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' Hundley said it was not true that there had been any let-up in = ~* the fight against organized crime, following the death of President § £. Kennedy, as far as tle FBI was concerned, or that there had been any * diminution in reports to the Organized Crime Section from the FBI. He- i aade it very clear that he had not made such statements to Grahan, Hundley said he knew that Graham had talked to Ron Goldfarb, who used to be an attorncy in the Organized Crime Section but Iert the .| Department to work on the senatorial campaign of Bobby Kennedy, and he [ise that Goldfarb, through his previous employment, had probably talked to other attorneys in the artment. Hundley did,not actually put the finger an Goldfarb. . ~——— . . I then discus:ied the Attorney\\General's pres onference with Joe Mohbat, of the Associated Press, ‘on 7/20/65, and I said that the AP dispatch on this interview certainly was misleading and left the impression with us that we were being knifed in the back. I pointed out that the whole tenor of the interview was that the FBI had not been an the organized crime field until Bobby Kenedydrove us into it, and after he left the FDI ceased its activity until AG Katzenbach renewed the pressure, and that the extent of activity in the organized crime investigative field \.as, in effect, how much pressure the AG applied. 1 reiterated that the FSI had never let un: that the AG had indicated we aad to use hundreds of agents on the assassination, and this was true, but it did not affect our drive on organized crime. : -> cnondl . cv wvanenine sein ei ny ro? The AG further indicated jealousy existed in the various agencies 3 and specifically mentioned the FBI. I pointed out the extent of our : cooperation with other agencies and with local authorities, and again i pinpointed such placcs as Chicago and Youngstown to show this. I men- tioned that the Department had indicated that 60% of the convictions in organized crime were the result of IRS cases, and advised that, as a tae 4 TOOT AA acetate ORS Fed, - _T? a * matter of fact, many of these cases were the result of information we had | furnished IRS. I pointed out the extent of our dissemination to other 2 agencies. I pointed out again that our continuous campaign is aimed at i [the structure of La Cosa Nostra and the eventual wrecking of this organiza \'tion, Mr. Hundley said he was aware of this. He said the figure of {60% was used in an effort to get IRS out of the trouble it was in with the Long Committee, us Mr, Hundley. said that he was present during the Attorney General's conference with Moh>-t, and that he did not come away with the idea ca _{ithat the AG was doin, other than defending the FBI, IRS, and the other’ |agencies. He said the AG did say that the FBI was a professional at if it had a job to do, it would .Sorganization and took the approach dot . ake | BA. dew rer CONTINUED — OVER 1 ' ’ i