Word: hoovers
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...CRIMSON received an official-looking letter, six days after Fairfield's article ran, from J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, labeling the piece "inaccurate, distorted and untrue." Hoover insisted that: no undercover agents or general informants operated at Yale; no secret files were provided to "Yale or any other educational institution"; no FBI agents "influenced Yale academic and political activities; and no FBI agent ever investigated "applicants for teaching positions in Yale or any other college or university." Finally, Hoover asserted, two people quoted in Fairfield's story had denied the statements attributed to them. The letter...
...following September, J.J. Gleason, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's New Haven office, wrote to Hoover. Subject: discussions between himself and FBI Assistant Director L.B. Nichols about the Fairfield story "which was derogatory to the Bureau." Gleason warned Hoover that he had received a call from a Yale Daily News reporter, tipping him off that the News planned to run a follow-up story, featuring an interview with Cohen. The post-doctoral student's "identity was known to the Bureau" (FBI-speak for a person who is on file with the FBI), Gleason made sure to note...
...ACCEPTED Buckley's offer, and in October, Nichols--the main FBI speaker--reported the meetings details to Hoover. One full page of that five-page memo was later inked out "to protect the name of an individual interviewed by the FBI." Nichols elaborated, rather proudly, on his ability to dodge questions at the forum. One professor barraged him with questions, Nichols boasted in the memo, and "in answering him I would pick out the part that lent itself to the easiest discussion and then launch into a discussion of the Bureau. There were some questions he asked that I never...
Unlike Angleton, Harvey was almost too accessible. Known as the "Pear" be cause of his shape, Harvey was, says Mar tin, "the secret war made flesh." The bluff, boisterous Harvey began his career at the FBI, where his macho style offended J. Edgar Hoover. Transferring to the CIA, he took with him an encyclopedic knowledge of Soviet agents operating in the U.S. Harvey, contemptuous of striped-pants types, was the first, declares Martin, to identify Philby as a Soviet spy. The fact that Phil by traveled in the best circles did not mislead Harvey as it did others...
DIED. Stanley Reed, 95, Supreme Court Justice from 1938 to 1957; in a nursing home in Huntington, N.Y. The lanky, aristocratic Reed made his name as a farm cooperative law expert in his native Kentucky before Herbert Hoover tapped him to be general counsel of the Federal Farm Board in 1929. Named to the high court by Franklin D. Roosevelt, he was known as a quietly reliable supporter of New Deal and civil rights legislation, and a wild card on most other issues...