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they had cleared individuals, and I think it was a very reasonable number. I mean, it was about as many as you could possibly expect.

Of course, some of these cases were very funny cases. There were the people in the Postoffice Department up in Newark, New Jersey. They were letter carriers. A Communist cell was discovered of letter carriers--all letter carriers. Well, it was the most surprising thing in the world, you know. They'd been in the Government for years, and yet they'd always been Communists. They'd been Communists for a long time. They delivered the mail all right, but, you know, they had to be treated like other people. They were found to have “reasonable doubt of their loyalty” by the Loyalty Review Board, and they were let out. I think there were eight or ten of them in one little nest up there, and it was very serious.

There were a few places like that, you see, where they were very inconspicuous people, but nevertheless they were engaged in the Government's business, and they were also Communists.

I think that there's no case where the Loyalty Review Board did injustice to an individual. There came to be a question in some people's minds, in the Board itself, as to whether they had not been lax in some of their early findings, and tended to believe the story of the individual against