Evening star., 1950-07-18

recommendations OF TIE UemO-
cratic majority OF the Senate
Foreign Relations subcommittee
set up to Investigate charges by
Senator Mccarthy, Republican,
OF Wisconsin that Communists
haUe intltrated the State De-
pGrtment:
Findings and Conclusions.
Despite his denialS on the Sen.
ate floor, publicly, and before thi
subcommittee, that he made tht
statement, we find on the evidences
that Senator Joseph R. Mccarthy
on February 8, 1850. at Wheeling
w. Va, said:
Ladies and gentlemen, while
cannot take the time to name al
the men in the State Department
who have been named as active
members of the Communist Party
and members of spy ring, I have
here in my hand a list of 205-s
list of names that were made
known to the Secretary of State a:
being members of the Communist
Party and who nevertheless are
still working and shaping policy
in the State Department."
Our investigation establishes
that the foregoing allegations are
false and, particularly, that Sen
ator Mccarthy had no such list
as alleged and that there is not
one member of the Communist
Party or of a "spy ring" employed
in the State Department known to
the Secretary of State or other
responsible officials of that de-
partment.
We find that Tin making a
speech) at Salt Lake City, Utah
Senator Mccarthy said:
Last night discussed the Com
munists in the State Department.
I stated that had the names OF
81 card-carrying members OF the
Communist Party"
At No Time Had Names.
Our investigation establishes
that Senator Mccarthy at no time
has had the names of 81 card
carrying members of the Commu-
mist Party in the State Depart
ment and that during the course
of a 4 months investigation he has
been unable to produce competent
evidence or to indicate where
such evidence is obtainable con-
cerning one member of the Com
munist Party, card-carrying or
otherwise, who is employed in the
State Department.
We find that on the evening of
February IL, 1850, at Reno, New,
Senator Mccarthy again spoke on
the question. AS reported in the
Nevada State Journal:
Senator Mccarthy who had first
typed total of 205 employees OF
the State Department who could
be considered diSloyal to the
United States and pro-Commu-
niStS scratched out that number
and mentioned only "57 card-car-
rying members" whom Acheson
should know as well as members OF
Congress.
We find that in making speech
on the Senate floor on February
20, 1850, Senator Mccarthy read
what purported to be the speech
delivered by him at Wheeling,
w. Va; that the purported speech
as reaG to the Senate was identi-
cal with the speech delivered at
Wheeling except that he withheld
from the Senate the statement
actually made, as set forth in con-
clusion / above, and substituted in
lieu thereof the following:
ST have in my hand 81 cases Of
individuals who would appear to
be either card-carrying members
or certainly loyal to the Com
muniSt Party, but who neverthe-
less are still helping to shape our
foreign policy"
Facts MiSrepreSented.
The substitution of the fore
going Technology constituted a
Misrepresentation of the true facts
to the Senate.
We find that in making his
speech on February 20, 1850,
which occasioned the passage OF
Senate Resolution 231, Senator
Mccarthy left the unmistakable
inference that he had but recent
ly obtained from unrevealed
sources in the State Department
the information which he was
presenting to the Senate.
Our investigation establishes
that the material presented in this
speech was data developed In 1947
by the Republican controlled
80th Congress; and that repre-
sentations indicating it had re.
Gently come from loyal State
Department employees misled anc
deceived the Senate.
We find that the information
presented to the Senate on Feb
ruary 20, 1850, by Senator Nc
Carthy, concerning "81" individ-
uals identified by him only by
numbers, was a colored and dis
torted version of material de-
veloped by investigators of the
House Appropriations Committee
in 1947 during the 80th Congress
Senate Was Deceived.
To the extent that the informa.
ton was colored and distorted anc
the source thereof concealed, the
Senate was deceived.
We find that four separate COM
mitteeS of the 80th Congress
controlled by Senator Mccarthy
own party, formally considered the
same information relative to the
"81" individuals, as that utilized
In the Senator's speech, and die
not regard such information a.
sufficiently significant to prepare
q report relative to the matter Of
to cite a single employe of tn,
State Department as disloyal. .
We find that Senator McCarth,