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Reference is made to the August 5, 1975, request of
the SSC for FBI materials.
Enclosed is a memorandum for your approval and
forwarding to the Committee in response to Item V in referenced
request, relating to access to screen material by August 18, 1975.
Also enclosed for your records is a copy of the
memorandum prepared for the Committee.
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Mr. W. O. Cregar
Mr. J. P. Thomas
U. S. SE ATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVER MENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO INTELLIGE_CE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
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Reference is made to Item V of the August 5, 1975,
request by the SSC for access to screen FBI materials.
Materials considered responsive to the SSC request
have been assembled and are available for review: by SSC
Staff Members in Room 4171, JEH Building, regarding the
following parts of Item V:
Part A. Materials pertaining to Mrs. Claire (Anna)
Chennault and Spiro T. Agnew. Regarding Item V., A., 6.,
information pertaining to actions taken by the White House
as a result of information contained in the summary letters
described in Item V., A., 4., is not contained in FBI files.
Regarding Item V., A., 7., the FBI has no record of any former
or current Special Agent (SA) named William Jackson who could
have performed the tasks enumerated in the SSC request.
However, at the time that SA Phil Claridge vas assigned to
the Albuquerque Field Office, there was also assigned there
a Special Agent named Gordon Jackson, now retired. The last
knom residence for SA Claridge, who retired June 29, 1973,
is 619 16th Street .W., Albuquerque, New Mexico. The last
knom residence for SA Jackson is 1537 Wellesley Drive ".E.,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
Part E. Materials relating to the National Security
Agency (NSA) "watch list." Regarding this request, it should
be noted that no central file or individual case regarding
the "watch list" has been maintained by the FBI. Accordingly,
a diligent search of logical files and inquiries of personnel
possibly knowledgeable of information pertinent to the SSC
request have been conducted. Materials secured by this effort
have been assembled in chronological order, in order to
facilitate Staff review.
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Part F. Materials pertaining to authorization for
FBI contacts with, dissemination of FBI information to, receipt
of information from, and requests by the FBI for action by
the Special Services Staff of the Internal Revenue Service.
Part
The "Handbook of Technical Equipment.
Pursuant to agreement between Mr. John T. Elliff of the SSC
and Mr. William O. Cregar of the FBI, the aforementioned
handbook, which deals entirely with technical information, is
available for review by Mr. Elliff to determine its relevance
to SSC interests. Should Mr. Elliff determine that the
handbook or specific portions thereof are relevant, and request
delivery of same, prior review by FBI laboratory personnel,
to determine the necessity for security classification of
requested materials, will be required before delivery.
Part H. Materials pertaining to FBI activity with
respect to the National Environmental Teach-in (also known
as "Earth Day"), April 22, 1970.
Part 1 Materials pertaining to the origin and
implication of any decision to gather intelligence on "Women
Liberation" in the FBI Philadelphia Field Office from 1969
to the present.
Part J. Additional SAC letters and memoranda
identified on a list attached to the referenced request.
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SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC
Part K. Performance ratings (form FD-185) of
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several named current or former FBI employees. Regarding
this request, pursuant to agreement between Mr. Elliff, supra,
and Mr. Cregar, supra, the personnel file of former SA George
Berley, containing forms FD-185 regarding Mr. Berley, will be
available in the possession of a representative of the FBI
for discussion and responses to specific questions Mr. Elliff
may desire to ask regarding the performance ratings contained
therein.
Part L. The current office assignment or last
address of individuals listed in Part K. of the request
As previously indicated, the aforementioned materials
will be available in Room 4171, JEH Building.
Part C. of the referenced request concerned surreptitious
entries carried out by the FBI from January 1, 1960, to the
present. Part D. of the referenced request concerned materials
pertaining to any jurisdictional agreements, agreements of
coordination, or other agreements between the FBI and any other
Federal, state or local agency with regard to the conduct of
and dissemination of information from surreptitious entries.
The Department of Justice has previously informed the SSC that
it has the matter of surreptitious entries under study and the
FBI has been instructed by the Department of Justice to withhold
responses to inquiries concerning surreptitious entries until
Departmental study of the matter has been completed.
The Attorney General
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Made available to appropriate personnel of the SSC Staff, for
review at FBIHQ, materials pertaining to Mrs. Claire (Anna)
Chennault and Spiro T. Agnew. Addresses furnished of two former
Special Agents of the Albuquerque, New Mexico office. Material
pertaining to Yeoman Charles E. Radford, Materials relating to
the National Security Agency "watch list". Materials pertaining
to authorization for FBI contacts with, dissemination of FBI
information to, receipt of information from, and requests by the
FBI for action by the Special Services Staff of the Internal
Revenue Service. Thee Handbook of Technical Equipment." Materials
pertaining to FBI activity with respect to the National Envivon-
mental Teach-in, April 22, 1970. Materials pertaining to the
origin and implication of any decision to gather intelligence on
"Women's Liberation" in the FBI Philadelphia Field Office from
1969 to the present. Additional S/C letters and memoranda.
Performance ratings (forta FD-185) of several named current or
former FBI employees.
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Enclosed for your information is a memorandum with
enclosure concerning an interview by a representative of the
captioned Committee of former FBI Inspector Donald E. Moore.
Single copies of the memorandum and its enclosure are also
enclosed for forwarding to Mr. James A. Wilderotter, Associate
Counsel to the President.
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Mr. L. F. Schwartz
August 7, 1975
U. S. SETATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
RE:
INTERVIET OF FORMER FBI
INSPECTOR DONALD E. MOORE
BY SSC STAFF MEMBER
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm.
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This memorandum and its enclosure contain
information concerning an interview on July 28, 1975, of
former FBI Inspector Donald E. Moore by Mr. Loch Johnson,
SSC Staff Member. Mr. Moore entered on duty with the FBI
on March 10, 1941, and served continuously in a variety of
assignments until his retirement on June 29, 1973.
On advance notice from Mr. Johnson, Mr. Moore was
advised that Mr. Johnson desired to interview him at Mr. Ibore's
convenience relative to his knowledge of the Huston Report.
Hr. Moore was advised that he was being released from any
applicable employment agreement for purposes of the SSC
interview concerning the Huston Report. It was explained
to him that he had the right to counsel; however, the FBI
would be unable to provide private counsel. lle was also advised
that there were certain privileged areas concerning which he
would not be required to answer questions. These areas
concerned information which might divulge the identities of
FBI sources; information relating to sensitive methods and
techniques; information which might adversely affect ongoing
FBI investigations; and information originating with other
agencies, including foreign intelligence agencies. Mr. Moore
was advised that if he desired an FBI representative to be
available for consultation at the time and place of the
interview, one would be supplied. Mr. Moore commented that
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this would not be necessary but indicated that if necessary
he might contact a Bureau representative telephonically if
a matter requiring consultation should come up during the
interview. Mr. Moore subsequently contacted Mr. Johnson and
made arrangements to be interviewed in Mr. Moore's office on
July 28, 1975.
On July 31, 1975, Mr. Moore voluntarily furnished
the attached memorandum which he prepared subsequent to his
interview with Mr. Johnson.
Enclosure
NOTE:
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Interview of Donald E. Moore by
Mr. Loch Johnson, Senate Select Committee
July 28, 1975
Mr. Johnson stated at the outset that this was an informal
interview and he did not place me under oath. He asked about my
background which was provided him and included the fact that I
served in the FBI from March 10, 1941, until my retirement at
the end of June 1973.
The interview concerned the so-called Huston Committee
and he asked if I knew Tom Charles Huston before the Committee
was established. I said I recalled meeting Huston once, in Bill
Sullivan's office, but I didn't recall when this was, but it was before
the Committee was formed. In response to questions, Mr. Johnson
was informed as follows:
I was aware of the meeting at the White House attended by
Director Hoover, Mr. Helms, Admiral Gayler and Gen. Bennett.
I was probably aware the meeting was to take place before the
meeting date but I can't recall this. (He said the meeting was
held June 5, 1970.) I was not at a meeting held in Mr. Hoover's
office June 8 but I recall hearing about the meeting, probably
from Bill Sullivan. I don't recall a meeting held in the Domestic
Intelligence Division after this at which Sullivan, Bill Cregar,
George Moore, Fred Cassidy and I were present. I did attend the
initial meeting of the Working Group headed by Sullivan and was
present because Sullivan asked me to be there. I remember Sullivan
and Cregar were at the meeting and I thought one or more other FBI
representatives were present. He mentioned George Moore and
Fred Cassidy were at the meeting.
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I recall Mr. Helms and Mr. Angleton from.CIA were present
but did not recall the names of others including the representatives
from NSA, DIA and the military services. I recall Sullivan chaired
the meeting and that Huston sat at the opposite end of the table.
Either Helms or Sullivan announced that Helms probably couldn't
stay for the entire meeting but I don't recall Helms leaving, although
he did not sit directly at the conference table.
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I can't recall the conversation at the meeting but think that
Sullivan outlined the request of the President to study means of
getting better intelligence information on new left activities and
violent protest movements in the US, especially with regard to
possible foreign support. I think Sullivan probably outlined areas
of concern and asked representatives present to document where they
felt intelligence was lacking, how it could be obtained, who should
obtain it and what was needed to obtain it. I said I couldn't at this
date recall specific observations or proposals and rather believed
the purpose of the meeting was to outline the general problem and
ask the representatives to document these and come in with specific
recommendations at a subsequent meeting. I am certain Mr. Huston
spoke about the purpose of the meeting but I can't recall his comments.
This was the only meeting of the Working Group I attended.
I told Mr. Sullivan that if agreeable with him I would not attend
subsequent meetings and I thought the FBI had several representatives
present and that the thrust was on new left and related activities. As
I recall he said "suit yourself." Johnson pressed me on this and I
told him this was what I expressed to Sullivan but I also was somewhat
uneasy after the first meeting as I did not believe Mr. Hoover was
aware of collection efforts that were likely to be recommended. I
could not state what FBI members attended subsequent meetings but
I believe Charles Brennan and Bill Cregar, and of course, Bill
· Sullivan, attended as well as some other representatives.
I can't say who drafted the report but was sure it was under
Sullivan's direction. During the period of the meetings Deke DeLoach
had retired and Sullivan had been appointed Assistant to the Director
and moved from the 9th & D Building to the Justice Building. I
don't recall when Mr. Hoover's objections to certain of the
recommendations were added. I can't say whether I saw the report
prior to the objections being in it but may have; I do recall seeing
the report after the objections were in it. I don't know whether
Mr. Hoover told Sullivan to put the objections in it but presume
Sullivan knew Mr. Hoover's views and put the objections in on this
basis. I could not answer the question as to whether Mr. Tolson
was the person responsible for having the objections made but felt
he would have objected to the initial recommendations.
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I did see the letter from the White House saying the report
had been approved. I believe it was signed by Huston and stated
the President had approved the recommendations. I was aware
Mr. Hoover had either written or seen Attorney General Mitchell
expressing his reluctance and was aware the White House letter was
withdrawn. I din't know why it was withdrawn other than this
occurred after Mr. Hoover went to the Attorney General.
Mr. Johnson asked certain specific questions during or
after the above discussion. He asked what covert mail coverage
was involved since CIA in 1970 was engaged in covert mail inter-
ception. After checking with Mr. Leon F. Schwartz of the FBI,
Mr. Johnson was advised that while I had been released from my
pledge of confidentiality by the FBI in general with regard to the
Huston Committee this matter was under review by the Department
of Justice and I had not been released from my pledge on this
aspect. A similar answer was given to the question about what
was meant by the removal of restrictions on the use of surreptitious
entry of embassies io obiain crypiographic materials.
Mr. Johnson asked if I thought the Huston Committee had
been instigated by Bill Sullivan to more or less force Mr. Hoover
to take a more aggressive stance in intelligence collection. I
answered that I would not like to speculate on this and I could not
make a definite statement yes or no.
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He asked why the Working Group met at CIA as opposed to
the FBI and whether this had special meaning. I answered that I
did not think so, that the US Intelligence Board was headed by the
Director of CIA, was concerned with intelligence collection and
met at CIA and also meeting arrangements could probably be better
arranged at CIA in view of parking, conference rooms, etc.
He said Admiral Gayler had stated that he and his predecessor,
Gen. Carter, had tried to get Mr. Hoover to provide more support to
NSA with regard to Communications Intelligence and asked if I was
aware of any such efforts, and if they were in person or in writing.
I said I was aware that Gen. Carter and Adm. Gayler had asked for
support and I believe they might have seen Mr. Hoover personally
and perhaps had written him.
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SELECTED ON A VARIABLE BASIS. WHEN LETTERS WERE OBSERVED THAT
WERE BELIEVED TO MEET THE CRITERIA THEY WERE BROUGHT BACK TO THE
NEW YORK OFFICE (NYO) WHERE THEY WERE OPENED AND PHOTOGRAPHED
BY THE AGENT CONDUCTING THE Z COVERAGE. THE VOLUME WAS VERY
SMALL, PROBABLY CONSISTING OF ABOUT TEN LETTERS IN A SIX MONTH
PERIOD. A DESCRIPTION OF THE MACHINE UTILIZED IN THE OPENING WAS
PROVIDED AND IT WAS EXPLAINED THAT WHEN A LETTER, BELIEVED
TO HAVE BEEN SENT BY A SOVIET AGENT WAS OBSERVED, PHOTO COPIES
WERE PROVIDED TO HEAD QUARTERS IN WASHINGTON, AS WELL AS AN
INVESTIGATIVE FILE BEING OPENED IN NEW YORK CITY (NYC). THE SIZE
OF THE SQUAD HANDLING THIS TOTAL OPERATION WAS ESTIMATED TO BE
ABOUT TWENTY MEN. IT WAS INDICATED THAT THE POSTAL EMPLOYEES
WHOSE NAMES WERE NOT RECALLED MERELY PROVIDED THE MAIL POUCHES
AND WERE NOT PRESENT IN THE ROOM DURING THE SCREENING PROCESS.
IT WAS ALSO STATED THAT ANY MAIL REMOVED AND BROUGHT TO THE NYO
WAS RETURNED TO THE AIRPORT FOR DISPATCH ON THE NEXT OUTGOING
FLIGHT, TO THE CITY OF DESTINATION.
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WITH REGARD TO SUN SURVEY IT WAS STATED THAT THIS OPERATION
WAS RUN BY THE SAME SQUAD BUT THAT IN THIS OPERATION THE ONLY
MAIL SCREENED WAS MAIL ADDRESSED TO THE UNITED NATIONS (UN) AT
A POST OFFICE BOX IN GRAND CENTRAL STATION. THE SCREENING TOOK
PLACE IN A ROOM PROVIDED BY THE POST OFFICE AT GRAND CENTRAL
STATION AND THE PURPOSE WAS TO OBTAIN MAIL WHICH MIGHT BE
ADDRESSED TO SOVIET MEMBERS OF THE UN AT THIS BOX NUMBER. THESE
LETTERS WERE ALSO RETURNED TO THE NYO AND OPENED AND PHOTOGRAPHED
IN A SIMILAR MANNER. IN THIS INSTANCE, PHOTOGRAPHS WERE NOT
FORWARDED TO HEAD QUARTERS BUT WERE FORWARDED TO THE INDIVIDUAL
CASE FILE OF THE SOVIET NATIONAL AND THE RESULTS OF THE MAIL
INTERCEPT WOULD BE REPORTED TO THE BUREAU AT THE NEXT REPORTING
SCHEDULE FOR THAT PARTICULAR CASE. IT WAS ESTIMATED THAT SUCH
COVERAGE RESULTED IN THE OPENING OF ABOUT FIVE OR SIX LETTERS
A DAY.
WITH REGARD TO Z COVERAGE IT WAS EXPLAINED THAT SA KEHOE
HAD NO DIRECT KNOWLEDGE OF THIS OPERATION BUT HAD BEEN PRESENT
IN THE ROOM, IN THE NYO, WHEN MAIL WAS OPENED. NO ESTIMATE COULD
BE GIVEN OF THE INCLUSIVE DATES OF COVERAGE OR THE VOLUME OF MA IL .
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BUT IT WAS STATED THAT ALL MAIL TO THE SOVIET MISSION TO THE
UN (SMUN) WAS OPENED AND PHOTOGRAPHED IN THE NYO AND THAT THIS
MAIL WAS PROVIDED BY POSTAL OFFICIALS AND THAT AFTER PHOTOGRAPHING,
THE INFORMATION WOULD BE PROVIDED TO THE INVESTIGATIVE CASE
FILES.
THE NAMES OF SOME INDIVIDUALS EMPLOYED IN THESE THREE
OPERATIONS WERE PROVIDED AND THE THOUGHT EXPRESSED THAT ALL
THREE OPERATIONS MAY HAVE BEEN CONCLUDED AT THE SAME TIME AND THAT
THE DECISION TO CONCLUDE THE OPERATIONS CAME FROM WASHINGTON.
IT WAS STATED THAT SA KE HOE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE AS TO WHICH
OFFICIALS IN WASHINGTON APPROVED THE ORIGINAL PROGRAMS OR
TERMINATED THEM, BUT IT WAS FELT THAT THE ONLY PERSON WHO COULD
GIVE APPROVAL TO COMMENCE AND TERMINATE WOULD HAVE HAD TO HAVE
BEEN FORMER DIRECTOR HOOVER. OTHER QUESTIONS, SUCH AS DID THE
AGENT KNOW SPECIFIC NAMES, WERE ANSWERED EITHER AFFIRMATIVELY OR
NEGATIVELY, DEPENDING UPON THE CIRCUMSTANCES, THE NAMES RECOG-
NIZED WERE POSTAL INSPECTORS, AND QUESTIONS SUCH AS WAS THERE
COOPERATION BETWEEN THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (CIA) AND
THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI) IN THESE OPERATIONS
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MAIL SCREENING OPERATION WERE ANSWERED IN EFFECT THAT SA KE HOË
GENERALLY HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THESE OPERATIONS OTHER THAN WHAT
HE READ IN THE PAPERS.
A DIRECT QUE ST ION WAS ASKED IF SA KE HOE WAS AWARE THAT A
PIECE OF CORRESPONDENCE HAD BEEN FOUND IN THE MEDIA BREAK-IN
INDICATING THAT MAIL OPENINGS WENT ON AS LATE AS L970., THE
ANSWER WAS GIVEN THAT HE HAD READ THIS STATEMENT IN THE PAPERS,
AND IT WAS THEN ASKED HOW HE WOULD EXPLAIN THIS. HE REPLIED THAT
HE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THIS WHAT SOE VER., BUT THAT IF THE BUREAU
ISSUED A STATMENT ADVISING THAT ALL MAIL OPENINGS CEASED IN L966,
THEN THERE WAS AN EXPLANATION, BUT SA KE HOE WAS UNAWARE OF IT.
A QUESTION AS TO WHAT SPECIFIC INDICATORS WERE LOOKED FOR
IN SAM SURVEY WAS NOT ANSWERED ON THE GROUNDS THAT SUCH INFORMATION
REPRESENTED A SENSITIVE TECHNIQUE THAT WAS STILL VIABLE.
AT NO POINT IN THE PROCEEDINGS DID SA KE HOE EXCERCISE HIS
RIGHT TO CO NST IT UT IONAL PRIVILEGE UNDER TE FIFTH AMEND MENT.
CLASSIFIED BY 6444, XQDS 2 AND 3, INDEFINITE.
END.
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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
MAY 1962 EDITION
GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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Mr. J. B. Adams
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Mr. Callahan requested that a research be conducted to
determine whether the FBI or the Department of Justice would be
authorized to pay for private counsel for employees called to testify
before the Senate Select Committee and who desired private counsel.
Assoc. Dir.
Dop. AD Adm.
Dep. AD Inv.
Admini
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
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Director Sec'y -
I advised Mr. Callahan that the position of the FBI and the
Department is that we could not provide counsel directly to the individuals
because of the potential conflict of interest between the rights of the
individual and the duties of our officers. However, I told him that to my
knowledge the question concerning whether the Government could pay for
private counsel selected by the employee has not been researched.
Mr. Callahan therefore requested that the research be conducted.
RECOMMENDATION:
That the Administrative Division and Legal Counsel confer
and prepare an appropriate response to Mr. Callahan's request.
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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
MAY 1962 EDITION
GSA PPAIR (41 CFR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
Mr. J. B. Adams
FROM :
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SUBJECT AUTHORITY OF EBI AND DEPARTMENT_OF
JUSTICE TO RETAIN PRIVATE COUNSEL TO
REPRESENT EMPLOYEES
DATE: 7/23/75
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Assoc. Dir..
Dep. ADAdm
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
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Plan. & Eval
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Training
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y -
Regal Counsel memorandum to you dated 7-8-75
captioned Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Activities, recommended that the Administrative Division
and Legal Counsel Division confer and prepare an appropriate
response to Mr. Callahan's request that research be con-
ducted to determine whether the FBI or the Department of
Justice would be authorized to pay for private counsel for
employees who are called to testify before the Senate
Select Committee and who desire private counsel. We have
also undertaken to present the statutory considerations
governing the provision of such representation in a legal
proceeding as distinguished from a legislative hearing.
Title 5, United States Code, Section 3106, states:
"Except as otherwise authorized
by law, the head of an Executive
department or military department
may not employ an
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tion in which the United States,
an agency, or an employee thereof AUG 1 1975
is a party, or is interested, or
for the securing of evidence there---
for, but shall refer the matter to
the Department of Justice.
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This statutory prohibition makes it clear that
only the Attorney General has the authority to make a
contract for special employment of an attorney. This
Bureau, as an agency of the Department of Justice, ob-
viously does not have authority to do that which is
denied to Executive departments which are otherwise of
coequal stature to the Department of Justice.
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Memorandum to Mr. J. B. Adams
Re:
Authority of FBI and Department of Justice
to Retain Private Counsel to Represent Employees
An examination of our budgetary language by
representatives of the Administrative Division and this
Division does not disclose any explicit or implicit
authority which would qualify as "otherwise authorized by
law, . . 11. · under the above statute. The statutory
authority for provision of private counsel is contained in
Title28, United States Code, Section 515, which gives the
Attorney General the authority to appoint and pay special
attorneys. However, this authority is circumscribed by the
statement that these attorneys "may, when specifically
directed by the Attorney General, conduct any kind of legal
proceeding, civil or criminal, including grand jury pro-
ceedings and proceedings before committing magistrates,
which United States Attorneys are authorized by law to
conduct.
It is evident then that this authority
pertains only to proceedings held within the judicial
system, not to hearings held before a legislative body.
Such a hearing is not a "legal proceeding" and is not
one "which United States Attorneys are authorized by
law to conduct.
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In the event that employees need representation
in a legal proceeding and the Department believes that a
potential conflict of interest would prevent it from
providing counsel, outside counsel could be appointed and
paid under the statute up to the monetary limits fixed.
Whether the Department would allow the individual employee
to designate or select the outside counsel would be a
matter of Departmental policy but we see no reason why
such an individual selection would not ordinarily be
approved.
We are aware that the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) has recently engaged the law firm of Arnold
and Porter and that Mr. Mitchell Rogovin of that firm
has been designated as the individual attorney to represent
that agency. Inquiry with CIA has determined that the
authority relied on for this action is Title 50, United
States Code, Section 403j, which states:
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Memorandum to Mr. J. B. Adams
Re:
Authority of FBI and Department of Justice
to Retain Private Counsel to Represent Employees
"(a) Notwithstanding any other
other provisions of law, sums
made available to the Agency
by appropriation or otherwise
may be expended for purposes
necessary to carry out its
functions, including
"(1) personal services, including
personal services without regard
to limitations on types of
persons to be employed.
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apparent
We would emphasize, however, that the counsel
hired represents the CIA, not individual employees, and
that private counsel has the same problems as does their
"in-house" counsel. Therefore, no firm or individual
hired by that agency can provide counsel to the individual
employee in any situation which presents a potential
conflict between the interests of the individual and the
interests of the agency.
CONCLUSION:
We conclude that there is no authority for either
the FBI or the Department to pay for private counsel
selected by employees called to testify before the Senate
Select Committee or any other legislative body.
If an
employee called to testify in such a forum desires private
counsel, or where a potential conflict of interest makes
representation by "in-house" counsel or the Department
impossible, the employee must decide if the possible
consequences warrant the personal expense of such counsel
and, if so, responsibility for payment rests with him.
Furthermore, private counsel retained by an
agency having authority to do so would be under the
same disabilities as "in-house" or Departmental counsel
in situations presenting a potential conflict of interest.
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Memorandum to Mr. J. B. Adams
Re:
Authority of FBI and Department of Justice
to Retain Private Counsel to Represent Employees
The only authority for payment by the Department of
private counsel would be in a legal proceeding in the
judicial system under Title 28, United States Code,
Section 515.
RECOMMENDATION:
None. For information.
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
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SUBJECT:
SENSTUDY 75
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Admin.
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Files & Com. _
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Laboratory)
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Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
This memorandum records Bureau waiver from secrecy
agreement for interview of Atlanta Field Office (FO) SA Edward A.
Shea by Senate Select Committee (SSC) Staff Members at Atlanta,
7/22-23/75.
Supervisor S. F. Phillips of the Senstudy 75 Project
was in Atlanta 7/22/75 in connection with the interviews there
of six SAs (five from Atlanta FO; one who traveled to Atlanta
from Knoxville FO) by SSC Staff Members Michael Epstein and
Mary DeOreo. Interviews concerned the former FBI investigation
of Martin Luther King, Jr. At approximately 5:00 p.m.,
7/22/75, Epstein telephonically contacted Phillips and advised
that one of the interviews developed information resulting in
his desire to interview a seventh SA, Edward A. Shea of the
Atlanta FO. In order to avoid another trip to Atlanta,
Epstein asked if Phillips could obtain FBI clearance for the
interview which would concern: (1) any possible COINTELPRO
operations in Atlanta with respect to King or the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); (2) Shea's assignment
to a "file review or file retrieval" project during past year
concerning COINTELPRO; and (3) concerning COINTELPRO "generally."
(It should be noted that earlier this year, Shea handled a
project relating to classifying documents in Atlanta files
regarding COINTELPRO. Shea advised. Phillips of this and also
said that he does not recall seeing any documents regarding
COINTELPRO/SCLC KING.) Epstein desired to interview Shea
the morning of 7/23/75.
62-116395
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(Personnel File SA Edward A. Shea)
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Memorandum to Mr. W. R. Wannall
Re: Senstudy 75
62-116395
On basis of foregoing request, Phillips
telephonically contacted Assistant Director (AD) Mintz
who granted clearance for (1) and (2) above and suggested
withholding clearance on (3) pending further request from
Epstein after interview on items (1) and (2). Mintz asked
that Phillips touch base with AD Wannall for his concurrence.
In the absence of Wannall who was out of the building,
Deputy AD T. Leavitt concurred with Mintz. At about 5:30 p.m.,
7/22/75, Epstein was telephonically advised by Phillips as
indicated above--clearance for (1) and (2); not for (3) at
this time. Arrangements were then made for interview of
Shea morning of 7/23/75.
Subsequent interview of Shea (being reported
separately) apparently satisfied Epstein and it does not
appear there will be any further request as to item (3).
ACTION:
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Mr. W. R. Wannall
Mr. W. O. Cregar
DAN 10/10/00 SP2 ALM/2/6
This memorandum records that no effort is being
made to respond to a request of the Senate Select Committee
(SSC) dated 6/27/75, pursuant to instructions of the
Deputy Attorney General, until such time as the Department
can obtain clarification from the SSC regarding the meaning
of paragraph 2 in the SSC's letter of 6/27/75.
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm.
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
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Plan. & Eval. ☑
Spec. Inv.
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Telephone Rm.
Pirector Sec'y
Memorandum Wannall to Adams, dated 6/30/75, reviewed
a draft copy of the SSC's letter to the Department. This
draft copy is dated 6/25/75. It is identical in content with
the final version dated 6/27/75.
Memorandum Cregar to Wannall, dated 7/2/75, reported
the results of a meeting in the office of the Deputy Attorney
General on the morning of 7/2/75. In this memorandum it was
pointed out that the Deputy Attorney General found considerable
difficulty in understanding paragraph 2 of the SSC's draft of
a letter dated 6/25/75. He noted that in view of the
ambiguities found in the letter, as well as the lack of any
specific agreement entered into with the SSC by the Department.
and/or the FBI, the Department should prepare a letter over
the Attorney General's signature asking for clarification.
In the meantime, the Deputy Attorney General advised that we
should take no action responsive to the requests levied on
the FBI in this letter. To date, we have received no infor-
mation from the Department that a letter asking for clarification
of the SSC has been sent.
Enclosure
62-116395
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Memorandum to Mr. W. R. Wannall
Re: Senstudy 75
62-116395
The purpose of this memorandum is to note for the
record that no effort is being made to develop responses to
the SSC request of 6/27/75 until such time as the Department
obtains the clarification described above. This position
was noted during a conference that the Director and other
Bureau officials had with the Attorney General on the morning
of 7/15/75.
Enclosed herewith is a copy of the 6/27/75 request
mentioned above.
ACTION:
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For information and record purposes.
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FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO, CHAIRMA)
JOHN G. TOWER, TEXAS, VICE CHAIR
PHILIP A. HART, MICH.
WALTER F, MONDALE, MINN.
WALTER D. MUDDLESTON, KY.
ROBERT MORGAN, N.C.
GARY HART, COLO.
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HOWARD H. BAKEN.. TENN.
BARRY GOLDWATER, ARIZ.
CHARLES MC C. MATHIAS, JR., MD.
RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, PA.
WILLIAM G. MILLER, STAFF DIRECTOR
⚫ FREDERICK A. O. SCHWARZ, JR., CHIEF COUNSEL
CURTIS R. SMOTHERS, MINCRITY COUNSEL
lnited States Seriale
SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH“
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
(PURSUANT TO S. RES.21, 4TH CONGRESS)
WASHINGTON.D.C. 20510
The Honorable Edward H. Levi
Attorney General
U. S. Department of Justice
Washington, D. C. 20530
Dear Mr. Attorney General:
June 27, 1975
RECEIVON
JU: #1 1975,
OLA.
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 intelli-
gence 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 docu-
mentation 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 Commit-
tee and any other observations on the subject that you,
believe would be helpful.
OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS
FEDERAL 
BUT
We welcome the promise of cooperation, an fufTICE R
disclosure that underlies that agreement. Success in ful-
filling the full disclosure policy contained in the agree
ment is indispensible to the Committee's analysis and-to
the formulation of our ultimate findings, conclusions, and
recommendations.
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OFFICE OF LEGISLATIVE AFFAIR
FEDERAL BU. OF IN
ENCLOSURE 62-116395-537.
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The Honorable Edward H. Levi
Page Two
June 27, 1975
Within the Committee mandate, contained in
S. Res. 21, there are four broad subjects relating to the
intelligence community which we are required to investi-
gate and study in order to determine the facts and ulti-
mately to decide whether to make recommendations for
legislative or other changes. They are:
1. The structure, performance, and utility of
government operations with respect to intel-
ligence 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 be-
tween and among intelligence agencies and,
more generally, the efficiency of intelli-
gence activities.
4. Whether there has or has not been adequate
internal and external control and oversight
over the policies and practices of intelli-
gence agencies.
In attempting to find the answers to these funda-
mental 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 proce-
dures 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 subjects within the broad topics of inves-
tigation. (We would, of course, welcome your suggestion
of other cases that would give added insight into intelli-
gence matters under your jurisdiction.) These specific
subjects for investigation are not intended to limit the
scope contained in the more general questions.
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The Honorable Edward H. Levi
Page Three
June 27, 1975
*
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 positions. Where appro-
priate, the subject's description indicates that, pursuant
to the agreed Outline for Inquiry Procedures, the matter
primarily concerns allegations of abuse or other contro-
versial specific matters where there is reason to believe
improprieties may have occurred. Finally, the notifications
indicate the name(s) of the staff member(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.
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Sincerely yours,,
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Frank Church
Chairman
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John Tower
Vice Chairman
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These specific requests are not, of course, intended
to limit the agreement to come forward with all rele-
vant 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.
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
(Including DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE)
Table of Contents
Page
1
I.
Issues
3
II.
Areas of General Inquiry
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A.
Legal Authority for FBI Intelligence and
Counterintelligence Activities
3
B. Organization and Operation of the FBI
Intelligence Division
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2.
FBI Internal Security Intelligence
Operations
The FBI and the U. S. Intelligence
_ Community
3. FBI Foreign Counterintelligence
Operations
4.
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Inspection Division Investigations
5. FBI Intelligence Activities and State
or Local Law Enforcement Agencies
III. Case Studies
General Questions
3
4
4
5
5
A.
6 700
9
9
10
Warrantless Electronic Surveillance
2.
Warrantless Electronic Surveillance
and "Leaks"
11
Electronic Surveillance
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3.
Electronic Surveillance of
Dr. Martin Luther King
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Electronic Surveillance and the
Democratic National Convention,
Atlantic City, 1964
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Surreptitious Entry
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C. .Mail Covers and Mail Openings
18
D.
Other Specific Techniques
E.
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COINTELPRO and Disruptive Activities
F. Clandestine Informant Activities
21
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"Notional" Organizations
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2.
G.
II.
Joint FBI-Police Operations
1. White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Mississippi
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Black Panther Party, Chicago
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The "Huston Plan"
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J.
Alleged Political Misuse of the FBI
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IV.
Department of Justice
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A. The Attorney General
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The Internal Security Section (formerly
Division)
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
(INCLUDING DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE)
I." Issues
The 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.
B.
C.
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?
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?
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.
Fo
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?
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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A.
B.
Legal Authority. for FBI Intelligence and Counter-
intelligence Activities
The 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 compre-
hensive statutory charter.
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Responsible staff:
Senior staff
Task Force leader
Mark Gitenstein
Organization and Operation of the FBI Intelli-
gence Division
The Committee is investigating the structure and
operating practices of the FBI Intelligence Divi-
sion. 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 recom-
mendations have been advanced for improved coordina-
tion 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 proce-
dures of the FBI Intelligence Division and of the
field office activities supervised by the Intelli-
gence Division.
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The Committee's inquiry focuses on the following
specific areas:
1. FBI Internal Security Intelligence Operations
2.
The 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 Com-
mittee must examine how the FBI's responsibili-
ties have been defined.
Responsible staff: Senior staff
Task Force leader
Mark Gitenstein
The FBI and the U. S. Intelligence Community
The Committee seeks to determine what have
been the policies and procedures for coordina-
tion 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 co-
ordinating mechanisms.
Responsible staff:
Senior staff
Task Force leader
Mark Gitenstein
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The Committée 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 activi-
ties 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 staff
Task Force leader
Loch Johnson
Barbara Banoff
Inspection Division Investigations
This
The Committee is examining the relationship
of the FBI Inspection Division to FBI intelli-
gence and counterintelligence activities.
includes both regular Inspection Division
reviews of Intelligence Division and field
office functions and specific investigations
of allegations of improper conduct in connec-
tion with FBI intelligence activities.
Responsible staff: Senior staff
Task Force leader
Mark Gitenstein
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5. FBI Intelligence Activities and State or Local
Law Enforcement Agencies
The 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 enforce-
ment abuses.
Responsible staff:
Senior staff
Task Force leader
Mark Gitenstein
Walter Ricks
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IIT. Case Studies
General Questions
The 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.
2.
3.
What is or has been the legal authority for the
activity?
What have been the purposes of the activity?
What techniques have been employed in the activity?
4. What kinds of information have been gathered in
the activity?
5.
6°
How have specific uses of the activity been initiated
and approved?
How have the targets for the activity been selected?
7. What have been the criteria for target selection?
8. How has the intelligence which is collected been
9.
10.
11.
used?
To whom has the intelligence collected been dis-
seminated?
What has been the basis for any dissemination with
respect to each recipient?
How has the activity been coordinated with other
intelligence agencies?
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What have been the effects of this coordination?
To what extent has each of the foregoing been com-
patible with the legal authority for and the purposes
of the activity?
By what means has the activity been monitored,
controlled and administered?
What are the potential abuses to which the activity
9 may lead?
16. To what abuses has the activity led?
17.
18.
19.
What steps have been taken to investigate such
abuses?
What steps have been taken to avoid such abuses?
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 appli-
cation 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 Surveillance
The Committee is examining all forms of electronic
interception of communications including wiṛetap-
ping, electronic eavesdropping, consensual elec-
tronic surveillance interception of video and data
communications, local monitoring devices, and all
other forms of electronic or technical monitoring.
