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Bates and Cartha DeLoach spoke of the FBI relationship with Jimmy Stewart. The report that Karpis was tracked by a treasury agent is in Surreptitious Entry, by Willis George, NY, Appleton-Century, 1946, p. 45. Information on Louis Nichols came from a private family collection. The Raymond Henle letter, dated Feb. 19, 1958, is in the Henle Papers at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. References to Jeremiah O’Leary come from H. to OC file, Feb. 25, 1966, OC92, Jones to Bishop, Jun. 11, 1968, FBI 1/11–38861–45, Shanklin to HQ, Nov. 22, 1963, FBI 89–4324, Jones to Bishop, Apr. 7, 1970, FBI 1/11–399961–45, and WP, Jan. 28, 1978. Vice President Henry Wallace referred to surveillance of Drew Pearson in The Price of Vision: The Diary of Henry A. Wallace, ed. John Morton, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1973, p. 406. H.’s claim that Alsop was a homosexual is in a Feb. 15, 1962, memo in the Lewis Strauss Papers, HHL. The Jack Alexander description of H.’s office is in FBI file 62–11607.

Chapter 11

Edward Turrou, son of former star agent Leon Turrou, provided information on the 1938 Nazi trial, and Thomas DeWald kindly shared his research on Ford executive Harry Bennett. Former Assistant AG Norman Littell expanded on his diary entries, and reporter William Dufty supplied his unpublished manuscript with its interview of Federal Communications Chairman James Fly. Former FBI surveillance specialist Wesley Swearingen granted extensive interviews. Secretary of State Cordell Hull’s ‘cocksucker’ exclamation comes from Ralph de Toledano’s book J. Edgar Hoover, The Man in his Time (see Bibliography), p. 152. The Supervisory Archivist at the Roosevelt Library advised the author in an Apr. 4, 1990 letter that there is no trace of an FDR memorandum about investigating Soviet and Fascist espionage, as claimed by H. The Francis Biddle Papers, FDRL, were used in connection with AG Frank Murphy. The writings of James Lawrence Fly are in the Fly Collection at the Butler Library, Columbia University. The reference to 1944 taps of Republicans came from the NY Star, Sept. 28, 1948, and the author’s conversations with the late Guy Richards. The most scholarly work on FBI surveillance was done by Prof. Athan Theoharis, of Marquette University, and I used his article in Political Science Quarterly, vol. 107, 1, Spring 1992.

Chapter 12

The description of H.’s house drew on interviews with Hilton Simmons, Robert Fink, Anthony Calomaris, and Anthony Cave Brown, reporting his interview with Sir William Stephenson. Stephenson’s ‘grip’ is noted in W. M. Stevenson’s Apr. 25, 1993 letter to the author. William Corson recalled an interview of H. on having received a written Presidential instruction to cooperate with Stephenson, but FDRL Archivist Raymond Teichman reported no trace of such a document in a Jun. 16, 1992 letter to the author. The official British history of Stephenson’s operation, An Account of Secret Activities in the Western Hemisphere, is unpublished, and was shown to the author by William Stevenson. The Van Deman Papers are in the Military Reference Branch, NA. The Popov episode was discussed by Jill and Marco Popov, Celia Jackson, Rodney Dennys, Col. T. A. Robertson, author William Stevenson, Chloe MacMillan, and former FBI official Arthur Thurston. For a full reading of the sources used for this controversial episode, it is especially essential to see the hardback edition. Notable, however, are the Popov Papers preserved by his family, FBI file 65–36994, ‘The British Assault on J. Edgar Hoover: The Tricycle Case,’ by Thomas Troy, Intelligence and Counterintelligence, III, No. 3, 1989, British Intelligence in the Second World War, vol. 4, by F. H. Hinsley and C. A. G. Simkins, London, HMSO, 1990, and American Historical Review, article by John Bratzel and Leslie Rout, Dec. 1982.

Chapter 13

Interviews on Pearl Harbor included Duane Eskridge, George Allen, Tom Flynn, and Saburu Chiwa. Col. Carlton Ketchum’s son, David, discussed his father’s claims and provided correspondence. A. M. Ross-Smith and Deborah Payne provided information on H.