
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, September 24, 1993                   TAG: 9309240143
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

SENATORS DENOUNCE FBI FOR BURDICK ACCUSATIONS

Several members of the Senate denounced the FBI on Thursday after learning that it secretly collected information in the 1950s to paint the late Senator Quentin Burdick as a Communist sympathizer.

Burdick, a North Dakota Democrat, died last year after serving 32 years in the Senate.

Senators also assailed Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, for publishing a story based on information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act about the FBI's activities concerning Burdick.

But Roll Call's editor said the FBI, not the newspaper, was the villain.

Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, D-Ohio, called the disclosure "the last straw" and demanded that the FBI rename the J. Edgar Hoover Building.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said he called FBI Director Louis Freeh, demanding an apology to the Burdick family. Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., said later that Freeh had agreed to write a letter of apology to Burdick's widow, Jocelyn.

- Associated Press

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