Cartha DeLoach
 Cartha DeLoach     (policeman) | ||||||||||||
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| Born | July 20, 1920 Claxton, Georgia (state) | |||||||||||
| Died | March 13, 2013 (Age 92) Hilton Head Island, South Carolina | |||||||||||
| Nationality | American | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | Stetson University | |||||||||||
| Parents | Cartha Calhoun DeLoach | |||||||||||
| Member of | Knights of Malta | |||||||||||
Third most senior official in the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson. Member of the Knights of Malta.
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Cartha DeLoach was Assistant Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the third most senior official in the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson. He was also a member of the Knights of Malta.
JFK Assassination
The day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, US President Lyndon B. Johnson called J. Edgar Hoover and requested that DeLoach be assigned to the White House and assist the "investigation" into the assassination. DeLoach claimed in a memo sent to Clyde Tolson that Johnson "felt the CIA had something to do with the plot" to kill Kennedy.[1]
Sexual blackmail
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.[2]:
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."
