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wt . APPPAPRIATE AGENCIES the Attorney General pep rrern LDISES ' nn: ack Soe an Director, FBI a — _ SLIP(% 1) 3 7 DATE ce OREVIOW or Stats peearininn: i FILS "Oy EN CONN CTION WI ALLEGATION BY DECLASSLFS Sly po) SEBTOR JosBial EY diccartin, '() , ae ca £113 of ono Ro PIO: % Tn accordance ey ‘the requoat Sonteined in your wpemorandem of. quly 2, 1950, reprosentatives of this Bureary, in tha presence of Mr. Clive Palncr of the . Department, and Messrs. Donald L. Kicholson and Joseph Aushey of the Department. of State, today at the enste ‘Houce reviswed State Departzent files | on ‘persons ae against + wig allogats ons 5 lave been made by. Senator Joseph Re. NoCarthy. ath on, only aéventy: “les 3 of the eight Ly-ona nentioned by mee uy available for examinations Wr. Nicholson of the . Tor ¥ our snfors tral Senator uecarthy vere act Stato Tepartuent cxplaincd t.at Senator YeCarthyts Case No. 72 had never been 2: ( Adentifted by him and that ton ‘of the remaining 80 casa files were not mate pale {able by the Presicent to te menbers of the Tydings Subcommittee for exauination.s . , According to Ne. Ficholgon, these ten ceses were not enong the 10¢ cased oricimlly © eranined br investigators of the Suscomdiitece of the House Approoriatione Comittes in connection + with the State Devartnent Aporepriation BLL for x49 “and Prosident: - fruran only nade availsbla to members | of the Tydings Subcorittee tose. .¢ases which | zqre included in ‘he 105 casos previously exanincd. Mrs Nicholson identifiod _ he above-mentioned len Gameg acy are Buren vopresantativea eed be the ‘wets: of ther teviow ot the” Bayt seventy files the information contalngd in ny memorandum dgted May 15,. 1950, to. Mr. Peyton Ford, which reflected a siwrary of tha materiat furnished “by this’: ‘Bureau to the State Departrent, Civil Service Gomrission, and the loyalty Review” ‘Board. In thirteen cases material trangnitted by the Bureau to. the Loyalty Review Board and the Civil Service Conmisgion {n recont months was not in the files... ~The State Departmont representatives explained that weir fLles on these individuals al,. were Smpounded by” the President faround February 20, 1950.7 For a& tine after that ~ date, according te the State Department representatives, theas files wero in. the , possession of tha loyalty Review Board and while, soma of the natert al. addressed “f: ty the | Loyalty Reviow beard from te Bureas. and’ received subsequent o Povruary wos We 39205 a Sar eh ae ne tot . Meas. 2 - te thore “ware six fnstances enoig’ ‘these “seventy ‘gases in mers the Rares a. Gaducted loyalty investigations on the Andivicvals involved who at one tins’ were iystate Departnont cures employees but a me a of the, ee te were Story oe a u went