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eee eee Tm SM . Doty a, COS tg ee a Oke kop ge er ee ee ge a ee feeling that these things were true and that they were of such importance that they should be passed on. Some of these, of course, are in the COINTEL Program. I was not privy to some of these allegations. °I assure you that this will not continue to the present time. Ihave been asked what about your own feeling ‘about such information. ' Since I have arrived I have not had a bit of gossip or a bit of rumor sent to me and this is over two years. men or other public figures. I do not subscribe to that type of thing. ihave afile on me. It is a quite lengthy fi the investigation conducted about me at the time I was being considered. I understand it is quite voluminous. I assure you that I have not read that file. I do not know ‘who made complimentary statements about me. I don't know who made derogatory statements. Perhaps, maybe, some of you may have made such statements. I don't want to be colored in my opinion about you by some statements which you may have made in good faith, and I think this substantially is what it is all about, The confidentiality and the privacy of individuals. If you, Joe mye sc Ligatelte,, want to make a statement about me, -you should, I“ * think you should be given that right, and I think that the proper forum is in one of confidentiality. I have not read those so-callec Rees, are Po ae am a gossip, rumor, or other o tel eat bjectionable types of materials. Iam ®, : es re ee P| we at gt re dt i eh ae tae