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[[File:Oval Office LBJ 2.jpg|thumb|DeLoach with President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in the [[Oval Office]], March 3, 1966.]] |
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'''Cartha Dekle "Deke" DeLoach''' (July 20, 1920 – March 13, 2013) was deputy director of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) of the United States. During his post, DeLoach was the third most senior official in the FBI after [[J. Edgar Hoover]] and [[Clyde Tolson]]. |
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'''Cartha Dekle DeLoach''' (July 20, 1920 – March 13, 2013), known as '''Deke DeLoach''', was deputy associate director of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) of the United States.<ref name="The New York Times; March 15, 2013">{{cite news |last=Weber |first=Bruce |date=March 15, 2013 |title=Cartha D. DeLoach, No. 3 in the F.B.I., Is Dead at 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/16/us/cartha-d-deloach-no-3-in-fbi-is-dead-at-92.html |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=August 16, 2015}}</ref> During his post, DeLoach was the third most senior official in the FBI after [[J. Edgar Hoover]] and [[Clyde Tolson]].<ref name="The New York Times; March 15, 2013"/> |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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DeLoach was born July 20, 1920 in [[Claxton, Georgia]], the only child of Cartha Calhoun DeLoach.<ref name="The New York Times; March 15, 2013" |
DeLoach was born July 20, 1920, in [[Claxton, Georgia]], the only child of Cartha Calhoun DeLoach.<ref name="The New York Times; March 15, 2013"/><ref name=historicalsociety>{{cite book | first=Dorothy | last=Simmons | year=1999 | title=A History of Evans County, Georgia |publisher=The Evans County Historical Society }}</ref> His father, a merchant, died when DeLoach was ten years old.<ref name="The New York Times; March 15, 2013"/> He attended [[Gordon Military College]], [[South Georgia State College|South Georgia College]] and [[Stetson University]].<ref name=historicalsociety/> |
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In his book, “The Secrets of the FBI” national security journalist [[Ronald Kessler]] reported an incident in which a highly placed congressional staffer believed that DeLoach attempted blackmail using derogatory information from the agency's files.:<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kessler |first1=Ronald |title=Time to Rename the J. Edgar Hoover Building |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/dec/28/time-to-rename-the-j-edgar-hoover-building/ |website=washingtontimes.com |publisher=The Washington Times |access-date=2 August 2021 |date=December 28, 2020}}</ref> |
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It was in 1942 that DeLoach joined the FBI, where he would spend most of his career. In 1965 Hoover promoted him to the job of deputy director of the bureau. DeLoach was involved in the investigation of the [[assassination of John F. Kennedy]].{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} |
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<blockquote>[[Roy Elson|Roy L. Elson]], administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. [[Carl T. Hayden]], experienced [FBI blackmail] first-hand. FBI Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]] wanted an additional appropriation for the new FBI building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Elson had reservations about the request, but Cartha D. “Deke” DeLoach, one of the FBI’s top officials, met with him and “hinted” that he had “information that was unflattering and detrimental to my marital situation and that the senator might be disturbed,” Elson told me for my book. |
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“I was certainly vulnerable that way,” Elson said. “The implication was there was information about my sex life. There was no doubt in my mind what he was talking about.” |
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DeLoach, who was the third-ranking official at the FBI under Hoover, and briefed Kennedy, Johnson, and [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] on the bureau’s activities, was the last surviving member of Hoover’s inner circle. He was, in many ways, the classic agent — a former college football player, a keeper of secrets and a Hoover loyalist to the end. “On the positive side, he was very smart, he had an incredible memory and was totally well informed about the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover’s activities,” [[Ronald Kessler]], author of ''The Secrets of the FBI'' and other books about American national administration, said in an interview. “On the negative side, he was used by Hoover to further Hoover’s agenda.” |
