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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
MAY 1962 EDITION.
GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
Mr. J. B. Adams
FROM
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SUBJECT: SENSTUDY 75
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Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
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Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y
On 12/4/75, a meeting was held with the following
representatives of captioned Committee: Chief Counsel F.A.O.
Schwartz; Assistant Counsel Paul Michel; Staff Member Mark
Gitenstein; Staff Director of the Domestic Task Force John T.
Elliff; and Staff Member John Bayley. Representing the Bureau
at this meeting were Deputy Associate Director James B. Adams,
Assistant Director John A. Mintz, Inspector John B. Hotis, and
SA Paul V. Daly.
The meeting discussed the forthcoming testimony on.
12/9/75 of the Director before that Committee and Elliff fur-1
nished the Bureau two draft papers discussing the Bureau's
investigative jurisdiction and issues the Committee Staff feels
the Senate Select Committee must address from a legislative
standpoint. Copies of these papers are attached.
The first paper which consists of six pages discusses
in Part 1 what the Committee sees as problems arising out of
the FBI's domestic intelligence investigations. This portion
highlights the fact that these investigations may be overbroad
in scope, collect irrelevant information, and continue the in-
vestigations beyond what the Committee sees as their normal
investigative conclusion. This portion also addresses the
investigative techniques used during these investigations and
the resultant dissemination of information collected.
Under Part 2, the document discusses options available
to the Committee. These options run the gamut from abolition
of the Bureau's domestic intelligence functions to administrative
oversight by the Attorney General or Congressional oversight or
enacting legislation providing for domestic intelligence investi-
gations with legislative limits imposed on such investigations.
Included is the consideration of creating an independent
Inspector General.
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SENSTUDY, 75
The second position paper which was prepared by
John T. Elliff begins by a six-page statement and analysis
of the Bureau's current authority to conduct domestic in-
telligence investigations. He then lists four options for
the Committee.
Option 1 is for Congress to pass legislation ratifying
the existing FBI authority as set forth by Presidential directives
and Executive Orders.
Option 2 suggests. Congress might give serious con-
sideration to creating a separate Security Intelligence Agency
within the Department of Justice. In this Option, Elliff sug-
gests that the FBI itself has considered this Option as part of
the larger question of separating all FBI intelligence functions
from law enforcement functions of the Bureau.
Option 3 considers the elimination of FBI domestic
intelligence. In his analysis of this position, it might be
possible for the Bureau to develop the necessary intelligence
information through its normal criminal investigations and
thus remove the necessity for domestic intelligence investi-
gations as presently conducted.
Option 4 considers setting standards for domestic
intelligence investigations. In this Option, Elliff states
that the FBI should be authorized by statute to conduct domestic
intelligence investigations only as Congress finds that regular
criminal investigations would not provide information to an-
ticipate or prevent the use of violence in violations of Federal
law and that incidents of the use of violence in such violations.
are of a serious nature and threaten the security of the country.
For purposes of the Director's appearance on 12/9/75
before the Senate Select Committee, it is believed his response
to questions concerning the aforementioned position papers should
be that the Bureau has received copies and is reviewing the various
proposals and that it would not be appropriate at this time for
the Director to comment regarding the substance of the proposals.
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SENSTUDY 75
Elliff indicated during this meeting that the Director
during his appearance may anticipate being asked a question by
one of the Senators relating to his statement before the American
Bar Association in Montreal concerning the necessity for the
sacrifice of certain individual rights at the expense of investi-
gations. He also anticipated the Director might be asked a
question concerning his position on COINTELPRO. Regarding
the question concerning the Director's statement before the
American Bar Association in Montreal, the Legal Counsel Divi-
sion will draft a proposed resonse. Concerning COINTELPRO, a
response has been prepared and will be put together with the
briefing material for the Director.
This memorandum in general highlights the Options
presented in the attached papers. A more detailed analysis
should be prepared by the Intelligence Division and existing
documents addressing these proposals should be made available
for the Director's briefing book for his testimony.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
(1) That the Director respond to questions concerning
the attached position papers as set forth above.
See more
Done.
(2) That the Legal Counsel Division draft a proposed
response concerning the Director's statement made in Montreal
relating to the sacrifice of certain individual rights.
(3.)
Done.
That the Intelligence Division make a detailed
review of the various Options set forth in the two attached
position papers. (FOR SUBSEQUENT STAFF CONFLECT
AFTER 1219)
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I.
Issues and Options for Discussion with
Former Attorneys General Rogers, Katzenbach, and Clark
Background
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In the past few weeks the staff has presented the Committee
with evidence suggesting the following about the FBI's
internal security intelligence program:
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A. The program is massive, involving the collection of
information on the activities of thousands of innocent,
law-abiding American citizens.
B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
These individuals were not alleged espionage agents, but
citizens who fall within the FBI's vague definitions of
"subversion" and "extremism" purely homegrown "threats
to the national security".
That FBI policy on "subversive" and "extremist" inves-
tigations was vague and subject to the following abuses:
1.
2.
3.
overbreadth in scope in that groups were investigated
whose threats to the national security were tenuous,
if not non-existent.
collection of information on the personal life and
political views of subjects unrelated to the national
security.
the continuance of investigations well after it
should have become obvious that there was no legiti-
mate predicate.
Particularly invasive collection techniques were used,
including electronic surveillance, mail opening, and sur-
reptitious entries. Although these have been terminated,
the predominant and perhaps most insidious continues
today through the FBI's huge informant/confidential source
network.
Information collected in the course of these investiga-
tions is disseminated regularly throughout the federal
government and to local law enforcement.
Until 1971, information collected through these investi-
gations was disseminated as part of the COINTELPRO pro-
gram to the subjects' friends, relatives, employers, and
others in an effort to discredit or "neutralize" alleged
"subversives" or "extremists".
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II.
G.
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The FBI's internal security intelligence program was
used by Presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Richard
Nixon to serve their political interests, usually by
collecting information on critics or political
opponents.
The program was conceived and implemented in secrecy,
and although parts of the program were shared with out-
side authorities from time to time, until now no
President, Attorney General, or Congressional committee
has been exposed to the entire program in detail.
The program is not authorized by statute but is founded
on a series of secret or ambiguous Presidential orders,
which in turn are based upon a questionable assertion
of "inherent constitutional authority".
The program continues today, albeit on a much more
limited basis than in the late 1960's and early 1970's,
and the basic machinery for the program
the huge
informant/confidential source network is still
operating...
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There is no statute or internal Bureau or Justice Depart-
'ment policy prohibiting a new Director, Attorney General,
or President from ordering the Bureau to expand the pro-
gram to its earlier dimensions.
Issues and Options
Among the issues and options which might be discussed with
former Attorneys General in response to what the Committee
has learned are the following:
A. Abolition. Elimination of the FBI internal security
intelligence program as Attorney General Harlan Stone
ordered in 1924 when confronted with abuses growing out
of the FBI's first internal security intelligence pro-
gram, such as the infamous Palmer raids.
In weighing this option, the Committee should consider
the following issues:
1.
Whether there are not some functions (e.g., protecting
the President, preventing or at least predicting
violence by terrorist organizations, or predicting
civil disorders) which require intelligence collec-
tion.
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B.
2.
Whether FBI intelligence reports are valuable in
that respect, especially in light of a recent GAO
report suggesting that such reports are rarely use-
ful in predicting violent activity.
3. Whether such information, assuming it is valuable,
could not be obtained through more traditional criminal
investigations.
4.
5.
6.
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Whether the value of the information, marginal or
otherwise, justifies the risk to civil liberties
inherent in such intelligence collection.
Whether, given the way in which limited and ambiguous
grants of authority have been expanded into major
authorizations, any statute short of a total prohibi-
tion of all non-law enforcement intelligence activi-
ties in the domestic sector will be adequate to pre-
vent the recurrences of the kinds of abuses uncovered
by this Committee. (Or, conversely, whether it is
possible to draft a law authorizing a limited civil
disturbance and counter-terrorist intelligence mission
that will not eventually evolve, like the National
Security Act of 1947, into a charter for unanticipated
and unwanted covert activities.)
Whether it would be sufficient to restrict the FBI
to criminal investigations without also (a) placing
limits upon the length of investigations, (b) the
kinds of information which can be collected and dis-
seminated on the subject irrelevant to the alleged
'criminal act, (c) the utilization of warrantless
electronic surveillance and other particularly inva-
sive collection techniques, and (d) the utilization
of a huge informant/confidential source network with-
out judicial or Justice Department supervision.
Authorizing Statute. Recognition of the value of
internal security intelligence, but placing limits upon
the program designed to minimize the infringement upon
civil liberties, an option being actively considered by
the present Attorney General.
In weighing this option, the Committee should consider
many of the issues set out under the first option and,
in addition:
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C.
1.
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3.
4.
Whether meaningful and stringent guidelines can be
written which do not so hamper the administration
of an internal security intelligence program as to
make the product not just marginal, as GAO suggests, .
but worthless.*
In light of the possibility that the present Attorney
General may address this matter via internal Justice
Department guidelines, whether this approach does
not ignore the legal authority question which can
only be resolved by statute.
Whether or not Congress could draft a statutory ver-
sion of the guidelines which could be flexible enough
to meet an evolving threat and at the same time
place meaningful restrictions upon the program.
Even assuming there is no absence of legal authority,
is it safe to leave these guidelines in the form of a
departmental order which can be rescinded by the next
Attorney General?
Delegation of Authority to Attorney General. Simply
ratifying the present program via enactment of a statutory
charter which grants the FBI authority to conduct an
internal security intelligence program subject to its own
internal guidelines or departmental guidelines as proposed
by the Attorney General.
In weighing this option, the Committee should consider
many of the issues set out above and:
1.
2.
Whether such a statute would not be an unconstitu-
tional delegation of powers to the Executive Branch.
Whether enactment of such a statute 'would not repre-
sent a failure by the Congress to confront the issues
raised above.
*A preliminary staff analysis of the Attorney General's draft
guidelines suggests that, despite months of conscientious and
painstaking work by a departmental task force, the guidelines
are not adequate. This analysis, which will be presented when
Attorney General Levi testifies on December 10, indicates that
several of the more questionable FBI investigations (e.g., of
Dr. King and the women's liberation movement) would still be
permissible under these proposed guidelines.
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D.
E.
Legislative Inaction.
Enact no new statute affecting
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the FBI's legal authority or the internal security intel-
ligence program.
In weighing this option, the Committee should consider
many of the issues set out above and, in addition:
1.
2.
Whether this failure to act might not leave the
status of the program in doubt and subject to court
challenge.
Whether this failure to act after full disclosure
by the Bureau might not be taken by the FBI and the
courts as a ratification of the program.
Administrative Oversight by the Attorney General. The
Justice Department should be required to exercise greater
administrative oversight over the FBI's internal security
intelligence program by Attorney General Levi, regardless
of whatever other options Congress accepts.
In weighing this option, the Committee should consider
the following issues:
1.
Whether it is practical for the Attorney General or
his staff to review thousands of such investigations
each year.
2. Whether the Attorney General or his staff should
review all or just the so-called "full" investiga-
tions.
3.
4.
5.
Whether, to facilitate the conduct of such reviews,
the Attorney General or his staff should be given
"complete" access to Bureau files, including informa-
tion regarding the identity and reliability of infor-
mants and confidential sources.
Whether it is possible to develop a staff of career
attorneys within the Department with both the access.
and independence essential to the conduct of search-
ing reviews.
Whether the Attorney General or his staff should not
also be required to review various informant and so-
called "intensification" programs, and the establish-
ment of specialized indices (which have a significant
impact upon which cases are opened) instead of just
reviewing individual investigations in a vacuum as
provided by the Attorney General's draft guidelines.
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F.
G.
H.
An. Inspector General. In addition to the above options,
an independent Inspector General should be created to
investigate improprieties by the FBI. This option is
advanced by those concerned about the inadequacy of the
FBI's investigation of the disappearance of former
Director Hoover's personal files, its limited inquiry
into the so-called Atlantic City convention case, and
the absence of any internal investigation of the abuses
in the King case.
In weighing this option, the Committee should consider
the following issues:
1.
2.
Whether it is possible to maintain the independence
of an Inspector General within the Department of
Justice when both the Inspector General and the
Director of the FBI will be responsible to the same
official, the Attorney General.
Whether the Inspector General should have "complete"
access to Bureau files, including information per-
taining to the identity and reliability of informants
and confidential sources.
3. Whether an Inspector General with access to extremely
sensitive information might not become a serious
threat to the independence of the Bureau from politi-
cal influence and to the civil liberties of American
citizens.
Congressional Oversight. In addition to the above
options, the creation of an oversight committee(s) in the
Congress, to which the Bureau would be required to report
and which would have the power to investigate abuses.
In weighing this option, the Committee should consider
the kinds of problems posed by the Justice Department
oversight and Inspector General options discussed above
to the independence of the FBI and the confidentiality
of its files.
In addition
Public Reporting and Disclosure to Subjects.
to the above options, the requirement that the FBI make
frequent public reports on the details of its internal.
security intelligence programs and policies and reveal
the details of improper intelligence investigations to
the subjects of those investigations.
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In weighing this option, the Committee should consider
the following issues:
1.
2.
Whether it is possible to reveal the essence of some
programs and policies and the details of some inves-
tigations without jeopardizing the effectiveness of
legitimate programs.
Whether such disclosure might not increase the num-
ber of law suits filed against the FBI alleging
illegal activities.
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DRAFT
MEMORANDUM
‘FBI LEGISLATION
PROPOSED OPTIONS
December 4, 1975.
In preparation for the testimony of FBI Director
Kelley and Attorney General Levi on December 9 and 10, the
Domestic Intelligence Task Force is pulling together various
proposals for legislation dealing with FBI intelligence.
This paper sets forth some of the basic options.
A: Current Statutes and Executive Orders
The basic statuțe governing the FBI is 18 U.S.C. 533,
which reads as follows:
The Attorney General may appoint officials:
○ (1) to detect and prosecute crimes against
the United States, (2) to assist in the
protection of the person of the President,
and (3) to conduct such other investigations
regarding official matters under the control
of the Department of Justice and the Depart-
ment of State as may be directed by the
Attorney General.
Clauses (2) and (3) are a possible statutory basis
for intelligence investigations going beyond the investigation
of specific federal crimes. Under (2), the FBI may "assist" the
Secret Service in the protection of the President by providing
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intelligence on persons or groups who may endanger the Presi-
dent's safety. A formal agreement between the FBI and the
Șecret Service sets forth the types of intelligence information
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。 provided by the Bureau. However, this agreement states that:
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The FBI will not conduct investigation
of individuals or groups solely for the pur-
pose of establishing whether they constitute
a threat to the safety of the President and
certain other persons unless there is an
indication of a violation of Title 18, U. S.
Code, Section 1751, or other statute over
which the FBI has jurisdiction. (Tab A)
Clause (3) recognizes that the Attorney General may
direct the FBI to conduct investigations, other than criminal
investigations, regarding certain undefined "official matters
under the control of the Department of Justice.' This is a
possible statutory basis for at least two broad areas of FBI
intelligence investigations civil disturbance intelligence
and intelligence for the Federal Employee Security. Program.
The most recent legal advice to the FBI from the Justice
Department on the gathering and reporting of data regarding
civil disturbances notes that on April 1, 1969, the President
designated the Attorney General as chief civilian officer to
coordinate the government's response to civil disturbances.
The FBI is instructed to gather and report on "all significant
incidents of civil unrest" and on "all disturbances where there
are indications that extremist organizations
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to be involved in efforts to instigate or exploit them." The
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FBI is specifically advised to make reports "even when no
specific violation of federal law is indicated." On the other
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hạnd, the FBI is instructed not to report "every relatively in-
significant incident of a strictly local nature coming to its
attention."
(Tab B)
The Justice Department has given the following recent
instructions to the FBI regarding intelligence for the Federal
Employee Security Program. Executive Order 10450, as amended
by Executive Order 11785, is interpreted as requiring an FBI
investigation of organizations "with a potential" of violating
federal or state statutes prohibiting unlawful advocacy of vio-
lence or the commission of any unlawful act of violence. The
FBI is advised that "it is not possible to set definite para-
meters covering the initiation of investigations of potential
organizations falling within the Order." The FBI is instructed
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to apply "the same yardstick" to investigations of individuals
who are affiliated with such organizations.
The FBI is specifi-
cally advised that "it is not necessary that a crime occur
before the investigation is initiated." (Tab C)
Clause (3) also recognizes that the Attorney General
may direct the FBI to conduct investigations, other than criminal
investigations, regarding certain undefined "official matters
under the control of the Department of State. This is a pos-
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foreign intelligence activities within the United States or to
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collect positive foreign intelligence. The best example is
the Attorney General's authorization of warrantless FBI elec-
tronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes.
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However,
there is apparently no instruction from the Justice Department
to the FBI directing the Bureau to initiate investigations of
individuals or organizations which have a marked potential for
use by a foreign intelligence service, but about which there is.
no information indicating intelligence 'activity. (See Staff
Report, "Counterintelligence/Counterespionage:
the Philosophy", October 14, 1975.)
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The Law and
In his testimony before the Committee, Deputy Associate
FBI Director James Adams made no reference to clauses (2) and
(3) as a possible legal basis for FBI intelligence investiga-
tions going beyond the investigation of specific federal crimes.
Instead, he placed sole reliance on a series of Presidential
directives extending from 1936 until the 1960's which the FBI
interprets as authorizing it to engage in "domestic security
intelligence investigations".
