SORDID SOVIET SMEAR OF J. EDGAR HOOVER

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000400080010-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 17, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: January 15, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

Sdid Soviet Sraear'
Of J. Edgar Hoover..
NEW YORK
JOURNAL ,1;~ii:RiCAN
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CPYRGHT By DAVID KRASLOW
A Journal-American Exclusive
FOIAb3b
WASHINGTON, Jan. - 5-FBI director J. 'Edgar
o en. is en-
circulating a phony lette purportedly written by Mr. 'looper. ,;I is one of man,v
Hoover to former White Ho se aide Walter Jenkins. -N-, ?< +,.
Hoover has accused Soviet ents of trying to smear him. never s i o e Such a leter,
aYlr Hoover t Id S H k
uaac eruauc C1V following Ins- zuent officials within the past
closures that he had been ar- ; week. They are part of a con-
roted twice on morals charges. certerl. Communist smear eam-
,Mr. Hoover termed the letter paign? which was launched a
"crude forgery" and ?said' It year ago,"
was part of "a conceited corn- Mr. Hoover said the lette;
munist smear campaign" by showed up 'last January and
the Soviet "disinformation de- again in April.. ,
partment," an arm of the KGB "Comparison of all the let.
secret police that specializes in tcrs disclosed they had all .bcc,1
distributing false documents. prepared by the, same person or
WRITES TO SENATOR persons," Mr. Hoover said.
The forged letter: reflected on ' Further comparisn . tv i t h
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The incident became known ?`ist. in this and other cour.-
ftrics by the Soviet ilisinforma-
today when Sen. Bourke. B?.Ition departnl'cnt proved irre-
Hickenlooper (R'-Iowa} re-ifuta,bly that this was a Cnm-
leased a letter he received last*munist scheme."
Tuesday from Mr. Hoover. One typical example, Mr.
Sen. Hickenlooper wrote' to, Hoover said, was circulation of
Mr. Hoover after the forged a letter in Latin America in
.T. EDGAR. HOOVER letter was received at the Sen the Summer of 1964 that was
'
ator
s home in Washington in designed to show that the FBI
an envelope postmarked at Bat-'and the Central Intelligence
tirnore, Agency had something to do
The envelope alsd' contained with the Brazilian revolution
an anonymous letter attacking of the previous April.
Mr. Hoover. "The intricacies of that
Sen. Hickenlooper said he Communist scheme became
would not make the forged, further apparent," Mr. Hoover
!letter public. said, "when we determined that
An FBI spokesman said Sen. ? by signature had been forged
Hickenlooper apparently de- I.from a letter stolen by Cubans
cidcd on his own to make public ~,iin Havana in 1960."
Mr. Hoover's explanation. Mr. Hoover noted that "the
71 fNOUNCES ATTACK ilefai'.ious schemes" of the
"disinformation department
Sen. Hickenlooper denounced,
"scurrilous" and "sort of pu- L`i~'Lj
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The Senator said he intends ;partment "wages a broad-scale
to discuss in the Senate -on
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