FBI Kept File on Daley, Paper Reports
Even former Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, wasn’t exempt from the FBI’s suspicion of being a communist sympathizer, a tool of the mob or an accommodator to civil rights leaders. Under a federal Freedom of Information Act request, the Chicago Tribune obtained 300 pages of Daley’s file compiled by J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI. The reports span Daley’s career from state senator in the 1940s until his death in 1976, the newspaper said. The file on Daley, Chicago’s mayor from 1955 through 1976, contains a wealth of innuendoes and guilt by association, none apparently beyond the level of gossip.
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