16 Mar 77

RE: OMAR'S BIOGRAPHICAL WORK POINTS

          Yes, he seems to have hit upon a very good idea
and he should be sent a copy of FILM EDITING.

          There is another factor which has not seen the
light in any biography which was the task to keep going
with my work and researches and support them while not
appearing so different or strange that it would prevent
me from associating with many walks of life.

          In my own view the main thing I did which others
did not do was to enter into the livingness level of nearly
every strata of world society contactable which included
being about everything you could name and contacting most
of the races that are.

          My life has had the difficulty of appearing usual.

          J. Edgar Hoover has apparently falsified my
various dossiers, stuffed them with false information and
edited from them favorable materials. They were then care-
fully handed out by various areas of government to journalists
over the last 2 1/2 decades and this not only obscures the life
I really did lead but also makes the task of a biographer
risky as almost anything he puts forward could collide with
false and edited dossiers and media quotes from them.

          My own records were stolen in 1953. Most of my
intimate friends of writing days or the war have passed on
and all in all I do not at all envy the task of anyone try-
ing to reconstruct a life to make a biography from.

          Actually it's been quite a life and includes a
cloak and dagger aspect which has defeated a large number
of governmental enemies and so far has me on the winning
side.

          The pattern of film technique presentation is
excellent.

L

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