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STANDARD COIR ed Office Memorandum + unirep states GOVERNMENT To : MR. TOLSON _ DATE: February 7, 1957 man : y FROM : J, B. WICHOLS : . | pf SUBIECT: . i | fon ' Pe os f reed fate \ With reference to Mr, UcInerney's nenorandum of 1 AE February 5, 1952, pointing out that upon further consideration . — j.~ f ee se he is of the opinion that the FBI should meke a sweeping oS investigation of theiCivil Service leak to Senator MeCarthy, ae I tolked to Cus Vanects about this this mornings , }. vf I reviewed the background, our memorandum of January 25, the reasons for our position and pointed out to Vanech that the leas in the Civil Service Loyalty Review Board was purely an administrative matters I told him that by taking over a sweeping tnuestigatian, the Bureau and the Department would be asauning the responsibilities for this, that in our dealings with former Senator Bingham and Meloy I had pointed out thie was an administretive matter, that we had cooperated by making certain scientific exaninations and furnishing information, that Civil Service has been vigorously investigating this and has completely plowed over the field and that if anything could be acconplished, it would be one thing, but since it appeared | that Civil Service has made a very intensive, thorough tnuestigation, there would be no justification whaitssever to now force the | | 3 Coy Ed , | par into a full tnvestigation,s t Hr. bovwech stated that the White House had asked that «2 full investigation be made of this incident and that tf at all possibile, the matter be presanted to the Grand Jury and prosecutton tnittateds ee \ I asked Vanech, assuning that the culprit could be identified, what law could the culprit be prosecuted under as I doubted whether the contents af a loyalty file would be construed to be National Defense informattione a a _ He stated he had thought of this anit, in fact, had taken this same position. He further stated thot he felt the first thing to do would be ta resolve this pointe I told him that once this was resolved then Mr. McInerney could get the results of the Ctuvtl Serutce investigation and determine from that whether there was sufficient information to go te @ Grand Jury and what, if anu, action should he tohens *ECAROED . 399 Uh BS 707-35 , ze wer, Ge - Mr. Ladd : l ate (YNFXED 3H 0 FRU AN A852 | a 4 * o CGO = Ure Belmont +» \ f . \ ey. CoA. Abd rep