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SUBVERSIVE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS DIES COMMITTEE’S INVESTIGATION (Rec. 9.55 a.m.) New York, Aug. 31. The Washington correspondent of the newspaper “PM,” says 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 100,000 dollars, and found evidence resulting in only two resignations. Six others resigned voluntarily, leaving 1119 unsubstantiated charges. “PM“ comments that the Dies’ wild goose chase kept a considerable part of the F. 8.1. staff thus occupied when they should have been running down Axis spies and saboteurs.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 1 September 1942, Page 5
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