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46
. Ernst to JEH, June 4, 1953.

47
.
Manchester Guardian,
April 3, 1956.

48
. Nichols memo, Dec. 19, 1952.

49
. Nichols to Ernst, Dec. 2, 1954.

50
. Nichols to Ernst, April 4, 1956.

51
.
Manchester Guardian,
April 3, 1956.

52
. Baldwin interview.

53
. Aryeh Neier, “Adhering to Principle: Lessons from the 1950s,”
CLR,
Nov./Dec. 1977.

54
. Harrison E. Salisbury, “The Strange Correspondence of Morris Ernst and J. Edgar Hoover,
1939-1964,” Nation,
Dec. 1, 1984.

55
. Peggy Lamson,
Roger Baldwin, Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union: A Portrait
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976), 261-62.

56
. Drinnon,
Rebel,
300.

57
. Saul D. Alinsky,
John L. Lewis
(New York: Putnam’s 1949), 187.

58
. JEH to Early (FDR), Oct. 31, 1940.

59
. JEH to FDR, Nov. 6, 1940.

C
HAPTER
19: The View from the Balcony (Pages 239-73)

1
. OC no. 108.

2
. OC no. 113.

3
. De Toledano,
Hoover,
148.

4
. JEH to AG Jackson, March 12, 1941.

5
. Michael Wreszin, “The Dies Committee, 1938,” in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., and Roger Bruns, eds.,
Congress Investigates: A Documentary History, 1792-1974,
vol. 4 (New York: Chelsea House, 1975), 2949.

6
. Transcript of president’s conference with Martin Dies, Nov. 29, 1940.

7
.
Biddle, Brief,
164.

8
. Ibid., 256.

9
. Ibid., 258.

10
. Ibid., 258-60.

11
. Ibid., 261.

12
. Ibid., 259.

13
. Ibid., 257.

14
. Ibid., 258-59.

15
. De Toledano,
Hoover,
161.

16
.
Biddle, Brief,
167-68.

17
. AG Biddle to JEH, Nov. 19, 1942.

18
. AG to Asst. AG Cox and JEH, July 16, 1943.

19
. Biddle,
Brief
300.

20
. Former special agent.

21
. St. Clair McKelway, “Some Fun with the FBI,”
New Yorker,
Oct. 11, 1941.

22
. Biddle,
Brief
166.

23
. Ibid., 182-83.

24
. Berle,
Rapids,
321.

25
. Cuneo interview; H. Montgomery Hyde,
Room 3603: The Story of the British Intelligence Center in New York during World War II
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1977), 28-29; William Stevenson,
A Man Called Intrepid: The Secret War
(New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976), 79-80.

26
. AG Biddle to FDR, Dec. 22, 1941.

27
. William C. Sullivan with Bill Brown.
The Bureau: My Thirty Years in Hoover’s FBI
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1979), 184.

28
. Dunlop,
Donovan,
280.

29
. Hyde,
Room,
169.

30
. Stevenson,
Intrepid,
250.

31
. Ibid., 244.

32
. Lovell,
Spies,
217.

33
. Leonard Mosley,
Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor, Allen, and John Foster Dulles and Their Family Network
(New York: Dell, 1978), 140-41.

34
. Ibid.

35
. Cuneo interview.

36
. Donald Downes,
The Scarlet Thread: Adventures in Wartime Espionage
(London: Derek Verschoyle, 1953), 87.

37
. Berle,
Rapids,
400-402.

38
. Cuneo interview.

39
. Stevenson,
Intrepid,
163-64.

40
. J. C. Masterman,
The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945
(New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1972), 196-98; John F. Bratzel and Leslie B. Rout, Jr., “Pearl Harbor, Microdots, and J. Edgar Hoover,”
American Historical Review,
Dec. 1982.

41
. Masterman,
Double-Cross,
80.

42
. Former special agent.

43
. Dusko Popov,
Spy Counter-Spy
(Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1975), 6.

44
. JEH to Watson (FDR), Sept. 3, 1941.

45
. J. Edgar Hoover, “The Enemy’s Masterpiece of Deception,”
Reader’s Digest,
April 1946.

46
. Hyde,
Room,
89-90.

47
. Stevenson,
Intrepid,
176, 278; Cuneo interview.

C
HAPTER
20: “Listen!” (Pages 277-97)

1
. Tamm and Hendon interviews; Whitehead,
FBI Story,
182.

2
. JEH to Early (FDR), Dec. 12, 1941.

3
. Pearson,
Diaries,
91-92.

