Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-12-24 | Page 1 | Plunge Victim Loyal Employe, Clark Declares

Plunge Victim Loyal Clark Declares V WASHINGTON Dec 24 UP Acting Chairman Karl E. E R. R S. S D D. and Rep Richard Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard R. R Nixon R. R Cal of or the tho house committee said Thursday t they eJ perhaps warrant some honest criticism for bringing Lawrence Laurence Duggans Duggan's name into the SP spy investigation WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Dec 2 1 INS Attorney General Clark in an unusual Christmas Christinas eve statement Friday declared that the late Lawrence Duggan was waa neither a a. a spy nor a 11 Communist but a loyal of the United States gov gov- The attorney general deviated from Crom justice department policy by byI Issuing the extraordinary statement statement statement state state- I ment in order to prevent an in injustice injustice injustice in- in justice being done to the family of or a former of the govern govern- ment Clark said that thaC the federal bureau bureau bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau of investigation after intensive intensive intensive sive inquiry has found no uno evidence of of Mr Duggans Duggan's connection with th the Communist party or with any espionage activity Duggan died last Monday night in a mysterious plunge from the floor of his New York office building A few hours after his death the house hO un-American un activities committee committee com com- disclosed that Duggan had been named at a secret session of its Communist espionage inv sU- sU gation I Acting Chairman R. R S. S D. D revealed that Duggans Duggan's I I I name came into the spy inquiry inthis in inthis inthis this manner Is Isaac c Don Levine Communist anti-Communist e editor d i If t o 0 r quoted Whittaker Chambers confessed spy ex-spy ring courier as having mentioned d Duggan in connection with Chambers' Chambers story of the operations operations operations opera opera- of a prewar red espionage apparatus Later Chambers not only denied that Duggan ever had passed conI confidential confidential con con- papers papers to him but admitted admitted admitted ad ad- that he had DugI Dug Dug- gan gam 11 L LJ J