Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released more records Tuesday showing that the FBI distributed its anti-Catholic Richmond memo to more than 1,000 bureau employees, far more widespread than what was testified to by former Director Christopher Wray.

Grassley found that the FBI produced at least 13 other documents and five attachments that used anti-Catholic terminology linking Catholicism to violent extremism, incorporating guidance from the “radical anti-left” Southern Poverty Law Center, according to a news release from the senator’s office.

Grassley also released a second Richmond memo that was drafted for bureau-wide distribution but never sent due to backlash from the first. Grassley asserted that the existence of the second memo contradicts Wray’s testimony of a “single product” produced by the Richmond, Virginia, field office.

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