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Memorandum for Mr. AdamsRE: SENSTUDY 75(A) Legal Authority for FBI Intelligence andCounterintelligence Activities(B) Organization and Operation of the FBIIntelligence Division (INTD)(C) FBI Internal Security Intelligence Operations(D) FBI and the U. S. Intelligence Community(E) FBI Foreign Counterintelligence Operations(F) Inspection Division Investigations(G) FBI Intelligence Activities and State or LocalLaw Enforcement AgenciesIII. Case StudiesThis section contains descriptions of specific casesin which the SSC is interested. The descriptions indicatewhether the investigations may concentrate on specific allega-tions of possible abuses or other controversial matters wherethere is reason to believe in the words of the Committeeimproprieties may have occurred.In this portion of the enclosed request the Committeelists 19 general questions. In addition, under each case studythe letter requests additional information and documents.The case studies in which the Committee is interestedare identified as follows:(A). Electronic Surveillance1.  Warrantless Electronic Surveillance2.  Warrantless Electronic Surveillance    and Leaks3.  Surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr.4.  Surveillance at the Democratic National    Convention, Atlantic City, 1964(B). Surreptitious Entry- 2 -CONTINUED - OVERNW 88326 Docld:32989611 Page 22
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Memorandum for Mr. AdamsRE: SENSTUDY 75(C). Mail Covers and Mail Openings(D). Other Specific Techniques(E). COINTELPRO and Disruptive Activities(F). Clandestine Informant Activities(G). Notional Organizations(H). Joint FBI - Police Operations1. The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Mississippi2. The Black Panther Party, Chicago(I). The Huston Plan(J). Alleged Political Misuse of the FBIThe remaining portions of the enclosed letter are directed to the Department of Justice and are not being addressed in this memorandum.In connection with another Senstudy matter, Section Chief William O. Cregar had a meeting with Mr. John Elliff who is Chief of the Task Force for the SSC on the morning of 6/30/75. Elliff apologized for the submission of the 6/25/75 draft letter, saying it was forced upon the Committee by the White House. According to Elliff, the SSC has been aware that much of the information requested from the Intelligence Community was being held up by the White House until such time as the SSC identified specific abuses it was interested in investigating. As a result, the attached draft was put together by the SSC to break the logjam. Elliff admitted that much of the information requested in the 6/25/75 draft letter was embodied in the request of 5/14/75. For this reason, Elliff advised he contacted Mr. K. William O'Connor, Special Counsel for Intelligence Coordination, Department of Justice, on the morning of 6/30/75 to request a meeting between himself, O'Connor, and Messrs Wannall, Mintz and Cregar. The purpose of the meeting would be to allow Elliff to clarify the draft letter of 6/25/75.*FBICONTINUED - OVER- 3 -
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Memorandum for Mr. AdamsRE: SENSTUDY 75ACTION:We feel that a meeting with Elliff would be beneficial and plan to meet with him as soon as possible to obtain clarification of this latest SSC request.- 4 -NW 88326 Docld:32989611 Page 24
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# DRAFT# United States SenateSELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES(PURSUANT TO S. RES. 21, 94TH CONGRESS)WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510June 25, 1975FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO, CHAINMANJOHN G. TOWER, TEXAS, VICE CHAINPHILIP A. HART, MICH. HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., TENN.WALTER F. MONDALE, MINN. BARRY GOLDWATER, ARIZ.WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, KY. CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR., MD.ROBERT MORGAN, N.C. RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, PA.GARY HART, COLO.WILLIAM G. MILLER, STAFF DIRECTORFREDERICK A. O. SCHWARZ, JR., CHIEF COUNSELCURTIS R. SMOTHERS, MINORITY COUNSELThe Honorable Edward H. LeviThe Attorney GeneralU. S. Department of JusticeWashington, D.C. 20530Dear Mr. Attorney General:Enclosed with this letter are notifications concerning certain matters currently under investigation by the Select Committee which relate to government entities under your jurisdiction.These notifications are submitted pursuant to an agreement between the Committee, the various intelligence entities, and the White House. Pursuant to that agreement, the various entities in the Executive Branch have agreed not only to make available the pertinent witnesses, but also to submit in response all information and material which they possess that is relevant to the areas and cases which the Committee wishes to investigate. The response should include all relevant underlying documentation and other information, including documents which may not have come to the Committee's attention and which the Committee has not specifically requested, and all material relating to any prior Executive Branch inquiry into the matter. In addition, we would welcome a current analysis of the particular questions raised by the Committee and any other observations on the subject that you believe would be helpful.We welcome the promise of cooperation and full disclosure that underlies that agreement. Success in fulfilling the full disclosure policy contained in the agreement is indispensible to the Committee's analysis and to the formulation of our ultimate findings, conclusions, and recommendations.Within the Committee mandate, contained in S. Res. 21, there are four broad subjects relating to the intelligence community which we are required to investigate and study in order to determine the facts and ultimately to decide whether to make recommendations for legislative or other changes. They are:![ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 10-17-2000 BY SPIELIA]62-116395-329ENCLOSURENW-88326 DocId:32989611 Page 25
