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WILSON DISPUTEIn Quiet TransferWASHINGTON (AP) — A re-1 spccled Justice Department of-fieiai for 16 years lias been' quietly transferred to a lesser! Agriculture Department post! after becoming embroiled in a’ dispute with Asst, Aliy. Gen. Will R. Wilson.The transfer of Nathaniel K. Kossack, 56—who first joined the department in 163:5 and stayed through the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations—is known to have aroused considerable controversy within die department.Kossack, the No. 2 man in the criminal division, reportedlyran inlo problems with Wilson,a former Democratic attorney general in Texas, almost from the time the Nixon administration took office and put WilsonHero Of WWII Dies In LulinoL tf L I N G (AP) — Lt. Gen. If. Miller Ainsworth, 74, a military herd with the JGth Division in World War IT, leader in the reorganization of the National Guard and a prominent businessman here, died Thursday afternoon in a Galveston hospital.Funeral services are pending at the Chambers-O’Bannon Funeral Home here.in charge of the division.But when Wilson first sough Ko.ssack's ouster, he was over ruled by Ally. Gen. John N Mitchell.A department spokesmai would give no reason Wednes day for Mitchell’s change o mind, but lie described the dis pule between Wilson and Kos sack as “a jwrsonaljty conflict.’The shakeup was discoverswhen » reporter phoned Kos sack’-* office, and a secrctar answered: “Mr, Petersen's of fice.Henry E. Petersen, head o the organized crime section fa: the past three years, apparently been officially announced.K.v-FlJI AgentA former assistant footbal coach at Cornel! and Boston Col lege, Kossack served fror 1916-50 as a special FBI agen and then worked three years a. counsel to various industry branches of the Office of Priei Administration.; He was brought to the Justie j Department in 1950 by tijfn dej) i uly Atty, Gen. William P. Hog ers—later attorney general ant now secretary of state—as ehie; ■of the fraud section.It was understood that one reason for Mitchell's initial reluctance to go along with Wilsoi: stems from Kossack's long relationship with Rogers.
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Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Thu, May 08, 1969
Page 87
Full Page
Clipped by
Madison H.
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