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Elson suggested that they both tell Hayden, who headed the Senate Appropriations Committee, about his affair. |
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Opponents sometimes thought of DeLoach as Hoover’s henchman, possessing salacious secrets that could silence the FBI’s enemies. In the 1960s, when the bureau engaged in surveillance of political figures and suspected dissidents, DeLoach was “a courier to the White House of the juicy gleanings from the FBI,” in the words of ''Time'' magazine. |
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“Bring the photos if you have them,” Elson told DeLoach. |
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DeLoach helped burnish the bureau’s public image throughout the 1960s. He played a bigger role than any other FBI official in arranging a deal with Hollywood mogul [[Jack L. Warner]] for a network television series about the FBI; and he himself would assess the scripts before production. The ABC series ''The FBI'' began in 1965 and ran for several years. |
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Preferring to avoid being well known to the general public, DeLoach could nevertheless match Hoover on occasion in delivering fiery anti-communist speeches. He often had daily meetings with Johnson (the president to whom he was always closest), and, as early as 1965, was seen as the heir apparent to Hoover as director of the FBI. But things did not work out thus; Hoover showed not the slightest interest in retiring from the job which he had held since 1924. He was still serving as FBI director when he died at age 77 in 1972. |
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“At that point,” Elson recalled, “He started backing off … He said, ‘I’m only joking. Bullshit,' ” Elson said. “I interpreted it as attempted blackmail.”</blockquote> |
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According to DeLoach’s son Tom, his father turned down three offers to be director of the FBI — one by Johnson and two when Nixon was president. “Under President Nixon, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst made that offer twice,” Tom DeLoach said. “He found it easier to turn down an attorney general. It might have been different if the president had asked.” |
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DeLoach retired from the bureau in 1970, on his 50th birthday. According to a syndicated column that year by [[Rowland Evans]] and [[Robert Novak]], there was some relief within the FBI at DeLoach's departure, because DeLoach was considered there to be guilty of “right-wing bias and blatant opportunism.” |
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In the 1970s, DeLoach confirmed to ''The Washington Post'' the existence of the FBI’s domestic spying program. Among other things, the FBI had tapes of [[Martin Luther King]]’s bedroom encounters with women other than his wife. Sen. [[Henry M. Jackson]] (D-Wash.) called the revelations “outrageous” and said the FBI’s snooping “goes to the heart of the separation of powers.” |
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Several journalists said DeLoach had offered to reveal the tapes in an effort to discredit King in the 1960s, but DeLoach always denied ever having made such offers.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} He said the FBI investigated King only to determine if the civil rights movement had been infiltrated by communists. “Everything was initiated by Hoover,” Kessler said. |
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Nonetheless, when it came to old-fashioned crime fighting, few could find fault with DeLoach. He was instrumental in developing a nationwide computerized crime database, now known as National Crime Information Center, or NCIC. |
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He helped lead the FBI’s investigation of the killings of civil rights workers [[James Chaney]], [[Andrew Goodman]] and [[Michael Schwerner]] in 1964. After King was assassinated in 1968, DeLoach personally directed the investigation that led to the dramatic and internationally publicized arrest of [[James Earl Ray]]. |
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Soon after his graduation in 1942, DeLoach joined the FBI. He had assignments in Norfolk and Cleveland before serving in the Navy during the later stages of World War II. In 1946 he returned to the FBI; he was assigned to the Washington headquarters a year later. |
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He began working in 1953 with deputy director [[Clyde Tolson]], the No. 2 official at the FBI and Hoover’s closest friend and confidant. Thereafter DeLoach had jobs in the crime-records and communications divisions until the early 1960s, and had an office near Hoover’s. In later interviews, DeLoach sometimes said Hoover considered him “the son he never had.” |
