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29. fe -- continued, one of those Civil Service liaison officers. I believe the files will give the committee a clear picture of this indi-~ vidual} JI understand that this individual is now with the Department of Public Health, whose loyaity board refused to 7 clear him and that the Civil Service Commission in January, 1949, reversed the findings of the Public Health regional | —_a Loy sty board and ordered him restored to his job. oO I consider this case important as part of the picture because of the fact that the Congressional committee stated that a person with the same name signed a Communist petition, which {nformation was handed over to the State Department in October, 1948, but over a year later, no effort had been made to cheek ies s information a t This case is practically identical with the last case in ine dicating laxity on the part of the security officials in the ‘State Department to check information given to them by the ‘Pouge Un-smerican Activities Committee. oR = = case is considered important in that I understand he was hired without any security clearance whatsoever. His file should yield auch valuable information to the committee. hly the same as cases number 31 and number 32. 38. 39. 2 EN URAC EA OSE REE Sie So me ape TF ae