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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Security

SUBJECT

: MORGAN, Edward P.

4 May 1967

I first met Ed Morgan in about 1952 or 1953 through our

association with the Society of Former Agents of the FBI. Both Ed

and I served on the Executive Committee of the Washington Chapter

of that Society in 1953-54 and both Ed and I were interested in having

the Ex-Agents National Convention in Washington, D. C. At that time

Jim McInerny was President of the Washington Chapter.

2. I went overseas in 1955 and I have seen Ed possibly four or

five times since my return in 1957. While I have been active in the

Society, Ed Morgan has not been.

The last time I saw Morgan was

in January 1967 at an Ex-Agents dinner. All of my association with

Morgan has been through the Ex-Agents, and I have never been in

contact with him socially other than through the Society.

3. The following information is hearsay concerning Ed Morgan.

I have reason to believe that all the information is true, but I do not

know it on a first hand basis. Ed Morgan served in the Bureau from

1940 to 1947. He is a tall, personable, nice looking individual and in

the Bureau he ended up in the Training Division. He used to give

lectures to the new Agents classes and the National Academy classes,

and through his speaking ability he came to the attention of Director,

J. Edgar Hoover. At the end of the war Morgan left the Bureau to

enter private law practice.

4.

According to rumor, Morgan entered the field of Federal

Communications practice. His firm became well known in this field

and the firm name is Welch, Mott & Morgan. Rumor is that he obtained

TV franchises for a number of oil men in the Middle West, and took

his pay in oil leases. He made a great deal of money in a short period

of time and is reportedly worth at least a million dollars.

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5. At the time of the Korean War, Morgan accepted an

appointed position in the Office of Price Stabilization. He headed

the investigative and compliance unit of OPS and in this position he

hired a number of Ex-Agents. It was in this job that he reportedly

ran afoul of the Bureau.

Morgan apparently proselyted a great number

of Bureau Agents at higher salaries than the Bureau made and this

made Director Hoover furious. A few years later a rumor was

started that Morgan hoped to replace Hoover; the Director was even

more furious.

I do not know this for a fact, but it has been speculated

that Morgan is persona non grata with the Bureau.

6. Morgan continued active work in the Society of Former Agents

between 1955 and 1957. In 1957 he ran for the office of National

President of the Society. He was defeated in his bid for this office

and was very bitter about his defeat.

For the past ten years he has

not attended more than two or three local meetings, and he does not

participate in Society activities.

It was rumored that Morgan blamed

his defeat on the Bureau, stating that he was defeated because the

Bureau had black-listed him.

7. According to rumor Morgan moves in fairly high circles in

the District of Columbia. I believe he belongs to the Touchdown Club

and I also believe he belongs to one of the more exclusive country clubs

in the area. He drinks, but I have never seen him intoxicated. Other

than the items mentioned above, I have never heard anything unfavorable

concerning him. There are a number of people in the Agency who knew

him and worked with him at the Bureau. I feel certain that(Frank Holmes)

would know him fairly well, as well as Bill Harvey, Ron MacMillan,

Herman Horton and Glenn Fields. Lyon L. (Slug) Tyler, who has been

24 (utilized by Central Cover)for a number of years, formerly worked for

Morgan in his law firm, but broke away from the firm because of some

disagreement. Tyler would probably know a great deal concerning

Morgan's personal habits. It should be remembered, however, that

because Morgan's law practice is primarily an administrative practice

before the FCC, most of his business associates would be in the broad-

casting and news business.

Charles W. Kane

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