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Levi Gives Warning

On FBI Guidelines

WASHINGTON, (UPI) -

Despite a House -commit-

lee's charges or atrocious !

and horrendous," things done

by the CIA and FBI; At

torney General, Edward

Levt warned: today against

giving. the courts virtual

control of criminal in

yestigations.

lestilying before. a, nouse

Judiciary. subcommittee.on

proposed guidelines, for

operating the FBI, he: ob-+

jected: to suggestions that

court approved warrants be 1

required: for practically

every investigation.

"There is a temptation to

resort lo having the courts

nake! difficult

day-to-day/

decisions about

sin-

vestigations,

Levi said.

When a Fourth,

Amend-

ment,search or seizure is in-

volved, of course; recourse

to a court or a judicial'

warrant is in: most circum-

stances required."

The House intelligence

committee Tuesday folded

its tent, leaving behind an

unpublished report on

"atrocious and horrendous.

things" done by the CIA and"

FBI and a stack, of recom:

mendations on how to pre:

vent illegal activities and;

abuses.

But. Levi told the

Midiciary panel today that

congressional zeal prompted

by sich reports could

prompl decisions which

hamstring or at least slow,

mlaw enforcementect

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P-2 EVENING OUTLOOK

SANTA MONICA, CA

Dato: 2/11/76

Edition: 3 Star

Author:

Editor: Robert D. Funk

Titlo: COINTELPRO

Character:

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'For example, it has been

suggested

that the PBl

ought to obtain & warrant

rog permanen lot

before using an; informant,

1 and Senate oversight panels.

Extending the

warrant re

With the filing of the House

quirement 'in this

way

committee's recom

would be a step toward the mendations.

the

way

inquisitorial system

in i

which judges,

and

not!

was opened for a decisit. bl

Speaker Carl. Albert.

members of the executive, Okia., on what to do with its

actually: control

the in:

controversial

338-page

vestigation of crimes."

report - the fruit of a year's

Levi pointed a finger at investigations.

ithe White House as responsi-

(ble for a number of past in-

cidents

dent Ford had a charice to?

was misused, for political

purposes."

delete material he thought;

In most cases we

might harm intelligence ac-

tivities.

discovered where the White

House. was involved the in-

Pike said the document

itiation of an improper re-

contains atrocious and

quest was made by a White

horrendous things" which

House staff, member. -

should be made public and

acting in the president'si

"poi swept under the rug."

name - to à counterpart inj

He refused to submit it ic

ithe FBI. These requests!

censorship. Instead he sent

were often made orally.

- the 2.000 prinied copies tc

¿White House staif members

the Clerk of the House whe

sin. a number of different

locked them up pending

positions were involved."

urther action

The intelligence commit-

tee wound up its work amid

controversy:

Otis Pike in ending the com-

?mittee's work Tuesday.•

He gave members until to-,

day to forward any final

minority observations they

might have on a package of

approved recommendations

fand said it ail would be sent.

to the full House, for action!

soon.

The 13-member panel's

mandate expires tonight at

midnight, leaving only the!

( Senate intelligence commit-

¿tee in business until it also!

runs out of time at the end of

the mont.

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Bl Curbs Could Benefit

Terrorists, Kelley Warns

From Times Wire Services

WASHINGTON FBI Director

Clarence. M. Kelley said: Wednesday'

thật: too much restrictive. legislation

over the agency's domestic intel:

ligence, activities might hamper its

ablity to investigate terrorist groups

In the future:

Kelley and: Atty, Gen, Edward H.

Levi testified before the House judi

ciary: subcommittee on•civil.and con:

stitutional rights;-which is charged

with drafting législation- baseds on:

recommendations of the now defunct

Select House Intelligence Committee:

governing the FBI's activities.

Levi: presented the committee; with

proposed guidelines: covering. White

House inquiries, investigations. for

congressional staif and judicial: stafe

appointments, the handling of unsoli

cited mail, and -domestic security. in-

vestigations.

Rep. Herman Badillo (D-NY.) said

he would file a resolution an, the

House to reject Levis guidelines:

Badillo said the guidelines were "so

broad as to sive license ia exactly

the same linds of activity the FBI,

has carricd on up until-now without

the benefit of guidelines,",

Kelley said he endorsed the FBI

guidelines proposed, by the Justice

Department, but added: that restricy

tions should not; go too far.

"I want to emphasize that thesel

domestic intelligence investigations.

are not-undertaken for the purpose

Blaser

of collecting. information on those

Tyno.hold;unpopular.or. controyersial

political views," Kelley said.

Their)

focus is on-conduct, not ideas- con-

duct that involves or is likely to in-

volve a violation of federal law."

Kelley aiso warned that: terrorism

was increasing in the United States

and; could cause violent "fireworks"

ntbicentennial.celebrations

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verely, in the name of civil liberties

"preventive investigations": by the

grace; the dissemination.of informa.

anonymously or under false

identity, and the incitement of yi

olence.

Badillo, in rejecting the guidelines;

said: "During the past months, wel

have been shocked by the revelationsi

surrounding

Cointelpro

operations!

against Martin Luther King. If the

nev guidelines are ever promulgat

ted, exactly the same kind of actiyi-

fues could be given the sanction of re-

spectability."

Cointelpro was a comestic intel-

ligence program operating: from. the

1950s and. 1960s in which the FBI

disrupted: and: harassed groups of the

right and left.

But, Rep. Don. Edwards (D-Calif:,

chairman of the rights subcommittee,,

said he thought Levi was doing very

well on the drait guidelines, and that

The intended to hold more hearings on

news tentative guidelines as they

Livere developed.

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Ex-FBI Intormer Describes

Right-Wing Terrorist Role

BY NARDA ZACCHINO

Times Staft Weiter

Howard Berry Godfrey is an unim;

posing ex-San Diego city fireman

who seems out of character in the

role ofa right wing terrorist.