The Attorney General has codified
these directives in a Justice Department regulation instructing
the FBI to:
Carry out the Presidential directive
of September 6, 1939, as reaffirmed by Presi-
dential directives of January 8, 1943, July
24, 1950, and December 15, 1953, designating
the [FBI] to take charge of investigative
work in matters relating to espionage, sabotage,
subversive activities, and related matters.
28 C.F.R., Section 0.85 (d).
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The FBI also cites directives of President Kennedy on June 9,
1962, and Attorney General Kennedy on March 5, 1964, which
are the latest charter for the Interdepartmental Intelligence
Conference, composed of the FBI Director and the chiefs of the
military intelligence agencies. This group is authorized to
coordinate "all investigation of domestic espionage, counter-
espionage, sabotage, subversion, and other related intelligence
matters affecting internal security." (Tab D)
The theory behind the FBI's position is that the Prési-
dent has inherent constitutional powers, at least in the
absence of contrary legislation, to authorize FBI intelligence
activities. The only judicial support for this theory is
language in the Supreme Court's opinion in the Keith case,
which declared warrantless wiretapping of domestic groups un-
constitutional.
The Court acknowledged the importance of "national secu-
especially at a time
rity in its domestic implications
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of worldwide ferment and when civil disorders in this country
are more prevalent than in the less turbulent periods of our
history. Under such circumstances, the Court stated, the..
President has a "fundamental duty" under the Constitution to
"preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United
States." The Court added, "Implicit in that duty is the power
to protect our Government against those who would subvert or
overthrow it by unlawful means. Hence, the Court appeared to
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recognize that the President's "domestic security role" has a
"constitutional basis"; that the President through the Attorney
General may need "to obtain intelligence information about those
who plot unlawful acts against the Government"; and that "threats
and acts of sabotage against the Government exist in sufficient
number to justify investigative powers with respect to them."
The Court applied the general principle that "unless the Govern-
ment safeguards its own capacity to function and to preserve
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the security of its people, society itself could become so dis-.
ordered that all rights and liberties would be endangered."
Nevertheless, the central holding of the Keith decision was that
this power may not be exercised in such a way as to infringe
constitutional rights. 407 U.S. 297 (1972).
Even though the President may have the authority under
the Constitution to direct the FBI to conduct intelligence
investigations in the absence of legislation, Congress has the
ultimate authority to substitute statutory authorization in
place of the Presidential directives. As Justice Robert Jackson
declared in the Steel Seizure Case, "When the President takes
measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of
Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.
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B. Option One
Ratifying Existing Powers
The first option for Congress is legislation ratifying
the existing authority granted to the FBI by current Presiden-
tial directives and orders. Such legislation would be cast in
extremely general terms. Its main advantage is that it would
provide a basis for Congressional oversight. It could also
reinforce the Attorney General's role as the immediate super-.
visor of FBI intelligence activities. The statute would
authorize the Attorney General to direct the FBI:
1. to conduct investigations of domestic espionage;
counterespionage, sabotage, and subversive activities;
bances;
2. to gather and report information on civil distur-
3. to conduct investigations of other related intelli-
gence matters affecting internal security; and
4. to conduct investigations of official matters relat-
ing to the Department of State.
In addition, the statute would require the Attorney General
to report annually to the appropriate Congressional committees
on the volume and type of investigations and reports, the
investigative techniques used, and the policies and procedures
adopted by the Justice Department and the FBI.
The weaknesses of this approach are obvious. Congress.
would have legislated a wholesale delegation of power without
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standards or limitations other than the supervision of the
Attorney General and oversight by Congress. In view of the
Select Committee's findings as to the vast overbreadth of FBI
domestic intelligence investigations and the abuses committed
in the name of "counterintelligence", Congress would in effect
be permitting future expansion of FBI operations to match past
policies.
C. Option Two
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A Separate Security Intelligence Agency
Congress might give serious consideration to legislation
creating a separate Security Intelligence Agency within the
Justice Department. It would perform the functions of the
present Counterintelligence Branch of the FBI Intelligence
Division; dealing with foreign intelligence and counterintelli-
“gence/counterėspionage. The FBI itself has considered this
option as part of the larger question of separating all FBI
intelligence functions from the law enforcement functions of
the Bureau.
(Tab E)
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A separate agency would be justified only if it was
authorized to conduct investigations of a wider scope and using
different techniques than would otherwise be permitted.
other words, Congress could decide that foreign counterintelli-
gence investigations should go beyond investigation of specific
crimes, that techniques such as electronic surveillance should
be used without a warrant or with a special type of warrant,
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and that operations should be conducted to "counter" foreign
intelligence activities by means other than arrest or "persona
non grata" proceedings. On the other hand, if Congress treats
the investigation of foreign intelligence activities the same
as a criminal investigation, then the FBI should keep the job.
Any statute in this area must use general language for
diplomatic reasons. For example, Congress should not explicitly
authorize deception operations or efforts to compromise hostile
intelligence officers, even though such techniques may be
envisioned. Such techniques are dealt with best by establish-
ing adequate procedures for authorization and oversight to
ensure accountability.
The legislation should be more specific where it deals
with investigations and other operations directed at American
citizens rather than non-resident aliens in the service of a
foreign power. If Congress believes Americans should be inves-
tigated if they have a marked potential for use by a foreign
intelligence service, but no information indicating intelligence
activity yet exists, the legislation should say so.
The statute should also set out standards for determin-
ing whether a foreign-dominated domestic organization falls
within the jurisdiction of the separate agency. There should
at the very least be substantial information indicating that
the organization is directed by, subsidized by, or in active
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collaboration with a foreign government or organization.
term "foreign organization" refers, for instance, to a group
like the Palestine Liberation Organization.)
If the group fits
the criteria for foreign domination, there should be an addi-
tional finding that it may engage in intelligence activities or
in activities involving the use of violence in violations of
federal law.
If the group meets all these standards, Congress may
authorize the investigation of its activities going beyond
regular criminal investigations. Such investigations, could
extend to all individuals who are members of, or express sup-
port for, the organization, as well as to the efforts of the
organization to influence and control other groups.
However,
it may be sufficient to authorize only the investigation, of
active members and supporters. This would prevent a revival
of the "Cominfil" policy of looking into all forms of lawful
political and social activity where Communists might be involv-
ed.
The Petersen Committee report on COINTELPRO considered
the need for special supervision of foreign counterintelligence
operations in the United States. It recommended the creation
of a Foreign Intelligence Advisory Commission to make decisions
with regard to the necessity or acceptability of particular
foreign counterintelligence techniques. (Tab F) This proposal
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has merit in view of the limited amount of time the Attorney
General can give to personal supervision and the after-the-fact
role of legislative oversight regarding the separate agency.
Finally, legislation to create a separate foreign
counterintelligence agency must deal with relationships to the
Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and other
foreign intelligence agencies. The current FBI-CIA agreement
on their respective jurisdictions is only a "memorandum of under-
standing". It allows the CIA to undertake certain clandestine
activities within the United States, in coordination with the
FBI.
(Tab G) Proposals are currently circulating in the Execu-
tive Branch for a new National Security Council Intelligence
Directive to clarify this matter, as well as to regulate CIA
electronic surveillance of American citizens abroad. (Tab H)
A full draft of a statutory charter for a separate
foreign counterintelligence agency is not included here, since
the focus is on domestic intelligence issues. However, one
implication of such a statute would be that the remaining FBI
functions should relate only to law enforcement and criminal
investigations.
D. Option Three
Elimination of FBI Domestic Intelligence
The basic assumption behind Attorney General Levi's
effort to develop "guidelines" for FBI domestic intelligence
is that regular criminal investigations are not adequate to
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supply the information needed to anticipate or prevent the use
of violence in violations of federal law. That assumption
should be questioned.
Regular criminal investigations are
likely to produce a substantial amount of information which
can be used to anticipate or prevent future crimes. For example,
intensive criminal investigations of Ku Klux Klan violence in
the South during the 1960's would have required the FBI to look
into a wide variety of Klan activities. Another example is the
search for Weatherman fugitives, a regular criminal investiga-
tion which involves broad inquiries across the country.
The
FBI has not yet demonstrated that the preventive information
it has obtained came from intelligence investigations which
would not have been conducted as regular criminal investigations.
The fact that an FBI investigation was supervised by
its Intelligence Division does not necessarily mean that the
investigation was, automatically, outside the regular criminal`
law enforcement jurisdiction of the Bureau. Any FBI investiga-
tion of activities involving the use of violence in violations
of federal law falls within that jurisdiction.
regular criminal investigations can also extend to plans,
attempts, or conspiracies to engage in such activities.
Moreover,
One suggested difference between intelligence-type and
regular criminal investigations is that the latter are
· terminated after a reasonable time, if sufficient evidence to
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justify prosecution is not obtained. However, there is no
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legal. reason why the prosecutor cannot request that the inves-
tigation continue indefinitely as long as there is information
that violent activities and plans for violence are still under-
way. The degree of evidence needed to justify a prosecution
is certainly greater than the degree of evidence needed to
justify an investigation.
All this is not to say that no further standards are
needed to guide regular criminal investigations when they may
touch on sensitive First Amendment or other constitutional
interests. This is especially true of criminal investigations
of individuals or groups engaged both in lawful political, or
social activities and in unlawful violence or plans for vio-
lence. To what extent is the advocacy of violence a propèr
basis for initiating an investigation? Should an investigation
be initiated on the basis of allegations or other information
that an individual is a member of, or has expressed public
support for, an organization which has as one of its objectives
the use of violence? Should an investigation be started on all
members and public supporters of an organization, some of whose
members have acted in concert to use violence?
Violer
These questions are addressed in the dṛaft Attorney
General's guidelines for domestic intelligence investigations
under the heading "preliminary investigations".
(Tab I) Since
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the guidelines assume that there should be intelligence inves-
tigations, they do not consider whether such investigations:
might be permitted as regular criminal investigations.
point.
The Klan and Weatherman examples again illustrate the
Once it has been established that a particular Klan ·
group is engaged in or planning violence, it seems reasonable
to conduct at least preliminary inquiries to determine whether
the members and supporters of the group are involved in the
violence or the plans for violence. Similarly, the search for
Weatherman fugitives who committed bombings and other acts of
violence would appear reasonably to include preliminary
inquiries to determine whether other Weatherman members and
supporters have harbored the fugitives.
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On the other hand, it would seem unreasonable to
investigate members and supporters of all Klan groups across
the country on the ground that some Klan groups have used
violence. And it appears equally unreasonable to investigate
all members and supporters of SDS because the Weatherman
faction engaged in violence. The scope of the investigation
must be logically related to its specific purpose, and not an
excuse for wide-ranging collection of intelligence.
There is one possible exception to the requirement that
the FBI only conduct regular criminal investigations. The
Attorney General (and the President) do require reports on
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major civil disturbances which may not involve violations of
federal law. The FBI should be authorized to gather such data
and make appropriate reports as part of its law enforcement
responsibilities.
However; the data and reports should be
limited to information provided by local or state law enforce-
ment authorities or obtained in the course of a regular FBI
criminal investigation. Where local authorities provide infor-
mation about individuals and organizations which are not the
subject of a regular FBI criminal investigation, the data and
reports should not be included in the FBI's general files and
name index.
In periods of widespread civil disturbances, the
Attorney General may require a more systematic procedure for
maintaining and retrieving civil disturbance information. This
was the case in 1967, when Attorney General Clark created the
Interdivisional Intelligence Unit in the Justice Department.
The IDIU stored and indexed civil disturbance reports separately
from the FBI. The data was used to help anticipate or ameliorate
disorders. IDIU has been abolished, although the basic function
of evaluating reports on civil disturbances is still performed
by the Justice Department. This function should also be
authorized by statute, and the intent of Congress should be
that the Attorney General must obtain specific legislative
authorization for any future IDIU.
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IDIU was not perfect.
Under Attorney General John
Mitchell it supplied a list of names of American dissidents
to the CIA. (Tab J)
It also was used in conjunction with
grand jury proceedings inquiring into terrorist bombings.
Both of these activities should be forbidden by the statute
authorizing the Justice Department to evaluate civil distur-
bance information.
Finally, legislation may be needed to make clear that
the FBI is not authorized to conduct investigations of organi-
zations or individuals for the specific purpose of compiling
a body of data to be used in connection with name checks under
the Federal Employee Security Program. The same principle
applies to FBI "assistance" to the Secret Service, under the
present FBI-Secret Service agreement.
The
A statute must also address the FBI's current practice
of maintaining an Administrative Index (ADEX) of the prime
subjects of current domestic intelligence investigations.
past history of the FBI's Security Index and other target lists
(Key Activists, Agitator Index, Key Black Extremists) suggests
the need to enact legislation banning the compiling of lists
of persons by the FBI, unless such persons have been arrested
or convicted for specific crimes and the list is used in con-
nection with the investigation of such crimes.
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These proposals to limit the FBI to regular criminal
investigations and civil disturbance reporting must be tested
against the actual past experience of the Justice Department
General instructions from the Department to the
I and the FBI.
Bureau may be overly vague, even within the framework of
criminal investigation. Two examples are Attorney General
Clark's memorandum on riots in 1967 and Assistant Attorney
General Yeagley's memorandum of campus disorders in 1969. (Tab
K) The Nation of Islam exchange between the Department and the
FBI in 1973-74 is another illustration. (Tab L)
Thus, there is no automatic panacea in restricting the
FBI to criminal investigations. The need for careful scrutiny
of actual investigative policies and practices by Congress and
the Attorney General is just as great as if the FBI were
authorized to conduct domestic intelligence investigations.
Legislation must focus on procedures for ensuring accountability
by regular reports from the Attorney General to the appropriate
Congressional committees.
The following are some of the basic elements which should
go into a statute embodying this option. It would authorize the
Attorney General to direct the FBI:
.1. to investigate violations of federal criminal laws,
provided that the scope and duration of the investigation are
logically related to its specific purpose;
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2. to take only such investigative measures as are
sanctioned by rule of law, procedure, or judicially recognized
or accepted investigative practices, and are not in violation
of state or federal law;
3. to seek legal advice from the Attorney General or
his designee whenever a proposed action may be perceived, with
reason, to unfairly affect the rights of citizens, provided that
this responsibility to seek legal advice is the duty of both the
FBI as an institution and FBI agents as
individuals;
.4. to collect information from state and local law.
enforcement agencies regarding major civil disturbances, provid-
ed that such information is not entered into the FBI general
files and name index;
5. to disseminate information obtained from criminal
investigations for the following purposes, under regulations
promulgated by the Attorney General and published in the Federal
☐ Register:
a.
b.
criminal laws;
C.
prosecution of violations of criminal laws;
prevention or anticipation of violations of
assistance to the Secret Service in the perfor-
mance of its protective responsibilities;
d. determination of the suitability of individuals
for employment by the federal government;
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to report civil disturbance information obtained
from state and local law enforcement agencies to the Attorney
General for the purpose of determining the need to use federal.
military force under 10 U.S.C. 331 et seq.;
7: to compile such lists of persons arrested or con-
victed for specific crimes as may be necessary for use in con-
nection with the investigation of such crimes;
8. to provide to the Attorney General or his designee
full access to any information in the possession of the FBI
which he may deem necessary for the performance of his respon-
sibilities to supervise FBI activities and to submit reports to
appropriate Congressional committees on FBI activities;
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9. to follow such other procedures and standards con-
sistent with this statute which the Attorney General may pre-
scribe, provided that such procedures and standards shall be
published in the Federal Register or, if publication would sub-
stantially interfere with the conduct of investigations,
reported to appropriate Congressional committees.
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E.
Option Four
Setting Standards for Domestic Intelligence
The FBI should be authorized by statute to conduct
domèstic.iņtelligence investigations only if Congress finds
(1) that regular criminal investigations as described above
.
would not provide information to anticipate or prevent the use
of violence in violations of federal law, and (2) that the inci-
dents of the use of violence in violations of federal law are
so numerous and so serious as to constitute a significant threat
to the internal security or domestic tranquility of the United
States.
The fact that there are individuals and groups who
engage in violence, advocate violence, or believe in the desir-
ability of the ultimate use of violence to advance their
political or social objectives is not enough to justify FBI
domestic intelligence authority. There must be additional
findings that regular criminal investigations are inadequate
and that the overall threat of violence constitutes a serious
danger to the country.
Furthermore, if FBI domestic intelligence is authorized
by statute, it should be an annual authorization which must be
renewed each year upon reconsideration by Congress and the
Attorney General of these factors. Past experience indicates
that the annual appropriations process does not provide an
appropriate forum for considering the FBI's basic authority.
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Attorney General Levi's draft guidelines provide a basis
for the consideration of a domestic intelligence authorization.
They do not cover the investigation of foreign-related
activities which may be directed by, subsidized by, or other-
wise conducted in active collaboration with a foreign government,
a foreign organization, or their agents. (See Option Two above.)
The guidelines deal with five different types of threats
of violence which may constitute serious dangers to the country:
1.
overthrow of the government (revolutionary violence);
..
2. interference in the U. S. with the activities of a
foreign government (bombing a consulate, attempting to assassi-
nate a visiting foreign leader);
3. interference with the functioning of the government
or the flow of interstate commerce to influence federal policies
(violent protest activities, terrorist bombings);
4. deprivation of civil rights (Klan violence, violent
protest against busing);
5. incitement of violence which may require the use of
federal military force (riots, major civil disturbances accom-
panying protest demonstrations).
The guidelines also refer to violence directed at state govern-
ments, either overthrow of a state government or interference
with the functioning of a state government.
