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Wow i” Bepteaber £2, 1957, ats wee - ae a ome a wo wT ae * me Hee ap yee ue . Lote : eh or MEMORANDUM FOR MR. TAMA t ae a. . a ee Ret, Bonslourter F Broadcast. ci ae 3 AP ne 9g, the. following is. an excerpt from: the above “broadgest that NO | pertatas, ‘to this Bureau UE Soe : "During the past w-ek or sc there has been a brewing editerial eriticisn ageinet the Federal Eureeuv of Investigetion, and it te basec wy in cenerel upon these lines: That the FEI must te a pretty poor cutfit un if etter investigetine the record of Mr. Justice Hugo flack and ‘ive to bdm a clean bill of health and then navine a newspaper man come along ‘ - and.make some very startling revelations about the new Ascoclate Justice *;, ° and his alleged. connection with the KXK, .That criticism has beca based a - Upon | absolutely no knowledge of faots. Thi. was made cleer tocey Uy wy ‘Attorney’ General Cusmings ig | peshington. ‘His attention was drean to , these oriticlsms through the § vepartaert of Justice, but he made {t clesr : today thet toe Department o* $ustice had made no duvertigation ot Huso Black either before or after Mr. Roosevelt named the ex-Senator ic the high court, and thie editor 48 in a positton to know beyond the jvestion of a doubt fram ether equal! y “reliable sources tonight thet whcutever Way have oscurred within the Attorney Generel'’s Office, at least uo request wae ever meie to the Federal Cureeu of Investigation tc examine Mr. Black's qualifications, and sa those close to the picture say, the FEY cannct be blamed of any matters racardine Mr. Black. For it net only did not investigate him, but wesen't asked to investigete nin. The policy followec by the ISI is usually eat the request of the attorney Cenerel's cffice. The FBI investigates the avplicents for Pedcral Judgs- ships, CU. ©. District Attorneys, OG. £. Marehals end other asimticr offices coming within the Department of Justice. It woulda te the heichi cof Anpertinence for the Department of Justice to blandly investigazs Supreme Court Justices, for the Supreme Coart is an indepencent body with no counection whateoever with the Departnent of Justice, As Mr. Cum ines pointed cut, no investigeticns were ever made cf any of the prefent kexbers of the Supreme Court, with the exception of Asscel te Juztice Stone, and only then when h. was u candidate for the Attorney Gan-eralssip ae We net forthe Court. Thus, in the Light of the facts, dt becomss c ear re | 7a Jj oe Aan tolébome the FBI for not presenting the facts of Mr. Black's Klen [iy jones AdondeRtions is unwarrantea and misdirected, inasmych sa the TET was not oo | OS sven requestad to meke any such TR DEET. | in p39 2 a aon fg. ; & & sige fo. UROUKDSD & MDEXER || OOS Le a / >. re 24, | Very tru: y yours, at et [e SEDER: uth 5 ror gett, , mo | ae OY SEAR ache 7 fobn Eégar Hoover, | Directcr.--—. - - wane Fongn Re Nee Pee ae wea NN - . ars aa a - ~_ | ae ee : es 4 7 me = — ati? "9