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quik at fue 8, 1960 Mr. J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Justice Washington, D, C. Dear Mr, Hoover: “ Enclosec is a pege fron the Gallipolis Daily Tribune containirg a letter to the editor which is more or less self-explanatory, The background for this is briefly as follows. eo I have been interested in the work of the American Frien? _oervice Comities. for a nunber of years and have no reason to doutt its ~ 3 vul-dity or to question it in any way ag an organization. As a churenaccn ani responsible citizen, I am on a local committee congietine of a mecoor of clergymen and service club leaders, the purvose of this conmnittes brine to sponsor a visit at Gallivolis tals summer by a so-called "Peace Caravan of the arerican Friends Service Committee. This caravan consists of four Students, threo of whom will be fron foreiym countries who will visit ix the community for a week, specking at churenes and service clubs eatle:ovin to create batter understanding of the international problen which mreduccs the tensions of our present critical tines. Though, ag I stuted alove, 7 have never had reason to suspect the Service Comutteo of anmsthine the leas bit subversive, and thourh I have ed:itred their work tremendously, J feel that both sides of a cuestion shoulda be cenciderod. In otier words, if there is any evicence that the Arerican Friends Service Cormittes in rot . complctely above suspicion, I would like to know it,and conversely if it) 3s absve reproach from a standpoint of subversion, wiieh Ithdsk it is, I ynte ~~ © lelieve thet the doubts cast upon it by Mr. Burnct) should be renoyed, 1 cuuld think of no one better to write to than you, Do woidd asvrecinto very mich, Unerefora, your coments an’, if you would cera to en 20, @ ctctanent that could be published by the loce? newspnver, cither in the forc: of letter to the editor, or @ statencit directly for publication.