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Office Meme ‘dum ¢ UNITED seers GOVERNMENT oo, : - DATE: dune 22, 1950 oe sre The Director ’ _ a a * ssearanm ‘ ee ee ee oe ete ee ro es tow? LNFORMATION CONTA Sema }.. SUBJECT: STATS DE PARTMENT FILES ON INDIVIDUALS NAMED ‘Abu 1m «aT ASSUFLED. | BY SENATOR MC CARTHY HEPRIN 1S ow =p S LOYALTY OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES prods ee ee MAS BuRpose _—___ = NS To advise you regarding check of Bureau files relative to dissemina- me i tion of information to State Department on the cases mentioned by McCarthy iN and to inform you that we have made no examination of the State Department filee__ “<"l to ascertain whether they have been tampered with as alleged by Senator ———o \| MeCarthy nor have we advised Senator Tydings thet all of the material gathered by the Bureau touching on the loyalty of the 81 individuais in question has been sent to the State Department and is a part of the files which the Tydings Sub- 4, committee examined. BACKGROUND . The United Press news tickler yesterday carried a statement that Senator “~ Tydings had revealed he had requested the Justice Departzent ami the FBI to in- } vestigate Senator MbCarthy's allegations of State Departmnt file tampering and that the results of 4 file-by-file examination were made available to Tydings by = N SO the Justice Department and shored that the files were intact, had not been r raped AN SN 1 =z s% and had not been skoletonized or tampered with. The press release reports . Senator Tydings as referring to Justice Department Istter signed by Peyton Ford, the text of which Senator Tydings declined to make public on grounds that it ~ earried the names of the thus far publicly uni ed.i covered by “ Senator icCarthy's 81 cases. nator ngs is also quo as stating, “I have ~. been edvised by FBI Agents that all of the material gathered by the FSI touching a on the lcyalty of the employees in question has been sent to the State Department + and are wart of the files which our Committee has examinad.* ‘ares With respect to the comment by Tydings concerning a request of the quate \~-; Department and the FBI to investigate Senator MCarthy's allegations of State Department file tampering and Senator Tydings comment that the result of a filet file examination had been made available to him by the Justice Department, you apotedy "Did we make any such check?", SF AN you may recall that by memorandum of May 10, 1950, Peyton Ford furnished / us with a list of the 81 individuals whose nates wore included on a "subpoona® ar received from the Tydings Subcommittee. In this memorandum Peyton Ford ad- P us that the Attorney General wished to prepare at the earliest possible nt a letter to Senator Tydings listing, first, those individuals in the group om whom loyalty investigations were comducted and attaching copies of the Bureau's transmittal letters or memoremia to the Civil Service Commission. It was also pointed out in Mr, Ford's memorandum that in the group of 81 case would be cases in which a loyalty investigation was never bl which tnvest-igatt ons were instituted but later ontimed Q ¢ {oe | . NReCORDED CoP