But. that is the part he played for

five years. when he served simul-

taneously as a member of several

right-ving paramilitary organizations

and as an informant for the San Die:

go office of the FBI,

Gochrey, now 32, discussed his acti-

vities in a lengthy interview:.

He detailed

a number of the

groups actiyities including:

Conducting a reign of terror

against the left in a series of attacks

including bombings, burglaries and

harassment.

-Plotting the assassinations: of

President Richard M. Nixon and sev;

eral controversial leftists.

-Shooting into the home of a

Marxist college prolessor, wounding

a woman guest,

- Stealing membership, files, and

lists from leftist organizations, God.

frey said he turned these files over

the rightwing extremists, and the

-Damaging cars of leftists by

slashing tires,

throwing, hydrochlorit

acid and fire bombs;

-Bombing a San: Diego movie

theater that showed X-rated films.

Godirey's activities are, the focus of

an investigation by the Senate Select

Conmittee on Intelligence into alle

gations of leftists and newsmen that

Godtrey was used by the FBI to

wreak hayoc on the left, a charge the

bureau has

denied. Godfrey has

maintained he acted largely on his

DIn.

These allegations and some of the

detals Of Godirey's activiues have

emerged in newspaper and magazine

articles- the first time three and a

native newspader

mos. recently ph New Limes Mage

Zine and The San Diego Union,

ButCodfrey's own story has never

been told.

dicate page, name c

ewspaper, city and state

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Bor the first time,. he talked about.sometimes.he methis.contacts.

his role. and the role of the r Braura "We used to meet a couple or times

ing the years 1967 to 1972. And hea week, in parking lots throughout

explained how a quiet man at age.? the city,

could decide to forego a normal lifethat happened to be handy.

would grab a few minutes and talk,

This is his account:

He had just been discharged in One former contact agent at the

Texas as a weather observer in theSan Diego FBI office vouched for

U.S. Air Force in late. 1966 when Godfrey's crediblity:

Godirey met a family acquaintence

"Anything you've, gotten from him

in San-Diego who invited him to joinyou can pretty well stay with, spe

a right-sving. extremist group.

cial agent Jordan Naylor said."

Unsure of the goals and practices trust him implicitly. There is no-rea-

of the group, Godfrey, Who considers son to distrust his integrity, You can

himself "a Goldwater conservative, depend on what he says as accurate

sought advice from a member or his

acted another church member, an the extremist. groups because: of his

agent from the San Diego F BLoitice; hard work and he became viewed a

and he asked me to infiltrate anda respected and dedicated cadri

furnish some information," Godfrey member, according to former SAC

recalled:

associates.

By early 1967, Godirey: was a

member of the Phantom Cells, then a

right-wing "survival

la group associated: with the Minute

men," he said.

It was the beginning-of Godtrey's

five year career as.an informant-ano

extremist, a career that ended when

he was subpoenaed to appear: before

ã San Diego County grand jury inves

ligating: the paramilitary Secret

Army, Organization,

That testimony came after right

wing violence in San Diego. His role

in it had escalated to the point al

Which the EBIxcould no longer con

ceale his identity from police. It re

sulted in indictments and complaints

filed. against

eight right-wing ex

tremists for various offenses.

In his double role, Godtrey had dif

ferent pseudonyms for his differen

audiences. He was. "Capt.. Mike Mc

Gann" to the right wing and "je

e"sto the QB)

"Lused it (the name jerome) arte

thefirst two years to make contacts"

he said. "Esigned my reports with the

code name Jerome, although receipts

for money I was paid I signed with

my own name."

He made his F'BI contact "primari

sy through phone calls. There-were

special phone lines: of numbers that

were given to me. It anyone else calls

ed; they wouldn't have known be

cause. it

vasn't answered, 'FBI!

uses the name Jerome."

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His rise from recruit to head of the Staff members were harassed, and

San Diego branch of the Minutemen Godfrey, told of one Street Journal

to cotounder. of the secret Army Or-staffer whose.car "was burned by us.

ganization: SAO) corresponded to anI was present. There were a whole

increase in his FBI.pay and an esca-series of car burnings in San Diego:

In San Diego.

most. nothing, he said.

"They didn't There Were-also a series of burgla-

know what I was going, to do or putries, some of which Godfrey said. he

out or anything." By the end of his committed, including one of a house

stint as an informant, his base-pay in Vista from which he took Commu-

was

$250 a month "plus a couple,

hundred a month. expenses, e

nist Party records andefiles, and seve

can ta say I ivas, paid on the basis of eral of the Peace: amd-Freedom Par

production because I'got paid regardsy. headquarters and leftist offices,

where he got lists of names and ads

What he and his-right wing com tresses.

These: lists, he said, he would turn

scale

disrupting

demonstrations escalated to a Shoot

ing. and bombings, death threats: and

"Well, the FBI was happy to get

burglaries. Legal pranks.led to leg the files, but it's hard to say whether

it was encouragement: of the FBI: or

Although; "many of the acts were the agent. I don't know whether the

spontarieous,". Godfrey, said he report-

sometimes had prior knowledge ofcial che said. He saidehe did. get one

them:

"For instance, I would report to

the fol), that one night we were

going-to go out and harass the Street

Journal (an alternative newspaper):

And that night we would put up SAO

stickers. or we might put a rock

through their windows with a sling,

Shot,or we.might throw a flare into a

car parked in front:of. the building,

Godfrey said.

Sometimes, however, harassment

of the Street Journal and the Door

newspapers- both now defunct

was more serious.

