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military information to Jaffe?"
Senator Mccarthy was asked.
Eyes it WILL" he replied. "It
will show that Service was aware
that the military information was
secret"
Senator Mccarthy refused to
say whether he had seen the Sc
cret FBI testimony. He is not
member of the investigating COM
mittee. although he was present
most of the time Mr.. Service was
testifying yesterday.
The matter of the secret FBI
testimony came up in the public
hearing as Mr.. Service was being
questioned by Robert Morris. the
committees Republican counsel.
Admits Discussing China.
Mr.. Service said he had never
knowingly transmitted secret mil
itary information to Jaffe. But
he added he had undoubtedly dis
cussed the military situation in
China with the one-time editor in
the course of giving background
material to one he considered a
responsible journalist.
Actually, he declared, he had no
military secrets to give out. -
+ At this point Mr.. Morris askei
Senator Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland, the committee chair
man, to make public portions of
testimony taken in secret. He
said the testimony would indicate
Mr.. Service had given military in
formation to Jaffe. z
Senator Tydings refused the re-
quest and in his remarks identified
the testimony as that coming from
FBI agents.
Bars Piecemeal Release.
He said he would not release
the secret testimony in piecemeal
fashion-"homeopathic doses" as
he said. When the inquiry is COM
pleted, he added. the whole testi-
mony would be made available so
that the public would get the
full story of the case.
After a wrangle between Sena-
tor Tydings and Mr.. Morris the
closed session was agreed to. That
decision was reached after Gerard
D. Reilly, one of Mr.. Service S at
torneys, first protested a closed
session.
I'VE want no more mystery
about this case" Mr.. Reilly de-
clared.
Mr.. Reilly Withdrew his objec-
tions after saying he wanted it
clearly understood that Mr.. Ser
vice was not trying to avoid public
testimony.
The Foreign Service officer
originally was scheduled to appear
in a closed session yesterday. But
it was opened at his request.
One Of Six Arrested.
Mr.. Service was one of six per-
sons arrested in the Amerasia case
in which the FBI and agents of
the wartime Office of Strategic
Services recovered hundreds of
Government documents, some
classified secret, in raids on the
magazines New York Offices.
A grand jury refused to indict
Mr.. Service and two others-Kate
Mitchell, co-editor of the maga-
zine, and Mark Gayn, a writer.
Jaffe pleaded guilty to illegal pos
session of Government documents
and was fined $4,000. Emmanuel
S. Larsen. former State Depart
ment employe, was fined $500 on
a plea of no defense. Charges
against Andrew Roth, a lieuten-
ant in Naval Intelligence at the
time. were dropped.
Mr.. Service, who was restored
to his State Department job after
the jury refused to indict him.
spent more than seven hours on
the witness stand yesterday.
The committee swung into ques-
tions about the Amerasia case
soon after Mr.. Service completed
the reading of a 27-page prepared
statement. In the statement he
denied Senator McCarthy's
charge that he had been trying to
turn "the whole business" in
China over to the Russians.
Actually, he added, he had sought
means of preventing such domina-
tion."
Memo Produced.
Henater Hickenlooper, Republi-
can, Of Iowa. a committee men,
Der. produced a memorandum
seized by the FBI in the Amerasia
offices dealing with two war
time messages from President
Roosevelt to Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek in China.
The memorandum bore a head
ing, This information, classified
as top secret ceyes onlyO. is sup
piled by John S. Service"
Mr.. Service testified he told Mr.
Gavn from memory tiae 6 1t,
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