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a . a, ; Septenber wey 1957. | te: tet RATT we a + sa tye? a “MEMORANDUM FOR wR, TANM . me nd . , te; SoakCarter Broadcast. The following is an excerpt from the above broadcast that _ Pertains. to this Bureaus cae ae oy : as : Oat . toa a “se cs “During the’ past: week or so: “there has. been & brewing’ editorial Oe vy ~oritioism ‘against’ the Federal Bureau of snvestigation, and it is based — oot. ~imegeneral ugon these lines:’ That the FBI’ must be a Saghty poor outfit if after investigating the record of Mr, Justice Hugo” Black and give hina clean bill of health and then having 4 & nevspuper man come along and make some very startling revelations about the new Associate Justice k and his allered connection with the KKK. Theat criticism hes been based . tae upon absolutely no knowledge of facts. This was made clear today by .\ Attorney General Cummings in Washington... His attention was drawn to , these eriticisms through the Department - of Justice, but he mede it clear itoday that the Department of Justice had made -no.investigetion of Hugo: ‘elack elther before or after Mr. Roosevelt named the ex-Senator to the high-court, and this editor ‘s in a position to know beyond the question of a doubt from other equally reliable sources tonight thet whatever nay have occurred within the attorney General's Office, at leust no yequest Wes ever made to the Federal bureau of Investigation to exuaine _f ur. Black's qualifications, and as those close to the picture say, the. - Lae '/ FBI cannot be blamed of any matters regarding air, Black.. For it not , , only did not investigate him,’ but wasn't asked.to investigate him. . . The policy followed by the FBI is usually at the request of the Attorney General's Office. The FBI investigates the applicants for Federal Judge—_ ships, U. S. District Attorneys, U, S. Marshals and other similar offices 4 Coming within the Department of Justice. It would be the height of / impertinence for the Desartment of Justice to blandly investigate Supreme - a / Court Justices, for the Supreme Court is an independent body with no eo! connection whatsoever with the Department of Justice. As ip, Cummings , pointed out, no investigations were ever made of any of the present members of the Supreme Court, with the exception of Associate Justice wtone, and only then when he was a candidate for the Attorney Gere ralship and not for the Court. Thus, in the lisht of the facts, it becomes clear that to blame the FBI for not presenting the facts of ur. Black's Klan connections is unwarranted and misdirected, inasmuc.. as the FBI was not jor even requested to make any such investigation in the first place." | f - Very me Vv Sonne Ae a o S mrgonoen a mugs | Mme "3563 5 Q) a eee fu (se John saab ns Dire tor. Sie! art an