"Our organization did, the attack on

the : Door when their printing equip:

ment was smashed," Godfrey said,

adding they also smashed the print,

ing equipment at the Street Journal,

"They were both complete disas;

ters," he said. No one was ever prose:

cuted for these acts, a district, attor;

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mancial bonus from the FBF for files he stole

*Once, through a list of names taken from the leftist Stu

dent Mobilization. Committee, the rightists called, parents

rand told them what their children were doing and

parents.who stuck. up for their kids were put in the ale,

too," Godfrey said,

Godirey referred to these "intelligence files" kept.by the

right as "a sort of hit list so the right-would know who to

ta gain ate city, the right wet tourery to ai

minish-attendance at demonstrations.by. calls to radio sta

,tions and letters alleging to be from leftists leaders saying

the demonstrations had been canceled or postponed.

Once; he said, he and another man spread carpet tacks

over the grassy area inere a demonstration was to 'D

held: and-"here. come 5,000 barefooted: hippies: stompin

into it. It was rather funny We used to do things like

this regularly."

It was the vigilante Minutemen who.planned, to assas

sinate: a. Chicago defendant and controversial Marist

college professors Angela Davis and Herbert Marcuse in

Jan Diego; Godfrey claimed.

A plot to hang Marcuse, and Miss Davis by throwing

hem off the bridge, over San Diego's Highway 395 was

crapped in favor of hanging them in effigy.

•Godfrey, said Minutement watched Marcuse's house and

lowed him and the San Diego rightists. got right-wing

Stremists in Arizona, Nevada; Washington and the East

oast to make harassing calls to Marcuse

"Several threats were made on his life" Godirey said:

In July, 1906; Marcuse tled hisaLa Jolla home and hic

Godfrey said he was convinced the assassination plots

could have been carried out, but "I talked it down to pre-

yent it from happening. I said it would ake them (Mar

cuse and Davis) martyrs.

Godfrey implicated a San Diego County, superyisor, Lou

Conde; in the effigy-hanging, scheme. Conde admitted it

was his idea,, but he denied any connection with the Min-

utemen or any. assassination plots.. Conde-also admitted

participating in another "prank" with Godirey, on the

Peace and Freedom;party.

The most violent of the groups, was the Secret Army

Organization, which Godfrey said he cofounded with Jer-

fy. Lym Davis in 1971 after the demise of the Minutemen?

faction in San Diego.

The Minutemen began to die out "partially because y

wasn't putting in as much effort to keep them going as T

probably should have," Godirey admitted.

After the SAO was formed in September, 1971; "Things

began to pick up," he said.

" "The FBI was definitely interested in my participating

(in the SAO): I don't know how instrumental I wasin

founding the SAO, I-was there during all the organizing." 1

He became assistant state commander, San Diego Coun

ty coordinator and state intelligence officer for the group.

"n my command, T had 9 or 10 people whom I was in

contact with-in San Diego, although some of them hac

people working under them," he said."1 could reach ss to

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The army's mailing list contained 221 names or so callec

sympathizers and there was an organized: recruung pro

gram. But the SAO was discriminating: Some people were

not admitted use they drank too me and were a

bad security risk," Codtrey said.

He said the army was well armed and in addition to

several smaller weapoes members had a. flame thrower

150-caliber machine guns, antitank rifles and hand: gre

nades.

In searohing SAO associates, homes and other properties

in the wake of Godfrey'S 1972 grand jury testimony

law enforcement officials confiscated military drugs, ex

losive paraphernalia, the flame thrower, land mine fuse

rimer fuses and illegal inflammable materia

›Godirey said one night SAO: members heard Chicago.7

defendant Jerry Rubin was in town, "so three men, came

to my house and wanted to assassinate Rubin.. So we go

out and m driving and I'm carrying a 4" and the others

were armed with 4s-caliber pistols and a shotgun.

They never found Rubin,

"I was hoping they weren't going to find him," Godfrey

said. "But that night, resulted in a smoke bombing and

two car. burnings" and. Godirey said one man had to be

stopped "from shooting into a house with a 12-gauge shot

gun.!

The position of the BI in all his activities was, "Stay,

out of as much as I could; "Godfrey said. " Stay in but stay,

out. In other words, I was-not encouraged to participate

in any llegal acuvities and encouraged to prevent as

much illegal activity. as Icould, which did."

Citing his role of leadership, he described his plight: n

was in so deep 1 had.to do a certain amount of activity to

maintain my cover."

FBI Dirêctor Clarence Kelley said:

We did nat commission. him nor would we condone

him: to commit any acts that have been alleged. We cer

tainly would not engage.in any.acts of that type."

Kelley, who became director in 1973, said the FBI

never funded; the SAO.

However, Godfrey said he used FBI expense" money t

help pay for an IBM, typewriter and pay. for some of the

SAO "bulletins,"

including one poster distributed in leb;

ruary 1972, containing a picture of President Nixon indi

cating. the President was "Wanted for Treasonn It de

manded the President's arrest.

The poster criticized: Nixon for: dealing with The-Red

China Gang'! with "his chief henchman: Henry (Czar) Kis

Godfrey said he was later reimbursed for the Nixon pos

ter by: another SAO member. He said the poster "became

popular. and: gained other recruits, and that 5,000 copies

otthe: Nixon noster were distributed around the country.

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Jerry Lynn Davis, an SAO member who was indicter

alter Gothrey's 1972 grand jury testimony, calmet Sou

were substantial. David

pread guiltya costributio of explosive-type devices, i°

warned of "liberals, pinks, reds and other fuzzy-thinking

types" who were coming to disrupt the upcoming 1972

Républican National Convention, which was then slated

for San Diego.

The bulletin scored the "unconventional center," & cer

er funded by the Southern California First National Ban

to coordinate activities of police, the city and protesters

with the hope that the various factions could express

Miss O'Connor, her twin sister, Mavourneen, who was the

center's coordinator; the bank's chairman at the time, Bor

Peterson, and city officials, including Mayor Pete Wisor

t gave phone numbers, addresses and license numbers o

San Diego was picked as the Republican convention site

in July, 1971, but party leaders in May, 1972, decided 10

move it to Miami.

For the 10 months during which it was slated for San

Diego, law enforcement officials watched as both the left

and right planned protests and counter-protests.

. The most serious act was a planned attack by the SAO

on Nixon that Godirey reported to his FBI superiors. He

explained the SAO felt Nixon was too liberal in his moves

to restore relations with the Communist Chinese.

"They (the SAO) were talking about firing 81-min mor-

tar rounds into the San Diego Sports Arena while Nixon

was speaking," Godfrey said. "The same man who was

informant business

"Things were getting carried away.

. where there

were more and more activities with things compounding

more and more violence starting to show. Within th

group there were more ard more violent tendencies she

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He said he was getting frightened for his safety and his

wite was unhappy because "we were keeping explosives

in the back room of my house. At one time we had 50 lo

60 pounds of explosives in the back bedroom."

He said he told his contacl agent, Steve Christianson,

that he wanted out, that he wanted the FBI to protect

him and asked the agency to relocate him in another city

"But they wanted to use me in the convention and told

me if I got out, I was on my own, they wouldn't proteci

me or relocate me. They had me over a barrel," Godfrey

Christianson, contacted at his Utah home, corroborated

this.

"The FBI imposed on him (Godfrey)," Christianson said.

out of that situati him ouT. ey desper ely wanted to get

Godfrey during the convention. He was a valuable man."

(When Godfrey finally testified against the SAO, it wa

the San Diego Police Department and not the FBI that r

located Godfrey, according to former Police Chief Ray

fo the preconvention period, San Diego leftists forme

the Convention Coalition. One prominent member was a

San Diego State College professor, Peter Bohmer, a Marx

st economis

In early January, 1972, the SAO targeted Bohmer 10

harassment. He was the subject of an SAO bulletin that

suggested someone "deal with this red scum."

Bohmer received threatening phone calls and SAC

stickers were left on his college office door and at his

• On Jan. 6, shots were fired into Bohmer's home and a

oung woman, Faula Tharp, was wounded in her right e

now. Her assailant, George Mickey Floover, who was co

victed and served time in prison for the shooting, was a

passenger in a car driven by Godirey

(Bohmer and Tharp have since filed a $10.6 million law

suit naming Godfrey, Nixon and 57 other defendants,

arging government and law entorcement orticials v

ted the pair's civil rights through counterintelliger

oves aimed at destroying the New Lei

odfrey said he and Hoover stole the gun used in t

Than, 5, Godrey san car er berglafun to Christianson, as.

sunairested, Fling and ed to his ilie nant career would

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Christianson took the gun home and hid it under his

south, wirere it remained for six months.

"He toid me he hid it to protect me because of the con

vention, because he couldn't afford to lose me. He was

setting pressure from work to preserve me," Godfrey said

Christianson, who lost his job as a result of the gun in

cident, corroborated Godfrey's tale.

"I was instructed it was imperative to preserve God

frey," he said. "It was my own decision to hide the gun

I don't think I did anything morally wrong." He said

his possession of the weapon

"was not that secretive"

around the local office.

An FBI spokesman in Washington, D.C., said, "There

was no instruction we're aware of to Christianson to keep

the gun."

/ Christianson said that at all times, "officials inside and

he shooting.

i: "We had no evidence to localize on any particular sus-

ject, no evidence to identify a suspect," said Hoobler.

'They (FBI) had the evidence. They knew we were inves-

igating. We spent 500 man-hours investigating the shoot-

ng:. not having the total information for a six-monthl

period severely limited our bringing a suspect to justice."

( A district attorney's spokesman said, "Homicide detail

broke their backs trying to investigate that case. They

vere told explicitly that the informer was not available,

that they could not interview him or have his identity."

Clark Brown, former assistant agent in charge of the

San Diego FBI office, denied the FBI obstructed the po

ice investigation.

"We gave officers investigating the case all the infor-

nation we had... and we said we would reveal the in-

ormer only if they couldn't establish a case without him,

le said.

The first break in the shooting case came in June, 1972

He said he told the FBI that Yakopec was dangerous

had explosives and had threatened to blow up so-called

"pornography" targets--theaters and a bookstore and a

massage parlor.

This information is verified in an FBI report on the

SAO dated Feb. 21, 1973.

Godfrey was never prosecuted for any of his aclivities,

although "I had to itemize my activities for the district at-

torney's office and when he (the prosecutor) saw that ligt,

he heured i'd be the easiest one of the bunch to prosectite."

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By JOSEPH VOLZ:

Close Day to pea New i set it en are ate ding

bureau's much-criticized conterintelligence program-againstantiar.andeother ass

lents in the :1960s-while serving as president of the University of Chicago.

(Indicate page, name of

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not on te that he Tas a

getting

Chicago professor was

would have tossed it. away.

letter apparently was des

signed to encourage Levi. to. fire

Levi, 'has called

program

oft

harassing

Communists,

Klu

Klux

members, and political dissidents

if the letter: to. Levi was. discov-

zed in Justice-Department files:

Sen. Walter E. non-

new. information about question-

able FBI investigative activities

The

bitter

exchange

at.

Senate

Intelligence

Committee;

hearing erupted. when Mondale

added to see any reports sent to.

FBI Director.

Clarence M. Kelly

from burcan held offices outlina

Đn a n, y To then you can

or not," Levi said:

not?" demanded Mon

Whithe ClA gave us theirs

"I'm not in the CIA and I don't

want to be, the nomraily mild-

mannered Levi. snapped.

Do you consider-that augood

answer?" fumed Mondale

was as good as

of:

for the - frequent

ween the execütive, and legisla

ive'branches.of government

gait a as not would hate

a ena makin he Pot on the

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Routing Slip

0-? (Rev. i2-17-73)

TO: SAC:

Albany

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Allunta

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Cincinnati

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[3 Houston

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Kansas City

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RE:

PIRECTOR'S APPEARANCE

Dato -

1/5/76

BEFORE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE

ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITYES

DECEMBER 10, 1975

06- 0213-56

Enorante

Retention

For unpropriate , JA

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SIO

for inforation = optional

Cj action

I Suren by muelies

Ise enclosed is for your information. If used in a ratudreport,

sources, Lay parapirase contents.

costs

Enclosed are. corrected pagus fmm report of SA

By routing slip dated 12/30/75 and

captioned as above, all SACs and Legats were

furnished a copy of the transcript of Mr.

Kelley's 12/10/75 appearance before the

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Activities.

Although the data contained in

transcript may be made available to news

media representatives, used in answering

questions received from citizens, and other-

wise treated as being of a public-source nature,

the transcript itself should not be reproduced

ror, or given to, anyone outside the FbI.

Dric.

Bufile

Dome 117/76846 Ns//16

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FBI FOMENTED

BLACK UNREST

Worked on

Panthers,

'US' gangs

Bj The Asso

ciated: Press

- The FBI, in its secret operations

against black militant organiza-

•tions, took credit for the high de-

gree: of tunres." in the San. Diego

black community in a memg:re:

yealed by. tio.newspapers.

- The Sept. 18, 1969 memo, to then.

FBI Director JEdgar Hoover from:

the: Bureau's San Diegg-office de

scribed how agents tried to formint

Dale;

1/5/76

Edition: Home Final

Author:

Editor: Richard Wallace

Title:

FBI fomented

black unrest

Charactes:

• dissension betiveen the Black

Panthen Party and agroup known

as US, militant organizations active

in the Jate 1960s, the San Diego

Union and Los Angeles Times said

Classilication:

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Shootings, beatings and v-Wigh

degree.of unrest.continues. to pre-

vail in the ghetto area of southeast

San Diego," the memo said. "Al-

though no specific counterintelli

genice action car be credited with

contributing. to this overall situa

tion, it is felt that a substantia

mutable the is tests dietly at-

The Union said.the.FBI also has

r admitted: encouraging warfare be

tween rival black activist factions

fin Los Angeles and San Francisco

, duringithe same year:

James B. Adams, associate die

rector of the FBI; told the Times:

that the Bureau was "not trying to

I get people to Kill.each other, but to

disrupt thesé groups, reduce their

effectiveness."

I don't know any actionthet

was designed to produce violence,

he said: "This violence was taking

place before we got in the-act."

The: plan: was aimed.at creating,

dissension and preventing the

Panthers and US from joining

forces, Adams said. He admitted

only a "very thin line" separated?

the activity from the actual promo-

tion of violence.

"That's why al these things had

Ito:be approved at headquarters;

the said. "We tried diligently to

thread the needle."

"The FBI action-was outlined in.a

three-page memo, part of a 1,200

page report turned over to. the Se

nate Select Committee on Intelli

gence recently, the-newspapers re

ported Sunday:

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New Kules Would

Limit FEl Probes

'WASHINGTON (AP)

SENATORS told to listen 1o%

Atty: Gen.

Edward 11. Levi tapes or FRi

wiretaps

on

said today proposed Justice

Martin: Luther King Jr. Page-

Department guidelines for the

A-4.

FBl. forbid the agency from

conducting domestic secury

The draft guidelines re-

investigations. or mon violent

quire any preventive action

groups which do not intend to proposal to be submitted lo

deprive persons of their civil

the altorney

general; who

rights.

could

authorize. the.

action

The guidelines would es-

only if violence were immi;

tablish the first departmentil nent.

limits on the Fbl's domestic

The

preventive

• action!

security investigations.

would in all cases have to be

The attorney general

nonviolent," levi said.

could be reoured under 1lk

"He said that

some: pro-

draft guidelines to put a stop

posed guidelines sull are un-

10

any

full investigation

der dispute within the Depart

whose justification did, not

ment of Justice.

meei. an established

stan-

dard."

Levi told the Senale

Under the proposed!

Intelligence Committee.

guidelines, domestic security

• He

said. ine

draft

investigations would be lim:

guidelines

ited to the activities. or indi-

also would place

strict controls on the use

of

viduals or groups who intend:

L any: technique by

the : FBI

• To. overthrow the gov-

ernment of the Linited States.

which goes beyond the gather-

¿ To interfere with tie ac-

ing of information.

tivities, of foreign i govern-

Testimony before the com:

ments

inside the:

mittee has disclosed in.

United

¿ stances in which the FBI at. States:

• tempted to thwart

activities

• To influence government

of groups it considered ex-

policies by force or violence.

•@'To deprive

citizens

tremist by employing a wide their civil rights and create

•variety of tactics to discredit

domesties violence or rioting

leaders and disrupt organica

of such maguilude as lo.Call

tions.

Levi said those tactics. in-

for the use of federal anned

forces.

itiated under the late director

Edgar Hoover.

ranged

froni' the: foolish to the out-A

rageous. He said in the future

the FBI would use preventive

action only in circumstances

involving. an. immediate risk

to. human life

"ex-

traordinarily important

functions of the government.

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Mondale, Levi

Clash at Hearing.

BY RONALD J. OSTROW

Times Stalf Writer

WASHINGTON-A Senate com-

mittee hearing on the FBI erupted:

Thursday into angry accusations.or

jarrogance between Sen. Walter F.

Mondale (D-Minn.) and Atly. Gen.!

Edward H. Levi over Levi's reluc-l

lance to turn over reports of current!

FBI misconduct.

The heated exchange took place!

after

Mondale had

criticized

"vaguely defined" a draft of guide-!

lines for the FBI's controversiall

domestic security investigations that;

Levi and his aides have worked on;

for eight months.