The Committee's general questions apply to each of
the techniques listed above, as well as to the
matters set forth in the following specific cases.
Warrantless Electronic Surveillance
The Committee seeks to determine whether the
Attorney General should have the authority
to authorize electronic surveillance for cer-
tain 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 un-
defined by the Supreme Court.
Questions
The Committee requests that the FBI and the
Justice Department address the following specific
· questions:
a.
* b.
c.
What is the scope and basis of the claim
of Executive authority to conduct warrant-
less electronic surveillance?
What have been the procedures for considera-
tion and approval of requests for warrantless
electronic surveillance authorized by the
Attorney General?
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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Does the Fourth Amendment permit the
issuance of judicial warrants for elec-
tronic 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 secu-
rity intelligence purposes?
Documents
The 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.
C.
All documents reflecting the denial by the
Attorney General of specific requests for
warrantless electronic surveillance from
January 1, 1960, until the present.
Committee staff access to information con-
tained in the impounded documents, deposi-
tions, 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 staff
Task Force leader
Mike 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.
b.
C.
The investigation of alleged "leaks" by or
to 17 Executive officials and newsmen
· between May 1969 and February 1971.
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The investigation of alleged "leaks" from
a military staff member assigned to the
National Security Council in 1971-72.
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 investi-
gation of "leaks" to the press.
Questions
The Committee requests that the FBI and the
Justice Department address the following specific
questions:
a:
b.
Through what procedures and by whom were
each of these electronic surveillances auth-
orized and approved, continued, and terminated?
As to each person to whom information was
disseminated, please state:
(1) The nature of the information.
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The basis for the dissemination.
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(3) The date of each dissemination.
(4) The use which was in fact made of the
information by the recipient.
What evaluations were made of the original
grounds for the surveillance as it progressed?
What were the results of the evaluations?
Who made them?
What are the reasons for use of electronic
surveillance without judicial warrant to
investigate "leaks" of classified information
to the press?
How does each of the above instances relate
to these reasons?
To what extent would requirement of a
warrant interfere with the ability to
detect such leaks?
Responsible staff:
Senior staff
Task Force leader
Mark Gitenstein
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Surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King
This investigation examines the authorization for,
conduct and termination of, and deliberations
regarding the surveillance of Dr. King. This case
may involve specific allegations of abuses and other
controversial matters where there is reason to be-
lieve improprieties may have occurred.
Questions
The Committee requests that the FBI and the
Justice Department address the following specific
questions:
a. Through what procedures and by whom were
wiretaps and electronic bugs of Dr. King
initiated, approved, continued, and termina-
ted?
b.
C.
d.
What were the locations, extent, and
duration of the electonic surveillances
of Dr. King?
What were the grounds of national security,
if any, for the introduction of the electronic
surveillances of Dr. King?
What was the relationship between the information
collected and each of the purposes of the
surveillance?
e.' What evaluations were made of the original
grounds for the surveillance as it progressed?
f. What were the results of those evaluations?
g.
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h.
1.
Who made them?
What periodic evaluations were made of the
relationship between the information being
collected and the original objectives of the
surveillance?
What were the results of the evaluations?
j.
Who made them?
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1.
To whom were any results of the
surveillance disseminated?
As to each person to whom information was
disseminated, please state
· (1) The nature of the information.
(2) The basis for the dissemination.
(3) The date of each dissemination.
(4) The use which was in fact made of
the information.
Responsible staff:
Senior staff
Task Force Leader
Mike Epstein
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Surveillance at the Democratic National
Convention, Atlantic City, 1964
The Committee is examining the use of
surveillance and other intelligence operations
in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on or about the
time of the Democratic National Convention in
1964.
This case may involve specific allegations
of abuses and other controversial matters where
there is reason to believe improprieties may
have occurred.
Questions
The Committee requests that the FBI and the Justice
Department address the following specific questions:
a. Did the FBI conduct electronic surveillance
and other intelligence operations at this
time and place?
b.
C °
d.
e.
f.
g.
Who were the targets?
Through what procedures and by whom were the
decisions made to engage in electronic
surveillance and intelligence operations
at this time and place?
What were the nature, extent, and duration
of the electronic surveillance and other
intelligence operations at this time and
place?
What was the relationship between each target
selected and the purpose of the surveillance?
Was the FBI requested to conduct such
surveillance by any person or organization
outside the FBI?
If so, by whom, when, and for what stated
reason?
h. To whom were the results of the surveillance
disseminated?
1.
As to each person whom information was
disseminated, please state
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(2)
The basis for the dissemination.
(3) The date of each dissemination.
(4) The use which was in fact made of
the information.
Responsible staff: Senior Staff
Task Force Leader
Mike Epstein
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The purpose of this inquiry is to determine the
extent to which the FBI has used surreptitious
entry as an intelligence technique, either through
its own operations or through operations by other
agencies and individuals. This case may involve
allegations of abuse and controversial matters
where there is reason to believe improprieties
、 may have occurred.
Questions
The Committee requests that the FBI and the Justice
Department address the following specific questions:
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What are the scope and basis of the claim of
Executive authority to conduct warrantless
surreptitious entry as asserted by the
Department of Justice in United States v.
Ehrlichman?
2. What surreptitious entries have been carried
out by the FBI or by another government agency
with the knowledge of the FBI from January 1,
1960, to the present? Please list by date,
place, and target.
3.
As to any instance in which the FBI has refused
to comply with another agency's request for
surreptitious entry, what was
2. The basis for the refusal?
b.
The reason given for the request?
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surreptitious entry identified under 2, and who
authorized each such entry?
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5. To the extent applicable by their terms, each of
the above questions and the General Questions
will be explored specifically with reference to
any entry or proposed entry at an embassy in
May 1972.
Responsible Staff:
Senior Staff
Task Force Leader
Mike Epstein
Paul Wallach
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The Committee is examining the conduct of mail covers
and mail openings by or on behalf of the FBI and any
instances of mail openings or intercepts which may
have been conducted by or on behalf of the FBI. This
inquiry may involve allegations of abuse or other
controversial matters where there is reason to
believe improprieties may have occurred.
Questions
The Committee requests that the FBI and the Justice .
Department address the following specific questions:
1.
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The specific purposes of all mail covers conducted
in connection with FBI intelligence and counter-
intelligence activities. This includes all
documents pertaining to FBI decisions to request
Postal Service mail covers and lists of all
subjects upon whom mail covers have been placed
as a result of FBI requests since January 1, 1960.
The procedures and practices for the dissemination
of information from mail covers requested by the
FBI. This includes a list of all entities to whom
mail cover information has been disseminated since
January 1, 1960.
Whether or not FBI personnel may have conducted
mail covers in violation of existing Postal Service
`regulations. For any mail covers which may have
been conducted by FBI personnel or for the FBI by
persons other than Postal Service employees, from
January 1, 1960, to the present: identify the
physical location where the mail cover was
conducted, the names of all persons who participated
in and authorized the mail cover, and a brief
explanation of the purpose of the mail cover and
why it was initiated.
Whether or not the FBI has opened mail or caused
mail to be opened, either with or without the
permission of the Postal Service. For all
incidents of mail opening which may have been
conducted by FBI employees or by other persons
in cooperation with the FBI, from January 1,
1960, until the present: identify the physical
location where the mail was opened or intercepted,
the names of the individuals who participated in
the opening, or intercept, and the purpose of the
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The Committee requests the following additional
documents bearing on the questions stated above:
1.
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All documents which discuss, refer to, or
relate to the origins, authorizations.
conduct, and termination of and procedures
for the mail covers, intercepts, and openings
identified in 3 and 4 above.
Responsible Staff:
Senior Staff
Task Force Leader
Paul Wallach
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Other Specific Techniques
A. As to the following techniques, the Committee's
Inquiry will "initially be confined to the General
-Questions. As the inquiry proceeds, areas of
potential abuse and thus of specific inquiry beyond
the General Questions may develop:
1.
Incommunicado detention and interrogation.
, 2. Photographic and television surveillance.
3. Polygraphs.
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The obtaining of bank, credit, school, and
other personal records and information,
including the obtaining of information under
false pretext.
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COINTELPRO and Disruptive Activities
The Committee is investigating the circumstances
surrounding the origins of, authorization for, and
implementation of the FBI program known as COINTEL-
PRO and any similar programs. This inquiry may
involve allegations of abuse and controversial matters
where there is reason to believe improprieties may
have occurred. The scope of this investigation
Communist Party USA;
covers:
COINTELPRO
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Socialist Workers Party;
3.
COINTELPRO
White Hate Groups%3B
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COINTELPRO
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Black Extremists;
5% COINTELPRO
6.
COINTELPRO
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New Left%3
Special Operations (except as
targeted against hostile foreign intelligence
services);
7. COINTELPRO Puerto Rican Independence Groups;
8.
9.
COINTELPRO
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Operation Hoodwink
Any other activities of the FBI which have or
have had the purpose and effect of disrupting
domestic groups or discrediting U.S. citizens,
whether or not carried out under a COINTELPRO
program.
Questions
The Committee requests that the FBI and the Justice
Department address the following specific questions:
1. Under what circumstances, through what proce-
dures, and by whom were these programs initiated,
authorized, and terminated?
2.
Under what circumstances and through what pro-
cedures did the FBI discover and report to the
Attorney General the existence of items 7 and 8
identified above and similar disruptive activities
not included in the original review of COINTELPRO
activities conducted by the Department of Justice
in 1974?
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What were the purposes of each program?
In each case, by what means was it intended the
purpose would be accomplished?
What internal FBI procedures were adopted for
the consideration and approval of specific dis-
ruptive activities and for determining the
results of such activities?
As to each operation listed above, and any
others of a fundamentally similar kind, identify
by type the sources of the information used
against individuals and groups for disruptive
purposes.
As to each instance in which such information
was obtained through electronic surveillance
.
(a) What or who was the target of the sur-
veillance?
(b)
(c)
Was the surveillance legal?
Was the surveillance conducted pursuant to
warrant?
(d) What were the dates of the surveillance?
(e) What were the precise means of surveillance?
(f)
Who authorized the surveillance (both
within and without the FBI)?
(g) What was the purpose of the surveillance?
As to each case listed above and all fundamen-
tally similar cases, what was the legality and
propriety of the distruptive activities? Should
any of the activities referred to in the above
sentence be forbidden by statute, considered
for future use, or otherwise subject to statu-
tory or administrative regulation?
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10.
In what activities has the FBI engaged since
April 28, 1971, the purpose or effect of which
has been to disrupt domestic groups or discredit
U.S. citizens or which bear any other similarity
to the purposes or effects of COINTELPRO
activities?
What restrictions, directives, or other measures
have been adopted by the FBI and the Justice
Department to limit or regulate the use of
such disruptive techniques?
The Committee will investigate all COINTELPRO and
disruptive activities identified above. On the basis
of a review of the summaries of COINTELPRO cases prepared
for the so-called Petersen Committee, as well as other
‣ sources of information, the Committee will develop
further requests for information and documents.
Responsible Staff:
Senior Staff
Task Force Leader
Les Seidel
Mike Epstein
Walter Ricks
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The
The Committee is examining all aspects of the
FBI's use of informants, sources, and undercover
personnel and the techniques employed by such per-
sons. Although informants are the single most
productive source of intelligence information, the
difficulties of controlling their activities may
increase the possibility of improper conduct.
use of informants to infiltrate organizations also
may pose dangers to the right of associational pri-
vacy. Consequently, proposals have been made for
,the imposition of a judicial warrant requirement
or other safeguards for the use of informants.
The Committee seeks to evaluate such proposals as
well as the contributions of informants to the
accomplishment of legitimate objectives.
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In addition, the Committee is examining informant
activities with respect to several particular situa-
tions and cases. This investigation may involve
`specific allegations of abuse or controversial
matters where there is reason to believe improprie-
ties may have occurred. The Committee's inquiry
covers the general circumstances surrounding the
following incidents or cases:
a.
Wounded Knee;
b. Kent State;
c. New York v. Stroble (Attica);
d. United States v. Buckalew (Gainesville);
e.
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United States v. Briggs (Camden);
New York v. Dillon (Hobart College);
g. United States v. Marshall (Seattle).
Additional cases may also be examined.
In addition to the above cases, the Committee is
examining the role of FBI informants in providing
information to the FBI concerning members of the
following organizations:
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b.
Ku Klux Klan;
Students for a Democratic Society%;B
Weathermen;
Black Panther Party;
C.
d.
e.
Communist Party USA;
* f.
W.E.B. DuBois Clubs.
Additional studies of informant activities with
respect to members of other organizations may be
formulated.
Questions
The Committee requests that the FBI and the Justice
· Department address the following specific questions:
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3.
4.
5.
With respect to both categories of cases listed
above, what allegations, whether unfounded or
not, of improper, illegal, unethical, or provoca-
tive conduct by FBI informants have been made in
connection with these situations or groups?
What measures has the FBI taken to investigate
such allegations of misconduct and to prevent
such alleged misconduct from taking place in the
future? .
What instructions has the FBI given to its in-
formants with respect to possible improper,
illegal, unethical, or provocative conduct?
What has been the largest number of informants,
sources, and undercover personnel in use at any
one time during each year from 1960 until the
present in connection with security, intelli-
gence, and counterintelligence matters, cases,
and programs?
What has been the annual total amount of funds
(including reimbursement for expenses) paid to
informants and sources for each year from 1960
until the present?
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What limits, if any, have been placed on the
type of information which informants have been
intrusted to report back to the FBI?
7. What have been the annual percentage of
potential informants who became paid infor-
mants in connection with security, intelli-
gence, and counterintelligence matters, cases,
and programs from 1960 until the present?
Documents
Please provide a summary of ten cases (for each
of the following categories) where the FBI's use
of informants, sources, or undercover personnel
resulted in:
I.
2.
the conviction of an espionage agent of a
foreign government.
the prevention of the theft of national secu-
rity information.
3. the prevention of sabotage.
4.
the prevention of an act of violence.
5.
6.
the prevention of the carrying out of a con-
spiracy to overthrow the government.
any other successful preventive actions in
furtherance of the FBI's national security
responsibilities.
Responsible staff:
Senior staff
Task Force leader
Mike Epstein
Jack Smith
Walter Ricks
Pat Shea
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"Notional" Organizations
The Committee is examining the FBI's alleged
creation of the support for "notional" organizations
for intelligence or counterintelligence purposes.
Although it may rely upon informants and other
clandestine operatives, this alleged practice is
sufficiently novel to require separate attention.
Questions
The Committee requests that the FBI and the Justice
Department address the following specific questions:
1.
2.
What groups, organizations, movements, or other
associations has the FBI caused directly or
indirectly to be formed or created for intel-
ligence or counterintelligence purposes? Please
provide a complete list from January 1, 1960,
to the present.
What groups, organizations, movements, or
other associations has the FBI supported finan-
cially or materially? Please provide a complete
list from January 1, 1960, to the present.
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3. In which cases has the FBI supported or created
such organizations in coordination or coopera-
tion with other agencies?
4.
5.
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How have the presence of such "notional" organi-
zations affected the public's perception of the
movements of which they form a part?
How have any FBI programs for the creation and
support of such groups been coordinated with
any similar programs undertaken by the CIA or
other U.S. intelligence agencies?
Responsible staff:
Senior staff
Task Force leader
Mike Epstein
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H. Joint FBI-Police Operations
The purpose of this inquiry is to examine certain
allegations that joint FBI-police operations re-
sulted in misconduct or abuse. These cases are
complex and involve a variety of techniques.
Nevertheless, they may indicate some of the most
serious problems which may arise in attempting to
deal with potentially violent situations.
1. The White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
Mississippi
The Committee is inquiring into the relation-
ships between the FBI and other law enforcement
agencies and private organizations in Mississippi
in connection with the White Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan. The purpose of the inquiry is to
determine what effect, if any, FBI activities
had on the actions of other law enforcement
agencies and private individuals with respect
to the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in
Mississippi. This investigation may involve
allegations of abuses or other controversial
matters where there is reason to believe impro-
prieties may have occurred.
Questions
The Committee requests that the FBI and the
Justice Department address the following
specific questions:
a. Was this organization a target of FBI
COINTELPRO operations?
b.
c.
d.
e.
If so, how and by whom was it selected as
a target?
What were the purposes of any disruptive
operations directed at it?
To what extent were the purposes achieved?
What disruptive techniques, if any, were
employed?
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f.
g.
h.
Over what period of time did the disrup-
tive activities occur?
What evaluations were made of their effects?
By whom were they made?
What were the results of the evaluations?
j. . Were FBI informants used to infiltrate the
organization?
k.
1.
m.
If so, what kinds of information did the
informants gather?
What activities did the informants engage
in other than information gathering?
Identify by date and names the persons
involved in all contacts the FBI had with
other law enforcement agencies and private
groups and individuals with respect to
alleged Klan bombings of Jewish synagogues
and the homes of Jewish leaders in Meridian,
Mississippi, during May - August 1968.
Responsible staff:
Senior staff
Task Force leader
Jack Smith
Les Seidel
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The Black Panther Party, Chicago
The Committee is inquiring into the relation-
ships between the FBI and other law enforce-
ment agencies in the Chicago area in connec-
tion with the Chicago chapter of the Black
Panther Party. The purpose of the inquiry is
to determine what effect, if any, FBI activities
had on the actions of other law enforcement and
intelligence agencies with respect to the Black
Panther Party in the Chicago area. This inves-
tigation may involve allegations of abuses or
other controversial matters where there is rea-
son to believe improprieties may have occurred.
Questions
The Committee requests that the FBI and the
Justice Department address the following
specific questions:
a. Was the Chicago chapter of the Black
Panther Party a target of FBI COINTELPRO
operations?
b.
Co
d.
e.
f.
If so, how and by whom was it selected as
a target?
What were the purposes of any disruptive
operations directed at it?
To what extent were the purposes achieved?
What disruptive techniques, if any, were employed?
Over what period of time did the disruptive
activities occur?
What evaluations were made of their effects?
g.
h.
By whom were they made?
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the organization, what kinds of information
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What techniques did the informants employ
to gather the information?
k.
Were the techniques used by the informants
all approved and monitored by the FBI?
not, which were not so approved?
If
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m.
n.
°.
What activities did the informants engage
in other than information gathering?
What other methods and sources did the FBI
use to gather intelligence on the organiza-
tion?
If electronic surveillance was used, how
did the use of such surveillance relate to
each of the general questions?
To what extent was information on persons
and groups not members of or affiliated
with the Black Panther Party gathered,
stored, or disseminated by the FBI as a
result of its investigations of the organi-
zation?
Responsible staff:
Senior staff
Task Force leader
Walter Ricks
Chris Pyle
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I. The "Huston Plan"
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The Committee is examining the FBI's role in the
disposition of the report of the Interagency Com-
mittee on Intelligence (Ad Hoc) in 1970. This
report as submitted to the President included cer-
tain options which were specifically identified as
"illegal". It purported to represent the joint
recommendations of all members of the U. S. intel-
ligence community, but FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover disagreed in a series of footnotes.
The serious consideration given to such al-.
legedly illegal proposals gives this case
the utmost significance for the Committee's under-.
standing of the risks of uncontrolled intelligence
activity. This case may involve specific allega-
tions of abuse and controversial matters where
there is reason to believe improprieties may have
occurred.
Questions
The Committee requests that the FBI and the Justice
Department address the following specific questions:
1. What contacts occurred between Tom Charles
2.
•
Huston and personnel of the FBI and the Depart-
ment of Justice during 1969 and 1970? Identify
by date and names of persons involved.
What was the purpose of each such contact?
3. With respect to any assistance provided to the
Interdepartmental Committee on Intelligence
(Ad Hoc) by personnel of the FBI:
a. Who were the FBI participants?
C.
What kind of assistance was provided?
What was the role of the FBI in preparing
the various drafts of the special report
of the Committee?
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What were the specific arguments advanced
for the inclusion of the allegedly illegal
options in the special report submitted for
the President's consideration? Were other
allegedly illegal options considered and
rejected?
5. Were any measures taken by the FBI to imple-
ment specific elements of the Huston Plan?
This includes both the allegedly "illegal"
aspects and other provisions such as the
expanded recruitment of 18-21 year old infor-
mants.
6. What are the present views of the FBI and
the Department of Justice as to the legality
and propriety of the various options included
in the special report?
Responsible staff:
Senior staff
Task Force leader
Barbara Banoff
Loch Johnson
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J. Alleged Political Misuse of the FBI
The Committee is investigating allegations that
the intelligence and investigative resources of
the FBI have been misused by various Presidents,
Attorneys General, Members of Congress, and FBI
executives themselves. This subject may involve
specific allegations of abuse and other contro-
versial matters where there is reason to believe
· improprieties may have occurred.
Questions
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The Committee requests that the FBI and the Justice
Department address the following specific questions:
I.
2.
3.
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Have persons outside the FBI sought the FBI's
assistance for partisan political purposes or
personal advantage? Please identify each
instance by the name of the person seeking to
so use the FBI, the date, and the nature of the
assistance sought.
In each such case, what has been the response
of the FBI?
Have persons inside or outside the FBI sought
to employ the resources of the FBI for purposes
outside the FBI's authority? Please identify
each instance by the name of the person seeking
to so use the FBI, the date, and the purpose
for which the person sought to use the FBI.
In each such case, what has been the response
of the FBI?
5. What measures has the FBI employed to
6°
a. Respond to critics.
b.
Affect the reputation or credibility of or
otherwise discredit critics.
What were the nature, purpose, duration, and
results of Project INLET involving preparation
of an intelligence letter for the President
and other Executive officials?
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With respect to any so-called "secret files"
maintained within the FBI, including the
"official and confidential" and "personal and
confidential" files maintained by the executive
assistant to the FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
on his behalf until the time of his death, the
Committee secks to establish the contents of
such files, the circumstances surrounding the
transfer of a portion of such files within the
Bureau at the time of Director Hoover's death,
the transfer of a portion of such files to
Mr. Hoover's residence, the destruction of any
such files, the transfer of any such files from
Mr. Hoover's residence, the use of information
within such files, and their relationship to
the official investigative files of the FBI.
The Committee desires all information bearing
on these matters, including the results of
i any inquiries conducted within the FBI and
the Department of Justice.
8.
What measures have been taken to ensure that the
intelligence and investigative resources of the
FBI are not misused for political purposes or
personal advantage.
9. What additional measures should be taken?
Responsible Staff:
Senior Staff
Task Force Leader
Mark Gitenstein
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Department of Justice
The Committee is examining activities of divisions of
the Justice Department other than the FBI which perform
internal security and intelligence functions.
The pur-
pose of these inquiries is to determine whether these
functions have been carried out in conformity with the
rule of law.
A. The Attorney General
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The Committee is studying the functions of the
Attorney General with respect to the supervision
of and policy-making for internal security and
intelligence activities. The Committee seeks to
determine whether his duties are properly defined
and his office properly organizeḍ to perform
these functions effectively.
Questions
The Committee requests that the Justice Department
address the following specific questions:
1. To what extent has the Attorney General been
involved in the consideration or approval of
-the policies and activities of U. S. foreign
and military intelligence agencies?
2. Has the Justice Department made any agree-
ments with the CIA or any other U. S. intelli-
gence agency with regard to the investigation
or prosecution of agency personnel?
3.
4.
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Under what circumstances and for what purposes
has the Office of Legal Counsel provided legal
advice to the Attorney General on matters per-
taining to foreign and domestic intelligence
activities?
To what extent has the Attorney General
authorized cooperation, including the exchange
of information and the conduct of joint opera-
tions, between the Drug Enforcement Administra-
tion or its predecessors and the CIA or other
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intelligence agencies with respect to narcotics
intelligence?
.5. What standards and procedures has the Attorney
General adopted for:.
6.
.7.
a.
The collection, analysis, use, and dis-
semination of narcotics intelligence.
b. The collection, analysis, use, and dis-
semination of organized crime intelligence.
â.
The use of intelligence information by the
Immigration and Naturalization Service.
r
Law Enforcement Assistance Administration
grants for the support of state or local
police intelligence activities and intel-
ligence data systems.
To what extent have communications between the
White House and the FBI or other agencies.
under the jurisdiction of the Attorney General
bypassed the Attorney General? To what extent
should such communications be channeled through
the Attorney General?
What have been the policies and procedures of
the Justice Department for evaluating the
budget requests of the FBI for intelligence
and counterintelligence activities?
Responsible staff:
Senior staff
Task Force leader
Mark Gitenstein
Barbara Banoff
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B.
The Internal Security Section (formerly Division)
The Committee is examining the activities of the
Internal Security Section of the Justice Depart-
ment and its predecessor, the Internal Security
Division. These entities have supervised the
Department's internal security law enforcement
activities, coordinated certain interdepartmental
internal security policies, and engaged in the
collection, analysis, and dissemination of intelli-
gence.
Questions
'The Committee requests that the Justice Department
address. the following specific questions:
1. Under what circumstances, if any, has the
Justice Department seriously considered prose-
cutions under the Smith Act and laws pertain-
ing to seditious conspiracy, rebellion, or
insurrection, or "subversive activities",
since January 1, 1960?
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2.
3.
4.
5.
°
To what extent has FBI intelligence activity
provided valuable evidence for use in the
prosecution of specific federal crimes?
What have been the practices and procedures·
for coordination of policy through the Inter-
departmental Committee on Internal Security?
What have been the practices and procedures
for the interdepartmental and interagency
evaluation of domestic intelligence and
domestic collection of foreign intelligence
through the Intelligence Evaluation Committee
and its predecessors?
With respect to the Interdivisional Intelli-
gence Unit and the Analysis and Evaluation
Section of the Internal Security Division,
a. What have been the practices and proce-.
dures of the Unit and Section for the
gathering of intelligence?
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b.
e.
.d.
What type of information has been stored
in readily retrievable form by the Unit
and Section?
To whom and for what reasons has intelli-
gence information been disseminated by
the Unit and Section?
What were the reasons for the submission
of IDIU computer printouts to the CIA, as
reportedly occurred in 1969?
e. To what extent did the Unit and Section
make specific requests to other agencies
within and outside the Justice Department
for intelligence information?
6. With respect to the use of grand juries by
the Special Litigation Section of the Internal
Security Division,
a.
b.
C.
.
Have any allegations of misuse of the grand
jury process in cases handled by Special
Litigation Section attorneys come to the
attention of the Department?
If so,
briefly describe each such allegation and
what, if any, action was taken by the
Department in response to such allegation.
To what extent, if any, did the use of
grand juries in cases handled by the Special
Litigation Section attorneys differ from the
use of grand juries in cases handled by
other sections of the Justice Department?
To what extent, if any, was information
obtained through the use of grand juries
included in the intelligence files of the
Interdivisional Intelligence. Unit or the
Analysis and Evaluation Section?
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7.
What have been the practices and procedures
of the Internal Security Division and the
Departmental Security Office for advising the
Attorney General and other executive agencies
with regard to the Federal Employee Security
Program?
Responsible staff:
Senior staff
Task Force leader
Barbara Banoff
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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
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1975
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
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Washington, D.C. 20530
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On July 17, 1975, the Committee received from
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departmental file No.987-46-5. This was in addition to
materials received by the Committee on June 25. 1975:
The Committee now wishes staff access to all
underlying materials logically related to the above and
maintained in the files of the Justice Department and the
FBI. Please expedite this request since it is of immedi-
ate importance to the Committee.
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John T. Elliff
Director
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APPOINTMENT TO MEET IN NYC AT 2:00 PM ON AUGUST 13, 1975. SOURCE
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DURING THE TIME THAT JAFFE WAS RELATING ABOVE DATA TO MILLER
SENATOR CHURCH, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SSCIO, ENTERED MILLER'S OFFICE
AND BECAME VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN JAFFE'S STATEMENTS. JAFFE
RELATED TO MILLER THAT AS A REPORTER FOR THE COLUMBIA BROADCASTING
COMPANY, HE COVERED THE STORY INVOLVING THE RELEASE OF FRANCIS G.
POWERS BY THE SOVIETS (POWERS WAS THE FORMER U-2 PILOT WHO WAS
SHOT DOWN IN THE USSR IN 1960). JAFFE RELATED TO MILLER THAT
THEREAFTER HE WENT TO HONG KONG. JAFFE ALSO TOLD MILLER THAT
WHEN HE RETURNED FROM HO NG KO NG (SOURCE BELIEVES THIS TO BE IN
1966-1968) HE LEARNED THAT HE WAS "FINGERED" BYTA SOVIET
(s).
DEFECTOR BY THE NAME OF PENKOVSKIY. THIS DEFECT OR ALLEGEDLY
REPORTED THAT HE SAW JAFFE'S NAME ON A PIECE OF PAPER ON THE
DESK OF A SOVIET INTELLIGENCE OFFICER. JAFFE TOLD MILLER THAT
THE FBI, UPON LEARNING THAT INFORMATION FELT THAT JAFFE WAS A
"DOUBLE AGENT BECAUSE OF THE COOLNESS OF BUREAU PERSONNEL TOWARD
HIM WHEN HE RETURNED TO THE UNITED STATES FROM HONG KONG. JAFFE
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HOLD A JOB, AND BELIEVES THE FBI IS THE CAUSE OF HIS PREDICAMENT.
JAFFE IS OF THE OPINION THAT THE FBI IS BEING VINDICTIVE TOWARD
HIM IN PURSUING THIS MATTER AND DEPRIVING HIM OF MAKING A
LIVELIHOOD.
MR. SHEY TOLD THE SOURCE THAT THE SSCIO IS LOOKING INTO THE
ABOVE MATTER TO DETERMINE IF JAFFE'S STATEMENTS ARE TRUE, AND TO
DETERMINE IF SOME CONTROLS COULD BE CREATED SO THAT THE FBI COULD
NOT BE VINDICTIVE IN SIMILAR SITUATIONS.
SOURCE ADVISED THAT HE TOLD SHEY THAT HE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT
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THE BUREAU THAT YEAR SOURCE ADVISED THAT SHEY TOLD HIM THAT AS
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Counselor to the Attorney General
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SUBJECT: Senate Select Committee Request for Information
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In accord with our telephone conversation of August 12th,
I am forwarding to you a letter from the Senate Select
Committee requesting answers to questions relating to
electronic surveillance conducted by the Federal govern-
ment in the interests of national security. The Committee
has been told that we would try to respond to their
request by August 20th. That date is fast approaching
and may not be a reasonable period of time in which to
compile the information requested and respond to their
questions. That date is a useful target. however, since.
any issues to be presented to the Attorney General with
icspect to complying to this request must be considered
prior to August 19th, the date the Attorney General is
scheduled to leave Washington.
Would your office please prepare responses to the following
questions that involve areas with which, I believe, you
are familiar: questions 2-10, 11(b)-(d), 12, 14, 15, 17,
21 and 24.
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The Honorable Edward H. Levi
Attorney General
U. S. Department of Justice
Washington, D. C. 20530
Dear Mr. Attorney General:
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Thank you for your letters of June 24 and Mine
25, 1975, relating to electronic surveillance conducted by
the federal government in the interests of national secu-
rity and foreign intelligence. The Select Committee also
appreciates your providing the information of a sensitive
nature in your separate letter of June 24, 1975.
Your letters, and the recent testimony of Kevin
T. Maroney and Clarence M. Kelley before the House Sub-
committee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration
of Justice, have raised several additional questions which
the Committee wishes to pursue. Further questions are
raised by the July 1, 1975, White House news briefing by
the Press Secretary relating to the effect of the recent
Zweibon decision. Some of these questions relate to general
policy considerations in the electronic surveillance area;
'others address our need for a more complete factual base
from which we can draw our conclusions. A list of these
questions is attached to this letter. These questions, of
course, do not supersede prior requests for material
relating to electronic surveillance, which are itemized in
the document requests of May 14, June 16, and June 27.
Rather, they should be considered as supplementary to
the prior requests.
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The Honorable Edward H. Levi
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I believe that the answers to these questions**
are e sential to a complete understanding of the policies
and ƒ :ocedures followed by the Justice Department in elec-
tron c surveillance cases. Full information on these mat-
ters is necessary for the Committee to fulfill its mandate
"to recommend the enactment of any new legislation.
necesary or desirable to strengthen or clarify the national
security, intelligence, or surveillance activities of the
United States and to protect the rights of United States
citizens with regard to these activities. With the con-
tinued cooperation of the Justice Department, I am convinced
that the Committee, will be able to discharge this respon-
sibility in the critical area of national security electronic
surveillance.
Sincerely,
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Frank Church
Chairman

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2.
3.
1. With respect to the "Special Review Group" which you
have established within the office of the Attorney
General for the purpose of examining requests for non-
consensual electronic surveillance without a judicial
warrant, the following questions are asked:
a.
b.
C.
a.
e:
What have been the names and titles of the persons
serving on the Special Review Group?
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If the Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal
Division is not a member of the Special Review
Group, does he normally have the opportunity.to
review requests for warrantless electronic sur-
veillance?
Have any individuals other than those serving on
the Special Review Group or the. Assistant Attorney
General of the Criminal Division had the opportunity
to review requests for warfantless electronic cur-
veillance? If so, whom?
Does the Special Review Group have the authority
to deny requests for warrantless electronic sur-
veillance?
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Does the Special Review Group review requests for
reauthorizations of warrantless electronic surveil-
lance?
Do Justice Department standards and procedures for the
authorization and reauthorization of warrantless elec-
tronic surveillance require the concurrence of the
State Department in the request for such surveillance?
If so, in what types of cases is such concurrence re-
quired?
What procedures, if any, have been followed to obtain
the concurrence of the State Department in the request -
for warrantless electronic surveillance?
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5.
6.
7.
8.
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What have been the identities of the agencies and the
Presidential appointees who have initiated requests
for warrantless electronic surveillance from 1966 to.
3 the present?
How many such requests have been initiated by each
agency and each Presidential appointce?
How many of the requests initiated by each agency and
Presidential appointee have been approved by the
Attorney General?
How many requests have been made by each agency and
each Presidential appointee for the continuation of
previously approved surveillance?
How many of the requests for the continuation of pre-
viously approved surveillance made by cach agency and
each Presidential appointee have been approved by the
Attorney General?
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What procedures have been followed for the review of
all such surveillance on a regular basis to ensure
that the criteria for the surveillance are satisfied?
With respect to non-consensual electronic surveillance
instituted outside the United States by agencies of
the United States government, the following questions
are asked:
ai
b.
What have been the standards and procedures, if
any, established for the authorization and review
of such surveillance?
What has been the total number of such surveil-
lances by year and by month for each year from :
1966 to the present?
What have been the identities of the agencies and
the Presidential appointees who have initiated such
requests From 1966 to the present?
d. How many such requests have been initiated by cach
agency and each Presidential appointee?
How many of the requests initiated by each agency
and cach Presidential appointee have been approved
by the Attorney Gèneral?
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f.
g.
h.
i.
How many requests have been made by each agency and
each Presidential appointee for the continuation of
such previously approved surveillance?
How many of the requests for the continuation of
such previously approved surveillance have been
approved by the Attorney General?
For each year from 1966 to the present, how many
such surveillances have been instituted in (1)
· North America, other than the United States; (2)
South America; (3) Western Europe; (4) Eastern
Europe; (5) Africa; (6) the Middle East; (7) South-
east Asia; (8) the rest of Asia?
For each year from 1966 to the present, how many
such surveillances have been directed at subjects
who are United States citizens?
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With respect to the requirement that the Attorney
General must be satisfied that the subject of the sur-
veillance "plans unlawful activity directed against a
foreign power or a foreign-based political group",
the following questions are asked:
a. To what extent does the recent decision in
Zweibon v. Mitchell by the United States Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia limit or
otherwise affect this standard?
.b.
c.
d.
What has been the total number of subjects under
surveillance and installations for telephone and
microphone surveillance requested and approved
under the standard "plans unlawful activity directed
against a foreign power" and under the standard
"plans unlawful activity directed against a
foreign-based political group" for each year
from 1966 to the present?
How many of the subjects in each category and for
each year identified in "b" above have been United
States citizens?
What have been the identities of all "foreign-
-based political groups" related to the surveillances
identified in "B" above?
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With respect to the requirement that the Attorney
General must be satisfied that the subject of the
surveillance is "assisting a foreign power or foreign-
based political group", the following questions are
asked:
a.
b.
