Originator: FBI
From: LONG
To: GEBHARDT
Document date: 07/16/1974
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-90115-10012

2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System

Date:

5/4/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-90115-10012

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 62-108665-NR

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LONG

TO : GEBHARDT

TITLE :

DATE: 07/16/1974

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

ALLEGED TAPPING OF TELEPHONE OF US SENATOR

HOWARD BAKER WAS

MITCHELL LIVINGSTON WERBELL III

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1A

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/07/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS: MEMO

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DECLASSIEICATION ALTECEITE DEBIJED ERDI:

FBI AUTOMATIC DECLASSIEICATIEN CUIDE

DATE 00-24-2023

BY: 3043/98142

Long to Gebhardt Memo

Alleged tapping of telephone of

U. S. Senator Howard Baker

Gibson advised that during the course of a normal

working day two or three men usually enter and work in the

sub-leased SCI space.

entire day without leaving the space and do not seem to

conduct business

•Butes the von tin

They stay during the course of an

in a normal manner.: An unidentified

friend of Gibson's overheard individuals in

the space, the

allegedly leased by DEA, discussing "tapes."

above information and based on Gibson's experience with

wiretapping while employed with the Cobb County, Georgia,

Sheriff's Office, Gibson believes a wiretapping operation

was being conducted in the space allegedly sub-leased by

Since it appeared that an ongoing CIA operation

was being compromised and that the CIA should be aware,

our Atlanta Office contacted Mr. ROY Green, CIA, Atlanta

covert) and informed him of the above on 7/11/74.

on 7/12/71, Gibson furnished the following oU)

Directly above Suite 1109, rented by SCI at

1028 Connecticut Avenue, is a suite located on the

twelfth floor, which is utilized as an efficiency apartment.

It is connected to Suite 1109 on the floor below by stairway.

Gibson said the twelfth floor space is actually the space

sub-leased to Conein and that telephone number 785-4514 is

installed in that space. Conein sub-leased this apartment

in March

1974, and was still being used by Conein as of

7/5/74•

Regarding the information above concerning the

alleged overhearing of discussions concerning "tapes," by

alleged DEA employees, Gibson advised this information

was furnished to him by Mr. Steve Van Cleave, a personal

friend of Gibson's and a private investigator from

Atlanta, Georgia. Van Cleave told Gibson that he

visited SCI offices on a recent unrecalled date.

Van Cleave

was told by Werbell that Van Cleave could not stay in

the

offices at that time as Werbell was consulting with a

client. Van Cleave told Gibson he then went to the twelfth

floor

entryway to SCI offices, the space sub-leased by

Conein, and overheard a conversation through the door

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