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“McGranery Charges McCarthy Distorted - Justice Brief on Reds By the Associoted Press | Attorney General McGranery! fast night challenged a quotation: read by Senator McCarthy, Re-! public, of Wisconsin, from a Jus-| tice Department document in an effort ta support Senator MocCar- thy’s contention thar the State Department harbors Commumists, In a formal reply, Mr. McGran- ery said in effect that Senator Mc- Carthy had lifted the quotation oun of conext so that its meaning: was distorted. i Senater McCarthy said in a| Speech at Milwaukee that a Jus- tice Department brief made refer-| ence to Soviet plans for obtaining! biank American passports “from Communists employed in the State Department.” 1 Mr. McGranery said there had: been testimony that Russian se" eret police in 1928 worked on a plan to have Communists em- ployed in the State Department so it would be easier to obtain illegalj Passports. But there has been no) testimony that the plan was put into effect, he said, and so the} sentence did not mean there were, Reds in the State Department. Paragraph Quoted. The prepared text of Senator MeCarthy’s Milwaukee address! contained this paragraph: i “There are those who say there’ are no longer Communists in) - Government. I am not going to. ask you to take my word for: that. Il have in my hand the. brief prepared by seven lawyers | ef the Justice Department dated’ July 28, 1952. Let me iead to, you from it, ‘Tegal passports! have been used to expedite travel| in foreign countries by members: of the Communist Party. Plans| have been discussed by leading! members of the patty and agents; of Soviet secret police to abtain) blank American “passparts oon <Commupusts employed in the. Biate Department’" ==s=—? | INDEXED - 19 tz NOT Ra@&R DED . Q-14 son Add ie ova i an MeGranery’s formal _renly. ) \ _Belmon seid in part: a Clegg —_____. “The ‘brief’ to which the Sen- cA Glavin_____ ator referred was the Govern- Harboe ment’s proposed findings of fact R Submitted to the Subversive osen Activities Control Board in the Tracy.____._ case against the Communist in __ Party. The department is press+ Laughli dw neasaadiees hafease 4he traanual Mohr SUB PIUCECUIOES BeLore tne ooarda in an effort to force the party Tele. Rm to register as a foreign-controlled Hollomaa Gandy —_____ organization, “The proposed findings to which the Senator referred were. based on testimony of witnesses: ; f° J which appeared belore the board.! Ao i His reference to ‘plans’ discusse§! ; to obtain blank American pass-! “ ports from Communists employed. in the State Department does not, fr mean that there were Commu- “FP Dey nists emp! ayed in the State De-: ~~? - partment.” f s Mr. McGranery then said Paul. - ! =~—“Crouch, an acknowledged former’ Communist, had testified that in’ 1928 he was introduced to a man’ identified as the head of the Rus-: stan secret police in the United’ States. ! Mr. MecGranery said Crouch stifled in part: “"Then this official . . . ar deded to ask a number of ques. tions, primarily about the employ} ment of Communists in Washing#| ton, in the State Department, ask-! ing if any members of the Young ‘Communist League had jobs in the State Department, where it might ‘be possible for them to secretly obtain possession of blank pass- ports, which, he stated, were needed very much by the Soviet igovernment, and I repiied there ‘were no such members, and he di- ‘reeted me if it were possible te try to get such members emploved with the State Department and they would be very, very important if the Soviet government could obtain American blank pass- ports.” Mr. McGranery added: “Nowhere in the entire hearing is there any testimony that th plan was put inte eflect ——— Times-Heraid ——. Wash. Pus: Wash. News Wash. Siar N.Y. Heroic Vribune _._.. N.Y. Miz.on —— N.Y. Cor ass -_—. 104 (SEP 17 1952