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ame we A(pe 2-577) Be pen lca err ERS SS AR dni acta Te Gaede as . Yoea o « Casper — # Callahan | a Sliven ———e j ae Tavel ——_———-—— _ Trotter ——-—-- Tele. Room emeraee | ‘ Holmes yp? ga Le Gandy EF The Washington Merry-Go-Round ~~ - —————w Who’s Telling Truth on RF KF eud. By Drew Pearson and |s0™me years eatiler when John-lany other government agency! ¥ son waz a Senator. can become dangerous. t- ack Anderson. | The bugcing case, however,| when it became known that has had more political reper- . A previous column posed cussions than probably any e FBI had engaged in whale the question of whether Bobbylother in American history. (Sate wiretapping for a period Kennedy was responsible for! Among other things, U.S.—f years, Attorney Gencral -lowe investigation of Bobby|District Judge William Jories,Mamsey Clark requested J. Baker and whether this mayjone of our more courageous }idgar Hoover to give him & have been the chief reason forputists, has ordered the FBI }tist of al) cases in which Ille- ais feud between LBJ andi‘? produce the raw files in the gal evidence had been ob- perc ob Fred Black cate. 4 f a It also ratsed the question of, What is surprising is tha fained by wiretapping an who was telling the truth Inpthls Is the first time in history Mavesdropping. Clark wanted so Informing the President:—h¢ Justice Department has|this so that he could asecrtain Attorney General Clark, whopevér seen an FBI raw file. Itiwhether or not to proceed er Reve: ya * mR Br ee said he could find no evidence that Bobby Kennedy had Initl- ‘Ated the probe; or the FBI, which Informed the President that Kennedy was behind th Baker investigation. The whole business als ralses important questions ref... is an amazing document, con- taining all sorts of fnnuendo, rumor and undigested fact. Power ard Politics The FBI Is supposed to be; part of the Justice Depart. | with certain indictments. O53. Edgar Hoover refused lthis request. He was polite’ about it; nevertheless cate- orfe, The Attorney Genera! is supposed to be the chief xecutive of the Justice De- The Washington Post Times Herald Cc 1S The Washington Daily News 2 Spittes & le eger ec at 2a (VERMEER, aetna Wt tate Bt ep daed. wae te ca of Americans to protectio epartment officials had nev- rdinates, J. Edgar Hoover, | (he Sunday Star (Washington) ——— from police state methods, vt before seen a raw FBI file simply ignored his order. He The eavesdropping on Frec { : indicat! t th ointered that the Attorney ives some cation o e L oe hi t at Black's rooms at the Caritan cnerat five ma list 6 Hotel was obviously political power accumulated by the FBI leases in which he was inter- ; he possibility that it Is#ested, then he, Hoover, would Tt involved litical pals o and the p f then Viee President Lyndarj becoming similar to some of) ithe Attorney General Teinson including the late the police hureaus of Europe,|whether wiretaps hag nven, Sen. Bob Kerr of Oklahoma such as the “Deuxieme Bu.|U5ed to collect the evidence. i The Worker —. _--__ Rep. Carl Aibert of Oklahoma reau" of Parls. t . : The New Leader ———___-___ the Democratic Floor Leader;| The Deuxieme Bureau has FBI Lobbying ; Rep. Gerald Ford, the Repub-[long been known as more pow- This necessitated exhaustive, e ‘the National Observer lican Floor Leader; James(érful than any French politica) preparation of a list of cases, e abionat tee - Daily News (New York} —-————_-— sunday News (New York} — New York Post ———————___—— The New York Times ——--.—___—— fhe Sun (Baltimorc} ——~——_—__ garding the constitutional righeg™es* ¥et the fact that Justice partment, but one of his sub- = Evening Star (Washington) ‘The. Wall Street Journal —--~____¢ Webb, head of the Nationai|ficure because of ils knowl-@or the FBI. A lot of work f People’s World ~~. Space Agency. Finally, the taps| edge of the private lives of;would have been saved had + Dope r included the activities of Bob-/cabinet officials and members lark'’s request been honored. Nate . by Baker. Nothing turned up|of the Chamber of Deputies. §) More recently J. Edgar ya 9 = io connect Vice President? The power to Inform, the Ploover has sent some of his 7 "P- fs t ‘Johnsen with Baker's oper-[power to eavesdrop, and the| men up to the Senate to Iohby ~ * ations, ¢zeent_for, Baker's gift|power to operate without hav-(ag a Inst the jerime-in-the- a po - of & ni 6 set for Christinas|ing' funds doublechecked byjstreete” bill. He “WENT “the - a es F525 Lu 1968 °