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with the responsibility of looking into this then within a few _. months retired. The next etimulation of this situation arose after a statement appeared in the paper mentioning these files and we immediately talked aout’ “this. Still I did not look at the files. I then instructed that our Inspection Division go over them and | make a listing of them, categorizing them. Some of them, of course, were purely administrative, some ‘included information | | as outlined by Mr. Levi. Such a listing was made and was turned over ta the Department. Thereafter Mr. Silberman looked them | over and thereafter Mr Levi looked them over andI made a . rather cursory check of them myself. Why did I not look these files over in the first place? I did not construe them as being with- in the realm of the so-called dossiers that had been mentioned before and during, certainly, my confirmation. I said I did not subscribe to the preparation or retention of dossiers on Congress- * men nor members of the Senate. I still persist in that and we have not. My references were about those which were declared improper during Mr. Gray's administration and they were at that time stopped. These were dossie 5 that were prepared on candidate ae for Member's of Congiess ‘grid’ those wlio failed in their ‘venture “ were destroyed. Those which were successful were put into the general files. We no longer do that and frankly, in my opinion, . . this | is what was referred to. Zt feel that these files should be