LETTER TO MR DULLES FROM JOHN MCCLELLAN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00269R000100130122-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2002
• Sequence Number: 122
• Publication Date: March 7, 1955
• Content Type: LETTER

JOHN L. MC CLF.p1
'HENRY M. JACKSON, WASH. P
JOHN F. KENNEDY, MASS.
STUART SYMINGTON, MO.
SAMUEL J. ERVIN, JR., N. C.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, MINN.
STROM THURMOND, S. C.
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JOSEPH R. MCCARTHY, WIS.
KARL E. MUNDT, S. DAK.
MARGARET CHASE SMITH, MAINE
NORRIS COTTON, N. H.
GEORGE H. BENDER, OHIO
THOS. E. MARTIN, IOWA
COMMITTEE ON
GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
March 7, 1955
My dear Mr. Dulles:
Reference is made to your letter of January 21.
After hearing from you, I requested that the files of this
Subcommittee containing the material on CIA be reviewed to determine
the kind and type of derogatory information contained therein.
Unfortunately, it was found that those files were not in
the file office of the Investigating Subcommittee, but were in the pos-
session of the former Chairman, Senator McCarthy. Those files have
been returned to the Subcommittee within the past week and I have
instructed that they be reviewed. Upon the completion of this study I
shall again be in touch with you.
I regret the delay in answering your letter, but I am
sure that you understand there are always certain delays when the
Senate reorganizes.
With kindest personal regards, I am,
Sincerely yours,
Honorable Allen W. Dulles
Director of Central Intelligence
Central Intelligence Agency
Washington 25, D. C.
'ZCnifei ,.`cifofe, , ienafe
John L. "McClell
Chairman
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The Honorable John T- r,"cClellan,`
Chairman, Permanent S>ibconvnittee
on Tnvesti.Cations
Senate Committee on Government Operations
lashin ;ton 25, 11. C.
T would like to call to jour attention certain correspondence
with Senator McCarthy as your predecessor as Chairman of the Permanent
Subcommittee on Tnvesti~*ations.
f'.uri nn the hearincs on security of the Government Printing-
Office, Senator !'cCarth,- publicly stated that an aller?ed -member of
the Communist Party had access to secret data of the Central
Tntelli;ence Agency. Tyr letter of 22 October 1953 I oointcd o-?t
to Senator }'cCarthy that no CIA classified material is printed in
the main GPO nlant. 'irther, it was requested that information
eoncernin^ tni.s A-ency or its personnel developed in the course
of i.nvestications he made available to me for thorou,-h inspection.
"io reply was received to that communication.
During the closin^ days of the Arriy hearinf;s, Senator T cCarth-r
made several references to alleged Com~manist infiltration of the
Central Tntelli:-ence &Rencv. On 7 July 1951.t I wrote Senator McCarthy
and requested that he make available to me at the earliest possible
moment any unfavorable information bearing on the lo.valt- or
intecrit,y of any employee of CTA. iltho v-h Senator McCarthy had
publicly stated th;;:it he was "disturbed beyond words" b,- the allez;ed
success of Commini_sts in penetrating the CIA, there was no realy
to this communication.
Copies of the aforementioned lectern re attached for vouzr
_nf'ormation.
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Ac.cordinc to press report of 15 January 1955, senator "cCarthy
male available to General Mark W. Clark information on "alle red
communism and corruption" in the Central Intellisence Arencv. As
you will note from the attached telecram of 15 January 19rk, T
advised General Clark that if any of the information which
Curator McCarthy had turn i over to ;him contains any "indication
of communism or corruption in the CIA, I would investicate the
matter imm9diataly and thorounhly."
T would like to renew my request that the Committee kindly
mahe available to me any information it rna have in its files or
which it ma,' develop in Oiture investi :ations which might refl' et
on the CTA or its personnel. T would desire to make a thorou nh
investigation oi' any such information.
F would welcome an opportunity' to discuss "Frith iou narson