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Uo tebe he ene Ra ee ey eh » e T "pon => Li ds. FNichols “7, Belmont {2-_ ri__. : Glavin fatbo_ Resen_ Tracy Laughlia Mohr Winterrowd __ Tele. Rm. Holloman ad dhe Betrayed Her Trust However welj-intended her act. Miss Miriam de/Haas committed a serious offense when. by her own admission. she gave confidential data of the Loyalty Review Board to unauthorized per- sons. Loyalty to the Government includes main- tenance of the integrity of the employer-emplove relationship. Miss de Haas betrayed the trust placed tn her by her emplover, the Loyalty Review. ‘c ars Board, and hence deserved to be discharged. ~ In a newspaper advertisement fonfessing that she had “seen to it” that certain information “concerning the infiltration of Communists into the Government” had reached Senator McCarthy , “of Wisconsin, Miss de Haas evidenced a reniark- ably distorted conception of her responsibilities .as a civil service employe. No amount of sclf- justification can alter the blunt fact that she compromised the security of an agency which. of necessity, must operate, for the most part, in an atmosphere of secrecy. The records of the Loyalty Review Board must be safeguarded at all times, if it is to operate with maximum effectiveness in ridding the Government of Reds and other disloyal workers. Its files contain the names and testimony of many witnesscs who have helped to identify faithless employes, after 4 f , being assured that their aid would be held in a ). ulmost confidence. If such informants should } feel that they cannot rely on such assurances, ra e the anti-Communist work of the board would be am impeded. ; As a trusted employe of the board, Miss de Haas should have realized even more than the average Federal employe how wrong it was to - “leak" confidential information of any kind to a Senator or any one cise. That she apparently Times-Herald : did not realize it is sufficient justification for Wash. Post ___ dismissal. a. Wash. News _— Wash. Star _ N.Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror _ { N.Y. Compass _ (NOODLE 1892 Dare: