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BROUGHT OUT AT HEARINGFBI Claims Baker Inquiry Started Before963 FurorWASHINGTON lUPI) — TheileKally acquired through federal,suite during tin* 77 - day pe FBI began lo take notice ofieavesdropping equipment. -riod in early 19;V5 that KBRobert G. t Bobby) Baker's busi- The government conceded in agents wore listening in. ne«s activities nearly a year be*]court Tuesday it did listen in You have not included a Ifore the 1963 furor that ended! through electronic buns on 11 jouVe got lieic. Baker said ofliis career as Senate Democratic;conversations when Baker was the transcripts produced, secretary. jproyont In the Washington hotel. In a new development Wed*Tltis was related by FBI!suite of Fred B. Black Jr.. a. nesday. FBI Agent John K.agents at a preliminary hear-ionetime business associate of-Shedd testified Baker's nameiug in U. S. District Court Weil-i Baker’s. jramc up during November. 1962.nesday as Baker and his at*j But tin* FBI produced thej in conversations r e c o r dcd torneys sought to discredit the, transcripts of this eavesdrop, through buys in the l/ts Vegas government's supporting evi-.plng and stoutly denied the in-'oflice of Ed Levinson, owner o| dence for a criminal indictment, '.formation contrihutcri anythin?.Urn Fremont Hotel and casi* Baker, one - time protege of-whatever to the evidence he-'no there, then Senate Democratic leaden hind the indictment*. Slu\ld said that wns a crimi-Lyndon B. Johnson, is under a; Baker, however, testified Wed- .nine - count indictment rharg- nesday that matters noled in the ' ” thence m\esHnation ofing him with larceny, fraud.;.transcripts did indeed bear on Iw*ib!c illegal gambling acttvj. and income tax evasion. jihe indictments. He also insist- ties and was not directed atNot Tied To l’rohe |ed that some of the conver-jBaker. But he said he notifiedTcse charge* are not related Rations recorded actually occur-'FBI Chief j. Edgar Hooverlo Hie celebrated two • yea r.red at another location, Black V early in 1963 of the Baker rcfor-Scnate investigation of Maker.] Ixisiness office, and therefore in-:cnees because I thought it was which produced a report that al-iriicatcd bugging was taking j important for Washington to be though guilty of improper con-!place there which the govern-.aware of Hie possible political duct. Baker did nothing as d.mcnihas not admitted. j influence of Ed Levinson.Senate employe that was tcch-j More Conversation- | The Baker scandal did not ; nically illegal. j The dapper Baker, reputedly! erupt until September of thatBaker is attacking the gov- a self - made millionaire, a ho; year when a civil suit charging ‘ crnmenl's case on the grounds charged he had many more than, him with failing to produce on 1 the evidence against him was il-I It conversations in Black’s hotel an influence payment was filed.
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Avalanche Journal
Lubbock, Texas, US
Thu, Nov 17, 1966
Page 60
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