FBI, 1965
3/65Analysis by former FBI agent. Ramparts, After J. Edgar Hoover Who?, William Turner, p. 66
3/9/65
4/26/65For examples of FBI’s inducements or rewards for cooperation, see story on Robert Glenn [New York Times, 3/9/65] and Gary Thomas Rowe [New York Times, 4/26/65].
Marina did not want to return to Russia; wanted to become an American citizen. New York Times
5/65The FBI and Organized Crime, Ramparts, Fred J. Cook, p. 16
5/24-26/65Washington --LBJ sends team of FBI agents to investigate extend and nature of Communist influence in Dominican Republic's civil war. Lifted eyebrows over sending FBI men abroad. FBI refuses comment. White House at first refuses, later confirms men sent. AP, San Francisco Chronicle, Times Post Service
5/26/65Washington - Close relations between LBJ and J. Edgar Hoover. San Francisco Chronicle, Robert J. Donovan
5/27/65Washington - Plans for $10 million expansion of FBI academy at Quantico. New York Times, UPI
AP story to same effect.
6/65p. 83, detailed, highly opinionated analysis of what J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI do and do not do, and why they do or do not do it. Playboy, interview with Melvin Belli.
6/6/65Not since the assassination of President Kennedy has the FBI admitted a Dallas policeman to train at its national academy. ... Dallas Morning News, James Ewell
7/18/65Washington - The government’s drive against organized crime [began declining] on the day of President Kennedy's death.
"The next day we stopped getting information from the FBI on the Bobby Baker investigation," said a young Justice Department lawyer. "Within a month, the FBI men in the field wouldn't tell us anything. We started running out of gas." … New York Times, Fred P. Graham
8/21/65Book reviews of Invitation to An Inquest, by Walter & Miriam Schneir, Doubleday, NY.
Alleged fabrication of evidence by FBI in securing conviction of the Rosenbergs. New York Times and National Guardian.
9/2/65Washington -- Extensive evidence of FBI wiretapping, but no Senate investigation planned because FBI too popular. New York Times, Fred P. Graham
9/25/65Deadpan account of the Bureau and its creator and how they operate. Mildly critical; nothing serious. Good standard detail. Saturday Evening Post, Hoover of the FBI, by James Phelan.
10/8/65Possible the first novel written which has the FBI engaging in illegal practices. Frankel's sketch quotes Stout criticizing J. Edgar Hoover.
Publication date of The Doorbell Rang, by Rex Stout [Viking]. Review in Saturday Review, John T. Winterich with sketch of author by Haskel Frankel.
10/12/65New York -- Richard L. Riemann, 29, Junior High School teacher in San Francisco, testifying in trial of three students accused of going to Cuba in 1963 in defiance of State Department ban, surprises prosecution by renouncing "all past paid or unpaid connections with the Department of Justice through the FBI. And I would also add that if there is any wrongdoing here, it has been the government's."
Riemann's testimony was first disclosure at the trial that a U.S. government undercover man had gone on the trip with the 58 other students. AP
10/25/65Washington.- commonly known FBI has agents serving in various foreign countries as embassy legal attaches. AP
Later same day- J. Edgar Hoover denies they gather intelligence. AP
12/2/65Washington - An FBI official whose name has been advanced as a potential successor of director J. Edgar Hoover advanced this week into the inner circle of the agency's officialdom.
He is Cartha D. "Deke" Deloach, 45, a native Georgian and veteran of 23 years of FBI service.
Been Assistant director of crime records division since 1959, named to be one of two assistants to the director. The other assistant is John P. Mohr, 55. They are out-ranked in the bureau's chain of command only by Hoover and Associate Director Clyde A. Tolson, 65. AP, New York Times
12/26/65Berkeley -- Broadcast program of discussion between Walter and Miriam Schneir, authors of Invitation to an Inquest [Doubleday 1965] and Nathan Glazer, who reviewed the book in New York Times Book Review section 9/5/65, moderated by Baton White, KPFA.
Brings out Schneir's charge that hotel card which helped convict Rosenbergs was forged, and his point that coming Sobell appeal will demand the card or an accounting by FBI, which has said it is no longer available, as to why it is not available. letter from J. Edgar Hoover to Sobell attorney quoting saying card no longer available. KPFA