Word: balog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee's first witness was Mrs. Helen Balog, fluttery supervisor of the Foreign Service file room. Her files, she testified, were accessible to virtually any department hand who chose to open them. She knew of several instances where derogatory information had been removed. For example, she cited a case where a foreign service officer's reference, signed by Owen Lattimore, had vanished-at a time when Lattimore's name was high in the headlines...
John E. Matson, a foreign service security officer, corroborated Mrs. Balog's statements: it was a "deplorable" fact that almost anybody from the department could get into the files and could take papers out. He had some additional evidence of file-milking. One department employee had been ousted on a morals charge,*but later the damning evidence was removed from his file and the man was certified, on the basis of the remaining information, for an Air Force assignment in Germany
Married. Léon Rothier, 76, famed French-born basso, who appeared in some 75 different roles (best known as Mephistopheles in Faust) in a record-breaking 1,687 performances at the Metropolitan Opera; and Clara Balog, 49, manager of his voice studio; both for the second time; in Manhattan...