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bs ba - 5. New York, New York 10003 peut TON | oo aN = Dear | Mr. Lash: | - ee i Se | ~N | . o> BK review of our files for information jeoncerning = \ : the = questions you raised in your letter of November - 19th x ‘failed to reveal that President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered a wiretap to be placed on John L. Lewis’ telephone. Sincerely yours, tr, NAMED x | WED _ New - g STATE’. Mm. Kell! ‘DEC Z 1974, pO STD Seige eh ote bs eC gon Clarence M. Kelley ~* f ee Director be 1 - The Dente oe Rbomney General - Enclosure C. 1i- Bufile 62-115530 (FOI-REPLIES) NOTE: Records in Bufiles concerning the Lewis and Roosevelt . conference specified.-in correspondent ' & letter reveal that _ .., Lewis told Roosevelt: he had been "under surveillance" for some — '- time by the Secret Service or-the FBI. When the Director was a - . informed of this allegation, he denied it in a letter to © Assoc.du._ Stephen Early, Secretary to the! President, dated 10-31-40, a ye ee , stating that “this Bureau never has ané-is not now making « Asst. Dirt - any investigation of John L. Lewis."’ (62-28488-3, 4). In. Adsin—-- -- 1949, the “Chicago Daily News" printed a-version of the con- __ ... anne setnaa versation similar to that of the correspondent' s which had ___ Biles & Com. een excerpted frdém* hy of Lewi D. Alinsk Gen. Inv. : ident. ' Jaspection WW " tnteth. _ beboratery Toaieing mi: law PP, e CONTINUED PAGE TWO Legot Coun. = Lee Fie Wry 2 & Telephone Ra. 4 Diecter Sec'y. +‘ MAIL ROOM PE UNIT C_] when, Ue 2 7 2 ee wt tant ne ee . cere ~ fe ee