4
. Whitehead,
FBI Story,
207.

5
. Ibid., 343.

6
. “The Negro in the FBI,”
Ebony,
Sept. 29, 1962.

7
. Sullivan,
Bureau,
124.

8
. Norman Ollestad,
Inside the FBI
(New York: Lyle Stuart, 1967), 163-65.

9
. Sullivan interview; Sullivan,
Bureau,
33-34.

10
. Church, bk. II, 145.

11
. James Bamford,
The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America’s Most Secret Agency
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982), 246.

12
. Church, bk. III, 642.

13
. Ibid., 638.

14
. Ibid., 145.

15
. William Turner, in
LAT,
Aug. 25, 1973.

16
.
Newsweek,
July 28, 1975.

17
. Belmont interview.

18
. Sullivan interview; former headquarters official.

19
. Church, vol. 2, 113, 279.

20
. Donner,
Age,
130-31.

21
. Ibid., 132.

22
. JEH testimony, House Appropriations Subcommittee, Feb. 1, 1956.

23
. Ramsey Clark interview; Horace Hampton deposition, Halperin suit.

24
. William Turner, “I Was a Burglar, Wiretapper, Bugger, and Spy for the FBI,”
Ramparts,
Nov. 1966; Turner,
FBI,
318.

25
. Ollestad,
Bureau,
262.

26
. OC no. 153.

27
. Morgan,
FDR,
684.

28
. Biddle,
Brief,
327.

29
. Ibid.

30
. Sullivan,
Bureau,
183.

31
. George J. Dasch,
Eight Spies against America
(New York: Robert M. McBride, 1959), 22.

32
. Dasch,
Spies,
131.

33
. JEH to McIntyre (FDR), June 22, 1942.

34
. JEH to Watson (FDR), June 16, 1942; JEH to McIntyre (FDR), June 22 and 27, 1942.

35
.
NYDN,
June 29, 1942.

36
.
NYT,
June 29, 1942.

37
. Biddle,
Brief,
328.

38
. Ibid., 336.

39
. Presidential statement, Aug. 8, 1942.

40
.
NYDN,
Nov. 8, 1945.

41
. JEH to Hopkins (FDR), Aug. 19, 1944.

42
. Corson,
Armies,
206-7.

43
. Donovan to AG Biddle, Jan. 10, 1942.

44
. Downes,
Scarlet,
95.

45
. Mosley,
Dulles,
129, 141.

46
. JEH to Watson (FDR), March 7, 1944.

47
. Berle to JEH, Sept. 17, 1946; Cuneo interview.

48
.
NYT,
Nov. 14, 1945.

C
HAPTER
21: The FBI Director, the First Lady, and Other Matters (Pages 298-318)

1
. JEH to Watson (FDR), Jan. 24, 1941.

2
. JEH to ER, Jan. 24, 1941.

3
. ER to JEH, Jan. 26, 1941.

4
. JEH to ER, Jan. 27, 1941.

5
. Morgenthau diaries, vol. 353, Sept. 21, 1941.

6
. G. Gordon Liddy,
Will
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980), 83.

7
. Ibid.

8
. Nichols interview.

9
. Sullivan interview.

10
. JEH to Hopkins (FDR), Jan. 25, 1944.

11
. Sullivan,
Bureau,
37.

12
. Ibid.

13
. Tamm interview.

14
. Joseph P. Lash,
Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982), 122.

15
. Walter Goodman,
The Committee: The Extraordinary Career of the House Committee on Un-American Activities
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1968), 81.

16
. Former special agent.

17
. Goodman,
Committee,
83.

18
. Joseph Lash,
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Friend’s Memoir
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964), 282.

19
. Lash,
Love,
465.

20
. Ibid., 470.

21
. Ibid., 476.

22
. Ibid., 481-82.

23
. Ibid., 487-88.

24
. Donald S. Lamm interview.

25
. Lash,
Love,
493.

26
. JEH to Wallace, Oct. 23, 1942.

27
. JEH to AG Biddle, May 3, 1943.

28
. R. B. Hood to JEH, Feb. 4, 1944.

29
. JEH notation on ER newspaper column dated July 14, 1951.

30
.
SFC,
Sept. 6, 1983.

31
. Tamm interview.

32
. Marquis Childs,
Witness to Power
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975), 16-17.

33
. Morgan,
FDR,
679.

34
. Ibid.; Tamm interview.

35
. JEH memo, Jan. 29, 1945.

36
. Tamm interview.

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