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ae Lar aah at, Te RSA At RA ta att tt tne nnn snnte tenn i i l daaen nn pro Memorandum to Mr. Tolson from L. B. Nichols RE: SENATOR ALBERT GORE eL tor Gore at 9:45 a.m, this morning, Upon arrival in the Senator's office, DeLoach was advised that the Senator would have to call off the appointment in view of an Executive committee meeting which had been scheduled for this morning. The Senator's Admin- istrative Assistant was advised that perhaps it would be possible to see the Senator at a later date, whe reupon the Administrative Assistant returned to the Senator's office. He returned ten minutes later and indicated that the Senator "might as well see a representative of the FBI now." Upon being ushzed: into Senator Gore's office, DeLoach courteously explained to him the purpose of his business and indicated that perhaps the FBI could be of service by discussing this matter with him and pointing out any factual matters which the Senator’seemed not to be aware of, promptly began casting aspersions at the FBI and our activities. He stated he felt it ridiculous that ''a snooping police agency' would furnish [is information on poor, innocent people without first evaluating the in- I Without showing any decency or courtesy, the Senator formation. He stated it was absolutely fallacious the way the FBI claimed that its files were inviolate when actually he had literally seen hundreds of Such files while serving as a member of a committee appointed to look into ee the activities of the old Dies Committee. The Senator stated he was disturbed over the lack of intelligence shown in writing FBI reports; our investigations i were not thorough and that we often smeared innocent people. He said he was disgusted with "guilt by association" tactics and that the FBI was not one-tenth of what it was cracked up to be. He stated that within recent months he has noticed that the FBI had fallen considerably in the minds of : the American people and that he felt the principal reason was the rumor- 5 mongering and the slander and the gossip that we traded in, ; The Senator made the above outburst almost without stopping. DeLoach then told Senator Gore that Mr. Hoover had sent him to call upon the Senator in an effort to be of service, However, such wild accusations as he had made would have to be answered and that they were going to be answered right then and there, DeLoach queried the Senator as to what specific cases the Senator had in mind when he made his accusations on the floor of the Senate and what cases did he have in mind while making the ;