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Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 13

57 pages · May 11, 2026 · Document date: May 15, 1947 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy · 57 pages OCR'd
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te ee De a oe a ea a eT ‘ . -—_ _ There are attached copies of the prepared speech used by McCarthy ‘ yesterday on the floor together with a copy of pages 29 and a portion of page 30 \ vhich Senator l'cCarthy distributed together with his prepared speech. | In view of the fact that Mr. Elaus made the definite statement in his report that the FFI h repared a chart, »r. Sanuel SelBoykin, assistant to =r. Feurifoy,; — he talked to Klavs and asked him why he had nade such a statenent when, in fact, the chart in question was prepared by the State Cepartnent and carried a very bold heading that it was so prepared. llaus to Fovkin, alibied cut of this by stating that yr. Eannerman had told him, Klaus, that Poykin further informed that e , Klaus simply made a misstatement of facts when . “annerian denies this and th oe See) ne prepared his report. Wil observed the chart in question which was prepared by the wtate vepartuent and it was noted that it very plainly states that it was prepared in the Reproduction Branch of the Ctate Repartaent and carried the title "Top Secret, U. S. Depertnent of State, Frelininary Survey of the Communist infiltration, brepared jay 15, 1940." The chert is approxi: ately four by six feet in size and is the regular orverizationel chert of the State Departnent with =: varicus names written on it with lines drawn to the respective division in which , the euployees were working.’ The employees were divided into two groups: (1) Soviet Underground Intelligence Connections. (2) Amneragie. There are 4 charts in all, each purporting to be the sane but with various and different notations with ! reference to nates appearing thereon. None of the charts appeared to be a finished product but appeared to be work sheets. The enployees are broken dorm into i categories of agents, Communists, sjupathizers and suspects. Of the agents (20) ! and Communists (13), the State Department has compiled lists (attached). They | have not as yet been able to compile lists on the sympathizers (14) and suspects (77). Thcy ave presently working on this. . t With reference to the charges that Senator McCarthy made that three ! persons mentioned in the chart are still on the rolls of the State Depar they tment : the § Depart have been able to identify o wo, namely, and The name its or may not ve wie third Persoh in view of the fact that he was a list that iicCarthy \| supplied to Senator Tydings but is not now employed by the State Department. The State Department is presently checking their files against the names that they have to determine the information used in drawing up the chart. They lee at this time state whether the information came from the FEI, from their own Or other gources. \7C°—
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