The guideline, draft, which Levi

made public later Thursday, marks:

the most sweeping attempt lo date?

by an attörney general to set stan-

dards for the FBI to follow in the'

sensitive security field. They would

involve the Justice Department far!

more deeply in FBI affairs than has

been the case in the past.

Mondale-touched off the-heated-ex-

change by asking Levi for copies off

reports to FBI Director Clarence M.

Kelley on conduct by agents and

bureau programs that could raise

iquestions.

Jevi-That I don't know about.

Mondale-But I'm asking you as

head of the Justice Department if we

can get those reports.

Levi-Well, I don't know whether!

you can or not...

Mondale-Why not?

• Levi Because I think il's

one

thing to give reports of that kind in:

confidence.to a committee of this:

kind and another thing to make them j

public.

Mondale The CIA gave theirs to

us. Why can't you?

Levi-Well, I'm not in. the CIA.

Don't care to be. Don't wish to be.

Mondale-You consider that ai

good answer.

LovinI consider tie answer as

good as the question.

Mondalo Well, I think that kind

of arrogance is why

late trouble

bilicon die escou

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Date:

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Edition:

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Author:

Ronald' J. Ostrow

Editor:

William F.. Thomas

COINTELPRO

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At tbat-point, Sen. Frank Church

(D-Ida.), chairman of the Senate In-

telligence Committee, attempted to

intervene but Levi interrupted, say-

* apologize to Sen. Mondale if I

appeared arrogant. I thought some-

body else was appearing arrogant,

but I apologize."

Levi said he was concerned about

releasing internal FBI reports be-

'cause if agents believe that reports of

misconduct they submit are going to

be made public, "that, I believe,

would be very chilling."

Levi then said he had no reason to

withhold the information if it would

not be made public, but added that

ne wanted to check first with the FBI.

"My relationship with the bureau is

that I like to discuss these matters

with them before giving definitive

answers because I'm not that arro-

gant," he said:

. .

The draft guidelines provide that

the FBI will conduct domestic securi-

ty investigations only "when there is

a likelhood that the activities of indi-

viduals or groups involve the use of.

force or violence in violation of fed-

eral law."

The investigations would be limit-

ed to activities that aim to overthrow

federal or state governments, inter-

fere with foreign government offi-

cials within the United States, in:

fluence government policies by inter-

fering with force or violence, deprive

persons of their civil rights or create

to suppress.

In contrast to the present praciice

under which the FBI's domestic intel-

ligence work need not be reviewed

outside the bureat, the investigations

would have to be reported to the at-.

torney general or his appointec.

that was not supported ky specific

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and articylable facts giving reason to

believe that the individual or group

under investigation" was engaged in

the outlawed acts.

In the controversial area of coun-

terintelligence steps, the draft guide-

lines would permit

"preventive ac-

tion," but they would be limited to

nonviolent emergency measures au-

thorized by the attorney general.

The guideline draft drew praise

from Church and Sen. Philip A. Hart

(D-Mich.), but both had extensive

questions.

Mondale said he thought the guide-

lines would not stand up under "di-

r'éct orders to the contrary" from a

President or "a williul (FBI) director

who was angry or hostile or suspi-

cious about some of these political

ideas- the next Martin Luther King."

"What we decide to do cannot be

tested by the words, but by our no-

tion of how human nature works

when empowered in this way to play

God with

the American

people,'

Mondale said.

"It's got to be tested by what hap-

pens when the nation is in frenzy

and fear. It's got to be tested by what

people do when they don't think

say're going to be caught Mondale

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d..ti

12/9/75

AIRTEL

AIR MAIL

TO:

FROM:

RE:

DIRECTOR, FBI

ATTN: EXTERNAL, AFFAIRS

ADIC, LOS ANGELES (66-6243).

DIVISION

& ASSISTANT TO THE

SENSTUDY; TESTIMONY OF.

DIRECTOR JAMES: B. ADAMS

ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR

JAMES B. ADAMS, AND ASSISTANT

DIRECTOR W. RAYMOND WANNALL

12/2/75

Director JAM 508. ARAlS, 12/2/ C11 to As8istant to the

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 FBl

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 infornant

ROWE's testimony that we took no action relative to con..

templated violence since I knew that this was contrary to

che rules, regulations,

policy, and philosophy of the FBI

in 1960.

I then called Mr. ADAMS in Washington, D. C., anc

he likewise, was upset over the headline and lead paragraph,

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fine

LA 66-6243

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. WANNALI,

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 telt atter 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 Iimes.,

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

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

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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 prévent

this violençe.

At 1:20 PM, I advised Mr. ADAMS of the results of the

conference and alerted him to the possibility of being

contacted by JACK NELSON for further elaboration as to who

was notified in the Department of Justice of the contemplated

violence and what action, if we knew such an individual,

took concerning this information.

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look No Action io Prevent

Kian Violence, FBl Admits

BI JACK NELSON

Times Moshington Bureau Chief

WASHINGTON-An TAL official

conceded 'fussday that the bureau

had failed to use an undercover

man's information 1o head off Ku

Klux Klan violence in Alabama in

the 1960s,

But. the official, James B. Adams,

assistant to the diractor, told the Sen-

are intelligence Cominittee that the

FBl was "just as frustrated as anyone

else" at "rank lawlessness" that exist-

ed in Alabama at that time. Also, he

saist, the FBI is an' investigative

agency and has no enforcement pow-

ers.

Adams' defense of the FBl camc

imicdiately after Gary Thomas

Rovie Jr., ivearme a hoou to concea

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 interterence.

Rove served six years as an F'Bl

imercover agcht before surfacing in

1996 as the star witness against thric

¡ delatinen agonird of killing a white

civil rights worker in Lowndes Coung

13, Ala. Since then he has bcon living

10/3/

Los Angeles Times

WITNESS-Gary Thomas Rowel

Jr, wears hood while restrtying.

