ATTACK ON HON. J. EDGAR HOOVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400030005-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: January 17, 1966
• Content Type: OPEN

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wrote such a letter. For the Information
of Senator4 who are present, perhaps I
should read the letter into the Rsconv,
Instead of merely putting it in the Rsc-
saasinatlon.
Sincerely yours,
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-
gestion 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.
The letter Is dated January 11, 1080,
and reads as follows:
U.S. DEPARTMENT Or JII97TCE,
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVVJTIOATION,
Washington, D.C., January 11, 1D66.
Hon. Bom uca B. HICKENLOOPLI,
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 n 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 In one of many
anonymous mailings sent to various Sen-
ators, Congressmen, and other prominent
Government officials within the past week.
They are part of a concerted' Communist
smear campaign which was launched s year
ago'
The campaign began In January 1006,
when several letters of this type were re-
calved 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 Vetermincd.to
be a crude forgery. Comparison of all the
letters disclosed they had all been prepared
by. the same person or persona. 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 n report prepared by the
Central Intelligence Agency last year, The
ATTACK ON HON. J. EDGAR HOOVER r?~???"`
In the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD of September
Mr, HICKENLOOPER. Mr. President. 20,1965-
I 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
Soviet to put in the RECORD a letter dealing ity, wages
R broad-scaled road-scaled Committee propaganda ar State e 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 Frida document.
Y? 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 lea in the summer of 1964. 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
ey 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 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 Cubans In
do not intend to put it in the RECORD. Havana In 1960.-
Bent the anonymous letter to Mr. . I trust that In making these facts available
Hoover, for his information and for to you I have satisfied any and all questions
twtever aid and assistance it might be. which the scurrilous anonymous communi-
you
Mr. Hoover wrote me a letter, stating do not co not h
again.
es received may. have raised. If not, itate to call o that he had received the anonymous let- In conclusion, I w wo oulldd me like t to l
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