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os - ‘ - Poy Office Memohind % + UNITED ~ OVERNMENT | To :Mr. Nease se YA pate: June 11, 1958 . i ca ea ~- : Tolson __ Boardman .___. FROM : s Belmont , cone? Mohr Bet \). sueyect: INDEXING OF "THE FBI STORY" | - Teme ye AND©-MASTERS OF DECEIT" -— | Teter —— . . ; ) iy Tele. Room __ 4 * Holloman —. Gandy The indexes of both the Don Whitehead book, "The FBI Story," and the Director's book, 'Mastérs of Deceit," have not ( been indexed into Bureau files as such. Recently, there was an instance - wherein an item appearing in the Whitehead-book was brought to our \ attention by a reporter as the basis for an erroneous conclusion on his part. The search of the Bureau files which preceded our original outgoing \ letter to this reporter concerned the old motion picture "G-Men" and this file search did not make reference to the fact that this particular motion picture was mentioned in the Whitehead book footnotes. No effort hag been made in the Records Section to index the Director's book. As far as the Whitehead book is concerned pertinent portions concerning individuals. > mentioned in this work have been filed into that particular individual's main file and so indexed.’ This, of course, is not complete since it is hardly et possible to index such items as "Pearl Harbor," the gangster era, or “Operations of the Communist Party."' These " nonspecific items cannot be ct agcurately indexed. : . My 77H) The Records Section has advised that the actual index of ‘ both the books in question can be indexed in Bureau files and that such a procedure would indicate to an individual having a search made that a particular item appears on page so and so of either the Whitehead book or “Masters of Deceit."* It should be borne in mind, however, that the index to neither book is complete due to space limitations and the feasibility of such an indexing procedure is, therefore, questionable. There is, however, a possibility of avoiding possible contradictory communications if it were possible for the individual preparing Bureau communications to have refgfenc ae to a particular individual as they appear in these two books brought tg. sf attention when a file search is made. wy . “REC. [pote RECOMMENDATION: _« {00 REC. ——E—rw 2.104872 778 * ae © y Itis | rechmmended | that the Records Branch index the indices. ou both “The. FBI ory and ' see pe aan "43 JUN 20 1958 . eet a ee 1-Mr. ba- 3 He 2 RE Aepey reapy Ps “OTM: A LTO yw (aN Mars nee wales BY" s 60 i is / nora ete OF ce Me i