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Mccarthy Is Accused
BYState Departmental
Crude Misquotation'
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Senate committee investigating
his charges were "phony"
The Senate investigators nov
are going through these record.
which deal with the cases of 81
persons whom Senator Mccarthy
has labeled as Communists OF
fellow travellers. The record!
were released to Congress b,
President Truman. Senator Nc.
Carthy Immediately charged tht
files had been raped" ane
"purged."
To get the truth about hi.
charges, the Senator said, Con.
gress needs the files of the FBI
the Army and Navy intelligence
services, the Secret Service and the
Central Intelligence Agency.
The State Department observed
that "the facts" about its files
given the committee are that they
are full and complete. current
as of the date transmitted. They
contain all information relevant
to the determination of employe
loyalty or security"
1t noted that under the Federal
loyalty program the FBI is the
agency which conducts loyalty in
vestigations of State Department
personnel 1t added:
THE files made available to
the committee contain the ma
terial collected by the FBI and
transmitted to the State Depart
ment"
"Misquotation Cited"
The department analysis said
that Senator McCarthy's Mis-
quotation" of a congressional re-
port in his Chicago speech dealt
with one made by House Appro-
priations Committee investigators
dated January 27, 1948. This re-
port accompanied a list of cases
forming the basis for Senator Nc
Carthy's original blast against
the department in the Senate
February 20, the statement added.
1t quoted the senator as saying
at Chicago:
Nov from Page 81 of the
House report I quote the follow
ing: Almost anyone and
everyone in the State Department
had access to the files. >"
But what the report actually
said, according to the State De-
partment, is:
".s. Most everyone and any
one in the division has access to
the files. :"
The department added:
"The division that the House
investigators were talking about
was the division of security .
Charged with the physical and
personnel security program Of the
department and the Foreign Serv-
ice, and it is therefore essential
that its staff have access to the
IlleS Wnen neeQeQ. -
Action Due Tomorrow.
In the proposed new inquiry on
the extent of the employment of
homosexualse in Government, a
resolution providing for such an
investigation is expected to be
referred to one of the Senate
committees tomorrow by Vice
President Barkley.
Mr.. Barkley was reported ready
to designate the Senate's Expen-
ditures Committee in line with a
recommendation by Senator Hill,
Democrat. OF Alabama, who in
troquced the resolution.
Senator Mcclellan, Democrat,
of Arkansas, chairman of the ex-
penditures group, told reporters
the inquiry-if it is assigned to
his committee-probably will be
turned over to- special investi-
cations subcommittee headed by
Senator Hoey. That is the same
group which conducted last sum-
mer's five percenter" inquiry
into payment of commissions for
Government contracts.
Refers to John Service Case.
Continuing, the analysis quoted
Senator Mccarthy as saying that
John S. Service was arrested by
the FBI in the so-called Amerasis
case and that FBI Director j.
Edgar Hoover who is not noted
for overstatement stated that
this is a 100 per cent air-tight
case of espionage"
That was a reference to the
1945 case in which six persons
were arrested and two subse-
quently fined after number OF
secret Government documents
were found in the Offices of the
magazine Amerasia.
Mr.. Service, a career diplomat
was one of the persons arrested
but he was cleared when a Fed
eral Grand Jury refused to in
dict him.
The State Department said il
had written to Peyton Ford, as
sistant to the Attorney General
to learn whether Mr.. Hoover ever
made the statement which Sen
ator Mccarthy quoted him, as
making,
Ford's Reply Quoted.
It said that Mr. Ford replied
on May 8: You are advised that
Mr.. Hoover did not make the
statement which has been at
tributed to him."
The analysis said that Senator
Mccarthy had referred at Chi
cago to "the list of names which
I have given the SecretG"v Of
State" 1t replied that the Sena-
tor had spoken of "205 OF .. &C
cused State Department employees
and had been asked for them, but
had not furnished them.
Senator McCarthy's renewed at
tack on Philip Jessup, ambassador
at large, as a joiner of Communist
front organizations, sent the de-