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. 4 : Z a “ed . June 6, 1950 6:05 ; *. MEMORANDUM FOR MR. TOLSON | eo, ao ‘ Se . 7 - OMR, NIC HONS: co SOAS Tan oll’ 7 i CO ‘ Mir. Pey tor Pord called apein re; eat ting trelehort prepared by the State Department and stated he had just had a call from Mr. Fisher, the General - Counsel at the State Departynent, who advised that they wanted to say that they . have been advised that the Department of Justice did not evaluate this material; -. that it was evalunted by the State Departinent. I stated as far as I knew that. was absolutely correct but I did not see any necessity for them using our name ‘at allj | that obviously they made tue chart and in making it they of course must have evaluated the material. IT commented that the only danger in making a statement | and in mentioning the FBI in it is that we have not yet seen the material from which they made the chart, and thouzh we never reach a conclusion in our repor ts, we are not infallible and before a atstement is issued quoting us we would heve to see the reports froin which the chart was prepared, Myr. Ford thought it would be a good idea to tell Mr. Fisher that the State Department did the evaluating and that the _ Justice Departricnt didn't and Tagrecd. I stated if there was any question of the FBi having evaluated any repert then corted: nly thay choutd bring this to the attention of our lizison secilon, but I did not feel it was ovis ob theck into the material that went into the chart as we did noi know what went inte it. [commented to Mr. Ford that I felt it was up to the State Department to do this checking as they had prepared the chart, I further added that as far as I knew this chart has never been distributed and 1 did not know why they had prepared it. Mr, Ford commented t that he thought Mr. Panuch prepared it, ~~ vi ee . er _? Be ty ae . very tly yours, ° eo oe John Koni Bbover 7