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Bates, and Tip O’Neill, Cornelius Gallagher, Don Edwards, and Joe Waggoner described H.’s leaks about King to the Congress. Efforts to smear him in the press were covered in interviews with Ben Bradlee, former AG Nicholas Katzenbach, John Herbers, David Kraslow, Mike Royko, Eugene Patterson, Newbold Noyes, and former agent Joseph Woods. The FBI’s response to King’s assassination was discussed with former AG Ramsey Clark, Mitchell Rogovin, and former agents Arthur Murtagh and Donald Wilson. Philip Melanson, the late Gregory Stone, and former agent Frenchie LaJeunesse were interviewed on the murder of RFK, while Connie Ring and Donald King spoke of H.’s attitude to Edward Kennedy. The best source books on King are those by David Garrow (Bearing the Cross, NY, Morrow, 1986, & The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr., NY, Norton, 1981), and by Taylor Branch (Parting the Waters, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1988). H.’s birth certificate, filed only on September 21, 1938, is DC no. 419530-D. Daniel Selznick kindly provided his interview of Cartha DeLoach talking about King and prostitutes. Arthur Murtagh testified to a colleague’s joyous reaction to the Mississippi killings in Nov. 1978, HSCA, VI, p. 117. Pres. Johnson’s comment on ‘the sovereignties’ is in the Burke Marshall Oral History, Oct. 28, 1968, p. 30, LBJL. H.’s ‘mores’ and ‘alley cat’ notations are at Oct. 7, 1964, FBI file 94–8–350–1323, and Oct. 14, 1964, FBI file 100–106670480/4. The undated draft of the anonymous letter to King is in OC24. Useful sources on King’s death are the HSCA Final Report, and The Murkin Conspiracy, by Philip Melanson, NY, Praeger, 1989, Tolson’s ‘Goddamn the Kennedys’ is in The Bureau, by Wm. Sullivan (see Bibliography), p. 48. The RFK autopsy pictures are in OC97. The FBI reaction to Chappaquiddick is at Boston to H., Jul. 19, 1969, FBI 94–55752–108.

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Dr Edmund Keeney and Dr Robert Choisser were interviewed on H.’s health, Mark Felt and Jack Danahee on Tolson’s. J. Edgar Nichols told of his father’s role as Nixon adviser, and H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Pete Pitchess, John Connally, and Kenneth Whittaker described H.’s relations with Pres. Nixon. Former Hong Kong Legat Dan Grove was a key source on Marianna Liu. Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Joe Trento, and Jack Anderson, recalled H.’s attempt to smear Nixon aides as homosexuals, and Charles Krebs, Billy Byars, Jr., the late Skitch Hendrix, Roy Parkin, David Rowell, and detective Don Smith provided information on H.’s alleged behavior with young boys. Documents on alleged bugging of Nixon are in John Dean’s testimony, WAC, III, 981, staff memo, Jun. 12, 1973, NP; WHT, Sept. 15, 1972, Feb. 16, Feb. 23, Feb. 27, and the transcript of a Nixon/Dean conversation, Mar. 13, 1973, Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to House Cttee. on Judiciary; and cf. (Agnew) IC6, pp. 164, 193ff, 483. Nixon and Liu are the subject of Director to SAC San Francisco, Aug. 18, 1976, FBI file 105–40947–8. The INLET coverage is at IC6, pp. 19, 52, 642ff. The homosexual smear of Nixon aides is in DeLoach to T., Jun. 11, 1969, OC119; H. to RN, Sept. 3, 1969, W. Hse. Staff Files, JDE, NP.

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Kenneth Clawson discussed the FBI and Vietnam protests. Former Asst. Director Charles Bates, SAC Richard Held, Jr., Bill Thomas, Larry Heim, and George Moore filled in the details of the smearing of Jean Seberg. Wesley Swearingen and Lynn Atkinson talked of the FBI and the Black Panthers, and Ray Cline, Noel Gayler, and former CIA Director Richard Helms discussed H.’s attitude to the CIA. H.’s comments on Kent State are in H. to Tolson, May 11, 1970, FBI file 44–45339. Good sources on COINTELPRO are COINTELPRO, by Nelson Blackstock, and The COINTELPRO Papers, by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (see Bibliography). Robert Hardy’s testimony is in Hearings, House Select Cttee. on Intelligence, 94th Cong., 1st Sess., Pt. 3, pp. 1050ff, 1133. The FBI and the Black Panthers are extensively covered in IC3 and 6. The smear of Jean Seberg is in FBI files 157–13876, 157–3912, 157–13870, and in Played Out: The Jean Seberg