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alk. amcnmi ensign @ | Fydings Promises Full Report When/Amerasia Probe Ends Sen. Tydings (D) of Maryland. Had Bombing Plan assured uneasy legislators today; The report said the magazine :that he plans to tell “the full and pra-a-wepy of a U. ST r somplete story” of the mystery-|\ combing Japan and that an al- shrouded Amerasia case. cleged “fellow traveler” arrested in ‘i Tf became apparent. that the: the ease had been “forced” on Senate ilself must decide if it is! naval intelligence. to investigate sex perversion 85' The testimony included sworn well | as communism in goverD-) statements of Frank Bielaski, for- ment. r em: ‘As for the Amerasia case, Tyd- the oss e ploye wine conducted ings told newsmen that “a lot of Bielaski, who said Sunday they s people are drawing conclusions jycluded a memorandum on “the . .about things they know nothing. new bomb,” testified in 1946 that about.” the documents contained one de- . tailing in substance, “the bomb- Promises Complete Report ing pattern for Japan.” “T will tell the full and complete : Bielaski in 1946 “knew nothing" story ag soan as my committee of the atom bomb and could not completes its investigations,” he Tecall any other information sald. which might link his find with Tydings is chairman of a Sen- atomic material. ate foreizn relations subcommit- ,, ” -_———_~ tec Investigating charges by Sen. Forced” on ONI McCarthy CR) of Wisconsin, that: steo entered in the testimony the State department is riddled|/was pa statement by Capt. J. W. with Communists. Pe ee ne an eae | The Aterasia case has been 3, cause celebre since 1945 when six! - staff members of the magazine of | that mame were arrested on. charees of stealing top secret gov-| ernment documents. In most ia stances, the charges were dropped. | Rumors af ‘Fix' Heard Rep. Brown (R! of Ohio de- ‘manded in a House speech yee terday that an investigation be made of rumors that a ‘fix has been put on.” He said that “high official. of the government” may ‘be invelied in the alleged attempt to prevent reopening the case. _ Hundreds of official documents’ jwere discovered in the offices of, Amerasia magazine in a raid in! 1945. Philip Jaffe, editor. andj ‘Emmatuel Larsen, State depart. | ment official, paid fines then for, ‘iHicgal possession of official pa-! ipers, but nothing was done about: any espionage charges. Four, others arrested in the case were; ‘freed. | The uproar in the House came: chairman of a judiciary subcom- wheu Rep. Hobbs UD) of Alabama, mittee which investicaled the Amerasia grand jury, filed a here: tofore secret report of his com- mittee’s findings. Hobbs denied any whitewash or ¢overup. He said the bulk of the case owas based on evidence seized with- ‘out a search warrant and which could not be used in court. He. - waded there was “not eneuch sevi- denee to sustain a charge of espio-| ne ” i “Whitfield, a naval intelligence of- figor thot Lt. Andrew Reth_one of the six arrested in the Amerasia case, was “forced” on ONI. White- field testified that Roth was “sus-| pected or alleged to be a fellowi traveler” but was “commissioned in spite of that.” | He explained that Russia then i wes an ally and “the fact that anj llofficer was a Communist was not: ‘a bar to a commission.” He did! not state that Roth was a Com- thunist Bielaski also testified in 1946: i. Documents found in the; Amerasia office were from “Brit: | ish intelligence, naval intelli- gence, G-2, State department, of- fice of censorship, OSS and prob-. ably others.” | 2, Shortiy after the OSS raid,: another OSS officer named Van | Buren went to a meeting “where the stuff was shown to the Secre- “tary of State.” Bielaski’s secret testimony made (no reference to the mystery fig: ure he described as of “greater fame” than anyone yet named in jthe case, and as “an international figure.” ‘ Over in the Senate, McCarthy Genounced the Tydings commit -tee for “doing a foul job” of in-- i vestigation. He demanded crea- tion of an independent commis- Sion of “high-minded men” to probe his charges. This commission, McCarthy {Said, should be appointed by Con- jeress and shoud have complete {Recess to all government person- nel files, including those of the 'FBI, to get at the facts. McCarthy made this suggestion informaliy while the Tydings sub- committee was at the White House, going over more of the 81 State department loyalty files inade available by Presidential order. The Wisconsin senator has claimed 81 departmental employes een has setéder wlolbee Mn nae are bad security risks. The com- qnittee probably will need several more eks to finish its work an e files. acab Tolson Ladd Clegz__ Glavin____ Nichols Rogen Tracy Harha Belmont Mobr Tele. Room__ Nease Gandy ii eB ; \ NOT RECORDED ats @5 FEB 1952 Page “ ? imes-Herald ~~ jo stan BA Tt aw Wash. Post __ Wash. News — Wash. Star ——— N.Y. Mirror -—— —— Date: B- Af I: