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wo RS la ected Van ic” ’ ue 7 . a ¢. ~ - ’ : gg nd 7 _ - REBACK AND REBACK (©). JAN 13 Soeied ; 34 AUDLEY END oS ; . “ee BUFFALO 26,N.¥. y Dv TAYLOR CALI STATES DISTRICT JUDGE MARCUS REWNE FCESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YOR!S Tee eee Dear Jucge Henderson: he he Bagels LE Sa hh a In looking back to 1950-54 I wish, with all my heart, that I had taken your advice * and the advice of President Eisenhower, Assistant Commissioner of Internal Revenue in Veashincton, Mr, Paul Webster, the FBI, the Criminal Investigation Division and the . - Treasury Investigation Division, and later the advice of Mr. Richard Nixon, to “sue hell. out of the Internal Revenue Service for their “malicious, mischievous, libelous and puni- tive actions against you." Suggested sums were $1,000,060 each for my husband and my~- self, and punitive damages to our caréer. , a But by the time we won our case against the Infernal Revenue - who nad sued us’ falsely for "tax evasion" and had smeared our names as "tax evaders" through all the © y. nétional newspapers - in 1954, we had been too terrorized by early morning threats from J trem, a le Gestapo, were too exhausted and tan disgusted agéinst what our country had**- permitted ecgainst decent citizens, and wanted only peace, However, we were ahta ty ‘ tid the Service of Commissioner of Internal Revenue in Washington, George Schoeneman,.. tor his part in the tactics against us, and got District Director of Internal Revenue by bufiglo, William McGowan, to "retire," and caused the firing of one particular agent, uM Robert Bickford, and the criminal prosecution of another agent in New York, Max Wolfe, 7 #no had gone to our then publishers, Scribners, in New York, and-had carefully removed * énd presumably destroyed ALL letters to and from the publishers received, and wiitten, by my husband, Marcus Reback, in a criminal attempt to "show" we had never nad a partners? Aiso, when I informed David (Negus) Niles, Special Aide to Mr. Truman, that his part in tt. conspiracy against us ~ because we had denounced Communism in his presence ~ was now known to us, and we were preparing papers for his arrest, he dropped dead. So did Edwarc Wagner of the local office, on the same information, and also another man, ne .@ also cid not sue - as we were wisely advised to do - because there is an old saying: “if you tangle with a skunk you will get a stink from him." However, we have, in a very safe plece, the tape recofditigs of IRS agents’ conversations with us in our nouse,’' and recordings of their threats on the telephone, and their demands for $10,000 in extortion to “stop the frame-up on you in Washington." The FBI has copies, I believe, and also the criminal investigation division of the Treasury. I went over these matters briefly with you in your office in 1952, when you advised me what to do, and I wish to God I had taken your advice then. . ; Bo : are For, my husband, a veteran of World War 1, never did-recover his badly injure health as & result of the terrible ordeal we suffered from the "gov'mint" from 1950-54, This left him in a weakened state. He was already 66, had a heart condition from his Service, Moreover, he had spent 30 years, himself, in the Desartment of Justice, and has.a special citation from them, He loved his country. But when he found out that "his country” could co such a vile thing against decent, industrious tax-paying citizens, his heart aimost brok He ‘never recovered. I am made of sterner stuff, I remember what Cicero and Jefferson sai: that governments were the natural enemies of the people, and must be eternally watcned or they would become tyrannous. Amen. a es aeons one *You may recall that the local IRS sent a local Maiia gangster, one Herman: !: meng ange nie ne mee meeps Wie Aa te Pe gO kT, ie a VO cs he Coe, CEE We ee