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Title: Probationary Appointment as a Special Agent
Date: 1948-03-09
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Temporal Coverage: 1948
Spatial Coverage: Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee
Subject Matter: Holloman, Frank C.; Federal Bureau of Investigation; Hoover, J. Edgar ; Memphis (Tenn)
Description: John Edgar Hoover is inviting Mr. Frank C. Holloman to become a Special Agent in the Federal Bureau
of Investigation
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United States Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington, D.C.
March 9, 1948
IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO
FILE No. ____________
Mr. Frank C. Holloman
Post Office Box 492
Laurel, Mississippi
Dear Mr. Holloman:
You are hereby offered a probationary appointment as a Special Agent in
the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Department of Justice, in Grade
CAF 12, with salary at the rate of $5905.20 per annum less five per cent deduction
for retirement purposes. All employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation are
presently working six days weekly which will continue for an indefinite period.
Payment for the sixth day is on an overtime basis which will amount to an additional
$25.74 each bi-weekly pay period. This appointment will become permanent upon the
satisfactory completion of a one year probationary period. All salaries are subject
to the Federal 'Withholding Tax of approximately fifteen per cent. You will also be
allowed your expenses of travel in accordance with existing regulations, and $6.00
a day in lieu of subsistence when absent from official headquarters, which will be
fixed at Louisville, effective upon your entry on duty and thereafter changed in
accordance with your field assignments.
You should notify this office at once if this appointment is accepted.
Should you accept, you are directed to report to Special Agent in Charge Y. W.
McFarlin, 633 Federal Building, Louisville, Kentucky, at your earliest convenience
to enter on duty.
It is also understood that you are to proceed on orders to any part of the
country that the exigencies of the service may require. You should therefore arrange
your personal matters before taking oath of office so that you will be able to
accept assignment to any part of the country where your services may be needed.
In the event you accept this appointment it will be necessary that you
sever all business connections prior to your entry on duty with this Bureau.
This letter which should be considered strictly confidential and given
no publicity, should be presented when you report for oath of office.
Sincerely yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Director