What has been the total number of subjects under
surveillance and installations for telephone and
microphone surveillance requested and approved
under the standard "assisting a foreign power"
and under the standard "assisting a foreign-based
political group" for each year from 1966 until the
present?
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How many of the subjects in each category and for
each year identified in "a" above have been United
States citizens?
What have been the identities of all "ioreign-
based political groups" related to the surveil-
lances identified in "a" above?
with respect to the requirement that the Attorney
General must be satisfied that the requested surveil-
lance is "necessary for national security or foreign
intelligence purposes important to national security",
the following questions are asked:
a. Is this standard intended to supplant the standard
for national security electronic surveillance
under former Attorney General Elliot Richardson
(i.e., that the proposed surveillance must be
necessary to protect the Nation against actual or
potential attack or any other hostile action of a
foreign power, that it be necessary to obtain
foreign intelligence information deemed essential
to the security of the United States, or that it
be necessary to protect national security informa-
tion against foreign intelligence activities)?
b.
Is this standard intended to modify the standard
for national security electronic surveillance under
former Attorney General Elliot Richardson?
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If the answer to "a" or "b" above is yes, what is
the reason(s) for such change?
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If the answer to "a" or "b" above is yes, what is
the precise legal authority supporting such change
in the formulation of the standard?
If the answer to "a" or "b" above is yes, what is
the reason(s) for the deletion of the word "essen-
tial" from the formulation of the standard under
former Attorney General Elliot Richardson?
If the answer to "a" or "b" above is yes, please
give examples of hypothetical situations where
national security electronic surveillance would be
permitted: (1) under the current standard but not
under the former standard, and (2) under the former
standard but not under the current standard..
What have been the standards and procedures, if any,
that have been established for determining that "the
minimum physical intrusion necessary to obtain the
information will be used"?
With respect to wallentiess cicciiomic sui veibjunce
in cases of "leaks" of information deemed either "es-
sential" or "important" to the security of the United
States, the following questions are asked:
a.
.b.
C.
Q.
ė.
Has there been a Justice Department policy specifi-
cally addressed to such cases?
Have there been Justice Department standards or
procedures specifically addressed to such cases?
Have surveillances in such cases been approved by
the Attorney General under the standard "assisting
a foreign power or a foreign-based political group"?
If the answer to "c" above is no, under what stan-
dard have surveillances in such cases been approved?
What has been the total number of subjects under
surveillance and installations for telephone and
microphone surveillance requested and approved for
such cases for each year from 1966 to the present?
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f. What have been the identities of the agencies and
the Presidential appointees who have initiated
requests for warrantless electronic surveillance
in such cases from 1965 to the present?
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n..
i.
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How many such requests have been initiated by each
agency and each Presidential appointee?
How many of such requests initiated by each agency
and cach Presidential appointee have been approved
by the Attorney General?
Of the total number of subjects under surveillance
in such cases for each year from 1966 to the
present, how many were (1) employees of news media
organizations; (2) current employees of the federal.
government; (3) former employces of the federal
government; (4) other?
With respect to the dissemination of information obtain-
ed from national security electronic surveillante, the
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b.
c.
What have been the standards and procedures for the
dissemination of such information?
What have been the identities of the agencies and
Presidential appointees who have received informa-
tion obtained from national security electronic
surveillance for each year from 1966 to the present?
What have been the standards and procedures for the
dissemination of such information to agencies and
Presidential appointees who did not initiate the
request for the surveillance?
Can additional monthly data on warrantless electronic
surveillances prior to November 1972 be made available
in view of the fact that the FBI was able to precisely.
state the number of warrantless electronic surveillances
in operation on nineteen separate days, ranging from
March 4, 1965, to March 31, 1972, in response to a re-
quest by the Select Committee? (By letter of June 9,
1975, the FBI's Office of the Director informed the
Committee of the number of warrantless electronic
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surveillances in operation on, thirty days before,
and thirty days after testimony by the Director be-
fore the House Appropriations Committee from 1965. to
the present.)
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In his testimony before the House Subcommittee on
Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of
Justice, Kevin T. Maroney, Deputy Assistant Attorney
General for the Criminal Division, stated in reference
to a three-man Executive Branch commission used in
Great Britain to review applications for national
security electronic surveillance, "Whether such a com-
mission would be feasible under our system
think it might well be." Is it the official position
of the Justice Department that a similar commission
composed of Executive Branch officials would be an
acceptable alternative to the present system for
authorizing national security electronic surveillance?
19. In the testimony referred to above, Mr. Maroney also
stated, "I think the Department has previously com-
mitted itself
to complete disclosure to an over-
sight committee." With respect to this statement, the
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When and in what context has the Justice Depart-
ment committed itself to complete disclosure to an
oversight committee?
What material or information, if any, that relates
to the authorization for, identities of the sub-
jects of, conduct of, and dissemination of infor-
mation from particular electronic surveillances
would the Justice Department be unwilling to dis-
close to an oversight committee?
What is the basis for Justice Department opposition to
the concept of a specially-designated court, composed
of one or three federal judges, which would review
applications for warrants in cases of national secu-
rity electronic surveillance?
In his testimony before the House Subcommittee on
Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of
Justice, Clarence M. Kelley stated that he would accept
a requirement of judicial warrants for national security
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electronic surveillance if the standard for issuance
of the warrant was "less than probable cause". When
· sked by Mr. Badillo what the appropriate standard
should be, he answered, "I think reasonable grounds,
that as a result of the pursuit of an investigation
(it is), possible to believe that there has been, or
will be, or there is a need for the gathering of intel-
ligence." Does this statement reflect the official
position of the FBI in regard to (1) a warrant require-
ment for national security electronic surveillance, and
(2) the appropriate standard for the issuance of a
Warrant?.
What have been the standards and procedures followed
by the Justice Department for the authorization and
conduct of national security electronic surveillance
where one (but not all) of the parties to the conver-
sation consents to the monitoring?
With respect to the July 1 White House news briefing
by Ron Nessen relating to the effect of the. Zweibon
decision, the following questions are asked:
b.
C.
d.
f.
What is the nature or the directive from the
President to the Attorney General, referred to by
Mr. Nesson, relating to Justice Department policy
and procedures for electronic surveillance of
United States citizens?
How does this directive affect Justice Department
policy and procedures for electronic surveillance
of United States citizens?
Will the Justice Department support legislative
proposals that would require a court order for any
electronic surveillance, as was indicated by.
Mr. Nessen's statement?
If the answer to "c" above is yes, which of the
pending bills in Congress, if any, would the
Justice Department be willing to support?
If the answer to "c" above is yes, what would the
Justice Department consider to be the appropriate
judicial standard' for the issuance of a warrant? …….
If the answer to "c" above is yes, what would the
Justice Department consider to be the appropriate.
courts to issue such warrant?
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With respect to electronic surveillance directed at
encoded, non-conversational communications conducted
in the interests of national security and foreign
intelligence, the following questions are asked:
a.
b.
c.
.
What were the total number of such surveillances
for each year from 1966 to 19687
What have been the identities of the agencies and
the Presidential appointees who have initiated
requests for such surveillance for each year from
1966 to the present?
How many such requests have been initiated by
each agency and cach Presidential appointee for
each year from. 1966 to the present?
d. How many of such requests initiated by each agency
and each Presidential appointee have been approved
by the Attorney General for each year from 1966 to.
the present?
e.
E:
How many requests have been made by each agency
and cach Presidential appointee for the continua-.
tion of such previously approved surveillance for
each year from 1966 to the propont?
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How many of the requests made by cach agency and
each Presidential appointee for the continuation
of such previously approved surveillance have been
approved by the Attorney General for each year.
from 1966 to the present?
g. For each year from 1966 to the present, how many
such surveillances have been instituted in (1) the
United States; (2) North America, other than the
United States; (3) South America; (4) Western
Europe; (5) Eastern Europe; (6) Africa; (7) the
Middle East; (8) Southeast Asia; (9) the rest of
Asia?
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The Attorney General
Director, FBI
UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
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Mr. T. J. McNiff
Enclosed for your information is the original of a
memorandum concerning an interview by Staff Mombers of captioned
Committee of FBI Special Agent Louis A. Crescioli. A copy
of this memorandum is also enclosed for forwarding to
Mr. James A. Wilderotter, Associate Counsel to the President.
Enclosures (2)
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(Attn: Mr. L. A. Crescioli)
Mr. T. J. McNiff
UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
INTERVIEW OF SPECIAL AGENT LOUIS A. CRESCIOLI
BY SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE STAFF MEMBERS
Set out below is information concerning an interview
of Special Agent Louis A. Crescioli by Senate Select Committee (SSC)
Staff Members. Mr. Crescioli, who has been a Bureau Agent
since September, 1954, is currently assigned to FBI Headquarters,
Domestic Liaison, handling liaison responsibilities with the
military and the U. S. Postal Service.
On advance notice from Mr. James Dick, SSC Staff Member,
Mr. Crescioli was advised that he was to be interviewed at 2:00
p.m., August 1, 1975, in the Senate Office Building, Washington,
D. C. Mr. Crescioli was informed by this Bureau's Legal Counsel
Division that he was being released from any applicable employment
agreement for purpose of this interview as it relates to Bureau
liaison operations with regard to the U. S. Postal Service.
Mr. Crescioli was advised there were certain areas concerning
which he would not be required to answer questions, namely:
information which might divulge the identities of FBI sources;
information relating to sensitive methods and techniques;
information which might adversely affect on-going FBI investigations
and information which originated with other agencies, including
foreign intelligence agencies.
After meeting at the Senate Office Building with Staff
Members at the scheduled time, it was learned the interview of
Hr., Crescioli would occur in Room 610 of the Carrol Arms Hotel
which is located across the street from the Senate Office Building,
Dep. AD Inv. _ Washington, D. C. The interview commenced at approximately 2:05
p.m., and was conducted by Mr. Dick and his SSC Staff Associate
Mr. Paul Wallach, Special Agent Thomas J. McNiff, FBI Headquarters,
accompanied Mr. Crescioli and was present during the interview.
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At the outset Ifr. Croscioli was informed of his
rights; namely, that he did have a right to an attorney, that
the interview was entirely voluntary and that he could refuse
to answer any questions asked of him. The interview included
the following questions asked by Hessrs. Dick and Wallach which
are deemed pertinent:
In order to assess the experience of Special Agent
Crescioli, his prior Eureau background was requested. Nr. Crescioli
responded that he entered on duty as a Special Agent in September,
1954, and served in five field offices handling both criminal
and security matters prior to his assignment to FBI Headquarters.
During the period 1968-73, Mr. Crescioli was assigned as an FBI
Headquarters Supervisor handling substantivo cases in the
internal security area. From 1973 to November, 1974, he was
assigned to the Foreign Liaison Unit of the Liaison Section,
and from November, 1974, to the presont, he has been assigned
to the Domestic Liaison Unit handling liaison specifically
with the military and U. S. Postal Service.
Messrs. Wallach and Dick were most interested in
ascertaining the procedure followed by Ir. Croccioli to secure
authority to be present at this interview. He was specifically
queried as to the names of the individuals who authorized his
attendance and what comments or instructions, if any, those
Bureau officials gave him. Mr. Crescioli responded by stating
that upon receiving a telephone call from Mr. Dick requesting
his appearance, a memorandum setting forth this request was
prepared by Mr. Crescioli and "walked through" various Bureau
lovols for approval. The idontities of Lureau officials approving
the memorandum were made known to these Staff Membors, however,
it was pointed out to them that no particular comment of
pertinence to instant matter was recalled by Mr. Crescioli ns
having been made by any of these officials.
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WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
To the question as to what problems have been
experienced by Mr. Crescioli with the Postal Service since
assuming his role of Liaison Officer, Mr. Crescioli responded
that cooperation with the Postal Servico has been excellent
and no real problems have been encountered. Mr. Crescioli
explained that he has visited the Postal Inspection Service
on the average of once every two weeks since November, 1974.
He added that on occasion ho will be telephoned by an official
of the Inspection Service with a question regarding a national
security mail cover requested by the FBI, a question regarding
training procedures or a question regarding handling of
Freedom of Information Act requests. In his liaison capacity,
Mr. Crescioli would initiate the necessary arrangements to
have these questions resolved and the answer returned to the
Postal Inspection Service. In this same area of conversation,
Mr. Wallach asked Mr. Crescioli if he ever visited the Postal
Inspection Service to meroly "chat" with the Postal Inspectors,
Mr. Crescioli responded that because of his heavy liaison
responsibilities with agencies other than the Postal Service
he did not have time to visit tho Postal Service for other
than official reasons.
When asked if the various FBI field offices have
liaison representatives with the various Regional Postal
Inspectors in Charge, Mr. Crescioli responded that with
regard to national security mail covers, the Special Agent
in Charge of the local FBI office is the designated Buroau
liaison contact with the Regional Postal Inspector in Charge.
The above Staff Members were interested in ascertaining
whether or not national security mail cover checks were routed
through Nr. Crescioli prior to delivery to the Chief Postal
Inspector. Mr. Crescioli responded that these mail cover
requests are not routed through him for review but rather are
routed through normal Dureau channels prior to delivery by
Courier Service to the Chief Postal Inspector.
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When asked if ho knew of Bureau Agents actually
boing engaged in physically handling the roll in any Post
Offico, particularly relating to mail covore, Dr. Crescioli
responded that he had no Inowledge of such activities.
Uv. Croscioll pointed out that to his knowledge all mall
cover requests were forwarded to propor Fostal authorities
Zor bondling by Postal employees only.
In conclusion, Ur. Wallach inquired 12 Kr. Crescioli
had knowledge of the reason for the discontinuance of nail
covers by the FBI ns an investigative techniquo for a period
of tico in the past. Ur. Crescioli responded that he had to
cwledge of this mattor.
At this point, the interview v73 terminated at
appsoximately 2:00 p.m., with both Losers. Tallach and Dick
expressing their appreciation of Mr. Croscioli's appearance
and responses on this occasion.
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NOTE:
Results of above interview from notations made
by Special Agent Crescioli at the conclusion of the interview.
Special Agent McNiff, the dictator, has reviewed the above
and has noted no discrepancies between reported results of
the interview and that which transpired on the above occasion.
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Through arrangements made by Mr. John Hotis, Legal
Counsel Division, Unit Chief Homer A. Newman, IS-1 Section,
Intelligence Division, was interviewed for the purpose of
developing general information regarding the handling of
informant files within the FBI by Mr. John T. Elliff and
Mr. Mark Gitenstein of the Domestic Intelligence Task Force
U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities.
The interview was conducted on 8/4/75 in FBI space and
lasted from approximately 2:00 p.m. until 2:30 p.m.
Assoc. Dir.
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Dep. AD Inv. _
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The interview was extremely general in nature and
dealt exclusively with general information regarding the
handling of informant files both in the field and at FBIHQ.
The questions asked dealt with such matters as what type of
files were maintained in the field and at FBIHQ regarding
informants and generally the types of information contained
therein. They were particularly interested as to whether or
not an individual informant file either at FBIHQ or in the
field would contain information which would specifically
identify informants other than the informant on which the
file was maintained. They also inquired whether or not there ·
was a sub A section of each informant file maintained at FBIHQ
as was the case in the field. Questions were also asked as to
whether or not the individual file maintained at FBIHQ on
informants would run into several volumes. This inquiry was
answered to the effect that the size of the file would depend
on the activity of the informant, how long he had been
operated, etc.
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It was readily apparent that they were asking these
questions with the thought in mind of requesting access to
certain informant files, the identity of which they already
had but did not divulge. They did state specifically that
the informant files in which they would have an interest
amounted to approximately ten and were all on informants
that had publicly been exposed for one reason or another
and were no longer being operated as current informants.
The indication was that the request would be for access
only to such files for review in FBI space.
ACTION:
For information.
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MAY 1962 EDITION
GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
: Mr. J. B. Adams
FROM
: Legal Counsel
DATE:7/30/75
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 9/30/0 BY spotay/op
SUBJECT: STATUS OF RESPONSES TO CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE REQUESTS
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The purpose of the memorandum is to set forth in
summary form the requests we have received from various Com-
mittees in Congress and the status of our replies.
Osenate
Senate Select Committee
On Intelligence Activities (Church's Committee)
Date of Request
Letter, 5/14/75
Letter, 6/27/75
Letter, 6/30/75,
received by
Bureau, 7/8/75
Letter, 7/3/75
Letter, 7/8/75
Nature of Request
Includes among other things
information concerning wire-
taps, including the recon-
struction of Bureau files,
as well as Inspection sur-
veys for ten offices.
Request for information
concerning alleged abuses.
Request pertaining to
COINTELPRO.
Requests documents pertain-
Status
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm.
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intelt
Laboratory
Legal Coun.
Plan. & Eval.
bec. Inv.
Spec.
Training
Telep
lephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
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Responses to most
questions prepared,
approved, and
delivered. Same
responses are await
ing White House and/
or Departmental
approval.
Department seeking
clarification.
· Partial response
delivered.
Response being
ing to COINTELPRO be furnish- prepared
ed to the Committee in Com-
mittee spaceREC-102
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Communication to all em-
ployees concerning Senate
Select Committee inquiries.
Response being
prepared.
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(Attn: Mr. Cregar)
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RE:
STATUS OF RESPONSES TO CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE REQUESTS
Date of Request
Nature of Request
Letter, 7/14/75
Letter, 7/14/75
Letter, 7/14/75
Letter, 7/14/75
Letter, 7/16/75
Letter, 7/23/75
Letter, 7/24/75
Status
Request concerning two highly Response being
sensitive Bureau programs in prepared.
the foreign intelligence
field.
Request concerning
COINTELPRO documents.
Material pertaining to
Martin Luther King.
Material pertaining to
Ku Klux Klan.
Information regarding
functions of Attorney Gen-
eral with respect to super-
vision of and policy-making
for internal security and
intelligence activities.
List of people interviewed
in O&C Inspection Review.
List of Agents in New York
City area who had surname
"Kehoe."
Response being
prepared.
Awaiting Depart-
mental decision.
Response being
prepared.
Response being
prepared.
Response prepared
and delivered to
Department.
Response being
prepared.
Letter, 7/28/75
Superseding request for FBI
Response being
materials for delivery and/or prepared.
access of Committee.
Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights (Tunney's Committee)
Committee on the Judiciary
Date of Request
Letter, 7/18/75
Nature of Request
Material concerning Flag-
ging procedures in Identi-
fication and NCIC Systems.
Status
Response being
prepared.
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RE:
STATUS OF RESPONSES TO CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE REQUESTS
1
Subcommittee on Oversight
Committee on Ways and Means (Vanik's Committee)
Status
Date of Request
Letter, 7/14/75
Nature of Request
Description of FBI's in-
formant programs.
Response awaiting
Bureau's approval.
House Select Committee (Pike's Committee)
Date of Request
Nature of Request
Letter, 7/22/75
All documents and materials
Status
Being discussed
Letter, 7/24/75
provided to the Senate Select with Department.
Committee to Study Governmental
Operations and request for all
materials related to budgetary
authority.
Review documents and
materials related to
budgetary matters.
Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights
House Judiciary Committee (Edwards Committee)
Date of Request
Letter, 7/9/75
Letter, 7/15/75
Nature of Request
Requested information
concerning surreptitous
entry.
Requested information per-
taining to our assignment
of Bureau personnel to Con-
gressional Committees.
Briefing concerning
Budget Matters being
arranged.
Status
Response prepared
and delivered to
Department.
Response prepared
and delivered to
Department.
Hearings
Date of Request
Nature of Request
Request to arrange testimony
before Subcommittes on
Postal Facilities, Mail, and
Labor Management of the Post
Office and Civil Service Com-
mittee concerning mail covers
and mail openings.
Status
Date of testimony
has not been
established.
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RE:
STATUS OF RESPONSES TO CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE REQUESTS
Hearings (continued)
Date of Request
7/29/75
Nature of Request
Orally advised by Committee
staff members letter sent:
requesting Bureau testimony
relating to Budget matters.
Status
Testimony to be
8/7 or 8/8/75.
RECOMMENDATION:
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GSA FPAR (41 CFR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
Mr. J. B. Adams
FROM
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SUBJECT: PROPOSED PROCEDURES FOR ACCESS
TO FBI MATERIALS BY THE SENATE
SELECT COMMITTEE
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Mr. Wannall
Mr. Cregar
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Assoc. Dir.
Dep. Apd
Dep. A
Asst. Dirt
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
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On the afternoon of July 24, 1975, K. William O'Connor, Special
Counsel in the Department, met with Deputy Associate Director Adams
and me to present us with a copy of the proposed procedures and to discuss
any amendments the Bureau might request. I asked Mr. O'Connor who had
approved this latest draft of the proposed procedures and he said that they
had been tentatively approved by the Attorney General and the White House.
I specifically asked him who in the White House had approved them and
he said that they had been approved by Mr. Buchen (Counsel to the
President).
Mr. Adams and I discussed the procedures with Mr. O'Connor
and suggested to him as indicated by my inked notation on the bottom of
page 2A that the word "use" used in subparagraph (d) should be further
defined by a footnote that would specify the limitations on information to be
provided the Committee and its staff concerning the identities of persons
to whom the FBI has undertaken an obligation of confidentiality. Mr. O'Connor
agreed to the proposed change and in our presence telephonically communicated
with John Elliff and obtained his concurrence in the amendment to sub-
paragraph (d).
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Mr. Adams told Mr. O'Connor that the FBI was not agreeing
to the procedures in substance but that we recognized the authority of the
Attorney General in these matters and would abide by his decision that the
proposed procedures would be implemented on agreement by the Committee.
Mr. O'Connor said he understood that and he advised John Elliff that the
Bureau had acquiesced in the proposed procedures with the one amendment
described above. Mr. O'Connor departed indicating that he was going to
proceed to meet with the Committee and obtain final agreement as to the text
of the proposed procedures. The draft of the procedures is attached for the
Director's information.
ENCLOSURE
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FBI Materials by SSC
RECOMMENDATION:
That this memorandum and the proposed draft of the proposed
procedures be forwarded for the information of the Director.
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PROPOSED PROCEDURES
(1) The Domestic Task Force Leader will submit periodically a list
pertaining
of specific materials, to the inquiry being conducted under
S.R. 21, to which M1 Comittee staff wishes access or of which the
specificity
Committee desires livery. Any questions as to the scope for meaning
of any portion of such list shall be identified by the Special Counsel
and discussed at the time of acceptance of the list, between the DIFL
and the Special Conn.
The first such list will be delivered to the Department of
Justice within 48 hours of the adoption of this procedure, and will
summarize and supersad; all the presently outstanding requests; this
list will be in pricuity order, as fixed by the Committee, with fixed
delivery/access date spec11100, Those materials for which the Com-
mittee requests delivery or access shall be delivered to the Committce
or made accessible in hoom 4171 of the Hoover Building not later than
within 48 96 hours of the date specified. The Committee Chairman and
Vice Chairman shall be informed by the Attorney General, within 24 hours
each
of receipt of request, of any delay beyond 48′ 96 hours, the expected
length of the delay, and the specific reasons for the delay. Partial
access or delivery shall be proffered, by the Bureau of/to any materials
requested, while the balance of such materials are being prepared. A
partial proffer shall not extend the time of full response set forth
herein.
* Wherever used herein, the term Domestic Task Force Leader (DTFL)
Staff Director,
is understood to include the Chief Counsel and the Minority Counsel
of the Senate Select Comittee.
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These procedures shall apply to all matters covered by para-
graph 1. In the event of a specific problem arising with the
applicability of these procedures to any matters in current litigation
or any matters in which criminal prosecution is pending, or any matter
which the struney General shall specifically designate as extraordinarily
sensitive, a special procedure shall be undertaken.* Such specific
problem areas shall be identified by the Attorney General to the Chairman
and Vice Chaizm by letter upon consideration of the lists submitted
pursuant to this provision. The special procedure to be followed shall
be proposed, delined, adopted, and followed after consideration by the
SSC of the spcific problem area and pertinent inquiry and discussion at
the staff level.
(2) The following procedures snail apply (a) where delivery of materials
requested mig: espardize FBI sensitive sources or ongoing operations,
or (b) where the Domestic Task Force Leader requests access to materials,
rather than delivery to the SSC.
(3) The Department will furnish access at the Hoover Building in Room
4171 to those materials requested:
(a) only to the members of the Committee, where it is determined
by the Attorney General that the materials involve peculiarly sensitive
foreign intelligence sources or peculiarly sensitive ongoing foreign
intelligence operations.
* No restriction of currently operational arrangements is intended under
this provision.
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(b) In all other cases, to the appropriately cleared staff who
will have to all of the materials.
(c) in wraption to (a) and (b) above is made for the identities
of so-called "Live" informants or potential informants as defined in the
FBI Manual of Instructions as to which no access will be furnished
unless the identity of the individual as an informant or potential
informant has aliady been made known to the Committee, jointly agree
on the limited disclosure of such identities to the Chairman and Vice
Chairman.
1. (d) As to other information which would identify persons, as
Sources, who have provided or continue to provide information to the
FBI, and as to we identity the FBI has undertaken an obligation of
confidentiality, the Committee and its staff shall preserve the
confidentiality and shall make no use which would impair the confi-
dentiality of this class of information to which access has been
given, unless the identity of the individual as a source has already
been made known to the Committee, or unless such information appears
in materials which have been screened by the FBI as provided in
paragraph 6 below,
source
④ ☹ Examples of prohibited uses are:①interviews of the source; internieu
. or other inquires that would disclose the fort the 
identity of a
confidential source was made known to the staff; ①public
disclosure
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(4) Those materials to which the staff has access may be reviewed
and studied in Room 4171 of the Hoover Building and such notes may
be taken as deemed appropriate by the Staff.
(5) The Committee staff shall select from these materials to which
access is herein provided, those materials which it deems pertinent
to the Committee's inquiries and necessary for delivery to the
Committee's offices.
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(6) The Bureau shall make copies of such materials as are specified
by the staff under the provisions of (5) above for transfer to the
Committee's offices
(a) before the copies of such materials are taken to the
Committee's offices, the Bureau shall, within 24 hours of the
selection, make appropriate excisions and paraphrases of infor-
mation which might, if inadvertently disclosed, endanger sensitive
or sensitive
FBI sources and/ongoing operations.
(b) If the Task Force Leader has any objections to the excisions
or paraphrases, the materials in issue will be forthwith conveyed by
the Bureau, with a written statement of its grounds for its position,
to the Special Counsel who shall resolve the matter by negotiation
within 24 hours.
(c) In the event the matter is not resolved within 24 hours, the
Special Counsel shall submit the matter forthwith to the Attorney
General who shall notify the Chairman forthwith and arrange for an
appropriate disposition.
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(7) The Committee staff may remove to the office of SSC for appropriate
use, any notes which they may make upon review of material screened by
the FBI, as provided in (6) above, without such notes being reviewed
by the Bureau. The Committee staff may remove notes on unscreened
materials only if such notes are reviewed and cleared by the Bureau
under the provisions of (6) (a) thru (c) above.
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(8) The staff and the members of the Committee may examine the
original materials to which the staff has been given access as
extensively as necessary, in the Hoover Building at Room 4171,
during normal FBI business hours; upon reasonable notice, special
arrangements may be made for access at other times.
(9) These procedures are adopted subject to satisfactory experience
in implementation. If after a fair trial the procedures herein do
not operate suitably in the view of either the SSC or the Attorney
General, the procedures may be unilaterally set aside by either the
SSC or the Attorney General and other appropriate and suitable
methods of procedure undertaken.
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
: Mr. J. B. Adams
FROM Legal Counsel
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DATE: 7-24-75
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SUBJECT: STATUS OF RESPONSES TO CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE REQUESTS
The purpose of this memorandum is to set forth in
summary form the requests we have received from various Committees
in Congress and the status of our replies.
O Senate
Senate Select Committee
On Intelligence Activities (Church's Committee)
Date of Request
Letter, 5-14-75
Letter, 6-27-75
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Letter, 6-30-75,
received by Bureau
7-8-75.
Letter, 7-3-75
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1 Mr. Wannall
(Attn: Mr. Cregar)
1 - Mrs. Metcalf
Nature of Request
Includes among other things
information concerning wire-
taps, including their recon-
struction of Bureau files, as
well as Inspection surveys
for ten offices.
Request for information
Status
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Am.
Dop. AD inv.
Asst Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
Legal Coun.
Plan. & Evali
Eval
Spec. Inv.
Training
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
Responses to most
questions prepared,
approved, and
delivered.
concerning alleged abuses.
Department seeking
clarification.
Response being
prepared.
Request pertaining to
COINTELPRO.
Requests documents pertaining
to COINTELPRO be furnished
to the Committee in Committee
space.
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prepared.
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RE: STATUS OF RESPONSES TO CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE REQUESTS
Date of Request
Nature of Request
Status
Letter, 7-8-75
Communication to all employees
Response being
concerning Senate Select
prepared.
Committee inquiries.
Letter, 7-14-75
Request concerning two
Response being
highly sensitive Bureau programs prepared.
in the foreign intelligence field.
Letter, 7-14-75
Request concerning
COINTELPRO documents.
Response being
prepared.
Letter, 7-14-75
Letter, 7-14-75
Letter, 7-23-75
Material pertaining to
Martin Luther King.
Material pertaining to
Ku Klux Klan.
List of people interviewed
in O&C Inspection Review.
Response being
prepared.
Response being
prepared.
Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights House Judiciary
Committee (Edwards Committee)
Response being
prepared.
Date of Request
Letter,
7-9-75
Letter, 7-15-75
Nature of Request
Requested information
concerning surreptitious
entry.
Requested information
pertaining to our assignment
of Bureau personnel to
Congressional Committees.
Status
Response being
prepared.
Response being
prepared.
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COMMITTEE REQUESTS
Hearings
Nature of Request
Request to arrange testimony
before Subcommittee on Postal
Facilities, Mail, and Labor
Management of the Post Office
and Civil Service Committee
concerning mail covers and mail
openings.
Status
Date of testimony
has not been established.
RECOMMENDATION:
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Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dire
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
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Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
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Plan. & Eval
Spec. Inv.
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Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
summary form the requests we have received from various Committees
in Congress and the status of our replies.
C Senate Select Committee
On Intelligence Activities (Church's Committee)
Date of Request
Letter, 5-14-75
Letter, 5-28-75
Nature of Request
Includes among other things
information concerning wire-
taps, including their recon-
struction of Bureau files, as
well as Inspection surveys
for ten offices.
Requests certain Senators
on Committee be given
access to any information
concerning them in FBI files.
Status
Responses to most
questions prepared,
approved, and
delivered.
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Being handled under
same guidelines as
Freedom of Information
Act requests. Letter o
Committee from
Department requesting
discussion be held.
Letter, 6-13-75
Letter, 6-27-75
Requests complete informa-
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and mail covers.
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Material being
gathered for response.
52.6.
Request for information
JUL 30 1975
concerning alleged abuses.
1
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(Attn: Mr. Cregar)
Mr. Hotis
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RE: STATUS OF RESPONSES TO CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE REQUESTS
Date of Request
Nature of Request
Letter, 6-30-75,
received by Bureau
Request pertaining to
COINTELPRO.
7-8-75.
Letter, 7-9-75
Status
Response being
prepared.
Letter, 7-3-75
Letter, 7-8-75
Request briefing for
Committee Members con-
cerning documents in
possession of Committee
which may be highly
sensitive. Documents were
furnished by White House and
were material studied by
Rockefeller Commission.
Requests documents pertaining
to COINTELPRO be furnished
to the Committee in Committee
space.
Communication to all employees
Response being
prepared.
Letter,
7-14-75
concerning Senate Select
Committee inquiries.
Request concerning two
Response being
prepared.
Response being
highly sensitive Bureau programs prepared.
in the foreign intelligence field.
Letter, 7-14-75
Request concerning
COINTELPRO documents.
Letter, 7-14-75
Material pertaining to
Martin Luther King.
Letter 7-14-75
Material pertaining to
Ku Klux Klan.
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prepared.
Response being
prepared.
Response being
prepared.
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RE: STATUS OF RESPONSES TO CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE REQUESTS
Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights
(Abzug's Committee)
Date of Request
Hearings
Nature of Request
Request asking for identity
of FBI personnel who served
on Interagency Evaluation
Committee between 1970 and
1973.
Request to arrange testimony
before Subcommittee on Postal
Facilities, Mail, and Labor
Management of the Post Office
and Civil Service Committee
concerning mail covers and mail
openings.
Status
We have responded.
Date of testimony
has not been established.
It has been postponed
from 7-15-75 to
around 7-24-75.
RECOMMENDATION:
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PERSONAL ATTENTION
Mr. L. F. Schwartz
NEW YORK OFFICE HAS ADVISED THAT FORMER SA JOHN G. WILLIS
WAS RECENTLY CONTACTED BY SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE (SSC) STAFF
MEMBER PATRICK SHEA WHO INTERVIEWED HIM RELATIVE TO HIS KNOWL-
EDGE OF FORMER BUREAU SOURCE SAM JAFFE WHO ALLEGEDLY HAS BEEN
IN CONTACT WITH SSC. JAFFE ALLEGEDLY ADVISED SSC THAT HE
FORMERLY ENJOYED A PLEASANT RELATIONSHIP WITH FORMER SA WILLIS
AND FORMER SA EDWARD F. GAMBER WITH REGARD TO SOVIET INTELLI-
GENCE MATTERS. JAFFE ALLEGEDLY STATED TO SSC THAT BUREAU
PERSONNEL BECAME COOL TOWARD HIM IN APPROXIMATELY 1966-1968
AFTER JAFFE RETURNED FROM HONG KONG AND THAT SINCE THAT TIME
JAFFE HAS BEEN UNABLE TO HOLD A JOB AND BELIEVES THAT THE FBI
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Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
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Intell.
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FORMER SA WILLIS ADVISED THAT HE TOLD SHEA THAT HE
KNEW NOTHING OF THE FBI'S ATTITUDE TOWARD JAFFE AFTER 1964,
SINCE HE RETIRED FROM THE BUREAU THAT YEAR. SHEA INDICATED
TO WILLIS THAT HE HAD NOT YET TALKED TO FORMER SA GAMBER
BUT MAY INTERVIEW HIM IN THE FUTURE.
FORMER SA GAMBER IS CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY THE WELLS
FARGO ARMOREDCAR DIVISION AND RESIDES IN THE ATLANTA AREA.
YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY ATTEMPT TO CONTACT GAMBER AND ALERT
HIM THAT HE MAY BE APPROACHED FOR INTERVIEW BY SSC STAFF.
HE SHOULD BE ADVISED THAT IN THE EVENT HE IS INTERVIEWED
AND, DURING THE COURSE OF THE INTERVIEW, QUESTIONS ARE ASKED
WHICH RELATE TO SENSITIVE BUREAU OPERATIONS (SOURCES, METHODS,
TECHNIQUES, THIRD AGENCY RULE AND ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS),
HE MAY REQUEST AN FBI AGENT TO BE AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION.
BUREAU WILL PROVIDE AGENT IF REQUESTED. AS A PRELUDE TO
INTERVIEW, THE FORMER EMPLOYEE MAY, AFTER BEING CONTACTED BY
SSC STAFF, CONTACT BUREAU'S LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION BY COLLECT
CALL FOR FULL INFORMATION TO ASSIST HIM, INCLUDING HIS
OBLIGATIONS AS TO CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION ACQUIRED AS
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FBI EMPLOYEE. IT IS EMPHASIZED THAT BUREAU'S OFFER OF
ASSISTANCE IS NOT INTENDED TO IMPEDE SSC WORK BUT IS DONE AS
COOPERATIVE GESTURE AND TO SAFEGUARD SENSITIVE BUREAU INFOR-
CONTACT WITH FORMER SA GAMBER SHOULD BE HANDLED
PERSONALLY BY SAC OR ASAC, OR IF THIS IS NOT FEASIBLE BY A
MATION.
SENIOR SPECIAL AGENT OF YOUR OFFICE.
SUTEL RESULTS OF CONTACT WITH GAMBER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
IN ABOVE CAPTION. IF HE IS NO LONGER LOCATED IN YOUR
TERRITORY OR TEMPORARILY AWAY, SET OUT LEAD TO RESPONSIBLE
OFFICE WITH COPY TO BUREAU.
NOTE:
Jaffe is a former Bureau source who is currently
engaged in a Freedom of Information Act request appeal.
