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8-10-50 WASHINGTON FROM WASH FIELD 10 kp DIRECTOR | i. URGENT: ee - Gad UNKNOWN SUBJECT paren SuRce OF BENATOR JOSEPH R. MC CARTHY'S ola INFO RE GOVT. EMPLOYEES PAREN. REMOVAL OF GOVT. PROPERTY. ae ee LGE. ASCERTAINED THAT SETH RICHARDSON, CHAIRMAN, LRB, ~ PRESENTLY ON LEAVE, CAMPED IN THE WOODS SOMEWHERE OUTSIDE F ELLSWORTH, MAINE, OUT OF TOUCH OF CIVILIZATION. EXPECTED Qo [0 RETURN IN ABOUT TWO WEEKS. BELIEVED HIS SECRETARY, WHO f IS PRESENTLY UNAVAILABLE BNTIL LATE TODAY, MAY HAVE AN io ADDRESS WHERE RICHARDSON MAY PICK UP MAIL, BUT NO OTHER | of MEANS OF LOCATION. ASCERTAINED THROUGH KIMBELL JOHNSON, csc, THAT L. V. MELOY, EXEC. SEC., LRB, HAS BEEN VERY ILL, HAVING BEEN IN THE HOSPITAL FOR FIVE WEEKS, AND HOME FOR SEVERAL WEEKS. MELOY IS SUFFERING FROM CORONARY THROMBOSIS, AND IS DESCRIBEMD BY JOHNSON AS BEING IN PRETTY BAD SHAPE. JOHNSON SAYS MELOY IS CONSTANTLY IN BED, WITH EXCEPTION OF BRIEF INTERVALS WHEN HE STANDS ON HIS FEET FOR A FEW MINUTES AT A TIME. SAYS THE ONLY TELEPHONE IS NEAR MELOY'S BED AND THAT HE IS USUALLY UNABLE TO ANSWER PHONE. JOHNSON SAW MELOY ABOU? A WERK AGO ON A SOCIAL CALL AND DETERMINED THAT ALTHOUGH JOHNSON AND HATCHER HAD NOE PLANNED INTERVIEWING | MELOY 800K, THAT MELOY" CONDITION WAS SUCH THAT we ha POSTPONED INDEFINITELY ANY TROUGHES OF ee INTERVIEWS WITH RICHARDSON ie ARE an 5 1986 f vert} ITELY DESIRABLE IN INSTANT mene ir stag