IN the course of preparing our article upon the Federal Loyalty Orderthe authors wrote to Mr. Hoover and requested him to furnish allavailable materials relating to the methods employed by the FBI inmaking investigations under the loyalty program. Mr. Hoover suppliedus with certain materials, primarily his press statement publishedin the New York Herald-Tribune on November 16, 1947. Onthe basis of these materials, together with other available data, we setforth in the article the FBI\u27s position regarding its functions andmethods of operation under the program. Mr. Hoover\u27s letter to theYale Law Journal, except in one notable particular to be consideredshortly, adds nothing of substance to his previous statements summarizedin the article
