J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets
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29. Ibid., 837-38.
30. JEH to AG (RFK), July 23, 1963.
31. Branch, Parting the Waters, 903.
32. Ibid., 862.
33. Ibid., 861.
34. Baumgardner to Sullivan, Aug. 23, 1963.
35. Church, bk. III, 106.
36. Baumgardner to Sullivan, Aug. 23, 1963.
37. Donner, Age, 143.
38. David Garrow, The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From “Solo” to Memphis (New York: W. W. Norton, 1981), 67.
39. WP, Aug. 5, 1963.
40. Branch, Parting the Waters, 883.
41. Ibid., 882-83.
42. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy, 362.
43. Sullivan to Belmont, Aug. 30, 1963.
44. Baumgardner to Sullivan, Sept. 16, 1963.
45. Sullivan to Belmont, Sept. 25, 1963.
46. Belmont to CT, Oct. 17, 1963.
47. Church, bk. III, 133.
48. Branch, Parting the Waters, 909.
49. Fox, Blood and Power, 337.
50. JEH SAC letter, Feb. 15, 1963.
51. JFK Assn., vol IX, 71.
52. Turner, FBI, 180.
53. JFK Assn., vol IX, 33.
54. Ungar, FBI, 403.
55. JFK Assn., vol V, 445.
56. Navasky, Kennedy Justice, 80.
57. Ibid.
58. Edwin Guthman interview.
59. JFK Assn., vol. IX, 39.
60. Ibid., vol. V, 450.
61. Ibid., vol. IX, 24.
62. Ibid., 40.
63. Ibid., vol. V, 438.
64. Ibid.
65. Ibid., 446.
66. Ibid., vol V, 439; vol. IX, 26-27.
67. Ibid., vol V, 449.
68. Ibid., 451.
69. Ibid., 447.
70. Ibid., 440.
71. Ibid., 452.
72. Ibid., 448.
73. Evans interview.
74. Demaris, Director, 147.
75. Guthman interview.
76. Sullivan interview.
77. William Manchester, The Death of a President (New York: Harper & Row, 1967), 145-46; Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy, 607-8.
CHAPTER 30: Seriously Flawed (Pages 541-76)
1. Nixon, Memoirs, 252.
2. Ibid.
3. Fenner testimony, FBI Oversight, 36-59.
4. Hosty testimony, FBI Oversight, 124-75.
5. Fenner testimony.
6. Belmont and Sullivan interviews; Sullivan, “Personal and Confidential Statement Given Voluntarily to Inspector Best and Special Agent in Charge Bates,” Sept. 16, 1975.
7. Hosty testimony.
8. New York Times, The Witnesses: Selected and Edited from the Warren Commission’s Hearings (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965), 599.
9. Ibid., 593.
10. Katzenbach to Moyers, Nov. 24, 1963.
11. Jenkins memo to the files, Nov. 24, 1963.
12. Belmont to CT, Nov. 24, 1963.
13. JFK and MLK Assn. Report, 244.
14. Belmont to Sullivan, Nov. 26, 1963.
15. Evans to JEH, Nov. 26, 1963.
16. JEH to CT, Belmont, DeLoach, Mohr, Sullivan, and Rosen, Nov. 29, 1963.
17. Sullivan interview.
18. Hosty testimony.
19. JFK and MLK Assn. Report, 242.
20. SAC of Dallas to FBIHQ, Dec. 5, 1963.
21. JFK and MLK Assn. Report, 243.
22. Ibid., 242.
23. Demaris, Captive City, 354.
24. Warren Commission Document 86, 231, 312.
25. JFK and MLK Assn. Report, 242.
26. JFK Assn., vol. XI, 32.
27. Tad Szulc, “The Warren Commission in Its Own Words,” New Republic, Sept. 27, 1975.
28. Peter Dale Scott, “Kennedy Assassination Cover-up,” Inquiry, May 14, 1979.
29. JFK Assn., vol. XI, 33.
30. Szulc, “Warren Commission.”
31. JFK Assn., vol. XI, 33.
32. Ibid.
33. Szulc, “Warren Commission.”
34. JFK Assn. vol. XI, 35; Szulc, “Warren Commission.”
35. JFK Assn., vol. XI, 36; Szulc, “Warren Commission.”
36. JFK Assn., vol. XI, 41.
37. Ibid., 38.
38. Ibid., 39.
39. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy, 616.
40. Robert A. Caro, “The Years of Lyndon Johnson,” Atlantic, Oct. 1981.
41. Powers, Secrecy, 394.
42. Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson, “The Last Days of J. Edgar Hoover,” True, Jan. 1969.