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Authorizing legislation should indicate whether domestic
intelligence is necessary for any or all of these specific prob-
lems. For example, revolutionary violence in an attempt to
overthrow the government may be a remote and speculative danger,
while terrorist bombings may be substantially interfering with
the functioning of the government. Klan violence was unques-
tionably a serious danger to civil rights in the early and mid-
but is it so today? Major riots and civil disturbances
were equally serious in the late 1960's and early 1970's, but
not in more recent years. Violent interference with the func-
tioning of a state government should, under our federal system,
normally be dealt with by state and local law enforcement.
1960's,
intelligence can be simplified.
Therefore, the definition of the purpose of FBI domestic
The Attorney General's draft
guidelines might be revised to authorize FBI domestic intelli-
gence investigations:
1. to ascertain facts or information which serves to
anticipate and prevent the use of violence in violations of
federal law intended to
a. interfere, in the United States, with the
activities of a foreign government or its authorized represen-
tatives; and
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b. interfere with the functioning of the government
of the United States or the free flow of interstate commerce in
order to influence policies or decisions of the federal govern-
ment:
This formulation concentrates on the most likely current serious
danger to the country, namely, politically motivated terrorist
violence. FBI Director Kelley's recent public statements have
stressed the increase in terrorist activity from 24 bombings in
1973 to 45 terrorist bombings in 1974 and 46 such bombings in
the first six months of 1975.
However, this increasing threat is not the only factor
to be considered. In the course of the FBI's regular criminal
investigațions of these bombings and other incidents of terror-
ist violence, can it obtain as a by-product substantial infor-
mation which may serve to anticipate and prevent future vio-
lence? If so, the need for broader intelligence-type investi-
gations is less evident.
.:
The draft guidelines provide that the FBI would conduct
full-scale intelligence investigations on the basis of
"specific and articulable facts justifying the conclusion"
that an individual, or individuals acting in concert, may be
engaged in activities which may involve the use of violence in
violations of federal law. The two "mays" render the require-.
ment of "specific and articulable facts" almost meaningless.
Therefore, any legislation should authorize the FBI:
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2.
to conduct full domestic intelligence investigations
on the basis of specific and articulable facts justifying the
conclusion that an individual, or individuals acting in concert,
are engaged in activities which are likely to involve the use
of violence as described in 1 above.
The draft guidelines also discuss the surveillance tech-
niques to be used in full domestic intelligence investigations,
including informants, mail covers, and electronic surveillance.
The guidelines note that additional techniques may need to be
covered, such as inquiries made under "pretext", photographic
surveillance, "trash covers", etc. However, the legislation may
deal with techniques more generally by providing that the FBI
is authorized:
to take only such investigative measures as are
sanctioned by rule of law, procedure, or judicially recognized
or accepted investigative practices, and are not in violation
of state or federal law.
More detailed regulation of investigative techniques for full
investigations will be considered elsewhere.
The scope of domestic intelligence investigations under
the draft guidelines is broadened considerably under the pro-
vision for "preliminary investigations". They can be
initiated on the basis of allegations or other information that
an individual, or individuals acting in concert, have advocated
activities which may involve violence, or are members of, or
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have expressed public support for, an organization which has
as its objective activities which may involve violence. The
purpose of the preliminary investigation is to verify or refute
the allegations or information. However, the vagueness of the
standard is obvious. Therefore, to be consistent with the
criteria for full investigations, the FBI should be authorized:
4. to conduct preliminary domestic intelligence inves-
tigations on the basis of allegations or other information that
an individual, or individuals acting in concert,
or
advocate the use of violence as described in 1
a.
above;
b. are engaged in activities which are likely to
involve the use of violence as described in 1 above;
C. .
. are members of or have expressed. public support
for an organization engaged in activities which involve, or are
likely to involve, the use of violence as described in 1 above,
provided that other members of the organization are currently
the subject of a full domestic intelligence investigation or a
regular criminal investigation.
Unless these changes are made in the guidelines, they would per-
mit investigations similar to past investigations which have
been seriously criticized. For instance, they would allow in-
vestigations of all SDS members or all Black Student Union lead-
ers on the ground that their activities may involve violence,
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even though there is no specific allegation of likely involve-
ment in violence.
Another reason for the revision is to exclude those
investigations which would be justified as regular criminal
investigations. Thus, allegations or other information that
an individual, or individuals acting in concert, have engaged
in or plan to engage in activities which involve the use of
violence would fall within the FBI's regular criminal investi-
gative jurisdiction. Intelligence investigations would extend
further at the preliminary stage to cover advocacy of violence
and membership in or public support for organizations involved
in or likely to be involved in violence. Full investigations
require a likelihood of violence, short of actual violence or
plans for violence.
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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
MAY 1962 EDITION
GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
Mr. J. B. Adams
FROM
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Legal Counsel
SUBJECT: SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE;
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S TESTIMONY,
DECEMBER 10, 1975
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DATE: 12/5/75
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm.
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intell.
Laboratori
Lego
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Telephone Rm.
Director Sec'y _
At 3:01 p. m. on December 5, 1975, Mark Wolf of the Attorney
General's staff, called me at the instructions of the Attorney General
and advised that the Attorney General requested:
modified/ery
Calles de
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(1) FBI manual sections on domestic intelligence
investigations;
(2) A listing identifying all individuals and organizations
now the subjects of FBI domestic intelligence investigations.
Wolf said that the Attorney General is currently en route
Chicago and will return to Washington on Sunday evening. Therefore,
the requested materials should be delivered to the Attorney General
no later than Monday morning, December 8, 1975.
RECOMMENDATION:
That the Intelligence Division prepare an appropriate
response to the Attorney General's instructions in time for delivery by:
9:00 a. m. on December 8, 1975.
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In Reply, Please Refer to
File No. (SC) 62-7721
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
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'WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535,
May 13, 1966
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
لشكر
RE: NATIONALIST PARTY OF PUERTO RICO
INTERNAL SECURITY PUERTO RICAN NATIONALIST
and
1 We presently maintain an authorized technical sur-
veillance at the residence of Rosa Collazo and her daughter,
Lydia Collazo Turner, 1755 Anthony Avenue, Bronx, New York.
This surveillance was originally installed on April 13, 1962.
Rosa Collazo is the wife of Oscar Collazo who is
serving a life sentence in connection with the killing of
a White House guard during an attempt to assassinate former
President Truman on November 1, 1950. Both Rosa and her
daughter are active in the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico
in New York City. During the past six months, this surveil-
lance has continued to furnish valuable information regarding
activities of Puerto Rican independence advocates in New York.
Through this surveillance, we have obtained information
concerning the movement of Puerto Rican nationalists between
New York and Puerto Rico. Included in this information was
advance notice that Rosa Collazo planned to attend the
General Assembly of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico
· during February, 1966, in Puerto Rico. Upon her return,
details were obtained concerning the proceedings of the
General Assembly. In addition, we were able to obtain advance
notice of demonstrations in New York City in which
nationalists participated. This enabled us to inform police
authorities and interested Government agencies in advance of
the demonstrations.
Unless you instruct to the contrary, this technical
surveillance will be continued for an additional six months.
Very truly yours,
g. de pas.
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✓ John Edgar Hoover
Director
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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20535
June 3,
1965
MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
Re:
DOMINICAN SITUATION
INTERNAL SECURITY
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Diego Emilio Bordas Hernandez and his brother,
Luis Manuel Alfredo Bordas, have emerged in the current
Dominican crisis as important financial, political and
military advisors to the deposed Dominican President Juan
Bosch in the latter's efforts to regain control of the
Dominican Government. Diego Bordas is a wealthy shipping
executive currently residing in exile in San Juan, Puerto Rico,
having been born in the Dominican Republic on January 11, 1923.
He served in various high posts under Juan Bosch during the
latter's short occupancy of the position of President of the
Dominican Republic in early 1963. Bordas spends much of his
time at 868 Ashford Avenue in San Juan, using an apartment
at that address as his residence during the absence of its
owner, Jose Antonio Benitez Jiminez, from Puerto Rico.
Jose Benitez is the cousin of Jaime Benitez, the latter the
Director of the University of Puerto Rico and a close
associate and advisor of Juan Bosch. Diego Bordas also
maintains a residence at 21 V, Florencia, Pueblo Viego, a
suburb of San Juan, near the current residence and headquarters
of Juan Bosch. Diego Bordas and his brother jointly operate
a shipping business known as Bordas and Company at Highway
Number 2, Puerto Viejo, Puerto Rico, and his financial
dealings in support of the Bosch efforts can reasonably be
expected to be conducted from this commercial establishment.
The Bordas brothers have both been the subjects of
numerous allegations indicating their cooperation with
procommunist and pro-Trujillo factions in Dominican politics
and are apparently opportunists who have seized the current
situation to enhance their political and financial futures.
Luis Bordas is currently in the Dominican Republic acting as
the Director of Military Operations of the rebel forces
supporting Bosch.
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Luis Bordas is reportedly the Honorary Nicaraguan
Consul in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and, as a result, Department
of State clearance for technical coverage of the business he
operates jointly with Diego Bordas was obtained by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation on June 1, 1965.
In view of the pressing nature of the international
situation as it relates to the Dominican Republic, it is.
requested that you authorize technical coverage of the
residences of Diego Bordas mentioned above and of the business
address of the joint venture operated by the Bordas brothers,
Authority is requested for similar coverage of any addresses
to which the mentioned residences or business may move in
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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN 18 UNCLASSIFIED
1975
DATE 10/31/00 BY SPQALMISP
Reference is made to SSC letter dated December 4,
1975, containing requests for materials concerning Martin
Luther King, Jr.
Enclosed for your approval and forwarding to the
SSC is an original of a memorandum in response to Item 2 in
that letter.
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Delivered to Committee 12-2 05,
to Shahee
office 12/22/75pro
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memorandum which is being delivered to you with a copy of the
document in response to Item 2 which is being delivered to the
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ENCLOSURE
A copy of the SSC letter 12/4/75, is attached to the
file copy of enclosed letterhead memorandum. Exact copy of
the memorandum being furnished is maintained in the office of the
SENSTUDY 75 Project. Arrangements have been made for a repre-:
senative of the Legal Counsel Division to deliver the attached
memorandum as well as the document being provided to the SSC.
As indicated in the enclosed memorandum, Items 1, 3 and 4 requested
in the referenced SSC letter are being handled separately. Items
1 and 3 requested in referenced SSC letter are being handled by
the IS-3 and CI-3 Sections respectively. Item 4, a retestatement
of prior request submitted by the SSC is being handled separately
by SA V. R. Thornton of the IS-1 Section.
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Mr. P. E. Nugent
December 19, 1975
U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 19/3//00 BY SPALAKR
Reference is made to SSC letter dated December 4,
1975, containing requests for materials concerning Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The purpose of this memorandum is to effect delivery
to the SSC of a copy of a letter from Mr. Hoover to The Honorable
William D. Moyers, Special Assistant to the President, at the
White House, Washington, D. C., dated October 27, 1964.
It is noted that in addition to requesting a copy of
this letter the SSC requested materials reflecting this letter
was hand-delivered to the White House by Mr. DeLoach on
October 28, 1964.
Attention is drawn to the upper right-hand corner of
Mr. Hoover's letter to Mr. Moyers and to the notation appearing
there reading "personally delivered 10/28/64, D." No additional
materials are available in FBIHQ files reflecting delivery of
this letter beyond the aforementioned notation which, it appears,
bears the initial of lir.. DeLoach.
Items 1, 3 and 4 requested in the referenced SSC
letter are being handled in separate responses.
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December 8, 1975
TO:
FROM:
John A. Mintz, Assistant Director
Legal Counsel Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Michael E. Shaheen, Jr.
Special Counsel for Intelligence
Coordination
SUBJECT: Senate Select Committee Request
Attached is a Senate Select Committee request
seeking delivery of certain Bureau materials. Please
prepare an appropriate response.
I invite your attention to paragraph numbered 4
which amends an earlier request of the Committee (Elliff
letter of November 25, 1975, Item 6c) which request was
the subject of a telephone conversation on December 3,
with Mr. Seymor Phillips of the Bureau.
CC: Paul Daly
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RICHARDS. SCHWEIKER,
WILLIAM G. MILLER, STAFF DIRECTOR
F. DERICK A. O. SCHWARZ, JR., CHIEF COUNSEL
CURTIS R. SMOTHERS, MINORITY COUNSEL
MD.
United States Senate
SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
(PURSUANT TO S. RES. 21, 34TH CONGRESS)
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
December 4, 1975
Michael E. Shaheen, Jr., Esq.
Special Counsel for Intelligence
Coordination
Office of the Deputy Attorney. General
U. S. Department of Justice
· Washington, D.C. 20530
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Dear Mike:
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The Senate Select Committee requests the
following materials for delivery.
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Delivery of all materials pertaining
to the circumstances surrounding the
recommendation for, authorization of,
and duration and termination of the
electronic surveillance referred to in
Items 1 and 22 of my letter of November
21, 1975 and in materials delivered to
the Committee on December 1, 1975.'
Delivery of a copy of the letter to Mr.
Bill Moyers, Special Assistant to the
President, dated October 27, 1964, and
materials reflecting that this letter
was hand delivered by Mr. Cartha DeLoach
on October 28, 1964.
3. Delivery of all materials pertaining to the
surveillances of Mrs. Anna Chennault in
October and November, 1968.
Nugent
The Committee's request in my letter of
November 27, 1975, item 6c should be revised
to read as follows: "All memoranda and any
other materials which pertain to, bear upon,
or indicate any actions taken pursuant to or
in connection with the recommendation contained
in this memornadum, including a summary of the
recommendations of relevant Bureau personnel
pertaining thereto."
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wise state verbal request of (name), initiative, subpoena, etc.)
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Information handling
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Materials relating to Martin Luther King, Jr.: Copy of a letter
from Mr. Hoover to The Honorable William D. Moyers 10/27/64 along
with notation that shows letter was hand delivered by Mr.
DeLoach 10/28/64.
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Honorable William D. Moyers
Special Assistant to the President
The White House
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Moyers:
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A confidential source of this Bureau who has
supplied reliable information in the past furnished the
following information concerning a contact on October 23,
1964, between Martin Wigington and Randolph Blackwell.
Wigington was described as a member of the Democratic
Party Correlation Committee, Austin, Texas. Blackwell
is an assistant to Martin Luther King,
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at the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.
Wigington indicated to Blackwell a desire for
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King to write "an anti-Goldwater letter" which Wigington's
Committee intends to distribute in Texas among labor groups.
Blackwell stated that King may go to Texas prior to the
forthcoming presidential election and Blackwell inquired
as to whether King would be "in any danger." Wigington
stated that he would contact one Larry Goodman concerning
any possible danger to King in Texas. This Bureau's source
had no information concerning the identity of Goodman.
During this contact Wigington complained to
Blackwell that a group from the Southern Christian Leader-
ship Conference, which Conference is headed by King, and
a group from the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Workmen of North America had picketed in Fort Worth,
Texas. Wigington stated that this was not a good thing
at this time since all Negro and labor organizations should
be working for the election of President Lyndon B. Johnson.
This information is also being furnished to
officials in the Department of Justice,
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from AT 1380-$*, a highly sensitive source with respect
to the racial situation. This source is of continuing
value and the unauthorized disclosure of this information
could compromise its effectiveness and thus be detrimental
to the national defense. Information obtained from Atlanta
teletype 10/23/64.
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112-5-75
On November 21, 1975 Inspector John B. Hotis of this
Bureau met with Doug Marvin, Counselor to the Attorney General,
Mark Wolf, Special Assistant to the Attorney General; and Michael E.
Shaheen, Jr., Special Counsel for Intelligence Coordination,
concerning your forthcoming appearance before the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence Activities. At this meeting
this Bureau was requested to provide write-ups on certain phases
of this Bureau's operations which are to be used in the preparation
of a briefing book for your testimony.
Attached are the following individual write-ups
requested on November 21, 1975: "Investigative Techniques
"Organizational Structure and Functions of the FBI"; 
"
Ilegation
of Hisconduct Involving Special Agent in Charge, Miami Office";
*Director Hoover's 'Official and Confidential (OC) Files":
"Allegations of Possible Misconduct by FBI Agents, Houston,
Texas"; "Allegations of Personal and Official Misconduct of a
Former Special Agent in Charge of the Baltimore Office";
"Allegation of Bribery by FBI Agent, New York"; "Allegation of
Possible Hisconduct by an FBI Agent, Detroit, Michigan";
"Allegations of Misconduct by FBI Agents, Richmond, Virginia,
Field Office, in Connection with the Investigation of Illegal
Wiretapping by the Richmond, Virginia, Police Department*;
"Allegations of Violations of Gun Control Act by FBI Agent”;
*Review of Appropriations Testimony for Fiscal Years 1955
thru 1976; "Fenure of FBI Director"; "Transfer of Drug
Enforcement Responsibilities to the FBI"; "Office of Special
Review, Department of Justice", and "Major Topics of Primary
Concern to Congressional Committees.”
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1975, which requested additional information, we are gathering
the necessary material on an expeditious basis and the results
will be furnished as soon as possible.
Enclosures (15)
1 The Deputy Attorney General
Attention: Michael E. Shaheen, Jr. Enclosures (15)
Special Counsel for Intelligence
Coordination
NOTE: See Legal Counsel Memorandum to Mr. J. B. Adams dated
11-24-75, captioned "Testimony By The Attorney General Before
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities." On
12-1-75 Mark Wolf, Special Assistant to the Attorney General,
requested the attached information be furnished as soon as
possible. No later than 12-2-75. This response was coordinated
and incorporates material prepared by the Inspection, Special;
Investigative, General Investigative, Files and Communications,
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Reference is made to SSC letters dated December 4,
1975, and November 25, 1975, containing requests for materials
concerning Martin Luther King, Jr.
