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ree tae ke rarer Ee vk me ee | ee see Tolson Ladd Nichols Belmont Clegg Glavin . 2 “+ eo Harbo _ Red Data Leaked to McCarth Basen f y Tracy St . d d S bd Aid Laughlin___ By Suspended Security Aide Mohe— By the Associated Press Government since 1940. Earlier, Winterrowd Miriam de Haas, former em-|she was a Southern Presbyterian Tele. Rm. __ ploye of the Government's Loyalty|Church missionary to Korea. She Holloman___ Review Board, says she has ‘given/is a native of Rutledge, Pa. Gandy _ out information concerning the; The advertisement ran_ three infiltration of Communists into|columns. page length. and cost the Government.” She said she|$648, Miss de Haas said. She told has “seen to it’ that the imfor-|a reporter her decision to pub- mation reached Senator Me-|lish it was reached on her own iCarthy, Republican, of Wisconsin./and that she alone had paid for it. A letter from Miss de Haas, ad- Reports Many Phone Calls. ; Qe drdessed “to my dear fellow Amer-| Since it appeared. she said. she 7 cans,” was published as a paid ad-|has had numerous telephone cails peng yertisement in yesterday's Wash-|from “one good, kind patriot after 4 ington Times-Herald. 1 said: another. and many offered to help al “ . pay for the ad. Carthy. he had no reason to know|,,9Kea, Whether she had heard ' the source of his information. and any word from Senator Merarthy. he is. of . ‘'e th Miss de Haas said she had not. e is, of course, unaware that I] at the time she was suspended, am haking this slatement... . Senator McCarthy said Miss de “The evidence he has passed on to you has never been successfully contioverted, and could not be, because the information I sup- plified was specific, concrete, cor- rect and devastatingly true infor- mation from sources described by our Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion as reliable. “From my reading of his Senate speeches and other statements I know that his repetition of that inforination has been accurate and exact. What has been conveyed fo the public has, moreover, only scratched the surface of evidence of communism in our govern- ment.” Suspended in September. | Miss de Haas was suspended September 4 as an examiner for the Loyalty Review Board. Her suspension was on suspicion of leaking confidential information. ' On October 24, the Civil Serv- ice Commission gave her notice of proposed dismissal, meaning she would be dismissed unless she could show cause why she should jnot be. She had until November 6 to Haas “positively gave me no in- formation” and added the com- ment that the Civil Service Com- mission has “hanged the wrong person.” . The letter Miss de Hass pub- lished did not say she had given! information directly to Senator McCarthy, but stated: “Thave seen to it that pertinent information was made available to him as well as to other members of Congress.” The Justice Department de- clined any comment on her letter except to note that a grand jury is now inquiring into the question of laaks of confidential informa- tion from the Loyalty Security Board. No Pressure, She Says. Miss de Hass closed her letter with this statement: “Yes, my fellow Americans. I have given out information con- cerning the infiltration of Com-' munists into the government of our beloved country as a Jast des- perate expedient of alerting the citizenry. I gave it out deliber- alely, hopefully and prayerfully, of my own Volition, without re- reply to this notice. However.quest, pressure or acknowiledge-, Times-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News Miss de Haas told a reporter to-jment from any one. day she had sent the commission}; “IJ am glad that I was in pos-- a letter of resignation, effectiveisession of information that might: Wash. Star A as of last Friday. elp our country and erateful, N.Y. Herald Tribune _ Miss de Haas is 52 years old and/that it has been made public. My; a lawyer. Her job with the Loy-jonly regret is that I have not N.Y. Mirror _ alty Review Board paid $7,800 aibeen able to do more to arouse year. Her duties comprised an-jyou to the danger our country alyzing and evaluating evidence|is in. : er ae relating to the loyalty of Federal! “If this be’ treason, make the mploves, She had been with the'most of it.” EO MAG Ke oncn