie; | ispoke out in reply to what he; 2. Chairman Tydings told news-| lealled “a large number of unwar-|men his subcommittee knows tke, f his charges he would not ta ranted statements which won't bear|name of an “international jthe light of day.” famed” person cited by Frafjk | In declaring he believes there|Bielaski and that the man in- ‘was a connection between Amer-| volved has no connection with the! [asia and Russia, Hobbs did not} Amerasia case. H ‘elaborate. He did say that when| Tydings disputed statements! his subcommittee investigated the|/made in a breadcast yesterday by icase, none of the material brought|Bielaski, chief investigator for the to its attention appeared signifi-| wartime Office of Strategic Serv- leant. ices, who led the first raid on | For the first time, the Alabama) Amerasia’s headquarters: ilegislator made the record of the; Bielaski said the name of one Hotfse investigation a matter of)man involved in the Amerasia case puHlie record. He did so by throw-|“up to his ears” had not been made} ing on the table a thick file ofjpublic. He said the individual was phbtographed typewritten pages “of greater fame nationally and [fof the official House record. internationally than anyone who' | “This ig the sealed record of the/has been mentioned in this cast ‘Amerasia hearing,” Hobbs said. | But Tydings told newsmen tliat! Representative Brown inter-|Bielaski had given the name ue rupied Hobbs to declare: the “famed” person in secret testi- “There is a feeling threughout|mony behind closed doors, and he the Nation there has been a cover-/said Bielaski replied “No” when — qT up in the Amerasia case. Moresasked H the man had any connec- recently there have been dirty, sly|tion with the Amerasia case. ee part in the inguiry. cloakrooms that the fix has been|suggesting that we investigate this put in again and that the whole|man and he said ‘No,’" Tydings little rumors floating through the; “We asked Bielaski 1f he was Wash. Post aavarad un onpslenid Wash. News atin ser li ha i? Ling Wilk we PUVETCU up Tee eens more, and the whole thing white-|Probe to End in Three Weeks washed again.” The Maryland Senator said the Wash. Star No Aittemp? to Hide Facts committee's investigators are work- Brown demanded that Congress|ing on the Amerasia case now and “go to the bottom of this—iet the/the inquiry may be completed in N.Y. Mirror about three weeks. %. Vice President Barkley ;di- said there had been no attemptirected that the Senate Execufive by his subcommittee in 1046 tol/Expenditures Committee consjder brewarytacts, He said the record jan inquiry into charges that kun- chips fall where they may.” Hobbs said he agreed, but he
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