“WILD GOOSE CHASE”
SUBVERSIVE EMPLOYEES U.S. GOVERNMENT (11 a.m.) NEW YORK, Aug. 31. The newspaper P.M’s. Washington correspondent says that the Dies Committee's list of subversive Government employees has turned out to be a fake. „ ... . A year ago the Dies Committee sent complaints to the Justice Department against 1121 Government officials. The Federal Bureau of Investigation made a year’s investigation, costing £25,000, and found evidence resulting in only two resignations. Six others resigned voluntarily, leaving 1119 unsubstantiated charges. P.M. comments that the Dies wild goose chase kept a considerable part of the Federal Bureau of Investigation staff thus occupied when they should have been running down Axis spies and saboteurs. ■
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20877, 1 September 1942, Page 3
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110“WILD GOOSE CHASE” Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20877, 1 September 1942, Page 3
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