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0 ~ Office Mem randum ° “UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : THE DIRECTOR pate: September 29, 1951 + ~ 7 tJ K FROM : OD. M. LADD ow —— SUBJECT: SENATOR ficCARTHY'S CHARGE CONCERNING | / AN FBI CHART ON “SUBVERSIVES" IN THE ALL TPCRATICH PUR * STATE DEPARTMENT preeTT TTT me eens aaeeaH: | PURPOSE: QTEERHIES ‘To furnish, pursuant to your. request, a summary of the ine background concerning Senator Willi enton's (D., Conn.) tees chargé that Senator Joseph RS ’McCarthys(R., Wise.) tactics are in “’— part ‘démonstratéed by his use of what he claimed was "an FBI chart' or i947 listing 124 subversives or suspects in the State Department. Senator Benton pointed out that you had denied such a chart was sént to the State Department or evaluated by the FBI. BACKGROUND: On_June-6, 1950, Senator McCarthy in a speech before the Senate stated in substance that around May 15, 1946 or 1947, the FBI supplied the State Department charts and diagrams showing Soviet. Agents, Communists and fellow travelers in the State Department. This chart, according to Senator McCarthy, contained 124 names broken down as follows: 20 Communist Agents, 12 other Communists, 14 Communist sympathizers, 77 suspects. Inguiry at the State Department disclosed that the material used by Senator McCarthy “originated from a State Department report prepared by Samuel Klaus on August. 3,.1946,. This report was in the form of a survey made by Klaus for Joseph Pamch, a former Deputy to nines Assistant Secretary for pe eke Hadi Kleus in fhas report referred _to_an FBI prepared chart. Mr, Samue) Boykin of the State (Paes informed the Bureau that this was "a nisstatenent of facts by Klaus. lif The chart in question, which was actually prepared by the = /.~ 3 State Department, “earried the title, "Top Secret, U, S, Department of = State, Preliminary Survey of the Commmist Infiltration Prepared . May eo. 1946 5" The employees were generally divided into two groups: coy Soviet Undergrounj Intelligence Connections and (2) Amerasia. — Actually there were four charts in all, none of which appeared to be ea finished product. The employees were also broken down into the following categories: Agents (20), Commnists (13) and pointed out that the computation of sympathizers (14) and suspects (77) had not been completed £1917 -92909R_19RYO) . . - 8X2) ~~ # Jas AAS =a? «5 Ar® mpaetee nec ewe 5c /Ons/ | A p-AB2A7G—3 G5 au RECORDED -8 o 4 3 4g (Cig for woexed Be we ee ee ee I ee - . . ' : aE Men a ag Pd 0 page apn