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Memorandum for Messrs. Tolson, DeLoach, Sullivan, Bishop. June 19, 1969 asked immediately to release them textually. He said he thought I ought to do it. I told him I would have to get the authority of the Attorney General for that. said that is another problem, but the text ought to come out. He. Isaid it is very well for me to say what is in them, but the text ought to come out. I told him I realized that. He said he thought once before we had put out photostats. I told him a Congressman, Gross, made inquiry in regard to some of Kennedy's authorizationsbefore he died and after he left the Attorney Generalship. I said he denied he had approved certain authorizations and I sent to the Congressman Xerox copies of the authorization $igned by Kennedy, as he being a Congressman, I felt he was entitled to it, and/then Attorney General approved. I said in this instance, if we get a request from a Congressman or Senator along the lines he indicated, I would submit it to the Attorney General with my recommendation. said I was going to get an immediate. request -- within the next coupe of hours or as soon as he can get this out -- from every news media for the text. I told him these were confidential documents of the Department and can only be released as to the text by the Attorney General.. thanked me. 1:08 PM I returned a call from. and he told me he very. much appreciate. my calling him back. He said he realized after we were finished talking tiat there was this one rather crucial question that he had not asked me and he did not know whether I could comment on it or not, but it seemed necessary to ask it; namely, whether the investigation of Dr. King did or did not reveal any suspicion of Marxist character.. b 7C 670 bb again thanked me. Very truly yours, A.e.d. John Edgar Hoover. 5- Director