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| . activity by an alien who has been under a The court said Eisenhower went too fa under existing law: That only people em te members nt Mae or their families ployed in sensitive jobs could be ousted as} pu:, ll i ; ed to Gold at all. security Tisks. There are other laws under the forces at oppositine’ but it would seem which peoplactherwise undesirable can be ton to the government ‘ etting super-protectj ; fired. Ja getting super-protection from the same Earlier this year the court threw out AWS otlicy are alway8 working —$e—eyer- the conviction of a man who bought nar-* cotics from a government agent never fur-. ther identified except as “John Doe.” The court said: No more of that. The court said if the government wants to prosecute a man, he has a right to know who the government informer was, and ‘confront him, if doing so is relevant to his case. On June 3 the court went further: It said that if the government does use a witness against a defendant in a criminal trial—and in its secret files has information supplied by that witness against the defendant—the man on triaj has a right to see that informa- tion. This ruling has been interpreted in some - circles as meaning the FBI will have to throw its files wide open. The decision, it seems, is narrower than that. It’s limited to written information by a witness against a particular defendant. The purpose of the ruling was to give a defendant every opportunity to prove the witness against him has a faulty memory or is a liar but in the meantime, it provides a potent stalling influence for those who want | - to stymie government trial. . The court has also ruled that past party Communist membership is not in itself a bar to the practice of law. It knocked out the conviction of three people who harbored a convicted and fugitive Communist leader. The reason: FBI agents, without search warrents, raided the house and hauled away everv bit of furniture. The court also has held the Justice De- partment lacks authority to ban Communist deportation order for six months. The right of states to try people—mean- ng Communists—on sedition charges was wiped out by the court which said the Fed- era] Government has sedition laws to pro- ‘tect the whole conntry. Any prosecutions Will be handled in ral Court. And the court ordered a new trial for Ben Gold, formerly a top Communist, after he was convicted of lying about party mem- bership. The reason, An FBI agent talked