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the Army Stevens administration
of the Army Department.
StevenS-now in his 10th day as
a Htness-was temporarily ex-
cused from the stand so that Collier
could give his report on his visit
with Hoover.
The committee lawyer still had
the chair when the investigating
committee recessed for lunch.
Mccarthy, without saying so d.
rectly, suggested that possibly
what he had offered was a copy
Of summary of the FBI material,
prepared in Bolling's office.
Mccarthy asked Collier if he had
checked Gen. Bolling's office to
find out if it had ''made a sum.
mary of the 15-page FBI letter.
Collier said he had not had an op-
portunity to do that.
Mccarthy then suggested to
Mundt that the subcommittee find
out if Bolling's office did have such
summary made and, if so, what
distribution was made of it.
Mundt said the subcommittee
would consider that at a closed
meeting in the afternoon.
Collier testified that Hoover told
him Gin some respects the Ian
guage was the same" in the Nc
earthly document as in the 15-page
FBI document.
Collier, under questioning by
WEIGH, said he had not read in
detail either of the two documents.
"This document sprung by Nc
Carthy in this courtroom is a per
feet phony, is it not?" Welch de.
manded.
When Collier did not come
through with a flat yes or no,
WEIGH asked which he would say
if he had to choose between saying
it was either "the real Mccoy OF
a phony."
His reply was that he would pick
neither.
Ray H. Jenkins, committee coun'
sci, put in that Welch's question
offering such a choice of language
was not proper one.
Mccarthy broke in with point
of order. He asked Collier to look
at page two of the copy he had
sought to introduce. 1t would show
there, Mccarthy said, that certain
security information was purposely
omitted, accounting for the shorten
| ing from Is pages to 3.
But Collier steadfastly refused te
read it. He had said earlier thai
Hoover told him the question o.
whether material in the document
could be made public should be
checked to Atty. Gen. Brownen.
Chairman Mundt (R-SD) ruled
that Collier had a perfect right tt
refuse, pending results of a sub
committee check with Brownell.
Mccarthy, his voice rising ii
anger, exclaimed "You mean t.
tell us you didn't. read it." HI
remarked that Collier had carried
it around with him all night.
"How ridiculous can we get?'
Mccarthy said.
Collier said he had Hoover's per
mission to testify that the 15-pags
letter in the FBI file carries a
its head a notation that it is ;
memorandum to Boiling on: 'Sub
ject, Aaron Lyman Coleman, Els
pionage-R."
"And for your information, thu
r. stands for Russia" Collier
said. He added that Hoover haG
told him he could say that.
Mccarthy produced the Letter
yesterday after first bringing Cole
mans name into the hearings.
Coleman is suspended employt
of the Army's Signal Corps labora
tories at Fl. Monmouth. NJ.
When bringing out the letter
Mccarthy said it was one of ;
series of FBI warnings to the Arm!
about possible subversion at Mon
mouth.
Yesterdays session wound up il
a whirl of excitement touched of
by McCarthy's production of thu
letter.
1t raised a lot of questions
including one from Sen. Mcclellan
DARK as to whether "someon,
has violated the law"
Mccarthy said yesterday, ant
repeated today, that he did no
get the letter from, the FBI. H,
told reporters last night he got
from Army sources" but refuset
to be more specific.
Mundt said he was "sure WI
are not going to try to find out
how the letter came into Nc
Carthy's possession.