Reveals 590 Fired as Security Risks; 11 Lacked Loyalty

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 — (Æ) -The State Department released 590 employees as security risks last year, including 11 fired on grounds of questionable loyalty. but 291 of the workers got jobs with other government agencies.

In addition to the 291 transfers, the House appropriations committee was told, 188 resigned, 50 were let out in reductions in! force, 36 left on completion of temporary work, four retired and 21, including the 11 loyalty cases, were listed as discharged for cause.

The committee made public today. the figures given in testimony by the department's security administrator, R. Scott McLeod.

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McLeod was not questioned about the 291 transfers, and there was no indication how many of the employees may still be working for the government. He did say that 99 of the transfer cases, "homosexual deviations" made up the principal. security factor.

Seven of the 11 fired for "proCommunist activities or associations," McLeod said, had charges pending against them when the Eisenhower administration took office last January.

President Eisenhower said in his State of the Union message to Congress that 2,200 government workers had been let out] under the security program he ordered into effect last April. There had been no breakdown, however, to show how many were let out for loyalty reasons.