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luN . UNITED S GOVERNMENT : Spt] a3[ 985|8 TO #263013 Mr. Tolson DATE:, 7/13/48 ALL INFORMATON CONTANED FROM : L. B. Nichols SUBJECT: O NATION MAGAZINE With reference to the reconmenddtions set forth in,my. attached memorandun of July 7th,'I talked to.Dauidknrr gbout. the incident which his wife wrote about in the May-l issue of(hy Hohor o fo yoafqns ay? uo Fuodau I&d up ot Guggnqzuggo oujaobo! Investigation the statenent: "He is the hind of person who. u*doop huouf oy? Aq ob pup auoo o+ Poou oubau syy shgwand told hin the facts and read him a portion of the report pertorhing ts Joseph Rauh. Karr said his wife should neuer baue printed.the statenent 'shedid and he apologized on her behalf and stated his wife-would-watch for an opportunity to correct the matter and in addition they woyld go after the informant. I talked tp_PhilipSrahan, the Assistant.to.thePublisher of. Hy6noy? 5y pyn's ah .buguaou yiy? *uno? so yno uaoq spy oym ysod ay? in which it did becanse bu_setting. forththewdetails.i.t.explained.very carefully..how_much credibtlity_should..be.attached..to.the..pitness.who said that Rauh was Communlstically inclined. He also mentioned that ! whtle he had heard the story fron different persons, he.thought that : Wayne,Coy could have been a little more objective in telling the story. He further'stated he hgd heard numerous rumors.about the FRl and he thought we should keep this.incident in the_back..ofnour minds-and. he would like sometime.assoon as. the. convention.was.-ouer.to_do.something in the Lost to.spike sone of the..unfounded.zunarsbeing-spread about 1 the EnI. He nentioned the Schlesinger_case and the case of theuriter, 9y? uo gsod ay? o daar D bugfun bugdapisuoo uaaq pDy.ay oy nq 0 B. C. B. incident. Grahan suggested that if the Director would write snn Aryuouf ay goy? fAprd pooh o 1 angb ngugngdao prnon hoyg Jaggat p N1 RECORDED COFY FILED the Post's.hauing been caught "off.-base. He further stated he had issuedyorders that,before any other such letters are to be published they are'to be,ghecked very carefully and are to be brought to his personal attentibn. I told him we would be glad in each case to check into the matter.''I frankly think that sone good hgs been gccomplished in this matter. 1 I also talked to Robert Esterbrook who was.very apologetic. and who stgted thatthe-Bureau bad_been.done-an-injusticeand that he incidentally invtted ne to have lunch with him today, whtch I am doing. ADDENDUM:LBN:uP.7g13-48- I sgw EsterbrQok. 'He is a product LBN:MP INDEXED-69 2219 EX-45 61AUG9 1948