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Saath Atal ane, i Me ta ane i a sat ete a * Tolson 7. ?é i a -Ladd_ oo - i Clegg Glavin . wi ctf Rose Nieuoted Data, nC Roome Says State Dept. J} By Associated Press Files Declared Complete i} A fi fe The State department char zed || The State department observed jlast night that Sen. MeCareny | | that “the facts’ about its files anv. ‘had deliberately misquoted igiven the committee are that they = congressional report to imply | 4re “full and complete .. . cur- falsely that loyalty files were wide | rent as of the date transmitted. open to anyone in the depart-| They contain all information ment. relevant to the determination of Actually access to the files is employe loyalty or security.” “strictly limited,” the department| It noted that under the fed- isaid. It accused McCarthy of a! eral loyalty program the FBI is i“erude misquotation” in which he! the agency which conducts loyalty lepbstituted the name of the de-||investigations of State department partment itself for the name of || Personnel. It added: lits security division. “The files meade available to This was done in a Chicago|:the committee contain the ma- lspeech May 6, the department] terial collected by the FBI and said. It made public its second ‘transmitted to the State depart point-by-point analysis of an ad-| ment.” dress by the Wisconsin Republi- The department analysis said can senator who has vatried on| that McCarthy's “misquotation” a running attack against the de-j of a Congressional report in his partment as a hotbed of com-{ Chicago speech dealt with ong munism. imade by House appropriatio . committee investigators dat 14 Points Cited Jan. a. 1048. This report accom] The department statements Panied & list of cases forming tha picked the speech apart in an basis for MecCarthy’s original attempt to show McCarthy wrons| blast against the department in on 14 points. These included a| the Senate Feb. 20, the statement number of previously denied and| ,B40e¢- “yefuted” charges, which drew a Cart ; new broadside of replies. eCarthy Is Quoted 4 i- It led off with a blow aimed | It quoted McCarthy as saying 4 fr - } at McCarthy's assertion that| jb Chicago: ara ’ State department loyalty files fur- Now from page 37 of the 7. ° nished to a Senate committee in-| House report I quote the follow- Cb toe ty 7 vestigating his charges were} ing: ‘. . . Almost anyone and _ t “phony.” everyone in the State department Ter | “The Senate investigators now| Had access to the files .. .’” Le lare going through these records|' But what the report actually ‘which deal with the cases of 81|' Said, according to the State de- eee persons whom McCarthy has|! Partment, is: ao labeled as Communists or fellow): . Most everyone and any- ‘travelers. The records were re- me in the division has access to ‘Jeased to Congress by President cee ; Truman, McCarthy immediately The department added: ff Page charged the. files had been vee SiO tt ine about r a ” “6 ” ‘ . rae tne ban about his| W8S the division of security . in . Times-Herald , charges, the senator said, Con-; charged with the physical and| / } gress needs the files of the FBI, personnel security program of the; ° department and the foreign ser- Wash, Post _— the Army and Navy intelligence vice, and it is therefore essen- services, the secret service and | tial that its staff have access to pare vontral intelligence agencies. Sie files when needed.” q Wash. News Wash. Star _ N.Y. Mirror ——. Date: