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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 22
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Amerasia case is being thoroughly was sealed at the request of Rep- W ve
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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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