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a Findings - The personnel investigations were divided into two groups, The first consisted of applications for original employment or transfer to Departaental rolls. The second comprised investigations of enployeeg siready on the rollse The initiation of these investigationa wae described. Special cases of investigatl conducted by the FEI were mentioned, howevery these were not surveyede The Division of Investigations (CSA) waa then described as to functions, organization and gcope of the investigation, The functions of CSA were to investigate applicants for security reagongs, make inv stigationgs in conneotion with paseports and viees and greeting newly arrived diplosats and distinguished foreign visitora.. As to the orgenizaticen of CSA, it was atated that the miscellaneous character of the Special Agents! work probably explains their lack of epecial training and the {. methcdg of CSA procedures It was noted that the methods and traditiong of the | - Post Office Inapectorst fsrvice seened to predominate inasnuch ag the officers of CSA were formerly afiillated with that Services So a! \ In ccnrection with the scope of the investigation, it was etated that there is no manual of instructions or any standards of prcof to guide the investi-~ gations. In the usual case the function of CSA le to verify statements made by; applicanta on the application form, Further, the "derogatory" information reported ig usually obtained by consulting routine sources, police records, House Comittee files, etc. - ; Ba rs ae It was elao noted in the report that no investigation of a financiel | sy character 1a conducted and no attempt ie made to check income tax records. A | - | criticism wag made of the type of review set up in CSA and also of the CSA | U personnels It was stated that the field agents probably have sufficient © training to conduct ordinary inveatigations. efficiently, however, few of the agents had prior training in pergonnel policies in the Cepartment, in ideologies, in court decisiong and legislation with respect to the Civil Service employments It wag stated that a doubt exiated whether the average agant knows the differences enong various schoole of so-called liberal radioal thoughte — * 5 Spe : a u Offiee 6. urity Office fo s ant .:4 5° 7 ide organization functioned ajacet entirely as a liaison office between ; other investigative agencies, particularly the FBI and CSAs Ostensibly, the aet- “= yp to review CSA investigations and request edditional investigations is not ‘7° adequate. Furthermore, this office had access om @ "personal® basis to current FBI investigations and information flowing into this office which was not given to CSie According to the report, the FBI gent to COM seourlty reporte which in + tr bean ” ~ ea ee —_ . . -_—=_- agp oe