Communist White Ants In United States

Grey River Argus, 1 March 1948, Page 5

Communist White Ants In United States

WASHINGTON, Feb 27. The Army announced to-day that it has dismissed seven employees at the St. Louis (Missouri) administration centre for alleged subversive activities. While the Army gave no exact details, informed quarters said that aoart from the employees who were fired, 26 other suspected casts had been turned over to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for further study. . .. One source of information said that the St. Louis centre had become a “beehive” of subversive activity through Communist infiltration. This situation constitutes one o! the gravest dangers to our national security existing to-day,” the source ci i cl ' °’The F. 8.1. chief. Mr J. Edgar Hoover, told the House appropriations sub-committee to-day that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had checked almost 85,000 Government workers an dhad found 143 who had to be investigated on disloyalty charges. Mr Hoover said these were conservative figures and indicated that the President’s loyalty programme was not one of hysteria or panic. “Of the 143 who had been investigated four had resigned and t^ 0 had been completely cleared, he added.