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## 21. The structure; performance, and utility of government operations with respect to intelligence activities;2. Whether certain policies or practices are or are not illegal, unethical, or otherwise improper;3. Whether there has or has not been excessive duplication or inadequate coordination.between and among intelligence agencies and, more generally, the efficiency of intelligence activities; and4. Whether there has or has not been adequate internal and external control and oversight over the policies and practices of intelligence agencies.In attempting to find the answers to these fundamental questions, the Committee is proceeding in two ways. First, we are examining intelligence functions broadly as instruments of government policy, giving attention to the authority for particular functions, the problems which intelligence activities are designed to solve, the procedures by which intelligence activities are and have been proposed, approved, executed, evaluated, and terminated, the range and scope of the activities utilized to achieve intelligence objectives, and the propriety and utility of the activities undertaken. Second, we will examine in depth certain specific subjects within the broad topics of investigation. (We would, of course, welcome your suggestion of other cases that would give added insight into intelligence matters under your jurisdiction.) These specific subjects for investigation are not intended to limit the scope contained in the more general questions.The annexed notifications spell these matters out in greater detail. In addition, they ask certain specific questions, set forth certain previously requested documents not yet received, request additional documents, and, in some cases, ask for the names and present addresses of persons who have held certain* These specific requests are not, of course, intended to limit the agreement to come forward with all relevant information and material, including documents, whether or not they have been brought to the Committee's attention or have been specifically requested by the Committee.NW-88326 DocId:32989611 Page 26
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- 3 -positions. Where appropriate, the subject's description indicates, pursuant to the agreed Outline for Inquiry Procedures, the matter primarily concerns allegations of abuse or other controversial specific matters where there is reason to believe improprieties may have occurred. Finally, the notifications indicate the name(s) of the staff members(s) who, in addition to the Committee's senior staff, will be responsible for the particular matters.The Committee, in the course of the next few months, will undertake other subjects for investigation as its work proceeds and will notify you as appropriate.We look forward to your cooperation in these matters.Sincerely yours,Frank ChurchChairmanJohn TowerVice Chairman
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# FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION(Including DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE)Table of ContentsPageI. IssuesII. Areas of General InquiryA. Legal Authority for FBI Intelligence and Counterintelligence ActivitiesB. Organization and Operation of the FBI Intelligence Division1. FBI Internal Security Intelligence Operations2. The FBI and the U. S. Intelligence Community3. FBI Foreign Counterintelligence Operations4. Inspection Division Investigations.5. FBI Intelligence Activities and State or Local Law Enforcement AgenciesIII. Case StudiesGeneral QuestionsA. Electronic Surveillance1. Warrantless Electronic Surveillance2. Warrantless Electronic Surveillance and "Leaks"
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iiPage3. Electronic Surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King4. Electronic Surveillance and the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, 1964B. Surreptitious EntryC. Mail Covers and Mail OpeningsD. Other Specific TechniquesE. COINTELPRO and Disruptive ActivitiesF. Clandestine Informant ActivitiesG. "Notional" OrganizationsH. Joint FBI-Police Operations1. White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Mississippi2. Black Panther Party, ChicagoI. The "Huston Plan"J. Alleged Political Misuse of the FBIIV. Department of JusticeA. The Attorney GeneralB. The Internal Security Section (formerly Division)NW 88326 Docld:32989611 Page 29
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# FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION(INCLUDING DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE)I. IssuesThe Committee's inquiry into the intelligence and counterintelligence activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining fundamental issues which bear directly on the adequacy of current legislation and administrative organization and procedure. The Committee seeks to determine whether FBI intelligence and counterintelligence activities achieve legitimate objectives in conformity with the rule of law. Among the basic issues to be addressed are the following:A. What is the legal authority for FBI intelligence and counterintelligence activities? Should the FBI's authority be clarified or revised or incorporated in a comprehensive statutory charter?B. What limitations are placed on FBI intelligence and counterintelligence activities by the Constitution and laws of the United States? Should these limitations be clarified or revised?C. What have been the purposes and aims of FBI intelligence and counterintelligence activities? Should these objectives be modified?.D. How have the intelligence and counterintelligence activities of the FBI been organized and coordinated with other agencies of government? Should these procedures and practices be revised?E. What have been the procedures for and techniques of intelligence gathering and dissemination and counterintelligence operations used by the FBI? Under what conditions and through what procedures should these methods and techniques be used in the future?F. What have been and should be the mechanisms for internal and external policy-making, control, and supervision of FBI intelligence and counter- intelligence activities?
