The FBI’s anti-Catholic Richmond memo was distributed to more than 1,000 employees in FBI field offices across the country before it was ever leaked to the public by a whistleblower, according to documents obtained and revealed by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-IA, this week.
What is more, Grassley found that the FBI had “produced at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used anti-Catholic terminology and relied on information from the radical far-left Southern Poverty Law Center,” according to a June 3 press release from the senator’s office.
Grassley also found that the FBI Richmond field office drafted an additional anti-Catholic memo that was going to be distributed throughout the entire Bureau “but was never published due to backlash following the Richmond Memo’s public disclosure,” the release states.
Grassley, who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter June 2 to FBI Director Kash Patel recounting that he had sent multiple letters to former FBI Director Christopher Wray inquiring about the “preparation of the [Richmond] memo, its dissemination, the use of biased sources such as the radical Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and later, the FBI’s misleading representations to Congress, including those of former Director Wray.”
The FBI did not adequately respond to these inquiries during Wray’s tenure, Grassley wrote.
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