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...Furious Hoover. Nelson was well into his part of the book before he realized that the FBI's role in investigating the tragedy was not exactly in the best G-man tradition. He accused the FBI agents of misleading the Justice Department, lying about their presence during the riot and afterward "maintaining disconcertingly close relations with the state law-enforcement officials" they were investigating. To Nelson, it seemed highly improper that Charles DeFord, the agent who was investigating the charges against the State Law Enforcement...
When Bass and Nelson submitted their manuscript to World, the publishers sent out a promotional release emphasizing the criticism of the FBI. Two days later, Bass was asked by an FBI friend in Columbia if he could photocopy the book for "Mr. Hoover." Bass agreed, and was soon rewarded by a long, furious letter from FBI Boss J. Edgar Hoover. "The book is so biased in its attempt to smear the FBI," said an angry Hoover, "that it raises serious questions as to the competence and objectivity of the authors." After a rebuttal by Bass, Hoover signed off a second...
Cleaver said that Dohrn's successful flight from the United States, where the FBI has sought her for the past ten months, was "a blow to American imperialism" which "exposes" J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI "as the paper tigers they are" He added that Dohrn and Leary would give the details of their escapes at a joint press conference today...
...most distinctive qualities is her relish for a good fight. A conservative with such influential friends as J. Edgar Hoover and Arkansas' Senator John McClellan, Frances Knight has left in her wake a trail of smoking Congressmen and State Department administrators. They call her the "ogress," and it has been suggested that she used to leak State Department information to Senator Joe McCarthy-a charge she firmly denies. In her most celebrated battle, she faced down Abba Schwartz, the liberal head of the State Department's Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs. Schwartz, in an effort to ease...
...Lindbergh of these journals is a man so sensitive and perceptive that he studies with understanding the eyes of caged animals in a zoo, and yet so insensitive and unperceiving that he fails to grasp that there was anything wrong in openly baiting American Jews. Herbert Hoover shared Lindbergh's view that the Roosevelt Administration, Jews and Anglophiles were deliberately leading the nation toward World War II. But when he chided Lindbergh in 1941 for saying so publicly Lindbergh was uncomprehending. He still...