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Heiden Bet ee ee yey Mer yph are we ye yeep Suspended Employe By the Associated Presa AY wonalt employe under sus- { 16. She said that present there | Warned Not to Talk _ | pension by the Civil Service were Hiram Bingham, Loyally Commission swore yesterday that a commission official told her not to give any information to the FBI about a leak of cor fidential loyalty board records. In suspending Miss Miriam D ‘ston satay aas, the commis- here for vestigating the leak. Miss DeHaas was first ques- tioned, tie commission said, shortly after Sen. Joseph R. Me- Carthy (R-Wis.) made public minutes of a Loyalty Review Board mecting at which several members criticized the way the State Department had been han- dling its loyalty program. The Loyalty Review Board operates under the Civil Service Com- imjssion. In an affidavit filed with the commission yesterday, Miss De- Haas said she was called to the office of L. V. Meloy, then alty Review Board, last January the womtan. veck that it also was pelitioning Federal Caurt the release of testi- Wony she gave a grand jury in-! Board chairman: James Hatcher, chief of the nonin. sion’s investigations division, and a shorthand reporter. '. She said the interview Jasied nearly three hours. and she con: tinued: “T answered all questions asked me by Mr. Hatcher. Among other things we covered the various possibifitics of in- {formation which had been made javailable to Sen. Joseph Me- iCarthy, and the coddling of Communists under the Presi- dent's loyalty program. « Wen my requests for a copy ef the transcript of this inter- view were finally granted, seven months later, a considerable portion of the intervicw had been deleted and certain other | parts had been edited.” There was no immediate com- ment from the commission. McCarthy said last week, when Miss DeHaas' Suspension was announced, that she “p tively gave me no informatiog, " executive secretary of the Loy-| and he added: “They've nena INDEMCD - a0 - ! y aa { a the wrong person.” NOT R&BORDED Ma SEP 12 1952 ay \ \ The Washington Post Sentember 9, 1952 ) 4 Wad y fy A bey [+ i