Investigation of the Federal Security Agency HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTIETH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR-FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY 79770 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1948 11, 145 A. Ap6': F312 Investigation of the Federal Security Agency HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EIGHTIETH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR-FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY 79770 Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1948 ii, 145 INVESTIGATION OF THE FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY HEARINGS CONDUCTED BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF THE LABOR DEPARTMENT-FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY APPROPRIATION BILL FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1949 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1948. CONSOLIDATION AND OPERATION OF INFORMATION AND PUBLICATION ACTIVITIES STATEMENT OF J. DONALD KINGSLEY, ACTING ADMINISTRATOR, FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY Mr. KEEFE. The committee has been called pursuant to the authority contained in House Resolution 50, which provides— * * * That the Committee on Appropriations, acting as a whole or by subcommittee or subcommittees thereof appointed by the chairman of such committee for the purposes of this resolution, is authorized to conduct such studies and examination of the organization and operation of any executive department or any other executive agency (including any agency the majority of the stock of which is owned by the Government of the United States) as the committee may deem necessary to assist it in connection with the determination of matters within its jurisdiction. For the purposes of this resolution, such committee or any subcommittee thereof is hereby authorized to sit and act during the present Congress at such times and places within the United States, whether the House is in session, has recessed, or has adjourned, to hold such hearings, to require the attendance of such witnesses, and the production of such books or papers or documents or vouchers by subpena or otherwise, and to take such testimony and records as it deems necessary. * * * The chairman of the committee or subcommittee, or any member thereof, may administer oaths to witnesses. The committee, as I have indicated, has been called pursuant to this authority for the purpose of examining into some of the activities of the Federal Security Agency in relation to the expenditure of appropriated funds and such dispositions of appropriated funds as have been made pursuant to the internal management and reorganization that has not been specifically called to the attention of the subcommittee, and for the purpose of investigating, under its powers of investigation, some of the allegations that have received wide publicity growing out of the letter from the former Commissioner of the Office of Education to the Federal Security Administrator, and the communication from the former Deputy Commissioner of Education to the Federal Security Administrator at the time of his resignation. The committee has determined, in connection with this investigation, that the testimony shall be taken under oath and that the testimony thus received shall not be subject to rewrite or correction. 1 |