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    "ocrText": "HARRY ARCHIVES \"NATIONAL RECORDS TROMAN AND LIBRETT\n- 2 -\nU.S. SERVICE\"\nOn April 17, April 28 and May 4, 1950, the Commission received arrest\nrecords from the FBI oovering the names of persons arrested by the District of\nColumbia police for alleged sex offenses, or for investigation pertaining to sex\noffenses. The original group of arrest records were received assembled by\nagencies in which the individuals supposedly were employed. On April 12, 1950,\nthe Commission received a letter from the Director of the Federal Bureau of\nInvestigation containing the names of 269 persons, allegedly Federal employees\nreported to have been arrested by the District of Columbia police for alleged\nsex offenses, or investigation for alleged sex offenses. In checking the\nreports of arrest of the original group of persons against the list forwarded by\nMr. Hoover, it was found that in general the names of the persons included in the\noriginal group of arrest records were included in Mr. Hoover's list of 269 names.\nHowever, some of the arrest records were not included in Mr. Hoover's list and\non the other hand, arrest records had not been received in many cases named on\nMr. Hoover's list.\nSome of the arrest records were checked against the Commission's service\nrecords to determine whether the departments and agencies had been properly\nidentified on the attached memoranda accompanying the arrest records. This\npreliminary search revealed that the agencies in which these persons were\nreported to be employed differed greatly from that reported on the memoranda.\nTherefore, it was necessary to check each of the reported arrests against our\nservice records to determine where the person was employed, if actually in\nFederal employment. Also, it was necessary to secure from the FBI arrest records\non the persons named on Mr. Hoover's list but on whom we had not received arrest\nrecords.\nSearch of the Commission's service records indicated:\nl. That some of the persons apparently were never employed by the\nFederal government.\n2. That some of them apparently were not presently employed in the\nFederal government.\n3. That some of them still were within the jurisdiction of the Civil\nService Commission.\n4. That the remainder were in the exclusive jurisdiction of depart-\nments and agencies.\nIt is apparent that had the Commission sent copies of these arrest records\nto the agencies indicated by the memoranda accompanying them when received by\nthe Commission that much unwarranted confusion and embarrassment to individuals\nand agencies would have resulted. Likewise, it would not have been practical to\nhave reported the arrests without first obtaining the arrest record reflecting\nthe individuals' fingerprint identification."
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