F.B.I. Protests

Publication in the newspapers of President Hopkins' statement that the American Defense Dartmouth Group would not become "an agency for faculty witch-hunting or an academic F.B.I." drew from J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a protest that the reference to the bureau was derogatory. In reply to Mr. Hoover's letter, President Hopkins denied any derogatory intent and expressed regret that the statement, made for purposes of contrast, gave any possibility for being misconstrued.