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FD-350 (Rev. 7-16-63) Assoc.Dir. Dep.-A.D.-Adm DepA.D.In AsstyDir. 1rs Com. (Mount Clipping in Space Below) Gen.Inv. idont Ex-Aide of FBI Testified Laboratery Agnew Was Probed in 1968 Mlan.& Eval. b6 Spec.Iav. b7C Training By Nicholas M. Horrock Legal Coun. Telephone Rm. The former No. 3 man in thecommander of the Flying Tigers Director Sec'y FBI testified under oath in 1973 in World War I1, was alleged to Spiro Agnew, at the request oftween the South Vietnamese and (Indicate page,name of President Ly n d on Johnson,the Republicans. newspaper,city and state.) shortly before the 1968 election. Sources who worked on the In the heretofore unpublished White House staff in 1968 dispute testimony, Cartha DeLoach, for-the origins of the investigation. merly assistant to the director of They say it was the FBi that the FBIasserted that shortly first suggested Republican links before Agnew was elected vice- to the South Vietnamese. president,Mr.Johnson asked the Mr. DeLoach also said in his bureau to investigate him on a testimony that Mrs. Chennault matter of "the gravest national had been the subject of physical "International security and that an investiga surveillance" by the FBI tion was conducted. According to sources who were Herald Tribune" The testimony was taken by with the bureau in 1968, it was Paris, France Sen. Howard Baker jr.R-Tenn. MrJohnson's concern over op- and Senate Watergate Committee ponents of his Vietnam policy staff investigators. that resulted in a team of agents Page 3 Of the investigation, Mr.De-being assigned to prepare reports Loach said:The reason this was for the White House on any being done was because they felt political figures who entered the the Republicans-and this was Soviet Embassy. their [the White House's] state Published reports have long ment-the Republicans were at- noted that the bureau maintain- tempting to slow down the South ed a constant physical surveil- Vietnamese from going to the lance of the embassy and filmed Paris peace talks and they want- all persons who entered or left. ed to know whom either Nixon Testimony Pending or Agnew had been in touch The bureau has declined com- when they visited the city several days prior to that. that it entered into widespread political activity in the last de- Date: February 5, 1975 J.Edgard Hoover, the FBI direc tor, authorized an investigation the behest of Presidents Johnson Edition: International and that the domestic intelligence and Richard Nixon. pending the Author: division of the FBI had obtained ot Clarence Kelley, the FBI di- upcoming congressional testimony Editor: the toll-call receipts of persons Drector. on Agnew's staff to discover if Title: anyone had called Mrs. Anna MrDeLoach has denied that he was a protege of Mr. John- Chennault. son's but he has acknowledged that the tormer president asked him to assume liaison duties with theWhiteHousebecauseMr. or Johnson had known him while a Classification: 62-546 senator. Mr.DeLoach has also acknowl Submitting Office: London edged that Mr,Johnson ordered a direct telephone line to the Being Investigated White House installed in the bed- room of his home. White House aides from the Johnson era said that an enor- mous amount of FBI intelligence flowed between 1964 and 1968 and was handled with the utmost secrecy. 5 C AUG 20 1975