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circumspect in your behavior for a long time, and do nothing. Go back to your job and work at it with your nose to the grindstone, and don't look to the right or to the left.”

“That was the first we heard of this case,” the F.B.I. man said. “It was the first we knew of her. We picked her up because we had the wire-tap, and she said, ‘This is Irene, and I've just been to a hearing of the Civil Service Commission.”’ So we found out who the Civil Service Commission had heard that afternoon, and we found this case, and we found this situation.”

Then there was another review of her case, and she did the same thing. Three times they had caught her, had discovered her, telephoning to this man, who was kind of the the managing director of all the Communist operations in the city.

“Well,” I said, “That's enough. I believe you, and it's just too bad. She certainly was well equipped to fool us--I mean, to fool me. And I think it was essential to have this information. I realize why you can't put it on the public Press. You expect to find more through this same tap.”

“Yes,” he said. “We're finding them all the time.”

Well, it's that kind of thing, you see. He told me the method, he told me what it was, at that time. In two or three other cases, I also talked to him, and I talked to Hoover, and in each case they were perfectly reasonable about