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FD-350 (Rev. 11-11-75) © New York Times News Service WASHINGTON — The ¥ederal Bureau of Investigation repeatedly and covertly  at- tempted to manipulate the news media in an effort to influence ‘public opinion and discredit citizens and organizations that _Were its “targets,” the Senate “furnished sby the bureau with y- sie CZ. 1. SAC 2. ASAC 2, Sec. Suge. & Desk 6 7 LNS1P NW 34965 Doocld: 32989503 Select Committee on Intelligence Activities reported on Wednesday. The committee’s report on domestic intelligence activities presented evidence of pervasive and frequently successful ef- forts by the FBI to use the inedia to attack such targets as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King dr. and groups and individuals - in what are described as the “now left.” These aré examples from the report of ways the FBI sougnt to influence media reports: —Through a “good friend” who wes chairman of the acard of a national magazine; the bureau killed en unfavorable article about the bureau due to appear in the magazine. —FB1 officials approached reporters, including one from a major magazine, offering to_ play tapé recordings ‘‘em-* barrassing” to Dr. King. —A freelance wrifer was} Page 242 (Mount Clipping in Space Below) FBI Played Me Senate Unit Says. " group's photographs depicting a radical shambles with lewd. obscene and revolutionary displayed on the walls.’ —The Washington bureaw chief of a major news organization was allegedly given discrediting information about the lawyer defending Daniel Elisnerg in the Pentagon. papers case. mmentontncaendt The FBI efforts to use they news media were generally part of the bureau’s Cointelpro, (counterintelligence program) designed to “disrupt? or “neutralize” people or groups considered a threat to domestic security. But the effort in- dicates that the FBI also sought to use the media to disseminate its own views on such issues as foreign policy and sexual morality. tet te The report said that the bureau’s crime records division maintained ‘covert liaison’ with the news media to advarce two main domestic intelligence objectives: ‘“‘(1) providing derogatory information to the media intended to generally discredit the activities or ideas of targeted groups of in dividuals; and (2) disseminat- ing unfavorable articies, news releases and background in- formation in order to disrupt particular activities During the commitic’s bear- ings, a former director of the crimes records divisinn testified that be kept a Hst of the: buresu’s “press friends’? in his desh. Thoraes E. Bishop also said that the FBI sametimer refryed fg cagnerafe wil & reporters critical oi the bureau or tis director. _ Bishop said that as a general tle, {he bureau vave out only “public record information” cut thet this cod cover alrrest avervthirg in the files ‘ou a targeted indivicnal " ese rm 4 apartment as “a. slogans. mo (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and slate.) 12° COURIER EXPRESS Buffalo, New York —— x Date: 4/29/76 Edition: Four Star Author: Editor: ‘the: SENSTUDY Character: or Classification: Submitting Office: ABR 2 91976
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NW 34965. Docld: 32989503 Page 244 spied upon by too many permanent | Senate intelligence , povernment agencies and too! uch information has  been;! fotiected,” it said. ! 3 “The government has ofteny undertaken the secret surveil- lance of citizens on the basis of their political beliefs, even. when those beliefs posed no} threat of violence or illegal acts; on behalf of a hostile foreign power. “The government, operating primarily through secret in- formants but also using other intrusive techniques such as wiretaps, microphone surreptitious mail opening, and break-ins, has swept in vast amounts of information. about. the personal lives, views and- associations of American citizens. “ge Vicious Tactics? 4“Investigations of groups. ceemed potentially dangerous ‘ and even of groups suspected cf associating with potentially aangerous organizations — have continued for decades....” it said, - “Unsavory and ‘vicious tactics have been employed including anenymous attempts to break up marriages, disrupt meetings, ostracize persons from their professions.” The report said the reform yecommendaticns were not Gesigned to control federal in- vestigations of “organized crime, narcotics or other law enforcement investigations un- related to domestic security activities’ or to hamper counterintelligence operations. Checks, Controls The recommendations covered a wide range of checks and controls, including: — A reling that “there is no inherent cons!itutional authority for the President or any in- telligence agency to violate the ae Ceres ekosimane a wew Creation of ‘pugs,’ |- 2 oversight committee with broad: review and enforcementi powers. Congressional support i for this proposal is waning and w the Senate Rules Committee approved creation of a weak panel that would share overt- sight activities with committees that have traditionally had that function. — Legal prohibition against the CIA, NSA and Army in- telligence engaging in any domestic intelligence operations involving Americans, with a few carefully defined ex- ceptions. . ~ A ban against the CIA and Army intelligence conducting -any’ experiments on humans, including experiments - with drugs. — Forbidding the IRS to “collect any information about the activities of Americans ex- cept for the purposes of en- forcing the tax laws.” Political Probes . In its survey of intelligence files on Americans, the report said the FBI alone “has de- veloped over 590,000 domestic intelligence files,” while Army intellizence buill up about 100,000 such files in the 1960s and the IRS developed 11,000 between 1969 and 1973. “Tax investigations,” it said, “were started on the basis of , * political + criteria.” : Ny tha tax et rather »