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100-1128 Confidential Informant t-l advised that BRAnsiEh, through corres- pondence, had stated he intended to, continue employment in Connecticut as 3 contrybuting editor ofwiey iasses" magazine. This intention was further. horne yutr by correspondence furnished by Contidential Informant T-l from CSOP t BRANSTEN'S.BIOGRAPHY OE HERBERT HOOVOR On July.2l 1945, SElouR 3AksT is reported to have told Confi-- santial Informant T-2 that he planned to attend the Hational Convention or tha CPA, July 26-28, 1945 in New York and desired to contact BRANStE in. 3t that time. Bakst stated that ho hadn't been able to get much "worth-- rhilo material" on one phase of lir. HeRBeRn HooveR's lifo, but that he had. tJcured copios of Mr. HeRBert HooveR's specch over the Columbia Broadcast-- ug Systom. BAKsr further stated that he had made arrangemonts to visit ou? aoao ygag oa goet 'ge fgnr uo qaodason ut onuoprset sty qe iansire "situation with him. On this date BAksr statoa Branlsien had. completed th: shird chapter of the biography which dealt with Mr. HorbeRr Hooven's life Stanford University in California. This informant on August 3ls's stated that BRAnsten had found, while reading the April 30th, 1945,copy of~tIn FAcn" ... . publicar tion, a story concerning GENERAL SEEDLEY D.DUTLER and HERBERD HOOVER, which had been published in that issue. BRAhsrey told the informant that Lo had contacted GEorGe SErDEs and requested the source of this data from SEuDes, the publisher of #In FAcnt, and was advised that he had obtained this data from GENERAl BuTLeR himself and that he also had three lotters concerning the matter fron Paul ConIEy rEnch and two other individuals. It was statod that FRehch is reported to have worked with BurleR for sey- cral years and was charactcrized as BurLeR'S prcssman. BRAHsTel! had re- Jo Aydeaeotq'sgy ut egep oug pue sxeggot oys osn og uogssguood pogsorh HyRbsRt HooveR as the only evidenco he had concerning that particular rester was obtained fron a book by ons HAlilLl,, whom BRAiSteh characterizes HdRBeRr HooveR, as ho had to be "yery careful what he writes". The particular passage abovo referrod to was as follows: #I kickc-