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CONFIDENTIAL
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employees; that they were top officials; that Mr. Peurifoy
had removed both of them from their positions here and had
sent them abroad to France or Germany. He said he had
reference to Bohlen and Thayer, who were related in some
way; that Bohlen had secured Thayer's appointment as head of
the Voice of America. He was asked if he had evidence of
homosexuality on the part of these men and he said he had
nothing definite, that they were suspects only, but it would
be easy to obtain the evidence on them.
In our conversation Blick stated there is need in this
NARA
country for a central bureau for records of homosexuals and
perverts of all types and that if he were chosen as the head
of such a bureau it would be his plan to have the files avail-
able to all government agencies, state and city police officials.
DECLASSIFIED
E.O. 12065, Sec. 3-402
State Dept Guideline June 17, 10 1070
PR ROJECT NLT 82-9
By NLT- He
NARS, Date 10.5.f2
CON:SY:TLFletcher:arc:bes topv
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