Enclosed for your approval and forwarding to the SSC
is an original of a memorandum in response to Item 4 in the
December 4, 1975, request and Items 7c and 8c of the November 25,
1975, request.
Also enclosed for your records is a copy of the
memorandum which is being delivered to you with the material
which is being furnished to the SSC.
Enclosures (2)
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Special Counsel for
Intelligence Coordination
Delivered to
Delivered to Commitee 1-15-76.
Dept.
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Copies of SSC letters 11/25/75 and 12/4/75 are
attached to the file copy of enclosed LHM. Arrangements have
been made for a representative of the Legal Counsel Division
to deliver the attached memorandum as well as documents being
provided to the SSC. Copies of material being furnished to SSC.
being retained with Senstudy 75 Project.
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January 14, 1976.
U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
Assoc. Dir.
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Reference is made to SSC letter dated December 4, 1975,
Item 4 of which requests materials concerning Martin Luther
King, Jr.; and SSC letter dated November 25, 1975, Items 7c and
8c of which request materials concerning the Washington Spring
Project and Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tennessee,
respectively.
The purpose of this memorandum is to effect delivery
to the SSC of materials in response to referenced requests.
In respect to Item 4 of the December 4, 1975, request,
the only indication of any action taken concerning the recommend-
ation contained in the pertinent memorandum dated March 29, 1963,
captioned, "Counterintelligence Program, Black Nationalist-Hate
Groups, Racial Intelligence (Martin Luther King)" is the
pencilled notation "Handled 4/3/63," appearing on page one and
initials which are believed to be those of former Special Agent
(SA) Harold P. Leinbaugh. Among the documents being furnished
the SSC is a memorandum dated July 18, 1975, captioned,
"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.," along with supporting documents,
which were submitted to the Attorney General concerning back-
ground leading up to the proposed action recommended in the
March 29, 1968, memorandum. It includes results of an inter-
view of Leinbaugh.
In response to Item 7c, the only indication of any
action taken concerning the suggestion (recommendation) con-
tained in the memorandum dated March 26, 1968, captioned,
"Counterintelligence Program, Black Nationalist-Hate Groups,
Racial Intelligence (Washington Spring Project)" is the pencilled
notation "Handled 4/4/68," appearing on page two of that memo-
randum and initials which are believed to be those of former
SA Leinbaugh.
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Memphis, Tennessee, Racial Matters,' the only indication of
action taken concerning the recommendation contained therein
is a pencilled notation appearing on page one, "Handled
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G. C. Moore
SUBJECT: CCOUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
BLACK NATIONALIST
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RACIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(MARTIN LUTHER KING)
PURPOSE:
King.
DATE: March 29, 1968
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
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DATE 10/30/60 BY STEALMKA
To publicize hypocrisy or the part of Martin Luther
BACKGROUND:
Martin Luther King has urged Negroes in Memphis,
Tennessee, to boycott white merchants in order to force
compliance with Negro demands in the sanitation workers'
strike in Memphis.
When violence broke out during the march King led
in Memphis on 3-28-68, King disappeared. There is a first
class Negro hotel in Memphis, the Hotel Lorraine, but King
chose to hide out at the white owned and operated Holiday Inn
Motel.
RECOMMENDATION:
The above facts have been included in the attached
blind memorandum and it is recommended it be furnished a
cooperative news media source by the Crime Records Division
for an item showing King is a hypocrite. This will be done on
a highly confidential basis.
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DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO
March 29, 1968
Martin Luther King, during the sanitation workers'
strike in Memphis, Tennessee, has urged Negroes to boycott.
downtown white merchants to achieve Negro demands. On 3-29-68
King led a march for the sanitation workers. Like Judas leading
lambs to slaughter King led the marchers to violence, and when
the violence broke out, King disappeared.
The fine Hotel Lorraine in Memphis is owned and
patronized exclusively by Negroes but King didn't go there
from his hasty exit. Instead King decided the plush Holiday
Inn Motel, white owned, operated and almost exclusively white
patronized, was the place to "cool it." There will be no
boycott of white merchants for King, only for his followers.
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SP2ALMKO
100-441006
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DATE 10/30/00 BY SPRALMICP
The following information is submitted regarding the
background leading up to the proposed action recommended in
memorandum G. C. Moore to Mr. W. C. Sullivan dated March 29,
1968, captioned "Counterintelligence Program, Black Nationalist-
Hate Groups, Racial Intelligence; (Martin Luther King)."
(copy attached)
This memorandum recommended that information be
furnished to a cooperative news media source by the Crime
Records Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
showing King as a hypocrite. This was to be based on the fact
that when violence broke out during a march led by King in
Memphis, Tennessee, on March 28, 1968, he disappeared. There
was a first class Negro hotel in Memphis, the Hotel Lorraine,
but King chose to hide out in a white owned and operated
Holiday Inn Motel (also known as the Rivermont Motel).
A notation on the above referred to memorandum
ration outside your Committee.
This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissem
nel without the express approval of the FBI .
your Committee and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person-
Its use is limited to official proceedings by
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indicated that the recommendation was "handled" on April 3,
1968, by Mr. Harold P. Leinbaugh of the Crime Records Division.
(see notation on memorandum dated March 29, 1968, attached)
By way of background it should be noted that at about
6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, while standing on second floor balcony
outside room 306 of the Hotel Lorraine, Memphis, Tennessee,
King was shot and killed.
Memphis teletype dated April 2, 1968, reflects that
King and other Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
officials were due to arrive in Memphis at 10:15 a.m. on
Dep. AD Adm. April 3, 1968, via Eastern Airlines from Atlanta. (copy of
Dep. AD Inv. omphis teletype dated April 2, 1968, attached)
Assoc. Dir.
Asst. Dir.:
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After King's death, an interview with Reverend Ralph
David Abernathy, a close associate of King, reflected that he
Files & Com. and King registered into the Hotel Lorraine in Memphis,
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tennessee, at about 10:30 a.m. on April 3, 1968. (Information
contained in report of SA Joe C. Hester dated April 17, 1968,
Memphis, captioned "UNSUB, aka, Eric Starvo Calt, et al.,
Rights" page 48. See attached FD-302 reflecting interview with
Reverend Ralph David Abernathy).
For further background regarding the basis of this
proposal Atlanta teletype dated March 28, 1968, captioned
"Martin Luther King, Jr., SM-C" with second caption "Sanitation
Workers Strike, Memphis, Tennessee, Racial Matters" reflects
that on March 28, 1968, King and other SCLC people were in
room 801, Holiday Inn, Memphis, Tennessee, at 4:30 p.m. (copy
of Atlanta teletype attached)
A Memphis teletype dated March 29, 1968, captioned
"Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tennessee, Racial Matters"
reflects that King participated in the march of sanitation
workers on March 28, 1968. When violence erupted including
the breaking of windows and looting by the marchers, King and
a few associates ran to a nearby car and left the march
proceeding to Rivermont Motel where they remained through the
afternoon and evening. (copy of Memphis teletype attached)
On July 17, 1975, Mr. Harold P. Leinbaugh, after
having had all the facts set out above reviewed with him
including the fact his notation of "handled" appeared on the
March 29, 1968, memorandum, advised that he has absolutely no
recollection of this memorándum and can unhesitantly state
that he cannot now recall whether or not proposed information
was ever disseminated to any news media source. He indicated
(that his notation "handled" would not necessarily mean that
The did disseminate this information. In explaining this he
stated that the notation could mean that he was merely clearing
this document through Crime Records Division and at this late
date there would be absolutely no way that he could make any
positive statements as to whether or not the information
recommended was ever disseminated to a news media source.
From the above recorded sequence of events as
reflected in various communications identified above, it is
evident that King returned to Memphis, Tennessee, from Atlanta
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
on April 3, 1968, and checked into the Hotel Lorraine at
approximately 10:30 a.m. The notation indicating that the
proposed furnishing of information to the news media was
"handled" on April 3, 1968, would, of course, preclude any
such information from appearing in the press prior to King's
checking into the Hotel Lorraine at approximately 10:30 a.m.
on April 3, 1968.
A review of appropriate files maintained at FBI
Headquarters fails to reflect any newspaper article which
could have been an outgrowth of the proposed recommendation
contained in the G. C. Moore memorandum to Mr. W. C. Sullivan
dated March 29, 1968.
A review of the "Memphis Commercial Appeal" for the
period March 28 to April 4, 1968, maintained on microfilm in
the Library of Congress failed to reflect any article which
would appear to be an outgrowth of the proposed recommendation
contained in G. C. Moore memorandum to Mr. W. C. Sullivan
dated March 29, 1968. References were noted indicating that
King held a press conference at the Holiday Inn Rivermont
Motel on March 29, 1968.
Enclosures (5)
NOTE:
See memorandum J. G. Deegan to Mr. W. R. Wannall,
dated 7/18/75, captioned as above, prepared by HAN/cah.
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G. C. Moore
BJECT!
С COUNTE
OUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
BLACK NATIONALIST
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HATE GROUPS
RACIAL INTELLIGENCE
(MARTIN LUTHER KING)
PURPOSE:
King.
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN 
IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/3000 BY SW
Tele. Reer
Holmes
Gandy
To publicize hypocrisy on the part of Martin Luther
BACKGROUND:
Martin Luther King has urged Negroes in Memphis,
Tennessee, to boycott white merchants in order to force
compliance with Negro demands in the sanitation workers'
strike in Memphis.
When violence broke out during the march King led
in Memphis on 3-28-68, King disappeared. There is a first
class Negro hotel in Memphis, the Hotel Lorraine, but King
chose to hide out at the white owned and operated Holiday In
Motel.
RECOMMENDATION:
This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-
nation outside your Committee.
nel without the express aproval of the FBI
your Committee and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized person
Its use is limited to official pradedings by
The above facts have been included in the attached
blind memorandum and it is recommended it be furnished a
cooperative news media source by the Crime Records Divisions
for an item showing King is a hypocrite. This will be done
a highly confidential basis.
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March 29, 1968
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DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO
Martin Luther King, during the sanitation workers'
strike in Memphis, Tennessee, has urged Negroes to boycott
downtown white merchants to achieve Negro demands. On 3-29-68
King led a march for the sanitation workers. Like Judas leading
lambs. to slaughter King led the marchers to violence, and when
the violence broke out, King disappeared.
The fine Hotel Lorraine in Memphis is owned and
patronized exclusively by Negroes but King didn't go there
from his hasty exit. Instead King decided the plush Holiday
Inn Motel, white owned, operated and almost exclusively white
patronized, was the place to "cool it." There will be no
boycott of white merchants for King, only for his followers.
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SPALMIS
100-24006
_OLOSURE
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SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE, MEMPHIS, TENN.,
RACIAL MAtter
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SEVENTEEN YEAR OLD NEGRO WHO WAS SHOT BY MEMPHIS PD OFFICER
AFTER STORE LOOTING GROWING OUT OF MARCH TWENTY EIGHT RACIAL
DISTURBANCE, MEMPHIS, WAS HELD, WITHOUT INCIDENT, AT CLAYBORN
TEMPLE, MEMPHIS. ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED IN ATTENDANCE DESPITE FACT
CHURCH CAN SEAT TWENTY FIVE HUNDRED. BODY INTERRED IMMEDIATELY
AFTER FUNERAL. ARKIN ADVISED THAT ANOTHER SANITATION
S
WORKERS SYMPATHY MARCH IS CHEDULED FOR DOWNTOWN MEMPHIS AFTERNOON
OF APRIL TWO.
100-106670-
NOT RECORDED
EASTERN AIRLINES ADVISED ON APRIL TWO THAT REV. MARTIN LUTHER
KING, JR., AND SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (SCLC) AIDES
RALPH D. ABERNATHY, BERNARD LEE, AND ANDREW M. YOUNG DUE TO ARRIVE
MEMPHIS TEN FIFTEEN A.M., APRIL THREE, FROM ATLANTA.
END PAGE ONE
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APR 1968
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/// notion of
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and Attorney General. Date 
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ON APRIL TWO A SOURCE ADVISED THAT AT A PRESS CONFERENCE AT
CLAYBORN TEMPLE, APRIL TWO, REV. JESSE JACKSON OF SCLC'S "OPERATION
BREAD BASKET," REV. S. B. KYLES OF METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH,
NEMPHIS, AND REV. EDWARD L. BROWN, MT. PISGAH CME CHURCH, ADVISED
THAT WITH SCLC PERSONNEL IN MEMPHIS THAT NIGHTLY MASS STRIKE
SUPPORT MEETINGS WILL BE RESUMED, THE FIRST AT MASON TEMPLE ON
NIGHT OF APRIL THREE WITH KING AS FEATURED SPEAKER. THEY SAID
MASS MARCH WILL BE HELD FRIDAY, APRIL FIVE, AND THAT THEY WILL
HAVE SCHOOL CHILDREN PARTICIPATE SINCE MARCHING WITH "MARTIN LUTHER
KING, JR., THE GREATEST LIVING AMERICAN;" WOULD BE MORE EDUCATIONAL
THAN BEING IN SCHOOL. WHEN ASKED BY PRESS IF KING WOULD PERSONALLY
MARCH, JACKSON SAID KING MIGHT NOT MARCH. HE DID NOT ELABORATE.
WHEN ASKED IF SCLC GROUP WOULD VIOLATE A POSSIBLE INJUNCTION
AGAINST THEIR MARCHING, JACKSON SAID "THE WHITE MAN HAS ALREADY
ENJOINED THE BLACK MAN TO THE GHETTO AND THE WHITE MAN DOESN'I
NEED TO VALIDATE IT, BY SENDING US A PIECE OF PAPER." KYLES SAID THE
PROBLEM FACING MEMPHIS IS NOT MILITANT BLACK YOUTH BUT IS
"WHITE RACISM." JACKSON DESCRIBED OPERATION BREAD BASKET AS MASSIVE
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DRIVE TO PORCE ALL GROCERS IN NEGRO AREA TO CEASE SELLING HART'S
BREAD, WONDER BREAD, COCA COLA, AND SEALTEST DAIRY PRODUCTS
AS THESE FIRMS DO NOT HIRE SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF NEGROES.
•
ON APRIL TWO LT.. ARKIN ADVISED THAT MEMPHIS CITY OFFICIALS ARE
• CONSIDERING SEEKING A COURT INJUNCTION PROHIBITING ANY MASS MARCH
LED BY KING OR AN INJUNCTION SPECIFYING CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH A MARCH
COULD TAKE PLACE AND ALSO CONSIDERING RESUMPTION OF A CURFEW AND
PLACING STRIKE SUPPORT LEADERS UNDER A PEACE AND FINANCIAL
RESPONSIBILITY BOND:
ARKIN ADVISED THAT REMAINDER OF TENNESSEE NATIONAL GUARD,
- WITH EXCEPTION OF ONE BATTERY CONSISTING OF TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY.
*:*:
THREE OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE MEMPHIS GUARD UNIT. HAVE LEFT MEMPHIS.
AT THREE ZERO FIVE PM, SIXTY SANITATION WORKERS AND SYMPATHIZERS
DEPARTED CLAYBORN TEMPLE CARRYING PLACARDS FOLLOWING THEIR USUAL
PARADE MARCH TO BEALE STREET NORTH ON MAIN TO CITY HALL. NO
INCIDENTS REPORTED.
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
73.
Date
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN UNCLASSIFIED
DATE/0/30/00 BY SPALMIG
April 8, 1968
Reverend RALPH DAVID) ABERNATHY, 690 Là Verne Drive, N. W.,
Atlanta, Georgia, was interviewed at the Memphis Police Department
at 10:55 p.m. April 4, 1968. Reverend ABERNATHY was advised of
the Agent's identity and of the nature of the matter under investiga-
tion.
1
Reverend ABERNATHY, who described himself as Vice President
at Large and Treasurer of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference, stated he was Dr. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.'s closest
associate and stated that he and Dr. KING always shared a room
whenever they travelled together. He stated that at about 10:30 a.m
on April 3, 1968, he and Dr. KING registered at the Lorraine Motel,
Maphis, Tennessee.
Reverend ABERNATHY stated that on April 4, 1968, he and Dr.
KING did not leave the motel and spent most of the day in their
room, #306, which is located on the second floor of the motel.
He stated that he and Dr. KING had been gone from their room for
approximately one hour or less when they returned to the room at
about 5:30 p.m.
He said they got dressed as they were going to
dinner at the home of Reverend BILLY KYLE and that at almost exactly
6 p.m. they started to leave the room. Reverend ABERNATHY stopped
for a moment and Dr. KING walked out onto the balcony just outside
the door to his room. Reverend ABERNATHY was still inside the
motel room but could hear Dr. KING discussing the dinner engagement
With other associates who Reverend ABERNATHY believes were standing
in the parking area of the motel underneath and to the front of the
.balcony on which Dr. KING was standing.
Reverend ABERNATHY stated he heard what sounded like a fire-
cracker and then heard the screams of persons to whom Dr. KING had
been talking. Reverend ABERNATHY went then to the balcony and dis-
covered Dr. KING lying there wounded in the right side of the face
and neck. He said he believed Dr. KING attempted to speak to him
but was unable to do so: Reverend ABERNATHY said he instructed
someone to call an ambulance and then accompanied Dr. KING in the
ambulance to the hospital where Dr. KING subsequently died.
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4/4/68
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nution 
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your 
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nel without 
the express approval of the FBI
at Memphis, Tennessee
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_File # Memphis 44-1987
by SA JOE C. HESTER: bn
_Date dictated 4/8/68
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Reverend ABERNATHY stated that judging from the sound
of the noise it appeared that the shot came from directly in
front of the door and not from any great distance. He stated
he did not observe anything that would indicate who fired the
shot. Reverend ABERNATHY also stated that while they were in
the motel room Dr. KING did not, to his knowledge, receive any
telephone calls of a threatening nature or calls from persons
Who would not identify themselves. Reverend ABERNATHY said
Dr. KING had not feared that any particular persons might
harm him and Reverend ABERNATHY was unable to suggest any
suspects or to provide any other information which might
Assist in identifying Dr. KING's killer.
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Mr. Telson
Mr. Wach
Mr. Mohr
Me. Biop
Mr. Cyper
11:17PM URGENT 3-28-68 ARK
TO DIRECTOR (102-106670) AND MEMPHIS
FROM ATLANTA (100-5586)
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., SM-C.
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SP2AL
SPALMKP
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Mr. Callan
Mr. Conrad
Mr. Felt
Mr. Gale
Mr. Rosen.
Mr. Tavel
Mr. Tretter
Tile Room
Miss Holmes.
Miss Gandy.
SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.
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AT ONE THREE EIGHT SEVEN-R FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION
AT FOUR THIRTY PM MARCH TWENTYEIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT.
INFORMANT'S INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM DISCUSSION SHORTLY
BEFORE WITH HOSEA WILLIAMS DIRECTOR OF VOTER REGISTRATION AND
POLITICAL EDUCATION, SCLC, CURRENTLY IN ATLANTA, WHO DURING LATE
AFTERNOON MARCH TWENTYEIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT, CONFERRED TELEPHONICALLY
WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., PRESIDENT, SCLC; RALPH D. ABERNATHY,
VICE PRESIDENT AND TEASURER, SCLC; AND BERNARD DEE, SPECIAL AIDE
TO THE PRESIDENT, SCLC.
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KING, ABERNATHY, AND LEE ARE CURRENTLY IN ROOM EIGHT ZERO ONE,
HOLIDAY INN, MEMPHIS.
WITH REFERENCE TO RACIAL DISTURBANCE IN MEMPHIS MARCH
TWENTYEIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT, KING IS EXTREMELY DEJECTED. HE AND
ABERNATHY STRONGLY FEEL DISTURBANCE ON THIS DATE DELIBERATELY PLANNED
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BY NEGROES WHO ARE NEITHER SYMPATHETIC TO KING OR SCLC. IDENTITY
OF SUCH INDIVIDUALS NOT KNOWN.
ABERNATHY, LEE AND WILLIAMS ARE GREATLY CONCERNED FOR
WELFARE OF KING, PARTICULARLY ON NIGHT OF MARCH TWENTYEIGHT,
SIXTYEIGHT, WHEN HE EXPECTS TO PARTICIPATE IN MARCH OR DEMONSTRATION
WITH SANITATION WORKERS. AT PRESENT TIME KING DOES NOT FEEL HE SHOULD
LEAVE MEMPHIS.
DURATION OF STAY AND FURTHER DETAILS IN THIS
CONNECTION NOT KNOWN.
ACCORDING TO WILLIAMS, HE, ABERNATHY, AND LEE STRONGLY FEEL
SAME ELEMENTS WHICH CAUSED DISTURBANCE IN MEMPHIS EARLIER MARCH
TWENTYEIGHT MAY CAUSE PERSONAL HARM TO KING EVENING OF MARCH
TWENTYEIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT.
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INFORMATION FROM AT ONE THREE EIGHT SEVEN-R MUST BE CLASSIFIED
CONFIDENTIAL. MEMPHIS, HOWEVER, SHOULD ADVISE LOCAL AUTHORITIES IF
NOT ALREADY KNOWN THAT KING CONTEMPLATES PARTICIPATING IN MARCH OR
DEMONSTRATION EVENING OF MARCH TWENTYEIGHT AND THAT IN VIEW OF EARLIER
DISTURBANCES IN MEMPHIS ON THIS DATE, SEVERAL RANKING SCLC OFFICIALS
APPREHENSIVE FOR PERSONAL WELFARE OF KING.
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FOREGOING INFORMATION TELEPHONICALLY FURNISHED MEMPHIS MARCH
TWENTYEIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT.
RECEIVED: 11:39PM RM
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FBI WASH DC
FBI MEMPHIS
1256AM URGXENT 3-29-68 DGB
TO DIRECTOR
FROM MEMPHIS (157-1094)
MARR91568
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
Callahan
Mr. Conged.
Mr. Felt.
Tale. Room.
Mas men.
El Gandy-
DATE/0/30/00 SV 2
SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE, RM. RACIAL MATTERS,
原
RE MEMPHIS TELS, MARCH TWENTY EIGHT, NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT.
FOLLOWING IS SUMMARY OF MARCH TWENTY EIGHT ACTIVITIES;
ON MARCH TWENTY EIGHT, LT. E. H. ARKIN, INSPECTIONAL BUREAU
MEMPHIS POLICE DEPT ADVISED THAT THE MASS MARCH TO BE LED BY
REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., IN SUPPORT OF SANITATION WORKERS
STARTED AT AROUND ELEVEN AM CST WITH ESTIMATED FIVE TOSIX
THOUSAND WORKERS, MANY OF WHOM WERE NEGRO TEENAGERS.
STARTED AT CLAYBORN TEMPLE, LOCATED HEART OF NEGRO AREA,
HE WALKED WITH
KING JOINED MARCH AFTER IT PROGRESSED ONE BLOCK.
MARCHERS TO VICINITY BEALE AND MAIN STREETS, MADE NO SPEECHES
PRIOR TO MARCH, MADE NO KNOWN UTTERANCES DURING MARCH, AND B
TIME HE REACHED ABOVE POINT
RAMPANT BREAKING OF STORE WINDOWS
MARCH
AND
AND LOOTING WAS BEING PERPETRATED BY MARCHERS, WHEREUPON KING
AND A FEW ASSOCIATES RAN TO A NEARBY CAR AND LEFT MARCH,
TO RIVERMCHT MOTEL WHERE THEY REMAINED. THROUGH AFTERNOON AND
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EVENING." BY NOON, POLICE HAD BROKEN UP CROWD, BEING FORCED TO
TEAR GAS, BUT SPORADIC LOOTING HAS CONTINUED THROUGH AFTERNOON
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A PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO AREA, RIMARY TARGET OF LOOTERS BEING
LIQUES STORES AND SMALL GROCERIES.
TENNESSEE STATE LEGISLATURE TODAY PASSED CURFEW BILL, WHICH
WAS INVOKED BY MEMPHIS MAYOR HENRY LOEB, EFFECTIVE SEVEN PM,
AND THIRTY FIVE HUNDRED TENNESSEE NATIONAL GUARDSMEN FROM MEMPHIS
AND WEST TENNESSEE ARE CURRENTLY ON DUTY IN MEMPHIS OPERATING AS
TACTICAL UNITS, BEING ACCOMPANIED ON THEIR PATROLS BY REPRESENTATIVES
1OF MEMPHIS PD.
ING
SCHEDULED MASS RALLY TO FEATURE KCHON NIGHT OF MARCH TWENTY
EIGHT CANCELED. AT TWELVE MIDNIGHT, MARCH TWENTY EIGHT, THREE
HUNDRED' ARRESTS, PRIMARILY RELATING TO LOOTING AND CURFEW VIOLATIONS
HAVE BEEN MADE BY POLICE DEPT. FOUR INDIVIDUALS
HAVE BEEN SHOT, ONE OF THESE, A SIXTEEN YEAR OLD BOY, WAS KILLED
IN ACT OF LOOTING A STORE. THREE OTHERS WERE SHOT, TWO BY
POLICE OFFICERS AND ONE BY A STOREKEEPER WHILE LOOTING, NONE
SERIOUSLY INJURED.
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EASTERN AIRLINES ADVISED THAT KING, RALPH\ASERNATHY, AND
ABERNATHY,
BERNARD LEE, FAILED TO LEAVE MEMPHIS ON EASTERN; FLIGHT THREE
NINE EIGHT, NINE ZERO FIVE CST, DUE TO ARRIVE ATLANTA ELEVEN
ZERO THREE PM EST. THIS ALSO CANCELS KING'S AND LEE'S FLIGHT
:
FROM ATLANTA SIX TWENTY AM MARCH TWENTY NINE DUE TO
ARRIVE BALTIMORE SEVEN FORTY TWO AM.
INSPECTOR G. P. TINES,
MEMPHIS PD, ADVISED KING PLANNING TO STAY IN MEMPHIS AT
RIVERMONT HOTEL TONIGHT, FUTURE PLANS UNKNOWN AT PRESENT
TIME. P.
CORR PACE TWO-PARA-ONE, LINE ONE WORDS EIGHT--NINE; AND TEN
SHLD BE WAREA OF MEMPHIS" AND LINE TWO, PARA ONE WORD-FIVE-
SHLD-35 "PRIMARY"
PAGE TWO PARA THREE, LINE ONE-WORD-SIX-SHLD-BE "KING" AND LINE THREE
WORD THREE SHLD BE "PRIMARILY" -AND-A-PERIOD SHLD. BE BETWEEN
"DEPT. AND FOUR" ONEXXX ON-LINE FOUR
PAGE TWO-PARA ONE LINE THREE WORD ONE SHLD BE "LIQUOR".
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UNITED STATES CERNMENT
Memorandum
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: Mr. W. R. Wannall
FROM
: J. G. Deegan: TCD
SUBJECT: DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
1 Mr. J. B. Adams
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7/18/75
Mr. J. G. Deegan
Mr. H. A. Newman
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SPALMKP
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD AB
Dop. ADV.
Assi. Dir.
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs —
Files & Com. _
Gen. Inv.
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Director Sec'y
During a conference on 7/16/75 between the Assistant
Attorney General, J. Stanley Pottinger, and his staff and the
Director of the FBI and his staff, a question arose concerning
Martin Luther King's alleged moving from one hotel or motel to
another hotel or motel in Memphis, Tennessee, prior to his murder
on 4/4/68.
Attached is a letterhead memorandum (LHM) setting forth
an inquiry including a review of all appropriate Bureau files
regarding a proposal made in memorandum G. C. Moore to Mr. W. C.
Sullivan dated 3/29/68 in connection with the counterintelligence
program wherein it was recommended that information be made
available to a cooperative news media source showing King to be
a hypocrite. This was to be based on the fact that when violence
broke out during a march led by King in Memphis, Tennessee, on
3/28/68, he disappeared. There was a first class Negro hotel
in Memphis, the Hotel Lorraine, but King chose to hide out in
a white owned and operated Holiday Inn Motel (also known as the
Rivermont Motel). The LHM will reflect and document the fact
that although a notation appears on the memorandum that it was
"handled" there is no information available to reflect that it
was ever actually given to a cooperative news source. Mr. Harold
P. Leinbaugh (retired), who placed the notation "handled" on the
document, absolutely has no recollection of this matter nor can
he state whether or not the information was disseminated.
REC-88 1001566703
The time elements as documented in this LHM would
preclude the proposal contained in the 3/29/68 memorandum of
having any affect upon King's choice of a motel in which to reside.
RECOMMENDATION:
20 JUL 29 1975
That the attached LHM along with attachments be
disseminated to the Department.
This document is preposed in response to
nation outsi'e your Committee.
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request and is not for dissemi-
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your Comme and the context ay not be disclosed to unauthorized person-
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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN 18 UNCLASSIFIED
DATE: 10/30/00 SY SPRALMKY
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OPTIONAL RM NO. 10
MAY 1962 ETATION
GS.GEN. REG. NO. 27
5010-106
UNITED STATES GERNMENT
Memorandum
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SUBJECT: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
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DATE: March 26, 1968
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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
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To recommend item be furnished cooperative national
news media source by Crime Records, designed to curtail
success of Martin Luther King's fund raising for the Washington
Spring Project.
BACKGROUND:
Martin Luther King has now scheduled the Washington
Spring Project, his "poor people's march on Washington, D. C.,
for the latter part of April, 1968. King's organization, the
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) has sent out a
mailing to 70,000 potential financial contributors. King
asked these 70,000 to contribute to the Washington Spring
Project for the feeding and housing of the marchers.
At the same time, churches in the Washington, D. C.,
area have said they will feed and house King's marchers.
SUGGESTION:
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That the above facts be given a cooperative news
source by the Crime Records Division so that a story could be
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Mr. DeLoach
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Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan
RE:
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
given nation-wide circulation that King does not need
contributions from the 70,000 people he solicited.
the churches have offered support, no more money is needed
and any contributed would only be used by King for other
purposes. This item would need nation-wide circulation
in order to reach all the potential contributors and
curtail their donations. A sample item is attached.
ACTION:
That the facts about King's solicitation of
funds unnecessarily be given a cooperative news source
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Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), today finds himself
in the embarrassing position of having too much money, or at
least the probability of too much money. The SCLC sent out a
huge mailing to its contributors pleading for funds for the
Washington Spring Project, the "poor people's march on
Washington." Thousands of contributors were urged to support
the march financially in order to feed and house the demon-
strators. But the churches in the Washington, D. C., area
have offered to house and feed the demonstrators.
Now the contributions are beginning to roll in from
the mailing and King doesn't need the money. An embarrassment
of riches has befallen King, who will only use the money for
other purposes. The churches had better come through with
all the housing and support the demonstrators need, because
there will be little money left for the "poor people" by the
time the march rolls around.
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DATE 10/30/00 BY SPRALMKOP
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GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27,
5010-106
UNITED STATES G ERNMENT
Memorandum
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DATE: 3/28/68
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SUBJECT: SANITATION WORKERS STRIKE
MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.
RACIAL MATTERS
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A sanitation workers strike has been going on in
Memphis for some time. Martin Luther King, Jr., today led a
march composed of 5,000 to 6,000 people through the streets
of Memphis. King was in an automobile preceding the marchers.
As the march developed, acts of violence and vandalism broke
out including the breaking of windows in stores and some
looting.
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The same
This clearly demonstrates that acts of so-called
nonviolence advocated by King cannot be controlled.
thing could happen in his planned massive civil disobedience
for Washington in April.
ACTION:
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Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference, injected himself into the
sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee, and the
result of King's famous espousal of nonviolence was vandalism,
looting, and riot.
Previously, King involved himself in this strike,
called for a general strike, and called for a mass march.
Today he led the mass march in an automobile at the head of
the line. Negroes began shouting "black power" and trouble
began. King, apparently unable or unwilling to control the
marchers, absented himself from the scene; window breaking and
looting broke out.
Police officers were forced to use gas to break up.
the march and to control the crowd. It was necessary to
activate the National Guard. Martin Luther King claims his
much-heralded march on Washington, scheduled for April 22,
1968, will also be "nonviolent." He says he has persuaded
militant black nationalists to abandon violent extremism in
Washington, D. C., during the march. Memphis may only be the
prelude to civil strife in our Nation's Capitol.
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APR 4 1968
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CHANLEMES MATHIMO.
RICHARD S. SCHWEINER, PA.
• WILLIAM G. MILLER, STAFF DIRECTOR
CRICK A. O. SCHWARZ, JM. CHIP COUNSEL
CURTIS M. MOTHENS, MINORITY COUNSEL.
Wlnited States Senate
SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
(PURSUANT TO S. RES. 21, SITH CONGRESS)
WASHINGTON. D.C. 20510
November 25, 1975
•
Michael E. Shaheen, Esq.
Special Counsel for Intelligence
Coordination
Office of the Deputy Attorney General
U. S. Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530
Dear Mike:
I would appreciate your making available to the
Committee the following items in connection with our
investigation of the King matter:
1. All memoranda and any other materials which
pertain to contracts, conversations or meetings between
one Val Coleman and Special Agent Harold Linebaugh or
any other FBI Headquarters officials concerning Martin
Luther King, Jr., during November or December of 1964.
2.
All memoranda and any other materials which
pertain to contacts, conversations or meetings between
any FBI Headquarters officials and any representatives of
the news media concerning Martin Luther King, Jr., during
November or December of 1964.
3. All memoranda and any other materials which
pertain to a meeting between Ralph Abernathy and either
FBI Director Hoover or Cartha DeLoach during December
1964 or January 1965 (other than the December 1, 1964
meeting which was attended by Dr. King and the January 11,
1965 meeting which was attended by Andrew Young). .
4.
All memoranda and any other materials which
pertain to the following statement which appears in the
second paragraph of the September 11, 1964 memorandum
from Mr. F. J. Baumgardner to Mr. W. C. Sullivan, captioned
"Martin Luther King, Jr., Security Matter
RECEIVED
DEC 1 99/5
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Communist":
ALL FEI INFORMATION CONTAINED
RISTENS UNCLASSIFUND),
DATE 103000
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November 25; 1975
On that occasion Assistant Director
DeLoach's office was able to take
appropriate action to forestall the
publication of the article.
5. The 7/16/64 memorandum from Mr. Baumgardner to
Mr. Sullivan which is noted in handwriting at the bottom
of the second page of the July 15, 1964 memorandum from
Mr. Baumgardner to Mr. Sullivan, captioned "Communist
Party, USA, Negro Question, Communist Influence in Racial
Matters, Internal Security Communist."
-
6. With respect to the March 29, 1968 memorandum,
with enclosure, from G. C. Moore to Mr. W. C. Sullivan,
captioned "Counterintelligence Program, Black Nationalist
- Hate Groups, Racial Intelligence (Martin Luther King)"
please provide:
a.
Access to original of this memorandum
and its enclosure;
:
b.
Access to all extant "tickler" and/any
other copies of this memorandum and its attachment
in their original form;
ci All memoranda and any other materials
which pertain to, bear upon, or indicate any
actions taken pursuant to or in connection with
the recommendation contained in this memorandum.
(This should include any and all information-
adduced, collected, and/or-prepared in connection
-with Mr James Adams" testimony on this subject--
before the Senate Select Committee on November 18,
2975-)
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All memoranda and any other materials
received from FBI field offices or written at
FBI Headquarters prior to and pertaining to the
recommendation contained in the March 29, 1968
memorandum.
7. With respect to the memorandum with enclosure,
from W. C. Moore to Mr. W. C. Sullivan, dated March 26,
1968, captioned "Counterintelligence Program, Black
Nationalișt
-
Hate Groups, Racial Intelligence (Washington
Spring Project)" please provide the access and/or materials
requested in a, b, c, and d of Item 6 above.
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November 25, 975
8. With respect to a memorandum with enclosure,
from G. C. Moore to Mr. Sullivan, dated 3/28/68, captioned
*Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tennessee, Racial
Matters," please provide the access and/or materials
requested in a, b, c, and d of Item 6 above.
9. Responses to Items 6, 7, and 8 should include
copies of all newspaper clippings or magazine articles
contained in FBI files which contain information set forth
in the memoranda and/or enclosures identified in Items
6, 7, and 8 above.
Sincerely,
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John T. Elliff
Director
Domestic Intelligence Task Force
" A'l
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OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL ·
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20530
December 1, 1975
Milas
TO:
FROM:
John A. Mintz, Assistant Director
Tegal Counsel Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Michael E. Shaheen, Jr.
Special Counsel for Intelligence
Coordination
SUBJECT: Senate Select Committee Reques:
Attached is a letter from the Senate Select
Committee dated November 25, 1975, requesting various
information regarding the King matter. Please prepare
an appropriate response to this request.
CC: Paul Daly
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ALL REI INFORMATION CONTAINED
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DATE 103000 SPALMIS
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Date of Mail
11/28/75
Has been removed and placed in the Special File Room of Records Section.
See File 66-2554-7530 for authority.
Subject
JUNE MAIL
SENSTUDY
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS 
UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SP2ALMKP
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Asst. Dir.:
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Ident.
Inspection
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Director Sec'y
The Attorney General
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Mr. J. B. Adams
Mr. J. A. Mintz
Mr. D. W. Moore
December 9, 1975
Mr. W. R. Wannall
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Mr. W. O. Cregar
1 - Mr. S. F. Phillips
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 19/30/00 BY SPALMKP
Enclosed is the original of a memorandum, with attach-
ment, concerning an interview of former FBI Assistant Director
Robert Wick by SSC Staff Members. Also enclosed is a copy of
the memorandum, with attachment, for forwarding to Mr. James A.
Wilderotter, Associate Counsel to the President.
Your specific attention is invited to certain infor-
mation relating to the interview of Wick suggestive of
improprieties on the part of an SSC Staff Member. The facts,
as known to this Bureau, are as follows.
#
Wick first contacted this Bureau concerning the inter-
view by telephone on November 5, 1975, to advise that he had
been called on October 31, 1975, by an individual identifying
himself as Mike Epstein representing the SSC. Epstein requested
Wick to come to Washington, D. C., for a two to three hour
interview concerning a matter relating to his "employment.
Epstein did not further describe the subject matter of the
interview and an appointment was arranged for November 7, 1975.
Wick said that he was uncertain as to the probable subject
matter of the interview because other matters coming within his
responsibilities as Vice President of Pan American World Airways
which were unrelated to the FBI, have been of recent interest
to the SSC. Wick asked for advice of the FBI concerning this
matter. Thereupon, the Legal Counsel Division of this Bureau
contacted Epstein and determined that the subject matter of
the interview of Wick would be Martin Luther King, Jr. A
return call was made to Wick on November 5, 1975, to advise him
that this Bureau had learned that the subject matter of the
interview would be Martin Luther King, Jr.
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On November 6, 1975, Wick again telephoned this Bureau
and advised that he had been rather annoyed at Epstein's
initial approach to him; particularly, because Wick had tried
on more than one occasion during the telephone conversation
with Epstein to pry from Epstein the subject matter of the
interview but Epstein persisted in not advising him.
This Bureau's representative who had determined from
Epstein on November 5, 1975, the subject matter of the inter-
view has advised that when he made the inquiry of Epstein, he
asked Epstein why he had not told Wick the subject matter.
Epstein's reply was that Wick had not asked him, a statement
directly contradictory to Wick's advice to this Bureau.
The second suggested impropriety is that Epstein
contacted Wick prior to advising this Bureau of his intention
to interview Wick, an action which is contrary to procedures
which have been agreed upon between the SSC and this Bureau.
Enclosures (4)
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Attention:
Michael E. Shaheen, Jr.
Special Counsel for
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December 9, 1975
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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED.
DATE 10/30/00 BY SPZALMYP
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.
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Telephone Rm.
Mr. W.O. Cregar
-
Mr. S.F. Phillips
U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE 1
TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
RE: INTERVIEW OF FORMER FBI
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (AD) ROBERT WICK
BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS
This memorandum concerns an interview of former FBI
AD Robert Wick by SSC Staff Members.
On November 5, 1975, Wick advised this Bureau that
on October 31, 1975, he had been contacted by an individual
identifying himself as Mike Epstein of the SSC who requested
Wick to come to Washington for a two to three hour interview
concerning a matter relating to his employment. Epstein did
not further describe the subject matter although Wick attempted
to obtain such information from Epstein.
Upon receipt of the above information from Wick,
this Bureau determined from Epstein that the subject matter
was to be Martin Luther King, Jr., and that fact was relayed
to Wick on November 5, 1975. Wick was also told that he was
being released from his secrecy agreement with the FBI for the
purpose of the interview, confined to the indicated subject
matter. Wick was also advised by this Bureau that he was not
required to answer questions falling within four privileged
areas: matters pertaining to pending investigations; information
from third agencies, including foreign intelligence agencies;
information concerning sensitive methods and techniques; and
information which might divulge the identities of FBI sources.
Attached hereto is a copy of a MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE
dated November 12, 1975, which tick voluntarily furnished this
Bureau and which represents his report pertaining to the interview.
Enclosure
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Robert Wick)
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U. S. Senate Select Committee
to Study Governmental Operations
With Respect to Intelligence Activities (SSC)
Re:
NOTE:
Interview of Former FBI Assistant Director (AD)
Robert Wick by SSC Staff Members
Information relating to contacts between Wick and this
Bureau are reported in memoranda 11/5/75 from Legal Counsel to
Mr. J. B. Adams "Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Activities and 11/7/75 from W. 0. Cregar to W. R. Wannall
"Senstudy 75.* Wick's statement, MEMORANDUM FOR THE FILE, was
mailed to Supervisor S. F. Phillips of the Senstudy 75 Project.
The matter of improprieties was addressed specifically in the
above 11/7/75 Cragar memorandum and it is believed that the
Department should be made aware of this matter.
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AIR MAIL
(Priority)
TO:
DIRECTOR, FBI
ATTN:
FROM:
ADIC, LOS ANGELES (66-6243)
RE:
SEŃSTUDY; TESTIMONY OF
ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR
JAMES B. ADAMS, AND ASSISTANT
DIRECTOR W. RAYMOND WANNALL
12/2/75
POPIS: TO PENSIONSJENI
ماسه
Assoc. Dir.
Dep.-A.D.-Adm._
Dep. A.D.-Inv..
Asst. Dir:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affair
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Ident
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Laboratory
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
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EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
DIVISION
& ASSISTANT TO THE
DIRECTOR JAMES B. ADAMS
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SP2. AUMIC
Re Los Angeles phone call to Assistant to the
Director JAMES B. ADAMS, 12/9/75.
HAPS
Peman
On 12/3/75, the attached article appeared in the
Los Angeles Times under the byline of reporter JACK NELSON.
As indicated, the headline and lead paragraph which supposedly
is based on ADAMS' testimony, clearly reflects that the FBI
did nothing to prevent Klan violence although we knew of
the contemplated violence. After discussing this matter with
Mr. ADAMS and reviewing the actual testimony received in
the Los Angeles Division on 12/8/75, SAC ELMER F. LINBERG
and I met with Editor BILL THOMAS and National Editor ED
GUTHMAN at the Los Angeles Times.
I advised these gentlemen that I was aghast when I
read the headlines and the lead paragraph of this article
and could not believe that JIM ADAMS did not refute informant
ROWE's testimony that we took no action relative to con-
templated violence since I knew that this was contrary to
the rules, regulations, policy, and philosophy of the FBI
in 1960. I then called Mr. ADAMS in Washington, D. C., and
he likewise, was upset over the headline and lead paragraph,
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because, according to ADAMS, he completely refuted these
statements in that we did disseminate the contemplated
plans of violence to the Birmingham Police Department and
to the Department of Justice in the form of a letterhead
memorandum.
I continued that I waited until I received the
actual transcript of testimony and told the gentlemen that
upon my review of the testimony of Mr. ADAMS and Mr. WANNALL,
I could not reconcile the headline and lead paragraph with
such testimony. I then proceeded to read several excerpts
from the testimony.
I advised Mr. THOMAS and Mr. GUTHMAN that my
immediate reaction was to prepare a "Letter to the Editor"
but felt after a re-analysis of the situation that this is
not a judgment question on the part of the newspaper, but
one of a slanted, inaccurate story either by design or
through misunderstanding. I therefore felt that the Los
Angeles Times, if it so desired, should be in a position to
correct the situation itself based on the facts.
Mr. THOMAS expressed appreciation for my approach
and stated that at the time he read the article, already
printed, a question came to his mind as to why the FBI did
not advise someone or take some action relative to contemplated
violence. He, however, took no further action. He said
in view of what I had read from excerpts of Mr. ADAMS' testimony
and the now available complete transcript of the testimony,
he intends to pursue this matter further and would prefer
not to have a "letter to the Editor", but rather correct
any inaccuracies on the part of the Los Angeles Times through
their own pursuit of further inquiring concerning this story.
Mr. GUTHMAN concurred with Mr. THOMAS and they
indicated that it appears the obvious question is based on
Mr. ADAMS' testimony of who in the Department of Justice
received this information relative to contemplated violence
and what did such a responsible Department of Justice official
do with the information. He agreed that based on the
information furnished to them, the FBI has been done an
injustice but that they, the Los Angeles Times, desired to
pursue this matter further.
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EN
LA 66-6243
It should be noted the article of JACK NELSON is
based on one specific situation, namely the testimony of
former informant GARY ROWE that he had furnished advance
information to the FBI to the effect that members of the
Ku Klux Klan would be given the opportunity to beat members
of the Freedom Riders without interference by law enforcement
authorities for approximately 15 minutes after which the
local law enforcement authorities would take action, and
that the FBI was advised of this well in advance of such
beatings and furthermore, the FBI took no action to prevent
this violence.
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Took No Action to Prevent KLAN VIOLENCE
Klan Violence, FBI Admits
BY JACK NELSON
Times Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON-An FBI official
conceded Tuesday that the bureau
had failed to use an undercover
man's information to head off Ku
Klux Klan violence in Alabama in
the 1960s.
But, the official, James B. Adams,
assistant to the director, told the Sen-
ate Intelligence Committee that the
FBI was "just as frustrated as anyone
else" at "rank lawlessness" that exist-
ed in Alabama at that time. Also, he
said, the FBI is an investigative
agency and has no enforcement pow-
ers.
Adams defense of the FBI came
immediately after Gary Thomas
Rowe Jr., wearing a hood to conceal
his features, testified that on many
| occasions he had warned the bureau
of the klan's plans for violence, but
that the violence occurred without
official interference.
Rowe served six years as an FBI
undercover agent before surfacing in
1965 as the star witness against three
WITNESS-Gary Thomas Rowe
Jr. wears hood while testifying.
AP Wirephoto
klansmen accused of killing a white
civil rights worker in Lowndes Coun-
ty, Ala. Since then he has been living
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in Southern California under an assumed name.
Rowe was one of two former undercover operatives
who testified before the committee Tuesday. The other,
Mary Jo Cook of Buffalo, N.Y., told of supplying the FBI
with information about 1,000 persons while serving as an
informant against the Vietnam Veterans Against the War
during 1973-74.
Testimony by both witnesses prompted committee |
members to criticize FBI tactics and to suggest that legal
restraints be put on future FBI activities.
Sen. Philip A. Hart (D-Mich.), commenting on testimony
by Rowe that he engaged in klan violence with the
knowledge and approval of the FBI, observed that the
bureau's infiltration of the klan not only failed to prevent
violence, "but indeed may have contributed to it."
Sen. Walter F. Mondale (D-Mont.) told Adams that the
FBI had bungled its job in investigating political activities
and added:
"It has interfered with civil liberties and finally in the
last month or two through its public disclosures has
heaped shame upon itself and really led toward the un-
dermining of crucial public confidence essential to law en-
forcement agencies in the country."
Mondale criticized the FBI for trying to "protect people
from subversive and dangerous ideas," and he told Adams:
"Time and time again, we're going to protect the blacks
from Martin Luther King because he's dangerous. We're
going to protect veterans from whatever it is, we're going
to protect the (National) Council of Churches from veter-
ans and so on...
"Don't you agree with me that we've got to control this,
restrain it, define it, so that precisely what's expected of
the FBI is known by you and by the public and you can
justify your actions when we ask you?"
Adams disagreed that the FBI had bungled in the politi-
cal intelligence field but agreed that restraining legisla-
tion war in order.
Los Angeles Times
12/3/75
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ENCLOSURE
5
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
MAY 1962 EDITION
GSA GEN, REG. NO. 27
5010-106
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
✓ Memorandum
TO : MR. CALLAHAN
FROM : T. J. JENKINS
DATE:
12-3-75
SUBJECT: GARY T. ROWE
DC
Afr
of the
TESTIMONY BEFORE SENATE
○ SELECT COMMITTEE,
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Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm
Dep. AD
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst
Ext. Affairs
Files & Com.
Gen. Iny
Ident.
ins
Laboratory
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Legal Coun.
Telephone Rm.
Director See'y
On 12-3-75 an individual who identified himself as Garland
Reeves of the Birmingham, Alabama, News, called and he advised that
at the time the bus was burned with the Freedom Riders in Birmingham,
Alabama, in 1961. He stated that he would like to know if Rowe had fur-
nished us information that the Birmingham Police were going to wait 15
or 30 minutes to go to the bus station in order to give the Klan an oppor-
tunity to work over the Freedom Riders. I informed Reeves that I recalled.
no such information being furnished to us at that time. I told him that all
information we received concerning possible violence was furnished to the
Birmingham Police Department. He wanted to know, if there had been such
an agreement what action would I take. I told him that if I determined that
the police department would not take any action for 15 or 30 minutes I would
advise the Mayor and city and the-
CFT
Police Commissioner and if they felt the
same as the police department, would then advise the Governor of the State.
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He wanted to know what would be the FBI's position at that time
if the police department refused to take any action. I told him that we did
not have jurisdiction in matters of this nature, that they were purely local
and it was the responsibility of the local authorities to handle such matters.
He desired to know if I would call out the Federal Marshals. I informed him
that the FBI did not have any authority to call upon the Federal Marshals in
a situation of this nature but if such a situation arose, I would have imme-
diately notified our headquarters in Washington, who would have notified the
Department of Justice, who would have such authority.
7 DEC 16 1975
DEC 1
I told him that while I was in Birmingham as Special Agent in
Charge we kept the Bureau headquarters in Washington completely informed
of all developments and they in turn, kept the Department of Justice informed.
ACTION: Submitted for information.
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Mr. Adams 1- Mr. Moore
1 - Mr. Wannall
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(Type in plaintext or code)
TO:
FROM:
DIRECTOR, FBI (62-116395)
ATTN: INTD, W.O. CREGAR
SAC, SAN DIEGO (66-1714)
SENSTUDY 75
Date:
12/4/75
(Priority)
1:7-"
FILED IN
Re San Diego telephone call to Bureau, 12/4/75.
Enclosed for the Bureau are eight copies of a letter
head memorandum reflecting information received in the San Diego
Office concerning GARY THOMAS ROWE, Jr.
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Deputy SCOTT BOIES of the San Diego County Sheriff'
Office was contacted and advised that if he felt he recognized
ROWE that he should not discuss the matter openly with anyone'
in that ROWE was obviously attempting to protect his identity?)
Deputy BOIES was not advised that ROWE was identical with THOMAS
NEIL MOORE.
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In Reply, Please Refer to
File No.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
San Diego, California
December 4, 1975
U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
RE: GARY THOMAS ROWE, JR.
At 11:30 p.m. on December 2, 1975, Deputy Sheriff
Scott Boies of the San Diego County Sheriff's Office, Lemon Grove,
California Sub-Station, telephonically contacted the San Diego
FBI Office and advised as follows;
Deputy Boies stated that he recognized the voice of the
man identified as Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., who is testifying before
the Senate Subcommittee on the Ku Klux Klan, He stated he heard
Mr. Rowe talk on a news broadcast and recognized him as being an
individual he knows as Thomas Neil Moore. Deputy Boies furnished
Moore's date of birth as August 15, 1933, and an address of
580 "L" Street, Chula Vista, California, where Moore resided in
1971. Deputy Boies stated that Moore worked for Western Bureau of
Investigation, headquartered in Los Angeles and worked as a
security guard for the White Front Department Store, Chula Vista,
California.