Appropriate files are being reviewed to determine what, if
any, significance there may be in the allegations attributed
to Jaffe by the SSC Staff Member. Procedure for alerting
former SA Gamber is in accordance with what we have been
doing concerning many other former employees.
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INFORMATIVE NOTE
8/4/75
Date
In connection with our responses to
the Senate Select Committee (SSC), the
White House has instructed that the Intel-
ligence Community prepare a briefing for
Senators Church and Tower of the SSC
regarding warrantless electronic surveil-
lances and surreptitious entries. During
meetings of the Intelligence Community, it
was agreed that NSA, FBI and CIA would give
the briefings. No date has been scheduled
for the briefings, although it is antici-
pated representatives of the White House
will monitor a preview of the actual brief
ing to be given Senators Church and Tower.
During meetings of the Intelligence
Community representatives, to discuss the
contents of such a briefing, it was agreed
among representatives of NSA, CIA and FBI
that efforts would be made to avoid identi
fying specific foreign targets of surrepti-
tious entries or warrantless electronic
surveillances.
Attached is a memorandum from CIA
advising that CIA has already disseminated
to the SSC information concerning sensitive
technical operations against certain
Embassies and diplomatic establishments in
the U.S.
ACTION:
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For information and record purposes.
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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
Mr. J. B. Adams
FROM
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ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES-
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Dep. AD Adm.
Dep. AD Inv.
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Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
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Laboratory
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Training
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
On 8/6/75, Daniel M. (Mac) Armstrong, III, who was
on the personal staff of former Acting Director Gray, called to advise
that he had been contacted by John Elliff. He had known Elliff casually.
during the confirmation hearings regarding Mr. Gray. Elliff told him.
that he was personally interested in determining background on two matters
which were: (1) the decision to abolish the Crime Records Division; and
(2) the Legal Attache program.
Armstrong told him that he had no knowledge concerning the
Crime Records Division and had not even learned of its abolishment until
after the fact. Armstrong referred Elliff to Dave Kinley regarding that
topic. Armstrong said that Elliff did not want to talk to him concerning the
Legal Attache program over the phone and said he would contact him in the
near future for an appointment to see him personally.
Armstrong said he was passing this information along to us in
order to keep us advised of his contacts with the Senate Select Committee
concerning his Bureau information which came to him as a result of his
Bureau employment.
RECOMMENDATION:
REC-26/02-111-595-524
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Senate Select Committee Staff Knowledge
of CIA Domestic Electronic Surveillance
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Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
1. In our discussions preparatory to the briefing to
be given to Senators Church and Tower, we have agreed to try
to avoid identifying specific foreign targets of the various
types of operations which will be discussed, although it was
generally recognized that it would be impossible to avoid
discussing the Soviet target specifically. I have recently
learned that the SSC Staff is aware of the fact (from material
turned over to them by CIA) that CIA "participated in a series
of electronic surveillance operations in the U.S." The infor-
mation is contained in a single paragraph, which goes on to
say:
"Included among them are operations against the
Czech Embassy, the UAR Embassy, the Chilean Embassy,
the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco, the present
Soviet Embassy, the planned Soviet Embassy, and the
quarters occupied by the Chinese Communists in New
York City."
2. This being so, it can be expected that the Staff will
have brought this information to the senators' attention, and
I will be prepared to respond factually to questions with re-
spect to these operations, which of course were carried out in
pursuit of NSA requirements, and with FBI coordination and/or
support.
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ciple we have agreed to try to maintain, I believe we should
resist pressures to expand on the number of identified targets.
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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
MAY 1962 EDITION
GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
: Mr. McDermott,
FROM :W✓ L. Bailey
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DATE:
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SP-2 ALM/276
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Dep. AD Adm.
✓Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell."
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Plan. & Eval. _
Spec. Inv.
Free
Training
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Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
WHERE SHOWA OTHERÄLSE,: O
On July 31, 1975, Mr. Dan Dwyer, Research Assistant,
Senate Select Committee, advised SA Seymor F. Phillips that he
had some specific questions to ask concerning his review of the
Classifying Guide, File's and Communications Division. Thereafter,
Supervisor Paul F. Shea and Classifying Unit Supervisor Odell
Wheeler answered the following questions raised by Mr. Dwyer:
(1) Explain the difference in applicant mail categories, i.e.
67, 77, 116, 151 and 161? The various applicant type categories
were discussed with him. (2) What is the difference between
main files, general files and setup files? These definitions were
given to him in accordance with the manual; in addition, our pro-
cedures for handling "O" files, "00" files and subfiles were also
explained. (3) When is a 62 file interchangeable? It was explained
to him that the 62 classification is interchangeable with other
designated classifications, for example, that incoming 62 material
could be placed in an existing file on the subject rather than
opening a separate 62 file. (4) Describe what you mean by the
standard sublist. It was explained that a subnumber is assigned
to each one of our field offices and to each foreign country%3B that,
subfiles are used when it is anticipated that the volume of mail
will be sufficient to place the file in separate subs for future.
ready reference to a particular area or locality. (5) What is
the meaning of the character of a case? It was explained that we
have utilized 185 classification numbers to date and that each of
these classifications has a corresponding character. The example
given was the 26 classification and corresponding ITSMV character.
(6) What is meant by the [134] classification being interchangeable
with the subversive list? It was explained to him that from the
185 classifications approximately 60 of these are termed subversive
from an administrative standpoint. The ([134] classification which
designates a security informant is interchangeable with certain
subversive classifications on the subversive list.
Bureau file 62-116395
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The Attorney General
Director, FBI
UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
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Mr. J. B. Adams
Mr. J. A. Mintz
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Mr. W. O. Cregar
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This is in response to an oral request from
Mr. Loch Johnson, Senate Select Committee Staff Momber,
that two former FBI Special Agent employees be made
available for interview and/or their current addresses
be made available to the Senate Select Committee so that
the Committee may arrange for the interviews.
Attached for your approval and forwarding to
the Committoo is the original of a memorandum responsive
to the above request. A copy of this nonorandum is being
provided for your records.
Enclosures (2)
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Attention:
Michael E. Shaheen
Special Counsel for
Intelligence Coordination
AUG 15 1975
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Asst. Dir.:
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Files & Com.
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Mr. W. R. Wannall
Mr. W. O. Cregar
Mr. T. J. McNiff
August 7, 1975
UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
RE:
ADDRESSES_OF_FORMER-
BUREAU EMPLOYEES
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On July 28, 1975, Mr. Loch Johnson, Senate Select
Committee Staff Member, orally requested of Special Agent
Paul V. Daly, FBI Headquarters, that former FBI Special Agents
Thomas J. Smith and Richard D. Cotter be made available for
interview and/or their current addresses be made available
to the Senate Select Committee so that interviews may be
arranged. The subject matter of the interview is to be limited
to the above former employees' knowledge concerning the
"Huston Plan."
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This is to advise that both Messrs. Smith and Cotter
have been released from their employment agreement with this
Bureau for the purpose of an interview by the Senate Select
Committee concerning their knowledge of the "Huston Plan.)
In response to Mr. Johnson's request, there is set forth below
the last known address for each of the above-named former
employees:
20715.
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Thomas J. Smith, 3410 Memphis Lane, Bowie, Maryland
Richard D. Cotter, 5337 Ravensworth Road, Springfield,
Virginia 22151
The Attorney General
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NOTE:
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On 8/4/75
Reference is made to Legal Counsel memorandum to
J. B. Adams, dated 7/29/75, captioned "Senstudy 75, wherein
the request of Mr. Johnson is set forth as well as the approved
release of Messrs. Smith and Cotter from their employment
agreement as it relates to the "Huston Plan."
Special Agent Thomas J. McNiff attempted to contact Mr. Smith
at his home phone 301-262-1921. An adult female answered and
advised that she was baby-sitting for Mr. and Mrs. Smith who
are currently in New Mexico and are not expected to return
for an additional two weeks. Special Agent McNiff left his
name and office phone number with the request that Mr. Smith
call him upon his return to his residence.
Mr. Richard Cotter on 8/4/75 was contacted at his
home residence phone 256-7227 and advised of the SSC desire
to interview him within the parameter outlined above. Mr. Cotter
was advised that he has been released from his employment
agreement with the above parameter and that should he so request
a Bureau Agent will be made available to him for consultation
at the time of the interview. It was pointed out to Mr. Cotter
that during the interview there are certain privileged areas
concerning which he would not be required to answer questions,
namely: information which might divulge the identities of FBI
sources; information relating to sensitive methods and techniques;
information which might adversely affect on-going FBI investigations
and information which originated with other agencies, including
foreign intelligence agencies. Mr. Cotter concluded by saying
that upon being contacted by the SSC he would advise this Bureau
of the date of the anticipated interview and his decision as to
whether or not he would request that a Bureau Agent be made
available for consultation.
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Addressee:
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SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
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Memo
Report dated 8/7/75
United States Senate Select Committee. Re:
Caption of Document:
Addresses of Former Bureau
Employees. (7/28/75 request)
Originating Office:
FBI
Carson
Delivered by: Paul Filety / 81/82/75
Received by:
Title: Counsel
Return this receipt to the Intelligence Division, FBI
Date:
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PIKE 10/10/00 BY SP-2 ALM/ITE
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BEFORE COMPLETING.
TO:
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Intelligence Community Staff
ATTN: Central Index
FROM:
FBI
SUBJECT: Abstract of Information Provided to Select Committees
2. DATE PROVIDED
1. HOW PROVIDED (check appropriate term. If a document was made available
for review but not transmitted, so note.)
DOCUMENT
BRIEFING
INTERVIEW
TESTIMONY
OTHER
3. TO WHOM PROVIDED (check appropriate term; add specific names if appropriate)
SSC
8/7/75
4.
HSC
IDENTIFICATION (provide descriptive data for documents; give name or identification number of briefer,
interviewee, testifier and subject)
5.
Memorandum
IN RESPONSE TO (list date and item number if in response to formal request, other-
wise state verbal request of (name), initiative, subpoena, etc.)
6. CLASSIFICATION OF
INFORMATION (enter
U, C, S, TS or
Codeword)
7/28/75 oral request
7. KEY WORDS (enter the appropriate key words from the list provided separately; if key words not listed are
used underline for emphasis)
Intelligence collection
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SUMMARY (see reverse side before completing this item)
Furnishing SSC addresses of former Special Agents to
be interviewed concerning their knowledge of the
"Huston Plan."
62-116395
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ORIGINAL VIA LIAISON TO CENTRAL COMMUNITY INDEX
IN CONNECTION WITH SENSTUDY 75
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CLASSIFY AS APPROPRIATE
6211637:
521
INSTRUCTIONS
Type or print clearly in ink.
• Indicate classification of the abstract top and bottom.
• Date the abstract and put on any internal control numbers required.
"FROM" entry should clearly identify the organization providing the
information.
If additions (as when a copy of document sent to SSC is later sent to
HSC) or changes to a previously submitted form are necessary, submit a
copy of the original abstract, with the change indicated.
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SPECIFIC ITEM NO. 8. SUMMARY enter brief narrative statement describing
substance of information and showing relationship to Intelligence Community
matters if appropriate. Any feedback or evidence of investigatory interests
should be noted. Commitments made to supply additional information should be
noted. Additionally, certain administrative information may be entered here,
e.g., restrictions on review of a document, if document was paraphrased, whether
interviewee is current or former employee, etc. If actual document or transcript
is provided, that fact should be noted and no summary is required. Additional
pages may be attached if necessary.
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July 22, 1975
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PROPOSED PROCEDURES -
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
I have reviewed the proposed procedures as set
forth in memorandum to you from Mr. K. William O'Connor
dated July 21, 1975, and I will abide by your judgment in this
matter. To clarify our position relative to raw files, I
strongly recommend you incorporate in your transmittal
letter a reference to this.
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TO MR. KELLEY:
7/22/75
Madamus.
The attached constitutes the revised draft
of proposed procedures which we met on yesterday
with the Attorney General and staff. Mr. Mintz and
I feel it incorporates the matters agreed upon at the
meeting.
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Please note the memo to Mr. Levi from
O'Connor indicates these procedures are designed
"to permit broad access for SSC staff to FBI
materials," and the proposed procedures do not rule
out the possibility that the Committee can request
complete files for review. Accordingly, if you have
no objection, we will advise the Attorney General
that you have reviewed the proposed procedures and
will abide by his judgment, however, we continue to
object to granting of access to raw files of the FBI
to representatives of the SSC. Attached is a letter
to the AG so stating.
ENCLOSURE
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OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
Edward H. Levi
Attorney General
K. William O'Connor
WASHINGTON, DIC 20530
Special Counsel for Intelligence
Coordination
SUBJECT: Proposed Procedures
SSC
July 21, 1975
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm.
Dep. AD I
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
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Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
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Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
This draft of "Proposed Procedures" has not been discussed
with SSC staff. It is intended to reflect the substance of the
discussion had on 7/21, in your office; and incorporates (as
underscored) additional language for the purposes suggested by
that discussion. Also reflected are the slight editorial changes
requested by the SSC in the draft attached to Senator Church's
letter of July 18, 1975.
These procedures are designed to permit broad access for
SSC staff to FBI materials at the FBI, or delivery of such materials,
if appropriate, to the SSC. The present scope of the access is
defined by the requests as received; those extant are the subject
of superseding redraft under paragraph 1. The prospective scope of
requested information is not restricted, but is subject to negotiation
as indicated in the amendment to paragraph 1.
The proposed modification of paragraph 3 will be the focus of
most controversy. The SSC will probably object to the withholding
of sources under paragraph 3(d) (proposed) saying that access to
information at the FBI offices is all that is required; that no
note on such documents can be removed from the premises of the FBI
under procedure 6; and that if they wish to pursue any sources,
the appeal provision of existing paragraph 6 should cover it.
Since that was the purpose of paragraph 6, and since paragraph 6(a)
was designed to focus on any real problem which might arise, the
scope of the stated problem under paragraph 3(d) may be seen by the
SSC as an attempt to withhold information from the SSC staff, and
delay the inquiry (since the Bureau would have to do considerable pre
CC:
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Mr. Scalia
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delivery work under 3(d) to make properly defined and reviewed
deletions). Accordingly, I would expect SSC to assert (a) DQJ
does not trust SSC probity or security, and (b) DOJ is following
a dilatory and unnecessary tactic.
In anticipation of these problems, I have re-written
paragraph 9 to permit unilateral abrogation if the procedures
do not work. If actual information withheld is capriciously
defined, or if any lapse of good judgment occurs, I would expect
prompt abrogation by SSC and a very severe criticism of the
Director, the Attorney General, and the Department.
I think that is a high risk, and assumption of it places
a very heavy burden upon the Bureau, initially, and upon the
Department, ultimately.
My recommendation is that the proposed procedures be
attempted as redrafted, subject to Attorney General and White
House approval; but a vigorous caveat is indicated as to the
need for real restraint in the exercise of initial FBI discretion
under paragraph 3(d).
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PROPOSED PROCEDURES
(1) The Domestic Task Force Leader* will submit periodically a list
of specific materials, relevant to the inquiry being conducted under
S.R. 21, to which the Committee staff wishes access or of which the
Committee desires delivery. Any questions as to the scope or meaning
of any portion of such list shall be identified by the Special Counsel
and discussed at the time of acceptance of the list, between the DIFL
and the Special Counsel.
The first such list will be delivered to the Department of
Justice within 48 hours of the adoption of this procedure, and will
summarize and supersede all the presently outstanding requests; this
list will be in priority order, as fixed by the Committee, with fixed
delivery/access dates specified. Those materials for which the Com-
mittee requests delivery or access shall be delivered to the Committee
or made accessible in Room 4171 of the Hoover Building not later than
within 96 hours of the date specified. The Committee Chairman and
Vice Chairman shall be informed by the Attorney General, within 24 hours
of receipt of the request, of any delay beyond 48 96 hours, the expected
length of the delay, and the specific reasons for the delay. Partial
access or delivery shall be proffered, by the Bureau of/to any materials
requested, while the balance of such materials are being prepared. A
partial proffer shall not extend the time of full response set forth
herein.
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*Wherever used herein, the term Domestic Task Force Leader (DTFL)
is understood to include the Chief Counsel and the Minority Counsel
of the Senate Select Committee.
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The Attorney General may exempt specific topical areas of
inquiry from the scope of these procedures. Such topical areas
shall be identified by the Attorney General to the Chairman and
Vice Chairman by letter upon consideration of the lists submitted
pursuant to this provision. As to any such exemption, the proce-
aure to be followed shall be proposed, defined, adopted, and
followed after consideration by the SSC of the specific exemption,
and pertinent inquiry and discussion at the staff level.
(2) The following procedures shall apply (a) where delivery of
materials requested might jeopardize FBI sensitive sources or
ongoing operations, or (b) where the Domestic Task Force Leader
requests access to materials, rather than delivery to the SSC.
(3) The Department will furnish access at the Hoover Building in
Room 4171 to those materials requested:
(a) only to the members of the Committee, where it is deter-
mined by the Attorney General that the materials involve peculiarly
sensitive foreign intelligence sources or sensitive ongoing operations.
(b) In all other cases, to the appropriately cleared staff who
will have access to all of the materials.
(c) An exception to (a) and (b) above is made for the identities
of so-called "live" informants or potential informants as defined in
the FBI Manual of Instructions as to which no access will be furnished
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unless the identity of the individual as an informant or potential
informant has already been made known to the Committee, or unless the
Attorney General, the Chairman and Vice Chairman, jointly agree on the
limited disclosure of such identities to the Chairman and Vice Chairman.
(d) An exception to (a) and (b) above is made for information which
would identify persons, as sources, who have provided or continue to
provide information to the FBI, and as to whose identity the FBI has
undertaken an obligation of confidentiality. In order to preserve
that obligation of confidentiality, the FBI will withhold access to
this class of information, unless the identity of the individual as
a source has already been made known to the Committes, or unless the
Attorney General, the Chairman and Vice Chairman, jointly agree on
the limited disclosure of such identities to the Chairman and Vice
Chairman.
(4) Those materials to which the staff has access may be reviewed and
studied in Room 4171 of the Hoover Building and such notes may be
taken as deemed appropriate by the Staff.
(5) The Committee staff shall select from these materials to which
access is herein provided, those materials which it deems pertinent
to the Committee's inquiries and necessary for delivery to the
Committee's offices.
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Mr. J. A. Mintz
Mr. W. R. Wannall
Mr. W. 0. Cregar
Mr. S. F. Phillips
August 7, 1975
U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
RE:
INTERVIEW OF FORMER FBİ
SPECIAL AGENT (SA) (JOHN_M.
MATTER BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS
Set out below is information concerning an
interview of former FBI SA John M. Matter by SSC Staff.
Members. Matter served in the FBI from October 21, 1940,
until his retirement May 28, 1971. He is a current
resident of Ft. Myers, Florida.
On advance notice from Mr. Michael Epstein,
SSC Staff Member, Matter traveled to Washington, D. C.,
from his residence in Florida to be interviewed at
11:30 a.m. July 25, 1975, in the SSC offices.
Prior to appearing for the interview, Matter
was informed by the FBI that he was being released from
any applicable employment agreement for the purpose of
the SSC interview which Epstein had indicated would concern
the former FBI investigation of Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was explained to Matter by the FBI that he had the
right to counsel; however, the FBI was unable to provide
private counsel. Matter was also told that there were
certain privileged areas concerning which he would not
be required to answer questions. These areas concerned
sources; information relating to sensitive methods and
techniques; information which might adversely affect
Dep. AD Adm. ongoing FBI investigations; and information which originated
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Assoc. Dir.
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Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com. _
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Ident.
Inspection
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Statement of John M. Matter
with other agencies, including foreign intelligence agencies.
Matter was informed that if he desired the presence of an
FBI representative for consultation purposes, one would be
supplied on his request. It was explained that this
representative would not be present at the interview itself,
but would be located nearby and available for consultation
purposes. Matter requested such assistance.
It was further explained to Matter by the FBI
that if a question arose during the interview in one of
the areas set out above, he had the privilege, before°
replying, of consulting with the FBI representative.
The FBI representative accompanied Matter to the SSC
offices and made himself available as indicated above.
Set forth below is a statement which Matter
prepared and voluntarily furnished to the FBI which
reports the results of the interview of him. Items under-
scored for emphasis or otherwise, and items placed in
quotation marks are as indicated by Matter in his preparation
of this statement. Only a minimal number of typographical
and grammatical corrections were made by the FBI in the
reproduction of Matter's statement..
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RE: INTERVIEW OF FORMER FBI SA BY SSC
Statement of John M. Matter
STATEMENT OF JOHN M: MATTER.
The following information is supplied as a result
of an interview of former SA John M. Matter by SSC Staff
Members Michael Epstein (asked about 95% of the questions)
and Ms. Mary DeOreo (asked about 5% of the questions).
The information is presented according to subject matter and
not in the chronological order in which it was asked because
Epstein kept going back and picking up points that had been
discussed previously.
The interview began at 11:35 a.m. on Friday
July 25, 1975, and lasted until 5:40 p.m. with an hour out
for lunch and three 10 minute breaks. It was held in a
small, acoustically-treated room (former projection booth),
up one flight of stairs above room G-308, Dirksen Senate
Office Building. Epstein advised that this was an interview
concerning the part I had in the Bureau investigation of
Martin Luther King, Jr. (hereinafter MIK). He did not advise
me of my rights until I called his attention to the lack of
this about 5:00 p.m., at which time he told me all information
I gave was to be supplied voluntarily, that anything I said
could be the subject of further investigation by his Staff
and that I could decline to answer any questions which I
did not feel were within the scope of the inquiry.
Epstein asked if I had discussed the MLK matter
with any Bureau personnel this morning (July 25, 1975) - he saw
me come to G-308 with the FBI representative who was 'available
for consultation), and I stated I had discussed procedural
matters with 5As Paul Daly and Seymor Phillips, both of whom
had leaned over backwards to limit my discussion to procedural
matters and nothing else.
Epstein asked for and I supplied background
information as to my present address, when I entered on duty
in the Bureau, the field offices (FOS) where I had worked,
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when I was first assigned to the Radio Engineering Section
(hereinafter Re SRC), and how long I was in that Section.
He asked how I would describe my particular kind of work and
I told him "security work" in the Security Unit in which I
ultimately became Unit Chief. He inquired if I was assigned
to other than the Re SEC and I advised that when I first
reported on duty in the Laboratory in 1944, it was the
Electrical Section, but that about two or three years later
that Section was merged with the Re SEC. He asked and was
told that the Chief of the Re SEC at the time was I. W. Conrad,
who later became Assistant Director of the Laboratory.
After about 10 minutes, Epstein started to question
me as to what Units axisted in the Re SEC, what type of work
was, dena in the Unite and who was working with me in my Unit,
explaining that he was trying to get an idea of how the Re SEC
was set up and where an investigation of MLK-type would fit
into that Section. I asked for and was granted permission to
see the FBI consultation reprezentative who secoupanted ma,
When advised by me of this line of questioning, the
representative told me to supply much information as to the
ke SEC's set-up and the name of any Agents in my Unit. On
returning to the interview, Epstein then produced an FBI
organizational chart from the position of Director on down
through the individual units in the sections under each
division (this chart appeared to be one issued after my
retirement in May, 1971). He called my attention to the
Be SEC and the Units listed thereunder, all of which dealt
radio matters except one which was listed as "Evidence
Examinations." . I advised him that my work fell into the latter
and that all other units listed had to do with some phase of
radio communications used throughout the Bureau. I furnished
him at his request the following names of persons who had
worked with me in "security matters" during 1960 to 1968,
which he named the period in which he was interested:
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INTERVIEW OF FORMER FBI SA BY SSC
Wilbur G. Stevens, Robert A. Miller, William E. Harward,
and William D. Campbell. I stated that there may have been
others whose names I could not recall or who did not fit
into the time period he mentioned. He asked and I advised
that during that period, Richard L. Millen was Section Chief
and Arthur J. Baker was his Number One Man.
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Epstein and DeOreo specifically named the following
persons and asked if they were connected in any way with the
MLK investigation: Pfafman, Mayo, Swartz, Bradley, Stevens,
and Berley. I advised that Robert F. Pfafman and George W.
Mayo had retired from the Re SEC about 1956 and 1958
respectively, Richard Swartz about 1968, Wayne Bradley about
1974, Wilbur G. Stevens was still in the Section, and
succeeded me as Unit Chief, that George Berley was in another
Section of the FBI Laboratory, and that to my personal
knowledge none of the above had been connected with the MIK
investigation. Epstein specifically asked whether "Don
Parsons" would have been involved and I told him I had no
knowledge of such. He asked if I knew Parsons and I said.
yes, he had been a former Assistant Director of the FBI
Laboratory.
Epstein and DeOreo questioned me at great length
as to how I got my assignment in the MLK investigation, who
authorized the investigation, how long my work took, how
"the tapes" came into my possession, how I used "the tapës"
during my work, what I did with "the tapes" after I was
finished with my assignment, and whether anyone else worked
with me on the assignment (specifically asking me if I knew
"a William Campbell"). They also inquired what case supervisor
I dealt with in the Domestic Intelligence Division (hereinafter
DID). Seme of these points were gone over by the
interrogators two or three times. I advised largely as follows
and qualified many of my answers as being "to the best of my
memory," and in some instances I could not recall specific
details or names!
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My assignment came orally from Section Chief Millen
and quite possibly Assistant Director Conrad in a conference
of the three of us in which I was advised that a Top Secret
investigation of MLK had been authorized by the then
Attorney General (AG) Robert F. Kennedy to determine if any
attempt was being made by the Communist Party (CP) to
infiltrate MLK's organization and use it to serve the Party'
purposes. This particularly related to at least one highly
placed MIK staff member (whose name I do not recollect) who
had been associated with CF activities in the past. I was
told that I was to render all technical assistance that wAS
required in keeping with any requests made by then D2D
Assistant Director, William C. Sullivan, or DID case supervisor
handling the investigation. Some tages from the AG-muthorized
MLK installations would be received by me, and I was to prepare
a composite tape of any derezatory information in these tapes.
William Campbell of the Washington Field Office (WFS) was to
work with me and was to be primarily responsible for preparing
a transcript of the WFO tapes, while pinpointing for me any
information that might be of value for the posita.
Campbell came to the Re SEC with the Wro tapes and he
and I set up the necessary transcription and filtering
equipment for him in the studio and control room parts of
Room 7318 in the Justice Building (JB). At some point
additional tapes were received from authorized MIK installa
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I would have determined these locations efther from "identifica-
tion on the tape reels" or from "letters of transmittal,"
such actually received with the tapes. I could not specifically
recall whether any of the tapes were received directly
by the Re SEC, from the last three 70s, but was of the
opinion that they were most likely received from the DID case
supervisor whose name I could not specifically recall.
I was asked specifically if that case superviser's name
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was "Ryan," "Seymor Phillips," "Frank Baumgardner," or
"Lish Whitson." I replied that I did not know a Ryan, and
that Phillips, Fred (not Frank). Baumgardner and Lish Whitson
were possibilities but I could not specifically recall whether
"who was the
it was any one of them. Epstein hammered on
case supervisor," but I could give him nothing more definite
than I had indicated.
It took me somewhere between one and two weeks to
complete my part of the assignment. There were inquiries.
from both my Section Chief and the DID as to progress. There
were long hours put in by both Campbell and myself to do an
accurate and reliable job as well as possible. No one else:
was assigned except us two because of the highly sensitive
nature of the material and its classification. I did not
specifically recall if "working copies" were made immediately
from the FO tapes, but most likely such was done since this
would eliminate the possibility of damaging the FO tapes during
transcription. At the same time I would have been able to
monitor the FO tapes to gain familiarity with the subject
matter and any sections which I might use for the composite
were unintelligible. It is possible that Campbell may have
monitored the tapes with me at the same time with a second-
set of earphones, but I could not specifically recall such.
I made the composite by copying the pertinent sections from the
FO tapes onto a single reel. The first part of the composite
would contain all the excerpts from one FO; the second part of
the composite, the excerpts from another FO; and so on through
the third and fourth parts. There possibly were gaps within.
the excerpts to indicate discontinuity and possibly longer
gaps between the end of all excerpts from one FO and the start
of excerpts from another FO.
or
To the best of my recollection, the final composite
did not contain splices between excerpts or between the FO
groups or excerpts. The composite was sterile (not traceable
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to any source) as to the ¼ inch recording tape itself, the
7 inch plastic reel containing the tape, and the 7 inch box.
containing the reel. I do not recall whether it was a commercial
or a plain box. I estimate the total elapsed playing time of the
composite as being somewhere between 45 and 90 minutes, but
I could not recall the specific time nor the tape speed.
Epstein made quite a point of asking if the composite
had actually been put together as explained above, or whether
it was put together in the following manner:
one or more
excerpts from one FO tape immediately followed by one or more
excerpts from another FO tape, and followed again by one or
more excerpts from a third or fourth FO tape. It appeared that
he was trying to indicate that the composite had deliberately
been put together in such a manner as to create a false impression
I stated that to the
as to where the excerpts had come from.
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best of my memory the composite had not been the target in that
manner and I categorically denied that any effort had been
made on my part to have the composite convey an idea other
than that which was actually on the tape. When the composite
was finished I made two or three copies of it which I identified
as "third generation tapes," while I considered the composite
a "second generation tape. I delivered the composite, most
likely in the government routing envelope, to William C.
Sullivan in the JB, fifth floor office of then Assistant to
the Director Alan Belmont. I recalled that this was on a
Saturday and Belmont was in his office with Sullivan.
Delivery was made to Sullivan as a result of instructions I.
had most likely obtained from Millen or Conrad who also told
me to inquire of Sullivan if there was anything else he wanted
me to do. I so inquired and Sullivan replied that there was
nothing further and that he would take it from there. I
could not recall if I delivered two or three copies of the
composite to Sullivan at the same time or whether they were
sent to him or the DID case supervisor by special messenger
the following Monday. Nor could I specifically recall if I
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gave a composite copy to Campbell so that he could make a
transcription of it. However, that was a possibility because
Campbell had the job of transeribing the WFO tapes and worked
at it up to 6 weeks or two months.
To the best of my recollection, Campbell retained the
WFO tapes and I have no way of knowing whether I used all
WFC tapes or only those Campbell selected as being pertinent.
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I do not recall the specifics, but the tapes from
were returned to the
DID case supervisor either when I had furnished my part of
the investigation or after Campbell completed his work. About
two years after that, I got a telephone call from the DID case
supervisor inquiring as to whether the Re SEC still had the
tapes. I verified that he was the case supervisor and assured
him the
tapes had been
sent to the DID after the Laboratory's work had been completed.
I have no specific knowledge as to what was to be
done with the composite or the copies thereof. The preparation
in the sterile form of tape, reel and box was apparently done
as a result of a specific request made by William C. Sullivan.
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I supposed.
that Bureau officials had their own reason for requesting
such a composite, but I was never told.
Epstein kept pressing me with "didn't you think
this was strange?" and finally "what was your opinion?" To
the former I replied "not necessarily," and to the latter I
said a possible reason could have been that Bureau officials
wanted to give the composite to AG Robert F. Kennedy to show
him the type of information being obtained so that he could
decide whether the surveillances he had authorized were to be
continued. I never discussed the "MLK tapes" with anyone
in the Crime Records Division. I don't rule out the possibility
that some member of that Division may have asked whether I had
worked on the tapes, but I certainly had no discussion on the
subject matter. I did not discuss the tapes with "Deke" DeLoach
(specifically named by Epstein after he had asked me whether I
had discussed the tapes with anyone in the Crime Records
Division). Epstein asked if I had any knowledge of Ernie Belter
having anything to do with the MLK installation - WFO, and I
'told him, "none,"
.
He appeared to be trying to find some sort of record
within the Bureau so that he could get names, dates and
assignments. In answer to his inquiry, I stated that it was
quite likely I had received an "assignment slip" to account for
my time in the case. I seriously doubted that such a slip
would bear the name of MLK but would most likely have identified
it as a "special case" or the "MLK case;" I had no knowledge
of how Campbell's assignment was handled. A register is kept in
the Re SEC for personnel signing in and out, but this would only
show dates and times worked by me and other personnel, and
would not indicate what I was doing during a particular day
or 'period of time period." Campbell, being assigned to WFO, would
have signed in and out on the WFO register, even though he was
working for a longer period of time in the Re SEC space.
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I have no knowledge that a physical and/or photographic
surveillance of MLK was conducted by the Bureau.
I received no "letter of commendation" or
"meritorious raise" as a result of my work on the MLK ease.
Nor was the latter specifically or otherwise mentioned in my last
efficiency report. Epstein was very specific in asking about
the letter of commendation, the meritorious raise and the
efficiency report.
He asked if I was aware in any way that the tape had
been furnished newsmen. I told him that I had a recollection
of reading an article in a newspaper or weekly news magazine
a few months or a year or more after my assignment that MLK
tape information had been obtained by or furnished to newsmen.
I wondered at the time how they had been able to get the
information. I also pointed out that within the last year or
two there have been a number of references by several featured
news columnists that MLK tape information had been leaked to
selected columnists. I again denied that at the time
I delivered the composite to Sullivan that I had any specific
knowledge of the use to which it was to be put.
Epstein and DeOreo did not ask if I had any further
information to furnish to them which had not been brought out
by questioning. It was very apparent that they did not wish to
pursue the subject matter in a composite tape any further after
I stated that
Nor did they pursue .
the interest of former AG Robert F. Kennedy in the case after
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his name was mentioned. Epstein wanted to know if it was
apparent from the tapes that each
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Epstein gave me no explanation as to where he
obtained the names that he specifically mentioned to me. It
appeared to be his desire to conduct a thorough interview and
to clear up confusion In his mind, possibly caused by conflicting
reports about the tapes. He and DeOreo were courteous and
stayed well within the legitimate bounds of the MLK investigation
except as possibly indicated by his questions concerning the
makeup of the Re SEC and its Units. While he did not state it
specifically, as such, it appeared to me that he was trying to
determine how tape recordings resulting from microphone
surveillances were handled in a Section which dealt with radio
matters. He seemed satisfied when I told him that the work of
my Unit came under the "Evidence Examinations" Unit. He also
accepted my explanation of "security work" with the comment that
such sensitive work certainly was of a security nature. He
made no effort whatsoever to inquire as to what further work
I may have done in the Section. He specifically asked whether
I had given any MLK information to Stevens, and I replied that
while I could not recall specifically, this was possible because
Stevens and I worked closely together and he would have had to
take over the case in my absence..
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At a point near the end of the interview, Epstein
asked me if I am a personal friend of William Sullivan,
Seymor Phillips, Fred Baumgardner and Lish Whitson. I replied,
"No." Epstein indicated doubt, to which I added that my
relations with all were purely official. Epstein then asked if
I held any animosity toward Sullivan. I answered, "No."
inquired, "You don't have any?" Again I replied "No."
He then
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Statement of John M. Matter
NOTE:
Briefing of Matter prior to interview was by
Supervisor P. V. Daly and by Supervisor S. F. Phillips of
INTD. The latter accompanied Matter to the interview and
prepared this letterhead memorandum based upon a statement
which Matter dictated and had typed at FBIHQ on the day
following the interview..
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1
Reference is made to a letter from the SSC dated
July 14, 1975, requesting certain documents and other information from
the FBI.
1
Attached for your approval and forwarding to the Committee
is a memorandum containing a partial response to requests contained
in referenced letter, but which represents, in its entirety, our reply to
the Committee's inquiry concerning the nature of "SCOPE."copy"
of this memorandum is being provided for your records. Ast
Enclosures (2)
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1 - The Deputy Attorney General
Attention: K, William O'Connor
ENCLOSURE Special Counsel for
21 AUG 14 1975
Intelligence Coordination
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Assoc. Dir.
(5)
Dep. AD Adm. _
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
Plan. & Eval. _
Spec. Inv.
Training
Legal Coun.
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
NOTE:
Referenced SSC letter requested information concerning
[SCOPE and ORKID. Information concerning [ORKID] will be handled by
CI-1 and will be disseminated orally to the proper representatives of SSC.
technique.
