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hk, ce ne NAA aad 6 aa yoy an epry ys, i tL UE Te ¥eu spt Lr ! | . : ; : } —_ ieee) How Me cCarthy 6 of | ; See ef Lovaltv Board | thw perry ww Attia came time. an ablorney | ono Still ad Mystery 7 ‘for Jonn Stewnrt Service. career] Idi iplomal who was dismissed after; tow Senator McCarthy obtained |, ‘she board veporled a “reasonable: ha copy of the confidential minutes! idoubt” existed as to his loyalty. lof the Loyalty Review Board re- said he had been unable to obtain: ja copy of the statement given ta; mained a mystery today. ithiee wire service reporters 8) | The Wisconsin Republican re-) ; ‘fused to reveal the source of in-, Senator McCarthy, == fermation described by a board | Attorney Charles E. Rhetts said. ispokesman as “confidential in the} jit was his understanding the min-| islrictest. sense of the wora-t———} jules show that Chairman Binghain | | The Senator told wire service! | protested to Secretary of State’ ‘reporters, to whom he delivered | JAteheson that the State Depart- ‘the 4,000-word document, that he iment had dismissed no employes :personally would vouch for ifs au--jon loyalty grounds while other Ithenticity as a record of what was ‘departments discharged an aver-; 6 per cent of all those ‘discussed before the board on age of 6 per cent af ‘February 13 and 14, 1951. ‘egamined: | No Comment on “Leak.” In yenewing Mr. Service's ap-; Mens Lawrence V. Meloy,fpeal for an “impartial” review’ executive speretary of the boar ‘of his loyalty record, Mr. Rietts: ‘said all records of minules of the! said the McCarthy document, if) Anuht trotiaepurately yenorted. casts y PRpPOPUeG, Cais board ‘board are highly confidential. He! accurace had no comment on how the: jon the “fairness” of the board “leak.” if any, might have ac-: in that it appears ta have sought: curred, - : "a statistical quota of dismissals! | Chairman Hiram Binghem told /of Government employes on loyal- | ‘a reporter he would prefer “not!]: 5. I 16 make a comment” on portions || Senator McCarthy told news-) jof the document which quoted him! iimen yesterday his version of what and Garrett Hoag of Boston, an- ‘foccurted., at the board mectings ote member, ~——L'in queslion obviously is accurate, *, Hoag, according to the doc-| since “nobody has denied the' statements as quoted.” ( enon sald the loyalty program: He declared, however, that "I lin the State Department had been and the;/cannot reveal the source of my “completely ineffective.” department, af that time. had the} information.” ‘representatives of the; “vernarkable record of never hav || Three ing fired anybody” on loyalty; leading wire services were called Ito the Senators office Friday. jgrounds. a mee - (They were given carbon copies of, ithe purported minutes and toid| es certain portions must be, withheld, because the Senator iweuld not vouch for them Per-! sonally. | Mr. MeCarthy said he probably | Iwill have additional copies mimeo- graphed today for a wider wise| tribution, but wanted to edit the material first to make sure that certain personal references to ont! individual are eliminated. ee SEPT AN SAA ~ ~ a a aa 7 ALE PEIN GES TanuAR G, 1982. Pane 2 Gye BO POP NOT RECORDED 136 JAN 17 155