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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."
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