MAIL ROOM
Classified "Secret" to protect a sensitive investigative
SECRET
Classified by 7005
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Exempt from GDS, Category Number 2
Date of Reclassification Indefinite
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NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
Unauthorized Disclosure
Subject to Criminal Sanctions GPO 554-546
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2 Mr. J. A. Mintz
(1- Mr. J. B. Hotis)
1 - Mr. W. R. Wannall
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1 – Mr. W. O. Cregar
July 28, 1975
1 – Mr. R. D. Hampton
UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT COMTAITTEE
TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
RE: [SCOPE ] (S)
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Reference is made to the letter from the captioned
Committee dated July 14, 1975, which requested, in part, that the
Committee be advised concerning the nature of SCOPE.) (S)
SCOPE was the code word for a special channelizing
procedure whereby information received from an electronic surveillance
conducted by the FBI in the United States on a certain foreign diplomatic
establishment as well as selected foreign officials from that government
was disseminated to interested United States Government agencies.
The codo name CCOPE indicated such information was to be handled in
a most secure manner and access to it was to be restricted within these
agencies to only specifically cosignated people. This channel is no
longer boing utilized. (s)
1 - The Attorney General
ORIGINAL AND ONE COPY TO AG
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Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm. _
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin,
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Legal Coun.
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
MAIL ROOM
NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION
Unauthorized Disclosure
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Subject to Criminal Sanctions
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Date of Declassification Indefinite
ENCLOSURE
62-116-395-5/8/21-5843
FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO, CHAIRMAN
JOHG. TOWERS, VICE CHAIRMAN
_ PHILIPA, HART, MICH,
WALTES F. MONDALE, MINN.
WALTER D. PUDULESTON, KY..
ROBERT MOISTAN, N.C.
GARY HART, COLO.
HOWARD H. RAKER, JR., TENN:
BARRY COLDWATER, ARIZ.
CHARLES MC C. MATHIAS, JR., MD,
CHARD S. SCHWEIKER, PA.
WILLIAM G. MILLER, STAFF DIRECTOR
FREDERICK A. O. SCHWARZ, JR., CHIEF COUNSEL.
CURTIS R. SMOTHERS, MINORITY COUNSEL.
K. William O'Connor, Esq.
SECRET
United Bicies Sie
SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
(PURSUANT TO S. RES. 21, 14TH CONGRESS)
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
! 1975 '
July 14, 1975
Special Counsel for Intelligence Coordination
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
U. S. Department of Justice.
Washington, D. C. 20530
Dear Mr. O'Connor:
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10/13/00 #MDR16
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"ON:25X1
As indicated in the enclosure to the Committee's
July 9, 1975 letter to the Attorney General, we are still
awaiting several requested items which relate to the relation-
ship between the FBI and the CIA.
་
Although an FBI file search is presumably under-
way to locate all items which would be responsive to that
section of the Committee's request; we would appreciate
receiving as soon as possible, as a partial response, all
of the items bearing on this subject which were specifically
identified in the attachment to the Committee's May 14, 1975
request, as well as the exchange of correspondence between
'the FBI and the CIA which occurred on March 11 and 20, 1970,?
and which related to domestic intelligence collection. *
:
Finally, we would appreciate your advice concern-
ing the nature of CC SCOPE" and Operation ORKID which are
identified in the above-referenced March 20, 1970 letter
from Director Helms to Director Hoover.
Raq.
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Your cooperation would be appreciated.
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RECEIVED
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Sincerely,
4. John T. Eiff
ENCLOSURE
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letters
John T. Elliff
Director
Domestic Intelligence Task Force
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refored
collection of foreign intelligence
لسهره
1
5-140 (Rev. 1-21-74) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Addressee:
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
☐ LTR ☑ LHM
Memo ☐ Report dated
28
7/25/75
U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Activities. Re: SCOPE. (Releţ
Caption of Document:
From captioned Committee 7/14/75 concerning
nature of SCOPE.)
Originating Office:
Delivered by:
FBI
Rishana Taylor
Date:
8-8-75
Received by:
Title:
Return this receipt to the Intelligence Division, FBI
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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS 
UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/13/00 BX SR2 ALM/216
TE:
CLASSIFY AS APPROPRIATE
SEE INSTRUCTIONS ON REVERSE
BEFORE COMPLETING.
FROM:
FAT
TO: Intelligence Community Staff
ATTN: Central Index
SUBJECT: Abstract of Information Provided to Select Committees
1. HOW PROVIDED (check appropriate term. If a document was made available
for review but not transmitted, so note.)
DOCUMENT
BRIEFING
INTERVIEW
TESTIMONY
OTHER
3.
器
4.
2. DATE PROVIDED
7/28/75
TO WHOM PROVIDED (check appropriate term; add specific names if appropriate)
SSC
HSC
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SP-2 
ALMITG
L
IDENTIFICATION (provide descriptive data for documents; give name or identification number of briefer,
interviewee, testifier and subject)
Memorandua
5.
IN RESPONSE TO (list date and item number if in response to formal request, other-
wise state verbal request of (name), initiative, subpoena, etc.)
6. CLASSIFICATION OF
INFORMATION (enter
U, C, S, TS or
Codeword)
SSC letter 7/14/75
7. KEY WORDS (enter the appropriate key words from the list provided separately; if key words not listed are
used underline for emphasis)
Surveillance, electronic
Intelligence collection, domestic
8. SUMMARY (see reverse side before completing this item)
SCOPE was the code word for a special channelizing procedure
Thereby information received from an electonic surveillance
conducted by the FBI in the United States on a certain foreign
diplomatic establishment as well as selected foreign officials
from the government was disseminated to interested United
States Government agencies. The code name SCOPE indicated
such information was to be handled in a most secure manner
and access to it was to be restricted within these agencies to
only specifically designated people. This channel is no
longer being utilized. (S)
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(4)
TREAT AS YELLOW
5. Wools
ORIGINAL VIA LIAISON TO THE CENTRAL COMMUNITY INDEX
IN CONNECTION WITH SENSTUDY 75
3791 (6-75)
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CLASSIFY AS APPROPRIATE
INSTRUCTIONS
Type or print clearly in ink.
Indicate classification of the abstract top and bottom.
Date the abstract and put on any internal control numbers required.
"FROM" entry should clearly identify the organization providing the
information.
If additions (as when a copy of document sent to SSC is later sent to
HSC) or changes to a previously submitted form are necessary, submit a
copy of the original abstract, with the change indicated.
-
SPECIFIC ITEM NO. 8. SUMMARY enter brief narrative statement describing
substance of information and showing relationship to Intelligence Community
matters if appropriate. Any feedback or evidence of investigatory interests
should be noted. Commitments made to supply additional information should be
noted. Additionally, certain administrative information may be entered here,
e.g., restrictions on review of a document, if document was paraphrased, whether
interviewee is current or former employee, etc. If actual document or transcript
is provided, that fact should be noted and no summary is required. Additional
pages may be attached if necessary.
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uly 21, 1975
LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION
Attached teletype advises former
SA John Matter was requested by the Senate
Select Committee to make himself available.
for interview at 11:30 a. m., 7-25-75.
Mr. Matter telephonically advised this will
be a staff interview concerning the Bureau's
investigation of Martin Luther King. He
requested a Bureau representative be
available for consultation during the interview.
Matter will be briefed by representa-
tives of the Intelligence and Legal Counsel
Divisions prior to his interview.
Legal Counsel Division recommends
that any applicable employment agreement be
waived for purpose of this interview and that
an Intelligence Division representative
accompany Matter to be available for consulta-
tion during interview.
1 - Intelligence Division
Enclosure
PVD: ech
(3)
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HREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
дни
DATE 10-10-00 BY SR2 ALM/JTG
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8:58AM URGENT JULY
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1975 JFD
TO
DIRECTOR (62-116395)
FROIS TAMPA (106-5390)
SENSTUDY S
HE TAMPA NITEL JULY 11,,1975.
17.
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ALL TOTUND NON CONTAINE
KELD IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10-10-00 B: SP-2 ALm1176
Assoc. Dir.
Dep.-A.D.-Adia._
Dep.-A.D.-Inv..
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
Plan. & Eval,
Spec. Inv.
Training
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
me
ON EVENING JULY 20, 1975, FORMER SA JOHN MATTER, TELEPHONE
813-936-1691, WAS TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED AT FT. MYERS BY
MIKE EPSTEIN OF SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE STAFF. EPSTEIN
",
REQUESTED MEETING AT FT. MYERS THE NIGHT OF JULY 22 OR THE
MORNING OF JULY 23.
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ABOUT ONE HOUR AFTER INITIAL CALL, EPSTEIN CALLED MATTER
"
древет
517
AGAIN AND FINALLY SET APPOINTMENT FOR FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1975,1 AUG 14 1975
11:30 A.M., ROOM G308, NEW SENATE OFFICE BUILDING.
MATTER WILL TRAVEL TO WASHINGTON FOR THIS MEETING AND
REQUESTS SUPERVISOR PAUL DALY, LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION, TO
TELEPHONICALLY CONTACT HIM IN FT. MYERS.
MATTER DESIRES
BUREAU REPRESENTATIVE AT MEETING JULY 25, 1975,
END
BAR WAS C
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На межве
FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO, CHAIRMAN
JOHN G. TOWER, TEXAS, VICE CHAIRM
PHILIP A. HART, MICH.
WALTER F. MONDALE, MINN.
WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, KY.
ROBERT MORGAN, N.C.
GARY HART, COLO.
کا
EXP. PROC.
JUL 18 1975
HOWARD H. BAKER, ., TENN.
BARRY GOLDWATER, ARIZ.
CHARLES MC C. MATHIAS, JR., MD.
RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, PA.
WILLIAM G. MILLER, STAFF DIRECTOR
FREDERICK A. O. SCHWARZ, JR., CHIEF COUNSEL
CURTIS R. SMOTHERS, MINORITY COUNSEL.
FM0R16
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Alnited States Senate
SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
(PURSUANT TO S. RES. 21, 94TH CONGRESS)
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
July 16, 1975
"Sensterly '75) RECEIV:
The Honorable Edward H. Levi-
The Attorney General
U. S. Department of Justice
Washington, D. C. 20530
Dear Mr. Attorney General:
Being handled
by
Mr. Adams with Mr. O'Connor his.
in the DAG's
Jam
17 1975
O.L.A.
Thank you for your letter replying to our letter concerning
access by certain members of the Select Committee to files and
documents concerning them held by the Department, including the
FBI.
The Committee has resolved to adopt a slightly different
procedure than that proposed in your letter. As you know, the
purpose of this particular request is to enable the members,
through analysis of materials relating to them, to obtain general
insights into how the Department of Justice, including the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, collects, maintains and retrieves
for itself material on Americans generally. Accordingly, we
suggest that at a mutually convenient time, the designated members
come to the Department or the Bureau and physically go through
the retrieval process with the persons who would be responsible
for performing that function in a real life situation. The
Committee members do not wish to have their individual files
either removed from the filing system or "sanitized" prior to
their reviewing them.
EX-101
REC-26 62-1/66395
This proposed method of on-site review may help, moreover,
to alleviate the possible problems of disclosure to the particular
members which your letter adverted to. We are sure that you
could discuss any remaining actual problems with the members
themselves at your premises, including whatever retrieval problems
may exist with respect to the letters from the members themselves
which you referred to.
9 JUL 25 157:
In the first instance, what the members seek is insight
The attached letter was forwarded]
to the Bureau by the Department,
Assoc. Dir."
Dep. AD Adm.
Dep. Anv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laborator
Legal
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
5/6
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LEGAL
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and understanding. After the initial review, further steps to
record facts and reach conclusions can be agreed upon as
appropriate.
Senator Baker and Senator Philip Hart wish to be added to
the list of Senators who wish to examine their own files.
hoerely yours,
Hrank
Frank Church (D-IDAHO)
Chairman
ohn lowe
John Tower
Vice Chairman
(R-TEXAS)
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Cia. 8/12/75
THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20505
783 к.
Intelligence Community Staff
Senstudy - 75
DCI/IC 75-2614
11 August 1975
MEMORANDUM FOR: Members of the USIB Ad Hoc Coordinating
Group
SUBJECT
: Security Clearances
Attached is an updated listing of staff personnel certified
by the Staff Director/Senate Select Committee as meeting the
requirements of Executive Order 10450 for access to classified
information up to and including TOP SECRET. Some of these
individuals have been certified as meeting the requirements of
DCID 1/14 and have been provided the appropriate briefing.
REC-26
EX-100
62-116395-515
Jech & Thomas
Jack E. Thomas
Major General, USAF (Ret.)
Chief Coordination Staff/ICS
Attachment
NW
ENCLOSURE
AUG 18 1975
Trest. as origical
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IC STAFF VERIFICATION OF CLEARANCES
Staff Members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities who have received a security 11 AUG 1975
investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation within the past five years and are certified as
meeting requirements of EO 10450 for access to classified information up to and including TOP SECRET.
Compartmented
Clearance
Name
Designated Briefed
Date and
Place of Birth
Social
Security No.
(SI, TK, B)
Aaron, Daviḍ
B 4/15
8-21-38
Ill.
550-44-7971'
Bader, William
B: 4/17
9-8-31
NJ
545-30-3377;
TF Badge
Bayly, John
B 5/19.
1-26-44.
DC
578-60-2305
Banoff, Barbara
B.6/26
12-20-45
· Cal.:
561-68-9123.
Barkey, Howard
✓ Baron, Frederick
Benz, Charity I.
Betts, Richard K.
Binkin, Martin
Birdsell, Wayne
• Bloomfield, Beth Susan.
Bouschard, Samuel
Brissett, Belvá
Brooks, Nancy'.
'Brown, C. Harold
Brown, Maxine
62-116393
B 6/2.
1-26-17.
Mo.
490-01-6758
B 5/19
12-2-47
Conn..
494-54-5241.
B 5/23
7-23-46.
NY
053-38-7410
··B 7/1
B. 8/5
8-15-47
Pa.
016-38-2619
5-6-28
5-2-06
Mo.
498-20-5633
DC
578-03-1841
B 7/14(H, G, K) 12-23-51
Ohio
256-92-0341
B 6/10
3-12-24
· Maine
007-18-3292
B 6/10
6-23-41
Ok.
440-44-6374
5%
.B 5/23
2-14-40
Ky
313-38-6773
6-6-38
Ohio
278-34-3428
B. 6/26
8-8-28
Ida.
568-40-3123
ALMIITG
DATE 11/16/06 BY
MERKIN IS UNCLASSLVED 100
ALI FEI INFORMATION CONTAINED
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Name
Compartmented
Clearance
Designated Briefed
(SI, TK, B).
Date and
Place of Birth
Social
Security No.
11 AUG 1975
Bushong, David
B 71/4
8-10-47-
Ohio
289-40-1203
Carpenter, Margaret,
B 5/19
8-27-44
Cal.
‚¨¨‹555-62-6129
Carter, Barry
B 4/24
'12-14-42'
Cal.
·567-56-8854 :
Chesnick, Barbara.
B 7/14
4-18-46
WI
390-46-2235
Culbreth, Elizabeth
Davis Lynn
Dawson, Thomas.
B 7/2
6-23-42
NC
240-64-9040.
B 4/17(Port)·9-6-43;
Fl.
042-36-9155
TF Badge
B 6/26
9-9-52
Minn.
471-60-1688
Dawson, Rhett
·B 5/19
12-9-43
III.
351-34-4329
"DeMarco, James'
B 6/26
3-12-43
W. Va.
286-36-9097
Dennin, Joseph Francis
B.6/23
6-9-43
NY
567-62-5353
DeOreo, Mary
B 6/26
6-13-47
Ohio
287-42-6258
DeTemple, Mary.
B 7/29
6-16-25
Wisc.
394-20-5968
DiGenova, Joseph E.
.B 6/26
2-22-45
Del.
222-28-5430
Dick, James..
B 6/26
7-25-47
Mass.
029-36-6745
Dillon, Molly ·
B 6/10...
4-16-51
Va.:
150-38-4588
. Doolittle, Patricia:
8-12-43
NC
213-42-6360
"
Dwyer; Daniel
Eliiff, John
Epstein, Michael Taylor
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B 7/14
8-24-52
Ma.
023-44-8792
B. 5/23
6-30-41
DC.
345-34-2468
B.6/26
3-10-37.
Mass.
026-28-6318
8-30-46
'DC'
215-46-2988.
Name
Compartmented
Clearance
Designated Briefed
Date and
Place of Birth
Social
Security No.
111 AUG 1975.
གྲྭ་བ་
(SI, TK, B)
Fenn, Peter
*
B 4/24
12-12-47
Ma.
213-50-1123
Ford, Harold
B 6/26
3-23-21
. Cal.
550-16-4630;
Gitenstein, Mark Henry
B.5/28
3-7-46
Ala..
420-60-8767
Grant, Bruce
B.7/2
6-16-16 ..
Neb.
507-20-1311'
Greissing, Edward
∙B 7/14
Hanback, Sara Susan
Harrigan, Arthur
B 5/19.
11-27-50
2 4-46.
.3-16-44
Germany
W. Va..
NY
296-50-4113
215-46-3141
141-34-1031
Hatry, Audrey Helen.
B 5/19
6-10-23.
Hodges, Paulette.
B. 7/29
4-17-43
Md.
Okla..
6216-14-8691
224-60-2495
Inderfurth, Mark K.
B. 4/29
9-29-46
NC
245-74-5617
TF Badge.
Iverson, Portia
B 7/14
10-22-501
W. Va.
233-84-0847
>
Jefferson, Arthur M.
B 6/26
3-16-44
NY
141-34-1031
Johnson, Dorothy
6-8-25
Or.
540-20-6413
Johnson, Loch
B 4/29
2-21-42
N. Zealand
566-62-0478
Johnston, James
B 7/29
1-6-44
Kan.
495-46-9594
Karalekas, Annę
B 5/28
11-6-46
Ma.
023-36-4329
.Kayden, Jeffrey
B 7/14
3-22-51
NY
065-40-7277
:
Kelley, Robert
B 5/19
10-29-40
Ind.
559-54-1348
Kieves, Lawrence
B 5/19
1-4-48
NY
068-38-6464
Kirbow, Charles
B4/24.
10-2-22
Ga.
252-12-5112'
TF Badge.
Kirchheimer, Joseph
6-3-17
Ill..
359-03-7843
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Name
Koppal, Diane
Compartmented
Clearance
Designated Briefed
(SI, TK, B)
Date and
Place of Birth
Social
Security No.
1.1.AUG 1975
B 6/26
..6-24-48
NC
219-48-0018
LaVoy, Diane
B 6/10
11-10-48
Venezuela'
165-40-3119
Liebengood, Howard
12-29-42
19-42
In.
307-44-9707
Lombard, Charles
B 4/24
„6-2-30
France
578-44-9471 Badge
Lynch, Mary
3-16-26
W.Va...
250-38-1344
MacDonald, Naldeen
10-19-51 Brazil:
225-78-8708
Madigan, Michael James
B 4/15
4-18-43
DC.
042-34-3797.
TF Badge.
Marshall, Benjamin
B 4/17
5-4-19
NE
485-28-4503
Marshall, Burkė
∙10-1-22
NJ
*577-44-5241
Mascioli, Cynthia
B 6/26
1-4-51
NY
112-44-7636
Mason, Judy":
'B 6/10
1-6-46
. DC
578-60-7280
Maxwell, Elliot Everett
B 4/15
7-24-46
NY.
133-34-4225.
TF Badge
Mayo, Betty
B 6/26
2-13-22
Ohio
277-14-4062
McCorkle, Daniel
6.-25-55
Ohio
297-56-6722
Mecham, Martha Evans.
B 5/23.
2-11-40
Cal.
528-48-6848
Miller, William G.
☐ B 4/15
8-15-31
.NY
109-26-4349
Monaco, Patricia
B 5/23
10-17-35
NJ
157-26-8100
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Name
·Compartmented
Clearance
Designated Briefed
Date and
Place of Birth
Social
Security No.
111 AUG 15
(SI, TK, B)
Moore, Janet
B 5/23
4-9-43
Iowa.
484-52-9820:
Murphy, Michael
Nash, Dorothy
O'Flaherty, James Daniel
B 4/15
10-13-54
7-24-1-2
11-4-42
Tex. .
231-86-8829.
Wisc.
399-14-4589.
Ill.
1239-62-8495
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Orloff, Jan
B 6/26
11-14-47
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558-74-8394
Owens, Drena
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NC
242-68-3271
Peterson, John:I
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6-15-41.
Cal.
565-56-7707
Pitts, Susan
B 6/10
10-24-53
Rhea, Gordon
Postal, Andrew
Pyle, Christopher
Quanbeck, Elton¨
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Richard, Eric.
Ricks, Walter.
Romberg, Alan
Rowe, James
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NY
020-40-7638
128-40-4695
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019-30-9898
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5-15-26
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8-25-48
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538-48-4673'
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3-10-45
Va.
412-74-7901.
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12-27-49
NY
128-40-7430
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12-27-46
Ga.
244-74-4304
B 4/22
12-1-38
NY
107-30-8583
B 5/19
16-6-51
DC
579-62-6719
Schneider, Ruth
B 5/23
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008-32-0180
Schwarz, Frederick A. O. III
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084-30-2047
Seidel, Lester
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528-64-1965
Shelburn, Frank
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338-24-6934..
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B: 5/19
6-21-49
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076-42-0199
Smith, John L.
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400-52-5800
Smith, Stephanie
3-23-54
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282-58-6476
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220-38-9869
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Snider, Lewis Brittle
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1-12-45
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246-72-0956
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Talley, Martha
B 6/26
9-7-50
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245-88-1368
Tascione, Rosemary
6-23-45
NY
085-34-6648
Thoben, Florence
6-2-10.
Ind.
313-12-1857
Thomas, Robert.
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524-62-2459
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557-14-5461
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By letter dated May 14, 1975, with attached
appendices, the SSC requested certain information and
documents from the FBI.
Enclosed for your approval and forwarding to the
Committee is the original of a memorandum with enclosures
which is in response to two of the Committee's requests.
A copy of this memorandum with enclosures is being
furnished for your records.
Enclosures (6)
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Attention: K. William O'Connor
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Asst. Dir.:
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Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com:
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
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Intell.
Laboratory
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Spec. Inv.
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your Committee and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person
nel without the express approval of the FBI „
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Mr. W. R. Wannall
Mr. W. O. Cregar
Mr. T. E. Burns
July 16, 1975
UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO INIELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
RE:
RE:
DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE
COMMITTEE'S PRIOR REQUESTS
FURTHER DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO
THE FBI AND DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Reference is made to SSC letter dated May 14, 1975,
with attached appendices, requesting certain documents and
other information from the FBI.
WHITE SHOWN OTHERWISE.
Item number 5.e., Appendix A, of referenced
communication requests all memoranda of the FBI and the
Justice Department discussing the legal authority of the FBI
to use informants, including possible entrapment, provocation,
interference with lawyer client relationship, or other
problems, to (1) investigate internal security matters,
collect intelligence information, and (3) engage in
counterintelligence activity.
(2)
For
AD INFORMATION CONTAIN
HEREIN IS 
UNLASSIFIED 
INGAY.
Items mumber 4.a. and 4.b. of Appendix B of referenced
communication requests, inter alia, with regard to 5.e. above,
all memoranda and other materials relating to the original
Dep. AD Adm.decision to use the technique as well as the policies and
Dep. AD Inv. procedures of the FBI for the utilization of the technique.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Ident.
Enclosed with this memorandum is one memorandum
Files & Com. responsive to the request in 5.e. above, regarding the legal
Gen. Inv. authority of the FBI to use informants. This memorandum is
Inspection captioned "Legal Authority of the FBI to Use Confidential
Informants as an Investigative Technique," and dated July
Intell.
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United States Senate Select Committee
To Study Governmental Operations With
Respect to Intelligence Activities (SSC)
Documents Pertaining To The
Committee's Prior Requests
Re:
Re:
Further Documents Pertaining To
The FBI and Department of Justice
Also enclosed is a copy of SAC memorandum 23-75
dated May 27, 1975, which is believed responsive to 5.e. This
particular SAC memorandum is being provided herewith, since,
in view of its recent date, it was not included in the index
of SAC Letters and Memoranda previously made available to
the SSC Staff.
With regard to that portion of 5.e., above, concerning
"possible entrapment, provocation, interference with lawyer
client relationship or other problems," as it relates to
informant operation, there are no Bureau memoranda or other
material addressing these areas, as the same policy and
procedures applicable to Special Agent conduct regarding these
problems similarly apply to informants. In response to your
general request under 4.b., above, FBI policy and procedures
concerning such matters are set forth in the Manual of
Instructions (MOI) and the Manual of Rules and Regulations (MRR),
which have already been made available to SSC Staff Members
pursuant to an earlier request and to the SAC Letters and
Memoranda which are being made available to SSC Staff personnel
for review pursuant to another request.
With respect to your request under Item 4.a., above,
no memoranda or other materials were located relating to the
original decision to utilize informants in our investigations.
It is noted your requests under Item 5., Appendix A,
of referenced communication were directed by you to both the
FBI and the U. S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Our response
in this matter with respect to legal authority should therefore
be viewed in conjunction with any material you may have received
or will receive from the U. S. DOJ.
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United States Senate Select Committee
To Study Governmental Operations With
Respect To Intelligence Activities (SSC)
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Committee's Prior Requests
Further Documents Pertaining To
The FBI And Department Of Justice
NOTE:
The above response covers two separate requests
in Appendices A and B since such requests are cross referenced
in the referenced SSC communication. The following sections
of the double zero files for the classifications shown were
reviewed by the writer, Special Agent Thomas E. Burns, Jr.,
to locate memoranda discussing legal authority for utilization
of informants.
[134-00-7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 (Security Informants)
137-00-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (Criminal Informants)
170-00-1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (Extremist Informants)
The enclosed memoranda dated July 24, 1973,
were culled from the 137-00 file. This matter was coordinated
with Paul G. Donahue and Paul V. Dely of the Office of Legal
Counsel.
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
: Mr. Mintz
FROM
P. G. Donahue
DATE:
7/24/73
SUBJECT: / LEGAL AUTHORITY OF THE FBI
TO USE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANTS
AS AN INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUE
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The legal authority of the FBI to use confidential
informants as an investigative technique rests upon three factors:
1) Legislative authority embodied in the approval
of the annual appropriation.
2) Case law that the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth
Amendments do not protect a wrongdoer from
the use of informants.
:
3) Case law reflecting that courts recognize the
necessity and utility of informants in providing
probable cause for making arrests without a
warrant, and for obtaining warrants, provided
that certain conditions are met.
Regarding the first of the above-cited factors,
reference is made to the "Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the
Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Departments
of State, Justice and Commerce, the Judiciary and Related Agencies
Appropriations for 1974."
Part I, page 783 of those hearings, sets forth the-
justification language for the 1974 budget estimate for FBI salaries
and expenses. It is noted that this language is the same as used in
previous years except for underlined and bracketed changes which
do not affect this subject. There is specific provision under the
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This document is prepared in respons" to your request and is not for dissemi-
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Memorandum Donahue to Mr. Mintz
Re: LEGAL AUTHORITY OF THE FBI TO USE CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMANTS AS AN INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUE
heading of "Salaries and Expenses" for "expenses necessary for the.
detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States" and
more specifically for the "payment of rewards.
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At page 879 of these hearings, there is set forth
as part of the testimony on "Investigative Accomplishments," a
paragraph detailing the statistics achieved by the use of confidential
informants. Since Congress has approved FBI appropriations without
objection to the use of money for "payment of rewards" or for the
informant achievements listed in the testimony, the approval of the
appropriations serves as one form of legislative approval for the
use of informants.
The use of informants does not violate the defendant's
rights under the Fourth Amendment. Hoffa v. United States, 385
U.S. 293 (1966).
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"Neither this Court, nor any member of it has
ever expressed the view that the Fourth Amend-
ment protects a wrongdoer's misplaced belief
that a person to whom he voluntarily confides
his wrongdoing will not reveal it. Indeed, the
Court unanimously rejected that very contenti on
---in Lopez v. United States, 373 U.S. 427---"
Id. at 302
The Court also held that the use of an informer did
not violate Hoffa's rights under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments,
citing United States v. Dennis, 183 F.2d 201, 224, (1950), which
said,
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"Courts have countenanced the use of informers
from time immemorial; in cases of conspiracy,
or in other cases when the crime consists of
preparing for another crime it is usually necessary
to rely upon them or upon accomplices because
the criminals will almost certainly proceed
covertly."
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Memorandum. Donahue to Mr. Mintz
Rẹ: LEGAL AUTHORITY OF THE FBI TO USE CONFIDENTIAL
INFORMANTS AS AN INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUE
Besides the explicit recognition reflected above of
the right of investigative bodies to avail themselves of informants,
there are other Supreme Court cases which implicitly recognize
this right by regulating the conditions under which an informant's
identity need be revealed at trial. (Roviaro v. United States,
353 U.S. 53 (1957)), or the conditions to be met in using an
informant's information as the basis of probable cause for an
arrest without a warrant. (Draper v. United States, 358 U.S. 307
(1959); McCray v. Illinois. 386 U.S. 300 (1967)). Similarly,
the Supreme Court has recognized that informant information may
form the basis for a warrant application, provided the affidavit
shows the underlying circumstances which would give reason to
believe the informant is credible, and circumstances showing
the basis for conclusions reached by the informant. (Aguilar v.
Texas, 378 U.S. 108 (1964)).
The above-cited cases show that while courts havo
_circumscribed in several ways the uses to be made of informant
information, there has always been a recognition of the fact that
the informant is a basic and necessary weapon in law enforcement's
[defense of society against crime.
RECOMMENDATION:
None; for information.
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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
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PERSONAL ATTENTION
MEMANDUM 23-75
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535,
May 27, 1975
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MEMORANDUM TO ALL SPECIAL AGENTS IN CHARGE:
(A) INFORMANT MATTERS - DEFENSE PLANS AND STRATEGY --
Recently there have been several instances where attorneys in connection
with law suits have publicly and erroneously alleged that the FBI utilized
informants to uncover defense plans and strategy. Also, recently a former
informant falsely alleged that informant's services were utilized by the
Bureau to infiltrate a defense camp. These accusations reemphasize the
need for the careful and professional handling of informants at all times.
As you are aware under current policy, informants are advised
to avoid becoming involved in defense plans or strategy in subversive-type
cases or with anyone under criminal indictment. It is the responsibility
of all Special Agents handling informants to insure that their informants
are continually alert so that they will avoid becoming involved in defense
matters and in the event an informant is requested to assist or partake in
such matters, that the contacting Agent is immediately advised so that the
matter will be recorded. If the informant cannot avoid being involved,
informant is not to report any information pertaining to defense plans or
strategy and such incident must be promptly reported to the Bureau under
the substantive case caption.
In view of the above, the statement of cooperation normally
signed by security and extremist informants is being amended to incorporate
current policy regarding defense plans and strategy. Where it is not required
as in criminal informant cases or it has not been practical to obtain a state-
ment of cooperation, each handling Agent must orally advise the informant
of the above, reduce it to writing, and record it in the informant's file. Insure
that all pending informant files reflect the above as a matter of record.
Manual changes follow.
This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemin
nation outside your Committee. Its use is limited to official proceedings by
your Committee and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person
nel without the express approval of the FBI.
Clarence M. Kelley
Director
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Memo ☐ Report dated
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☑.S. Senate Select Committee Re: Documents
Caption of Document: Pertaining to the Committee's Prior
Request Re: Further Documents Pertaining
to the FBI and Department of Justice.
Appendix A, Item 5. ., Appendix B Items 4.a.,
Originating Office:
and 4.b.
Delivered by:
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Date:
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DATE 10/10/00 BY SP2 ALM /1976

GOTE:
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TO:
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ATTN: Central Index
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2. DATE PROVIDED
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for review but not transmitted, so note.)
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BRIEFING
INTERVIEW
TESTIMONY
OTHER
3.
TO WHOM PROVIDED (check appropriate term; add specific names if appropriate)
SSC
7/16/75
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HSC
IDENTIFICATION (provide descriptive data for documents; give name or identification number of briefer,
interviewee, testifier and subject)
Manorandum and enclosures
5.
IN RESPONSE TO (list date and item number if in response to formal request, other-
wise state verbal request of (name), initiative, subpoena, etc.)
SSC letter 5/14/75. Appendix A,5e; Appendix B,4a&b
6. CLASSIFICATION OF
INFORMATION (enter
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7. KEY WORDS (enter the appropriate key words from the list provided separately; if key words not listed are
used underline for emphasis)
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Furnishing SSC nemorandum captioned "legal futhority of the
FBI to Use Confidential Informants as an Investigativé
Technique,"
Concerning "possible entrapment, provocation,
interference with lawyer-client relationship or other
problems" as it relates to informant operation, there are no
Burcu nemorands or other materials. FBI policy and
procedures concerning such matters are set forth in the
Manual of Instructions and the Manual of Rules and
Regulations.
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Indicate classification of the abstract top and bottom.
Date the abstract and put on any internal control numbers required.
"FROM" entry should clearly identify the organization providing the
information.
If additions (as when a copy of document sent to SSC is later sent to
HSC) or changes to a previously submitted form are necessary, submit a
copy of the original abstract, with the change indicated.
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SPECIFIC ITEM NO. 8. SUMMARY enter brief narrative statement describing
substance of information and showing relationship to Intelligence Community
matters if appropriate. Any feedback or evidence of investigatory interests
should be noted. Commitments made to supply additional information should be
noted. Additionally, certain administrative information may be entered here,
e.g., restrictions on review of a document, if document was paraphrased, whether
interviewee is current or former employee, etc. If actual document or transcript
is provided, that fact should be noted and no summary is required. Additional
pages may be attached if necessary.
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Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm. _
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin. _
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
egal Coun.
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Attorney General
Director, FBI
UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT
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COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
This is in response to SSC letter, with attached
appendices, dated May 14, 1975, requesting certain
documents and other information from the FBI.
Attached for your approval and forwarding to the
Committee is the original of a memorandum and enclosures
which constitutes our response to one of the requests. A
copy of the memorandum and enclosures is being provided
for your records.
Several of the enclosures pertain to telephone
conversations between former President Johnson and former
FBI Director Hoover. In accordance with the request of
Mr. K. William O'Connor, we are deferring to him any
action necessary to obtain appropriate clearance from the
White House to furnish these documents to the Committee.
Enclosures (16)
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Attention: K. William O'Connor
Special Counsel for
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It is noted that the original request from the
Committee, specifically to furnish all memoranda pertaining to
the "conduct" of the FBI investigation in the Dominican Republic
in 1965 is rather ambiguous and nonspecific and efforts to
clarify this request have not met with much success to date.
It is believed the memorandum prepared is responsive to their
request; however, if they desire additional information at
some future date, same will be considered.
MAHL ROOM
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June 11,
1975
UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
RE:
DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE "HUSTON
PLAN", COINTELPRO, AND OTHER PRACTICES
AND PROGRAMS
OTHER SPECIFIC FBI PRACTICES AND PROGRAMS
Reference is made to the letter from the captioned
Committee dated May 14, 1975, and appendices thereto, which
contained requests for certain documents and other information
from the FBI.
Appendix C, Part III, Item #28 requested all
memoranda and other materials pertaining to the origins and
conduct of the FBI investigation in the Dominican Republic
(DN) in 1965.
Pursuant to your request, attached hereto are the
following communications:
1.
Director Hoover memorandum dated May 17, 1965.
2. A. H. Belmont memorandum to Mr. Sullivan dated
May 17, 1965, captioned, "Legal Attache's Office, Dominican
Republic."
3. SAC letter no. 65-31 dated June 2, 1965.
4. Director Hoover memorandum dated August 24, 1965.
Director Hoover memorandum dated September 10, 1965.
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5.
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm.
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident. _
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Legal Coun.
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y _
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your Committee and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person
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to Study Covernmental Operations With
Respect to Intelligence Activities
Re:
Documents Pertaining to the "Iluston
Plan", Cointelpro, and Other Practices
and Programs
Other Specific FBI Practices and Programs
6. Hr. W. R. Wannall memorandum to Mr. W. C.
Sullivan dated August 22, 1960, captioned, "Operations Legal
Attache, Santo Domingo Offico.
1968.
7. FBI letter to Department of State dated June 20,
It is noted two of these documents do not pertain
to the year 1965 as indicated by your request; however, they
have been included to show the reduction in our staff at our
Legal Attache's Office in Santo Domingo in August, 1966, and
June, 1968, as well as to show the change in our mission in
the Dominican Republic effective August, 1966.
