J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets (137 page)

37
. Sullivan interview.

38
. Morgan,
FDR,
680-81.

39
. Childs,
Witness,
17.

40
. JEH to Watson (FDR), Oct. 24, 1942.

41
. OC no. 157.

42
. Morgan,
FDR,
684.

43
. Sullivan interview.

44
. Morris Ernst interview.

45
. OC no. 87.

46
. JEH to Hopkins (FDR), Feb. 10, 1944.

47
. JEH to Biddle, Feb. 12, 1944.

48
. Brown,
Donovan,
424.

49
. Ibid., 159.

50
. John Ranelagh,
The Agency: The Rise and Decline of the CIA, from Wild Bill Donovan to William Casey
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986), 97.

51
. Brown,
Donovan,
159.

52
. Ibid., 792.

53
.
WTH, NYDN,
and
CTRIB,
Feb. 9, 1945.

54
.
Brown, Donovan,
631.

55
. Ibid., 632.

56
. Ibid., 633.

57
. Frank Brooks Bielaski testimony, U.S. Senate, Subcommittee of the Committee on Foreign Relations,
Hearings re A Resolution to Investigate Whether There Are Employees in the State Department Disloyal to the United States
(also known as the Tydings committee), 81st Cong., 2d sess., 1950.

58
. Bielaski testimony, Tydings committee; Earl Latham,
Communist Controversy in Washington: From the New Deal to McCarthy
(New York: Atheneum, 1969), 205.

59
. De Toledano,
Hoover,
141.

60
. Brown,
Donovan,
735.

61
. Joseph P. Lash,
Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Private Papers
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1971), 721.

62
. Harry S Truman,
Memoirs,
vol. 1,
Year of Decisions
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1955), 4-5.

63
. Robert J. Donovan,
Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S Truman, 1945-1948
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1977), 8.

64
. Dunlop,
Donovan,
465.

65
. Nichols interview.

1
. Sullivan,
Bureau,
38.

2
. JEH to Vaughan (HST), April 23, 1945.

3
. Vaughan to JEH, April 23, 1945.

4
. Biddle,
Brief,
365.

5
. Merle Miller,
Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman
(New York: Berkley, 1974), 225-26.

6
. Elman interview.

7
. Tom Clark interview.

8
. Demaris,
Director,
126-27.

9
. Ibid., 128.

10
. Tom Clark interview.

11
. Brown,
Donovan,
782.

12
. Tom Braden, “The Birth of the CIA,”
American Heritage,
Feb. 1977.

13
. Corson,
Armies,
247.

14
. HST to Donovan, Sept. 20, 1945.

15
. Memo for the president (HST), Oct. 22, 1945.

16
. Harold Smith notes, May 11 and 17, July 6, and Sept. 5, 1945; Robert J. Donovan,
Conflict and Crisis
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1977), 174.

17
. Demaris,
Director,
107.

18
. Ibid., 107-8.

19
. Ungar,
FBI,
392.

20
. Ramsey Clark interview.

21
. William Hundley as quoted in Demaris,
Director,
142.

22
. Ungar,
FBI,
393.

23
. Leonard Katz,
Uncle Frank: The Autobiography of Frank Costello
(New York: Pocket Books, 1975), 274-75.

24
. Ibid.

25
. Allen interview.

26
. John Cooney,
The Annenbergs: The Salvaging of a Tainted Dynasty
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982), 69.

27
. Pearson,
Diaries,
468.

28
. Thomas,
Winchell,
194.

29
. OC no. 139.

30
. Victor S. Navasky,
Kennedy Justice
(New York: Atheneum, 1971), 18-19.

31
. Tamm interview.

32
. Demaris,
Director,
87-88.

1
. Latham,
Communist Controversy,
213.

2
. Donovan,
Conflict and Crisis,
64.

3
. Latham,
Communist Controversy,
214.

4
. Ungar,
FBI,
62.

5
. Philip J. Jaffe,
The Rise and Fall of American Communism
(New York: Horizon Books, 1975), 10.

6
. Cook,
FBI,
282.

7
. Latham,
Communist Controversy,
215-16.

8
. Mackenzie King, unpublished diary entry; H. Montgomery Hyde,
The Atom Bomb Spies
(New York: Atheneum, 1980), 15.

