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vee oust nt Te ee ee te a a eg, Attached are photostats of two documents which demonstrate f the typical celiberate misrepresentations engaged in by the Tydings- Lf . hiclfahon Committee and the State Derartnent during the entire course Y of this investication. It will be noted that the letter of J, Adgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Sureau of Investigation, clesrly brands the Tydings statenent as a lie. New York Hermida Tritime wer ToRE TIRES er INR ML aD CL Flow gwie 2 Thursday, Jume 22, 1950 THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1 Tydings Asserts WCGARTHY 1S HELD EB. I. Cleared “REFUTED ON FILES StateDept. Files Tydings Saye F. B. l Reports iers Not Tampered With Says Check-Up Showed No Dossiers ” ston Loyalty Data Tampering / —Group to End Examina as Charged by McCarthy By Raymond J. Blair WASHINGTON, June 21.—~A check by the F. 3, 7. has failed to substantiate Genator Joseph R. McCarthy's charge that cighty- one State Department loyalty files have been “raped” to eliminate damaging evidence, Senator Mfii- ard E£. Tydings, Democrat, of aryland, sald today. Senator Tydings is chairman of By WILLIAM 8. WHITE ‘pecial to Tea Maw Yous Trites WASHINGTON, June 21-—Senste investigators Will close on Sunday night thei¢ two-month examination of eighty-one confidential State Depertment joyalty files and will return them at once te the AamiaA- istration. This was disclosed today by Sen- ator Millard EB. Tydings, Democrat of Maryland, chairman of the Ben- ate Foreign Relations subcommit- the Senate Forelgn Relations sub-' tee that has been intermittently committee investigating charges! reading the dossiers in the White by Senator McCarthy, Republican,’ House in its investigation of Sena- ‘of Wisconsin, of communism tn tor Joseph R. McCarthy Fieriaat oe the State Department. The loyalty of communism fn records were made available to the baare Trdings subcommittee May 4 by aimerted that President Truman. Senator Mae- the. Federal_ Carthy recently charged they had tion d been “raped, skeletonized or tam- Mecer™ ptred with” so that they did not! pies cover ta the subcomamittes. contain all of the relevant ma- ‘A letter just received from Pey- terial. ton Ford, First Assistant Attorney Senator Tydings told reporters! General, atated, Benet oe that upon hearing Senator MeCar- pier, ‘Federal Burea of investt- thy’s charge, he asked the Justice gation produced the following re- Department to investigate. Today’ aults! he recelved the department's re- ao “That the fles_are a port, he sald, in a letter from the: enor PKs , Peyton Ford, assistant to Attorney ton a ERD Snatevial turned The report sald, Senator Tyd- the F. B. Taig ot tale Le. ings stated, that « study by F, 8.1L “Thus,” Mr. nga added, “the agents had shown the files were “intact” and that all FP. B. I, material on the eighty-one in- ot Mr. Ford's tetter because it dividuals involved, whom Senator would disclose the names of some ae the bearsone whose flles We / inicCarty has accused of = jot the persone wt eCarthy charges ere pot sus i tained by the facts.” He declared oO yhe report sald, Senator” over ‘o the State Department, by himself Unable to giva out the text ! nist leanings, wes included. under study. | Senator Tydings also eaid that, ‘study of the files would be com- pleted by the subcommittee Sun- “day night, It was not clear, how- ever, whether this program was acceptable to all subcommittee’ members, let AN ag en fe wes - = i