Evening star., 1954-04-12

q network or agents and in
formers, paid and unpaid, who
dig up material from every cor
ner Of the United States, from
confidential Government files,
even from foreign countries.
He has demonstrated time and
again that quickly he can lay
his hands on episodes often
long past-in the lives Of men
and women. His operation feeds
on the skeleton in the closet, es-
pecially the political skeleton,
but all kinds of skeletons inter-
est him. Senator Mccarthy has
two main sources of informa-
ton.
He employs a staff of agents,
many of them former FBI men.
who earn more working for him
than they could for the Govern
ment. He also hires. as he needs
them, undercover operatives in
foreign countries.
Amateur Tipsters.
In addition to these profess
sionals, he receives "informa-
ton" from host of amateur
tipsters and snoopers, anxious
or disgruntled people-individ-
uals he has never met. whose
very names may be unknown to
him. This is perhaps the most
astonishing phase of the phe-
nomenon of 'McCarthyism."
His Office has become a re-
ceptacle for the fears, suspicious,
hates and prejudices of an army
of these informers.
It is often asserted as we'll
that Senator Mccarthy has
agents among the employees of
Government Offices. However,
since he carefully protects his
sources and informants, no solid
evidence of this has emerged.
In any case, it is evident that
he has access to some secret
Government documents and
classified papers. How he gets
them is his secret.
In his Office he presideS over
a shadowy empire of personal
histories card files cross
indexed as to names and cases,
piles of dossiers, photographs,
Photographic copies. letters,
newspaper clippings, memo
randa.
He never knows what may be
useful out of all this. He says
that when he first brought his
charges of RedS-in-G Government
"I began to be swamped with
tips; much of the stuff is worth
less, but on the other hand some
of it has proved very valuable. +"
An old newspaper clip, for
example, came in handy re-
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Last month Commentator Ed
ward r. Murrow conducted a
television program critical of
Senator Mccarthy. The Senator
promptly replied. He said Mr..
Murrow had been a member of
the National Advisory Council
of Moscow University summer
session back in 1885.
.(Mr. Murrow said he had been
assistant director of the Institute
Of international Education,
which was an organization ar
ranging student exchanges. He
said the Russians themselves
called off the summer session be-
fore it began)
In McCarthy'S Files.
But the 19-year-old incident
was in Senator McCarthy's files.
The clip had been sent him, long
ago, by one of the many volun-
teer informerS.
Senator Mccarthy makes no
secret of the fact that he some
times employs agents in other
countries. He had one working
out of Paris some years ago when
he was centering his fire on the
State Department. Senator Nc
Carthy said the material this
man unearthed figured in some
of his charges against State De-
partment personnel.
He hired a detective in Shang-
hal who obtained Photographic
copies of five pages of police rec
ords. Senator Mccarthy laughs:
"They were in Chinese :. had
to have the stuff translated"
He denied to this reporter that
he ever gets any information di-
rectly from the FBI, although
Senator Fulbright, Democrat, of
Arkansas. has publicly expressed
the belief that Senator Mccarthy