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ti { STANDARO FORM NO. te ; s., G Office Memorandum - UNITED : ro oo: #4 DINECLOR | DATE: ° iL | aA OM ee Ladd: , Lerch 14, 1950 Tolson, FR i ; ? Ve at SUBJECT: ALLEGATIONS BY SENATOR MeCARTHY OF * cleee___.. . nF} vrs Awe at Cm ALG Tye a win, fo BUNICHS AND SPIES IN STATE DEPANG Tutt ; ep ° Ropen ante ° request of Mr. Donald ©, vauson of the Whit tracy Travian coat iasAa an him thie anftrrnnnn etashinh +itima S\a : toto ed Me he wir Th tik wie uw af vor fet lide ¥ Le a tA whee atid J bo Villian Poyle, Chcirnean of the Denoeratic National Connittee, (fe, & Las presen te . : OT aa i “jr. Poisson stated the white Nouse had learned that: there vas ayieaz_in the Loyalty Review Loard (Seth Sichardson's croun), in“utew ‘of the fact that Senator MeCarthy this norning, ha staved that the loyalty case of John Steuart wervices a State Depa nent eaplouvce, vas being rey erred back to the state Departnent by ge Tore dey “eviep Foard, According te Dowson; 020 arth y mace this whee me pe a ad ieee Cisoelesure prior to the tthe that the Zoard had aCbL ‘ally rej erreg the I. back to the Suvate Departizent andy, therefore, it was evident e vo chen thav a leak lec occurred in the Board and the tnjforn Latton had been passed on by a nenber of the bocrd to NeCarth ye Loth Pavson and Loyle wanted to know if the Sureauiuould hex y ge egnis leav,. Lauson sucted if the Dureaz would und { : S bone PE RZOUSLY oe Cl. BoM Co <> UP i ot oa 4 ia) oe, Ln Qo 5 a v G stigetion he would iike to have tt handled as expecta ; le. Boyle commented that "if we can sapissy ourselved t ae }e) C3 osat ty a f - ee ee By Se Ge the ident by oj the person giving the inj’ Ornaci on So fee PAT ERY y mor an € ¢ ee es 2 i <2 wtdd fii re hin outright." Dawson connented that he had -heard a thaé a ieiber of the s0arcy, whom he was unable vo idenéiyy s ha recently been seen tn iUeCarthy's office and, SUPBHET y. that this ae sane persen allegedly had lobbied against the cenate confirmar vy. of Service as United Staves Anbassador av the tine hYs case nas! on v Ny che Nill. a ae vee In MD oes ence Dawson placed a call to the & e| Capitol, but was.unable to contact his source for further cetai or verification of this rumor. Fe stated, however, that he vou co 80 if the Sureau cecided to go into the case and he would meds ~ the tnjormation an tO Use uf , res HINT it i i tt : Both Dawson and Boyle asked that this matter be ‘called to your attention and stated they, were hopeful the Bureau would ndértake investigations EP” 202-3 out to these gentlemen that. the matter appeared to ely adnintstrative, within the Loyalty Review Loard; and soneth ing that they: would probably cesire to check out themselves or have investigators. of the Civil ervice Commission handle. Mr. Dawson stated this was undoubtedly / Récdeoy. 5) 7 Lads A329 78-4 Zz 1i{ es