For your
additional information, the Legal Attacho's Office in the
Pominican Republic was closed in April, 1969.
Reference is also made to a conference held on
.
May 30, 1975, between Messrs. John T. Elliff and Mark Gitenstein
of the Senate Select Committee; Mr. K. William O'Connor of
the Department of Justice; and Messrs. William O. Cregar and
Elmer W. Larson of the FBI. The question was asked by
Mr. Elliff whether thore is a summary or "post-mortem" in the
FBI files which could be made available to the Committee
covoring the FBI's activities in the Dominican Republic.
It was indicated that if no such summary or "post-mortem" was
in our files, to so advise the Committee. This is to advise
that we have been unable to locate same in our files.
Enclosures (7)
1 The Attorney General
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President Lyndon B. Johnson called and asked if I would check
as they want him to be the Chief of the Army
in the Dominican Republic, which would, in effect, control the city. The
President stated he did not know his first name.. I asked if he was in the.
Dominican Republic at the present time. The President stated he was; that
they were getting pretty close to a settlement with
and he thought we
had checked him out, but anyway I had the whole list and he wants to be sure
they are checked and that there are none who are known communists because,
that is one thing both the right and left wings would attack him one, so the on!
way to protect him, the President, is to be sure they are not communists.
The President stated another thing is how are they going to get rid of the
communists when we do get a government. I stated that is going to depend
on the strength of the one in power.
I told the President that in connection with
going down to Puerto Rico with
who is
on the 5:00 PM plane, we have an
Agent who is going on the same piane, but as to whether we can get a microphone
in, we do not know because
is living in a house rather than a hotel. I
to the airport in his car so he
The President asked if
I stated when
stated one of our Agents is driving
will have an opportunity to talk to
knew he was an Agent and I stated he coes as he had interviewed
but the Agent on the plane will not be known to
arrives in Puerto Rico, a surveillance will be put on him out if he stays with
as we anticipate, it will be difficult to cover except the telephones. Ĭ
stated there are five lines operating between Puerto Rico and the Dominican
Republic and we have all five lines covered.
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The President inquired as to whether they had asked me to assemble
-a-staff to help on the anti-communist thin after the takeover and I stated the only
_names I have are of the Cabinet Whe President stated that after they get the
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government in the alternatives are: Let them fight it out and kill thousands
and probably the communists would end up in charge; we can go in there and
try to get them to agree and go on the constitution and let them vote on it in
60 or 90 days, expervise the election and have a cabinet we mutually agreed
upon which I can check upon; then once we got it, help the President with
some intelligence people to point up who are communists. He said they ought
to be Latins or ones who speak the language and he wanted me to take charge
of that and to start right now saying if I were President, what I would do down
there to get rid of the communists. The President stated it can't be done in
one day, but that is what he wants for the Dominican Republic.
I told the President I had quite a number of Agents, a hundred or so,
who are expert in the Spanish language so we have the facilities that we can do
that. The President asked that I look at the best ones and see who it is; that
it has to be a fellow who can get along with the new President whom he can
trust, to figure out what I need, how I would set it up, and what I would do
to get set up to go to work on the communists. I stated I thought it can be
covered as we do in the South American countries as we have in some foreign
countries a Legal Attache attached to the Embassy and if we have a man
from the Bureau attached to the Embassy as Legal Attache, he can be the
medium through which to advise the President and select the individuals
who ought to be listed, deported, or put under control. The President asked
I get the results of the check to him as soon as possible on
2:56 PM
While talking to the Attorney General on another matter, I advised
him the President had just called and wanted a name checked, but also wanted
me to pick a squad of FBI Agents to go to the Dominican Republic when the
new government is formed to advise the President on the removal of communists
and getting them out of government offices. I briefed the Attorney Leneral on
my conversation with the President. I told him I was not enthusiastic about it,
but since he wants it done, I was starting to look into it and trying to line up
fifteen or twenty men able to do it. I told the Attorney General I had wanted
him to know in the event the President speaks to him about it.
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I also briefed the Attorney General in regard to
and the coverage on that.
8:05 PM
The President called and stated the name of the individual he
had asked me to check is a graduate of the Canal Zone School and his complete
name was
I stated we can check that quickly. .
The President asked I be sure that I and Admiral Kaborn, head of
the Central Intelligence Agency, check out because he, the President, did not
want to agree on a government and find a Khrushchev as the head of it. I
stated I would check on the names he had given me Friday. I asked the
President if Admiral Raborn had been furnished the list and he stated he
was not sure but he wanted the two of us to check them out carefully. .
Very truly yours,
A H..
John Edgar Hoover
Director
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MR. SULLIVAN
DATE: 5/17/65
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SUBJECT:
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The Director advised that the President will want the FBI to
set up a group in the Dominican Republic to advise the President of
the Dominican Republic concerning Communists, how to deal with them,
and how to get rid of them. It is contemplated that we will set up
a Legal Attache's Office, with a group of 20 to 25 men, for the purpose
of taking charge of cleaning out communists in the Dominican Govern-
ment and advising the government of those who may try to infiltrate
into the government. This activity would take place first in the
city of Santo Domingo, and then extend throughout the country until
all communists have been spotted and the Dominican Government has been
advised.
All of the agents to be sent down should be fluent in Spanish
and we should select any who have Dominican or Spanish blood, which
will assist them in working inconspicuously with the populace.
Relative to the Legal Attache, he should be a top man, fully
experienced, as he will be dealing with the President of the Dominican
Republic and with our Ambassador there.
ACTION:
In anticipation of the above, the Director desires that we
draw up suggestions for a Legal Attache and for a group of twenty to
twenty-five men who can proceed, when so ordered, to the Dominican
Republic for this purpose.
A copy of this memorandum is being designated for the
Administrative Division so that the Domestic Intelligence Division
and the Administrative Division can work together on this. Time
is of the essence.
:
This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-
nation outside. your Committee. Its use is limited to official proceedings by
your Committee and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person-
nel without the express approval of the FBI .
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PERSONAL ATTENTION
LETTER NO. 65-31
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
ALL INFORMATION CONTAIDD
DATE 11/28/00 BX58-2- Aunt166
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In Reply, Please Refer to
File No.
June 2, 1965
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
(A) DOMINICAN SITUATION (NATIONALITY GROUP COVERAGE - LATIN
AMERICA) For your information, Bureau has established a Legal Attache.
in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, who has already begun to make a
valuable contribution to the over-all efforts of the United States in making
certain that the Dominican Republic does not become another Cuba. If the
United States succeeds in its efforts to keep communists out of the new
Dominican coalition government which is in the process of being formed,
current United States policy in the Dominican Republic could very well
become the established course of action for all other countries in Latin
America threatened with communism.
The responsibilities which have been placed upon the Bureau
in developing intelligence data in the Dominican Republic, as well as in
other Latin-American countries, are not only tremendous but may be the
heaviest and most far-reaching burden the FBI has ever been asked to
assume in the intelligence field. To guarantee our complete success,
teamwork is a must.
Accordingly, first we must do everything possible to assist
Legal Attache, Santo Domingo, in his immediate task of developing
quality sources of sufficient quantity to effect maximum coverage in the
Dominican Republic.
In this regard, each office and Legal Attache must furnish
to the Bureau within five days of the receipt of this letter under the caption
of "DOMSIT" (code word for "Dominican Situation") the following:
(1) Identities of any established sources (former or current)
who are now in the Dominican Republic.
(2) Persons in Dominican Republic known to personnel of
your office who appear to have good source potential.
(3) Identities of any current security sources (regardless of
nationality) who may be available for assignment (temporary or permanent)
in the Dominican Republic if such is considered feasible by Legal Attache,
Santo Domingo.
This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-
Its use is limited to official proceedings by
nation outside your Committee.
your Committee and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person-
nel without the express approval of the FBI.
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Any leads for purpose of checking background of potential sources
for Santo Domingo must receive priority attention and results submitted by
teletype.
In addition to the Dominican requirements placed upon the Bureau,
your attention is directed to over-all need for additional informants and
sources in the Latin-American field. The reputation the Bureau has gained
during recent Dominican crisis is due in large part to the results achieved
in developing Dominican sources through a concentrated informant develop-
ment program over the past several years.
In view of critical state of unrest in Latin America today, each
office should survey its informant coverage in this field. If substantial
numbers of nationals of any Latin-American country reside within the
territory covered by your office, Bureau expects that you will have coverage
sufficient to alert you to exile organizational activities of political nature,
plots to overthrow existing governments, and general intelligence data
concerning the countries of interest. Informant development in this field
is considered most important and any weaknesses which now exist must be
overcome promptly by instituting an aggressive informant development
program.
6/2/65
SẠC LETTER NO. 65-31
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Very truly yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Director
2:04 p.m.
August 24, 1965
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. TOLSON
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HEREIN IS VIOLASSIFIED
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MR. BELMONT
MR. DE LOACH
MR. SULLIVAN
I called Admiral William F. Raborn, Director of CIA, and
told him I wanted to pass on to him a development he may be asked about.
I stated, about ten days ago, the President asked 
my view of the removal
:
of my men from the Dominican Republic and 
whether the work we have
been doing down there could be carried on by CLA as 
effectively as both
agencies have handled it in the past.
I stated I checked with who is in charge of the FBI's
office in the Dominican Republic, and he felt very strongly the FBI 
men
could be withdrawn and the CIA personnel carry on. I 
advised Admiral
Reborn that I sent this message to the White House 
and got word from
Marvin Watson that the President indicated no move 
should be made 
at
this time and that our men are still down there.
I advised Admiral Raborn that I expect to see the President
this week and I am going to bring this up to see whether he will 
make a
decision; that we could use those men back here; and 
that I think the
situation is well in hand by CIA personnel. I 
said I thought the 
President.
might make some inquiry of Admiral Raborn.
HG
Admiral Raborn said he certainly appreciated my calling and
he is delighted with the fine way our folks have gotten along; that 
there 
is
to let me
a lot of mutual respect. I stated that I instructed
know what his views were and did not tell him mine; that he was very high
in praise of the man in charge of the CIA office, 
as well as the staff of
this office. Admiral Rabora stated they 
welcome cooperation with the
FBI
any and every place.
18%
This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-
Its use is limited to official proceedings. by
nation outside your Committee
.
your Committee and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized 
person
nel without the express 
approval of the FBI .
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I stated that I think we are going to have trouble down there
but I think CIA can handle it with their force. He replied that they will
be delighted to have us stay but they certainly appreciate the fact we
may need our people elsewhere. I said we need them in this country
where the riots are occurring; that this is not really our field; that it
is CIA's field; and that the sooner we get back to our own fleld, tha
better.
I again stated it is very likely the President may speak to
Admiral Raborn about this and he thanked me for calling.
Very truly yours,
1. EH.
John Edgar Hoover
Director
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HEREIN 
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DATE 11/15/00 BY SP-2 ALMY
MEMORANDUM FOR MR. TOLSON
September 10, 1865
MR. BELMONT
MR. DE LOACH
MR. SULLIVAN
President Lyndon B. Johnson called. He stated he was worried about
the situation in the Dominican Republic and asked me how I felt about it. I
told him it was my feeling that it is in an awful mess; that there have been several
people who have been selected to be in the Cabinet who are far from being free
of communist association or domination and why they were selected, i did not know,
but I thought the situation down there is very critical. I stated I met with
McGeorgo Eundy and Admiral William Kaborn of the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) the other day as to whether the FBI could withdraw from the Dominican
Republic and my view was that we could as CLA is thoroughly qualified and has
a good man down there to carry on the responsibilities and there is no need for
the FBI to remain. I stated it was the view of Admiral Kaborn and myself that
it was going to be a mess and that we would have trouble for some time to come
because various people are going back to the Lominican ft. public now, such as
and his followers, and the former Presidents who were disposed and
I thought in the political campaign which is going to be held down there this year,
there are going to be violent outbursts which are characteristic of the Latins.
I stated the populace is very anti-American and now that
been sent out and made
has
the rebel element, which is
always strongly anti-American, will be in the ascendancy. I stated
is not what one would call a strong man; that I think he means well and
will try to do right but he is not the kind of a man who will stand up to his
opposition.
The President stated he was not too happy with CIA and the reports
he gets from them and he would hate to see the Bureau people pull out until a
government is formed. I stated we wouldn't until he, the President, says so;
that as I said the other day, we would not leave until the decision has been made
by the President.
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The President stated that while he thinks Admiral kaborn is a
wonderful man, this is piaying for keeps and we can't have a Communist
Government and we have to have somebody alert enough to stand up and say
"this is suspicious," ct cetera. The Fresident stated they tell him they bave
an Attorney General who is quite suspicious. I stated ne is very dangerous
to have in the Attorney General position. I stated in the discussion we had the
other day in Air. Bundy's office, one matter was how the investigative set-up
would be under the new government and they were going to have a rising squadron
of men working airectly for the President of the Dominican Repustic and then
an intelligence unit which would gather information and a Dominican national
police. I stated I expressed my opinion that I thought it was wrong for the
President to have a ilying squadron wnich would be nothing more or less than
a secret police like Trujillo bad who would make just reports the President
would want against certain individuals who might not be as bad as the President
felt they were. I stated I felt there should be an intelligence unit and that the
national police should be increased. I stated we, of course, would assist in
any training program they might want to set up either down there or up here..
I stated at the present time in the national police is one man who was trained
in our National Academy and was very valuable in fui misning us with information
that we could not have gotten from other sources.
The President asked if we were having any trouble working together
and I told him no trouble at all. The President stated he had asked me to de
on the job to keep the communists from taking over this hemisphere and to
serve him and he thought we ought to wait and not pull out of the Cominican
Republic until the government has been selected and we get along further in
this; for me to tell my man down there to root out everything he can and to de
hard and tough as he can and be sure we get rid of every spy; that he did not know
what the diplomatic people are doing to see that President Godoy takes our
reports and respects them. I stated I understand the Attorney General was
recommended by
I stated a large number of people are drifting back into the Dominican
Republic from New York and Allami who have been exiled in the past and those
who have been in political life in the past are going to run again.
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The President stated we have to have an Ambassador who is a
practical fellow and one who understandshis job. I stated he necaen a good,
tough individual who will be able to stand up and dominate the President.
The President asked, "who is he?" and told me to think about that and also
about what we are doing and not doing that should be done, as we can't lose
and he would be talking with me next week. I told him I would.
Very truly yours,
LEH.
John Edgar Hoover
Director
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Memorandum
ΤΟ : Mr. W. C. Sullivan
FROM : Mr. W. R. Wannall
SUBJECT: OPERATIONS
:
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LEGAL ATTACHE,
✓ SANTO DOMINGO OFFICE
DATE: August 22, 1966
This is to recommend that the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) be advised that we have set up a regular Legal
Attache Office in Santo Domingo in view of the President's
desire that the FBI remain in the Dominican Republic and that'
Legal Attache, Santo Domingo, be authorized to turn
informants over to the Agency.
:
In accordance with the desire of the President and
recommendation of the Honorable Marvin Watson, Special
Assistant to the President, that the FBI remain in the Dominican
Republic, the Director, on 8/2/66, advised the White House
that our staff in Santo Domingo would be reduced to three men
and that henceforth this office will be manned in a manner
- similar to that of our other Legal Attache Offices. It will not
be an operational office but rather will serve as a strategic
listening post for intelligence data and as liaison with
agencies of the Dominican Republic, as well as other agencies
of foreign governments in that country.
In light of this redirection of effort, we instructed
Legal Attache, Santo Domingo, to review his informant covéraze-
to determine if any of our informants should be made available
to the Agency for operation. Legal Attache has recommended
that informants,
be turned over to CIA.
☑☺ has been used principally to develop subversive data
on individuals in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
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a penetrative-type informant who has gained membership in
Dominican subversive groups. Both of these sources are
operational and are not the type we would contact in a normal
Maison capacity. Continuation of their services under our
current criteria would be a questionable procedure.
This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-
nation outside your Committee. Its use is limited 
to official proceedings by
your Committee and the content may not be disclosed to 
unauthorized person-
nel without the express approval of the 
FBI .
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Memorandum W. R. Wannall to W. C. Sullivan .
Re:
OPERATIONS
LEGAL ATTACHE, SANTO DOMINGO OFFICE
In the case of
this informant was originally
developed by the New York Office. Legal Attache suggested
the New York Office might have use of informant's services.
This information furnished to New York Office which replied
that in the absense of organized activity informant would be
of no use unless he came to New York with instructions from
Dominican communist groups to reorganize activity. This,
of course, is not a desirable situation.
OBSERVATIONS:
We believe Legal Attache, Santo Domingo's recommendation
to turn
over to CIA is sound, even though
both of these sources are in a position to furnish valuable
intelligence information to us. By making these informants
available to the Agency we will avoid any possible duplication
or conflict. This matter should be discussed with appropriate
officials by our Liaison Agent in order to insure the Agency
is fully aware of our current status in the Dominican Republic.
ACTION:
If you approve:
(1) Liaison Agent will advise appropriate CIA
officials as follows:
In accordance with the desire of the President that
the FBI remain in the Dominican Republic, we are setting up a
regular Legal Attache Office in Santo Domingo consisting of
three men. This will not be an operational office but rather
will serve as a strategic listening post for intelligence data
and as liaison with agencies of the Dominican Republic, as
well as other agencies of foreign governments in that country.
In connection with this reorganization, we have instructed our
representative in Santo Domingo to make¨¨ informants avail-
able to the Agency in the event it may wish to operate them.
(2) The attached teletype, with instructions to
make
available to CIA, will be sent to the
Legal Attache, Santo Domingo.
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June 20, 1968
BY LIAISON
Honorable Idar Rimestad
Deputy Under Secretary for Administration
Department of State
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Rimestad:
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HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 11-15.00 DY SP-2 ALM746
You have previously been advised of reductions
in FBI personnel overseas which were made in response to
the wishes of the President. In a further effort to
comply with the desire of the President, I have decided
to reduce our staff in Santo Domingo by one Special Agent
and one clerk. This will eliminate one position in GS-14
and one position in GS-8.
You may be sure that I will continue to give
this matter close scrutiny with a view to effecting further
economies whenever such action can be taken without impairing
the discharge of our responsibilities.
Sincerely yours,
This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for-dissemi-
nation outside your Committee. Its use is limited to official proceedings by
your Committee and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person-
nel without the express approval of the FBI.
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as they want him to be the Chief of the Army..
\\zug, which would, in effect, control ino city. The
President stated he did not know his first mame. I asked if he was in the
Dominican hapublic at the present time. The President stated he was; that
they were getting pretty close to a Duttlement with
and he thought we
had checked him out, but anyway I had the whole list and he wants to be sure
they are chached and thist there are none who are known communists because
that is one thing both the right and left wings would ettech his out, so the oni
may to pa vleci ave, toe Presidunt, is to be sure they are not communiots.
The President stated author thing is how are they going to get rid of the
communists when we do get a governinent. I stated that is going to depend
on the strength of the one in power.
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who is
I told the President that in connection with
going down to bacrto fiiwo with us on the Ste i plano, we have an
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Republic and we have all five lines covered.
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Government in the alternatives are: Let them fight it out and kill thousands
and probably the communists would end up in charge; we can go in there and
try to get them to agree and go on the constitution and let them vote on it in
00 or 20 u2gs, sapervise the election and have a cabinet we mutually agreed
upon which I can check upon; then once we got it, holp the President with
comic intelligence people to point up who are communists. He said they ought
to be Latins or onts who speak the language and he wanted me to take charge
oi that and to start right now saying ii i were President, what I would do down
there to get rid of the communists. The President stated it can't be done in
one day, but that is what he wants for the Dominican Republic.
I told the President I had quite a number of Agents, a hundred or so,
who are expert in the Spanish language so we have the facilities that we can do
that. The President asked that I look at the best ones and see wao it is; that
it has to be a fellow who can get along with the new President whom he can
trust, to figure out what I need, how I woula set it up, and what I would do
to get set up to go to work on the communists. I stated I thought it can be
covered as we do in the South American countries as we have in some foreign
countries & Legal Attache attached to the Lmbassy and if we have a man
from the buivau attached to the Embassy of Levai Atingho, he can be the
medium through which to advice the President and select the individuals
who ought to be listed, deported, or put under control. The President asked
I ¿et the results of the check to him as soon as possible on Colonel-for&
2:56 PM
While talking to the Attorney General on another matter, I advised
him the President had just called and wanted a name checkcá, but also wanted
me to pick a squad of FDI Agents to go to the Dominican liepublic when the
new government is formed to advise the President on the removal of communists
and getting them out of government offices. I uricfed the Attorney General on
lny conversation with the President. I told him I was not enthusiastic about it,
but since he wants it done, I was starting to look into it and trying to line up
fifteen or twenty mien able to do it. I told the Attorney General I had wanted
hia to know in the event the President speaks to him about it.
ཉྩ། མཱཙཱ ཀྑཝ ཨཱརཱཨཱཡར ས ཡགྒཏྭཱ ཀཱཙྪ ཙ མས་རྣ་ལ་ལ་
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1935
undum for Messrs. Tolson; Be
DeLoach, Sullivan
I also bricfed the Attorney General in regard to Juan Balaguer
and the coverage on that.
3:05 PM
The President called and stated the name of the individual he
had asked me to cut is a craquate of the Canal Zone 
School and his 
complete
namo was Hen bord Fernandez.) I 
stated we can check that quickly.
The President asked I be sure that I and Admiral Naborn, head of
the Central Intelligence Agency, check out because 
be, the President, did 
not
want to agree ca a government and 
find a Khrusnchev as the bead of it. I
stated I would check on the names 
he had given me Friday. I asked the
President If Admiral Laborn had 
been furnished the list and he stated 
he
was not sure but he wanted the two of us 
to check them out carefully.
Very truly yours,,
IL. H..
John Edgar floover
Director
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TIME
DATE
BY
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OPTIONAL FORM NO.
MAY 1962 DITION
107
GSA,GEN. PEG. NO. 27
5010-106
UNITED STATES GOVERMENT
Memorandum
SULLIPAN
MR. SULLIVAN
i
FROM
:
A. H. Belmon
Tolson
Belmont
DATE:
5/17/65
cc Mr. Belmont
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Sullivan
Mr. Wannall
Mr. D.J.Brennan
Moh:
DeLoach
Sweper
Callahan
Conrad
Felt
+
Gate
Roson
Sullivan
Tavel
rotter
Tele. Room
Holmes
Gandy
SUBJECT: LEGAL ATTACHE'S OFFICE,
Binto DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.
Domina
The Director advised that the President will want the FBI to
set up a group in the Dominican Republic to advise the President of
the Dominican Republic concerning Communists, how to deal with them,
and how to get rid of them. It is contemplated that we will set up
a Legal Attache's Office, with a group of 20 to 25 men, for the purpose
of taking charge of cleaning out communists in the Dominican Govern-
ment and advising the government of those who may try to infiltrate
into the government. This activity would take place first in the
city of Santo Domingo, and then extend throughout the country until
all communists have been spotted and the Dominican Government has been
advised.
All of the agents to be sent down should be fluent in Spanish
and we should select any who have Dominican or Spanish blood, which
will assist them in working inconspicuously with the populace.
Relative to the Legal Attache, he should be a top man, fully
experienced, as he will be dealing with the President of the Dominican
Republic and with our Ambassador there.
ACTION:
***
In anticipation of the above, the Director desires that we
draw up suggestions for a Legal Attache and for a group of twenty to
twenty-five men who can proceed, when so ordered, to the Dominican
Republic for this purpose.
A copy of this memorandum is being designated for the
Administrative Division so that the Domestic Intelligence Division ·
and the. Administrative Division can work together on this. Time
is of the essence.
AHB:CSH (6)
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REC 20
64-4503-222
NAT
PERSONAL ATTENTION
LETTER NO. 65-31
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
June 2, 1965
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
.
In Reply, Please Refer to
File No.
(A) DOMINICAN SITUATION (NATIONALITY GROUP COVERAGE - LATIN
AMERICA) For your information, Bureau has established a Legal Attache
in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, who has already begun to make a
valuable contribution to the over-all efforts of the United States in making
certain that the Dominican Republic does not become another Cuba. If the
United States succeeds in its efforts to keep communists out of the new
Dominican coalition government which is in the process of being formed,
current United States policy in the Dominican Republic could very well
become the established course of action for all other countries in Latin
America threatened with communism.
The responsibilities which have been placed upon the Bureau
in developing intelligence data in the Dominican Republic, as well as in
other Latin-American countries, are not only tremendous but may be the
heaviest and most far-reaching burden the FBI has ever been asked to
assume in the intelligence field. To querentes our complete success,
teamwork is a must.
Accordingly, first we must do everything possible to assist
Legal Attache, Santo Domingo, in his immediate task of developing
quality sources of sufficient quantity to effect maximum coverage in the
Dominican Republic.
In this regard, each office and Legal Attache must furnish
to the Bureau within five days of the receipt of this letter under the caption
of "DOMSIT" (code word for "Dominican Situation") the following:
(1) Identities of any established sources (former or current)
who are now in the Dominican Republic.
(2) Persons in Dominican Republic known to personnel of
your office who appear to have good source potentialita
(3) Identities of any current security sources (regardless of
nationality) who may be available for assignment (temporary or permanent)
in the Dominican Republic if such is considered feasible by Legal Attache,
...Santo Domingo.
64-4503
NOT: RECORDED
* JUN 4 1965
AA5 8 JUN 15 1985*
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HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFICA
DATE 11/28/00 BY SP-A
ALI INFORMATION CONTAINED
#MDR16
Any leads for purpose of checking background of potential sources
for Santo Domingo must receive priority attention and results submitted by
teletype.
In addition to the Dominican requirements placed upon the Bureau,
your attention is directed to over-all need for additional informants and
sources in the Latin-American field. The reputation the Bureau has gained
during recent Dominican crisis is due in large part to the results achieved
in developing Dominican sources through a concentrated informant develop-
ment program over the past several years.
In view of critical state of unrest in Latin America today, each
office should survey its informant coverage in this field. If substantial
numbers of nationals of any Latin-American country reside within the
territory covered by your office, Bureau expects that you will have coverage
sufficient to alert you to exile organizational activities of political nature,
plots to overthrow existing governments, and general intelligence data
concerning the countries of interest. Informant development in this field
is considered most important and any weaknesses which now exist must be
overcome promptly by instituting an aggressive informant development
program.
6/2/65
SAC LETTER NO. 65-31
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Very truly yours,
John Edgar Hoover
Director
8:04 p.m.
August 24, 1965
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Tolson
Belmont
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DeLoach
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MEMORANDUM FOR MR. TOLSON
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 11-15-00 BY SP-2 ALL 1746
MR. BELMONT
MR. DE LOACH
MR. SULLIVAN
I called Admiral William F. Raborn, Director of CIA, and
told him I wanted to pass on to him a development he may be asked about.
I stated, about ten days ago, the President asked my view of the removal
of my men from the Dominican Republic and whether the work we have
been doing down there could be carried on by CIA as effectively as both
agencies have handled it in the past.
I stated I checked with Anderson who is in charge of the FBI's
office in the Dominican Republic, and he felt very strongly the FBI men
could be withdrawn and the CIA personnel carry on. I advised Admiral
Raborn that I sent this message to the White House and got word from
Marvin Watson that the President indicated no move should be made at
this time and that our men are still down there.
I advised Admiral Raborn that I expect to see the President
this week and I am going to bring this up to see whether he will make a
decision; that we could use those men back here; and that I think the
situation is well in hand by CIA personnel. I said I thought the President
might make some inquiry of Admiral Raborn.
Admiral Raborn said he certainly appreciated my calling and
he is delighted with the fine way our folks have gotten along; that there is
a lot of mutual respect. I stated that I instructedAnderson to let me
know what his views were and did not tell him mine; that he was very bigh
in praise of the man in charge of the CIA office, as well as the staff of
this office. Admiral Raborn stated they welcome cooperation with the
FBI any and every place.
Callahan
JEH:rm
Conrad
Rosen
Sullivan
Tavel
Ttalter
Roon
Carly
70 CEP 1-1965
MAIL ROOM ☐ TELETYPE UNIT
---64-4507
NOT CORDED
6 AUG 25 1965 170 AUG 26 1965
TIME
FROM D. O.
DATE 8/24/65
BY
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ORIGINAL FILM) IN
Memorandum for Messra. Tolson, Belmont,
DeLoach, and Sullivan
August 24, 1905
I stated that I think we are going to have trouble down there
but I think CIA can handle it with their force. He replied that they will
be delighted to have us stay but they certainly appreciate the fact we
may need our people elsewhere. I said we need them in this country
where the riots are occurring; that this is not really our field; that it
is CIA's field; and that the sooner we get back to our own field, the
better.
I again stated it is very likely the President may speak to
Admiral Rabora about this and he thanked me for calling.
Very truly yours,
18H
John Edgar Hoover
Director
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2
8:52 PM
TmDe16
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN 
IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 11/15/00 BY SP2 ALM 716
MEMORANDUM FOR MR, TOLEON
Santo Durninga
September 10, 1065
MR. BELMONT
MR. DE LOACH
MR. SULLIVAN
President Lyndon B. Johnson called. He stated he was worried about
the ftuation in the Dominican Republic and asked me how I felt about it. I
tout him it was my fooling that it is in an aviful mess; that there have been several
people who have been selected to be in the Cabinet who are far from being free
of communist association or domination and why they were colected, I did not know,
bul – Lought the Altuction down there is very critical. I stated I met with
McCargo Bundy and Admiral Willians Raborn of the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA) the other day as to viidher the FBI could withdraw from the Dominican
Repbile and my view was that we could as CLA is thoroughly qualified and has
a good man d. there to carry on the responsibilities and there is no need for
the FDI to read. I stated it was the view of Admiral Raborn and myself that
i who going to be a mess and that we would have trouble for sime time to come
because various people are going back to the Dominican Republic now, such as
Stan Josh and his followers, and the former Presidents who were deposed and
in the Slitical campaign which is going to be held down there this year,
Meg to be viciirt outburste which are characteristle of the Latint.
I stated the populace is very anti-American and now that General-Vessin) has
bsen sont cut and mate Consul General at Mamb the rebel element, which is
always strongly anti-American, will be in the ascendancy. I stated President_
(Codby) is not what one would call a strong many that I think he means well and
Wirty to do right but he is not the kind of a man who will stand up to his
opposition.
The President stated he was not too happy with OIA and the reports
he gets from them and he would hate to see the Burcau people pull out until a
government is formed. I stated we wouldn't until he, the President, says 30;
that as I said the other day, we would not leave until the decision has been made
Loach
Micc Holmes
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64-45
450.
NOT RECORDED
170 SEP 14 1965
.6 SEP 14 1935.
(NAT, FILED IN
109-12-211- 7233
1
t
September 10, 1065
Memorandum for Messrs. Tolson, Etimont, DeLoach, Sullivan
The President stated that while he thinks Admiral Kaborn is a
wonderful man, this is playing for koepe and we can't have a Communist
Government and we have to have somebody alert enough to stand up and say
"this is suspicious," ct cotera. The Fresident stated they tell him they have
an Altorney General who is quite suspicious. I stated he is very dangerous.__
to have in the Attorney General position. I stated in the discussion we had the
other day in Mr. Sundy's office, one matter was how the investigative set-up
would be under the new government and they were going to have a flying squadron
of men working directly for the President of (e.Dominican Republic and then
an intelligence wit which would gather information and a Dominican national .
police. I stated I expressed my opinion that I thought it was wrong for the
President to have a flying squadron which would be nothing more or less than
a secret police like Trujillo bad who would make just reports the President
would want against certain individuals who might not be as bad as the President
felt they were. I stated I felt there should be an intelligence unit and that tho
national police should be increased. I stated we, of course, would assist in
any training program they might want to set up either down there or up here..
I stated at the present time in the national police is one man who was trained
in our National Academy and was very valuable in furnishing us with information
that we could not have gotton froia other sources.
:
The President asked if we were having any trouble working together
and I told blm no trouble at all. The President cictod he had asked me to be
on the job to keep the communists from taking over this hemisphere and to
serve him and he thought we ought to wait and not pull out of the Dominic
Republic until the government has been soiocted and we get along further in
this; for me to tell my man down there to root out everything he can and to bo
hard and tough us he can and be sure we got rid of every coy) that he did not how
what the diplomatic poople are doing to sob that President Goday takes our
reports and respects them. I stated I understand the Attorney General was
recommended by @unter and Bennett.
å ninted a large number of people pre dating back into the Dominica
Republic freew York and mi who have been called in the past and those
Who have been in political life in the past are going to run again.
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September 10, 1905
Memorandum for Messrs. Tolson, Belmont, DeLoach, Sullivan
The President stated we have to have an Ambazzador who is a
practical follow and one who understand his jo. I stated he needed a good,
tough individual who will be able to stand up and domtunte the President.
The President acted, "Who is lo?" nad told me to think about that and also
about what we are doing and not doing that should be done, as we can't lose
and he would be talking with me nast week. I told him I would.
Very truly yours,
IEH
John Edgar Ecove:
Director
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SENT FROM
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DATE
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9/10/65
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OPTIONAL FOR NO. ☑10
MAY 1962 EDITO
GSA SEN.REG.CIG. 2
5010-106
UNITED STATES GC ORNMENT
Memorandum
ΤΟ
: Mr. W. C. Sullivan
FROM : Mr. W. R. Wannall
SUBJECT: OPERATIONS
LEGAL ATTACHE,
C-SANTO DOMINGO OFFICE
DATE:
M
1 Mr. DeLoach
1- Mr. Sullivan;"
12
August 22, 1966'
1
-
1
1
1
-
Liaison
(Mr. Papich)
Tolson
Del.cach
Mohr
✓ Wick
Foreign Liaison
Caspor
Callahan
Conrad
Felt
Gale
Rosen
Sullive
Tave
Trotter
Tele. Room
Holmes
Gandy
Unit (Mr. Potocki)
-
Mr. Wannall
Mr. Griffith
This is to recommend that the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) be advised that we have set up a regular Legal
Attache Office in Santo Domingo in view of the President's
desire that the FBI remain in the Dominican Republic and that
Legal Attache, Santo Domingo, be authorized to turn two
informants over to the Agency.
In accordance with the desire of the President and
recommendation of the Honorable Marvin Watson, Special
Assistant to the President, that the FBI remain in the Dominican
Republic, the Director, on 8/2/66, advised the White House
that our staff in Santo Domingo would be reduced to three men
and that henceforth this office will be manned in a manner
similar to that of our other Legal Attache Offices. It will not
be an operational office but rather will serve as a strategic
listening post for intelligence data and as liaison with
agencies of the Dominican Republic, as well as other agencies
of foreign governments in that country.
In light of this redirection of effort, we instructed
Legal Attache, Santo Domingo, to review his informant coverage
to determine if any of our informants should be made availabl
to the Agency for operation. Legal Attache has recommended
that two informants, OM-10 and 00-12 be turned over to CIA.
DOM-10 has been used principally to develop subversive data
on individuals in Santiago, Dominican Republic. DOM-12 is
a penetrative-type informant who has gained membership,
in
Dominican subversive groups: Both of these sources are
operational and are not the type we would contact in a normal
Maison capacity. Continuation of their services under our
current criteria would be a questionable procedure.
Enclosure cont
134-13781 (DOM-12).
-8-25-66
C-7164-4503
363
REC-
1-64-4123-211 (Legal Attache Informants
(9)
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62SEP 281966
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Memorandum W. R. Wannall to W. C. Sullivan
OPERATIONS
Re:
LEGAL ATTACHE, SANTO DOMINGO OFFICE
In the case of DOM-12, this informant was originally
developed by the New York Office. Legal Attache suggested
the New York Office might have use of informant's services.
This information furnished to New York Office which replied
that in the absense of organized activity informant would be
of no use unless he came to New York with instructions from
Dominican communist groups to reorganize activity. This,
of course, is not a desirable situation.
OBSERVATIONS:
We believe Legal Attache, Santo Domingo's recommendation
to turn-DOM-10 and DOM-12 over to CIA is sound, even though
both of these sources are in a position to furnish valuable
intelligence information to us. By making these informants
available to the Agency we will avoid any possible duplication
or conflict. This matter should be discussed with appropriate
officials by our Liaison Agent in order to insure the Agency
is fully aware of our current status in the Dominican Republic.
