STATE DEPT'S LEGAL AND INTELLIGENCE EXPERT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090124-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2013
• Sequence Number: 124
• Publication Date: January 18, 1952
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

Declassified and Approved For Release @ 50-Yr 2013/10/29 : CIA-RDP74-.00297R000900090124-0
NEW YORK JOURNAL-
AMERICAN
Circ.: e. 724,729
S. 1,105,315
Page: EDITORIAL
Date:
4AN 18 1952
Washington Report:
State Dept's .0114
Intelligence Expert:
By FULTON' LEWIS. IR.
WA5III/40T014, Jan. lg.
A MONO the errors made by
rk The State Department in
ransoming the four tunerican
fliers from }funeral wan ins-
'ffins them follovrtral their
remit until Samuel Z. Klaus
had strived. front Washington
to take dune. . .
and Mft 4triest ofleZ
no actaZ1 ae 6
State DotstrtnicIA led when he
sot ' there he Min do .coy-
thing but pose with the Mani
for photodraphers.
In describing Kites ,iatin, en
its legal and intolligenee expert
the State Department Is guilty
of a thort Memory, became it
waan't very long ago that the
Department was Netting -for. a
way to erezse him book to Pri-
vate law -practice. That was
after h. had touts th. De_
pattmens's official propagan-
disk in. an awful Jam when.
the) were trying to duck the
chaiges levelea
by Sen. Joseph
R.. McCarthy. ?
The Wisconsin Senator had
put in the Congressionii*Rec-
ord what III termed an FBI re-
port on State Department Reds.
Acheson s puppets called ths
Senator a. Hai, in seattnor
nothing of the sort had ever
been seen around the Depart-
ment As it turned out, the re-
Port was a compilation made by
the Department's awn legal and
intelligence expert. Mans.
bated 4n PSI sumiziaries. and
other data. The incident didn't
-do the Department any good,
naturally, and Klaus almoet
lost his, PIM as a result.
?
TILAUS,Thowaver, has led a
11. charmed life on the Govern-
ment payroll, Re had Fred Bug-
bey, of Mina's. so mad It him a
few years ago that the State De?
partment for a while. shuffled
Klaus off VI :le Office of Inter-
national Trade In the Depart-
ment of Commerce.
This Was the sanctuary of
William Stalin...Item, now anaitt
.1= g second,etrititi tetlLelna
nuinbef of pltots who, acre
forcing shiecem em?piltA they a
&add ewe -0V?Lt6 ,C..rIttyp!3ttici 1
with Antartal% _
gito=3 never hnd
abut thee
Later as.
'ilia he tried
1101121 a an
ta
to dtp .th the
es, .talthendh natiede
. Ile then tided to '
tate DarsattlOst
week DOOMS ,
oyez the
orl%te.
On July: . 1 ftriator
Styles Bridges, -of
shire, in in a Senate apee;ei. ac-
cused a State Department offi-
cial of blocking the entry into
the United tatates of EMIO Ger-
man scientists. MI of them, so
far as Is known, now int* for
the Russian Government. Bridges
dioin't name the official in-
4olved, but shortly after the
speech Klaus ran pentingly 10
his office trying to find out
whom the Senator had in inlet
Macs is a pal of Max Lowen-
thal, the mental marvel wbe ad-
visee President Wonsan on =eh
Wats ae why the FlItshfrald be
investigated. Da one* welted
far a law fts that empleyttd.est.
visiCemteadat
Mthoe havjr*I
rind 'out 04
There . te efeetane
background to
the official gag, In
the Ti Srinrernm.vit.
Declassified and Approved For Release @50-Yr 2013/10/29: CIA-RDP74-00297R000900090124-0