ATTACK ON HON. J. EDGAR HOOVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400080009-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: January 17, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

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January 3.7; 1966 FOIAb;
He states categorically that he never. to complete the picture of this Soviet smear
wrote such a letter. For the information campaign, which amounts to character as-
of Senators who are present, perhaps I saUSination.
ahnnl'i renA the latter int., the Burr,.,, Sincerely yours,
They are part of a concerted' Communist
The letter is dated January 11, 1966, time of the Senator from Iowa has ex-
and reads as follows: pired.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Mr. HICKENLOOPER. Mr. Presi-
FEDSRAL BtTPEAU 'or INvrntloATeoN, dent, I ask unanimous consent that I
Washington, D.C., January 11, 1960. may proceed for 1 additional minute.
Hon. BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPIM, The PRESIDING OFFICER. With-
U.S. Senate, out objection, it is so ordered.
Washington, D.C. Mr. ? HICKENLOOPER. Let me con-
MT DEAR SENATOR: This is to acknowledge, elude by saying, with respect to the sug-
your request for the complete facts as known
to this Bureau concerning the anonymous ? gestion In Mr. Hoover's letter that I
letter you received containing what pur- might have some question about this
ports to be a copy of a personal letter to matter, that, the letter was so crude
'former White House aid Walter Jenkins and so scurrilous that on its face it was
over my signature. a forgery. At no time have I had any
I am pleased to comply with your re- question as to the truth or falsity of the
quest and will begin first by stating with- letter. It is false on its face. I mere-
out any equivocation that I never wrote ly wish to clear the matter up so that
such a letter.
The letter you received In one of many all may know that these things are con-
anonymous mailings sent to various Son- stantly going on ? as attacks are made
store, Congressmen, and other prominent against our law enforcement agencies.
the past In this and other countries by the
Soviet Disinformation Department proved Ir-
refutably that this was a Communist scheme.
You may recall that the nefarious schemes
of the Soviet Disinformation Department
were exposed in a report prepared by the
Central Intelligence Agency last year, The
details of that A-enc 's st d 1 t
u
er
d
smear campaign which was launched a year
ago.
The campaign began In January 1066, ?
when several letters of this type were re-
ceived by individuals who also brought them
to my attention. Several more were brought
to my attention by Individuals who received
them in April 1905.
Upon examination, the copy of .the letter
supposedly signed by me was getermined.to
be a crude forgery. Comparison of all the
letters disclosed they bars all been prepared
by. the same person or persons. Further
y w
e pr n e
ATTACK ON HON. J. EDGAR HOOVER y
In the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of September
Mr. HICKENLOOPER. Mr. President, 28, 1995.
1 had Intended, during the morning hour The study revealed that the Soviet DisIn-
on last Friday, to discuss this subject, formation Department of the KGB, the
and to put in the RECORD a letter dealing Committee for State Security, wages
g a broad-scaled propaganda offensive against
with it. However, I was not on the floor U.S. agencies and pointed out that
when the Senate suddenly adjourned i and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
and I did not reach the Chamber quite are priority targets for attacks. It also dis-
In time. closed that the overall objective Is to die-
The Information contained in the let- credit U.S. agencies here and abroad and em-
ter did leak out in some way, however. phasized that a preferred instrument used by
For the RECORD I wish to do now what I the Soviets In their attacks Is the forged
had Intended to do last Friday, document.
Typical of the tactics used in such efforts
About 10 days ago, I received a scur- was the circulation of letters in South Amer-
rllous anonymous letter, mailed from lea in the summer of 1064 In that case too
Baltimore, alleged to contain a photo- my name had been forged on the letters.
static copy of a letter which was alleged They were designed to make it appear that
by the writer of the anonymous letter to the Federal Bureau of investigation and the
have been written by J. Edgar Hoover, Central Intelligence Agency had something" '
Director of the Federal Bureau of Inver- to do with the Brazilian revolution of April
ligation, to Walter Jenkins. 1964. The intricacies of that Communist
scheme became further apparent t when we
when we
The alleged photostatic copy of the determined that my signature has been
letter is so scurrilous and putrid that I forged from a letter stolen by Cuban" In
do not Intend to put It In the RECORD. Havana in 1060.-
I Sent the anonymous letter to Mr. I trust that In making these facts available
iloover, for his information and for to you I have satisfied any and all questions
fhatever aid and assistance It might be, which the scurrilous anonymous communi-
Mr. Hoover wrote me a letter, stating cation you received may. have raised. If not,
do not
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that he had received the anonymous let- In ooncluolu hesitate
slo a. I would call on me like t to again.
let with the alleged copy of a letter which to sxpe uay
Fetter
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