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el pe Pah. ADD 4 MCCARTHY . 7 THREADGILL AN FBI_AGENT ACCORDING TQ_MCCARTHY, SAID THAT HE WAS EMPLOYED AS A STATE DEPARTMENT CLERK IN AN OFFICE ADJOINING HAT-IN WHICH THE ALLEGED FILE STRIPPING OCCURRFD. HIS DUTIES THA THREADGILL SAID, WERE TO TYPE OUT REMAINING INFORMATION HE SAID "SOME VERY FEW,® OF THE ALLEGEDLY "EDITED" FILES CARRIED INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS," AND DECLARED THAT HE HAD BEEN INFORMED THAT SOME STATE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYES "HAD COME TO THE FILES AND REMOVED DEROGATORY MATERIAL WHICH WAS IN THE FILE ON THEMSELVES.® MCCARTHY TOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE THAT FORD'S LETTER TO TYDINGS INDICATED THAT ONLY 70 PERSONNEL FILES ON THE SO-CALLED "81 CASES™ HE LAYED BEFORE THE SENATE WERE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE COMMITTEE,’ ~~ PLUS TWO FILES COVERING PEOPLE HE DID NOT NAME. . os THOSE NOT SUBMITTED THE COMMITTEE FOR STUDY, MCCARTHY SAID, WERE FILES ON "SOME OF THE WORST ACTORS" IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT. | HE SAID THE FILES ON AMBASSADOR-AT~LARGE PHILIP C. JESSUP AND WILLIAM * We REMINGTON, RECENTLY INDICTED FOR PERJURY, WERE NOT INCLUDED, - REMINGTON WAS A COMMERCE, NOT A STATE DEPARTMENT EMPLOYE, BUT MCCARTHY SAID HE WAS ®ASSOCIATED® WITH STATE, THERE WAS NO IMMEDIATE INDICATION WHETHER THE FILES TO WHICH MCCARTHY'S INFORMANTS REFERRED INCLUDED THE PERSONNEL JACKETS OF Bees THOSE HE HAS CHARGED WITH BEING COMMUNISTS, PRO-COMMUNISTS AND BAD SECURITY RISKS. ks TYDINGS TOLD NEWSMEN ON J T_HE HAD RFEN INFORMED BY THE JUSTICE DEPART Non eo etice-FAl CHECKUP HAD INDICATED NOTHING. MISSIN FR O# i FILLES. : : “HOOVER TOLD MCCARTHY THAT-TME—FBI_HAD MADE NO EXAMINATION OF THE FILES BOT HAD FURNISHED FORD A "RECORD OF ALL LOYALTY MATERTAL . HED THE STATE DEPARTMENT IN THE £1. CASES" REF FURRI "FRRED. JOB | MCC = 6IT APPARENTLY WAS ON THIS "RECORD" THAT FORD CONDUCTED HIS. OUN INVESTIGATION AND REPORTED TO TYDINGS, eanntc €29TTep TA TUNATNeC MARE NO CLAIMS OF AN FBI CHECKIUP. BUT FUAD ‘5 MULL LJ Dine We wash : R AID ONE EFN MADE, PRESUMABLY BY THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, / AND OTHING HAD BEEN FOUND ; suet anaes ts, = he eo Mas a WASHINGTON CITY NEWS SERVICE