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Mr. Tolsca_ b7— Mya Mr._G4le.__ | MrCRoseht. | MY /Bulliva . Office of the Director “Mr. Tavel._- Federal Bureau of Invegtigation | , _Mr. Trotter. : : . / Tele. Roo Washington, D.C, . Y Miss Holnes : | Miss Gandy. seme ae ok amen “Forthwith, allow me to apologize for the erratic typewri letter. ; in hindgight, that I feel fooligh now for havi. bee an undergtatement., Hovever, grac OUg man . eplied to my corregpondence and tactfully told me y Wag 1b L00Ligh=“if itgelf--to trouble Mr. Hoover on guch a matter but much worge~-once. again in hindgight--I now realize -he mugt have Imown-(ag I then did _}| not) that I wag under invegtigation by the Bureau for alleged extortion, | Ag’ Iv wrote “to'Mx; Hoover; Iam not now of Liberal’ "mind". : thought ag a“ youth I wag. I came.to gee in 1963 the futility of continuing my graduate education. and. the hope of one day teaching univergity social "“acienceg." IRdealigtic--and congequently unrealigtic~--Leftigt philogophies have commandeered the vagt majority of our univer- sities’ social "gcience" departments and faculties; he who congcientiougly. and objectively cannot with integrity of intellect accept gueh a3 @ac-worldiam er gextal-|. racial céerebrial equalitarianigm has increasizgly little place in “regpongible -and regpectable"-educational circles. : so, Fe DE ey ' Thug, not being able to teach, I found ag an outlet for my alarm at'that wag occuring to the gengibilitieg, valueg, traditiong, and morals of this: land the wri- ting of letters to the editor, ce vocty tetters (overall constructive and intellectually defendible) verS-all t0o x __ Sffective it vould seem>..certainly those publighed 1 Migsiastzsippt journals.. Ta“! ae Possible ‘revenge ‘against my remarkg and ag ‘an attempt to gilence and ‘gmear me; af | pereon: or persons evidently wrote noted (or notorious) lawyer Melvin Bellia’™. ; threatening letter either over my signature: or elge ‘negatively involving ny name,:: Coser om | The F., B, I,:wag-brought into. the cage; "I-take it, upon-Belli'g. complaint. 1. One purpose of thig pregent letter 1g to inquire about a few, j{ things on thig degpicable matter, Why, for one thing, Bureau to locate me? I learned through had contacted her geeking my loc ny. learning of.it,. I went to wantéed-to gee me. shee “no”: .e@9 well ag repeating that the Bureau did not bave » Why wag I not queried on the extortion matter then by ’ Uren % wag seemingly only after I--with growing sugpicion--later wrote the Memphig .F. B. I. office a j'warmigh” letter demanding to know what wag “going on" that. I wag . interviewed .~:I might. say, neat that the Memphig office hag been quite pleesent and Cooperative on thig matter’ of extortion and jay suppoged connection thereto... -. i i to me, puzzling did it take go long for the |° @ relative in Eagt Tennegsee that the F.B. I. ation...on 2 occegiong. After the firgt Occagion and|.. " How: 1 thig investigation woulda have ‘gone on--béhing my back--before I de- =; manded to b Sind rme 83 Ito “yhat) wag gmiss ig another yuegtion. How many friendg or acquaintences of mine Have been Contacted. On this "Ctrge~suedngt-me now mabey ter interesting speculation for me. Ure ‘couple,’ comectéd with the U. ‘Ss Governnent, |: Ray well have been reached and questioned 3 quite otrdn&Fp, QMOnaed not heard from the| ina lengthly time. If they were contactea, vhat in God's name did the special Agen‘ oY. ry