43. Time, Feb. 10, 1975.
44. Demaris, Director, 193.
45. Newsweek, March 10, 1975.
46. Leo Janos, “The Last Days of the President: LBJ in Retirement,” Atlantic, July 1973.
47. Theoharis and Cox, Boss, 344-45.
48. Ibid.
49. Ibid., 346.
50. Ibid.
51. Ungar, FBI, 292.
52. Life, April 9, 1971.
53. NYT, May 9, 1964.
54. Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974), 289.
55. Life, May 22, 1964.
56. Sullivan, Bureau, 64.
57. Church, vol. 6, 175-76.
58. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy, 629.
59. JEH to AG (RFK), July 8, 1964.
60. Navasky, Kennedy Justice, 106.
61. Don Whitehead, Attack on Terror: The FBI against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1970), 91.
62. Church, vol. 6, 202.
63. Church, bk. II, 93.
64. Church, bk. III, 51-52.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid., 68.
67. Ibid., 69.
68. FBI memo, July 20, 1970.
69. Cincinnati Enquirer, May 24, 1966.
70. Baumgardner to Sullivan, Aug. 27, 1964.
71. JEH to Watson (LBJ), Sept. 2, 1965.
72. Villano and Astor, Brick Agent, 90-93.
73. Church, vol. 6, 50.
74. Sullivan to Belmont, Dec. 24, 1963.
75. Ibid.
76. Church, bk. III, 135.
77. Garrow, FBI and King, 106.
78. Sullivan to Belmont, Jan. 6, 1964.
79. Sullivan to Belmont, Jan. 8, 1964.
80. MLK Assn., vol. VI, 353.
81. Sullivan to Belmont, Jan. 8, 1964.
82. Sullivan to Belmont, Jan. 13, 1964; Garrow, FBI and King, 105-6.
83. Sullivan to Belmont, Jan. 27, 1964.
84. Felt, FBI Pyramid, 125.
85. Confidential source.
86. Church, bk. III, 124-26.
87. Sullivan memo, April 9, 1968.
88. Church, bk. III, 141-42.
89. Ibid.
90. Baumgardner to Sullivan, Sept. 8, 1964.
91. JEH to Moyers, Dec. 1, 1964.
92. Belmont and Sullivan interviews.
93. Sullivan interview.
94. Newsweek, Nov. 30, 1964.
95. Church, bk. III, 157.
96. Ibid.
97. NYT, Nov. 20, 1964.
98. Newsweek, Dec. 7, 1964.
99. WS, Jan. 2, 1972.
100. Ibid.
101. Newsweek, Dec. 7, 1964.
102. DeLoach to Mohr, Nov. 27, 1964.
103. Church, bk. III, 154.
104. Ibid.
105. Sullivan, Bureau, 140.
106. Church, vol. 6, 173.
107. Church, bk. III, 166-67.
108. Ibid., 167.
109. Newsweek, Dec. 12, 1964.
110. Church, bk. III, 169.
111. Sullivan, Bureau, 140; Sullivan interview.
112. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 365.
113. Church, bk. III, 169.
114. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 374.
CHAPTER 31: The Fall of LBJ (Pages 577-609)
1. Lady Bird Johnson: A White House Diary (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), 227.
2. Church, bk. III, 346.
3. DeLoach to M
ohr, Aug. 29, 1964.
4. Church, bk. III, 348.
5. DeLoach to Mohr, Aug. 29, 1964.
6. Victor Lasky, It Didn’t Start with Watergate (New York: Dial Press, 1977), 191.
7. Ibid.
8. DeLoach to JEH, Oct. 27, 1964.
9. Ibid.
10. DeLoach to JEH, Oct. 19, 1964.
11. Ibid.
12. Lasky, It Didn’t Start, 192.
13. Washington Daily News, Oct. 23, 1964.
14. NYT, Oct. 28, 1964.
15. Powers, G-Men, 244.
16. Ibid., 241.
17. Demaris, Director, 28, 78-79.
18. O’Leary interview.
19. Demaris, Director, 71.
20. Powers, G-Men, 246.
21. LAT, Nov. 8, 1966.
22. Belmont and Evans interviews.
23. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy, 658, 661.
24. DeLoach to JEH, Feb. 23, 1965.
25. Church, vol. 6, 200-201.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid., 218.
29. Ibid., 219.
30. JEH to Watson (LBJ), Nov. 22, 1966.
31. Thomas Hale Boggs interview.
32. Johnny Greene, “Did the FBI Kill Viola Liuzzo?” Playboy, March 1982.
33. LAT, Jan. 19, 1966.
34. Theoharis and Cox, Boss, 363-64.
35. Church, bk. III, 308.
36. Life, May 26, 1967.
37. Neil J. Welch and David W. Marston, Inside Hoover’s FBI (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984), 232.
