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M. A, Jones to Wick memo RE: LETTER ADDRESSED TO PRESIDENT LYNDON B.. JOHNSON We have received a number of inquiries concerning this investigation and the Attorney General and Mr. Marvin Watson at the INFORMATION IN BUFILES: ELE EES: It is noted that we have exp . White House have been furnished complete details. erienced difficulty with Senator Albert Gore for many years and he was placed on the Bureau's "Not To * Contact" list in March, 1954, when he made outrageous charges concerning the FBI and its activities. Gore had state. d that he felt the FBI often "smeared innocent people" and called the Bureau a “snooping police agency." We have had limited contact with Gore since this incident; however, it is noted that he was quoted in an article which appeared in the "Memphis Press-Scimitar" in December, 1963, as wondering if the F BI or the Secret Service should be censured for their "failure to exercise surveillance" over the Dallas building from which President Kennedy was shot. The article indicated that Gore deferred final judgment until President Johnson's special commission made its findings public concerning the asSassination. . : OBSERVATIONS: It is quite apparent from Senator Gore's obvious form letter that he is up to his old tactics of attacking the FBI without doing us the courtesy of checking the facts first. It is felt that any effort to contact him in order to provide him detailed information of this investigation would have no effect. Past experience has shown that Senator Gore is no friend of the FBI and, in fact, appears to delight in jumping on the bandwagon when people attack us. RECOMMENDATION: 2 For information. coy * oy Wess. A LE