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--artinghead-at the time of the Am- —_] U.S. Denies Reports of 9 ‘Secrets’ i By Alfred Friendly Post Reporter The chief of the Justice De- partinvent Criminal Division yester- day explicity denied sensational stories listing cerlain specific “hivhly secret wartime informa- lien’ allegedly contained in docu- minis seized in the 1945,.Amerasia Mugazine case. The stories, published yester-, dav by the New York Herald Tri, hue Syndicate and the Scripps-: Howard newspapers, listed five! dociuments-—-on their face obvi- ously very secrel and containing crucial information — as among, ftinse seized when FBI and Office of | Strategic Service investigators | raided the magazine's offices. So dacuments "remotely resem-! aa - ; * Jing ; : gan, principal subcommitte bling’ those reported were seized. ay said he also had not s t James M. Mecinerney told reporters! yesterday. McInerney, now head -|publican minority on the investi- of the Criminal Division. was the ‘eravia case, : Reporters encountered McIner- ney ina Capitol office and asked ‘ him, regarding each document sep- arately, whether five of the items listed in the news Siories were actually among the Amerasia doc- uments. On four of the items his answer was a flat no. On the fifth, he sald the document would have to be identified more precisely before he could give a positive answer, but he could think of nothing of that Benera! nalure, Melnerney said he was thor-; oughly familiar with the 900-odd’ originals and 800 more duplicates: of documents taken by the FBL from the Amerasia magazine of-! fices and from the homes of two! of the six defendants in the case. Furthermore, he said, he was fa- f If any items like those men-| tloned in the stories were among! the documents, he saidbe would: know about them. : The two newspaper syndicates: did not give the source for their) ,atories, but both said the reports’ ‘ were confirmed by Senator Bourke, _ B. Hickenlooper (R,, Iowa), a mem-. ber of the Senate subcommittec investigating the Amerasia case. along with other charges of com-: munism in government. : Hickenlooper in Jowa | Hickenlooper, however, has been in Jowa for a week or more. He declared in an interview there yesterday that his knowledge of; = __ the documents found im thel noon.’ The other five defendasts Amerasia haul came from~Rob-|'in the 1945 case also will be quqs- ert M. Morris, counsel of the Re- tioned after Lorsen, Morgan sail. + Ey since the conclusion | legal proceedings on the case,; there’ have been widespread; charges in and out of Congress; that the case was “whitewashed” and the prosecution “mishandled.” The five “state secrets” docu-| ments allegedly in the ‘Amerasia| haul about which reporters ques-; | tioned Mcinerney, were: 1. A listing of the location of! Amertcan fieet units in the Pa- eBic.jas cf a date in 1945, McIner-| the ney, denying the existence of this! gating subcommittee. Meantime, Senator Tydin Md.), the subcommittee ch. said he had never seen such docu- ments as those described by the newspaper syndicate stories, and added: - “It's too bad Senator Hicken- Yooper hasn't heard all the testl- mony. I wish he had.” + At the same time, Edwa Tr documents described in- of the many hundred sheets g@§ listing of Japanese naval unils. 4-26 Tolson_ Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy. Harbo Belmont Mobr Tele. Nease Gandy. | Room aT? atime ae tories, although h ded that Famong the papers taken, he had jot yet gone through all 4 28 SH there was, however, a! INDEXED - 143 paper seized. They are ounter-Intelligence Plan : Justice Department cana 3™™A Naval plan for warlime! McInerney testified abo ;counter -inlelligence operations, case before a House Judiciary BUb- cont by Naval intelligence to in-! committee in'1946, and only recent telligence officers of the 14 Ameri- ly testified again in secret session waval districts. before the Tydings subcommittee. 4 4 document over Secretary Yesterday, thal group heard two' yg sige Hull's signature apparent- more Justice officials tell ft ppt ly pitturing Amerasia magazine situation. One was Assista&t FBI iy. y voritabie bible on what Director Louis B. Nichols and the go in the Far East.” - other was D. Milton Ladd, assistant “4° 4 message from Presiden to the director, and principal FBI roosevelt to Chiang Kai-shek, wikt officer in charge of the Amerasia- . case at the time of the arrests. “~~~ Tydings quoted the two men aq telling his subcommittee after thay; had testified “You have all the tes- timony we have touching the Amer-| asia case.” i Wash. Post Six people were arrested when the raids were made in June 1945.. A grand jury declined to indict three and prosecution was later dropped against a fourth. Philip J. Jaffe, editor of the magazine, a pleaded guilty to Nlegal possession : of Government documents . and milar with the 20-odd documents|, was fined $2500.. The sixth man! rt steed garlier from the offices in) arrested, Immanuel S. Larsen,! a ; an O38 ,yaid, . S-sstpveaded nolo contendere and was Ae Aw: Snead $500, At a The Tydings Subcommilies plang \ ‘ te question Larsen on his part in) {\- HIYNARS woe the case, possibly on Monday afier- cm ee te reer Times-Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror HOT RECORPED @5 FEB 1952 ee ———s Page