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After leaving the FBI, DeLoach worked as vice-president of corporate affairs for [[PepsiCo|PepsiCo, Inc.]] From 1985 onward, DeLoach lived in Hilton Head Island, where he was chairman of a banking company and the chief fundraiser for an arts center. |
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DeLoach published a book about his experiences and about the FBI in general: ''Hoover’s FBI: The Inside Story by J. Edgar Hoover’s Trusted Lieutenant,'' in 1995. Some years before that book appeared, allegations surfaced that Hoover not only dressed in women's clothing but had a homosexual relationship with Tolson (who had died in 1975). In a 1993 interview on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” DeLoach condemned the accusations as “third-handed gossip, innuendo, lies, deceit” and “a pile of garbage.” He discussed the question again in ''Hoover's FBI'', and again (but this time in greater detail) dismissed the charges as having no basis. |
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*[https://www.c-span.org/person/?carthadeloach ''Booknotes'' interview with DeLoach on ''Hoover's FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant'', August 20, 1995.] |
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*[https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/march/deke-deloach-adviser-to-j.-edgar-hoover-dies-at-92/deke-deloach-adviser-to-j.-edgar-hoover-dies-at-92 Remembering ‘Deke’ DeLoach], [[FBI]] |
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* [https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/deke-deloach-adviser-to-j-edgar-hoover-dies-at-92 FBI]: Obituary |
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Latest revision as of 23:40, 25 December 2023
Cartha "Deke" DeLoach | |
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| Associate Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation | |
| In office July 10, 1963 – July 9, 1970 | |
| President | John F. Kennedy Lyndon Johnson Richard Nixon |
| Director | J. Edgar Hoover |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 20, 1920 Claxton, Georgia |
| Died | March 13, 2013 (aged 92) Hilton Head Island, SC |
| Nationality | American |
| Parent | Cartha Calhoun DeLoach |
| Alma mater | Stetson University |
Cartha Dekle DeLoach (July 20, 1920 – March 13, 2013), known as Deke DeLoach, was deputy associate director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States.[1] During his post, DeLoach was the third most senior official in the FBI after J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson.[1]
Early life
[edit]DeLoach was born July 20, 1920, in Claxton, Georgia, the only child of Cartha Calhoun DeLoach.[1][2] His father, a merchant, died when DeLoach was ten years old.[1] He attended Gordon Military College, South Georgia College and Stetson University.[2]
FBI service
[edit]In his book, “The Secrets of the FBI” national security journalist Ronald Kessler reported an incident in which a highly placed congressional staffer believed that DeLoach attempted blackmail using derogatory information from the agency's files.:[3]
Roy L. Elson, administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Carl T. Hayden, experienced [FBI blackmail] first-hand. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover wanted an additional appropriation for the new FBI building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Elson had reservations about the request, but Cartha D. “Deke” DeLoach, one of the FBI’s top officials, met with him and “hinted” that he had “information that was unflattering and detrimental to my marital situation and that the senator might be disturbed,” Elson told me for my book.
“I was certainly vulnerable that way,” Elson said. “The implication was there was information about my sex life. There was no doubt in my mind what he was talking about.”
Elson suggested that they both tell Hayden, who headed the Senate Appropriations Committee, about his affair.
“Bring the photos if you have them,” Elson told DeLoach.
“At that point,” Elson recalled, “He started backing off … He said, ‘I’m only joking. Bullshit,' ” Elson said. “I interpreted it as attempted blackmail.”
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Weber, Bruce (March 15, 2013). "Cartha D. DeLoach, No. 3 in the F.B.I., Is Dead at 92". The New York Times. Retrieved August 16, 2015.
- ^ a b Simmons, Dorothy (1999). A History of Evans County, Georgia. The Evans County Historical Society.
- ^ Kessler, Ronald (December 28, 2020). "Time to Rename the J. Edgar Hoover Building". washingtontimes.com. The Washington Times. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
External links
[edit]- Booknotes interview with DeLoach on Hoover's FBI: The Inside Story by Hoover's Trusted Lieutenant, August 20, 1995.
- Remembering ‘Deke’ DeLoach, FBI
- FBI: Obituary
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