Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy — Part 40

74 pages · May 11, 2026 · Broad topic: Politics & Activism · Topic: Sen Joseph Joe Mccarthy · 73 pages OCR'd

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FoR 20Ls5",

ur. Prerident:

cony poorle bere ure?
do for a lonz it
that one of ti

a Case so 3ir tivht no denials can 7

tight that iL von? be acee tod

order te ce so Tomurt use these part
of the State Jenartnont Pes iiel lave been covelow-u Oy ane P.2.t.
Iouse those filen with the most extreme reluctance tosay ant I use then
today only as the lecser of to evilc. The otter evil being to leuve the

American neople confused ard vondering accut the valility of the ¢heories

of commmnircts in the State Departient. it is one of the Fl cases Jiven
the Senate anc the Tydings-ic) ahon Committee.

In the copies of the file which are being handed to the press and
all of the Senators, I have stricken tne nans of a1] infermantr ana any
information cfc could,in mr opinion, dn ay vay hanjer the T.E.I. in

further investigations. Jhile I have net ox vith Lr, Hoover or

any of his principal aices this question, t witht I did cali in one of
ny good friends in one of the imvestigative agencies and got his ascurance
that I had delctec sufficient from the file “hich is to db: eswonitted
publicly today to fully srotect F.G.T. infcmaants, ete.

I have vith we, hovever, a yhotostatic copy of the file before

any deletions ‘ere mace ‘yhich photostat I shall be plad to hand to one

of the Senators, with the uncerstandinu, of course, thet no nanes of
infornants, etce, be repeated by hin.

The Senate will recell that cover ive nonths alo T statec that
I had the nemes of $7 indivijuals the either are or recently had been
workin? in the State Departnert and “ho were either menbers of the Communist

Party or certzinly loyal thercto and doing the or: of the party. In some

— - _ . se . , . = — #
instances I believe I used the cord "card-carryinz Comanist™ aic Cémhisttst’S

interchangeably. It means one and the same thing. It means an indivicual

who is loyal to the rarty anc doing the work of the party, re_urdless of

whether he has paid his current dues or chether he 2a8 in hic pocket at

that narticular moment a card indicating his nenbership.