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} ¥ Tolson_ : @ Ladd Clegg Glavio Nichels MNERNEY BACKT Rosen r oat re laVeY. ; Tracy crumble, Harbo_ Three days: ‘ yey Belmont_ _ General Mcinerney said that “nothing: re- Mobr sombling” the top secret documents de- Tele. Room. scribed hi this and other newspapers were Nease in the Amerasia files. Gandy _ Vesterd: JM ney, after the a State Department had revealed the exist: ence of one of the documents, tok a second look, e confessed that he had found three of The Tive sécrer papers listed—Datthey_ weren't really “documents,” said Mr. Me- Inerney. They were just reports. Or personal yiotes. “Or menyoranda, VerMr, Mehiemcy admitted they contained the in- fornjation described in the newspapers. Jiow teehnical can you get? “LT h"docunient—par 4a report—of a_ private talk by Assistant Secretary of State Joseph_Grew divulres that 25 sub- marines were in the Tsushinia Shalt ata eerlaii time, what does it_ matter_that i was not an_official Navy Departrgent “document? All thabmaiters is whether the'subs were there, and whether_this information in unaiithorized hands. could have endangered the lives of the submag)- nels, If_a_ document—again pardon usa’ memorandum—marked “top secret—ex S INDEXED-14300 only” tells of fo wartine messages fzom . President” Roosevelt to Chiang Kai-shek, 7 ie sae “he only thing “important_is_ whether at ROT RECORDED that crucial stage of the war such a paper 45 fc “should ave been passed aro Laanpwne FEB» 1952 . “except Tor those officials to whgm it was 7s ~ addressed for their “eyes only.” and —— mn "Next step now, it seems to us, is to open = up all the Amerasia files, i? _For_the last five yehrs_no_one has known_about, or had access to, those files, ~, except the defendants who were Tet off ‘ wilh fight fines;or not pitsacited—at-all, Pats “HA (he prosecutors WhoTuidn'tpidgetnte, “aes aud perhaps the more important folks who Dut inthe fix. Tt’s about time this infor- Times-Herald __. mation was revealed to all citizens, includ- “Tng_Lhe meén who at thé lime this’was hap--- Wash. Post __ pening were risking their lives i the Pacific svar. ithe Tydings committee isn't ready to Wash. News _10. vudertake, a full disclosure, it had “be ter a turn_over the job to a non-partisan com- iy Wash. Star mission Which wilh — —_ ‘- 6 _ oe t N.Y. Mirror _ | eat Ayre a? ethig ve JUN 3 1950 Date: