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Department of Justice Burran of Investigation Butte, Montana, April 21, 1927. REOORDED & INDEXED YREAU ! iPr ain aig DEP Atm Ini. Hon. J. Bdgar Hoover 0 Director, Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justioe, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Hoover: pi ™ The chief way you may learn the attitude and real acts of Agents end Agents in Charge is through information transmitted to you from warious sources pot striving to tell things one way or another - disinterested and voluntary statements. Hence ny mking bold to give you parts of a letter from former deent Omar F. Brown, now of Kokomo, Indiana, from where he wrote, showing one result of my constant efforta to send out every Agent with whom I come in eontact a believer da, and a friend of, the Director, as I, myself, believe and @m. Mr. Brown, unier date of April 18, 1927, writes: "J bad a wery fine letter from Mr. Hoover and had a meeting with Mr. Purnell Friday. I am eure Mr. Hoover is a very fine gentleman as you have always said he was." Of former Agent J. J. Maroney, about whom we talked when you summonged me to Washington, and to whom it would have been necessary for me to say a few things about his attitude hati he returned to Montana, ¥r.—_ Brown says: "Maroney won't @o. He is doing under @over work for the Prohibition forses, but don't Keep under much as you know he never would keep under on any- thing. I met him up north and he talked his head off and I never offered him any suggestions and told him nothing.® He closes, to give you the findings . ef a wen who has gone end would be giving a Aisinterested view, which shows the results of my efforts to give the office the maximum of efficiency with the minimum of friction (of, by and for the Bureau, solely), with the