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}! f pleCarthy Backer Says He Gave, Senate Probers Many FBI Reports ( a ack or af Rana for on ane Tt Petree ia | Tells of Data He J}! Gave at Inquiries @! Alfred Kohlberg, New, York importer and suppart-' er of Sen. Joseph R> Me- Carthy. {R- -Wis.) has said he obtained and turned over to Senate investigators ‘“hun- dreds of FBI reports’ of Federal Joyalty cases. Kohlberg made this stale- ment in a letter whose exist-' ence was publicly disclosed! yesterday by Edward Bennett iWilliams, chief defense attor- ney in the MeCarthy censure investigation, . The leller came {0 light when Williams said he may cite Kohlberg’s statements lo snow leon is a “preeedent” for a: enate cammitice to rereive d hold "classified intorma-! jon,” inclidiig FBI infornmg One of the censure charg against McCarthy is that used information improper! obtained from FBI files in his: seralied 244-nagee FRE “letter."! Another charge is that he en couraged Federal workers to: violate the law and presidential orders by asking them for! classified information. Williams said copies of the Kohlberg letter were sent to! the six members of the censure study committee, which is headed by Sen. Arthur V, Wat- kins (R-Ultah), and to McCarthy. Williams declined ta make pub. ( lic its text, but Kohlberg later released il in New York. i Dated September 26, and ad. dressed in the first instance to! Tore, TeEst€Mmvpiecs one or the charges against Sen. McCarthy. “The Senator did not call me, yet 1 think 1 should call the maticr to your attention. As a member of the Judiciary Cam- mittee, T nresume you are fa- néaiiar with this matter. ‘I testified at length on this bdfore a Federal grand jury in Washington in April, 1952. At. torney General WJames P.) Me- Granery was advised of this ma(ter -> was Attorney Gencral (Herbert) Brownell. Whether leither raised ahjectians to pos- ‘session of these reports by the Judiciary Committec, 1 do not KIIOW, “Should vou desire more de. tails, I am at your service.” it was signed, “Very truly urs, Alfred Kohlberg.” Williams told newsmen that the information referred to in the Jetter was ‘material that Miriam de Haas turned over.” Miss de Haas was an exam- iner for the Civil Service's Loy- ality Review Board who was ousted from her job in Noyem- ber, 1952, for refusing {o answer nestions on “anauthorized re- ease of confidential imforma- fs to McCarthy. i She was questioned by a rand jury earlier, and subse- quently, in a newspaper adver- tisement, said she had “scen to it” that information on toyaity risks was “made availabic™ ta McCarthy ‘as well as to other members of Congress.” She and McCarthy said that MeCarthy at the time did not know the sotiree of the information. The Kohlberg Jetter is the t dication Watkins, wha is a member of, Yr WON ag t pha Such ing. the Senate Internal Security, “45 ever jp ct eseri Subcommittee of the Senate Ju-l Privat, |. the Posse Scribes diciary Committee, it said: rst dj Mizen 3 ; SSion of 5 “Prior to the recent hearings '2"y¥ gq tie ft its. alsa the before your Committee, I wrote [25 ty, 7. of Fpy inna that [Sen. MeCarthy offering to tes- Vestigat Over tg. Matin, tify about several hundred re-; JA ng ca mittee Senate ports, amounting to some thou-/% 1957 S8?ing gy, : sands of pages, taken from the “Sure * aoete was VYeMboy files of the President’s Loyalty "6, tha, GPParenty, ONC dis Review Board, which I turned (Curify st © Sa alo Madver over to the Senate Judiciary | Ubeo Mittae Thtern,) (In had g “SSEP S'° Lk Amang Met arnen ‘Am ate 4 th Che were hunk dr | of FBT repores—Strerewase, t re. / oud i ‘document which was a “mary of the loyalty files” ‘a former Chairman William FE. % “sume an Federal worker. Jenner R-indi denied that the f formation was obtained by hes subcommilice from the FR. and refused ta discuss il source. The Kohlberg disclosure raised a host of question aboud the attitude taken bf iFedemi authorities on ine poy essa of FBI reports by a pri- vate igdividual. Tolson Board man Nichols ‘Belmont Winterrowd ____ Teie. Room __ Holloman Miss Gandy = J a Mario Dedans Alfred Kohlbe: (74a EES oT TO CL PGRESSIC" co 0T77E3) Locating filss iieno being nr In cenjunction Division 5. RA _ am mael ateok Nort v J —s 491 SE ——_— Wash, Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash, Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N, Y. Mirror