Memorandum Regarding Files Desired by Investigations Subcommittee in Conduct of Investigation

Filed by MR. DAWSON D NOV 13 1952 JUN COPY June 27, 1950 MEMORANDUM RE: FILES DESIRED BY INVESTIGATIONS SUBCOMMITTEE IN CONDUCT OF INVESTIGATION I. Obtain the list of names of known and suspected homosexuals em- ployed in Government from the following agencies: 1. Metropolitan Police Department. 2. Metropolitan Park Police 3. Office of Naval Intelligence. 4. Other agencies which may have assembled lists of names, such as FBI, Secret Service, CIA, G-2 Army, etc. The above names will be used to prepare a central card index on suspected or known homosexuals in government. It is contemplated that these names will be checked against Civil Service files and pos- sibly the files of those agencies where the homosexual is believed to be employed to determine whether any of these persons are still in the government. If they are found to be in government, the basic data which the Subcommittee obtains will be made available to the employing agency, so that an investigation or other appropriate action may be made by the employing agency. It is not the intention of the Subcom- mittee to make specific investigations in these individual cases, nor is it the intention to make public these names in any way. No central file of known or suspected homosexuals in government service is now in existence and after the above central file has served the Subcommittee's purpose as outlined above, it will be turned over to the FBI, Civil Service Commission, or whatever other agency in govern- ment will act as a central clearing house in handling these homosexual cases. escept II. In some few cases known or suspected homosexuals were allowed to resign or otherwise were removed from one government agency and years later turned up in the employment of some other government agency. fun For example, of the 91 homosexuals which left the State Department in the past several months, 13 of these were able to obtain employ- this ment in other government agencies. In order to determine the reason why a known homosexual has no been able to leave one agency and obtain employment in another, and in any order to determine the efficacy of the present methods of handling homo- send sexual cases, it will be necessary to make a detailed study of the methods of handling these specific cases. Here again, the study contemplated in