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J. Edgar Hoover, Directer, | - - J have no doubt you and your men are and have been working -out from the same viewpoint I am holding, but so far I have never heard any public speaker worthy. of consideration nor any reliable "broadcaster or columnist go much as hint at it. It hae been wy conviction from the day the U-2 was brought - down that this was all prearranged by Ehruschey. - You mow better than any living man how he has infiltrated his spies into every department of every government on earth and that his agents "and agitators cover the globe. He unquestionably knew of the flights being mae over Russia and the times and places of the - take-off. | I dislike’ to think that any of our American boys could be bribed to brimg his ship down at a designated spot, but what was there to hinder Khruechev's agents getting to a pilot - Birt 0 | Para we _ with, say, a million dollar offer? Or, in lieu of that, to see he was given a slow-acting dope to take effect over the heart of ' Russia? Or have his engine doctored to foul up after a certain pumber of hours with the same result? I believe that af Khrus- chevy had not had thie ineident a1] buttoned up peforehand he never would have waited until this late date, but would have created some other incident as an excuse for blowing up the Summit Meeting. These thoughts have been running through my mind ever since the U-2 came down. I have rather expected some prominent Ameri- can might come up publicly with similar ideas. Can it. be pos- gible that we Americans, knowing that Khrushchev cannot be: trusted in anything, are taking his version of that incident for the true ¢ er