ACTION:
If you approve:
CAL TENNEY, CIA & DESMOND
FITZGERALD, CIA BRIEFED
PER BELOW, 9/1/66 49/2/66
.0
(1) Liaison Agent will advise appropriate CIA
officials, as follows:
"
In accordance with the desire of the President that
the FBI remain in the Dominican Republic, we are setting up a
regular Legal Attache Office in Santo Domingo consisting of
three men. This will not be an operational office but rather
will serve as a strategic listening post for intelligence data
and as liaison with agencies of the Dominican Republic, as
well as other agencies of foreign governments in that country.
In connection with this reorganization, we have instructed our
representative in Santo Domingo to make two informants avail-
able to the Agency in the event it may wish to operate them.
(2) The attached teletype, with instructions to
make ①OM-10 and DOM-12 available to CIA, will be sent to the
Legal Attache, Santo Domingo.
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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 11-15-00 BY SP-2 ALM/216
June 20, 1968
BY LIAISON
1 - Mr. Jackson
Liaison
1
1
-
-
1
Mr. Rachner
Mr. Potocki
Repr
Honorable Idar Rimestad
Deputy Under Secretary for Administration
Department of State
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Rimestad:
déleveri
6/24/68
You have previously been advised of reductions
in FBI personnel overseas which were made in response to
the wishes of the President. In a further effort to
comply with the desire of the President, I have decided
to reduce our staff in Santo Domingo by one Special Agent
and one clerk. This will eliminate one position in GS-14
and one position in GS-8.
You may be sure that I will continue to give
this matter close scrutiny with a view to effecting further
economies whenever such action can be taken without impairing
the discharge of our responsibilities.
REP: bsc c
Memb
(6) mind
NOTE:
Sincerely yours,
64-4503-422
REC 11
EX 106
4. JUN 26 1958
"
Folson
DeLoach
Icht
shop
asper.
Mirabay
Spence
Above personnel cuts approved by Director in-
memorandum Wannall to Sullivan, 5/17/68, captioned "Operations
Santo Domingo," whereby Legat, Santo Domingo, was instructed to
recommend by 6/22/68 personnel to be transferred. Transfers
now under way.
Felt
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Statter
1. Poom
57 JUL 2 1968
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UNIE:
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WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
Addressee:
LTR ☑ LHM.
Memo
Report dated
6/11/75
U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Govt.
Cantion of Document: Operations with Respect to Intelli-
gence activities: Re: Documents pertaining to
the "Huston Plan", Cointelpro, and other Practice
andgiPrograms; Other Specific FBI Practices and
Programs
Delivered by:
Received by:
Title:
вий жет
Return this receipt to the Intelligence Division, FBI
FBI
.Date: 8-8-75
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DATE 10/10/00 BY SP-2 ALM/JTG
TE:
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Various communications pertaining to the origins and conduct
of the FBI investigation in the Dominican Republic in 1965.
Other documents also submitted to show réduction in staff in
August, 1966 and to show the change in our mission in the
Dominican Republic in August, 1966. Legal Attache's
Office in the Dominican Republic was closed in April, 1969.
62-116395
FHK: Enk
(4)
3791(6-75)
ORIGINAL VIA LIAISON TO THE CENTRAL COMMUNITY INDEX:
IN CONNECTION WITH SENSTUDY 75
TREAT AS YELLOW
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"FROM" entry should clearly identify the organization providing the
information.
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HSC) or changes to a previously submitted form are necessary, submit a
copy of the original abstract, with the change indicated.
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substance of information and showing relationship to Intelligence Community
matters if appropriate. Any feedback or evidence of investigatory interests
should be noted. Commitments made to supply additional information should be
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TO DIRECTOR NR 323-04
LONDON
FROM LEGAT LONDON (94-4.17)
ATTENTION: HELGESON, INTD
○ SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
REBUTEL 7/29/75.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
COMMUNICATIONS SE ON
AUG 0 4 1975
TELETYPÉ
Assoc. Dir.
Dep.-A.D.-Adm...
Dep. A.D.-Inv...
Asst. Diř.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell..
Laboratory
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Legal Coun.
Telephone Rm.
Director See'y
MR. HELGESON
4026 JEH
REBUTEL INDICATING MARK GITENSTEIN, SENIOR STAFF MEMBER, SENATE
SELECT COMMITTEE, DESIRED TO VISIT WITH BRITISH OFFICIALS REGARDING
571
DOMESTIC SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS. THIS MATTER HAS BEEN TAKEN UP
WITH BRITISH SECURITY SERVICE (MI-5). WHO HAVE ALSO HEARD FROM THEIR
REPRESENTATIVE, JOHN PARKER . ] (S)
THIS REQUEST PLACES MI-5 IN A DIFFICULT POSITION BECAUSE OF THE
SENSITIVITY OF SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (UK),
AND BEFORE ANY DECISION CAN BE MADE, MI-S NEEDS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ] (s)
WHICH SHOULD REACH LEGAT MORNING OF AUGUST 6, 1975. SPECIFIC INFORM:
ATION REQUIRED AS FOLLOWS:
THE EXACT STATUS OF GITENSTEIN, I.E., IS HE CONSIDERED A U.S.
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL OR A TEMPORARY POLITICAL APPOINTEE BY THE COM-
MITTEE. ALSO, WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE VISIT; IS THIS VISIT AN
OFFICIAL REQUEST OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT; HAS GITENSTEIN BEEN
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ALL INFORMATION CONTAIN
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED ZIZONT
WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE.
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INSTRUCTED BY THE COMMITTEE TO VISIT THE UK OR IS HE ACTING ON HIS
OWN.
ALSO, WHAT EXACTLY IS GITENSTEIN WANTING TO KNOW, I.E., WHAT
TYPE OF ACTIVITY IS INVESTIGATED IN THE UK, OR HOW IT IS INVESTIGA-
TED.
ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS WITH PRECISE DETAILS AS POSSIBLE
WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED BY MI-5. IN VIEW OF THE ANSWERS, MI-5
MAY DESIRE TO HAVE AN OFFICIAL OF THE BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE SPEAK
TO HIM RATHER THAN ONE OF THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES. NO CONTACT HAS. YET
BEEN MADE WITH THE POLICE AS IT WAS FELT PROPER TO DEFER TO MI-5
FIRST. (S
END
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SUBJECT:
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
MAY 1962 EDITION
GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27
5010-105
UNITED STATÊS GO RNMENT
Memorandum
: Mr. McDermott
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DATE:
August 1, 1975
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DECLASS.F. ON 2016
REQUEST BY U. S. SENATOR WALTER F. MONDALE,
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE MEMBER TO REVIEW
HIS FBI FILES
Assoc. Dir.
Dop. AD Adm.
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com. ☑
Gen. inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Laboratory
Legal Coun.
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Telephone Rm..
Director Sec'y
On July 21, 1975, the Attorney General determined
there should be a disclosure of material in the files,
with certain exceptions (for details see J. B. Adams to
Callahan memorandum dated July 24, 1975, captioned "Request
by various Senators on Senate Select Committee to Review
their FBI files").
On July 29, 1975, Sénator Mondale; his Legislative
Assistant, David Aaron and William O'Connor, Deputy Assistant
Attorney General, were with James B. Adams, Assistant to the
Director, Deputy Associate Director in his office from
8:05 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. During this time Senator Mondale
reviewed the following FBI material pertaining to himself.
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Mr. McDermott
Mr. Farrington
Mr. Wannall
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Mr. W. Cregar
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REQUEST BY U.S. SENATOR WALTER F.
MONDALE, SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE MEMBER
TO REVIEW HIS FBI FILES
In above file references, we had seven documents
containing masked out portions. As these masks will be
removed prior to replacing in our files, a Xerox of the
pertinent portion of the respective documents have been
made for record purposes and attached to this memorandum.
Concerning (105-188989-8) Department of State
letter to FBI dated April 10, 1969, Senator Mondale
advised he had recevied a copy of this letter from the
State Department.
Concerning 62-110783-68 report of SAA Dale E.
Berglund dated March 10, 1966, at Minneapolis captioned
"MILES WELTON LORD; United States Attorney District of
Minnesota, Administrative Inquiry Bribery," Mr. Adams
mentioned to Senator Mondale there were privacy considera-
tions concerning this report and Senator Mondale limited
his review of this document to information pertaining
to himself set forth on pages 35b and 36.
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Senator requested to be advised as to why certain serials of sensitive
coverage (technical coverage on foreign embassies) seemed to end in
1970 and I advised him that in recent years our indexing procedures in
such matters have not called for indexing the name of a Congressman or
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CONTINUED - OVER
(5)
Memorandum for Mr. McDermott
Re: REQUEST BY U. S. SENATOR WALTER F.
MONDALE, SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
MEMBER, TO REVIEW HIS FBI FILEȘ
The Senator raised a question concerning a folder on the
Consumers Advisory Council, of which he was a member (62-108230-1)
and inquired how we came into possession of this particular report. I
determined that this report had been sent to Mr. Hoover in September,
1962, by Richard Berlin, President of the Hearst Corporation, as he
felt Mr. Hoover would be interested in reading the report. I advised
Mr. Aaron that the report had been sent to Mr. Hoover by a friend of
his in the newspaper field.
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Date: 3/6/63
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DIRECTOR, FBI (105-40461) (S)
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Enclosed for Bureau are five copies of LHM dated
who voluntarily furnished the information to SA
PELEIRT L. LEE, WFO. She advised the Senator told her the in-
formation which appears in the LFM. She also stated BRCNI REK
may have been introduced to the Senator when he visited her
office on one occasion but BRONIAREK hardly knew the Senator.
(By request)
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(s)
LHM has been classified "Secret-No Foreign Disserina-
tion" in order to protect: C:/R/C 456-5*, & sensitive source of
continuing value. In addition it is so classified to comply
with the "Secret" classification accorded CG 6417-5.] (s)
The informant Memo has been classified "Confidentiar:
since it reveals Bureau's interest in a representative of on
official foreign agency.
Dureau (Enc. 5)
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LHM, dated and captioned as above. Informant mentioned (s)
in LHM is (WF 568-S*; LHM has been classified "Secret
Foreign Dissemination" and has been marked
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6/9/70
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AIRTEL CLASSIFIED BY SPRALM 12TG
TO:
FROM:
DECLASSIFY ON: 25% 1,6
DIRECTOR, FBI (105-10828] (s)
SAC, WFO
(105-524) ((8)
EMBASSY OF ISRAEL
WASHINGTON, D. C. (5)
IS ISRAEL
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(s) Enclosed for the Bureau are eight copies of an
LHM, dated and captioned as above. Informant mentioned
in LHM is [WF 568-S*; LHM has been classified "Secret - No.
Foreign Dissemination" and has been marked
16/10/70/60
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Concerning SAUL KÖHLER (ph), mentioned in LHM,
informant learned that he gave his telephone number as
225-3135. A call to this number elicited the reply,
"Office of the Republican leader" which may indicate that
KOHLER is in the office of Senator HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania. (s)
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Date: 5/27/70
(Type in plaintext or code)
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(Priority)
DIRECTOR, FBI (105-10828) (s)
SAC, WFO (105-524) (P)
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dated and captioned as above. Informant mentioned in LH is
(WF 568-S*: LHM has been classified "Secret-No Foreign Dissemi-
nation" and has been marked
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"Senate press" which could possibly indicate that the KRAFT
mentioned in LHM is in fact JUSEPH ARthe columnists. (s)
Informant has previously furnished information in-
dicating that AMNON SPIEVAK is employed in the Economic Office,
Embassy of Israel.
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UNITED STATES GO RNMENT
Memorandum
10/25/00 #DRIG
DIRECTOR, FBI CLASSIFIED BY SP-2 ALM 1776 DATE:
/GUN SAC,
DECLASSIFY ON
(5)
SUBJECT:
USIA INFO. is UNCLASS.
PER LTR PTD 8/7/89"
(287,967)
SPIAG/JAG 2/28/90
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINS
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED RIC
WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE.
Depr
SAC, WFO [(105-65677)] (RUC)
VALERIA (NMN) BATOREWICZ
Is R (VISITOR TO THE USSR)
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7/22/65
ReWFolet dated 7/22/65, in captioned matter.
,
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advised SA DONALD A.
BRUMMITT of the following developments in connection with
subject's status since EHOND was interviewed on 7/19/65. (5-1) (8) (0)
Prior to departing for the USSR, BATOREWICZ
was advanced $1,000 for travel and living expenses.
return she was asked to repay this money.
Upon her
She was unable to
do so since she had spent the money during her travel in Europe.
Upon being advised that the funds must be repaid, she became
quite upset and pointed out that she has been put to considerable
inconvenience. (5-1) (5) (0)
On 7/21/65, Mr. EMOND learned that BATOREWICZ. had
contacted Congressman JOSEPH-KARTH and Senator WALTER MONDALE,
both of Minnesota and related the full facts of her employment
with USIA and subsequent abrupt recall from the Soviet Union
along with comments her being expected to repay the $1,000
advance in funds. (5-1)) (U)
As related by Mr. EMOND, Congressman KARTH and Senator
MONDALE have both contacted USIA and requested all details. He
said it looks as if there will be a "considerable stink" about
the matter. (S-1) (8) (0)
"Rusia State problem)
Mr. EMOND said there has been no mention made of any
FBI interest in BATOREWICZ. (S-1) (5) (2)
Above furnished for information of Bureau and
Minneapolis.
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and captioned as above.
who voluntarily furnished the information to SA
DELBERT L. LIE, WFO. She advised the Senator told her the in-
formation which appears in the LHM. She also stated BRCNI REK
may have been introduced to the Senator when he visited her
office on one occasion but BRONIAREK hardly knew the Senator. (S)
(By request)
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REQ. D
DATE FOR 3-8-65
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BY
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tion" in order to protect 456-S ( sensitive source of
continuing value. In addition it is so classified to comply
with the "Secret" classification accorded CG 6417-S. (s)
The informant Memo has been classified "Confidential"
since it reveals Bureau's interest in a representative of an
official foreign agency. (S)
2
-
Bureau (Enc. 5)
WFO
(5)
EX 100
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DECLASSIFY ON X 46
TO:
FROM:
(Priority)
Cad.
DIRECTOR, FBI (105-74565)
SAC, WFO (105-28204) (P*)
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BORIS N. DAVYDOV
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Enclosed for the Bureau are 5 copies of an LHM,
captioned and dated as above, and classified "Confidential"
(as it reveals the Bureau's investigative interest in an
official of a foreign diplomatic establishment. J(5)
D..
The individual who furnished information contained
_ in enclosed LHM is ANDREW GYORGY, who was interviewed by
SA ALBERT F. WATTERS, JR. on 2/11/70./(5)
FERMO ABU
However, he is characterized therein as "an individual who
volunteered information to the FBI but requested that his
identity be concealed" in order to avoid the impression
that he is operating under the guidance and direction of
the FBI.
RDC 14 105-741563-
As set forth in enclosed LHM, GYORGY furnished
information indicating DAVYDOV was aware of specific
questions asked Ambassador BEAM in a closed-door briefing (5)
(2
Bureau (Enc.
2. FO
CLASSIFIED RY.
NET PROM CON
(s) (1- 105-89252) (GYORGY) FROM
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TELETYPE
62-116395 5/2--
REC-1 (2
TO LEGAT LONDON
EA-101
FROM DIRECTOR FBI
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
REURTEL AUGUST FOUR LAST.
URGENT
8/5/75
1-Legal Counsel Office
(Attn: Mr. Daly)
1-Foreign Liaison Section Detected
1-Mr. W. O. Cregar
l-Mr. H. E. Helgeson
www
GITENSTEIN IS NOT A U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL. HE IS A
FULL TIME STAFF MEMBER EMPLOYED BY SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE.
HE HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED BY THIS COMMITTEE TO CONTACT APPROP-
RIATE OFFICIALS IN UK TO SEEK DESIRED INFORMATION. HE WILL HAVE
WITH HIM LETTER OF INTRODUCTION FROM CHAIRMAN OF SENATE
SELECT COMMITTEE. HE IS ONLY INTERESTED IN WHAT BRITISH DO
IN "VERY GENERAL" FASHION AS TO THEIR HANDLING OF SUBVERSIVE
ACTIVITIES INVESTIGATIONS FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMPARING WITH
FBI INVESTIGATIONS OF SIMILAR MATTERS. GITENSTEIN DESCRIBED
IT AS AN "ACADEMIC INQUIRY" AND IS NOT SEEKING SPECIFIC FACTS ON
SP-2 ALMITTE
ANY INVESTIGATIONS.
6
#MDR16
10-10-001
FOR INFO LEGAT, GITENSTEIN IS CLEARED FOR ACCESS TO
ALL INFORMATION CONTLINES
WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISS..
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIE BICA
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm.
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
Legal Coun.
Plan. & Eval.
HEH:enm
(6)
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
NOTE: By teletype 7/28/75 Legat, London, was advised
Mark Gitenstein, Senior Staff Member, Senate
Select Committee, desired to contact appropriate
British officials for general briefing concerning
their handling of domestic security investigations.
Legat in referenced teletype posed certain questions
raised by MI-5] concerning Gitenstein and the pur-
pose of his visit. (5)
AUG 0 5 1975
5784
TELETYPE
Spec. v. 9 AUG 14 1975
Training
Telephone Rm.
MAIL ROOM
TELETYPE UNIT
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TELE TYPE TO LONDON
RE: SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
TOP SECRET INFORMATION.
IF AT ALL POSSIBLE YOU SHOULD SUTEL BEFORE
TWELVE NOON AUGUST SIX ANY ARRANGEMENTS YOU HAVE
BEEN ABLE TO FINALIZE. IN ABSENCE OF COMMUNICATION
FROM YOU GITENSTEIN WILL BE ADVISED TO CONTACT YOU
UPON HIS ARRIVAL IN LONDON.
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The Attorney Ceneral
Director, FEI
July 30, 1975
راز
UNITED STATES CONATE SELECT COMMITTEE
ON LITELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (GSC)
This is in response to EEC letter dated July 24, 1975,
requesting a list of all Special Agents assigned to the New York City
area in the mid-1960's who had the surname Kehoe and requesting the
unit to which they were accigned as well as their current adibosses.
Attached for your approval and forwarding to the Committoo
ic the original of a memorandum which constitutes our response to
this request. A copy of the memorandum is being provided for your
records.
• Enclosures (2)
62-116395
1 - The Deputy Attorney Ceneral
Attention: Mr. II. Villiam O'Connor
DCT:pms
(10)
Special Counsel for
Intelligence Coordination
2 - Mr. Mintz (Sent Direct)
-
(1 - Mr. Hotis)
Mr. Wannall (Sent Direct)
Mr. Walsh (Sent Direct)
1
1
1
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Mr. Midkiff (Sent Direct)
-
REC-1
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,- 5/1
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EX 101
10-10-00 ·SP-2.ALM1716
2W/RGH
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm.
Dep. AD Inv. _
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Based on memo Burns to Walsh dated 7-29-75; DCT:pms
NOTE: The response has been coordinated with Intelligence Division and
Comp. Syst. if approved will be hand carried by Mr. P. V. Daly to Mr. Michael
Files & Com.
Ext. Affairs Shaheen, Jr., of the Deputy Attorney General's Office.
Gen. Inv.
ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
ENCLOSURE
Legal County 9 AUG 14 1975
Telephone Rib.
Director Sec'y
MAIL ROOM
TELETYPE UNIT
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GPO 954-545
This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-
nation 
outside your Committee. Its use is limited to official proceedings by
Your 
Committed ward No con Lint may not be disclosed to unauthorized person-
nel without the express approval of the FBI
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm.
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Legal Coun.
62-116395
July 30, 1975
UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT COMMITTES
TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
RE:/REQUEST FOR IDENTITIES AND
ADDRESSES OF SPECIAL ACENTI
WITH CURNAME KEHOE ASSIGNED
NEW YORK CITY AREA MID-1980's
Reference is made to the letter from captioned committee
dated July 24, 1975, which requested a list of all Special Agents
assigned to the New York City area in the mid-1900's who had the
surname Kehoe and requested the unit to which they were assigned
as well as their current address.
Pursuant to your request, set forth below are the names
and business addresses of the two Special Agents of the FEI with
sumame Kehoe who were employed in the New York City area in
the mid-1000's. Both were assigned to the investigation of Eoviet
espionage matters and both are currently Special Agents of the FBI.
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UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
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Reference is made to your memorandum July 16, 1975,
captioned as above, requesting information relating to the
collection, analysis, use, and dissemination of organized,
crime intelligence and a second request related to what extent
have communications between the White House and the FBI or
other agencies under the jurisdiction of the Attorney General
bypassed the Attorney General and to what extent should such
communications be channeled through the Attorney General.
In response to the first matter, on June 25, 1974,
I testified before the FBI Oversight Subcommittee of the
Senate Judiciary Committee that the Bureau has "no statutory
authority to collect intelligence per se" but that it operates
under the general umbrella of 28 U.S.C. 533 (3), which
authorizes the Attorney General to appoint officials "to
conduct...investigations regarding official matters...as may
be directed by the Attorney General." A listing of any
directives issued by the Department or the Attorney General
with respect to organized crime should be available in the
office of the Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division,
Department of Justice.
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With respect to the FBI, all our investigations in
the organized crime field are aimed at one ultimate objective:
prosecution.
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Dep. AD Adm. hoodlums and the various criminal syndicates operating through-
Dep. AD Inv.out the United States, we naturally acquire considerable data
regarding the structure of the organized underworld, the
Comp. Syst. identities of its principal leaders, the extent of its in-
Iluence, its primary sources of income, its payoffs to corrupt
officials, and the operations of its vast communications networks.
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The Attorney General
Most of this information is obtained from paid
informants, from other law enforcement officers, from alert
citizons, and from court-approved electronic surveillances
installed under the provisions of Title III of the Omnibus Crime
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.
None of it, however, is intelligence for intelligence's
sako. The experience of the FBI over the years has shown that
criminal syndicates exist for the sole purpose of conducting
illegal operations and that anyone belonging to them may
reasonably be presumed to be engaged in one or more of these
activities. Therefore, our investigations of the organized
underworld are not aimed at developing general nonspecific
data but at establishing which criminal violations its members
are engaged in and then proving these violations in a court
of law.
Obviously, not every caso opened, overy load followed,
or every bit of information received is going to wind up in
Federal court. On the contrary, much of this material relatos
to offenses outside the investigative jurisdiction of the
FBI. When such is the case, ve immediately discominato tho
information to the appropriate Federal, state, or local agency.
As a result, information uncovered by the FBI during the past
five years alone has enabled the recipient agencies to make
more than 17,000 organized crime arrests; confiscate over
151,000,000 worth of illicit drugs and narcotics, 09,000,000
worth of cash, property, weapons, and wagering paraphernalia,
and (6,000,000 worth of counterfeit bills; and assess tax
liens against 19,000,000 worth of property arising out of
Federal gambling cases.
In addition, a considerable portion of the organized
crime intelligence information developed by the FBI is for-
warded to the various Fedoral Strike Forces coordinating
racket investigations throughout the country and to the
Criminal Division of the Department, which has entered this
information in its computerized data bank called "Racketeer
Profile."
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In response to the second request in your letter,
my answer is restricted to communications between the White
House and the FBI as it would not be appropriate for me to
attempt to respond for other agencies under your jurisdiction.
There are two major areas in which the Attorney
General does not soe communications between the White House
and the FBI. They are the results of name checks and the
results of full field investigations we do for the White House.
The White House requests approximately 13,000 name checks per
year concerning persons who visit the White House complex who
could pose a physical threat or possible embarrassment to the
President directly or indirectly. Approximately 1,000 full
field background investigations on Presidential appointoos,
members of the White House staff, and other persons having
regular access to the White House are requested annually.
I direct your attention to Section 0.15 (b) (7),
Title 28, Code of Federal Regulations, which states that the
Deputy Attorney General shall "Coordinate Departmental liaison
with the White House staff and the Executive Office of the
President. When this order was promulgated there were
discussions between the Department and Bureau officials as
to its implementation and its impact on oxisting direct
liaison between the FBI and the White House. My letter to
the Attorney Gonoral, May 2, 1974, captioned "Revision of the
Department of Justice Organization Regulations (28 CFR Fart 0),"
sot forth the FBI's need for a Special Agent-Liaison officer
to handle day to day operational liaison with the White House.
His activities were outlined and it was requested that he
continue to handle operational problems on a daily basis
with specific individuals because of the sensitivity of the
matters involved, both of a personal security and intelligence
nature.
By memorandum dated May 16, 1974, captioned "Direct
Operational Liaison with the White House," the Attorney General
authorized the continuance of FBI direct operational liaison
with the White House.
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With the exceptions as noted above, the FBI has
adhered to a policy that when information is given to the
White House the Attorney General is given the same information
contemporaneously. Most of this information relates to current
matters pertaining to the national security. This dissemination
to the White House is sometimes based on roquests from the
White House but more frequently on the initiative of the FBI.
With regard to any correspondence directed to this
Bureau from the White House, short of a file by file review,
there is no means of determining whether or not such communica-
tions bypassed the Attorney General.
The established rule of furnishing the Attorney
General copies of correspondence to the White House should be
followed strictly so that the Attorney General is kept fully
informed on matters of interest to him.
1 The Deputy Attorney General
Attention: K. William O'Connor
Special Counsel for
Intelligence Coordination
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By memorandum dated 4/23/75, you were advised that
former Intelligence Division Supervisor Lish Whitson reported
to the writer that he had been interviewed by Mike Epstein of
the Senate Select Committee Staff regarding the Martin Luther
King case. Whitson had participated in activity at the
direction of former Assistant to the Director, William C.
Sullivan, relating to the mailing of a package from Florida
to King's office. The package had been delivered to Whitson
at National Airport on a Saturday by someone unknown to
Whitson.
At 5:30 p.m., today, Whitson telephoned the writer
to state that he had been contacted by phone just a few
minutes before by Mike Epstein. He said that the latter
asked him, Whitson, if the person who had met him at
National Airport and turned the package over to him was
either "Doc Miller (Fred M. Miller) or John Matter.
Whitson said he told Epstein that it was neither of these
two former FBI Laboratory employees.
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On 7-18-75 Michael Epstein, staff member of the
Senate Select Committee, advised that he desires to interview the
following Agents: Donald P. Burgess, Robert W. Thomson, O. Richard
Hamilton, Charles T. Haynes and Alden F. Miller, all of the Atlanta Office.
Additionally, he requested that SA W. John Benton of the Knoxville Office
be made available in Atlanta. All interviews will be conducted on Tuesday,
7-22-75. The scope of the interviews will be the Bureau investigation of
Martin Luther King. K. William O'Connor, Special Counsel for Intelligence
Coordination in the Department, advised Assistant Director John A. Mintz
on 7-18-75 that staff interviews would no longer be considered a demand
and thus no longer necessitate a waiver of the Code of Federal Regulations
provisions concerning interviews.
After securing the approval of Robert H. Cahill of the
Administrative Division for the travel of Benton to Atlanta, SAC Harold C.
Swanson, Knoxville Office, was telephonically advised on 7-18-75 to
arrange that Benton be available in Atlanta, 7-22-75.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
(1) That existing employment agreements of the aforementioned
Special Agents be waived for purposes of this interview.
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The Attorney General
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Reference is made to memorandum from Senate Select
Committee dated May 14, 1975, and appendices thereto, requesting
certain documents and other information from the FBI.
Attached for your approval and forwarding to the
Committee is the original of a memorandum which is responsive to
one of the Committee's requests.
records.
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Reference is made to memorandum from captioned
Committee dated May 14, 1975, and the appendices thereto, which
contained requests for information from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI).
Item 5 J, Appendix A, requested all memoranda of
the FBI and the Justice Department discussing the legal authority
of the FBI to use so-called "Cointelpro" techniques and methods,
including all forms of organizational "disruption."
A review of all logical files of the FBI and a canvass
of appropriate personnel knowledgeable of the counterintelligence
programs has failed to locate any documents discussing the legal
authority of the FBI to use Cointelpro techniques and methods.
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SSC requested all memoranda of FBI and Justice Department
discussing the legal authority of the FBI to use so-called
"COINTELPRO" techniques and methods including all forms of
organizational "äisruption". A review of all logical files
of the FBI and a canvass of appropriate personnel knowledgeable
of the counterintelligence programs has failed to locate any
documents discussing the legal authority of the FBI to use
COINTELPRO techniques and methods.
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should be noted. Commitments made to supply additional information should be
noted. Additionally, certain administrative information may be entered here,
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SUBJECT: SENSTUDY 75
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Attached is a copy of a Departmental memorandum which
interprets "demand" under 28 Code of Federal Regulations, Section 16.21
et seq. for the purpose of dealing with the Senate Select Committee.
provisions of 16 Code of Federal Regulations, Section 16.21 et seq. requires
Departmental approval in those instances where a current or former
employee in response to a demand of a court or authority is required
to furnish material contained in Departmental files or disclose information
contained therein.
The Department decision as set forth in the attachment.
characterizes all requests by Senate Select Committee staff members
as a demand which requires a waiver from the Department prior to the
employee's submission to the Committee request.
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According to the Departmental position concerning demand,
the Director or "the FBI General Counsel" in coordination with the Special
Counsel for Intelligence Coordination of the Department may waive the
provision of 28 Code of Federal Regulations, Section 16.21 et seq. This
is in accordance with the provision of Title 28, Code of Federal Regulations,
Section 16.23.
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Upon receipt of the attached documents, SA Paul V. Daly
and Inspector John B. Hotis of this Division sought clarification concerning
the Departmental interpretation of "demand" as set forth in attachment,
including whether this interpretation applied to the General Accounting
Office (GAO) inquiry into the Bureau. K. William O'Connor, Special
Counsel for Intelligence Coordination, stated he believed this might also
apply to GAO, however, he had not really thought out this point. He was
also asked what was meant by the phrase, "in coordination with this office.'
Mr. O'Connor indicated that he wanted to be notified of requests for interviews
and that was what he meant by the phrase, "in coordination with this office.
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He was advised by SA Daly that we had previously received requests
for the interview of a number of employees in Atlanta, Georgia, by the
Committee and that upon receipt of the attached communication, after
consultation with Deputy Special Counsel for Intelligence Coordination
Michael Shaheen, SA Daly had telephonically informed John Elliff, head
of the domestic intelligence task force for the Committee, of the
Department's interpretation as set forth in the attached document and
the fact that Mr. Elliff should contact Mr. O'Connor concerning these
proposed interviews. Mr. O'Connor said that he had been contacted by
Mr. Elliff and had, in fact, told Mr. Elliff there would be no interviews.
In this regard, O'Connor stated the Department had prepared a proposed
draft letter to the Committee expressing concern for the Fifth Amendment
rights for Bureau employees and raising other legal issues. Mr. O'Connor
indicated that the finalized form of this letter should be sent to the
Committee in the near future.
The results of the conversation with John Elliff by O'Connor
have caused the Office of Legal Analysis to receive complaints concerning
this decision from various Committee staff members, including Mark
Gitenstein and Michael Epstein. We can anticipate, unless this particular
problem is resolved, receiving protests from their superiors on the
Committee.
RECOMMENDATION:
You will be kept advised of developments concerning this
matter. Legal Analysis Office will continue efforts to determine what
effect this will have on the GAO inquiry.
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ARTMENT OF
OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20530
JUL 8 1975
TO:
John A. Mintz
Legal Counsel Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FROM K. William O'Connor
Special Counsel for
Intelligence Coordination
The attached self-explanatory memo, which the Deputy Attorney
General has approved, interprets the word "demand" for the purpose of
dealing with Senate Select Committee, under 28 C.F.R., 16.21. It is
furnished for your information.
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TO:
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FROM:
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Special Counsel for
Intelligence Coordination
SUBJECT: Interpretation of "Demand",
JUN 23 1975
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28 C.F.R., § 16.21, et seq. Action Memorandum
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The meaning of "demand" is not indicated, beyond subpoena, in
the C.F.R. sections indicated. This omission creates a need for an
interpretation, for purposes of uniform Department of Justice reaction.
Outlines for inquiry proceedings were agreed upon between the
White House and the Senate Select Committee on June 13, 1975, and a
copy of those procedures was furnished to the Department on June 16,
1975. Under those guidelines, there is a general undertaking by the
Committee to identify witnesses to the Agency a reasonable time before
the interviews occur. This general rule includes current and former
employees; certain exceptions (not clearly defined) are indicated in
the guidelines. The Committee is required to provide the witness with
a copy of the procedures, and "relevant waivers of secrecy oaths or
agreements for the purpose of this inquiry". The Committee is required
to give prior notice of an interview, generally, specifying: (a) sub-
ject area; (b) periods of employment%3B (c) the date set for the interview.
Since these structured procedures, taken with the rules of the
Subcommittee, may create a requirement of testimony upon witnesses, it
seems to me clear that the paragraphs of 28 C.F.R., § 16.21, et seq.,
which refer to "demand" should be interpreted to include any request
by any Committee staff member to interview any employee, former employee
or other person connected with the Department of Justice.
This interpretation requires certain action: (1) that the wit-
ness be authorized to speak under § 16.23 by an appropriate Department
Official; and, (2) that an appropriate Department Official be designated.
I would think that the appropriate Department Official for the FBI should
be the Director of the FBI or the FBI General Counsel, in coordination
with this office.
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As a matter of current practice, the FBI and other components
of the Department are presently coordinating with me on agreements
for disclosure under § 16.23, as a system for ensuring that they are
receiving treatment consistent with the outlines of inquiry procedure
and the agreements between the Committee and the Department.
If you approve, I will advise the involved components of the
Department of Justice that the word "demand" will be interpreted as
indicated for each witness.
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MAY 1962 EDITION
GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
: Mr. J. B. Adams
FROM
: Legal Counsel
SUBJECT: SENSTUDY 75
DATE: 7-23-75
Hate You
On July 23, 1975, Mike Gitenstein, staff
member Senate Select Committee, requested that he
be given a briefing concerning "Official and Con-
fidential" files. By way of background, we furnished
a summary of the inspection inquiry to the Committee
by letterhead memorandum dated 7-16-75, and also
made available for review in Bureau space a list of
people contacted during the course of this inquiry.
With regard to Gitenstein's request it would
appear beneficial for us to brief the Senate Select
Committee representative concerning the scope and
details of this inquiry. In this regard it appears
Gitenstein is interested in those individuals who
were contacted by the Inspection Division during their
inspection into the "Official and Confidential"
files.
If approved the briefing will be tentatively
scheduled for Friday, July 25, 1975.
RECOMMENDATION:
That a briefing be arranged for Gitenstein
concerning the "Official and Confidential" files
inspection inquiry by Inspection Division.
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SUBJECT: SENSTUDY 75
DATE: 7-23-75
By memorandum dated June 24, 1975, you were
advised of the Department's intention to make a closed
Departmental file available to captioned Committee.
The file contained the results of a criminal investigation
conducted by the Bureau. The Intelligence, General
Investigative and Special Investigative Divisions were
requested to furnish their views concerning this matter
and the Legal Counsel Division was to prepare a letter
to the Department setting forth the Bureau's position
with regard to this matter.
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Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
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We have since had discussions with the Attorney
General and other representatives of the Department concerning
Senate Select Committee access to Bureau files and
submitted correspondence to the Department concerning
this matter. It would appear additional communications
to the Department are unnecessary. The Department is
well aware of our position in this matter.
RECOMMENDATION:
We do not prepare a communication to the
Department concerning this matter.
Enclosure
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On August 7, 1975, Assistant Director Robert E.
Gebhardt, Los Angeles Division, was interviewed in the Los
Angeles FBI Office by Mr. Lester Seidel, Staff Member of
the Senate Select Committee, United States Senate.
Gebhardt's rights were not explained to him by
Seidel although Seidel did explain the purpose of the
interview, that is, the Cointel Program of the FBI as it
related to the FBI's investigation of the Black Panther Party
when Gebhardt was the Special Agent in Charge of the San
Francisco Division from 1970 to 1972.
The interview lasted from 9:05 AM until 10:30 AM,
and it was not necessary for Gebhardt to consult with any
Bureau representative.
Gebhardt had previously been advised by a Bureau
representative of his right to counsel, the privileged areas
of information, consultation privileges, and the parameters
of interview.
