REF ID:A43097 

·Ge·· THE WASHING TON POST 

SundQy, •"ebruQry II, 19.;I 

FBI to Probe 

' McCarthy and 

Pearson Scrap 

Ttie Department of Justice has 

, liien .,ked to Investigate possible 

violations of securlcy by Columr 

llfst Drew Pearson or Senator _ _ 

.;ros9ph :a. Mccarth:v or both, IT vJAs" 1'l '"'o~-1. 

AnnY, Secretary Pace revealed Op CCUritV 

:reateidaY. ' :3~srl . In separate letters to Pearson Body to se 

and. McCarthy, Pace said the "entire D1atter" which has been mate-· A•d S 

rial for contention. between the' 1 e ystem eolumnlst and . the Senator had 

been tumed over to the Justice . ~- NYBr No,., serulo• 

Department. Pearson and Mc- President Truman has 11rdered 

CarthY both made public their t N letters from 'Pace, together with, he atlo~al . Security Council'. statements asserting the other was· the Nations top security agency, 

the object of whatever 'lnvestlga- to form a permanent senior staff 

UolJ llUgbt be made. group to facilitate the Council's 

Pace's letter to Pearson wu in work. Tile order was Issued on . reply to pne from the columnist 1 asklnS If any action was to be I Ju Y 19, three weeks aner the 

taken against McCarthy as a Ma- start of the Korean war. 

rlne reserve olllcer for revealing The Council Is composed of the 

·the· number and date of a secret President, the Vice President and 

doeilment previously quoted by . 'Pearson. Pace replied that "the . the Secretaries of State and DeDepartment• of the Army has no i fense and the chairman of the 

admlnlatratlve' jurisdiction over Na ti o n a I Security Resources 

reserve officers of the Marine Board. At the President's re- Corps" ..... · d t 1

· ti quest, the Secretary of the Treas- ~ne acumen n ques on was . one which Pearson claimed In his ury, the chairman of the Joint 

December 31 column showed Gen. Chiefs of Starr and the director of 

Douglas MacArthur reported a the Central IntellJgence Agency 

111111ler Chinese force oppo.s.lng attend the Council sessions. 

1A.ia .. l_, \)e:.J.r . ,. G.l~u_ .. _, '"6 So 

'Stalin Urges 

More Strength 

For Soviet 

hi.QI than he had accounted for . bi public &tatementa. McCarthy The President has asked aach Moscow, Aug. 1 ru.R>.-Premier 

chaqed Pearson's publication of of these oft\cials, the regular Josef Stalin today reaffirmed h!S 

this alleged Information was a members of the Council and those p1·ewar view that as long as the 

violation of security. Last Janu- who attend its meetings as non- Soviet Union is encm:Jed by capl111')' 22, on the Senate floor, he 

gave the number and date of the members, lo nominate one per- tahst counlr1e1 Ille Soviet state 

document In question: which Pear- son as a member of the senior ~annot weaken, but must become 

IDll declared In his letter to Pace staff group. If the nomination ls mol'e powerfu I. 

was a security violation. satisfactory, the President will Stalin declared that all the orPearson asked Pa~ If McCarthy I then designate this person 8 a gans of the htate, the army and the 

had received "special authorif.a- s nlel11ge11ce. musl increase In 

tlon" to .examine the document member. treni:th or be destroyed. 

and m•ke any of It public. To; James S. Lay, jr., executive sec- ' HIS pronouncement appeared In 

both questions Pace replled ln the retary of the Council, ~Ill head !the magazine Bolshevik, most au-1 

.'negative. the group. thor1tative organ m the CommuPaca told Pearson the case was White House olllclals said the nist world. 

referred by him to the Secretary President's order for the organi- : Stalin assailed doctrinaire, doll1 

of Defense who "In turn has re· zation of a senior staff gl'oup was matic Marxists for hOlding that 

ferred It to the Department of Intended to restrict attendance at Marxist fo1'11lulas worked out in 

Justice." He did not say 1f any the CouncllT meetings to workable one particular period are valid for-. 

"fl 11 1 limits In the p t th 'd th ever and must never change. d " St II Id Th . spec1 c ne of, nveatlgation had • as • ey sa1 , e Stalin referred to the classic En- e , a n sa . en he gave his strengthen Its atate, Its atate or- been requested. 1number of staff members attending gels belief that after the victory own view. gans, Its lntelll,gence organs and 

McCarthy said in his statement' ll!eetlngs became so large It was of a Socialist revolution the state "On t~e basis of a atudy of the the ariii;;;-lr-tiils country doesn't that h lid t "th t '£.th difficult for Council members to ~· FB 1 

8 '!as con freen a. 1 e discuss Important questions freely must wither away and disappear. world situation In our time, wJ1en want to be crushed by eap1tallst 

d ~ s lll~h~ a I e nan~i m con· What Is contemplated now is th~ "On that basis the Exegetes and the Soviet Marxist revolution oc- encirclement." .:i f ngl~ be f nv.;~ ga on, the forlllatlon of a small senior atalf ;the Talmudists In our party and in curs in only one country and eap- Stalin also predicted all Ian; , e , w . oun · group, each member of which I our country have begun to demand . • guages will be f~sed Into one Ian· Pea~ said the i:xchan~~ of would be qualified to participate 'that the party take measures for ltahs111 reign& In all other eoun- guage-when soc1aUsm bu won its I 

letters with Pace Indicated tbat In high-level decisions They would I . the speedy withering away of oui· tries, then the country where the world-wide Victory and imperial· ·the Senator from Wil!Cllnsin is be officials who would give then· . state, that organs be dissolved, that revolution Mumphed must not ism and national animosities have 

' '¥:':1'rt!::~!.1atlon by the .Justici; attention mainly to the Councll's j the permanent army be elimlnat• weaken, but must dQ ils utmost to disappeared. . . 

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