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vitne sACTIBER. LATTIIONE stated HUSER would have said he, LATTINORE, attended a@ meeting 1946 in the hone of FREDERICK FIELD, LATTUIORE stated the meeting was supvosedly in conjunction with the "Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern ~ Policy". LATTIORE stated that he had never joined thi ittee and that he could ostain the testimony of the former Hrs, poenanloasraso ¢ to indicate that he had never been at the meetim in the FIELD hane. - LATTICE stated he considered KinLEY to be a stand=in for the missirg =| With refersnce to the ‘testimony given by FRE , LATTTEORE stated | that there was no evidance that he was a Communist P y mecber amd there was no evidence that he was a Soviet espionage agent. LATITIORE pointed out that UTLEY had stated HcCARTHY was wrong in setting forth this charge, He indicat trat UTLEY had said that LATTI‘ORE "came near to" supporting the Party line. He concluded that nothing in UTLEY's testimony supports the charges 8 made again hin. LATTICRE then indicated that the testinony of LOPSXIDERZ was the o testinony to come within "shouting distance" of Senator MeCakTSY's charges, LATTOICRE indicated that 3UDENZ had stated LATTINORE had been given permissi to deviate fram the Party line inasmuch as he, LATTL‘ORE, was given pom sei on to criticize the Soviet Union. LATTL'ORE stated that if MOLOTIV, FOSTER, or | STACLEL had said one thousandth of what LATTI ‘CRE had said azainst the Soviet ; Union they would have been punished. LATTL CTE indicated that BUDEZ had said that he, LATTINORE, came under. Party Giscipline. He said BUDSI'Z had given as an example the fact that { LaTTD ORE was ordered to reoresemt Chinese Carmunism as an agrarian reform { movenent. TTL ‘ORE stated that under que st:ioning by Senator LODGE, BIDZINZ had indi cated this to be the most concrete exazple of LATTI‘ORE following Part discipline, UATTIORE then indicated he would show that he did not believe Chinese Caimunism to be an agrarian reform, , LATTUCCRE indicated BUDENZ had stated that he, LATTDIORE, was in a 2 Poak dint Aw laan Pam ot wettoee an thie atafe on que to the Zale vileavp he could F aadhetiad Comminist WOLVECS Mil the OSovaLli 3. c Affairs", LATTIICRE indicated that this publication had no writers o kent the editors and therefore he, LATTD‘OnE, could not heve placed writers on fone Start as charged. LAT? IO. TORE indicated that under further Sh o Db H OQ ble cA ie ol wh yl be C g LAT IO OPE cated that at this tine there was a ceneral. ‘Anterest in the f movement in all countries borderin the Pacific and that the material for ALLEK's article had cme fron the "Philippine Department of Agriculture, LATTICE then brought up BUDENZ! testinony relative to a Carmnist Party meeting which he had attended in 1943, LATTLORE pointed out that BUDENZ did not say that LAPT ‘Cig was in attendance at the meeting,