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committee session, ret state eee ing what he asserted were to be the highspots of, Bi¢- laski'a testimony. Of these, thel| most startling was that six month before the A-bomb drop on Hiro- shima, “the people who operated Amerasia, with the assistance 0? State Department personnel, were collecting and transmitting to So- viet Russia the secrets of the atomle bomb.” lelaski, caught by reporters be+] ween sessions of the hearing, and {hown that statement, commented: "Y can't say that, That ‘wort | ‘ransmitted’ --- there are 50 fords there I should have to qua! He ‘sald, however, ‘there - something to the atomic aspect’’. /, Last night the Department feat Justice shid ina statements” ~~ “When the FBI madé thelr in- vestigation and their search. 6 the Amerasia headquarters there wal no_information contained | in ‘any documents or otherwise reLat- ing to.the a-bomh” . - "And if the OSS had gotten | such Information, it_was ‘no mafe vallable to the FBI or ciiminal division of the De ptof. Justice. 1, 4 Hitherto," the President hag re- nf [z}sed“ to” release. the Bles on, thet 7 5 McCarthy. “becustd, on grounds that. disclosure of .FB2 ata would breach. promises mfude by FBI agents to persons who Jt \ formed them that thelr {dent would be kept secret Might Hamper FBI |. ., Further, the Chief... Exe argued, release of the ies might sméar the Teputations of innocex mehr, hamper ‘the, FBY Tn ‘future work and open up the. pissibD EY, of ‘irresponsible interpretation oO the contents of the Slee | “HT Director J. Edgar Hoover and Altorney” General J. Ro itd inte “la 5 ings gubcoramitiee,, mee Cener this. wee sestative Karsten (D.,. Mo.). , closed that all pf McCarthy's : A cabes were taken from a list of 1{B cases, complied “more thar} tub ycers suv by an, Investigatod]) frjm a House Subcommittee orf, Appropriations. ; eran ae . : lYst, whittled it down, : Al mie, ue Liss . expraimed; * the State Deperement permitted the amine its Joyalty files, “and to| abstract them. The list he brought, back to the Capitol caused a amal furore. . The summary _of_the_investigi tor, Robert Lee, ultimately wa seen by the members of f gressional Committe State Department_ pers al cial were calied gn to explain, nd: ' aid presumably, to the satisfactic ‘of the Congressman, _No t al was demanded, and no ad- ‘| ‘eports were given to Con-§ 7 “Subsequently, the President es- ‘tablished the Loyalty Review pro-j}} Mn and ordered thal ‘never igaln should departmental loysit 7 jes be opened to Congress... ii From the Administration's polit} ‘ft view, an ample Iustration ’ ‘the damage that comes from lef- ting a congressional agent see the files js. the fact. that _MeCarthy apparently got hold of the old Lee , and made ‘his charges from It. -ces~ io In the eases he cited, he repeated the 108 list, aliegation for allega- i f ; ition and often word for word, or the, time belt not, make .ayallable_ investigator to ex-/f- other_ files. for that, presumably,’ The subcommittec-howeyer, has already, been given what was. de- scribed as a complete and detailed summary of the FBI fle am. Lattl more, prepared by Hoover. “Tydings said he had bad half a dozen White House conferences to work out a procedure by which the files could be made available. He added that the agreement was] reached Thitsday. a In his statement he said: -“{ am happy, therefore, at the outcome which. will permit the committee now to see the ybry files ‘which Senator McCarthy asked the mittee to examine when he de, his eharges on the radio. gh the newspapers and of -the Senate floor. , Co, -"Tt is to be oped that durin! the coming week the committee may hegin fits 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 abuut thelr contents.” - . MeCarthy himself could not be __ reached Tor comment last evening. The minority leader, Senator . Wherry (R., Nebr.) fibed that Pres!- dent Troman was forced by \public opinion to make the files avaliable, and thet be should have done { _ it, Wherry went on ‘tag} the peopte with his argume for. seerecy.” er. 3 ck | New be must make the rest ¢! the files évaitable on the other p sons. named, and also’ all those o: immoral perverts” in the State De ‘ Members of the. Tydings Sub- committee were close-mouthed yes- terday on What they heard ffom Btrlaski,. the former OSS direc- tor of fnvestigations. ©... . . Before the hearing . began, ‘McCarthy made public a copy of a letter he wrote to, Tydings, He | ote that he. felt compelled * aire thé Senate and the Amer! ‘spople a brief resume of the h Bikiehts “of whet zesterday’s te ; ny”. by Hielaski would be.” 1