Evening star., 1950-07-18

paign Of unwarranted and unfair
vilification without parallel il
the history of congressional in
vestigations. This vilification in
cluded repeated charges that w
were attempting to "whitewash'
the State and Justice Depart.
mentS. -.
The subcommittee, unfortu.
nately. has been burdened in it:
work by reason of the failure O.
the two minority members to at.
tend subcommittee sessions with
any degree of regularity. Out o1
81 sessions, the senior Senator
from Iowa attended only 81 ses.
sions and the junior Senator
from Massachusetts, only %. Sig
nificantly. a substantial percent.
age of those absences occurred
during our consideration of thu
Amerasia case.
Additionally. we were con.
fronted with the extremely anon
alous situation of the minority
members being unable to agree
on whether the sessions should bt
public or executive. Senator Hick-
enlooper insisted on public ses-
SionS; Senator Lodge insisted thai
"the show be taken off the road
and all hearings be in executive
session.
The job of getting the facts
concerning disloyal persons anc
protecting the Government against
foreign penetration belongs es-
sentially to the FBI. Inherent ir
the charges that have been made
is the suggestion that the FBl
has not done its job well. We dc
not find this to be true; on the
contrary, all evidence points tc
the fact that the FBI is fully cap
able OF discharging its response
bility now and in the future, as II
has in the past. We are fully sat-
isf1ed that the FBI and the Secur-
ity Staff of the State Department
are eminently qualified to ferret
out individuals who may be dis
loyal in the State Department
and that the responsible officials
Of that department possess the
character, integrity. ability, anc
loyalty to take appropriate correc-
tive action in any instance where
the facts as developed by investi-
cation indicate the necessity there.
for.
Complaint Found False.
We have found that the com.
plant of Senator Mccarthy con.
corning disloyalty in the State
Department. which precipitatec
our investigation, is false and hav.
fully assured ourselves that tn,
/ existing agencies and facilities fol
meeting the problem of securit,
are doing their jobs efficiently anc
conscientiouSly. Having made thi
finding on the basis of the evi.
dence before us, the suggestion
that We continue further to "in,
Vestigate" in the abstract become.
absurd.
Inquiries of the character i'm
pressed upon us are justified onI,
where evidence exists that ou
duly constituted agencies of Gov
ernment have failed to discharg,
their duty. We find, despite ire
sponsible representations to tn,
contrary, that absolutely no sucl
evidence existed as predicate fol
our inquiry and that after an in.
tensive investigation, there is still
no such evidence.
| We feel that one Of the mos
reprehensive aspects and unfor.
tunate results Of unwarranteC
charges Of the type made in this
matter Is the actual injury done
to the true fight against com.
munism. Such charges, being un.
proved and not subject to proof
have the effect Of dulling the
awareness Of our people to the
menace Of communism, unneces.
sarily embarrass and expose the
methods and techniques of our in.
telligence agencies charged with
protecting our security, interfere
with and compromise their con.
hdential Investigations, destroy
the effectiveness Of confidential in.
formants, and inevitably give.
basis for ridicule Of those who
tight communism with truth, the
only weapon with which it can be
destroyed.
At time when American blooC
is again being shed to preserve
our dream Of freedom, we are con.
strained fearlessly and frankly tt
call the charges. and the methods
employed to give them ostensible
validity. what they truly are: 6
fraud and a hoax perpetrated or
the Senate of the United States
and the American people. They
represent perhaps the most ne
farious campaign of truths
and untruth in the history of this
republic. For the first time in oul
history, we have seen the totali-
tartan technique of the "big lie
employed on a sustained basis
The result has been to confuse
and divide the American people, al
a time when they should be strong
in their unity, to degree fan
beyond the hopes Of the Com
munists themselves whose stock
in trade is confusion and divi-
sion. In such a disillusionina
setting, we appreciate as never
before our Bill of Rights, a free
press and the heritage Of freedom
that has made this Nation great
RECOMMENDATIONS.
While the charges which re-
suited in Senate Resolution No
231 have clearly not been sus-
tanned upon investigation, it is
believed that their inevitable ef-
feet, considering the treatment
given them by certain segments OF
the press and radio, has been to
disturb the faith of some Ameri-
can citizens in the security of the
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