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eal -2- ea 2. Senator Mecarthy told the Senate on June 6: "The function of the PBI is merely that of a fact-Tinuing body .«.» This is the only time it has been brovelt to my attention that the FBI has departed from 442 zuuction and said, 'We will evaluate our own ev? t roe an our files and give it to the Départment'. Apparently, the rdason was that they must, have been-seriously disturbed by what they had in-their files..." be . The Fanta: Mtg seetenceh fe cites Jp folee. in the first wigs as br Tioskiy otlavea, the chart in question was not pre- pared or submitted by the FBI to begin with. Information from the PBI Was included with information from other agencies -- 058, . _. Civil Service, ete., in the files which the State Départment per- sonnel consulted in drawing up the chart; but there was no FBI evaluation of the State Department employees, ~ ' In the second place, since the FBI had nothing to do with the preparation of the chart, it obviously could not have talked to itself in the manner described by Senator McCarthy about the "evaluation" of “evidence” concerned, Since the issuance of the State Department's first statement in this connection, the FBI has verified to the Department the fact that it not_only had nothing to do with the preparation of the chart but that it also had nothing to do with evaluating the personnel indicated on the chart as purported "Agents", "Communists", ete,, or in eny other way. Thus, Senator McCarthy's assertion that the FBI took un- precedented action in the matter is utterly unfounded, and his inference that the FBI took such action because it was "seriously disturbed" by the contents of its files is pure fantasy. 3. Scnator McCarthy told the Senate on Jinme 6: "The submis- sion of the List oF Soviet Agents, Communists, and so forth, to the State Department by the FBI met with such little favorable activity on the part of the State Department that, so far as I know, the Bureau has never ‘submitted a like chart since that date." : ~ - fhe Facts: Though the chart in question had not been sub- mitted to the Department by the FBI back in 1946 or at any other time 4t was, as a matter of fact, a working list of Departmental personnet on whom the Department's Security Officer at that time (May 15, 1946) had received allegations which, in the opiniop of the Security Officers by whom the chart was prepared, warranted further investigation. Virtually the entire activity of the Security Officer and his top men at that time was directed toward the utilization and full development of the leads and information received from the FBI, from departmental investigation and other sources, particularly relating to the people listed on the 19k6 chart. Moreover, on the basis of the findings and recommendations contained in the "Secret" report 1m which the chart was referred to, energetio ateps were taken toward an improved Security set~ up of the Department, Including the successfwl direction of such investigations as that leading in 1946 to fhe firing, followed by trial and conviction, of Carl Marzanfiy” yo. wi kh. Senator McCarthy told the Senate a % "this (the language of the report} 1s no 2 lang : c thy; it is the language of the State Department's top ings org. + oa o\bseand The Facts: The language was not the Janftiage: of any one of the Department's "investigataxp"; it was the language of an admin- istrative officer of the D Re tment, assigned by Assistant Secre- tary Ruasell, in oharge + the Department's security program, to undertake, on a highly? igential basis, a study in Washington ahe wae of the operations Fkee Leof 4etment‘s organization in 1945 for FES en a al ~ dealing with pred 1 ‘security. - wens ee ae re see er ts OUI BREE ot RE peepee neg ca eet ocreceenees at orer af. tee