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Jip MPs » toomey. “And I also’ want to know if there is engbody, 1 tg canyone-of the 190 guployees who were recommended to ~", ~Department by Hiss? ° “ ;* My, Bumelaine. I do not believe there fe enyone in this “igroup who was recommended by Mr. Hies. X will check that cowith the personnel officer, But it is my recollestion-- oY was not 4n thie ares .at that time, dut I believe Mr. | ., Pourifoy and Mr.’ Rusk, who took over Mr, Hisata job told “me they had checked $he entire personnel very cerefully, fe and that very point waa investigated because of the fact that Mr. Hies bad occupied this particular post in the Department. . ‘Mr. Hickerson. May I add this atatement, since I took over ny present position when the Hiss investigation and trial waa under way, .I asked Mr, Peurifcy if every “Gndividual tn the Bureau of United Nations Affairs hed | tae “= been Checked afnce that time and if everybody in the... ‘+ 7 mission in Kew York had been checked for loyalty, and he ‘told me that they had, every iast member of the organi- “ration. -fhat waa one of the very points in mind when = waa talking to him, and I was told categorically that “every Individual had been checked and that: the Depart- “Syment ‘was completely satisfied as to their loyalty. . oa he Rooney. Have you yourself guarded carefully againat - ~ the possibility of anyone who might be disloyal getting a “into thia agency? Es Eickerson. I have, indeed.” a ‘STATE DEPARTMENT ‘REGISTER FCR 1950. hte ‘pegister confirms the employment of the two individuals _ mentioned by the informant and gives their background as follows: “Py