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OCR Page 1 of 40NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Institute of Fine Arts
1 EAST 78TH STREET, NEW YORK, N.Y. 10021
AREA 1 212 988-5550
June 25, 1966
CONFIDENTIAL
Mr.Drew Pearson,
The Washington Post
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr.Pearson,
I have tried several times, indirectly it is true, to
bring a rather interesting scandal to your attention. Perhaps
my efforts never did penetrate to you. One such effort was through
Ed Michelson, perhape it was Dorothea (his wife) who spoke to you.
In any case I shall make this inquiry before attempting to get
at this from some other direction.
It has to do with a real old Herbert Hoover "operation"
with roots in World War I and the Belgian Relief Commission. That
is ancient history but the story is well told in Hamill's Book on
Herbert Hoover (1930)
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The current issue has to do with the last years of Hoover's
life, his son Alan Hoover, Admiral Strauss, Sidney Mitchell, and W.Hallam
Tuck. It has todo with a multi-million dollar "Educational" Foundation
which this crew has "screwed" for about one million dollars and which
they conspired (and are,so far as I can see) still trying to do out
of the rest of its assets. The idea seems to be for one group to
hand over to itself and especially to Allan Hoover, all the rest of
the capital from the Educational foundation to one of Allan Hoover's
nearly personal Foundations named for his father.
There is much to this. It involves not only the persons named
but the following Foundations
The Belgian American Educational Foundation of N.Y.
The Herbert Hoover Birthplace Foundation
The Hoover Presidential Library
The Hoover Foundation (still another! and not the same as above)
The Hoover Institution for War Revolution and Peace (Stamford)
The Herbert Hoover National Historic Site.
I am one of a group of some 300 scholars and professionals who
has been indebted to the Belgian-American Ed. Foundation - who have
formed an Association(Inc.) to do something about the scandal and the
further scandals impending. Two of the Directors of the B.A.E.F. have
a suit in the courts on the issue of the dirty work done. The thing has
been put to the Congressional Committee (tax exempt foundations) but
somehow not even a reply has been had from them.
Do let me know whether you might wish to look into this and
our Association (American Association of C.R.B.Alumi, Inc.) will
do all we can to help you with facts and information.
Sincerely your $
Harry Bober
Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities; President Amer.Assn of CRB Alumni
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