Matcalft'a complaint 6/6/78

Az I told you whe. you phoned, I was about to do a l.lttle mowing.. I've done it, I'm= a bite tired and uneasy from it, but I want to do into this befoae I put ay mind on other work.

It NetcalN, kmawing yoa had not had tie to real the affidavit, read only the one graf then ha wan' aialearling you. Or trying to. I t eannot be read by itself.

It is graf gtxmaxpx 110 on peg° 22. It reads, in full,. If Mr. Notes:ifs was misled LAO Authruiesantatioas to this court by bin trust in what he wan told by the 731, aney are representations the falsity of which was known to the FBI when it sialed U it Osled him." Rio objection is to "if it misled him."

This is at the and of a long dart of the off davit on the lies, not just nis-aieepresentationa illahe judge. It Is part of that part, not standing by itself. Jefore it I have "a:44 eat much, with -exhibite from the govermnont's own records.

I do net begia with the belief that a 'overnment lawyer h.s special axemationa froa noanal AA ethics Of that he ia tatally uniaforued or at that aercy of his Clint. I, a layman, mould know that Beckwith's affidavit is not the right one to file, that Beckwith saacities that/he lacks personal knowledge, Auraly 4etcalfa known it. Why then did hotoalfe not ask t e iBI for an affidavit from the man kho made the search? Or the one who could allegaely state that there vaa a promiae of eoafidentiality to the Atlanta police2 In laying aside all be learned in law school and as a clerk and as a practising lawyer he does riot cloak himself with any spacial Jcirt of iaaanity. the was engaging in what I regard as an excess, en abuse of the adversary system. He had every reason to know that the Aaetkvith affidavit is defeotive - at the very least. He is also no dope. So he h to have had some suspicions. There is no indication he had ally doubts about filing it. There is no doubt he knew others haa the knowltAga rs,tuired. Thera is nc aoubt that he knew the Fll had to havesome reason for avoiding the rleht one loading it on besawith.

Re also did not liba or war% in a vacua a, as the cthary who signed it do not. he may not have known all the particulars but he has to have had same knowledge of the to .std of dirty triacko they and the IX have been playing on um. If be had no eueotion whea he saw a defective affidavit then he has to be what he is not, some kind of fool. .7-t he tad any auam ion then he wan not aislede

These aa ple have been suealug to ualoaaeverything on the FBI. If the FBI beara its own re sponsibility it has a very heavy load. see no r,ason to lay Acme on without cause. I believe that Metcalfe has to have known tter than to file the eeekaith affdeivit vii out &eking any questions about it.

Of course reoeutrui, of what these kindt af teings dam' ta L'.4, and to both of us. But there is more, what I regard as serious and they all appear to believe leads right to the eaocial AT heaven; he rifled a foderal Judea. sup used to be ;forty to ti is? Forget that I have an involvement in the subOect. What is the thrust of my work? Iola know it is not whodunits. It is to bring to light exactly what this basinesa represents, the corrupting of out basic institutions. low you can do more harm to the system of justiab then by aieleadiaa t jueae, alsrepootentiacto his: and not lattiag knew all you know that he shiuld conaider I do not think of Agg hand. Let aetcalfe regard at as the adv,traary aye en.. I do:not, l asoumas curtain reaponaibilitiesahen he presents anything to a judge. , e did not meet any of them in thin matter. That is bad anough. 'Jut he filed a series of affidavits tket at best are defective and except to a legal defective are bad affidavits. There, under ,:tested it.

Ee extended what the bad affidavits say and can Jean over his own signature.

be hat man consistent with honestn, d c ncy ar to - r tho Act and its purp000nn

BO you believe that '"otcelfb Oa not awn that he h, made l those reprosantationn to Jadoo wall without off` evidence on whatnor or not ahy of tho withhled oatorial is in the publics domain? Do yoo think for a minute that he is not aware that if any is in the poblio domain ho has repressatod to u ju000l Ti thin I am dtotingoishino butoon onot he ooy 'bellovo eaa feel oopaniod to argue about the lisgal intent of coy language of the Ant or the La's as Or isoisions. I am reducing this to foot wItbiu his area of tar, leech pr undeostandinno co ola this particular oert it ha000no that 1 know of oo ether person ia tho woad who io in a 000ition to conmolt tho Mow* I oonoultedo70a doal t hove thou

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an I oopp000n to dO tbout tbio, In rortSooloo on ia oetorol? r til z ofridavit do I not also assume a responsibility to the Court? I msy sot be hop to all the folkways and ooros thooe p000lo keep olsoaing but whela it orsms to fact 414.: reason to believobased on My own experiences I owe the Court gn obligation. If mstealfO mis-loads tho 4otot wb ahouln a not sej it juat booaaoo Metcalfe right prefer that * net oon it? is should he droau of oioloadlog any oourt an than think bee Is not eubjoot to orIticito for it

I was x there when it beappened but 1 dio read one judoo nasal saiol to oxelrod after the aposals romond. I fat he waa az deeply erbarraseeti a snr docont jut can be. be wag imposed upon. His trust wen iop000d uooO. His ability to preeida ovor justice was brbught into queotion. And I see no basic difference botween what Axelrod. did and obat in this matter Metcalfe undertook to try.

The day has get to cOne when theme imouse-cresy Iswyors, stop ptine justice anl tokioo cruel 4oxes of dooent nudges. If it does not eout then tyre can Oe- no ;inotico and ther* will be an anthoritarianiomo 0- let hatoalfe wear the aporoved clothing, fix his tie and his hair just rioat sod sit it tho front pew and pray lonovot and loudost, That meono rothino to AO. 'ghat bo does Is what Khans smoothing to es. If no is ono uot for host no hol:age outaido and kitonaa and ahould novua «rine a oloo manta to play with firs? They it is oawt time for learning that fire can burro no ulso has a stranoe staodardo Those people cat sake all kin o of dirty cracks about me, even about my boaltb, an, that right And or000w? Bobby Oeunody had an apt niequotation of Oooto: ta who ,are . bis clam or oopootoity its tioe of moral onisaorlsis hao a opooiol port a hell reds ooven for bin. Not 20b 's eaent words but the idea, 4* porobably reversed it, which would be more effectivo. If Manta Wet ooya it I balleve it fito tho sittoatioa. Obau you have tiro road the entire affidovit. If you can convinoe no that 000 bim an apology I'll probably moke it in writing. Jut I'll have t© be convinoods He ill in a poaltion to 'mate bOT5 of me in the FO lame and I'm not about to talooftte that if I can do anythlog about it. !bat rominda es. We saw hia on thin two months noo tooay. We were to have tad oomo procesaing in a montbo We bave not heard a word. I want to know what the 000ro is. ond I want only a sample of more row at the begs ooloo. when i can go ov then, I don't not a fait oc000Oli as they onginoiirod in 1996. Flosoe give bio to modorstond this. I don t went to-lopond my timo fighting needless figbts they create to wato oe and be aolo-to avoid compllonosi The Agreement we that they'd do aouothiog Iiko a thOtleand pages and lot me go Beer ikkin tam before tbeyprommoed more. °onomboo, tho prohlom of to -at11‘-,t 000ain oovolos m000 boona ood --"oloo in %hat eaoe than with Mioo.