38. Church, bk. III, 308.
39. Ibid., 309.
40. Ibid., 310.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43. OC no. 129.
44. Life, May 26, 1967.
45. CR, House, April 19, 1972.
46. Sheridan, Hoffa, 406, 413.
47. Nicholas von Hoffman, Citizen Cohn (New York: Doubleday, 1988), 338-39.
48. CR, House, April 19, 1972.
49. Life, Aug. 9, 1968.
50. CR, House, April 19, 1972.
51. Von Hoffman, Cohn, 337.
52. CR, House, April 19, 1972.
53. Ibid., 341.
54. WS, Jan. 2, 1967.
55. James R. Boyd, Above the Law (New York: New American Library, 1968), 9.
56. Navasky, Kennedy Justice, 95-96.
57. WP, July 15, 1966.
58. WP, Dec. 18, 1966.
59. Sullivan to DeLoach, July 19, 1966; OC no. 36.
60. JEH to CT and DeLoach, Jan. 6, 1967; OC no. 36.
61. Ibid.
62. Villano and Astor, Brick Agent, 223.
63. SFC, Sept. 9, 1980.
64. SFX, May 15, 1981.
65. SFX, Aug. 20, 1981.
66. Ungar, FBI, 397.
67. JEH to SACs of Richmond, Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham, Los Angeles, and Mobile, Nov. 8, 1966.
68. Church, bk. III, 50.
69. Gross to JEH, Dec. 5, 1966; JEH to Gross, Dec. 7, 1966.
70. Victor Lasky, Robert F. Kennedy: The Man and the Myth (New York: Trident Press, 1968), 353.
71. NYT, Dec. 15, 1966.
72. Lasky, Kennedy, 356.
73. Ibid., 358.
74. NYT, Dec. 13, 1966.
75. Sheridan, Hoffa, 401.
76. Ibid., 407.
77. Church, vol. 6, 182.
78. Theoharis, Spying, 113.
79. Robert Cipes, Crime War (New York: New American Library, 1968), 27-28.
80. Church, vol. 6, 220.
81. Clark interview.
82. Ibid.
83. Ibid.
84. Ibid.
85. Former government official.
86. Nation, Feb. 8, 1971.
87. Clark interview.
88. O’Leary interview.
89. Clark interview.
90. “MGR,” Feb. 5, 1968.
91. Ramsey Clark, Crime in America: Observations on Its Nature, Cause, and Control (New York: Pocket Books, 1971), 65.
92. WP, Nov. 16, 1970.
93. WP, Nov. 18, 1970.
94. Janos, “Last Days.”
95. WP, Nov. 18, 1970.
96. Lyndon Baines Johnson, The Vantage Point: Perspectives on the Presidency, 1963-1969 (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971), 170.
97. Church, bk. II, 248.
98. Ibid., bk. III, 491.
99. Ibid., 492.
100. Ibid., vol. 6, 385.
101. Ibid., bk. II, 83-84.
102. Ibid., 75-76.
103. Sullivan, Bureau, 66.
104. JEH to AG (Clark), Dec. 12, 1967; Church, vol. 6, 518.
105. WP, Feb. 25, 1968.
106. JEH testimony, House Appropriations Subcommittee, May 21, 1968.
107. Ibid.
108. Ibid.
109. WP, March 13, 1968.
110. Church, bk. III, 484-85.
111. Ibid., 483.
112. Ibid., 484-85.
113. DeLoach to JEH, March 3, 1966.
114. DeLoach to JEH, March 15, 1966.
115. Church, bk. III, 489.
116. Ibid., 490.
117. Ibid., 489.
118. Doris Kearns, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (New York: Harper & Row, 1976), 343.
119. MLK Assn., vol. VI, 107; SFX, Oct. 10, 1976.
120. Clark interview.
121. Schlesinger, Robert Kennedy, 808; Sullivan interview.
122. Clark interview.
123. NYT, June 11, 1971.
124. DeLoach to CT, Oct. 30, 1968.
125. Powers, Man Who Kept the Secrets, 199.
CHAPTER 32: Hail, Caesar! (Pages 613-42)
1. Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 156.
2. H. R. Haldeman and Joseph DiMona, The Ends of Power (New York: Times Books, 1978), 81.
3. Nixon, Memoirs, 596.
4. Ibid., 934.
5. Ibid., 596.
6. RN deposition, Halperin suit.
7. Rufus W. Youngblood, 20 Years in the Secret Service: My Life with Five Presidents (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973), 232.
8. Nash, Citizen Hoover, 161.
9. Sullivan, Bureau, 199.
10. Ibid.
11. RN deposition, Halperin suit.
12. Ehrlichman, Witness to Power, 157.
13. Ibid., 158.
14. NYT, Sept. 8, 1968.
15. JEH to 14 SACs, Nov. 25, 1968.
16. Church, bk. III, 41.
17. SAC of St. Louis to JEH, Feb. 14, 1968.