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. With that side of its activities | had nothing to do. But !. a ' oo 1 . ot ? . ee’ Fat ge t Jus wy oe ‘ . vt a : ~ " aa . cs ' N ' so - ‘ ! fo Was Fy eS ‘ tT ea ‘, 1 wee . yO woe tay ys “ pe wt als - * Te Ale tne ee ae I Bs A SPRY - The failure of the FBI in ‘the Coplon, case “was by no .means unique or even unusual, t cannot speak of the. record of the FBI in checking crime in the United States. |, had a great deal to do with its counter-espionage work, _ and its record in that field was more conspicuous for failure than for success. Hoover did not catch Maclean - or Burgess: he did not catch Fuchs, and he would not have caught the rest if the British had not caught Fuchs ~ _ and worked brilliantly on his tangled emotions; he did Le. not catch Lonsdale; he did not catch Abel for years, and then only because Hayhanen delivered him up on a plat- ter; he did not even catch me. i ever there was 8 a bubble reputation, it is Hoover's. But Hoover isa great politician, His bianket methods iy na oe ray ee ‘ A . at a * Tye ‘ no \ rr re res si, on a vara ‘ . oo ~- i wee ’ . yi , ny : ' 1 oy a a ee “ iors + was Ls = ct * . 3 : . vw thoty a ae oo . . Z: . i “ et a te a - a a ee vet By mh oe 4 ' yO +4 _ ae ao - ~ ae ' re 2 oe . a . “t 7 m. 4 4, “4 fon ’ 7 4 a t ‘ Ww i _ . oo i: A: 4 . 7 y Z A . * re . 2% ’ yoo, ~~ os . t Be os 4 5 ‘ se . t Woe be “al. ' an . “ t tT gt, A a Lan) . 7 ' . ’ : . t “+ t. , s ee! a “e ¢ alt "1 a : ' a a + “J “ a i ue A t ‘ Pitt oy a on J. Edgar Hoover 2 and the FEI and ruthless authoritarianism are the wrong weapons ‘for the subtle world of intelligence. But they -have other | uses. They enable Hoover to collect and file away a vast - amount of information about the personal lives of mil-_ lions of his fellow countrymen. This has long been com-. mon knowledge, and it has brought Hoover rich divi- _ ‘dends ‘from the purse of the American taxpayer. There .are few people in the world without skeletons in their - cupboards which they would prefer to remain decently forgotten, Tne over! record shows that a distressing number of American congressmen have pasts that do not bear ‘minute scrutiny. And what about the covert record held by Hoover? The mere existence of the huge ' FBI filing. system has deterred many from attacking Hoover's totalitarian empire. tae ane Be a a ee eee tee em erm | hee epee me ee ee . a ., . hae nat + . - vo *