Relations With The FBI
Prior to his election as U.S. Congressman, Jack Shelley was included in the FBI's Custodial Detention (DETCOM) files. The FBI's "Detcom program" "was concerned with the individuals 'to be given priority arrest in the event of . . . an emergency.' Priority under the Detcom program was given to 'all top functionaries, all key figures, all individuals tabbed under the Comsab program,' and 'any other individual who, though he does not fall in the above groups, should be given priority arrest because of some peculiar circumstances.'
A memo by Warren Olney III alerts FBI Director Hoover to the fact that Jack Shelley was recently elected and remains targeted, along with one other California Congressman, to be arrested by the FBI as a security risk in case of a Soviet attack. A July 23, 1962 FBI search slip on Shelley is check-marked for “subversive references only” and remains heavily redacted, i.e., with numerous unreleased documents.
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