SAYS BUDENZ PUTS FINGER ON TOP AIDE:

McCarthy Asserts Ex-Redi Calls State Dept. Official a Party Member

WASHINGTON, April 25-APISenator McCarthy. (R.-Wis.) told the Senate today that Louis F. Budenz had identified as a Communist a man who holds a "very, very important job" in the State Department.

In a bitter exchange with Senator Tyding (D.-Md.), McCarthy also said that he had given the subcommittee investigating State Department security risks the name of a man with a police record as a homosexual who holds "an extremely sensitive position" in the Central Intelligence Agency. Shortly after that Republican Leader Wherry (R.-Neb.) told the Senate that the man McCarthy called a pervert had resigned. "You're going to get some more resignations," Wherry shouted. "This is not the only man.” Defends Lattimore

In another development, the investigating committee went into

hear defense testimony in behalf of Owen Lattimore, Far Eastern expert and sometime State Department consultant whom McCarthy has called a Red spy.

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Dr. Bella V. Dodd, former high Communist, testified at a crowded hearing that she never knew Lattimore as a Communist, a fellow traveler or even as a friend of the party."

Budenz, also a former Red leader, has said high party officials told him Lattimore was a member of a Communist cell. Lattimore has flatly denied the charges.

Criticizes Method

The witness, who said she was

expelled from⠀⠀ the Communist party in 1948 because of, policy differences, lit into both Budenz and McCarthy, saying:

"I am profoundly disturbed by the technique used here of destroying confidence in the ability of our government to deal with the present world crisis.”

The witness said character assassination is an evil thing" and a tactic which present leaders of the Communist party have used upon me and others." She added: "Mr. Budenz, by what I am compelled to consider dishonest testimony, has adopted the same tactic."

Paid $10,000 a Year Off the Senate floor, Wherry said the intelligence agency's head, who is Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, had advised him the man had agreed to resign and the Fesignation would be "accepted within a day or two."

McCarthy said, and Wherry agreed, that the man had been loaned to the Central Intelligence Agency by the State Department, which McCarthy has charged is a haven for Communists and other security risks.

McCarthy said the man's job pays $10,000 to $12,000 a year. Neither the official reported to (Continued on Page & Column 3)