- THE WASHINGTON POST Snmrdny. OeMho-. 4, Pihifil JACK ANDERSON The FBI's Connection Exactly 25 years ago, millions of aide explained the director's objection. Cartha (peke) DeLoach. "The Aft" American children watched the pre- "It is not felt that the "Mickey Mouse Force officer, for example, is contiral; miere of 's newest creation Club" is the proper place to publicize ally outwitting surveilling agents . . — the "Mickey Mouse Club." The this . It comes on at 5:30 p.m. each and the agents are generally picture' youngsters didn't know it, but some- weekday and is aimed at the 'small as bumbling, heavyfooted incompd one was watching over their shoulder. fry.' If we are going to do this, we tents." t. i• The FBI was monitoring the program. should do it right, and try and get Dis- Hoover ordered the FBE I While it would, of course, be ridicu- ney to do a one-hour show, office to protest, and the FBI's naniee! lous to imagine J. Edgar Hoover sitting which at present is at 7:30 p.m. on was changed to "Federal Security" firl in front of his television set sporting a Wednesday night. This show has an the finished movie. big-eared Mouseketeer hat, internal adult and juvenile appeal." Practicing Preacher—Last year FBI files reveal that the late director The obliging Disney agreed, and the Internal Revenue Service reported"! was a close—and critical—viewer of earned the following commendation in that Uncle Sam loses up to $17 billion` the "Mickey Mouse Club." is FBI dossier. "Appears to be a very in taxes each year because of unre2 . Hoover -did not always approve of reliable individual and has been quite ported income. Self-employed workefa''', what he saw. Why? Well, in Mouseke- friendly with the FBL" are major offenders hi this area. 31;' teer parlance, "M-1-C-K-E-Y. Y? Be- Alas, Disney's reliability soon suf- Now Investigators for Rep. Sam Gibr cause we don't like you. M-O-U-S-E!" fered a setback in Hoover's eyes, when bons (D-Fla.) have found that some fed!,1" The. Disney-Hoover connection be failed to let the FBI check four eral agencies do a rotten job of reporte began the year before the "Mickey Mickey Mouse newsreel segments on ing the income they pay to consultants Mouse Club" was formed. A 1954 the bureau before they were shown to and other self-employed outsidett311 memo from the Los Angeles FBI office the nation's moppets. With the help of the General Account-1 informed Hoover: "Mr. Disney has "Obviously," said an internal memo ing Office, they checked the employeit91 volunteered representatives of this of- reviewed by Hoover, The mishan- submitted Form 1099s of five agenclei" fice complete access to the facilities of dling on the part of the Disney Stuidos —the , General Services Administrat''' Disneyland for uses in connection with and failure to live pp to their agree- tion, the Energy, Interior and Nayx official matters and for recreational ment will be taken into consideration •Departments and the IRS itself. purposes." when future approaches are made to The investigators found that four of .1 I Two mouths later, Disney was ap- the bureau by this outfit." • the agencieR gubmitted only minuscule proved as a regular FBI contact. So far, Hoover penciled a grim notation on numbers of 1099s, despite the millions" so good. the memo. "No further cooperation is of dollars they pay for outside services-, _But in 1957, a committee within the to be extended to the Disney Studios." each year. The only agency that waati FBI approached Disney on the possibil- From that point on, the once happy filing 1099s conscientiously was: fig's ity that he might film a segment on relationship between Disney and tingly, the IRS. • the FBI laboratory for use on the Hoover fell apart like a Watch on Waste—Art Buchwakto "Mickey Mouse Club" show. picnic. In 1961, the bureau's studio- once wrote that the single most prized: • Hoover was outraged. The commit- watchers were alarmed by a Disney status symbol in Washington is free, tee "should not have done this without movie called "Moon Pilot." "Discreet reserved parking space. Congress has 1 prior approval," Hoover penciled on inquiries" showed that the film made been eagerly—and expensively—pur- the memo, adding: "This is a most em- the FBI look like—well, like a Mickey suing this perk ever since. The lateg,i 4 barrassing and unfortunate situation. Mouse operation. manifestation was the purchase of twylt No one should initiate such a move "Most references to the FBI are han- parking lots for House members---fo f without clearance here." dled inaccurately and some are ludi- $8 million. That works out to morfhi In a subsequent memo, a Hoover crous," stated a memo to Hoover aide than $18,000 per congressman.

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