ATTACK ON HON. J. EDGAR HOOVER

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Publication Date: January 17, 1966
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January 17, 1966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -SENATE
of Economic Advisers, in place of Mr.
Otto Eckstein.
The hearing will be held in room 5302,
New Senate Office Building. The nomi-
nee will be present. Any persons who
wish to testify or to submit a report
should write or telephone Mr. Matthew
Hale, chief of sta#I, Senate Banking and
Currency Committee, 5300 New Senate
Office Building, Washington, D.C., CA
5-3921.
MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE
A message from the House of Repre-
sentatives, by Mr. Hackney, one of its
reading clerks, announced that the House
had passed, without amendment, the
extend-
ing the date for transmission of the Eco-
nomic Report.
ADDRESSES, EDITORIALS, ARTI-
CLES, ETC., PRINTED IN THE
APPENDIX
On request, and by unanimous consent,
addresses, editorials, articles, etc., were
ordered to be printed in the Appendix,
as follows:
By Mr. DAVITS:
Statement by him on the Brooklyn Public
Library preschool program. -
. Article entitled "School of the Arts Estab-
lished To Foster Creativity, Offer Profes-
sional Training," published in the Now York
University Alumni News of December 1965.
By Mr. KUCHEL:
An article entitled ?Job Corpsman's Moth-
er Writes Christmas Letter," published In the
Trinity Weekly Journal of Weaverville, Calif,,
on December 23,1965.
By Mr. CASE:
Telegram sent by him on the occasion of
the testimonial dinner to the Honorable Jul-
ius Foster, Jr., and _,press release In conneo-
tton there
He states categorically that he never
wrote such a letter. For the information
of Senators who are present, perhaps I
should read the letter into the RECORD,
instead of merely putting it in the REc-
ORD.
The letter is dated January 11, 1966,
and reads as follows:
' U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION,
Washington, D.C., January 11, 1966.
Hon. Boulucx B. HICKENLOOPER,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.
MT DEAR SENATOR: This is to acknowledge
your request for the complete facts as known
to this Bureau concerning' the anonymous
letter you received containing what pur-
ports to be a copy of a personal letter to,
former White House aid Walter Jenkins
over my signature.
I am pleased to comply with your re-
quest and will begin first by stating with-
out any equivocation that I never wrote
such a letter.
The letter you received is one of many
anonymous mailings sent to various Sen-
ators, Congressmen, and other prominent
Government ofncials within the past week.
They are part of a concerted Communist
smear campaign which was launched a year
ago.
The campaign began in January 1965,
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 1965.
Upon examination, the copy of the letter
supposedly signed by me was determined to
be a crude forgery. Comparison of all the
letters disclosed they had all been prepared
by the same, person or persons. Further
comparison with other letters circulated in
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 Agency's study were printed
DOVER' in the CONGnESSIOHAL RECORD of September
337
to complete the picture of this Soviet smear
campaign, which amounts to character as-
sassination.
Sincerely yours,
J. EDGAR HoovER.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
time of the Senator from Iowa has ex-
pired.
Mr. HICKENLOOPER. Mr. Presi-
dent, I ask unanimous consent that I
may proceed for 1 additional minute.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. With-
out objection, it Is so ordered.
Mr. HICKENLOOPER. Let me con-
clude by saying, with respect to the sug-
gestich in Mr. Hoover's letter that I
might have some question about this
matter, that, the letter was so crude
and so scurrilous that on its face it was
a forgery. At no time have I had any
question as to the truth or falsity of the
letter. It Is false on its face. I mere-
ly wish to clear the matter up so that
all may know that these things are con-
stantly going on as attacks are made
against our law enforcement agencies.
VISIT TO SOUTHEAST ASIA
Mr. AIKEN. Mr. President, I should
like to supplement briefly the remarks
which have been made by the distin-
guished majority leader, the Senator
from Montana [Mr. MANSFIELD].
Lei; me say, first, that the mission
which was undertaken under the leader-
ship of the Senator from Montana met
with courtesy and hospitality everywhere
the group went, even where the country
visited took exception to our position in
southeast Asia.
The Senator from Montana is greatly
respected around the world. This was
quite apparent, previous to our call at
Cambodia. When the announcement of
our coming was made, the Senator from
Montana was described as "a man of
great justice."
As I have stated, we had been hospita-
bly received everywhere, but I believe
that all of us were unprepared for the
warmth of the reception which we re-
ceived in Cambodia, the government of
which is headed by Prime, Minister
Sihanouk, who relinquished a kingdom
to take a position which he felt would
be more helpful to his people.
Prime Minister Sihanouk did not men-
tion some of the complaints which have
been attributed to him in reports which
have been spread around the world. He
is more concerned over trespassing on
the area of Cambodia by others. If there
is trespassing, I would say that it prob-
ably is not confined to one side of the
South Vietnamese controversy. Any
such trespassing, I would presume, is
done without the consent of the Govern-
ment of Cambodia.
As the Senator from Montana has
stated, Prime Minister Sihanouk has re-
quested that the International Control
commission do what it can to control the
situation and to enforce respect for the
boundaries of his country.
HICKENLOOP- , vlr. President, 28, 1965.
The study revealed that the Soviet Disin-
on l st-PtrIday,- to discuss this subject, Soviet Committee for State security, wages
and to put in the RECORD a letter dealing a broad-scaled propaganda offensive against
that
with
tHowever, was not I and the agencies
Federal Bureau of Investigation
when the Senate suddenly adjourned and I did not reach the Chamber quite are priority targets for attacks. It also die-
Sri time. Closed that the overall objective is to dis-
The information contained in the let- credit U.S. agencies here and abroad and em-
phasized that a preferred instrument used by
ter did leak out In some way, however. the Soviets in their attacks is the forged
For the RECORD I wish to do now what I document.
had intended to do last Friday. Typical of the tactics used in such efforts
About 10 days ago, I received a scur- was the circulation of letters in South Amer-
rilous anonymous letter, mailed from ea in the summer forged of that case, , too,
Baltimore, alleged to contain a photo- name had on the
at
make it appear
and that
Bureau designed been t to Investigation
static copy of a letter which was alleged They the Federal were
by the writer of the anonymous letter to Central Intelligence Agency had something
have been written by J. Edgar Hoover, to do with the Brazilian revolution of April
Director of the Federal Bureau of Inves- 1964. The Intricacies of that Communist
tigation, to Walter Jenkins. scheme became further apparent- whefT` we
The alleged photostatic copy of the determined that my signature has been
letter is so scurrilous and putrid that I H~geda from m6 a, letter stolen by Cubans in
do not Intend to put it in the RECORD.
I sent the anonymous letter to Mr. . I trust that in making these facts available
to you I have satisfied any and all questions
Hoover, for his information and for which the scurrilous anonymous communi-
whatever aid and assistance it might be. cation you received may have raised. If not,
i
Mr. Hoover wrote me a letter, stating do not hesitate to call on me aga
n. Prime Minister Sihanouk has also re.
that he had received the anonymous let- in conclusion, I would like to express my
ter with the alleged copy ~,1~A& w~i'prtb` ' a~ th16si~ te,~q~l~tp~,priing an a lc quested inspection by others of the
ter
was supposed to l r ~fd~pt~Adc~ a -li~IdPhll~f~O R~~0 0? t
that the count harbors
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cording to the anonymous letter. ? In the chain of evidence being put together his Iovernmen