Word: offing
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Sir: My purpose in writing is to bring to your attention serious misstatements of fact regarding the FBI which are contained in the item entitled "Muckraker's Progress" [Oct. 26]. I have specific reference to the false allegation that the FBI paid "Klansmen $36,500 to persuade Kathy Ainsworth...
I want to state unequivocally that the FBI did not pay any sum of money to any person in connection with the attempted dynamiting in Meridian, Miss., in June 1968, which resulted in the fatal shooting of Mrs. Ainsworth and the arrest of Thomas A. Tarrants III. Nor does the...
J. EDGAR HOOVER Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D.C.
≫ TIME did not accuse the FBI of entrapment, it simply reported the account given in a new book by Jack Nelson, a newsman with a high reputation for accuracy.