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JUPsjlk 2. STANDARD FORM NO. 64 © @ , - ° . Office Memorandum * UNITED ‘STATES GOVERNMENT N's TO: ur. A. H. BELMONT A" yQ/ pate: July 21, 1959 YA - Ff Toso ) pi Belne now: Qe O-- 67 a Me . Mohr —____< sunyecr: ? Reker EDMUND GERALD BROWN 7 WA Tamm ATOMIC ENERGY ACT ~- APPLICANT CV Trotter —— V “i ~ Tele. Room _ Holloman Pursuant to approved recommendation in memorandum uk Mr. Rosen to the Director of July 20, 1959,. Liaison contacted tod Ur. ee A. Waters, Dine to r- of. Segurity,.Atonic nergy Commission ae ae atid Ir. ForlLang ,489tatant Director ofa@ecunity Intellige of the Washington area, AEC, to determine tf an investigation oS i of captioned indtuidual, Governor of California, should be condu Initially, (Waters stated that in the light of the fact ~ = that Brown, as a member of the Board of Regents at the Univers sty years: of California, occuptes @ pos ition of a high degree of importance and sensitivity under the Atomic Energy Act, an FBI investigation prior to granting hin clearance is automatically required by Section 145 of the Act. He and Lane added that no exceptions or exemptions are provided for in the Act. Reference was made by ‘Lane_and. Waters » to Brown's predecessor, Earl Warren, and they stated that ALC headquarters records reflect that FBI conducted applicant-type investigation on him in connection with the same position on the Board of Regents in 1951 when Warren was Governor of California. A check of our files on Warren, however, reflected that the Bureau did not investigate Warren for AEG but rather wrote Waters? a letter of November 8, 1951, stating that Bureau files did not reflect any derogatory information regarding Warren's character, |} - loyalty, and associates and that no further inquiry would be cond}cted unless specifically requested by Waters. When this letter was “oF brought to the attention of Waters, he said that he had based hi Q original statement as to our alleged investigation of Warren on fhe $e: clearance cards on file at A&C headquarters and that he had no esentd recollection of the letter mentioned above. He said that this letter x should be on file in the San Francisco AEC offices that he would check into the matter further; that in the meantime we should hold \ the AEC request on Brown in abeyance until we hear from Waters. 4 ed information. Liaison will follow with Wat - ¥ 4 1 - Mr. Rosen 1 - Mr. DeLoach ow 1 - Mr. Belnat 1 - Liaison Section PTI