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assistant Attorney General in
charge of the Justice Depart
ment's Criminal Division and now
a justice of the Supreme Court.
4. On the same day, James Nc
Inerney, then a special assistant
to the Attorney General, reviewed
the evidence with the FB1 agents
and decided that prosecution
would be authorized.
S. On May 81, 19A5, the FBI
was advised by the Justice De-
partment that prosecution of the
case was to be held "in abey-
ance until the conclusion of the
San Francisco Conference Of the
United Nations"
According to the FBI, this in
formation came from Mr.. Nc
Inerney, now assistant Attorney
General In charge Of the Grim
inal Division. The agency said
1t learned later this request came
to the Justice Department from
the naval aide at the White
House"-one angle of the case
that remains to be cleared up
definitely since James K. Varda-
man, jr., then the Presidents ma
val aide, has said emphatically he
never had any connections what
ever with the case.
6. On June 2, 1945, representa-
tive Of the State Department,
inquiring about the status of the
prosecution, was informed it was
being held in allegiance pending
the outcome of the U.'N. confer
ence.
Truman Consulted.
7. On that same day, the State
Department representative, Brig.
Gen. Julius Holmes, now American
Minister to England, and Acting
Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew
went to the White House and laid
the matter before President
Truman.
8. The President Immediately
telephoned Myron Gurnea, the
FBI agent directly in charge of
the case. and ordered, according
to the FBI, that the matter be
given most vigorous investigative
and prosecutive attention"
8. The FBI promptly informed
the Justice Department of the
presidential instructions and the
Justice officials prepared COM
plants in the case after full
discussion Of all of its phases
with the FBI.
10. On June 6, 1945, less time
than three months after the FBI
received the case. its agents
cracked down and arrested six
personS-three here in Washing
ton and three in New York.
Others Arrested.
In addition to Jaffe, the editor
Of the now-defunct magazine de-
voted to Far Eastern affairs, the
FB1 arrested Kate Mitchell, CO.
editor; John S. Service, veteran
State Department career officer;
Emmanuel S. Larsen, another
State Department employe; An
drew Roth, then a lieutenant in
Naval Intelligence, and Mark
Gayn, a writer.
The Senate subcommittee head
ed by Senator Tydings, Democrat,
OF Maryland began looking into
the case after Senator Mccarthy,
Republican, of Wisconsin said it
would afford a key to his charges
Of espionage within the State
Department.
The FBI views and the informa-
ton from the diary of the late
James v. Forrestal, first disclosed
by The Star a week ago, dispelled
much of the mystery that has sur
rounded the case-mystery en-
HANGED by repeated charges
that high administration officials
sought to delay the case.
The diary of MIR. Forrestal, then
Secretary of the Navy, showed
that he intervened in the case
on May %. 1945, by calling FBI
Director j. Edgar Hoover to sug-
gest steps to see that President
Truman was fully informed about
the facts in the case and their
implications.
Asked to Notify Clerk.
Mr.. Hoover was asked, the
Forrestal diary entry showed, to
suggest that Mr.. Clark see that