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pee oy Cr a al ie a ey pm : rea co meen Peer yer pier ASHES pres pie fe Searched ......--.---.------- Serialized__...-----.-..-.----- _ 4 awison, ‘AV sconsdit ory 1-21-80; ee me poe Is J. Edgar Hoover A Spy? oh cCARTHY charges +hat_the I and state department loyalty * files @oritain proof of Communist sples working in the government... « ' J. Edgar Hoover and the good Rébub-| cut lican Seth .Richardson, head of the loyalty review board, say they do not. When asked whether he is inferring that these two men are sitting by watch- ing a spy ring undermine the American goyernm@nt, Sen. McCarthy had one of his brilliant explanations. ; The FBI, he sald, only gathers in- formation and turns it over to the at- torney, general, If the attorney general does nothing, the FBI. is powerless to act. In other words, he 1s asking us to telleve that J. Edgar Hoover js the) type of citizen who would watch his| government being subverted by a for- eign foe and say nothing about it be- cause the Autles of his office require him only to gather information. : * - + * ILE the senator was developing this interesting thesis on the floor ‘of the s*hate he was interrupted by Sen- Humphrey of Minnesota who posed this question: sy, - . “am I to assume that the senator from Wisconsin is the only man in the government who has the courage to speak in behalf of the Republic? .s - 'To this, McCarthy made this brilliant reply: ok, _ . . ' The senator knows full well that thi director of the FBI has no ~autuuilty whatsoever to call the attention of th i ' Cepital Times F _ , country. Replying to and Sen. Humphrey, McCarthy sald th:t if Hoover started making the “facts” a pout the. “top Communist agent” availible to the public, “he wuld not, continué in his job for. more, thah a moment.”} Obviously, the cofthtry should get_rid of Hoover right away. Or woyld it be petter jtist ‘to get rid of McCafthy? + y" Shed a Mr. Clegg - Mc. Glavin Bir, Wikyolse =” Va Lin, Reson __ it, Rarbe . 4 Bz, Letwont U4 Mr Mot Tele, Roam Mtn 8 tasg wo TOUTE a SEAT OF INVESTIGATION Uo os Keo RTM ENE OE Werke