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Section 6(j) of the Act, as we have held, does require the Department's recommendation to be placed in a registrant's file.

Gonzales v. United States, supra.

But there is nothing in the Act requiring the hearing officer's report to be likewise turned over to the registrant.

While the regulations formerly required that the hearing officer's report be placed in the registrant's file, this requirement was eliminated in 1952.

Moreover, the hearing officer's report is but intradepartmental, is directed to the Attorney General and, of course, is not the recommendation of the Department.

It is not essentially different from a memorandum of an attorney in the Department of Justice, of which the Attorney General receives many, and to which he may give his approval or rejection.

It is but part of the whole process within the Department that goes into the making of the final recommendation to the appeal board.