President Orders FBI Probe, GOP Raises Cry of 'Scandal'

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York state, it was learned conference in downtown Fort that he had ordered the FBI Wayne before a scheduled

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and otherwise given access to to attempt to determine par speech, added:

top military secrets."

ticularly whether the Jenkins Otherwise, the impression case, involved any violations will be that the Johnson adTHE QUESTION arose dur-of national security pro-ministration is rotten to the ing the day, where Mr. or of ing the day whether Mr. John-cedures or laws. core or that Johnson is a poor picker."

son had had an FBI security The investigative agency alcheck made on Jenkins when so will look into Jenkins past

latter moved into the history and interview asso "BOBBY BAKER is obviWhite House with the new ciates within the government ously guilty of payoffs and inPresident last November. The in an effort to ascertain fluence peddling on a massive answer from informed sources whether or not anyone in gov-scale. Yet Johnson has not was negative. ernment had reason to be repudiated him either,” Nixon They said the FBI investilieve he had homosexual ten-said. gated Jenkins in 1956, and dencies, it was said.

turned up JENKINS WAS arrested in up no facts that Mr Johnson, it was underno might make him ineligible stood, told the FBI to employ a basement men's room of for access to classified maas many agents as necessary the YMCA, about two blocks

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terials. It was explained that in the task. from the White House, at 8:35 the FBI makes no investigaOnce the inquiry is comp.m. Oct. 7. Officers of the tions of government officials pleted, it is expected that the morals squad charged him unless asked to do so by an FBI will submit its findings with being disorderly by makexecutive agency. to the White House and that ing indecent gestures. No such request came from they will be made public by the White House, it was said. the President. The 1958 request came from the Atomic Energy Commis-

He posted $50 and forfeited it. That closed the case so far as the police were con-

ONE HIGH SOURCE said cerned.

sion, at a time when Mr. it was hoped this report might Arrested at the same time Johnson was Senate majority be available for public rein the men's room was a man leader, and Jenkins was his lease in about a week. identified as Andy Choka, 61, Mr. Johnson had no imme-of the U.S. Soldiers Home. aide. diate comment on the Jen[MEANWHILE, as Mr. John-kins case. Averell Harriman, son spent the day in New undersecretary of state, who was in the Johnson campaign tour party, said:

"I don't think it will hurt. I think it will arouse sympathies for Jenkins.

In Chicago, Rep. William E. Miller said the Jenkins incident poses "very, very serious" national security questions that President Johnson should answer for the American people.

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THE REPUBLICAN presidential nominee said Mr. Johnson should explain how a man such as Jenkins could occupy so high a position in the government.

IN FORT WAYNE, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon said that President Johnson should go on national television to explain how two longtime aides have both been "bad apples.

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Nixon, speaking at a press