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SPRALNIKP
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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The Attorney General
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U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
Mr. J. A. Mintz
(1 - J. B. Hotis)
Mr. W. Ṛ. Wannall
December 12, 1975
Mr. W. O. Cregar
Mr. J. G. Deegan
1 Mr. S. Klein
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1
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm. _
Dep. AD Inv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
Reference is made to my November 26, 1975, letter
to you enclosing among other material, a memorandum concerning
former FBI informant Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr.
Enclosed for your approval and forwarding to the
Committee is a copy of a memorandum dated December 4, 1975,
regarding Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., received by FBI Headquarters
from our San Diego field office.
UNRECORDED COPY FILED IN
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37-687
NOI SENT TO SSC PER STEVE BLACKHURST, USD5 3.2516.
Rowe, is a former informant who testified before the
SSC on December 2, 1975, regarding his role in supplying
information to the FBI regarding Ku Klux Klan activities in
Alabama. He has been utilizing the cover name, Thomas Neil Moore
Also enclosed for your records is a copy of the
December 4, 1975, memorandum.
Enclosures
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Ident.
Inspection
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Spoc. Inv.
Training
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Telephone Rm.
Dire
Attention: Michael E. Shaheen, Jr.
137-6295
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Special Counsel for
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HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
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The Attorney General
NOTE:
Above being furnished to the Attorney General and the
SSC in order to apprise them of information reflecting that
Rowe, who testified with a mask over his face, was identified
by a San Diego Deputy Sheriff after hearing Rowe's voice on a
news broadcast. Arrangements have been made for a representative
of the Legal Counsel Division to deliver the attached memorandum.
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TO :
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
MAY 1962 EDITION*
GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
Mr. J. B. Adams
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SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
TESTIMONY BY THE DIRECTOR
DECEMBER 9, 1975
LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL TO CHANGE
THE NAME OF THE J. EDGAR HOOVER
FBI BUILDING
DATE: 12/4/75
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS CLASSIFIED
Assoc. Dir.
Dep. AD Adm
Dep. AD nv.
Asst. Dir.:
Admin.
Comp. Syst.
Ext. Affairs
"Files & Com.
Gen. Inv.
Ident.
Inspection
Intoll.
Laboratory
Lafal Coun..
Plan. & Eval.
Spec. Inv.
Training
Telephone R
Director Sec'
DATE 10/3000 Y51ALMISP
In connection with the Director's appearance on December 9,
1975, to testify before captioned committee, it is possible that he may be
asked concerning recent proposals in the Congress to change the name
of the building. Three bills have been introduced in the House of
Representatives on December 1, 1975, for that purpose. H.R. 10905,
introduced by Congressman Gude of Maryland and H. R. 10918, introduced
by Congresswoman Schroeder of Colorado, would change the name of the
building to "FBI Building." H.R. 10916, introduced by Congressman
Rangel of New York, would change the name to "Federal Bureau of
Investigation Building. All three of the bills were referred to the
Committee on Public Works and Transportation of the House, the
chairman of which is Congressman Jones of Alabama.
RECOMMENDATION:
"
For information of the Director in connection with his preparation
for testimony.
Enc.
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Mr. Hotis
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Mr. Walsh
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Mr. Wannall
1
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Mr. Moore
1
Mr. Mintz
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94TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 10905
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
DECEMBER 1, 1975
Mr. GUDE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Public Works and Transportation
A BILL
To amend the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Bicentennial
Civic Center Act.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 That section 8 of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Bi-
4 centennial Civic Center Act (86 Stat. 1022) is amended
5 by striking out "J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building” wherever
6 it appears in such section and inserting in lieu thereof “F.B.I.
7 Building".
I
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HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SPRAUMKP
94TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 10905
A BILL
To amend the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
Bicentennial Civic Center Act.
By Mr. GUDE
DECEMBER 1, 1975
Referred to the Committee on Public Works and
Transportation
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94TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 10918
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
دارد
DECEMBER 1, 1975
Mrs. SCHROEDER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Public Works and Transportation
A BILL
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SPRAUMEP
To designate the name of the new Federal building in the District
1
of Columbia which is erected to house the Federal Bureau
of Investigation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 That section 8 of the Public Law 92-520 is amended to
4 read as follows:
5
"SEC. 8. The Federal building in the block bounded
6 by Ninth Street Northwest, Tenth Street Northeast, E Street
7 Northwest, and Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, in the Dis-
8 trict of Columbia, shall hereafter be known as the 'F.B.I.
9 Building'. Any reference in a law, map, regulation, docu-
10 ment, record, or other paper of the United States to such
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2
1 Federal building shall be held to be a reference to the
2 ‘'F.B.I. Building” ”.
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94TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 10918
A BILL
To designate the name of the new Federal build-
ing in the District of Columbia which is
erected to house the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
By Mrs. SCHROEDER
DECEMBER 1, 1975
Referred to the Committee on Public Works and
Transportation
VIT LOMANDON COLTIMED
94TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 10916
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
N..
DECEMBER 1, 1975
Mr. RANGEL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Public Works and Transportation
A BILL
To change the name of the J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building.
1
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 That section 8 of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Bi-
4 centennial Civic Center Act (86 Stat. 1022) is, amended
5 by striking out "J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building" both
6 times it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "Federal
7 Bureau of Investigation Building".
I
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HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SPZALMICK
PARK.
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94TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 10016
A BILL
To change the name of the J. Edgar Hoover
F.B.1. Building.
By Mr. RANGEL
DECEMBER 1, 1975
Referred to the Committee on Public Works and
Transportation
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SPRAUK

1
Mr. Cochran
1 Mr. Stack
1
The
Mr. McWright
Mr. Jenkins
J. Cochran, Jr.
11/28/75
REQUEST BY SEMATE JUDICIARY SUBCOM ATTEL
ON ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING USE OF DRUGS
FOR INTERROCATION
Senter !!
Re memorandum from Legal Counsel to Mr. J. B. Adams dated 11/21/75,
advising that representatives of captioned Senate Subcommittee desire to review
any Eureau documents relating to the Eurcau's interest in or use of drugs during
interrogation.
It was pointed out in referenced memo that captioned Subcommittee staff
members James F. Michie and Thomas M. Susman had obtained information
from the Department of Defence (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
concerning a program coordinated between DOD, CIA, and FBI to develop a truth
Scrum. The program apparcatly began in carly 1050 and D. J. Parsons of the
FBI Laboratory had knowledge of this activity.
The information that Michie and Susman have obtained apparently relates
to a Navy drug experimentation project from 1947 to 1954. Navy files indicated
that the FBI was aware of this program and Mr. C. D. DeLoach and D. J. Porconc
were mentioned.
A review of Bureau files disclosed only one reference (62-2099-75) to the
Navy drug project. This was a memorandum, 8/4/50, rccording that Mr. Alberti,
ONI, had informed Liaison that the Navy had been developing a new drug which
62-2699
Enclocure
(162-116395
1 - Mr. Adams)
ENCLOSUR
2 - Mr. Mintz (Attn: Mr. Hotis)
3 - Mr. Vannall
سلام ما نیست
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(Attn: Mr. Miller)
(Attn: Mr. W. O. Cregar)
(Atin: Mr. T. D. J. Brooks)
(Attn: Mr. V. H. Weimar)
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/04 BY SPAALMED
CONTINUED - OVER
NOT RECORDED
46 FEB 5 1976
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Memorandum J. Cochran, Jr. to Mr. Jenking
RE: REQUEST BY SENATE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE
ON ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING USE OF DRUCS
FOR INTERROGATION
might be used to great advantage on espionage suspects. Navy offered to
inform us about this. A notation by Mr. DeLoach indicated that Mr. Parsons
would meet with Navy on 8/11/50.
Memorandum dated 11/6/75 from W. O. Cregar to Mr. W. R. Wannall
is attached which cots forth details of our review of Navy files on this project,
including a Burcau press release which was to have been made in the event
that the Navy mentioned the FBI in their press release on this matter.
A review of Bureau files for information relating to drugs designed to
modify behavior indicates an interest dating back to 1922. However, this
interest has not extended to the point where the Bureau has conducted research
on behavior modifying drugs nor has it funded such research. We have maintained
liaison with other agencies, primarily the U. S. Army, and industrial organiza-
tions in order to be aware of developments in this area.
On 7/30/74, Laboratory and Training Division representatives mot
with representatives of the Biomedical and Chemical Laboratories of
Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, to discuss the potential use of incapacitating
chemical agents in hostage situations. Although we have developed an aware-
ness of various agents which may be used in these situations, we have not
conducted any research with these agents. Memoranda on this matter are
located in Bufile 80-807.
A single instance occurred where "truth serum" was administered in
a Bureau case. Truth serum was administered to Thurman Scruggs Wilkins
at his own request while being interviewed in the Los Angeles Office,
April 26, 1947. Wilkins was allegedly involved with one Ignacy Samuel
Witczak, the subject of a Soviet espionage case (100-343077). The actual
drug used was sodium amytal and the actual administration was done by a
physician. Prior Bureau authority was not obtained by the Los Angeles
Office in connection with this incident. SAC Hood submitted a letter of
explanation to the Bureau on July 2, 1947. This incident resulted in the
following information being set forth in SAC Letter 84-47 dated July 3, 1947:
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Memorandum J. Cochran, Jr. to Mr. Jenkins
RE: REQUEST BY SENATE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE
ON ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING USE OF DRUGS
FOR INTERROGATION
"The Eurcau will not tolerate any experiments or participation
on the part of its personnel in the utilization of the so called truth
serums or other chemicals alleged to have a similar cffcct.
consequently, in the event any Eurcau agent violates these instructions,
drastic administrative action will be tal:en."
There was nothing found in Bureau files that would indicate that we
have received any documents from CIA concerning their drug research
programs. The files do reflect that we were aware that CIA was conducting
research with lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and that British Intelligence
had successfully utilized LSD on several Russian espionage agents. The
information concerning CIA and British activities is set out for the benefit
of the Director only and cannot be released outside the Burcau.
There are two Burcau files which contain most of the information
relating to the immediate area of interest of the captioned Senate Subcommittee.
These files are 62-2699 (Truth Serums) and 80-645 (Chemical Munitions and
Cases). Pertinent serials may also be found in 80-807 and 100–343077 as
previously noted in this memorandum.
I see no reason why Mr. Michie and Mr. Susman chould not be
afforded on oral briefing regarding these matters, and if necessary make
pertinent serials of Bufiles 62-2639, 80-645, 20-807, and 100-343077 available
to them for review.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
(1) That Mr. Michic and Mr. Susman be advised by Legal Counsel that
available Eurequ records and interview with current knowledgeable employec
indicate the FBI has never engaged in nor funded anyone's efforts in research
and/or development programs in the use or effect of drugs on human behavior.
They should be advised our efforts in this regard as far as can be established
from the available records consists of following through liaison contacts with
other government agencies and the private sector cources the current
developments in behavior modifying drugs.
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RE: REQUEST BY SENATE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE
ON ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING USE OF DRUCS
FOR INTERROGATION
(2) That if they desire to pursue this matter further, SA McWright
and myself be permitted to meet with Michie and Susman to (a) reaffirm
the information in recommendation "I and (b) if necessary, to produce for
their inspection pertinent serials from 62-6299, 80-645, 20-807, and
100-343077.
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SENSTUDY 75
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
1 Mr. C. G. McWright
DATE 130/00 BY SPZALMKP
Mr. J. P. Thomas
This is to inform you that on 11/7/75 Defense
Department will release to the Senate Select Committee (SSC),
the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practices
and Procedures (Senator Edward M. Kennedy's committee), and
to the press, information concerning Navy projects from
1947 to 1954 involving drug experimentation; a Navy file
indicates FBI was aware of programs but Laboratory has no
knowledge of any active participation by Bureau personnel.
On 11/4/75, Clark McGruder, Assistant to Admiral
Bobby R. Inman, Director of Naval Intelligence, informed me
that on 11/7/75 the Navy was going to release to aforementioned
committees and the press information on drug experimentation
and that the FBI was mentioned in the pertinent files.
Those files were reviewed at the Pentagon on 11/6/75 by
Supervisor J. P. Thomas of INTD. They had been classified
"Secret" and "Top Secret" but now have been completely
declassified. FBI was mentioned in connection with three
projects. There are no FBI documents in the files.
A memorandum dated 9/21/50 from Mr. Alberti to
Mr. C. D. Deloach was a receipt signed by Mr. DeLoach for
one copy of "Drugs Stated To Have Been Used By Russians And
Germans In Interrogation Techniques. Alberti is identified
elsewhere in the file as Jack II. Alberti, Office of Naval
Intelligence (ONI), who apparently coordinated the projects
mentioned in the file. The purpose of one project was to
develop a speecn-inducing drug to obtain intelligence from
interrogees and the project began in 1947.
Enclosures
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A memorandum dated 8/15/75 on letterhead of
Office of Chief of Naval Operations concerned ""Top Secret
Naval Medical Research Institute (NMRI) Project on Speech-
Inducing Drugs," reported a meeting on 8/11/50 attended by
personnel of MMRI, CIA, Office of Naval Research (OMR), a
drug company representative and Mr. DeLoach and Mr. D. J.
Parsons of the FBI Laboratory. The purpose of the meeting.
was to brief the FBI on a CIA project on narco-hypnosis and
on the NMRI project. Parsons reportedly said the FBI had
no such project, but had information on the experiences of
various police departments in the United States with speech-
inducing drugs. He agreed to make the FBI information
available to MMRI and CIA. ONR agreed to give FBI, NMRI
and CIA a study by ONR on projected research to improve.
polygraph reliability. Recipients were to give their comments
and recommendations on the study to ONR. At the meeting
NMRI gave DeLoach an 8/11/50 MMRI progress report on its
project. Parsons agreed to look into the possibility of
getting volunteers from prisoners in Federal institutions
and to supply MMRI with canabis (marijuana) and heroin to
It is noted
the extent they might be available to the FBI.
that no FBI representatives were listed in the memorandum
reporting a 9/27/50 meeting of this group and there is no
further record in the file of FBI participation. Neither is
there any record that the FBI supplied any drugs for the
project..
Material regarding project "CHATTER" included a
carbon copy of a rough draft memorandum (no letterhead)
bearing the penciled date "11/50?" which contained the
following, "Since 1947 the Department of the Navy has
carried on a project in coordination with the Departments
of the Air Force and Army, CIA and F31 for the development
of speech-inducing drugs.... The Directors of Intelligence
of the the Novice, of CIA cnd 337 consider this project
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of utmost important and urgency to... fulfillment of their
missions for the security of the United States.³ The
memorandum says that a project submitted to ONR by Professor
Richard Wendt of the University of Rochester (NY) had been
approved by all the agencies involved and recommended
funding the project. The file indicates subsequently that
this project did go forward and involve human experimentation.
Another
The second file dealt with project "CALLING CARD,"
1952-1953, designed "to render an individual subservient to
impose(will or control." FBI was not mentioned.
A memorandum dated 9/5/50 for Mr. D. J. Parsons,
FBI; C. Edwards, CIA; and Captain Wilbur E. Kellum of
Naval Medical Research, from W. S. Post, Jr. (not further
identified), informed them that a copy of the report on the
"Ellson" project (University of Indiana, 1952) was being
forwarded to them for information. The project involved
research in the detection of deception. The addressees were
to be briefed by Professor D. G. Ellson of Indiana University
on the project at a future date. The file did not show that
the briefing occurred. The project was terminated in June,
1952.
The two files reviewed contained many reports of
research conducted concerning various drugs in various parts
of the world, constituting a collection of papers on the
subject by U. S. and foreign researchers.
A review of logical Bureau files by the Laboratory
Division disclosed only one reference (62-2699-75) to the
above. This was a memorandum, 8/4/50, recording that
Mr. Alberti, ONI, had informed Liaison that the Navy had
been developing a new drug which might be used to great
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advantage on espionage suspects. Navy offered to inform
us about this. A notation by Mr. DeLoach indicated that
Mr. Parsons would meet with Navy on 8/11/50.
memorandum on this meeting set out above.)
(Navy
We have received a memorandum dated 11/4/75 from
Defense describing the proposed release of Navy information
to the committees and to the press. Copy of that memorandum
and of the press release are attached. The release says that
"Liaison was maintained with... the FBI" concerning the drug rescanta
ACTION:
release.
None. For record purposes.
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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SPZALMKO
PRESS RELEASE
NOVEMBER 7, 1975
The press statement released by the Navy today
relating to its drug research on human subjects for the
period 1947 through 1954 indicates liaison concerning this
project was maintained by the Navy with other Governmental
agencies, including the FBI.
A thorough review of FBI files has disclosed one
document relating to this Navy research: a short internal
memorandum, dated August 4, 1950. This memorandum, prepared
by a member of the Liaison staff at FBI Headquarters, recorded
that a Navy official had invited FBI representatives to a
conference in the Washington area to "discuss the usage of
truth serum in Intelligence circles," and that the Navy had
made advances in developing a new drug which "could be utilized
to a great advantage in the questioning of espionage agents."
A handwritten notation on this memorandum directed that a
representative of the FBI Laboratory was to attend this
conference on August 11; 1950.
No further identifiable reference to Navy drug
development research is contained in FBI files. No record
can be located that liaison was being maintained with the
Navy regarding this program, or that the FBI had knowledge
of this program prior to the dece o above :
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with drugs designed to modify human behavior, nor has it
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Mr. W. R. Wannall
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Mr. J. G. Deegan
R. L. Shackelford
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U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE
ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
Mr.
1 - Mr. W. O. Cregar
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
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Telephone Rm. _
Director Sec'y
This is in response to the SSC letter dated
December 18, 1975, wherein Senators Mondale and Baker
requested rather detailed information to be made available
during the last week of December, 1975, and the first week
of January, 1976.
