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other files for that, presumably,| would aet a precedent. The subcommitiee however, has nireacdy been given what was de- -ecribed ag a complete and detailed summary of the FBI file on Latti- ‘more, prepared by Hoover. i Tydings said he had had half a 7 'dozen White House conferences to p iwork out a procedure by which the lfiles could be made available, He laddecl| that the agreement was : treached Thursday. > | Jy his statement he said: “Lam happy, therefore, at the, outcome which will permit the iromimittee now ta see the very files Iwhiel Senator McCarthy asked the! cominitlee to examine when he : lmade his charges on the radio,: aos through the newspapers and oni the Senate-woor, ; MIs to be hoped that during the coming week the committee © mav begin its examination of the| * files in connection with its other’ work and in due time make a full report to the Senate and the coun- try about their contents.” } a Ito illegally remove Government “Tl ican ‘people have! walted™eoo long to hear the avi- dence in the Amerasia case," McCarthy said in the letter, He said Bielaski conducted the first night raid on Amerasia maga- zine headquarters in June, 1945— three months before the FBI stepped into the case—and found a vast number of “top secret” doc- uments allegedly stolen from the State Department. Six persons were arrested in the! Ameérasia case, but only three were indicted hy a Federal grand jury. The charge was conspiracy documents. The Government later dropped the charge against one of the three indicted. Philip e, editor of Amerasia, pleaded guilty and was fined $2500. Another, defendant, . Emmanuel SigurdpQarsen, a State Depart- ment qmipioye, pleaded no defense and was fined $500. . In his letter to Tydings, Mc-; Carthy declared that Bielaski'| McCarthy himself could not be reached for comment last evening. |. The minority Jeader, Senator; Wherry (R., Nebr.) jibed that Presi- dent Truman was forced by public opinion to make the files available, and that he should have done it, long before. would testify as follows: ej in the Amerasia office which showed that six months before the alomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima the people who operated Amerasia, with the assistance of Stale Department personnel, were collecting and transmitting to . He did it. Wherry went on. j foublless because “he could not 7 ‘ace the people with his argument; ‘or secrecy.” j Naw he must make the rest of| he files available nn the other per-| sons named, and also all those of ‘maral perverts” in the State De- partment. Members of the Tydinges Sub-| committee were close-mouthed yes-j 4 terdey on what they heard from t Bielaski, the former OSS direc- tor of investigations. Before the hearing began, McCarthy made public a copy of a i¢ ter he wrote to Tydings. He! : wréle that he felt compelled “to| givd the Senate and the American people a brief resume of the high- lights of what yesterday's testi- mony” by Biclaski' would be, Soviet Russia the secrets of jhe atomic bomb, “2. That top secret ment reports were found in Amerasia office. “3 That an extremely secret re- port marked ‘for delivery by of- ficer-messenger only te director of naval intelligence’ was found in the Amerasia office.” “4, That reports were found in, the Amerasia office showing that the interlocking directors of Amer- asia and the Institute of Pacific: Relations were undermining the; Chinese Nationalist government: and were collecting minute de- tails of the anti-Communist ar- mies. ‘5, That reports were found in ic Amerasia office which dealt with the intimate family relation- State Depart- e iships of the family of Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek. ; "6. That the immensity of this espionage operation. was so great and the number of stolen seerct documents so large that_Mr, Bie- laski took away 15 copies which were never even missed hy Amer- asia personnel before the FBI came back to conduct the raid three months later. “het Mr Rielagk) had diffi- tL t Wosez Ureg Ag , 880d017 Japisuoy of S49 9Npo17 yo unjoayy RD ‘tauolssruu0) mented first that McCarthy's state-: ment was an “enlargement.” “|, That reports were discovered ‘curity Qorp., New York, a firm & quiry committee did reach any such testimony as Mccarthy had predicted would be forthcoming. However, Bielaski was recalled for another session In the after- noon. Emerging later, Bielaski com-! Then, in carefully chosen words, he continued: "Without regard to McCarthy or the evidence I've given the com., mitiee, of my own knowledge| there’ something to it.” | The witness said, however. that the evidence in the case "closely shows a wholesale, well-established theft of Government secrets.” “The evidence is serious, very). serious,” he said. Bielaski made !t elear he had been warned by the Senate inquiry! eommittee against disclosing any| of the evidence he presented. He said he didn't know MeCarthy| and had been called before the; commiftee by subpena. He is nlw, L 1 i l presideht of the Research and fe cializing in investigations and ; ube lic relations. P . Tolson. Ladd Clegg Glavin Nichols Rosen Tracy. Harbo Belmont Mohr Tele. Reom__ Nease Gandy Page Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror