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found no reason to believe DR.. Con-
don is disloyal to the United States.
Mr.. Thomas is in Walter Reed
Hospital with a stomach ailment. A
subcommittee which he also heads
said in a report late Monday that
DR.. Condor knowingly or unknow-
ingly entertained and associated
with alleged Soviet spies.
The complaint against DR.. Con-
don was based principally on let
ter from j. Edgar Hoover, chief of
the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
ton, to the Commerce Department.
A quoted excerpt from the letter
said Dr. Condor had been in con-
tact with an individual alleged, by
a self-confessed Soviet espionage
agent, to have engaged in espionage
activities with the Russians in
Washington, D. c., from 1941 to
1914"
Mr.. STRIPPING said copy of the
letter submitted to the subcommittee
did not contain statement reported
to be in the original letter to the
effect that there was no evidence of
disloyalty or subversive activity on
DR.. Condon's part.
Copied By Another.
Mr.. Stripping said the letter was
copied by another committee in
vestigator, and that the committee
carefully pointed out that it was
quoting only part OF it. He said
he had not seen the original and so
could not Say II MI. Hoover had
stated there was no evidence OF
disloyalty.
However, Mr.. STRIPPING said, this
would make little difference to the
point the subcommittee sought to
make. He emphasized that the sub
committee did not indicate DR.. Con-
don was disloyal, but charged that
his associations constituted a Sc
curity risk.
The Atomic Energy Commission,
told the Senate-House
Committee on Atomic Energy that
DR.. Condor does not have access to
its atomic secrets.
Commission members met with
the committee at the Capitol for
three hours yesterday.
Committee Chairman Hickenloop-
er told reporters later that there
had been no occasion for the COM
to clear DR.. Condor for
access to restricted information
under it. .......
Will Watch Outcome.
Senator Hickenlooper added that
his committee would watch develop
ments in the case, while making
no assumptions. He said there
seemed to be no reason now for
calling DR.. Condor before the COM
mittee.
Henry A. Wallace, the third-party
presidential candidate who recon-
mended DR.. Condor for the Bureau
of Standards post when Mr.. Wal
lace was Secretary of Commerce,
said DR.. Condor has kept inviolate
his oath of Office to defend the
Constitution of the United States
against all enemies foreign and do
nestle"
In a statement issued in New
York, Mr.. Wallace said:
Things have come to a pretty
pass when Government officials or
even private citizens can apply to
the FBI for its file on an individual
and then deny employment to that
individual on the basis of that file.
This means that the United States
is rapidly becoming police state" :"
Further support of DR.. Condor
came, meanwhile, from DR.. Harlow
Shapley, Harvard scientist. Ad-
dressing a group of 40 finalists in
a national science scholarship COM
petition last night, DR.. Shapley said:
I'VE must not permit in our coun-
try such attacks On science or such
purges of scientists that when
you grow up you will be loath to
accept Government responsibility.
"A very real damage can be done
to our national culture and to our
national security if we try to bring
up the young scientists in an at
mosphere of fear"
At that point, he presented Dr.
Condor to the group as "one of the
country's leading scientists. But he
made no direct reference to the
House committees report.
Contacts Declared Routine.
In Chicago the Executive Com
mittee of the Atomic Scientists of
Chicago asserted that contacts with
foreign scientists are a routine part
of a scientists life"
The committee said it was dis
turbed" by the action of the House
committee regarding DR.. Condor.
In Spokane, Wash, DR.. Kirtley F.
Mather, Harvard professor, who said
he knew DR.. Condor well, declared