It is noted that most of the requests in this
letter are so ambiguous that they require clarification
from the SSC before the FBI can logically respond. In one
instance, there is no way this Bureau could respond short
of obtaining the recollections of Bureau Supervisors who
worked in the Intelligence Division extending back almost
20 years.
Because of this, we are attaching for your
approval and forwarding to the SSC the original of a
memorandum which delineates the problems attendant to the
request of December 18, 1975, and, in most instances, requests
a meeting between Mr. John Elliff, Domestic Task Force
Director, SSC, and representatives of this Bureau in the
hope that some alternatives or clarifications can be developed.
A copy of the memorandum is furnished for your records.
Enclosures (2)
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NOTE:
The request of 12/18/75 was received in the
Intelligence Division in the midafternoon of 12/22/75. A
conference was held on the morning of 12/23/75 of pertinent
Division personnel in an effort to identify the problems
connected with responding to this request. It is believed
that the only way the Bureau can logically respond to the
request is by obtaining clarifications and, in some instances,
alternatives to the requests set out.
We have already determined that both John Elliff
and the SSC Counsel, F. A. O. Schwartz, are out of the city
for the holidays. The Legal Counsel Division has left
word with Mr. Schwartz and/or Mr. Elliff to call SA Paul Daly
upon their return to the city.
Copy of 12/18/75 request attached.
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December 24,
1975
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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS 
UNCLASSIFIED
U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
RE: DECEMBER 18, 1975, LETTER TO THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL FROM SENATORS
MONDALE AND BAKER
DATE 10/30/00 BY SPZALMKO
Assoc. Dir.
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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.
On December 22, 1975, this Bureau received a copy
of a letter dated December 18, 1975, which Senators Mondale
and Baker sent to the Attorney General levying certain
requirements on the FBI with a request that the responses
be provided the SSC during the last week of December, 1975,
and the first week of January, 1976.
Item 1 requested access to materials in the
investigative files for a six-month period preceding acts
of violence which were prevented by actions taken by the FBI.
The specific preventive actions were set out in some detail
in a memorandum prepared for the SSC by the FBI dated
December 10, 1975.
Upon receipt of referenced letter, the Intelligence
Division initiated efforts to isolate the files documenting
these preventive actions. The Bureau's response of
December 10, 1975, was predicated on a review of the
pertinent inspection reports of the Intelligence Division.
These reports do not document by file number the individual
preventive actions. To locate specific files, it will be
necessary to have knowledgeable Intelligence Division
personnel queried in an effort to try to match the preventive
action with a particular investigative file.
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RE: DECEMBER 18, 1975, LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
FROM SENATORS MONDALE AND BAKER
there will be no investigative file but merely a communication
from a field office reporting information furnished by a
source of the FBI on which some preventive action was
predicated. It is possible that the acts of violence
reported by the source could involve a violation over which
the FBI had no investigative jurisdiction. In such cases,
the local field office would have merely furnished the
information to the appropriate law enforcement agency and
no investigative file would exist.
We are continuing our efforts to attempt to
isolate those files which document preventive actions.
However, because of the problems attendant thereto, as well
as those problems raised in the subparagraphs of Item 1,
it is recommended that a meeting be arranged between Mr. John
Elliff, Domestic Task Force Director, and representatives
of this Bureau to discuss possible alternatives to some of
these requests.
Items 2 and 3 concern the September 24, 1975,
report to the House Judiciary Committee by the General
Accounting Office. The FBI is in the process of preparing
a response and it will be made available to the Committee
as soon as possible. However, it is noted that the FBI
prepared no analysis at all on the findings of the General
Accounting Office contained in their report of September 24, 1975.
Item 4 requests the annual reports from the
office of origin to FBI Headquarters for the investigation
of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1963 through 1968, and
the Women's Liberation Movement for the years that organi-
zation was under investigation. Item 4 also requests annual
reports available on the investigations "about which
materials were supplied pursuant to John Elliff's request
of October 28."
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RE: DECEMBER 18, 1975, LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
FROM SENATORS MONDALE AND BAKER
There were no annual reports submitted by the
office of origin to FBI Headquarters for the investigation
of Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1963 through 1968. With
regard to the Women's Liberation Movement, the SSC has been
provided copies of all pertinent reports for the years the
organization was under investigation. In an effort to
clarify what is meant by the annual reports available on
the investigations about which materials were supplied
pursuant to Mr. John Elliff's request of October 28, 1975,
it is again proposed that a meeting with Mr. Elliff be
arranged to clarify this ambiguity.
Item 5 requests specific examples of cases where
the FBI has taken action in the past similar to that which
would be authorized by Section IV of the Department of
Justice's guidelines draft on "Domestic Security Investigations."
The indices of this Bureau are not organized to
enable retrieval of information of a "preventive action"
character or examples of FBI actions taken to prevent
violence. The retrieval of such information from FBI files,
other than that described in the response to Item 1, would
require extensive review and/or dependence on the recollection
of individuals of occurrences extending back almost 20 years.
It is suggested that, during the proposed meeting with
Mr. John Elliff, this request be discussed.
Item 6 requests access to all FBI materials
pertaining to Martin Luther King, Jr., the Poor Peoples'
Campaign and the Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis,
Tennessee, from January 1, through April 4, 1968.
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SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
RE: DECEMBER 18, 1975, LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
FROM SENATORS MONDALE AND BAKER
With
It is this Bureau's belief that all pertinent
material pertaining to Martin Luther King, Jr., for the
period January 1, through April 4, 1968, has been made
available to the SSC responsive to previous requests.
regard to the Poor Peoples' Campaign and the Sanitation
Workers Strike in Memphis, Tennessee, it is not clear
whether the letter is requesting access to the entire FBI
file on these two activities from the period January 1,
through April 4, 1968. It is recommended that a clarification
of this request can be accomplished during the previously
proposed meeting between Mr. John Elliff and representatives
of the FBI.
Item 7 requests all materials pertaining to
"Project Overshoe."
A check of indices of the FBI regarding "Project
Overshoe," as well as the word Overshoe, fails to contain
any reference to either. Without additional information
regarding "Project Overshoe," this Bureau cannot be
responsive to this specific request. Again, it is suggested
that, during the forthcoming meeting with John Elliff,
clarification of "Project Overshoe" be obtained.
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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
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DATE 10/30/00 BY SPALMIT
Intelligence Division
INFORMATIVE NOTE
Date
RE: SENSTUDY 75
1/5/76
Attached is a request from Senators
Mondale and Baker of the Senate Select
Committee (SSC) dated 12/18/75. The
Director has requested he be advised
regarding the status of this request.
Attached is a copy of a letter to the
AG and LHM for the SSC, dated 12/24/75,
advising the AG that the request of
Senators Mondale and Baker require clari-
fication. On 12/30/75,
On 12/30/75, 
Cregar and Daly
met with SSC Staff Members Gitenstein and
Epstein to obtain this clarification.
a result of this meeting, the following
understanding was developed regarding the
Mondale-Baker request:
As
Item 1 was reworded to make recovery
by the Bureau possible. In addition, C and
D under Item 1 were temporarily placed in
abeyance. (A partial response to Item 1
is currently being walked through signature
process.)
Items 2 and 3 are in signature process.
Item 4 was restricted to the annual
reports on some 31 organizations. This
will be time-consuming and we cannot
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RE: SENSTUDY 75
ched is a request from Senators
hd Baker of the Senate Select
(SSC) dated 12/18/75. The
has requested he be advised
the status of this request.
ched is a copy of a letter to the
M for the SSC, dated 12/24/75,
advising the AG that the request of
Senators Mondale and Baker require clari-
fication. On 12/30/75, Cregar and Daly
met with SSC Staff Members Gitenstein and
Epstein to obtain this clarification.
a result of this meeting, the following
understanding was developed regarding the
Mondale-Baker request:
As
Item 1 was reworded to make recovery
by the Bureau possible. In addition, C and
D under Item 1 were temporarily placed in
abeyance. (A partial response to Item 1
is currently being walked through signature
process.)
Items 2 and 3 are in signature process.
Item 4 was restricted to the annual
reports on some 31 organizations. This
will be time-consuming and we cannot
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estimate when we will complete Item 4.
Item 5 has been reduced to the recol-
lection of Bureau Supervisor David Ryan
who handled the COINTELPRO matter and will
not require research beyond what SA Ryan
can recall. (Ryan is currently developing
a response to this request.)
Item 6 has been reduced to all
materials relating to the Poor People's
Campaign, the Sanitation Workers Strike
in Memphis, Tennesee, and Martin Luther
King, Jr., contained in Headquarters files
between the period 1/1-4/4/68. (We are
currently working on this request.)
Item 7
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Epstein has agreed to obtain
more identifying data regarding Project
Overshoe and we are awaiting this
information.
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FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO, CHAIRMAN
JOHN G. TOWER, TEXAS, VICE CHAIRMAN
PHILIP A. HART, MICH.
WALTER F. MONDALE, MINN.
WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, KY.
ROBERT MORGAN, N.C.
GARY HART, COLO.
HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., TENN.
BARRY GOLDWATER, ARIZ.
SECRET
CHARLES MC C. MATHIAS, JR., MD,
RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, PA.
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WILLIAM G. MILLER, STAFF DIRECTOR
FREDERICK A. O. SCHWARZ, JR., CHIEF COUNSEL
CURTIS R. SMOTHERS, MINORITY COUNSEL
RECEIVED
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nited States SenateY GENERAL
SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH: 14 1975
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
(PURSUANT TO S. RES. 21, 14TH CONGRESS).
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
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December 18, 1975
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Attorney General Edward H. Levi
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Dear General Levi:
Sensterly
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Sel T far 1-5-76
• We have been asked to chair a special subcommittee
of the Select Committee on Intelligence which will con-
centrate on matters relating to domestic intelligence
activities of the Federal government. Our mandate is to
prepare for the full committee's consideration a draft
report of findings of fact on alleged abuses or excesses
by the FBI and other domestic intelligence agencies; the
causes of such alleged abuses or excesses and recommendations
which the Committee might make to remedy the problems we
have uncovered.
We are aware of the fine work in which your staff has
been engaged in these areas and hope that they will be
available to work with the Committee staff on these matters.
However, the Subcommittee finds the Committee record needs
to be supplemented in several important respects and there-
fore finds it necessary to direct a number of requests to
the FBI for further information which we hope will be
treated on a priority basis so that the Subcommittee can
meet the deadlines set by the full committee. These and
future requests which will be handled between the two
committee counsel or Mr. Elliff, Domestic Task Force Leader,
and Mr. Shaheen, Special C94gsel for Intelligence Coor-
dination, will pertain to both information necessary for
us to formulate meaningful recommendations and to pursue
matters on certain specific eged abuses which remain-
unsettled. Among the future requests will be questions
pertaining to your guidelines on "Domestic Security Inves-
tigations" and on manpower and budget statistics for the
FBI's domestic intelligence program.
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FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO, CHAIRMAN
JOHN G. TOWER, TEXAS, VICE CHAIRMAN
PHILIP A. HART, MICH.
WALTER F. MONDALE, MINN.
WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, KY.
ROBERT MORGAN, N.C.
GARY HART, COLO.
BYSP2ALMke
SECRET
HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., 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
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ON 10/30/00
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OFFICE OF THE
Wnited States Senate GENERAL
SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH: 14 1975
RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
(PURSUANT TO S. RES. 21, 14TH CONGRESS).
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
December 18, 1975
arol Mr. Callahan
Attorney General Edward H. Levi
Room 51ll
Department of Justice
Washington, D.C. 20530
Dear General Levi:
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We have been asked to chair a special subcommittee
of the Select Committee on Intelligence which will con-
centrate on matters relating to domestic intelligence
activities of the Federal government. Our mandate is to
prepare for the full committee's consideration a draft
report of findings of fact on alleged abuses or excesses
by the FBI and other domestic intelligence agencies; the
causes of such alleged abuses or excesses and recommendations
which the Committee might make to remedy the problems we
have uncovered.
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: We are aware of the fine work in which your staff has
been engaged in these areas and hope that they will be
available to work with the Committee staff on these matters.
However, the Subcommittee finds the Committee record needs
to be supplemented in several important respects and there-
fore finds it necessary to direct a number of requests to
the FBI for further information which we hope will be
treated on a priority basis so that the Subcommittee can
meet the deadlines set by the full committee. These and
future requests which will be handled between the two
committee counsel or Mr. Elliff, Domestic Task Force Leader,
and Mr. Shaheen, Special £q45sel for Intelligence Coor-
dination, will pertain to both information necessary for
us to formulate meaningful recommendations and to pursue
wh;
matters on certain specific Reged spuses w/ D
questions
unsettled. Among the future requests
pertaining to your guidelines on "Domestic Security Inves
tigations" and on manpower and budget statistics for the
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FBI's domestic intelligence program.
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it is essential that the information requested below be
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provided during the last week of December and the first
week of January:
1. With respect to each of the examples of effective
prevention of violence provided the Committee pursuant to
John Elliff's letter of November 26 to Mr. Shaheen, please
provide access to materials in the investigative file
for the 6-month period preceding the act of violence
prevented. Please deliver:
(a)
All materials relating to the legal and
factual predicate for each investigation;
(b) The first investigative report disseminated
outside the FBI in each such case, and a list of
recipients of that report;
(c) The total number of individuals whose names
were referred to the FBI's general name index in
the course of each investigation;
(d) The total number of individuals about whom
information was obtained through informants, confi-
dential sources, physical surveillance, electronic
surveillance and other sensitive techniques; and
(e)
The annual report from the office of origin
for each such investigation to FBI headquarters for
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the last five years during which the case in question
was an open investigation.
2. Please provide any information which you have
refuting the suggestion made on page 34 of the General
Accounting Office's September 24 report to the House Judiciary
Committee, that cases in which violence can be predicted
probably represent less than 2% of all FBI domestic intel-
ligence investigations.
3.
Please provide all memoranda or analyses prepared
for the Justice Department, Director Kelley, or Assistant
Director Wannall on the findings of the General Accounting
Office as presented to the House Judiciary Committee on
September 24.
4.
Please provide the annual report from the office
of origin to FBI headquarters for the investigation of
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Dr. Martin Luther King in 1963 through 1968, and for the
investigation of the Women's Liberation Movement for the
years that that organization was under investigation, and
the annual reports available on the investigations about
which materials were supplied pursuant to John Elliff's
request of October 28.
5. Please provide specific examples of cases where
the FBI has taken action in the past similar to that which
would be authorized by Section IV on "preventive action"
of the draft Department of Justice's guidelines on "domestic
security investigations."
6. Access to all. FBI materials pertaining to Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and the
Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis, Tennessee, from
January 1 through April 4, 1968.
7. All materials pertaining to "Project Overshoe."
Thank you for your prompt consideration of this
request. We look forward to continuing cooperation on
this area of joint concern.
Sincerely,
Wetter. Monda
Walter
Chairman
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Mondale
Baker
Vice-Chairman
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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SP2ALMYP
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SEE INSTRUCTIONS ON REVERSE
BEFORE COMPLETING.
CLASSIFY AS APPROPRIATE
TO: Intelligence Community Staff
ATTN: Central Index
FROM:
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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.)
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interviewee, testifier and subject)
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SUMMARY (see reverse side before completing this item)
Requesting clarification of items listed in request received from
Senators Mondale and Bakerregarding preventive actions; 9/24/75
report of the House Judiciary Committee by the General Accounting
Office; Annual reports from the office of origin to FBIHQs for
investigation of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; pertinent
materials pertaining to Martin Luther King, Jr. for the period
1/1 thru 4/4/68 previously made available. Clarification with
regard to Poor Peoples' Campaign and the Sanitation Workers
Strike in Memphis, Tenn; "Project Overshoe."
ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30/00 BY SPRALNIKO
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Mr. J. Cochran
(Mr. F. IL. Dovino)
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1 - Ir. W. R. Wannall
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MARTIK LUMIER KING, JR.
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Mr. S. F. Phillips
This informative memorandun to record unsuccessful
efforts to pinpoint the typewriter on which was typed an
anonymous lotter apparently directed to subject, the original
of which was located in papers left behind on the retirement
of former Assistant to the Director William C. Sullivan.
Examination of the questioned document by the
Laboratory established that the typing was done on a Royal
typewriter with pica style type. Wo checked available
inventory records maintained by the Administrative Division
as well as our own in IIITD to locate all Royal typewriters
which wore in the then Domestic Intelligence Division (DID)
around 1904. This search was based on the cuspicion that the
noto was typed by Sullivan on a typewriter accessible to him
in 1904 when he was Assistant Director of the DID.
Our checks revealed that there are availablo only
four typewriters of the type sought which were likely in the
DID in 1964. All four are presently in INID and three of them
were readily eliminated as not identical to that which produced
the questioned document on the basis that all three have
closed "As", whereas the questioned document has an open ended
The fourth typewriter, serial number IG_10-4320910, is
maintained in room 4410 and charged to the IS-2 Section. It
vas examined by Supervisor F. H. Devine of the Document Section
of the Laboratory who advised that it is not identical to the
typewriter which produced the questioned document.
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HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
DATE 10/30.00 BY SPRALMYP
CONTINUED
CVER
ROUTE IN ENVELOPE
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Memorandum to Mr. W. R. Wannall
Re: Martin Luther King, Jr.
100-100670
We are conducting no further inquiry at this time
to establish the whereabouts of the typowriter which produced
the anonymous letter.
RECOMMENDATION:
None. For information and record purposes.
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