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- ~h- . PR 614 - 9. Senator McCarthy told the Senate on June 6: “Take, for example, case No. I; which T presented on the Senate floor, the name has not yet been made public, so we shall not use it now, The committee has the name, In that case the Loyalty Review Board wade what is known as a post-audit,.and; after looking at the post- audit, they said, 'Wé are not satisfied with the finding.' They sent it back to the State Department Loyalty Board, and that Board: said 'The case is closed. That man is still on the State Depart- ment payroll." i ; Phe facts: Once again, Senator McCarthy's alleged quotations are not quocations -- they are typical misstatements. The Loyalty moview Board did not advise the Department of State that they were ot satisfied with the finding" in this case; they did make a , procedural recommendation, and thereafter the case was not "closed", On the contrary, appropriate action was taken by the State Depart- mont Loyalty Security Board, and clearance in this tase was again pest-aucited by the President's Loyalty Review Board, The Loyalty Review Board has in no way criticized or changed the final action and findings of the Department's Loyalty Security Board, 10. Senator McCarthy told the Senate on June 6: ",.. In the Office of War Information, -Mer, Gwen Lattimore ... Went to bat for one Communist ... who had been officially turned down by the Loyalty Board ... and another Chinese who had been rejected by one member of the board... The facts: As the Department pointed out in its analysis of. the Senator's Rochester, New York, speech on May.25, he now appears to be reduced to an attempt to divert attention with 1043 Civil Service Commission clearances for Office of War Information employ~ ment cf two Chinese. As for Mr. Owen Lattimore, poth Mr, Lattimore himself and the Department of State have repeatedly reiterated that he is not an employee of the Department, At Wheeling, Vest. Virginia, on February 9, +950, Senator McCarthy asserted in a speech: ", , . While I cannot take the.time to name all the men in the State Department who have’ been named as active members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here. in my hand a list of 205 - a list’ of names that were made " known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist. Party and who nevertheless are still working and , shaping policy in the State Department," . , The next day, he gaid he had the names card-carrying members of the Communist ‘Party" iallogeday wonetHe in ‘the Department. Later he talked in terms of a "big three" and of 81 security risks of various sorts. He told the Tydings Committee fo investigate. 106 cases. Eventually, he said he would stend or fall on his ability to prove that there was one "top Soviet espionage agent" in the State Department. ke i, And then, on June 6; we hear of . 106° name#'on a four-year-o21¢ Working chart and three "agents" purportedly still at targe 3 in the . Department or State. : wowed Fok = But ‘the ‘record = “the facts ‘- oped: tor thense1vés “geiator McCarthy has utterly failed to show that there is a single Communist or pro-Communist in the State Department. His numbers change; his credibility does not, “fF + + ~ a a wae Fei mane .