Seidel inquired at the outset as to whether Gebhardt
was aware of the Cointel Program relative to the Black Panther
Party investigation on a day-to-day basis being specifically
advised details of the investigation as it relates to the
Cointel Program. It was explained to Seidel that as Special
Agent in Charge of the San Francisco FBI Office wherein
over 500 employees were located at the time, Gebhardt had
many responsibilities in the operation of that division and
PROPERTY OF THE FBI
This document contains neither
recommendations nor conclusions of
the FBI. It is the property of the
FBI and is loaned to your agency;
it and its contents are not to be
distributed outside your agency.
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therefore, relied upon the experience, expertise, and judgment
of the various supervisors assigned to the office for the
day-to-day direction of the various matters under investigation,
including the investigation of the Black Panther Party.
It was further explained that if a problem was
encountered or a particularly unusual situation developed,
Gebhardt was, of course, consulted and was available for
such consultation to resolve any particular problem areas.
Gebhardt was next asked if he recalled being SAC
when the electronic coverage of the Black Panther Party and
the various officials at BBP was instituted and eventually
terminated. Seidel was advised that the electronic coverage
was already in effect upon Gebhardt's arrival, however, he
does recall receiving a phone call after the "Keith Decision"
was handed down instructing that all electronic coverage of
the BPP and the various members of the BPP be discontinued.
The call was received from Bureau Headquarters and the
discontinuance was effected immediately.
Seidel inquired as to whether Gebhardt felt the
intelligence type i̇nvestigations should be completely removed
from the criminal investigations which investigations would be
looking toward eventual prosecution.
In
Seidel was informed by Gebhardt that even in criminal
investigations looking toward prosecutions, much intelligence
information is obtained from time to time which really has no
value from a prosecutive standpoint, but does have possible
value with respect to the direction of the investigation.
some criminal investigations a great deal of intelligence
information may be obtained and in other types, very little.
Insofar as the FBI is concerned, however, every effort is
made to make certain there is some Federal law which would be
a basis for an investigation which procedures would include
matters commonly referred to as security investigations.
In some instances, in such security investigations
a great deal of intelligence information would be obtained
therefore, it was Gebhardt's opinion that so-called intelli-
gence type investigations should not be removed from or
differentiated from criminal type investigations looking
toward prosecutions since intelligence information is an
outgrowth of the basic investigation.
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Gebhardt was asked if he felt the Cointelpro was a
separate entity distinguished from the basic investigation
and it was explained that the Cointelpro was a phase of the
overall investigation in any particular organization or
individual.
Gebhardt was asked if he felt Congress should enact
legislation which would set forth specific investigative
techniques that could or could not be utilized by the FBI or
other Federal investigative agencies. He was advised in
Gebhardt's opinion, such legislation should not be enacted,
and in reply to the question as to why such legislation should
not be enacted, it was pointed out that as an investigative
agency, there must of necessity be allowed a certain flexi-
bility because no two investigations are exactly alike and the
circumstances of such investigations could possibly not be
related to such Federal law.
In answer to the question as to how Congress should
assure the American public that questionable activity such
as the Cointelpro, was not being engaged in by an investigative
agency such as the FBI, Seidel was informed that the Congress
and the American people must rely upon the integrity and
honesty of the Director of the FBI and the Attorney General.
It was pointed out that both the Director of the
FBI and the Attorney General are nominated by the President,
hearings are held before the various Congressional Committees
and finally approved by the Senate. It was further pointed
out that Director Kelley has recently stated in connection with
the publicity relative to Cointelpro, that he has no intention
of permitting this program to be reinstituted in the FBI and
if circumstances ever arose which circumstances he could not
contemplated at this time, wherein it was thought such
activities should be embarked upon, he would obtain the personal
approval of the Attorney General prior to such instituting.
Seidel was informed that Gebhardt was in total agreement with
this statement of Mr. Kelley.
Gebhardt was asked as to what his feelings were
relative to what the relationship should be between the FBI
and Congress. He was informed that a Senate Oversight
Committee was recently established and it was felt that this
was a good start and that this Committee should formalize and
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standardize their oversight responsibilities and make regular
inquiries of the Director and other officials of the FBI as
to our activities. He was informed that there should be
either a joint oversight committee between the House and
Senate or if the Congress decided on two oversight Committees
in both the House and Senate, these committees should be the
entities through which all information relative to the
activities of the FBI should flow.
It was emphasized however, that there should be
regular consultation between these representatives and the
FBI.
Inquiry was made as to Gebhardt's opinion relative
to the relationship between the Department of Justice and
the FBI and Seidel was informed the relationship, in Gebhardt's
opinion, is excellent, should continue, and there should be
a free flow of information between the FBI and the Department
of Justice.
At the conclusion of the interview, Gebhardt summed
up his comments by stating that Congress should definitely
set up a structured oversight procedure of the activities
of the FBI with due regard to the confidentiality of many
of the FBI operations and investigations and must assure
itself that the members of the Committee and its staff will
maintain the confidentiality where necessary.
Secondly, in the areas of investigative matters
usually referred to as national defense, national security
or intelligence operations, all of the FBI investigations
must be based on the application of the facts toward a
particular Federal statute and if the facts are so oblique
that they cannot be clearly applied to a particular Federal
statute, consultation with the Department of Justice should
be had in all instances.
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Memorandum
Mr. Adams
FROM :
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SUBJECT:
SENSTUDY 75
DATE: 6-18-75
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Director Sec'y
At 10 a.m.,
on 6-18-75, Mr. William Miller,
Staff Director Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Activities called Inspector John B. Hotis to advise that
he heard a report on the radio earlier that morning
concerning the alleged penetration of Congressional
and Senatorial offices by the KGB or agents of Soviet
bloc Nations.
Miller said he did not have any further
details and stated he was uncertain whether the report
alleged actual penetration of the offices or simply
increased contacts by the Soviets with Members of Congress.
Miller said he believed the source of the report was a
television interview of Senator Goldwater (R-Arizona)
on Sunday, 6-15-75.
Mr. Miller said the members of the Senate
Committee were concerned about these allegations and
asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to inquire
into the matter. Assistant Director Wannall has been
advised of this request.
RECOMMENDATION:
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is recommended that the Intelligence Division prepare
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RE PHILADELPHIA NITEL TO THE BUREAU, JULY 30, 1975,
AND PHILADELPHIA TELCALL TO THE BUREAU, AUGUST 6, 1975.
ON AUGUST 6, 1975, MRS. ROBERT THWEAT ADVISED THAT
HER SOURCE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED IN RE NITEL IS AMY MITCHELL,
AGE 24, EMPLOYED BY THE CITIZENS' ACTION COMMITTEE AT THE
WHITE HOUSE. SHE CAN BE REACHED AT TELEPHONE NUMBER 456-
6466 AFTER 2:00 PM THIS DATE. SHE PREFERS INTERVIEW IN
WASHINGTON, D. C., THIS EVENING. SHE DOES NOT DESIRE HER
NAME DIVULGED OR CREDITED AS THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF INFOR-
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HER SOURCE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED IN RE NITEL IS AMY MITCHELL,
AGE 24, EMPLOYED BY THE CITIZENS' ACTION COMMITTEE AT THE
WHITE HOUSE. SHE CAN BE REACHED AT TELEPHONE NUMBER 456-
6466 AFTER 2:00 PM THIS DATE. SHE PREFERS INTERVIEW IN
WASHINGTON, D. C., THIS EVENING. SHE DOES NOT DESIRE HER
NAME DIVULGED OR CREDITED AS THE ORIGINAL SOURCE OF INFOR-
·MATION.
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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
MAY 1962 EDITION
GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27
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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
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SUBJECT: SENSTUDY 75
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Mr. J. A. Mintz
Mr. W. R. Wannall
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Mr. S. S. Mignosa
Mr. W. O. Cregar
Mr. T. J. McNiff
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 12-19-88BYSP-1 AGG
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm. _
Dep. AD Inv. _
Asst. Dir.:
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Director Sec'y
To advise of recent developments in matter involving
possible leak of intelligence community information in
possession of Senate Select Committee (SSC).
DETAILS:
My memorandum to you dated 8/1/75, captioned as
above (copy attached), advised that our Philadelphia Office
recently received information that a member of the SSC had
reportedly, without authorization, Xeroxed a CIA document in
possession of the Committee for subsequent transmittal to
Congressman Morris Udall. Since receipt of this original
information, our Philadelphia Office has been attempting to
arrange for an interview of the original source of this
information.
62-116395.
The following information is set forth to advise
you of pertinent developments subsequent to my memorandum
of 8/1/75.
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Executive Assistant to the Deputy Associate Director, advised
Special Agent (SA) Thomas J. McNiff that the contemplated
interview of the source should not be conducted prior to a
discussion that Mr. Nicholas P. Callahan, Associate Director,
was scheduled to have with appropriate representatives of the
Department concerning this matter. At approximately 5:00 p.m.,
8/5/75, Mr. Mack advised SA McNiff that Department representa-
tives had been appropriately advised and that the interview of
source should be conducted at the earliest time.
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At 10:35 a.m., 8/6/75, SA John Kutz, Philadelphia
Office, called and advised that he had been in touch this
date with Mrs. Robert Thweat who advised that the identity
of her niece, the original source of information, is Amy Mitchell
who is 24 years of age and is currently employed as a summer
intern for the Citizens Action Committee at the White House.
Miss Mitchell can be contacted at phone number 456-6466 between
the hours of 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., 8/6/75. Mrs. Thweat
advised if not contacted prior to 4:00 p.m., Mitchell would
: be unavailable (for unexplained reasons) until after 8/11/75.
Mrs. Thweat also advised that her niece, Amy Mitchell, desired
that her name remain confidential with regard to any information
she would furnish this Bureau and that under no circumstances
would she be agreeable to testimony.
At 10:55 a.m., 8/6/75, Mr. Mack was contacted and
advised of the above recent information received from
Philadelphia and that arrangements were being effected for
Agents of the Washington Field Office (WFO) to contact Mitchell
for purpose of interview.
At 11:20 a.m., 8/6/75, SA McNiff personally contacted
ASAC Cornelius G. Sullivan, WFO, and furnished him with copies
of Philadelphia teletypes 7/29/75 and 7/30/75 concerning this
matter, as well as briefing him of developments subsequent to
information contained in these teletypes. ASAC Sullivan was
instructed to have two experienced Agents contact Mitchell in
the above-mentioned time frame for the purpose of arranging an
interview of Mitchell.
At approximately 1:30 p.m., 8/6/75, SAs Donald E.
Stukey II and Daniel J. Kiernan contacted SA McNiff at FBIHQ
for the purpose of briefing prior to initiating contact with
Mitchell. These Agents were brought up to date regarding
available information relating to this matter and were
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instructed to insure that the interview of Mitchell was
conducted in a most discreet and thorough manner. They were
instructed to submit this evening a nitel summarizing results
of the interview followed immediately by an LHM suitable
for dissemination setting forth in detail results of the
interview.
At 2:15 p.m., 8/6/75, SA Stukey called advising
that he had telephonically contacted Mitchell and arranged
for an interview of her at her residence at 6:00 p.m., 8/6/75.
ACTION:
None. Above submitted for information. You will
be advised of results of interview along with recommendation
for additional action to be taken in this matter.
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August 5, 1975
SECRET
789
(Senstury 1975
REQUEST FOR FBI MATERIALS
Materials to which the SSC staff has been given access;
delivery requested by Monday, August 11, 1975:
A. The notebook or binder containing materials on the
FBI legal authority and maintained in the Office of
the Special Counsel.
B.
C.
D.
Materials pertaining to FBI-CIA relations in 1970
previously made accessible at FBIHQ in excised
form; unexcised versions of the memoranda bearing
the item-number designations 8, 9, 30, 32, and 37.
"Foreign Operations Policy Manual," previously
made accessible at FBIHQ.
Inspection Reports on the Intelligence Division
and the San Francisco Field Office, as currently
sanitized.
9627 Page 279
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NOT RECORDED
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5-Phillipa
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II.
Materials to which the SSC staff has been given access;
delivery requested by Friday, August 15, 1975:
A. The following materials maintained in the so-
called "Official and Confidential" files and
designated "non-derogatory," previously examined
by SSC staff:
1. Agreement between FBI and Secret Service;
2.
3..
4.
Attorney General
FBI;
"Black Bag" Jobs;
Submission of Memoranda by
Expansion of FBI Foreign Intelligence
Coverage;
5.
Intelligence Coverage
-
Domestic and
Foreign;
6.
Directives (60);
7.
Cook, Fred (52).
B.
Summaries or notes on interviews conducted by
Inspection Division for July 3 Inspection for
the individuals whose names are underscored on
the attached list (slightly expanded from previous
access requests).
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1
· 3 -
III.
Newly requested materials; delivery requested by
Monday, August 11, 1975:
A. All of Section 8 of the Manual of Instructions.
B.
.C.
D.
II.
Sections 1, 6, 7H, 7J, 8L, and 14F of the Manual
of Rules and Regulations.
Superseding versions of Section 6 of the Manual
of Rules and Regulations, since January 1, 1960.
The following materials referred to in memoranda
previously delivered to SSC regarding FBI
legal attaches:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Memoranda of W. C. Sullivan of June 7, 1971,
and June 16, 1971;
Memoranda of Mr. Wannall of May 27, 1971, and
May 28, 1971;
Letter of Hoover to the President dated
September 21, 1970;
Memorandum of W. C. Sullivan dated September
22, 1970
Memorandum of Mr. Brennan dated September 21
1970;
Memorandum of Mr. Child of May 23, 1969;
Recommendations of Dalby, Felt, and Beaver
upon the recommendation made in memorandum
of Sullivan of June 7, 1971:
Material pertaining to an inspection of all
FBI foreign liaison posts conducted in 1971
pursuant to instructions from Hoover to
Assistant Director Ponder in charge of
inspections.
Materials pertaining to the origin, operation, and
termination of the Mass Media Program implemented by
the former FBI Crime Records Division.
NW 88326 Docld:32989627 Page 281
I
F. Materials pertaining to the establishment and
functions of the FBI External Affairs Division.
G.
H.
I.
J.
K.
"Guide to Indexing" and "Rules Pertaining to
the General Index", cited at p. 14, Volume 1,
of the Classifying Instructor's Guide.
"The Standard Sub List"
The following materials pertaining to Project
INLET:
1.
2.
3.
Materials reflecting approval of the
Project on or about November 20, 1969.
Inspection Report referred to in SAC letter
of December 26, 1972.
Letter from FBI to Congressman Les Aspin
in 1973 regarding the Project.
Materials pertaining to the policies and procedures
of the FBI for the use of FBI agents for so-called
"undercover" activity.
The current address and assignment of Special Agent
(or former Special Agent) John Kunkle, who was assigned
to the Bureau's Hawaii office in 1955.
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IV.
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Newly requested materials; delivery requested by
Friday, August 18, 1975:
A. The following materials referred to in memoranda
previously delivered to SSC regarding FBI Legal
Attaches:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Materials pertaining to conversations
between the President and Hoover regarding
foreign liaison operations in September
1970;
Materials pertaining to conversations between
Dr. Kissinger and Hoover in December 1970;
Materials pertaining to communications between
the FBI and the State Department regarding
foreign liaison operations in 1970;
Materials pertaining to a conference with the
President regarding foreign liaison operations
in June 1971.
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V. Newly requested materials; access to screen for
delivery requested by August 18, 1975:
A.
T
The following materials pertaining to Mrs.
Claire (Anna) Chennault and Spiro T. Agnew:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
All materials pertaining to the authorization
or re-authorization by the President or the
Attorney General of technical surveillance of
the South Vietnamese Embassy in Washington,
D.C. in 1968.
7.
All materials pertaining to the initiation,
authorization, conduct, and termination of
technical or physical surveillance and "tele-
phone checks" of Mrs. Claire (Anna) Chennault
in November 1968.
All materials pertaining to the initiation,
authorization, conduct, and termination of
technical or physical surveillance and
"telephone checks" of Vice Presidential
candidate Spiro T. Agnew in November 1968.
All materials summarizing the results of tech-
nical or physical surveillance, including
incidental overhearings, and "telephone
checks" of Mrs. Claire (Anna) Chennault and
Spiro T. Agnew in November 1968, but not
including "logs".
All materials pertaining to White House
instructions to the FBI for the handling of
the summary letters described in item 4 above.
All materials pertaining to actions taken by
the White House as a result of information
contained in the summary letters described in
item 4 above.
The current addresses of the following former
Special Agents, who may have participated in the
technical or physical surveillance or "telephone
checks" of Mrs. Claire (Anna) Chennault or
Spiro T. Agnew:
a.
Phil Claridge
b. William Jackson
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B.
c.
The following materials pertaining to Yeoman
Charles E. Radford:
1. All materials, including memorializations
of oral communications, pertaining to the
authorization, initiation, conduct, and
termination of technical surveillances of
Yeoman Charles E. Radford from December
1971 to June 1972.
2.
3.
4.
All materials, including memorializations
of oral communications, pertaining to the
authorization, initiation, conduct, and
termination of technical surveillance of
two close personal friends of Yeoman Radford,
one retired from the Navy, the other a State
Department employee, from January to April
1972.
All materials, including memorializations
of oral communications, pertaining to the
authorization, initiation, conduct, and
termination of technical surveillance of
Yeoman Radford's step-father in Oregon from
February to April 1972.
All materials summarizing the results of the
technical surveillances described in items 1
through 3 above.
5. All materials pertaining to actions taken by
the White House as a result of information
contained in the summary described in item 4
above.
With respect to surreptitious entries carried out
by the FBI from January 1, 1960 to the present, all
materials pertaining to the following:
1. The date, place, target, and purpose of each
entry;
2.
3°
The request and authorization for each entry
including the identities of the agencies
and/or individuals who requested and/or
authorized the entry;
The procedures and methods used for the
conduct of each entry;
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4.
5.
The results of each entry, including the
information obtained and, the identities of
the agencies and/or individuals to whom the
information was disseminated.
The materials in 1 through 4 above which may
pertain to any surreptitious entry directed
'at the following targets:
a.
French Embassy in Washington D.C. (1960)
b. Japanese Consulate in Seattle, Washington (1957?,196
C. Daniel Ellsberg, Mill Valley, California (1973,1974;
Gerald Lefcourt, New York City (1970, 1971)
a.
e.
f.
Charles Garry, Oakland, California (1970, 1971)
i
Egbal Ahmed, Chicago (1970)
g.
United States Servicemen's Fund, Boston (1971)
h.
i. Marvin Kalb, CBS News (1972, 1973)
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York City (1971)
j.
Dan Rather, CBS News (1972, 1973)
k. Sol Linowitz (1972)
1.
M.
n.
0.
Institute of Policy Studies, Washington, D.C. (1971)
Michael Kennedy, San Franciso (1969, 1970)
Radical Education Project and SDS, Ann Arbor, Michig
(1969)
Carol Wild Scott, Gainsville, Florida (1972)
p.
Henry di Suvero, New York City (1972)
9.
r.
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The Washington Free Press, Washington, D.C. (1969)
The home of a "known bigot... (who) might (have
been) plotting violence against Jewish leaders,"
referred to in Jack Anderson's column in the
Washington Post of June 21, 1975.
D.
Materials pertaining to any jurisdictional agree-
ments, agreements of coordination, or other agree-
ments between the FBI and any other federal, state
or local agency with regard to the conduct of and
dissemination of information from surreptitious
entries.
F.
The following materials pertaining to NSA watch list
♥ activity, reportedly in operation from late 1967
through 1973, which involved the monitoring of
international communications that were addressed
to, or from, or included the names of persons on
a changing "watch list":
G.
·H.
I.
1.
All materials pertaining to the proposing,
approving, putting names on, executing,
evaluating, or terminating the watch list
activity;
2. All materials (including correspondence) sent
by the FBI to the National Security Agency or
any other entity in the Department of Defense
listing names for the watch list or otherwise
commenting on the activity;
3.
4.
Any internal FBI materials produced as part of
the activity;
Any NSA or Department of Defense materials
(including correspondence and reports) regard-
ing the watch list activity sent to the FBI.
Materials pertaining to the authorization for FBI
contacts with, dissemination of FBI information to,
receipt of information from, and requests by the
FEI for action by the Special Services Staff of
the Internal Revenue Service.
"The Handbook of Technical Equipment".
Materials pertaining to FBI activity with respect to
the National Environmental Teach-In (also known as
"Earth Day"), April 22, 1970.
Materials pertaining to the origin and implication of
any decision to gather intelligence on "Women's
Liberation" in the Philadelphia FBI field office
NW 88326 Docid:32989627 Page: 287969 to the present.
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J.
K.
L.
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The additional SAC letters and memoranda identified
on the attached list.
The performance ratings (Form FD 185) of the
following current or former FBI employees:
1.
George Berley
2.
Wilfred Bergeron
+ 3.
William D. Campbell
4.
Richard Suter
5.
William Tucker
6.
Terry O'Connor
7, Joseph English
The current office assignment or last known address
of the individuals listed in K. above.
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A. The notebook or binder containing materials on the
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B.
C.
D.
the Special Counsel.
Materials pertaining to FBI-CIA relations in 1970 ·
previously made accessible at FBIHO in excised
form; unexcised versions of the memoranda bearing
the item-number designations 8, 9, 30, 32, and 37.
"Foreign Operations Policy Manual," previously
made accessible at FBIHQ.
Inspection Reports on the Intelligence Division
and the San Francisco Field Office, as currently
sanitized.
NW 88326 Docid:32989627 Page 289
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14 AUG 12 197:
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II. Materials to which the SSC staff has been given access;
delivery requested by Friday, August 15, 1975:
A. The following materials maintained in the so-
called "Official and Confidential" files and
designated "non-derogatory," previously examined
by SSC staff:
B.
1.
2.
3.
5.
6-
7.
Agreement between FBI and Secret Service;
-
Attorney General Submission of Memoranda by
FBI;
"Black Bag" Jobs;
Expansion of FBI Foreign Intelligence
Coverage;
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Intelligence Coverage Domestic and
Foreign;
Directives (60):
Cook, Fred (52).
Summaries or notes on interviews conducted by
Inspection Division for July 3 Inspection for
the individuals whose names are underscored on
the attached list (slightly expanded from previous
access requests).
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1
3 -
III.
Newly requested materials; delivery requested by
Monday, August 11, 1975:
A. All of Section 8 of the Manual of Instructions.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Sections 1, 6, 7H, 7J, SL, and 14F of the Manual
of Rules and Regulations.
Superseding versions of Section 6 of the Manual
of Rules and Regulations, since January 1, 1960.
The following materials referred to in memoranda
previously delivered to SSC regarding FBI
legal attaches:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Memoranda of C. Sullivan of June 7, 1971,
and June 16, 1971;
Memoranda of Mr. Wannall of May 27, 1971, and
May 28, 1971;
Letter of Hoover to the President dated
September 21, 1970;
Memorandum of W. C. Sullivan dated September
22, 1970
Memorandum of Mr. Brennan dated September 21
1970;
Memorandum of Mr. Child of May 23, 1969;
Recommendations of Dalby, Felt, and Beaver
upon the recommendation made in memorandum
of Sullivan of June 7, 1971:
Material pertaining to an inspection of all
FBI foreign liaison posts conducted in 1971
pursuant to instructions from Hoover to
Assistant Director Ponder in charge of
inspections.
Materials pertaining to the origin, operation, and
termination of the Mass Media Program implemented by.
the former FBI Crime Records Division.
NW 88326 Docld:32989627 Page 291
4 -
F. Materials pertaining to the establishment and
functions of the FBI External Affairs Division.
G.
FI.
I.
J.
K.
f
"Guide to Indexing" and "Rules Pertaining to
the General Index", cited at p. 14, Volume 1,
of the Classifying Instructor's Guide.
"The Standard Sub List"
The following materials pertaining to Project
INLET:
1.
2.
3.
Materials reflecting approval of the
Project on or about November 20, 1969.
Inspection Report referred to in SAC letter
of December 26, 1972.
Letter from FBI to Congressman Les Aspin
in 1973, regarding the Project..
Materials pertaining to the policies and procedures
of the FBI for the use of FBI agents for so-called
"undercover" activity.
The current address and assignment of Special Agent
(or former Special Agent) John Kunkle, who was assigned
to the Bureau's Hawaii office in 1955.
NW 88326 Docld:32989627 Page 292
5
-
IV. Newly requested materials; delivery requested by
Friday, August 18, 1975:
A. The following materials referred to in memoranda
previously delivered to SSC regarding FBI Legal
Attaches: .
+
1.
2.
3.
4.
Materials pertaining to conversations
between the President and Hoover regarding
foreign liaison operations in September
1970;
Materials pertaining to conversations between
Dr. Kissinger and Hoover in December 1970;
Materials pertaining to communications between
the FBI and the State Department regarding
foreign liaison operations in 1970;
Materials pertaining to a conference with the
President regarding foreign liaison operations
in June 1971.
NW 88326 Docld:32989627 Page 293
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V.
Newly requested materials; access to screen for
delivery requested by August 18, 1975:
A.
$
The following materials pertaining to Mrs.
Claire (Anna) Chennault and Spiro T. Agnew:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
All materials pertaining to the authorization
or re-authorization by the President or the
Attorney General of technical surveillance of .
the South Vietnamese Embassy in Washington,
D.C. in 1968.
All materials pertaining to the initiation,
authorization, conduct, and termination of
technical or physical surveillance and "tele-
phone checks" of Mrs. Claire (Anna) Chennault
in November 1968.
All materials pertaining to the initiation,
authorization, conduct, and termination of
technical or physical surveillance and
"telephone checks" of Vice Presidential
candidate Spiro T. Agnew in November 1968.
All materials summarizing the results of tech-
nical or physical surveillance, including
incidental overhearings, and "telephone
checks" of Mrs. Claire (Anna) Chennault and
Spiro T. Agnew in November 1968, but not
including "logs".
All materials pertaining to White House
instructions to the FBI for the handling of
the summary letters described in item 4 above.
All materials pertaining to actions taken by
the White House as a result of information
contained in the summary letters described in
item 4 above.
The current addresses of the following former
Special Agents, who may have participated in the
technical or physical surveillance or "telephone
checks" of Mrs. Claire (Anna) Chennault or
Spiro T. Agnew:
a. Phil Claridge
b. William Jackson
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B.
The following materials pertaining to Yeoman
Charles E. Radford:
1.
C.
2.
30
4.
5.
All materials, including memorializations
of oral communications, pertaining to the
authorization, initiation, conduct, and
termination of technical surveillances of
Yeoman Charles E. Radford from December
1971 to June 1972.
All materials, including memorializations
of oral communications, pertaining to the
authorization, initiation, conduct, and
termination of technical surveillance of
two close personal friends of Yeoman Radford,
one retired from the Navy, the other a State
Department employee, from January to April
1972.
All materials, including memorializations
of oral communications, pertaining to the
authorization, initiation, conduct, and
termination of technical surveillance of
Yeoman Radford's step-father in Oregon from
February to April 1972.
All materials summarizing the results of the
technical surveillances described in items 1
through 3 above.
All materials pertaining to actions taken by
the White House as a result of information
contained in the summary described in item 4
above.
With respect to surreptitious entries carried out
by the FBI from January 1, 1960 to the present, all
materials pertaining to the following:
1.
2.
3.
The date, place, target, and purpose of each
entry;
The request and authorization for each entry
including the identities of the agencies
and/or individuals who requested and/or
authorized the entry;
The procedures and methods used for the
conduct of each entry;
NW 88326 Docld:32989627 Page 295
_
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4.
5.
The results of each entry, including the
information obtained and, the identities of
the agencies and/or individuals to whom the
information was disseminated.
The materials in 1 through 4 above which may
pertain to any surreptitious entry directed
at the following targets:
a.
b.
C.
French Embassy in Washington D.C. (1960)
Japanese Consulate in Seattle, Washington (1957?,196:
Daniel Ellsberg, Mill Valley, California (1973,1974)
d.
'e.
Gerald Lefcourt, New York City (1970,.1971)
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f.
Charles Garry, Oakland, California (1970, 1971)
Egbal Ahmed. Chicago (1970)
g.
United States Servicemen's Fund, Boston (1971)
h.
i. Marvin Kalb, CBS News (1972, 1973)
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York City (1971)
j.
Dan Rather, CBS News (1972, 1973)
k. Sol Linowitz (1972)
1.
MR.
n.
0.
Institute of Policy Studies, Washington, D.C. (1971).
Michael Kennedy, San Franciso (1969, 1970)
Radical Education Project and SDS, Ann Arbor, Michių.
(1969)
Carol Wild Scott, Gainsville, Florida (1972)
p.
q.
I.
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Henry di Suvero, New York City (1972)
The Washington Free Press, Washington,D.C. (1969)
The home of a "known bigot... (who) might (have
been) plotting violence against Jewish leaders,”
referred to in Jack Anderson's column in the
Washington Post of June 21, 1975.
9 -
D.
Materials pertaining to any jurisdictional agree-
ments, agreements of coordination, or other agree-
ments between the FBI and any other federal, state
or local agency with regard to the conduct of and
dissemination of information from surreptitious
entries.
"
I,
The following materials pertaining to NSA watch list
* activity, reportedly in operation from late 1967
through 1973, which involved the monitoring of
international communications that were addressed
to, or from, or included the names of persons on
a changing "watch list":
F.
G.
F.
I.
1.
2m
3.
4.
All materials pertaining to the proposing
approving, putting names on, executing,
evaluating, or terminating the watch list
activity;
All materials (including correspondence) sent
by the FBI to the National Security Agency or
any other entity in the Department of Defense
listing names for the watch list or otherwise
commenting on the activity;
Any internal FBI materials produced as part of
the activity;
Any NSA or Department of Defense materials
(including correspondence and reports) regard-
ing the watch list activity sent to the FBI.
Materials pertaining to the authorization for FBI
contacts with. dissemination of FBI information to,
receipt of information from, and requests by the
FBI for action by the Special Services Staff of
the Internal Revenue Service.
"The Handbook of Technical Equipment".
Materials pertaining to FBI activity with respect to
the National Invironmental Teach-In (also known as
"Earth Day"), April 22, 1970.
Materials pertaining to the origin and implication of
any decision to gather intelligence on "Women's
Liberation" in the Philadelphia FBI field office
NW 88326 Docid:3298962729769 to the present.
10.
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J. The additional SAC letters and memoranda identified
on the attached list.
K.
The performance ratings (Form FD 185) of the
following current or former FBI employees:
1. George Berley
2. Wilfred Bergeron
L.
* 3.
William D. Campbell
4. Richard Suter
5.
William Tucker
6.
Terry O'Connor
7. Joseph English
The current office assignment or last known address
of the individuals listed in K. above.
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To advise of receipt of uncorroborated information!
from Philadelphia Office to the effect that a Staff Member..
of the Church Committee reportedly, without authorization, Xeroxed
a CIA document in possession of the Committee for subsequent
transmittal to Congressman Morris Udall.
DETAILS:
Senstudy is acronym for Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence Activities (SSC), also known as Church Committee,
which Committee is looking into operations of members of the
intelligence community.
By teletype 7/30/75, our Philadelphia Office advised N
that one Robert Thweat, a retired United States Navy Commander,
had made available information he received from an unnamed
relative. This relative told him that one Daniel O'Flaherty,
who is employed with the Church Committee, had on an unknown
date removed from his work area, by hiding underneath his shirt,
a CIA memorandum containing derogatory information on Senator
Henry Jackson (s)) & Flaherty then Xeroxed the memorandum and
provided the Xeroxed copy to an unknown person for subsequent.
transmittal to Congressman Morris Udall. According to Thwer
O'Flaherty had personally related the above information to his
relative and reportedly had also related the incident to a
Mr. Katz, a former associate who is currently a professor al
the University of Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee. Katz
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reportedly voiced his displeasure to O'Flaherty stating he
did not approve of the latter's action. The memorandum in
question dealt with CIA's possible use of derogatory information
to determine the direction Senator Jackson would take in future,
actions he might encounter which might involve CIA activity
Thweat advised he would recontact his relative to determine if
this individual would come forward, reveal his identity and
be cooperative in any investigation.
A memorandum from CIA dated 7/29/75 indicates that
James Daniel O'Flaherty, born 11/4/42, is a member of the Staff
of SSC and has been granted a security clearance up to "Top Secret."
On the morning of 7/31/75, Philadelphia Office was
telephonically contacted and instructed to expedite a contact
with Thweat to determine the availability of his relative. At
approximately 2:30 p.m., 7/31/75, Philadelphia Office advised
that Thweat, upon recontact, had stated that it would be impossible
to contact his relative before this coming weekend. In conver-
sation, he identified his relative as a niece who is currently
attending school in Washington, D. C.. He further advised that
O'Flaherty reportedly is no longer residing with his wife and
is engaged in an emotional relationship with his niece. Thweat
added he believed his niece would be cooperative as she has
expressed her disapproval of O'Flaherty's action. He concluded
by saying that upon determination of his niece's decision in
this regard he would immediately advise the Philadelphia Office.
OBSERVATIONS:
The above information, if accurate, represents a
serious violation of the agreement regarding confidentiality
existing between the SSC and members of the intelligence commu-
nity as it relates to material being turned over or made
available to Staff Members of the Committee. It is incumbent
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upon this Bureau to make the above information available at
the earliest logical time and in the most complete form
possible to the Department, CIA, and Senators Frank Church
and John G. Tower of the SSC. Accordingly, an interview by
Bureau Agents of Thweat's niece, if she agrees to cooperate,
would appear desirable before initiating any action on the
basis of information received to date.
Additionally, it is not known at this time whether
or not the document reportedly Xeroxed by O'Flaherty is
classified. In our continuing inquiry into this matter,
attempts will be made to identify document, determine whether
it contains classified information and ascertain whether or
not a violation of Federal statutes exists.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. That contact.be maintained with the Philadelphia
Office to insure that the desired information concerning
Thweat's niece be expeditiously obtained. If she agrees to
cooperate, she will be immediately interviewed and pertinent
information obtained . furnished, via established liaison
channels, to the Department, CIA, and Senators Church and Tower.
Appropriate field offices will be instructed to conduct
necessary investigation to corroborate the information and
to determine if a possible violation of Federal statutes has
been committed.
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SECTET
If Thweat's niece declines cooperativeness,
pertinent information obtained thus far will, in memorandum
form concealing identity of source, be furnished via
established liaison channels to the Department, CIA, and
Senators Church and Tower. Additionally, a lead will be
sent to the Memphis Office to interview Professor Katz at
the University of Vanderbilt in an attempt to corroborate
the allegation.
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The Intelligence Division advised Philadelphia Office
telephonically informed FBIHQ on 8/5/75 that Thweat had returned to
Philadelphia from seeing his niece and indicated she would talk to the
FBI on the condition that she would go to Philadelphia about 8/22/75
to talk to the Agent who is a personal friend of Thweat and to whom
he initially confided the information regarding this matter. Philadelphia
was advised in view of the time lag a more preferable alternative
would be for WFO Agents to contact the niece or as another alternative the
Philadelphia Agent would travel to Washington, D. C., to conduct
the interview. Philadelphia was requested to expeditiously recontact
Thweat concerning the above possibilities.
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GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27
UNITED STATES
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Memorandum
:Mr. W. R. Wannall
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Mr. J. A. Mintz
(Mr. J. B. Hotis)
Mr. W. R. Wannall
DATE: 7/31/75
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SUBJECT: UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
ON INTELLIGENCE-ACTIVITIES (SSC)
Mr. W. O. Cregar
Mr. R. L. Moore
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm. _
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratory
Legal Coun.
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
This is to recommend that the Administrative Division
provide a copy of the Foreign Operations Policy Manual, to be
reviewed by the Intelligence Division before presentation to
the SSC for its review.
The 7/28/75 communication from the SSC contains on
page 4, request IV C, which asks for "The Manual for the Legal
Attaches." The SSC requested access to this Manual for the
purpose of "access to screen for delivery requested by Friday.
August 1, 1975."
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This Manual will not be delivered to the SSC for its
permanent retention at this time, however, the SSC may later
request the copy for its permanent retention. This Manual
should be reviewed by the Liaison Section, Intelligence Division,
prior to being made available to the SSC and if necessary,
deletions from the Manual will be made and the SSC will be
advised of the general nature of the deletions.
RECOMMENDATION:
That the Administrative Division make available to
the Intelligence Division one copy of the Foreign Operations
Policy Manual for review prior to its being made available to
the SSC.
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