CONGRESS IS URGED TO INVESTIGATE FBI

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• Publication Date: October 31, 1971
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P.I,INClY.CON, N.J., Oct. 30 bureauca it," Il.ul.dley said.
Ilse threc?co-chairmen of
the two-day Conference on the
FBI called on Congress today
for a "thoi:?ougli review" of the
FBI "neither to vindicate nor
condemn the. bureau but
Only to" Improve it."
Burke Idarshca.1, former as-
sistallt attorney general dur-
ing the Kennedy aclministra-
.tion,Norman. Dorsen, a profes-
sor of- law at New York Uni-
versity, and. W. f)uaise:l;,ock-
arcl, chairman of Princeton
University's politics (lepart-
mmnt, said that "for 50 years a
powerful federal. agency has
not had the thorough review
that, -we believe freedom and
good government. require ina
democracy."
The conference, tvh.ich
ended this afternoon, pride a
,
start toward such an inquiry, )ley general in the civi]. ri"llts
the co-chairmen said, but was,
" division. lloar said that. before
d
hamperefor lac) of pubic information,""we lll',e our
legislative representatives to
consider a national conunis-
sion of inquiry that would an-
swer many of the questions
raised here," they said. .
The co-chairmen suggested
that the Senate, having power
of 'ip 1>ro"Ol over file next
"Ho . always picked areas
where he had the most popu-
lar and political support. In
some political prosecut.i.ons:l.
was involved with, the bureau
.was ver ti,'r ery sensi.ti.Ve." : ?? ?
The discussion of the FBF's
investigation of organized
crime stemmed from a paper
presented to the conference
by Fred J. Cook, author of
"The -FBI and Organized)
Crime." Cook said the FBI be-
came interested in the Mafia
only after Robert Kenriecly be-
came attorney general and
even then was not always cn-
oporative.
A discussion of the Fl31;s
performance in investigating
civil. rights voting discrirnin.a-
tion cases was led by John
former assistaii attar-
Doar
3964 "we found that the bu-
reau didn't know the first
thing about its job" of iilvesti-
gatin discrimination cases.
I;ut. after CIS Director
Allen Dulles sl?: i it two days
investigating all increasingly
violent. situation in Mississippi
in. 1931,' "the bureau really
director of the FBI, nii;;ilt do performed," he W.
the job.
One of the conference's Par-
ticipants had another view,
however. Bernard Feiistcr-
wald, former counsel to the
Administrative Practices Sub-
connnittee of the Senate Judi-
ciary Committee, said lie did
not think Congress "is - ever
going to investigate J. Edgar
Hoover or the FBI. Hoover's
got a dossier on everyone on
the Tall, and they ]:now it."
.William Iiundley, chief-of
the Justice Department's or-
ganized crime division froni
19;i~ to 1966, said he believed
one of the. reasons . tlie- FBI
had been lax in investigating
organized - crime ? was that
many congressmen- had
connections with the Mafia
and that, conversely,, coibgress-
men.'will he loath to investi-
-gate the bureau because they
feared 'the FBI might retal-
iat:e.
F "Mr. Iloov.er is the complete
of informers, wiretaps and
electronic surveillance in gain-
ing information about the Q.
Klux ? Klan and diffei,ed
sharply with opinions c
pressed earlier in the confer-
s
ence that the use of informer
",raises tl]e specter of a po]iirie
sti co "
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