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...Senate aide used to begin his first telephone conversation of each week with a hearty "F- J. Edgar Hoover." To the startled listener on the other end of the line, he explained: "Just clearing the lines." During the debate over G. Harrold Carswell's nomination to the Supreme Court, Indiana Senator Birch Bayh became so disturbed over an inexplicable strategy and information leak that he called in an expert to examine his office for listening devices. The expert "swept" Bayh's office-the same suite occupied by Richard Nixon when he was a Senator-with a detector...
...last week and said: "I'm going to make a speech that's going to get national headlines." In a one-minute address, Boggs broke the desultory parliamentary doings with a harsh challenge to the reputation of one of Washington's most powerful institutions-J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Boggs: "When the FBI taps the telephones of members of this body and members of the Senate, when the FBI adopts the tactics of the Soviet Union and Hitler's Gestapo, then it is time that the present director no longer be the director...
Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark-whose personal disagreements with Hoover have flared openly in recent months-said that during his eight years in the Justice Department, he had no knowledge of the FBI's tapping Congressmen's phones. He added that it could conceivably be done without an Attorney General's awareness: "It's a relationship that depends on trust." Kleindienst outlined the procedures involved in authorizing a tap: Hoover must submit a request in writing, which is then reviewed by Mitchell. The signatures of both are required before the FBI can cut into a line...
With Boggs promising that the results of his personal investigation would be forthcoming, Congress left for the Easter recess with the FBI in the biggest turmoil since Hoover became the director of the bureau 47 years ago. Under Hoover, the FBI long ago evolved into an untouchable symbol of righteousness to most citizens. The chairman of a House Appropriations Subcommittee often bragged that he never cut Hoover's budget requests. Films, television series and books chronicled the bureau's crime-fighting exploits. The bureau's image has begun to fuzz of late, thanks to Hoover...
Last December he angered Spanish-speaking Americans with a racial slur made during an interview with TIME Correspondent Dean Fischer. Hoover's testiness led to 26 agents and clerks being ordered last fall to withdraw from college courses where professors had questioned Hoover's methods and techniques. Then in January it was discovered that one of them, Special Agent John Shaw, was forced to resign from the FBI and blacklisted by Hoover for writing a private letter to a college professor that was mildly critical of Hoover and the bureau...