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——h-idgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation Dear Mr Hoover: ; I believe I heard on radio that your office had been asked by -a legislator to investigate the grounds on which the National Rifle Association claims tax exempticn, If you have not already done so, I suggest that you begin with Senator’ Tydings, That senator declared on naticnal television--presumably a non~ privileged utterance~-- that this organization is supported by the Arms manufactubers and he at least hinted that it had no right to claim tax exemption, I know members of this association who unhesitatingly describe it as a "lobby." A local man guessed that Senator Monroney perhaps lost 100,000 votes in Oklahoma merely for his sponsoring to some extent the "fly-speck" Act which is the only thing that the current legislature would allow. fours truly, DEG 19 1968 _eeeee