Evening star., 1952-10-07
Civil Service Denied
Grand Jury Minutes
In Loyalty Leak Case
Court Refuses to Yield
Testimony on Doto
Given to Nee Corthy

District Judge Matthew F. Nc
Guire today refused to open for
Civil Service Commission exam
Iination minutes of a Federal grand
| jury investigating leakage Of in
formation of Loyalty Review
Board proceedings.
The ruling came In the case Of
Miss Miriam M. de Haas. an at
torney, and examiner for the re-
view board who is now under
suspension.
Miss de Haas was suspended
after she was questioned by COM
mission officials following publi-
cation by Senator Mccarthy, Re-
publican, of Wisconsin of con-
fdential minutes Of loyalty pro-
ceedings.
Subsequently, Miss de Haas
testified before District grand
jury. Her attorney, D. j. Ander-
sen, told reporters his client was
suspended because she refused to
divulge to the commission the
gist of her grand jury testimony
All grand jury proceedings are
kept secret by law.
Denies Legal Obstacle.
But the commission contended
there is no law -. which excuses
(MiSs de Haas) from giving testi-
mony to her employer in connec-
ton with the investigation Of the
commission, on the ground that
she appeared as a witness and
testified before a grand jury about
matters which may have been
under discussion at such grand
jury hearings. :"
The commission petitioned the
u. S. District Court for the Dis
trict Of Columbia to release por-
tions of the grand jury testimony
given by Miss de Haas. Before
Judge MCGUIRE today, United
States Attorney Charles M. Ire
Ian pointed out the secrecy of
grand jury data. He said that in
his experience the only time such
minutes had been opened was in
the gambling conspiracy case of
Police Inspector Albert I. Bullock.
The data, in that instance, was
turned over to the District Com
missioners to enable them to de-
termine his fitness to remain on
the force.
But Mr.. Irelan stressed that the
minutes were not turned over un-
til Inspector Bullock won a judg-
ment of acquittal.
A transcript of an interview
with Miss de Haas conducted last
January Is by James E. Hatcher,
chief Of the Investigations division
of the Loyalty Review Board, and
Hiram Bingham, chairman of the
board. was appended to the petit
ton for release of the minutes.
The transcript showed that
Miss de Haas admitted seeing
transcripts of the Review Board
proceedings. which involved in
vestigation of a group of Gov
ernment employees.
In this interview Miss de Haas
said she had no idea of how the
information was leaked out.
Interviewed Again.
According to the commission S
petition. Miss de Haas was again
interviewed by commission repre-
sentatives about the unauthorized
disclosures Of confidential infor-
nation from the files in the Gus
tody of the Loyalty Review Board
in the following cases:
"OD Henry Haines Alderman,
(2) Posniak, CD Chew Csih Hong,
a. John Carter Vincent, go John
Patton Davies, CO. Ophilo Nash,
Cd j. Robinson, co Philip c. Jes-
sup, co. Robert Ross, (1O William
Ludwell Stone, (1D David Dem
Arrest Lloyd, (12) Haldore Hanson,
(13) Stephen Brunauer, GA Esther
C. Brunauer. f15) Esther Less or
Esther Less Kopelewich."
The petition said Miss de Haas
refused to answer any questions
regarding the leak in those cases
on the ground that she could not
discuss any matters which may
have been under discussion at the
grand jury hearings.