Al Wirenholo!

q in Southern California under an assumed nanie.

Rowe was one of two former undercover operatives

who testified before the committee Tuesday. The other

Mary To Cook of Buffalo, N.Y., told of supplyin the IrBI

with information about 3,000 persons while serving as an

informant against the Vietnam Velcrans Against the War

during 1073-71,

Pertimony by both

witnesses prompted committec

members to criticize FBI tactics and to suggest that legal

r'estraints 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 F'BI, 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 bungied 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'rc

going to protect veterans from whatever it is, were 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 preciscly what's expected of

Adia: diagord Meat the D'll had baneded in the poblin

¿ cal inteligence field but agreed that restraming logelat

tion was in order.

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FBI. Director Clarence M. Kelley

sait the nalion must occasionally sa-

crifice individual rights in order to

preserve national

security.

essach he gave to a conference in St.

Louis University, Kelley said he wel-

comed guidelines regulating the

FBi's intelligence gathering opera-

itions but warned against "a blunders

buss approach" which he said could

create crippling restrictions. The di-

Icector said he was concerned that the

effectiveness of the FBI and other in:

ed by continuing and relentless ex

ploitation of past activities admitted-

ly improper by today's standards."

Gathering intelligence about extre-

mist groups is essential, he said, "and

our ability to discharge this function

imply.musi not be criobled."

Bless

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B Attorneys General

To Testify On EBL

WASHINGTON (UPI)

Atter cataloging a list of

EBI abuses of citizens."

fights. the Senate intele

ugence committee nas

urned fo allegations of

political misuse of the

-bureau.

it called three former

attorneys genera. ta testity,

today: William Rogers

(1957-61) Nicholas Katzen-

bàch (1965-66) and Ramsey;

• Clark (1967-69).

The committee has

brought out that the "late

FBI Director J Edgar

Hoover directed his-agents

to carry out. a seven-year

campaign of harassment

against civil rights leader

Martin Luther King until:he

was murderedsin 1968

unesday a farmerie BEin;

formers gregops, tom 1965

committee herin-

nrated the ku, Kiux hian

10s sleeping with t

Sleep talk alp who

and once

warned. the FBL

the KKK. planned an attack

on black freedom riders at

Birmingham, Ala:, and that!

the police woüld do nothing;

tar the first 15 minutes.

Wearing a hood to hide his!

witness Gary!

Roive said the police stood

by as Klansmen carrying

baseball bats, chains. and

pistols beat the blacks. while;

FBL agents looked on.

He also said: he was told

by the FBI to spread rumors

about: Klansmen's sex lives

and to "to try to. sleep with

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Cartha DeLoach; Torme

chief of the FBT Crim

Records Division, also was

scheduled as a witness.

tom of a report on FBI ac

groups during the 1964

Convention: DeLoach

snould receives a

meritorious award atten on

DeLoach had written

theoperation: gBy-means

of informant coverage. by

use of various confidential

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FBE Data Challenged by

Katzenbach, Ramsey Clark

BY RONALD J OSTROW

Times stati silriter

WASHINGTON- Former

Atty:

Gen. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Wed-

nesday challenged FBI, documents

bearing. his initials that show he

knew in 1965 that the FBI was bug-

ging the hotel.rooms of Dr. Martin

Luther King.:

Katzenbach, testifying before the

Senate

Intelligence. Committee,

stopped short of branding the FBi

memoranda as forgeries. But he said

it was "virtually inconceivable" that

he received the documents at' the

time when the FBI said he did.

Sitting beside Katzenbach at the

witness table, his successor, former

Atty, Gen. Ramsey Clark, said that

testimony. by. a former high-ranking

FBI official that Clark had author-

ized 1968 wiretapping aimed at Mrs.

Anna Chennault was "absolutely

false." The wiretapping and physical

surveillance of Mrs. Chennault repor-

tedly was conducted because of Pres-

ident Lyndon B. Johnson's fear that

she was trying to upset the Vietnam

peace talks.

The challenge to the testimony by

former FBI Asst. Director Cartha De-

Loach• and to the FBI documents

marked the first time that evidence

Jeveloped by the Senate committee:

has been questioned. The conflicts

probably will have to be resolved be

ore the committee. can complete its

inquiry n alleged FBI abuses and

make recommendations for prevent-

ing similar abuses in the future.

The disputed

testimony came as

the commitice.

documented

wide-

spread political ahuses ofthe FEt by

the while House tracing back to the

administration or Franklin D. Roos-

evelt, John T. Elliff, the coramittee

investigator who is directing the FBI

part of the inquiry, reported on the

staff investigation and listed these

highlights of questionable. FBI ac-

tions:

4The FBI complied with a 1940

request from Roosevelt to investigate,

undreds of versons wi man sent

vie.

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Date:

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Edition:

Thursday

Final

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telegrams to the President "in opposition to nationalide.

fense" or in support of the late Col. Charles A. Lindbergh,

Sno was an opponent of roosevelts pro-allied stance be

former FBl Director 3. Edgar Hoover's secret file

contirmed, that Roosevelt had ordered wiretaps on the

home-telephones of his closest aides. Roosevelt's succes

sor, Harry SIruman; refused to read transcripts of the

taps, saying. "I don't have time for that foolishness.".

But. Truman and his aides received regular. letter

3rom. Hoover. that ‹ containca:""tidbits of political intel

ligence" including a warning that a scandal was brewing

that would be "very embarrassing to. the Democratic ad-

ministration."