9
. JEH to Vaughan, Nov. 11, 1945.

10
. JEH to Vaughan, Nov. 8, 1945.

11
. Cook,
FBI,
295.

12
. Berle,
Rapids,
598.

13
. Cuneo interview.

14
. FBI interview of Whittaker Chambers, May 13, 1942; Allen Weinstein,
Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978), 341.

15
. John Kenneth Galbraith, “My Forty Years with the FBI,”
Esquire,
Oct. 1977.

16
. Raymond Murphy, memorandum of conversation, March 20, 1945; Weinstein,
Perjury,
346.

17
. Ladd to JEH, Jan. 28, 1949; Weinstein,
Perjury,
357.

18
. John Chabot Smith, “Debate of the Century,”
Harper’s,
June 1978.

19
. FBI Summary Report, Dec. 10, 1948; Weinstein,
Perjury,
368.

20
. Donner,
Age,
174.

21
. Weinstein,
Perjury,
358.

22
. Ibid., 366.

23
. JEH to Vaughan, Feb. 1, 1946.

24
. HST radio broadcast, Nov. 16, 1953.

25
. Donovan,
Conflict and Crisis,
174.

26
. JEH to Allen, May 29, 1946.

27
. Byrnes to HST, Feb. 5, 1946.

28
. JEH testimony, Senate hearings, Nov. 17, 1953.

29
. JEH to Hood, CT to JEH, May 12, 1947; Nichols to CT, May 13, 1947; Theoharis and Cox,
Boss,
254-55.

30
. Former FBI employee.

31
. Goodman,
Committee,
207.

32
. Hearings, House Committee on Un-American Activities, 80th Cong., 2d sess., July 31, 1948.

33
. Frank J. Donner,
The Un-Americans
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1961), 275.

34
. Goodman,
Committee,
282-83.

35
. Donner,
Un-Americans,
275.

36
. Kutler,
American Inquisition,
36.

37
. Ibid.

38
. Ibid.

39
. Clark Clifford to HST, May 23, 1947; Church, bk. III, 434.

40
. Sullivan,
Bureau,
44.

41
. “MGR,” Sept. 26, 1948.

42
. Donovan,
Conflict and Crisis,
414.

43
. Ibid., 433.

44
. Sullivan,
Bureau,
44-45; Sullivan interview.

45
.
NYT,
Nov. 18, 1948.

1
. Garry Wills,
Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man
(New York: New American Library, 1979), 37.

2
. Nixon,
Memoirs,
58.

3
. Morton Levitt and Michael Levitt,
A Tissue of Lies: Nixon vs. Hiss
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1979), 67.

4
. Nichols to JEH, Dec. 2, 1948.

5
. Nixon,
Memoirs,
69.

6
. Fred Cook, “Freedom Medalist,”
Nation,
March 10, 1984.

7
. Fletcher to Ladd, Feb. 15, 1949.

8
. John W. Dean III,
Blind Ambition: The White House Years
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976), 57.

9
.
NYP,
Oct. 5, 1959.

10
. “MGR,” April 11, 1949.

11
. Belmont to JEH, Nov. 21, 1949.

12
. Belmont interview.

13
. Former special agent.

14
. Robert J. Lamphere and Tom Shachtman,
The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent’s Story
(New York: Random House, 1986), 105.

15
. Ibid., 113.

16
. JEH memo, June 14, 1949; OC no. 53.

17
. Donner, “Electronic Surveillance,”
CLR,
Summer 1975.

18
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
288.

19
. “MGR,” June 22, 1949.

20
. Turner,
FBI,
324.

21
. Theoharis and Cox,
Boss,
258.

22
. Sullivan interview.

23
. JEH SAC letter July 9, 1949; Theoharis and Cox,
Boss,
258.

24
. Liddy,
Will,
258.

25
.
Nation,
April 8, 1978.

26
. Sheridan interview.

27
. Church, bk. II, 240.

28
.
LAT,
May 15, 1973.

29
. Pike, pt. 3, 1068.

30
. David M. Oshinsky,
A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy
(New York: Free Press, 1983), 109.

31
. Jack Anderson with James Boyd,
Confessions of a Muckraker: The Inside Story of Life in Washington during the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years
(New York: Random House, 1979), 176-81.

32
. Ibid., 188.