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is considerable doubt whether the report was really. ~ Pat derogatory « on a security basis. While this does ‘not apply to Departmental peFsonrel, - the fact should be noted as demonstrating a further reli- * ~ ance-upon FBI by the Department. Presumably, this check is made by FBI as a matter of accommodation, not of duty, So control us exercised by the Department over the inves- Llpetion. (e) It is important to note that the Department is en tirely and practically exclusively dependent on FBI for the type of information which comes from surveillance, wide coverage, and the use of unusual methods of interro- ,, gation and Investigation. CSA appears to have neither the experience nor the facilities to do that type of work and it is apparently not used by eny one in that type of work. FBI is the sole repository of such information, therefore, as the identity of Conant st Party menbers, of sympath- izers and fellow travelers, of espionage cases, and of (d) FBI has prepared a chart, now in the possession of name blanked out/ which purports to show a number of "agents", "Communists", "sympathizers", and "suspects" in the State Department as of May 15, 1947. The tabulation showa Agents---—----—----- 20 Communi sts-—--—--__.-~. 13 ; Sympathizers ---~---- Ih 7 st ‘ Suspect s--—-----—_---- 77 ‘ mt : {words blanked out7 states that by July 12 (the date of my interview), the number had been reduced to the | Following: . , Agent 9-—---_- Conmund et g-—— _ Sympathizers-——-——-_} . Suspects ~ about Te Ta ho yoo Se ny ty fy aa er Since a considerable. wunber of the pereons, 80 character=" - ized came with the Apterts agencies, ‘mach a ve, or, and Oss, Parchat Wear Cee cetined defies BF) r?] FP eae more of these. 233° Pa PT EXD BES ERE