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sth ae) Sad a en Cae RE Pe Foe Selease Twreday, becember 25, 1966, or thereafter. FEARSON ve. HOOVER Would you beliewe Drew Pearson defending tha rights co Privacy? Ie fs of Fr. | the violarcion of privacy «- by trafficking, endlessly, in documents stelen from the private Files of a United States Senator by thieves whe did not cavil even at the removal of the Senator's correspondence with bis children. Drew Tearson is oot alone. Alias, There are others like hin whe will fast for forty days and forty nights to proclaim the absolute right of Messrs. Miranda and Escobedo to keep to themselves the details of their rapes and murders, but who sate themselves on every revelation by Mr. Pearson of the little transaction in the life of a public and decent man. - Pearson-observers will have noted chat the gentleman is widening the net, The goal is to discredit J, Edgar Hoover who, Pearson keeps reminding us, is 72 years old, and hence presumably ill-equipped ¢o carry on the xsigorous duties of | presiding over the greatest Fact-gathering agency in the land. Last summer Pearson accused Hoover of wisscheduling an arrest of an America Caught giving security information to the Communists, and the expulsion of two Communist diplomats who were receiving the secret goods, Mr. Hoover did this, Said Pearson, at the most inopportune possible moment for the sole purpose of gecting himself and the Bureau some Favorable headiinage so-as to distract attention from recent revelations abouc the FBI's bugsing activities in Las Vegas. Pearson's theory was that it would have been better to let the Averican traitor and the two diplomats continue under surveillance in the hope that other un- datected apiea would be exposed. He quoted the American State Departrent employee who had provided critical assistance to the FSI as, ia private conversation, blasting the FBI's incompetence in che whole matter. Another charge, another tedious search for the truth, which however is easily come by. 1) The State Department and the Justice Department, not the FRI, decide. with reference to their ova interests, aa coordinated through the Presidency, when ta make arrests and when to declare foreigners non grats, and canner be assumed to achedule such decisions solely to oblige the p.r. requirements of the FEI at Las Vegas, Nevada. and then, 2) the gentleman who was professedly porked off at tha FBI wrots to Mr. Hoover on seaing the Pearson story: "Wien i wae contacted by Jack Anderson Qtr. Pearson's associate) I had no idea chat he vould bring forth an unjustified attack using half-truths and twieting facts in =» brazen attempt to tarnish the superb image of your organization.” Pift, there go rha charges, But Mr, — e Peataon ia unrestrained. | | | rapyame Released Exclusively Tire THe Wasciuscron Stan SYNDICATE, INC, 444 Madison Ave, New York, NL ¥. 10072 Tels 222-EL 4.7147