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a. FROM : FR. BASSETT: np ide ene et aU . 0. Os. ee re ee On aie Ow eb ete le Ss bakt Owom we UNITED STAGES GOVERNMENT ~ _Memor_idum a ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED DATE | Id vin re - 7-35 BBY SpzmLy> ruwjecr: _ SULLIVAN MEMORANDA TO JOHN DEAN NF ° ‘(PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S ADMINISTRATION ~ - ALZEGED INFLUENCE ICE OF CERTAIN FEI oo “usterence isa de 40 my memorandum 1/30/75 vaptioned | “Special — Seem at Democratic Nationa) Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersev, 8/22-2! a concerning the allegations in the *Saltivan Memorantia” captioned "Re; ‘Presicent Jonson, Politics in the FBL " ‘In the Sullivan Memoranda, page 2, dast mararraph, if states in pert that the Roosevelt and Johnson administrati en oused the FBI for political purpeses. It was alleged President and Mrs. 7 _Boosevelt ™. . . would indicate te FBI they were not interested iz FDI pushine rerfain investigations too far if the fees were oncs tic Roosevelts did not want derogatory information developed on for they liked them or wanted them to avail themselves of their services. Two examples ~ of this arc Don Lash ard Semner Welles when the tatter was Oncer- . ‘ Secretary of State and information had been received inat he was a homo- semal.. " A review af Burean files, based on information available, CASCIOBES ny _ information that a Don Lash was associated with the White Ho the .. Roosevelt Administration. Bureau files do reveal tha ' ‘From a review of Bufiles it appears that Sollivan was in fact referrin: to Joseph P, Lash who did have close connections with the White Honse, \ cifically Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt, and was reported to bea frequent ite House guest. Lash was being considered for 2 commission with the Of ' of Naval Intelligence (ONT). That agency conducted an investigation in this regard; however, Lash was not offered a commission. He was inducted inic the U. S. Army on 4/29/42 and was discha-ged on Wis. 35 1- Messrs. Adame, McDermott RIGINAL Ee ge? a ian SSC:wmj (5) me ee cept = 2, ‘ : “S BEY wer cls baw faut 2ftfro : CONTINUED — OVER Bott . emeense. 8G OF, Mgt momen *7 _ - - -a ~ SEPT GT “=i SHOWN a ~ t - _ * _ wes . E pet - “~ wee tee . o g 4 JAN 26 1978