249 EXHIBIT 22 25- Tom Huston memorandum THE 1 i - August 5 191'9 I 21 331101111131111 FOR H R HA-LDEMAN FROM TOM CHARLESHUSEGN - 11113 13sz n01- ESTES INTELLIGENCE J 1- In anticipa tion of your meeting with I'v r Hoover and the Attorney General I would like to pass on these Ehuur-hi s 19501-1 thin the FBI is involved' 1n this ope atio cm 1 23 DIA CIA and tne 111111 111 services all have 11 great 512 111 11 11 great inharegt 111' of the-5r agencies 51111311111111 1 0115010115 selected by the Far-your private info1'1'1111 1 19 1 50 155 5 1111 the 1- ai Mr staff who work on the 111-1321 q 1 I he d 511's Emma 11 m knew unn -411 3 ting the 1 59 of 111 6 351 23 11 111 1% - Hull r131 39 5 ii uni 33 0111 3 13 ca in g 1 11 3 22 i11' urn 11551 3 ail 1 1 available E3 in 1 1 Inmier r15 1311239 13 1 - nuviou rulm agains- Eh - rcatlts 11 rial- 5 rathr abja ti-gg y 311 1 1115 - rsgnart and go- er 3- 1 escahting he risks in 01-12 to ank 1115 deter -131 on to 1 1 1 ir a in bLE-anss as usual 4 At 50 11 9 3103111 hue-fer has to be 0191 is Fasidenz 1 25 be 11am 11 11113- 11 1 Mason-11 111 1 it 3 comma detrimental sci-ricer Ejacru' 5'1 trite everyonee 12 er thz Whifq House '15 bar-1 1 to have a 123mm i-zr tr 11- commur and is contra his 911511 21 1 to 1321 at the 121113111311 that there 11-515 1 11 52 1c1 rur -ation - 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- 35 mtima 1 er this new opera- -tion will regulate them and t linked to the ' 'i'1it1 011511 staft' - - There are rim tiess' anothe dozen 1 11-50 spa it 115 art 19's 11 1 111' similar miai ty I 2 51 eeteneraizen o the situation lowered voices and in 31 55 25 - v '5 11 Lungs-2 the tense face but 3-53 1 1 1-- - Ernst te a -watche peeple in this geverment ignore _i me fighting niad and what Hoover is doing here is put ieg bin-15 31 above the President if he thought the Attorney Genes-12 s edifice should be salicited he should have den-a so before the - repurt was sent to the President After all Hoover was of the cam ittee anci he could have asked the AG for his commas- 5 But he didn't do so or it never occurred to him that the Presic lent'would not agree with his Detected objections He thought all footnote an the matter was Settled He had'abseleteiy no interest in the views of 33 1 61h DEL and the military services and obviously he has little interest in our views er Epp rcn even in the eeisioes 'ef the President I don't see how we can thierste this at being fatalist if not a realist I am preyared to accept the 1 seayha 77 - TOM CHARLES This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 WŚŽŶĞĞϮϬϮϮϵϵϰͲϳϬϬϬϬ ĂdžĞϮϬϮϮϵϵϰͲϳϬϬϱϬŶƐĂƌĐŚŝǀΛŐǁƵƵĞĚƵ