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‘r o . . t page 2 - Mr. Saxbe short shrift from the FR7’, and furthermore would be intimidated, grillod, ane looked upon with suspicion Nothing in public life, including the sordid, amoral Watergate disgrace, has cisturbed me as deeply as the bunyling, manipylation, rnd ineptness of tho FBI Since Mr. Hooverts death. I grew up with the Bureau, from the days of Melvin Furvis an? the notorious reign of the public enemies whe: i was a wide-eyed boy, with a regard toward it close to idolatry, nurturing a secret amoition to be an fgent’ someday. .. Tanoychout the years, its reputation was untarnished. in time the Rockic’s may turble, Gibralter may crumble, but the Bureau was made of sterner stuff: incorruptable; efficient; dedicated. I did not naively think everyone associated with the Burean was elisible for sainthood; - when Mr. Hoover's successor,-L. Patrick Grey III, oF admitted lying'in the Watersate affair, I was bewildered and disappointed this massive conspiracy of crime-and cover-up in high places even extended to the once- inviolable FBI, but our senses had been assaulted by an atmosphere of amorality, abuse of power, and criminal § conduct that peaeveneimeianamlimntcoed & nan hand=ploKed (¢ in a pattern of such magnitude seemed almost expectable,. Not ten righteous men could be found to save Sodom and Gomorrah, ’ My }igh revard for the Bureau had been enhanced further by my friend and colleague, the late Hoyt Andres, who was a former assent primarily assigned to cover subversives on the west coast during World War II, which at tnat time involved more Communists than Nazis. A man of iron integrity himself, Hoyt had an almost reverential at-. titude tovard the Bureau, and was among those assircned ‘ to track down the nine Nazi master-spies landed by U-boat on the coast of Maine and then swallowed up in nine larsze, Separate cities. They were all apvrehended swiftly, and nobody from the FRI got on the radio and pleaded with them to give themselves up. What's more, I consider it one of the most masterful jobs in the history of investigation that a handful of agents could track down mine clever, expert saboteur~spies who spoke perfect .eenglish, had perfect papers, and had a skillful ~ underground network to move them about, and today's FBI cannot trace at least three bungling, amateurish revolutionaries, including one whose picture has appeared daily on television and in newspapers and macazines throughout the country]