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As a means of examining the above issues in the context of actual FBI intelligence operations, the Committee intends to study certain specific topics, some of which are general in nature, and others of which involve specific cases, programs or techniques. Part II, below, contains descriptions of the general areas into which the Committee: intends to inquire. Part III contains descriptions of the specific cases mentioned above. The descriptions specifically indicate whether the investigation may concentrate on specific allegations of possible abuses or other controversial matters where there is reason to believe improprieties may have occurred. In addition to the topics described below, additional areas of inquiry may develop during the course of the Committee's work.
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- 3 -II. Areas of General InquiryA. Legal Authority for FBI Intelligence and Counter-intelligence ActivitiesThe Committee is examining the legal basis for FBI intelligence and counterintelligence activities. There may be serious question as to the adequacy of the present legislative framework for the FBI's functions in these fields. Current statutes authorize the FBI to perform investigative and law enforcement functions, but they do not specifically authorize intelligence or counterintelligence activities. Therefore, the Committee seeks to determine whether the FBI's authority should be clarified, revised, or incorporated in a comprehensive statutory charter.Responsible staff: Senior staffTask Force leaderMark GitensteinB. Organization and Operation of the FBI Intelligence DivisionThe Committee is investigating the structure and operating practices of the FBI Intelligence Division. Proposals have been made that the national security intelligence and counterintelligence functions of the FBI should be lodged in a separate agency or otherwise separated from the FBI's criminal investigative activities. Further recommendations have been advanced for improved coordination between the FBI and other intelligence agencies, for strengthened supervision of FBI intelligence and counterintelligence activities by the Attorney General or an independent board, and for clearer standards and procedures for FBI activities in this area. Therefore, the Committee desires complete information on the operating practices and procedures of the FBI Intelligence Division and of the field office activities supervised by the Intelligence Division.NW 88326 Docld:32989611 Page 32
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The Committee's inquiry focuses on the following specific areas:1.  FBI Internal Security Intelligence OperationsThe Committee seeks to determine the nature and purpose of FBI intelligence operations directed at foreign intelligence activities and subversive or extremist activities within the United States. It has been alleged that the scope of FBI intelligence investigations is too broad and has extended to legitimate political activities. Consequently, the Committee must examine how the FBI's responsibilities have been defined.Responsible staff: Senior staffTask Force leaderMark Gitenstein2.  The FBI and the U. S. Intelligence Community.The Committee seeks to determine what have been the policies and procedures for coordination between the FBI and other agencies in the U. S. intelligence community. There have been occasions in the past where friction between the FBI and other agencies has produced serious dissatisfaction within the U. S. intelligence community. The purpose of this inquiry is to evaluate the adequacy of past and present coordinating mechanisms.Responsible staff: Senior staffTask Force leaderMark Gitenstein
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3. FBI Foreign Counterintelligence OperationsThe Committee seeks to determine the nature of FBI counterintelligence operations directed at foreign intelligence activities within the United States or at any other hostile foreign-related activities within the United States. Since FBI operations to "counter" these activities go beyond intelligence collection, the Committee must consider whether such practices require statutory authorization. The impact of counterintelligence operations on United States foreign relations will also be considered.Responsible staff: Senior staffTask Force leaderLoch JohnsonBarbara Banoff4. Inspection Division InvestigationsThe Committee is examining the relationship of the FBI Inspection Division to FBI intelligence and counterintelligence activities. This includes both regular Inspection Division reviews of Intelligence Division and field office functions and specific investigations of allegations of improper conduct in connection with FBI intelligence activities.Responsible staff: Senior staffTask Force leaderMark Gitenstein
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# 5. FBI Intelligence Activities and State or Local Law Enforcement AgenciesThe Committee seeks to determine the nature of the relationships between FBI intelligence activities and state and local law enforcement agencies. This subject involves the delicate balance between the necessary centralization of certain law enforcement activities and the Constitutionally-mandated decentralization of general law enforcement responsibility. It is necessary for the Committee to evaluate the centralizing influence of the FBI, as well as the FBI's role as a check on local law enforcement abuses.Responsible staff: Senior staffTask Force leaderMark GitensteinWalter Ricks
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# Case Studies## General QuestionsThe descriptions which follow of the specific cases the Committee intends to study are intended to serve the dual purpose of notifying the FBI of the issues the Committee will explore in connection with each case and eliciting from the FBI all information and material in its possession relating to the questions the Committee wishes to explore in each case. In order to avoid unnecessary repetition of certain questions which will be basic to the Committee's investigations of each case, certain fundamental questions are set forth below. As to each case described, the Committee intends to explore these fundamental questions, and expects that the FBI will, as to each case, provide all information and material it has relating to these basic questions even though they are not repeated in the discussion of each particular area.1. What is or has been the legal authority for the activity?2. What have been the purposes of the activity?3. What techniques have been employed in the activity?4. What kinds of information have been gathered in the activity?5. How have specific uses of the activity been initiated and approved?6. How have the targets for the activity been selected?7. What have been the criteria for large selection?8. How has the intelligence which is collected been used?9. To whom has the intelligence collected been disseminated?10. What has been the basis for any dissemination with respect to each recipient?11. How has the activity been coordinated with other intelligence agencies?
