Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paragraph 3: The articles specifically stated that this kind of investigation was not under attack: "no one had objections to the FBI's loyalty checks on men who had apphed for government jobs. These checks are made in the open by the known FBI agents...
...Paragraph 4: Provost Furniss' exact statement, as he sat in his office, was: "These gum-shoes are in and out of here every day." At the time, the conversation was concerned strictly with the FBI. The "every day" was placed in quotes purposely to indicate that it was not the author's report of a fact, but his repetition of what had been told him, in this case by the man most qualified to make such a statement...
...Paragraph 5: The first statement was based on the opinions of such men as Provost Furniss, Professor of Philosophy Paul Weiss, Robert S. Cohen, and in fact most of the 30-odd men with whom the author spoke at Yale. Moreover, the FBI documents made public at the Judith Coplon trial last week prove that the FBI does use a large number of "confidential informants...
...Paragraph 6: Since Mr. Hoover has declined to name these individuals or to state in what manner they were misquoted, his statement cannot be answered...
...Paragraph 7: Mr. Hoover here refers to the Cohen case, the one case in which FBI interference could not be proved. In his entire letter he never mentions the other two cases reported, in each of which FBI involvement was definitely stated. In the Cohen case, all the evidence did, and still does point to the FBI. A New Haven FBI spokesman himself said that he knew of no organization besides the FBI which could have made the secret report on Mr. Cohen. The only further evidence we could possibly obtain would be either confessions by FBI agents that they...