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Democratic congressional leaders were still hard at work last week trying to keep alive the surveillance issue surrounding J. Edgar Hoover and his bureau. In a speech delivered at Lewis-St. Francis College in Lockport, Ill..., Senator George McGovern accused the FBI of attempting to "destroy the career" of a Trans World Airlines pilot who had criticized the bureau's handling of the 1969 Minichiello hijacking case. Damning the FBI as the "Federal Bureau of Intimidation," the Senator said: "Despite Mr. Nixon's words, I cannot believe that he can any longer with a straight face profess...
...Possibly." Ironically, there is a sub-dispute revolving around former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, one of Hoover's most severe critics. A devoted advocate of liberal causes, Clark must now contend with embarrassing revelations concerning some of his actions as Attorney General. In a 1967 memorandum to Hoover, reports TIME Correspondent Sandy Smith, Clark urged FBI investigators to "use the maximum available resources, investigative and intelligence," to determine whether conspiracies had triggered rioting in urban ghettos. The memo also said: "As a part of the broad investigation which must necessarily be conducted . . . sources or informants in Black Nationalist organizations...
...controversy continues to gather around the FBI and its chief, J. Edgar Hoover. Picking up from Hale Boggs, Democratic House majority leader, who charged that the bureau wiretapped members of Congress, Senator Edmund Muskie accused the FBI of infiltrating last April's Earth Day rallies with undercover agents. Attorney General John Mitchell replied: "The FBI has no interest in an Earth Day meeting as such, but it does have a very legitimate interest in the activities of persons whose known records reveal a likelihood of violence, incitement to riot or other criminal behavior." He added pointedly: "Any suggestion that...
Repugnant. Throughout the rising debate, the acidulous FBI chief has maintained a low profile. President Nixon, too, has been extremely careful in his statements. He termed the criticism of Hoover "unfair and malicious" without commenting on the specific charges. He also noted that the attacks on Hoover would not prompt the FBI director to resign. Rather, said Nixon, they "would have the opposite effect." In any event, he added, "it would be unfortunate to allow a man after 50 years to go out under a cloud, maligned...
...viewed the investigation of private citizens as "repugnant." Ziegler intimated, however, that Muskie was among those whom he had characterized as "creating a feeling of fear and intimidation among the people" for basically "political motives." Still, the feeling around the White House seems to be that between the powerful Hoover and the mounting public uneasiness over bureau activities, the President for a time will walk a careful line...