Letter from President Harry S. Truman to Harry B. Mitchell with Related Material
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OCR Page 1 of 1475/12/49
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May 9, 1947
My dear Mr. Mitchell:
I have today transmitted to the Congress estimates of funds
required by the Civil Service Commission and the Federal Bureau of
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Investigation for the loyalty investigations contemplated by Execu-
tive Order 9835. In view of your letter to me of April 25, 1947,
I
feel that I should acquaint you with my reasons for approving the
estimate as recommended to me by the Director of the Bureau of the
Budget.
Filed 2007
While Executive Order 9835 does not require that any field
investigations be conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
that Bureau has been performing such investigations under authority
of the Act of August 2, 1939, commonly known as the Hatch Act. In
carrying out this task the Federal Bureau of Investigation has
acquired sources of information and data which make it pre-eminent
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among Government agencies in the field of combating subversive in-
fluences. I think that any attempt to parallel this organization
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in another Government agency would be administratively unsound,
particularly in view of the underground character of the subversive
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activities to be controlled, and that the Civil Service Commission
in carrying out its responsibilities under Executive Order 9835
should make full use of the facilities of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
The estimates therefore recommend that sufficient funds be
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allowed the Federal Bureau of Investigation to permit that agency
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to conduct all loyalty investigations of persons who are now or may
hereafter be placed on the pay rolls of the Federal Government. Pre-
employment investigations, of course, remain a function of the Civil
Service Commission. The estimates contemplate that the Commission
will be given sufficient funds with which to conduct investigations
of applicants actively under consideration for appointment to certain
positions where loyalty is a prime requisite, even though in most
cases such persons may actually be appointed prior to the completion
of the investigation. Should these investigations by the Commission
disclose derogatory information with respect to loyalty or otherwise
which in the judgment of the Commission renders the individual unfit
for employment, I assume that the Commission would forthwith either
declare him ineligible for appointment or terminate his appointment
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