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Bee do ee eee emer ing tie tae CIM ae in Department employes. Sey 4-26 P ( é - 4 Ladd__ Clegg 4 Giavia_ Nichole ——. em ome McCarthy Chargeés State Department Files~ \ a4 Were Purged of Data Derogatory toPersonnel “'{ By The Associated a | The State Department issued ajby men hired to throw away a ; we eenater Joseph R. MeCasthy (R. |seniat, terming McCarthy's blast/discrediting documents, ; r “" which showed, he said, that Gov- 2 characteristic distortion of| The letter to Mr. Truman—and ‘ ernment files were stripped in 1946, facts. Photographic copies of the state-' v of all material derogatory to State; The Depariment safd personne]/Ments—were made public at a- . wet ay information was culled from its|¢Ws conference. Be _/files in 1946 but that the data re-| MeCarthy told reporters the al- og | leged filestripping was done saoeueity 16 rot deal with loyalty or shortly before President Truman's loyalty program started in 1947. ' In fact, the agency stated, ree-|°""; lords of employe loyalty and se-|_ Why would the State Depart- = wy : = =: —- ma curity “were and are separately ment find it necessary to strip the maintained in a security division wholly removed from the person nel operation.” McCarthy made the charge Of ly files unless the information, when placed before loyalty boards, would have caused the removal of those, individuals?” he asked Mr. Tru-! le-stripping in a six-page letter|™ “The stripping was successful to \t President Truman. With the letter he sent four is being betraved.” Nation was and |sgatements he said had been signed Hits Tydings “Falsehood” — Then McCarthy said: “Someone in the State Depa | ent ordered the files stripped. —_ - ‘ho was he? He must be found, .. President.” | AY *t i McCarthy also teed off on Sen- * >/ . 4, ator Millard E. Tydings (D., Md.), , oF F ‘who heads the committee investi- M a geting McCarthy’, charges that, - % Communists are in the State De-, . at, partment. hat Last week, McCarthy said, Tyd-| anf f.. ings made a “studiously false as- \ .* {sertion” when he said the FBI had! examined State Department files: and found them complete and| inzact. McCarthy included a cvpy of a jletter, dated July 10, from J. Ed- gar Hoover, head of the FBI. In, this Ietter Hoover said in part: “The Federal Bureau of Investi- ‘gation has made no such examina- . «tion and therefore is not in a po- “ _sition to make any stalemunt con- -eerning the completeness or fin- Page Times-Herald —_ fA Wash. Post oe «& jeom tetenesa of the State Depprt- . iment files.” . When newsmen asked Tydings if pony ; zhe had any comment, he first aiid: | i | “I don't think I'll bother with eo ee ery i Then he turned ts the H my pe: +, en he turn e Hoover 74) EP he i 1959 {Etter and said: t . % “Well, the FBI sent the stuff, ver and the Justice Department} WAG adied it.” eee | me ee ee TT Te