RIGHT GIVEN MCLEOD TO OUST AIDS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP70-00058R000100090059-7
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 59
• Publication Date: March 5, 1954
• Content Type: NSPR

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RightGiven
McLeod to
Oust Aids
WASHINGTON, March 4 I(P).
ment security chief, has been
granted authority to discharge
any of a group of 176 of his se,
curity aids who are not veterans,
it was disclosed today.
The Civil Service Commission
approved a McLeod request to
exempt the 176 security jobs
from civil service status. The
State Department said Mr. Mc-
Leod's security division employs
275 persons.
The jobs removed from civil
servi-e are those of investigator,
evaluator "and other security
officers, whose incumbents are
directly engaged in the perform-
ance of security functions or in
the supervision of such activi-
ties."
Jobs Off Exempt List
The commission made no for-
mal announcement of its ruling,
but included Mr. McLeod's aids
among more than a score of
other job classifications removed
from civil service in a list pub-
lished in a recent "Federal Reg-
i ister."
Mr. McLeod was stripped of
his general powers to hire, dis-
miss or discipline State Depart-
ment personnel _in a department
reshuffle announced Monday.
He retained his security duties
of investigating department of-
ficials.
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R.,
Wis., has questioned the dismis-
sal of Mr. McLeod, his personal
friend, and announced plans to
look into the duty shift. Presi-
dent Eisenhower said yesterday
that the matter was the respon-
sibility of Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles, not Sen.
McCarthy. Sen. McCarthy re-
plied that his Government
Operations Committee, "intends'
to investigate any agency re
shuffle.
Democratic Move Lost
The House, meanwhile
squashed a Democratic attemp
to keep Mr. McLeod from mak-
ing political speeches. Rep
Louis C. Rabaut, D., Mich., of
fered an amendment to an ap
propriation bill to put Mr. Mc
Leod's job under the Hatch ac
forbidding most government of
cials from engaing in politics
activities. Rep, Rabaut con
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ilar to those of Tgderar bureau
of Investigation , erector J.
Edgar "T-IOover- and Allen W.
Dulles, head of the Central In-
telligence Agency, arid' should be
removed fiom partisan activity.
His move was defeated 84 to
61 after Rep. Frederic R. Cou-
dert jr., R., N. Y., contended
that Rep. Rabaut was making a
"purely partisan attempt to dis-
credit" Republican officials,
Democrats accused Mr. McLeod
of "political huckstering" be-
muse of a series of Lincoln Day
speeches he made for the Re-
publicans.
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