Newly released files from the FBI include a scathing review of “The X-Files” by former Deputy Associate Director Cartha “Deke” DeLoach.
The third most powerful man in the FBI wasn’t a fan of The X-Files, a newly obtained letter reveals. The former Deputy Associate Director of the FBI, Cartha “Deke” DeLoach advised The X-Files on a fifth season episode of the series, “Travelers,” in which a retired FBI agent tells Fox Mulder about a 1950s cover-up. A letter obtained by government transparency journalists and researchers at MuckRock captured DeLoach’s reaction to the “Travelers” script, which was supremely negative.
DeLoach retired from the FBI in 1970, after serving for years as a confidante to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and Associate Director Clyde Tolson. DeLoach, who died in 2013, was also the primary point of contact between the FBI and President Lyndon B. Johnson. In 1998, The X-Files brought on DeLoach as an uncredited consultant on their depiction of the Bureau during the days of the Hollywood Blacklist and the Red Scare.
DeLoach even predicted that The X-Files—by then on its 111th episode and fifth year on the air—“will be short lived.” The depiction of the FBI as rabidly anti-communist particularly incensed DeLoach, who spent much of the letter distancing Hoover from McCarthyism. “Why bring disrepute to the FBI and to Hoover’s name by such shoddy programs?” DeLoach asks in the conclusion to his letter. Unfortunately, his annotated script notes were not included in the 137 pages of FBI documents released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from MuckRock’s Emma Best.
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