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sympathetic.
1t was also Notwithstanding
the fact that on April Is in New
York one Harold Isaacs, known
to Service to be former Com
Imunist. in response to an inquiry
made by Service told Service that
Jaffe was bad business" or be;
medicine" and that while on the
weekend party with the Bissons
on May 19 and 20 hffe in con-
versation with Service took what
appeared to Service to be the
party line" by telling Service
that they had real freedom of
the press in Russia, that they
did not have real freedom of the
press here"
Service comedies that he should
not have lent copies of his reports
to Jaffe, but in extenuation he says
that SO far as he then knew Jaffe
was a reputable journalist. and
that giving what he called back
ground" information to reputable
journalists had been encouraged
by his superiors. The testimony of
others indicates, however, that
background briefing seldom went
to the extent of showing reports,
much less lending them or giving
them out. And Brooks Atkinson,
in a letter submitted to the State
Department board on behalf of
Service, says: MY only complaint
as reporter was that Mr.. Service
was too punctilous about State De-
partment security and declined to
tell me everything he knew. He
never permitted me to see CLASH
fed material and was cautious and
guarded about matters he con-
sidered confidential" This con-
trasts strangely with the very diff
ferent treatment accorded by Sery-
ice to Jaffe. Indeed. Service frank
ly stated that he placed no re-
striction on the use which Jaffe
might make of the reports which
he lent to him.
Service conceded that in no
event should reports which had
passed throught headquarters and
to which were attached letters Of
transmittal or comments be
handed out. A number of such re-
ports were found among Jaffe's
papers, but the evidence indicates
that none of them came from
Service.
Some Reports Copied.
Copies of reports which Service
did lend or may have lent Jaffe
we're also found among Jaffe's pa
pers. 1t appears that one Anne
H. C. Blumenthal copied a num-
Der of reports for Jaf1e, and II
seems probable that some or all of
those lent by Service to Jaffe
were among these.
We have examined the 18 re-
ports. copies of which Service
comedies were or may have been
lent by him to Jaffe. Some of
these are not classified; others
are classified "secret" or con-
f1dential." Service testified, and
the evidence indicates, that these
were his own classifications and
that, in many cases at least. be-
fore he showed them to Jaffe by
reason of lapse of time or other
wise they were no longer secret OF
confidential.
From our examination of these
reports, it appears to us that they
were, for the most part, such as a
newspaper reporter on the spot
might transmit to his newspaper
Some of them, however, appear to
us to be of a nature which no dis
Greet person would disseminate
without express authority. and
some of them were dated within
four to six weeks of the time they
were lent to Jaffe. and the origi-
nails had not been in the hands OF
the State Department for more
than a week. These recent re-
ports, therefore, might be con-
sidered as "hot news"
We have no knowledge of what
information Service may have i'm
parted to Jaffe and others orally
during these meetings in New
York. or during the evening
parties he went to with Jaffe and
/ others in WASHINGTON on Apri]