Evening star., 1953-01-10
New Program Set Up
To Screen Disloyal
Americans From u. n.

State Department officials said
today a new screening program
soon should eliminate disloyal
Americans from the United Ma
tions' payroll and prevent any
more from being hired. /.
An executive order issued by
President Truman late yester-
day made present and future
American employees of the q. NJ.
subject to the same sort of 10y
atty Investigations as United
States Government employees.
Ambassador Warren Austin,
top United States o. N. repre-
sentative. Immediately asked
y. n. Secretary General Trygve
Lie to hold up;, action on any
pending appointments Of Ameri-
can citizens to the u. N. staff
until the applicants can be in
vestigated.
A high-ranking Civil Service
Commission official plans to 60
to New York Monday to work
out arrangements with Mr.. Lie
for making the program fully
effective Immediately.
State Department officials
emphasized that the new pro-
gram means that Americans
working for the U. N. will be
screened as thoroughly as are
Federal workers under the Gov
ernmentss.s loyalty g.. program.
Under q previous secret ar
rangement. in effect since 1949.
there have been only routine
main check" Investigations of
American U. N. employees.
Outline of Program. -
The new program calls for
preliminary investigations by
the Civil Service Commission
This will include a check of
FBI and other Government files
and former employers of the in
dividual involved. If the pre-
liminary investigation turns up
any derogatory information, the
FBI then will conduct a full
field investigation.
This process applies to Amer
leans in what are called minor
U. N. jobs.
Under the Presidents order,
the nearly 400 Americans in
more important U. IN. positions
will undergo a full field investi-
cation by the FBI in any event.
The investigation reports will
go to the Civil Service Commits
sion's Regional Loyalty Board
in New York. Individuals
against whom there is a report
of disloyalty will have a right to
a hearing before that board and
to appeal to the commissions S
Loyalty Review Board in Wash
lngton.
Findings to Go to Lie.
Findings of the loyalty boards
will be transmitted by the State
Department to Mr.. Lie. They
will be recommendations, not
necessarily binding on him. But
officials said he is expected to
abide by the findings.
In all, between 1,700 and 1000
Americans are employed by the
U. N.
The program also is intended
to apply to about 1,1O0 Ameri-
cans employed by the 10 special
lied agencies Of the U. N. About
half of these work with the In
ternational Monetary Fund and
World Bank in Washington.
The other agencies involved
are the World Health Organiza-
ton. International Labor Or
ganization, international Tele-
communications Union and
World Meteorological Organiza-
ton, all with headquarters at
Geneva; Universal Postal Union
at Berne. Food and Agricultural
Organization at Rome, UNESCO
at Paris and the International
Civil Aviation Organization at
Montreal.
officials said the program
might be applied to Americans
working for the Pan American
Union here.
Way to Apply it Cleared.
The way for applying the pro-
gram to employees of the U. N.
secretariat already has been
cleared in discussions with Mr..
Lie. The program is based on a
recent report to Mr.. Lie by an
international C o m m ission of
jurists, which advised him that
he should not have on his staff
any United States citizen be-
lieved to be disloyal to the United
States.
AS in the Federal loyalty pro-
gram, reasonable doubt" stand
ards shall apply to Americans on
the y N. staff. This means that
If there is a reasonable doubt
about his loyalty, he will be con-
sidered unsuitable for U. N. en-
ployment.
Officials said first priority in
the new screening program will
be given to investigate fully 10
Americans who remain on the
U. N. payroll despite earlier ad-
verse reports to Mr.. Lie by the
State Department under the old
secret arrangement.
Since 1949. the State Depart
ment has advised Mr.. Lie there
was derogatory information
against Al. American. U. N. en-
ployes. Only 10 of these remain
on the payroll, officials said.
The Presidents executive order
provides for furnishing Mr..
Lie much more complete in
formation than has been possible
in the past. Under the secret
arrangement, he was not given
any details on which this Gov
ernment's adverse comment on
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