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SERRE errs A ey tet ie she f wa fT M’Cavthy Hurls ‘New’ i Charge at Service By Murrey Marder Poet Reporter Senator Joseph _R“MeCarthy (R-Wisc.) charged yeslprday (tat confidential files show John | StewartService lived for twa} years wilh “an espionage agent -on_the payroll of ihe Sovits government.” | McCarthy said on ihe Senate; _flnor that the information ap- * pears in the February, 1951, min- i utes of the Civil Service Loyalty . Review Board. He has previously released i what he has described as part , of those minutes. That “leak” i has resulted in an investigation |. of the Leyalty Review Board's! 'own security procedure by the ' Civil Service Commission. Career diplomat Service, ousted by the State Department last afier the review! voard found “reasonable doubt” of his loyalty, immediately asked for copies of the file records so we can defend himself against “this further character assassi-' nation by Senator McCarthy.” In a letter to Chairman Hiram: pingham, Service said he was , just informed of the charge by 'MeCarthy of “association with a ‘Communist spy at some time in the past.” : “No charges were ever men-, tioned to me during the course of my hearing before your board,” said Service, “nor are ‘they referred to in the opinion _ of the board's panel in my case.” | - Other Names Mentioned | McCarthy, in a brief appear-! j ance on the foar, also Toseed | out new allegations about _two| other persons who have been a is targets of Reds-jn- { Government charges. H ' He said he was informed by “at. least_two members” of the Loyaliy Review pound that. a ’ t i ad been able to order a glechatge or secu @asous, s59.g0r-al Large Philip wand Le SLIULILIT \ Jessup “would have been dis- F T Ter rE — — rary Pavaad es him as NV. fil é ‘ ey elossup_y'as cleared on Teymty, hut has failed ta win Senate confirmation. Last week, - publican Floor Leader Kee Bridges and 37 other Senate Re- Publicans, in a resolution of no- confidence in Jessup, asked his recail as a Unithd Nati - ae alions dele McCarthy further eharcad ina: the While House_jn_ 1950. “aut pressure’ on the Loyalty Beyje Béard to cleat whi use Aid Devid Demare d Lioyd a pO year-old lawyer, has recent} EPR Sr Ivjbeen promoted hy the Pre .| dant to a $15,000-a-year job. he pressure js proved, Mé Carthy said, from Iriters whie passed hetween former Loyalty Review Roard Chairman Scth W. Richardson and presidential aide Donald 5, Dawson, and others. He read snatches of several le(tervs which he said showed the board sought {o send “a let. ter of charges” to Tlayd and hold a hearing in his case, “It now appears,” said Me- Carthy, “that a Ieiter of charges Was nol sent and a hearing was not held." the files in ihe Linyd loyalty case have now “conven. iently disappeared” fram Civil Service records, McCarthy said, and were directed in he turned over to the While House. Through half of his discussion of Linyd., McCarthy referred to “Harald) Demarest Lloyd.” Later he corrected the ecord to read David D heey emares{ Alf bp, y J — }o- A . ih Wash. Star Yi Glavin Harbo Rosen Tracy Langhliz Mohr Tels. Nease Gandy Room Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News N.Y. Mirror Page | N.Y. Compass