LOYALTY SYSTEM CALLED CONFUSED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100280090-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 1, 1999
• Sequence Number: 90
• Publication Date: March 16, 1955
• Content Type: NSPR

MAR 16 j.C
!Approved For Release : CIA-RDP75-000
CALLED CONFUSED
Senate Witnesses Denounces
Program as 'Patchwork'-,
Peress Case .Reopened
By C. P: TItUSSEL~L
Special to The NNW Yo,i, - ies.
March 15 --
WASHINGTON
,
I e overfln e s oya_ .y-secur-,
pity program went Linder intensi-
lie Health Service. An appealsi
board found "reasonable doubt"
of men, who too often, seem to
,standing of what they are
phasized, were conflicting. An
6 ample cited was ' the case of
V Wolf Ladejinsky, Far Eastern
agric. tltUral specialist. Mr. Lade-
jinsky was dismissed as a secu-
rity risk by. the Department of
the State.DepartmOtit and hired
by the Foreign Operations ad-
'tMeanwhile, the Senate Per-
mittee -reopened' hearings' on`
after refusing "to say .twhether
he
e had bear a Y'~ommi._
ev
sag,. accused the Army of -un-'
facts" in the.Peress case.j
' The program Was also called
aid downright' stupidity." It Was
One witness _before'"? the 'Senate
thorough review Qtthe, program] sanship which has so often dis-
the Supreme Court well might~tween American scholars end
Icross-examination tions that included Americans
This Ease involved. Dr. , John
Punnett Peters; 4er4pr"i6rofessoi'
ew
erties Union, American
'
It started in I51 when it was',
that hg hao been eitheriish Congress, the American Jew
alleged ;Fh Committee.
pgi aide to Fewilifty-eW-Pio
Me or"
ax Co ins loyalty.
The matter" is - now in the
`hahds of the highest court. To-
day, Joseph L. R>tuh Jr., national
vice chair,Tnan of Americans for
Democratic Action, testified that
"it is common knowledge in
Washington" that the secret in-
formant against pr. Peters was
Louis Budenz.
Mfr. Budenz was once a mem-
ber of the national committee of
the Communist party.. Having
denounced communism years
sago, he has appeared as a wit-
'nets against Red activities in no fewer than sixty proceedings
before Congressional commit
tees, Courts and loyalty review
boards.
The point that Mr. Rauh was
seeking to make was not.clari-
fied. His emphasis was oh .the
fact that Mr. Budenz, rides, a
teacher at `;Fordham University,
had not been subjected to cross-
examination. ; ,e
The tenor of testimony was' to
the effect that the loyalty-
security program should be re-
vised from bottom to top. -Sen-
ator Hubert H. Humphrey, pem-
ocrat of . Minnesota, the chair-
man, appeared to agree.
Harvard Dean Testifies
One of the severest indict-
ments of the present program
was made~s b McGeorge Bundy,
dean of the.aculty of arts and
sciences of Harvard University.
He said the security program
"creates needless confusion and
fear, spreads suspicion far be-
y6nd the range of reason and
tends to discourage that confi-
fot Democratic Action, the Anti-
Defamation League of ` B'nai
B'rith, the American Civil, Lib-
J
-
ATTACKS PROGRAM
niversily, Who indicted the
GQv ernment loy -lly pro, ram.
"We interviewed'eight Wash-
ington law firms which have
handled a total of more than 450
security cases under. the Truman
and li"isenhower (security) di-
tectives.
"The most striking finding de-
veloped by the survey is that
these lawyers won mbre than 90
per cent of the cases. In other
words; in nine cases out of ten
d'0
ploye proved tot be groundless,'
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