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spa pets yee pe eae: +r . hy State Dept. Accused Of ‘Gestapo’ T actics By Alfred Friendly Port Reporter Charges of a “Gestano" tactics: tate Departme investi- galors flared on the Senate floor! yesterday, and. were rom tly denied by the department. , The accusation was made by! ena or Mundt (R., 8. Dak.), who! ald he thought t the deparimen ntelligence s service was to be us abroad but instead of that, “Wh appears to be a State Department gm ootae Gesiapo is operating as a corollary to the F FBI.” "His comment came after nh hy Senator Brewster (R., Me.) in which he described how a State De- a rt partment investigator had allegedly Tried to intimidate” Kenneth G. a rw Tord. national ‘affalrs editor of editor of Newsweek m ek maga azine. Ae visit of the investigator to Crawford's New York apartment was a follow-up, Brewster, implied, , to efforts by Edward W Barreit, Assisiant Secretary of State and former Newsweek executive, to i timidate Crawford. “Misinformed,” He Says Barrett, in a statement, sal that Brewster had been ,, Brossly misinformed Dy someone." And in New York, Crawford imself sald he was investigated,| but all the investigator did ‘“‘was. o invite me to Washington to look, nto the (State Department secur- ty «etup, which I did.” Barrett, it turned out, had f vited him to make such a survey, feeling that Newsweek coverage the Communist-infiltration charg by Senator McCarthy ‘R., Wis.) had been less than objective. In his speech, Brewster said that Barrett had been the boss, in the Office of War Information, of Owen Lattimore, prime case in MecCarthy’s accusations. Brewster added that Barrett had been “par- ticularly active In organizing the State Department's counterattack,” after Lattimore was accused. Meantime, the special Sense Torelgn Relations Subcommi ‘created to look into MeCarth: charges will press ite inquiry, pa sticularly Into the Lattimore cas¢, ‘tin three days of hearings ad week, Closed Session Today The_first will hea elosed scs- sion this morning, at which former Cc Ist Ed! will be heard." Reth_ and Lattt eee and a__his_lawyers jenz qa ETT testified in open yearing 3. He said he was told by hich ‘communist offcla is that at Lattimore was a Communist and was under- taking “assignhniernts” Yat Communts { Party ir instructions. Lattimore has! sworn that he was never a Com- munist_or Red_symipathizer, This evening, af 7 p.m in the enate Caucus Room, the subcom- Titee will held open hearingy.| itnesses Will be two iorme rr 2 — ents, Furnnone i reéqiest, an ella VeDod a former high” Conmrninist oficial expelled from fhe party last_year, She has already made public an affidavit stating that during her| membership and during four years on the national committee of the party she never heard Lattimore mentioned as a Communisi or sympathizer, Wednesday morning, Lattimore iii appear again, in open séssion,: answer the allegations Budenz | ade about him, H id Leader to Appear hil On Thursday, again in executive session, the subcommitlee wi. il hear Frank Biel a Biclasky, The ma the man mi | Jed raids wartiné 0 Strategic Services 2 on the oMcee rid the Sgazine-Aierasla” Govern ment documents, there “without au- “thorization, were discovered. ““¥ke aubcommlttee had Tadicated it planned to look into the Amer- asia ease, which flared into the news !n 1045 and was dropped after two of the people involved were eonvicted for unlawful possession | of Government papers. | Subcommittee Chairman Tydings' .. Md.) sald hie group will algo: ook into the question ef hom}-| exuals in the Federal Goverg-: ent. He made the promise quire into this subject in ie x Tolson -_ UBadd_ & 1 / _ Chege Glavin Nichol Rosen Tracy. Harbo_ \ ealmant (eee .smon oe Mohr_ Tele. Roc Nease_ Gandy__ rahe ‘s Aa PUR . rd pl 4 - a“ t Times-Herald Wash, Post Wash. News Wash. Star ‘\y.¥. Mirror