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FO-360 (Ree. 16-423) — eres ° fN (indicate page, name of aewepoper, city and state.) 7 a Boston Globe Boston, Mass. sy * =): - 7 - a. > S:@a Denied Wiretaps eo iSennedy Never Told. WASHINGTON—Former Atty. Gen. Robert F. Nennedy’s top rackets buster told the Boston Globe~ Chicago’ Daily News today: “Sure, t knew for years shat the FBI.was making widespread use of elec- tronic ‘bugs’ in organized crime investigations. “But the top brass of the bureau would flat-out lie to me, denying it, whenever I officially asked about it.” ad William G. Hundley, nead of the Justice. Depart- ment’s Organized Crime Section from the G.O.P, days of 1953 until this September, insisted that he never discussed his knowledge of the bugring with Kennedy whilé Ken- nedy was Attorney Gen- eral, “and for a very good reason: . “I began to suspect as early as i959. from talking™to vart- ta FBI agents who were good tends, that they were using ‘bugs’ in rackets casei “And by’ '61 and."62, when | I'd been running the Organ- jzed Crime Section for three or four years, T nad learned about the ‘buz.:' with certain- ty. “Tut when sie Rureau offi- cially kepa dyson fo me about their use, denving it, I figure that this w.:- obviously so delicate that i: must be some- thing that wis just between the AG. (aily-Gen. Ken- nedy} aud tl. Director (FBI Director J. Edza. Hoover), a& about it” it_is with ‘national security’, wiretaps. So I never talked y, - 12/13/66 Dates ¢23/9 cation: Charles Nicodemus caiten Thomas Winship ' Wiretapping Titles Characters oF 139- Classilicatroa: Bost on Submitting Officer - ce en eh 8 ee ie ee OS eee aloe ae pn hahah caer ¥ TJ] Neing Investigated