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Show INDEPENDENT BUREAU NEEDED Consequently it must be an in-d''endont in-d''endont bureau .covering at "V'eXtl these government elements ana T.'obnbly more (Justice Department De-partment and FBI.) Furthermore, the head must be a man whose character and personality guarantee guar-antee full pursuit of the business to be done, and a complete disavowal dis-avowal of any political implications implica-tions in the work. He must not be a leftist or right or even a professional Democrat or Republican. Repub-lican. That service must lean over backwards to keep itself politically po-litically inviolable, and beyond even the faintest suspicion of political po-litical use. (The British knoM how to do it.) The only limit on its appropriations appro-priations should be our need of information. If we need the information get it. If the spenders want to let Treasury money loose, here is one place where they could get something out of it. Some interested parties par-ties wish to limit the scope of activity to foreign information. It should be limited only by need. If it is found counterespionage in this country it requires action, no political softpeddaling considerations con-siderations should be allowed to stand in the way of getting iu |