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12. What have been the effects of this coordination?13. To what extent has each of the foregoing been compatible with the legal authority for and the purposes of the activity?14. By what means has the activity been monitored, controlled and administered?15. What are the potential abuses to which the activity .. may lead?16. To what abuses has the activity led?17. What steps have been taken to investigate such abuses?18. What steps have been taken to avoid such abuses?19. What have been the costs and utility of the activity?In some instances, the specific questions set forth below may appear to repeat some of the general questions. The purpose in such cases is simply to clarify the application of the general question to the specific case. Except where inapplicable by their terms, all general questions relate to each specific case.
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# Electronic SurveillanceThe Committee is examining all forms of electronic interception of communications including wiretapping, electronic eavesdropping, consensual electronic surveillance interception of video and data communications, local monitoring devices, and all other forms of electronic or technical monitoring. The Committce's general questions apply to each of the techniques listed above, as well as to the matters set forth in the following specific cases.1. Warrantless Electronic SurveillanceThe Committee seeks to determine whether the Attorney General should have the authority to authorize electronic surveillance for certain purposes without a prior judicial warrant. This power has been exercised by succeeding Attorneys General since 1940, upon the explicit directive of the President. The Supreme Court has ruled that this power does not extend to purely domestic matters, but the remaining scope of the Attorney General's authority remains undefined by the Supreme Court.QuestionsThe Committee requests that the FBI and the Justice Department address the following specific questions:a. What is the scope and basis of the claim of Executive authority to conduct warrant- less electronic surveillance?b. What have been the procedures for consideration and approval of requests for warrantless electronic surveillance authorized by the Attorney General?c. What are the specific disadvantages of the judicial warrant requirement for those electronic surveillances which have been authorized by the Attorney General?
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d. Does the Fourth Amendment permit the issuance of judicial warrants for electronic surveillance on grounds other than ordinary probable cause where national security intelligence purposes are advanced to justify the surveillance?e. To what extent are the specific procedures of Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control Act of 1968 inappropriate for electronic surveillance conducted for national security intelligence purposes?DocumentsThe Committee requests the following additional documents bearing on the questions stated above:a. All written justifications for the specific authorizations by the Attorney General for warrantless electronic surveillance from January 1, 1960, until the present.b. All documents reflecting the denial by the Attorney General of specific requests for warrantless electronic surveillance from January 1, 1960, until the present.c. Committee staff access to information contained in the impounded documents, depositions, and other materials in all pending civil suits which involve warrantless electronic surveillance and in which the Committee has received the consent of the plaintiffs for such access.Responsible staff: Senior staffTask Force leaderMike Epstein
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## 2. Warrantless Electronic Surveillance and "Leaks"The Committee is examining several instances of the use of warrantless electronic surveillance and other investigative techniques in connection with "leaks" of classified information. These cases may involve specific allegations of abuse or other controversial matters where there is reason to believe improprieties may have occurred. These instances include:a. The investigation of alleged "leaks" by or to 17 Executive officials and newsmen between May 1969 and February 1971.b. The investigation of alleged "leaks" from a military staff member assigned to the National Security Council in 1971-72.c. The reported investigation of columnist Joseph Kraft in 1969.d. The reported investigation of the activities of Mrs. Anna Chennault and Vice Presidential candidate Spiro Agnew in 1968.e. Any other instances of warrantless electronic surveillance in connection with the investigation of "leaks" to the press.### QuestionsThe Committee requests that the FBI and the Justice Department address the following specific questions:a. Through what procedures and by whom were each of these electronic surveillances authorized and approved, continued, and terminated?b. As to each person to whom information was disseminated, please state:(1) The nature of the information.(2) The basis for the dissemination.