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TO : MR. TOLSON DATE: September 6, FROM : L. B.-NICHOLS ALL INOFATICN CONTAI .D SUBJECT: For record purposes, the Attorney General called me. during the last week in August and inguired as to whether the. Director could be reached by phone. I told him that I doubtet. *41 The Attorney General then stated that Senator Tydings General sent to the Senator reporting the Bureau's investigation. of the contents of State Department files which Senator McCarthy charged had been raped.. I told him that I was certcin the Director was in a travel. Status but at the earliest opportunity I would pass the word on. The Attorney General then suggested he haue Tydings call me.. I told the Attorney General I hnew the Director would personally hauuonny ayg buguonnsano son seuipny hlyuaudddp qoyg yoof ayg yuasay General's word and that I thought it amazing when the head of the Department, who was the spokesman for the Department as far as the Agsngnaqo noyg pud pagfhaan paom syy aady on poy 'pauaanuod snn Jonoung position. The AG said that he was certain that this wasznot the problem and that Tydings did not mean any offense. He stated*that he thought and his return was indefinite.. By.reference from the Director's Opfice, I talked to Tydings. on September 5. The Senator wanted to talk to the Director sometime today and did not give any indication as to what he wanted to talt about. (i LBN:mb RECORDED - 43 V2/2327i-03 INDEXED : 43 SEP 12 1950 24