IOIr ni olel 464- rie To Have Used F.B.I. For Political Spying The newspaper sam sunk vl the more explosive , aspects of the Federal Bureau of Investigation'S- political history over the last', 30 yearS were detailed recently in a memorandum [turned over to the Senate Watergate committee by former CHICAGO, Aug. 15 (UFO- — 'White House Counsel John W. President Lyndon B. Johnson Pean 3d. The Tribune said the author sent F.B.I. agents to the 1964 Democratic national convention of the memorandum was Wilto conduct a political spying liam C. Sullivan, former assistant— director of the F.B.I. It operation against members of said Mr. Sullivan had refused his own party, The Chicago to discuss the contents of the Tribune reported today. memorandum. The newspaper article--said Mr. Johnson acted out of fear that he might be robbed of the some of the abuses of the F.B.I. Presidential nomination, the included: quAn F.B.I. alliance '.with newspaper said. Senator Joseph McCarthy "L.B.J. feared that somehow under the Eisenhower aadminhe would lose the nomination istration which 'kept McCarand it would go to Robert Ken- thy going' with information nedy," The Tribune quoted one gathered on individuals...." 41"Orders by Presidents unidentified source as saying. "The F.B.I. was sent up there Roosevelt, Johnson and Nixon [to Atlantic City] to find out to gather information on groups and individuals who were what was going on." The Tribune reported that clearly their political enemies." c"The funneling to several, later in 1964 "Johnson dictated in advance to the F.B.I. what i Presidents by the late J. Edgar' it Should include in its report 'Hoover of 'dirty and smutty' on activities of key White personal information about House aide Walter Jenkins," public figures gathered by the who had been arrested on a F.B.I." c"Request for F.B.I.- inforrna-. morals charge. • tion by President Jobsnon on his, 1964 opponent, Barry Goldwater, and the ordering of a `limited' investigation of Vice President-elect Spiro T. Agnew in 1968." -'0
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