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December 23, "PARKER TAKES SWIPE AT FBI" " Rosen 27RE "2 LOS ANGELES MIRROR ARTICLE, 12-22- Tamm > LOS ANGELES EXAMINER ARTICLE, 12-23-% Mr. Tyetter _—— Si Urivan . At 12:25 p.m. today ASAC Alexander of Los Angeles | Tele“Koom ——__. called with respect to the above and Wick talked to him. He said Mr. Ingram the Los Angeles Examiner issue of today has an article quoting : ; Parker as denying reports he had been offered the job to head a 25; National Crime Commission. The article states it was learned in _ 7 Washington that no steps have been taken to form such a Commission. q ‘| The reporter on his own goes on to say that presumably Robert Kennedy would corisult | eee ae BEnae with J. Edgar Hoover before planning such a Commission to which, it is known, ; Mr. Hoover is very much opposed. ‘No such consultation has been held between "No tt . Kennedy and Hoover it was learned, " the article states. nll " Parker is quoted as stating that he conferred with one of Kennedy's — assistants recently and the Crime Commission matter was just briefly mentioned. Parker is quoted further as saying that Kennedy has advocated the idea of a Crime ceo en to eed mee mo ol Be TY = mae a ae ne wears es ne eee AFA LAF. H. Commission and Mr. Hoover has opposed it over the years beginning in 1952 before the International Association of Chiefs of Police. ASAC Alexander says that after Parker learned of the Mirror story iN ~ an ast - ~~ rday, Parker called in radio and television people telling them he had not been iN {fered the job to head the Crime Commission. He then pretty much reiterated his ( emarks which appear in the Los Angeles Examiner today. He amplifies these, however, to point-out that the FBI since 1952 has fought a resolution before the IACP for a Crim e s q a) Commission. He said the Director has always been opposed to a Crime Commission * } and he, Parker, has been for it and still is. Se pe ‘ On one of the television stations last night, George Putnam, newschster 1) had Parker as his guest. Parker was queried by Putnam as to his views which Parker A freely expressed. In conjunction with the television cast, Putnam showed a filmed clif~ = & presumably from "Meet the Press" during the Kennedy campaign for President b. | wherein Robe ennedy is shown stating that with respect to the Apalachin meeting no ’ one knew anything a about it but if 60 communists ¢g get together the Government knows about it at once. Parker said he certainly agreed with Kennedy's observation, that poth™ he and Kennedy believed in a National Crime Commission, that he, Parker, had “NS presented a resolution before) the IACP recently which Mr. Hoover apes and defeated. f \ AS Nee ha a: aE "| 2B JAN 123 1961 yy a ee ee ood. Ey SENT. DIRECTOR -