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; Bey i INFORMATION CONTAINED? DON LASH C2? Po , BeREIN IS UHCLASSIF “ED OATEM = Bd -- 90 information > Aset. Div: -Admin. “Comp. Syst. Pl Ext. Affairs { dssec. Ow. Dep. ad Adm. — + Bap. AD fav. * tdont. , spection A} ORIGIN 1 _ ma SSC:wmj (4) grt abs 8 fee SHG % a _ Plen. & Eval. — » - , PST Adams, McDermott, Mintz, - NY * Spec. lev. isk. Leyte o a a wa nan ee a YE. ‘inane ; ee ar 77 ‘bec SO ned 8 . ojuj vi ~donne Y an : SUOLLIVAN MEMORANDA TO JOEN DEAN ' (PRESIDENT ROOSs VELT'S ADMINISTRATION ~ the: Sallivan Memoranda, page two, Inst Paragraph, states, in part, “thet the Roosevelf and Johnson Administrations nscd the FBI fer-political 2 APUNpOses.. It was alleged President and Mrs. Hoosevelt *, .. . would iadicate_ 0: 2BI they .were.not interested.in FBI pushing certain investigations too far -— °F $£the- subjects were ones the Rooseveits did not want derogatory information "- ..develored on for they lited them or wanted to avail themselves of their ‘-gervices. ‘Two examples-of this ‘are [on Lash:and Sumner Welles ‘when the ~ - fatter was Under Secretary of State and information bos been received that be was a homosexual. . PROBABLY JOSEFH P, LASH) au files, based.on information available, disclosed A a Don Lash was associated with the Roosevelt Admiatistratic _ It appears that Sullivan was, in fact, referring to Joseph Lash who - apparently did have a close reletionship with Eleanor Roosevelt and wasa frequent guest at the White House. Bureau files disclose that Joseuh r. Lash, aka Joe Lash, was born in New York City Novercher 2, 1909, He reportedly & joined the Socialist Party of the United States in 1929 and resigned from that . party in September, 1937. Lash was inducted into the United States Army N April 29, 1942, commissioned a Second Lieutenant on Léay 18, 1945, and discharged on Cetober 2, 1945, 29 307 I a pes Prior to Lash's induction into the United States Army, he unsuccessful) ‘applied for a commission in the Naval intelligence Service. in connection VS with his failur. to receive a commission, i.rs, “Kleanor Roosevelt directs sa Files & Com. — letter | dated January 9, 1942, to Attorney General Francis Biddle requesting “— ", , .to run down for me through the Eederal Bureau of Investigation, “OED by