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ll a a Tn i Miia Cte acta ti "e rae ten we. + o. +. GRITED STATES teh “Memorandum | a j/ to :MR. MOHR | pare; February 20, 1961 &=-——— ee * SURJECT: _ ATTORNEY GENERAL'S EFFORTS TO GET Ot, ar 8 = INTO BUREAU GYMNASIUM, TUESDAY EVENING n Sa : JANUARY 31, 1961 A! Leas Attached is John Cramer's column from the Washington Daily News % at 2-20-61, captioned "This Time the FBI Didn't Get Its Man." Cramer's column \ is apparently a garbled version of the Attorney General's efforts to get into the Bureau gymnasium on the evening of Tuesday, 1-31-61. The newspaper article NN “a4 é : F ~ ay indicates that a detail of FBI Agents was assigned to investigate evidence that the ‘\S Et gymnasium had had an unauthorized after-hours visitor. The Agents reportedly %._ i | called upon “the 63 year old Captain of the General Services Administration Guard ‘ bs : at the Justice Building."" The Guard Captain is the inferred source of Cramer's mS y | _ when the Agents asked him by yhat authority he replied that the gymnasium is part i ay of the Justice Building and Mr.~Kennedy is boss of the Justice Department. 7 FORE RT [J 3 8 A of my office interviewed SD E of the General Services Administration Guard Force at S7Le | | j | t j | | | information that the Attorney General had been admitted to the gymnasium and that © e Justice Building, with whom we have had favorable relations for many years. stated that he had never been interviewed by FBI Agents as stated in ched newspaper clipping. He stated that he was unfamiliar with any incident © wherein the Attorney General was given the key to the gymnasium. He checked records maintained relative to charging out keys and stated that there was no record of any key ever having been given to the Attorney General so that he could get into the gymnasium —— stated that he was not the source of the story either directly or indirectly _and pointed to an inaccuracy in that he is 67 years of age whereas he is referred to in the article as being 63. He stated that Sergeants ould have been on duty at the time the alleged occurrence took place. These men report for work at 4:00 p.m. and QD will ask them whether they are in any way the source of RIG t wT Oe — H \EN The newspaper story is, of course, not at all factual in that on the {Vt ‘ } occasion of the Attorney General's efforts to get into the Burea gymnasium on the evening of 1-31-61, he did not actually gain access to it. When he found the gymnasium to be locked, he checked with the Bureau switchboard and also stopped in eet: and introduced himself to members of the night force in our Mechanical Section. Copy . | of memorandum H, L. Edwards to Mr. Mohr 2-1-61 reporting this iW 57 85 is 357-6 / | | 2 for reference purposes. ‘ef gy ) 7 SY N <2 sot neta WW: jik (gk | alo ) Ps ” oe FER. 281981 10? mar 2 ‘10014 suirer Enclosures * rv" 4 FEB | BoReenih Mr. pat > itd ee ee ee He a ee ee eee ee