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United Nations payroll have beel
named in a State Department re
port as persons the department
believes are Communist or un
der Communist discipline"
The report was made public
yesterday by the Senate Interna
Security Subcommittee in tn,
midst Of a controversy over a pro
lposed new Federal grand jury in
Ivestigation of Communist infll
Itration Of the United Nations.
It listed the names of 81 other
who have been dropped by thu
United Nations on the basis O.
similar adverse reports by th'
State Department.
Three of the II named as still
being on the U. N. payroll ho.t
high positions and one was a gir
secretary earlier praised bs tho
subcommittee headed by SenatoI
Nc Carran. Democrat. Of Nevad;
flor her cooperation in the sub
|committee's investigation Of U. N
personnel.
Weintraub Is Named.
One Of the II was Davio Vein
|traub. director Of the U MS Di,
vision of Economic Stability ans
Development. who angrily deniet
the charge.
These statements and accusa-
tions are outrageously false" Mr.
Weintraub said in statement
released in New York in his frs
public cognizance Of the matter
II am not and have never beer
a Communist or a spy undel
Communist discipline and hav'
never engaged in any disloyal o.
subversive activities"
/ In testimony Tuesday before /,
House committee. Deputy Attor'
|ney General Ross Malone sait
there had been 43 derogatory FB.
reports against Mr.. Weintraub
The 48-year-old official is a ma
tive Of Austria who was educated
in this country. He has hels
numerous Government posts, in
cluding one with the State Depart
ment.
The report also listed Davit
zablodowsky. $4,000 a year chic
OF the u. Ms publication section
and Henry S. Bloch, director o
the fiscal division, whose nam,
previously had not appeared IL
connection with the Investigations
Evelyn Thaler was the listet
secretary who won praise from tn
McCarran subcommittee last De
cember II for her testimony OIL
Communist influences in tn,
United Nations.
Mr.. ZablodoWsky said he wouls
have no comment on the new
charges. He told the McCarrar
group October "a that he hae
served with Whitaker Chamber.
in the Red underground in 1896
A former editor of the Viking
Press, he served in the Office O
Strategic Services during Worle
War II.
The list was made public de-
spite the objections of John D
Hickerson. Assistant Secretary O.
State for United Nations Affairs
In a letter inclosing the list. h
told the subcommittee:
THE Department of State ha.
always considered that thes,
names should be kept in highes
confidence. The information upoY
which the department has had tt
proceed has not been as com
|plete as the information available
when the department undertake;
to pass upon the loyalty and Sc.
Icurity of one Of it's own employees
The conclusions of the depart.
ment have not been subject to ap.
peal by the persons in question Of
Ito any hearing in their behalf, nol
has the department been in q po.
|sition to take sworn testimony.
Possibility of Error.
Therefore, the possibility ex'
lists that the department. in draw.
ing inferences and resolving
doubts. may not only have erree
lin favor of the individual in som'
cases but in others may have ar
rived at adverse divisions which