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ae ed PO aarti, eee ee cee ene enten§ a _ »"9@plonel Donovan's Naval Inspectors, and the Dies Committee, what they _ 2 sig@ally have on Joe. Lash..." Mrs. “Roosevelt stated that Lash told the ”».. .JNawy.the absolute truth oo all his former connections ~ that he had never (2) signed a Communist Party card; however, he had been very close to the - """Dapty and he told them that he fad made a break with them at the time of _ + fhe waei-Russian Pact. Mrs, Roosevelt indicated that she was seriously - worried not what will be done to Lash but the efiect it would have on the groups with which he has been working. She indicated she would etake ~ . _ .. everything she had on Lash and so would her son, Franklin, Jr., who. _pffered to write a letter to the Navy saying that Lash isa highly idealistic: =. T we st arse c08 se rntstnierser he TAP rgupees gan who: perhaps was too radical when he ws young, but wouldalways =< © | : work for the good of the majority. - ; : : _ , { oo “> Sifrg. ‘Roosevelt's letter wis forwarded t FEI Director Hoover { _- by Attorney General memorandum dated January 10, 1942. ‘The Attorney ; _Ceneral requested the Bureau to furnish him with information contained in Bureau files concerning Joe Lash and was fo ascertain what Colone} : Donovan and the Dies Committee may have. | . | By memorandum to the Attorney General dated January 14, 1942, Mr. Hoover furnished a five-page summary of information cozntained in the Ailes of the Dies Commitice conceraing Joseph B. Lash, A review of those | files was made by a representative of the FBI. | t | i Mr. Hoover further advised the Attorney General that the files in the office of Colonel Donovan failed to disclose any information ¢oncerning Joseph P. Lash. Based on the fact Lash was a member of the United States Army, and because of his past subversive activities, an investigation of him was conducted by the Counterintelligence Corps, G-2, sometime prior to December, 1642, at which time it was learned thet Lash's relationship with Mrs. Roosevelt was an intimate one. The rem its of this investigation were subsequently made imown to President Roosevelt by the military. Joseph P, Lash was not the subject of an FBI investigation during this period, ~ SUMNER WELLES LO A review of Bureau files disclosed that Sumner Welles was born —~f - --.. October 14, 1892, at New York, New York, served as Assistant Cecretary i of State from 1933 to 1937 and as Under-Secretary of State from May, 1937, ; . eZ