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. ( ' . TO : THE DIRECTOR DATE: duly 13, 1950 Office Memoi undum - _ UNITED STA LES GOVERNMENT Tolson. ra FROM : D, M, LADD a ai Va Hix SUBJECT: REVIEW OF STATE DEPARTMENT FILES CATION CONTALNED je IN CONNECTION ALLEGATIONS BY BLL DEN ou sSSUFTED SENATOR JOSEPH R. McCARTHY HEFEIN IS 08 ies EXCEPT Was SAP str QTHED WISE rie a ni oom PURPOSE: To advise you that Bureau representatives reviewed the State Department files at the White House today and found those examined, except as noted below, to be complete. jiarbo ease sandy DETAILS: In accordance with the request of the Attorney Seneral contained in his memorandum 12 nd pursuant to your instructions, Messrse Cree appears worenenteeere acd sy, today reviewed the State Departnuent files on persons azainst whom allegations have been made by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. This examination was made at the White House in the presence of Mr. Clive Palmer of the Department and Messrae Donald Le Nicholson and Joseph Anshey of the Department of State. The files on only 70 of the alleged 81 individuals mentioned by Senator McCarthy were available for examinations Mre Nicholson of the State Department explained that actually there were only 80 cases, since Case No» 72 had not been identified by Senator McCarthy. Of these 80, the President made available to the Tydings Committee only 70e The remaining 19 were not furnished because these 10 were not on the list of 108 examined by the investigators of the Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations in connection with the State Department an os Bill for 1 Mre Nicholson identified the Philip Cary, Bureau representatives used as the basis of their review of the seventy files the information contained in our memorandum dated May 15, 1950, to Jj Mr. Peyton Ford, which reflected a summary of the material furnished by this Bureau to the State Department, Civil Service Commission, and the Loyalty Review Board. In 13 cases material transmitted oy the Bureau to the Loyalty Review Board and the Civil Service Commission in recent months was not in the files, The State Department representatives explained that their files on these individuals were impounded by the President "around February 20, 1950." For a time after that date, according to the State Department representatives, these files were in the possession of the Loyalty Review Board and while some of the material addressed to the Loyalty Review Board from the Bureau and received | Subsequent to Rebruary 20, 1950, \has been filed, all of it has not beanp, jr it. “A ENSy ere are six instances anoig these Seventy cases in which the Bureau con ed loyalty investigations on the individuals involved who at one time were a State Department employees but at the time of the investigation were employed in some other Governmental agency. Naturally, in these cases, copies of the Bureau's Loyalty reports were not in the State Department files. . RECORDED. - 107] | /K/-_ A327 ee ram FUL 97 1950