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. ‘ : ” . . . : STANDARD FORM NO, @4 ‘ey soy aan 1 r a 7 (4 ; 7 m Office Memorandum « onvrep states GOVERNMENT To ~ to» \ "FROM : De M. Ladd - SUBJECT: . (Mel mn | iN THE DIRECTOR , parr, May 9, 1950 eum tate “fe _ / ws While talking with Peyton Ford on other matters, he '" Nichols and Mr. Ladd that he was going to assign ,., from his office to’ review all of the State Depart sre. poo __ ment files which the President was making available to the __. vous Tydings' Committee prior to the time that they were made + availabie to the Committee for the purpose of blocking out the names of any confidential informants or sources which shoul protected in Bureau reports. Uy as oo: | Her ed the Bureau to make an Agent availabl work with on this project. {f ey ut = We both advised him that we could not do this tha; would be a very bad procedure; that the FBI should not be -6/ part to reviewing the State Department's files prior to the time that they were made available to a Senate Committee by the President. He then suggested that the Bureau might go through its own files cheching the material which has been sent to the State Department and checking to see if there are any names which the Bureau desired to be blocked out as undesirable for the Committee to se@. advui We again potnted out that thts would be tmpractical and unwise. Y ° ; . It was suggested that in the event ig going to make this review that at the time he ts reviewing the reports that tf he has any questions about any parttcular reports, that he then contact the Bureau. Y DML:dad ny 2 cco - Mr. Nichols Mr. Beimont Te 1H tagged te te