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4-572 (Rev. 2-19-80) \ UNITED STATES GC Memoranaum To : The Director DATE: Ape 144 AG¢ FROM : N, P. Callahan * . r#) SUBJECT: The Congressional Record “0 B Ee T £ ‘ LN Nv. & oy ee St ‘ - Page A2903. Congressman Hiestand, (R) California, extended ©: his remarks concerning the steel situation. He stated "Regardless of the merits ‘in this specific struggle, the events show the tremendous power a dictatorial ¢ administration can and does use on the people. And make no mistake about it, =, this administration acquires and uses power with hatchetlike authority. On orders B.S. of the Attorney General of the United States, a newsman was awakened at 3 a.m. wea DY FBI agents and questioned about a story he wrote after interviewing the president tile «2 f a steel company. Other reporters_were also awakened and interrogated. kee Wi.at is this—the Gestapo? The FBI agents confirmed to an Associated Press S73 ~ 2/40 Original filed in: C A ‘ ee H reporter they were acting on direct orders of Attorne General Ken .n ~ {; Mr. Hiestand included the Associated Press dispatch of April 12,” 1962. The ; dispatch stated "Philadelphia. —The Federal Bureau of investigation awakened ui Newsman Lee Linder of the Associated Press at 3 a.m,, today to question him pe | about steel price statements attributed to President Edmund F. Martin of an Bethlehem Steel Corp. after the company's annual meeting Tuesday. - - - Two ‘e ' FBI men arrived at Linder's home about 4 a.m. Linder, who had suggested they ,, Wait until morning to see him at his office, was wakened again, along with his ; wife, by loud knocking on the door. The agents talked with him less than an oS ‘hour, At Wilmington, another newsman, James L. Parks, Jr., of the mr: . Wilmington Evening Journal, found two FBI agents waiting for him when he . arrived at work at 6:30 a.m. today. The agents had been there since 6 a.m. 4 { Parks, Linder, and John Lawrence of the Wall Street Journal office in Philadelphia pec! i were the only newsmen who interviewed Martin after the meeting. It could not be ee determined immediately if Lawrence also had been contacted by the FBI, but the es , agents asked both Linder and Parks if they knew where Lawrence could be reached, A 1 77- £1327 136 : NOT EECORD We may 2 062, eee eee eee In the original of a memorandum captioned and dated as above, the Congressional Record for fggrh (6, 1962 was reviewed and pertinent items were . marked for thé Director's attention. This form bas been prepared in order that portions of a copy of the original memorandum may be clipped, mounted, and placed cs. ai f ¥ TLE ET ER IT PLOTS TAR POM AER Be Sele ETE ree ee PRED cep enneds ee | ‘Fe 5, ie ge et CE ge ae eat FE eR RE Serre we Re Re BET oe OR