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if Se . eee get ae Peed eet Ce Lo. wg ee te ie ee ee * . sop te ° *% oe . xy a 6 fice Memorandum 2 YU NITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO > The Director patH! June 1950 °. vi 7s 195 FROM : D, ik. Ladd pe “\ ae ill 7) VY — SUBJECT: = CHAHOES OF SELATOR JOSHEH ta KoCARTHY J \ dvr CORCERKING FBI CHART ON COMMUNISTS , 4 ALLEGEDLY G1Veu TW STAL Tats DEFARRAOKT Poff | wy : m th von of June 6 §ach wir tAF Of vune S$ vs th yen Pap rence +4 my memora neat roth) wh ‘ yak lak 2ULelvds ce ve iy atte L Gad Gale ave icici oJ Ce | has made a check at the State Department and obtained the following Snrommetio#* Rem The material used by McCarthy om the floor of the Senate yesterda aI ‘\oris sinetec from the State Department in a report prepared by Mr. Sanuel Viaus¢s i on hucust 3, 1946. A copy of this report is undoubtedly in the hands of Senator «cCarthy as nuterous excerpts were used in his speech yesterday. The report is in the form of a survey made by Klaus for Mr. Joseph Panuch, a former Deputy to the Acsistant Secretary for Atuinistration. The material used by wcCarthy from this report an? particularly that deaiing with the chart that the FE! allegedly prepared appears on Feee 29 (copy of report attached) and reads, "FET has prepared & chart new in the poecession of ir. Bannenian vhich surports to show a ramber of ‘aeents', 'Comnmunists!, 'sympathizerg' and 'suspects' in the State Department as of May 15, 1947. The tabulation shows, agents - 20, Communists - 13, sympathizers - 1 iene suspects - 77." . ~. The report continues on page 30 (pages 29 and part of 30 were produced | \\by weCarthy on the floor although he continued to ‘read from the report. ) and sets forth the verbatim text of material appearing in the press this morning, that is, i "Tt turned out that the FEI had produced no convincing proof that any person wes : an actual acent. In other words, the FBI had made no case to show espionage or a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act or similar legislation in any case. The word 'agent' was, therefore, being used by the FBI or by CON-to mean \isimply a suspect in fspionage investigation, and etc.%, fh) by dko proof “of actual Communist Party membership has been produced hace Fpl, ‘The:word Communist, therefore, wag used merely to describe cases of ee i such close affiliations as to lend credence to hyrothesis that the Person in . question was 8, member —s a fact still to be proven." - a ts tot . ; ati — eg TNS epee | Mhe report: “eontinues on page Baha. "The foregoing cases @ presumably comprised es total of questionable employees of eack security category now in the Department— Klaus appearing on page 32 and 33 which states in substance that ‘the FBI did not lifreely give information to the Chief Special Agents Office when, in fact, we did ]ipize 1 te ur. aa Lyon's Office. fe 7 | oa “hes hpeever? af Op :