NEW CHARGE BY McCARTHY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27367, 4 June 1954, Page 11

NEW CHARGE BY McCARTHY

Intelligence Agency “Infiltrated”

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 2. Senator Joseph McCarthy declared today that Communists had infiltrated the United States Central Intelligence Agency. But Mr Allen Dulles, the director of the agency, replied that the senator’s charge was false. Senator McCarthy said he was “disturbed beyond words” by the situation in the agency and also had long and “alarming” information about Communist infiltration of hydrogen and atomic bomb installations. He said he had received White House advice against holding public hearings on the infiltration of the installations.

The White House press secretary, Mr James Hagerty, said there would be no comment there on Senator McCarthy’s assertion.

But Mr Dulles issued this statement on behalf of the agency: “Senator McCarthy’s charge that the CJ.A. is penetrated by Communists is false. “Last summer a McCarthy report stated that an alleged Communist in the Government Printing Office had access to C.I.A. classified material. That charge also was false. “I wrote to Senator McCarthy on October 22, 1953, asked him to give me any information he might have on C.I.A. personnel. Since that time I have not had a word from him on the subject.”