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FROM THE ARCHIVEOct 12, 1947·Wilmington, North Carolina

CAPITOL WORKERS FACE FBI CHECK

Scanned from The Wilmington Morning Star, Oct 12, 1947
CAPITOL WORKERS FACE FBI CHECK
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CAPITOL WORKERS FACE FBI CHECK Bv JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON Oct 11 dpi Youve been hearing a lot about the governments drive to check on the loyalty of its employes. But thats just something in s slightly different way thats 1 cii going on a good while. And it takes in more territory now Start at the beginning Four government agencies c te Department Army Navy and Atomic Energy commission go a lot of work in flighty secret fields. If some of that information got out it could put us in a jam vith other countries and might endanger this nations safety S Congress some time ago pn ed special laws for all four agencies so they could do this Chet k on their employesspe v those handling secret or confidential workto see if they could be trusted.

The Atomic Energy people i aVo relied mostly on the FBI to do their checking Tie State Department and the Arc y and Navy have highly trained staffs of their own to do t job sometimes with FBI help the heads of those agencies c ide after looking at the re sit of an investigation that a n can't be trusted hes noti.

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