In response to a 1956 request from former Presidenl

Dwight. D. Eisenhower for a briefing on racial tensions

Hoover reported-not only:on incidents.or.violencej.but or

the antantegraton actinues of southern: governors and

the role:of.communists in civilights lob

byng and a black group's plans to push for rights legisla

Foinently, Gen. Robert E. Kennedy authorized

wretaps on an unnamed Newsweek reporter, and on New

ork times reporter Hanson Baldwin and: Baldwin's aide

during investigations of leaks of secret government infor

chif. compared this, tapping with the Nixon administra

gons-wiretap on 17: newsmen and government officials

nich he noted included at least one tap that had nothing

to do with security.leaks.

"Nevertheless, the wiretapping-to investigate. leaks,un

der: Atty. Gen. Kennedy: and of President Roosevelt aide:

were undoubtedly precedents J. Edgar Hoover had in

mind when he told President. Nixon: and Dr. (Henry A.)

Kissinger in 1969 that wiretaps had been used for these

purposes in the past," Elliff said:

At-the request of former President Johnson, the FBI

passed "purely political intelligence" about senators to the

White House. This information was obtained as a bypro

auce of othervise legitimate electronic surveillance o

foreign intelligence targets. The practice continuedduring

the Nixon administration at the request: of: Nixon's chief

of staft, H.R. Haldeman:

Johnson aide Bill Moyers asked the FBI in the closing

days of the 964 presidential campaign to report on all

persons employed in the office of Sen. Barry Goldwater

Reat.) ohnson's opponent in the election.

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The By was ordered by Johnson aide Marving Wat

son to.conduct.a discreet "rundown" on: the head of th

Lustice:Department's criminal division. and tour officials.o

Department's narcotics bureau 'because

Johnson: was upset with their conduct.in the investigauor

of his former Senate aide, Bobby. Baker.

in May, 1910, the Bl provided vice President spirc

Agnewcat his request with derogatory infornation al

ready on the public record and other allegations about the

Rev. RalphD. Abernathy, King's successor as head of the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

According to F'Blrecords, Agnew: told Hoover when he

asked for the material that "he thought he was going to

have to start destroying Abernathy's credibility."

" Katzenbach's challenge to, the FBI documents. dealt

yith three memoranda from Hoover that reported on the

bugging of. King in a New York: City. hotel. in way, Octo-

ber, and December of, 1965.

The May memorandum reported that the FBI had

reveloped "considerable information" indicating thạt King

was influenced by:Communists. Katzenbach said he could

not recall the memorandum and this touched offa round

of, shame tuestionios. by.Curtis B.otache the commiti

les minority counsel:

L Guestion MerKaizenu:

var inessarenals on this doc

men, i he, roper thand, comes

are the your int

Ansver. Yes, they're my initials. u,

Q. Do you recall this information.keing: received from

Mr. Hoover?

A. No, I do not, and I. do not know whether I-wrote

those initials or not:

Q. I don't understand. Are they your initials?

A: Yes; my initials are N- deB. K. And I'think that's N

deB: K, as Icustomarily would write it and in the place i

would customarily, write it.

Q. Does it look like your handyriting.

A It looks like it

QDo you believe it to be your handwriting?

A il don't have any recollection ot ever receiving this

memorandum or the two subsequent memoranda of the

same kind. I have, no recollection

of that and' 1 very

strongly believe I would have recollection

Later, under questioning by. Sen. John.G. lower

Tex) who as vice chairman presided over the hearing,

Katzenbach: was asked if. he: thought his initials had-been

forged.

"It has.to be a possibility," he said,

He said another possibility was that he received the

• three memoranda and initialed-them, but could not-recal

doing so. Katzenbach said, however, that while this could

have occurred onsone occasion, he found thardito blieve

it would have happened. three times

The memoranda: were unusual because they reported on

bugs after they had; been installed. Several montns pre

viously Katzenbach had issued orders reguiring the FB

to obtain his approval" before installing any secret. listen

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DeLoach, who headed the public relations arm of the

FBi and served as liaison to the White House during the

¿Johnson administration, was questoned about a survei!

lance team he headed at the 1964 Democratic convention

in Atlantic City.

DeLoach said the purpose of the eifort, which included

wiretapping, was to gather intelligence on any "strife"

that might erupt. He rejected Smothers' description of the

surveillance as a political intelligence effort, saying. "We

passed on all information we received. I'm not a politician.

The committee report on the operation noted that infor-

mation relayed included "the most sensitive details of the

plans and tactics. of persons supporting the Mississipp

Freedom Democratic Party delegate challenge." This was

"the most important single issue that might have dis-

zurbed President Johnson.

As the questioning grecome, deati eured al

aside by volunteering that the FBI team's presence at the

convention resulted from President Johnson's "obsession"

"FBl agents for the first time found themselves as bo.

dyguards on street corners with Secret Service agents,"

DeLoach said. Throughout the testimony, DeLoach ap

peared as unflappable and genial as when he was the

FBI's leading spokesman. Sitting alongside him, his law.

yer, Charles A. McNelis, smoked continuously and leafe

through volumes of notes.

Another former fbi oiticial told the committee that

Atty. Gen. Kennedy authorized a 30-day "trial" telephone

tap of King in October, 1963, but that it continued for five

years until King was assassinated in 1968.

Courtney Evans, former assistant director in charge of

the fBlls special angesusaling division; sad Kennedy ap-

proved the lap mumme lectronic fluigs" in hoines, ho-

tel cootas 2nog

rices besiuse scover suspented King of

eit based ormorse ittence.

wanesed he prate a meroo.on get: 7, 1965. giving th

30-dag tral approval, and a memo on Oct. 21, 1963, ex-

tended it another 30 days. He said he did not know it any

#evaluation" was done-President Jonn F. Kennedy was

assassinated in that time (Nov. 22, 1963), and apparently

the taps simply continued.

Committee member Gary Hart (D-Colo.) said that dur-

ing the 1964 Democratic convention at Atlantic City FBI

agents were furnished NBC television press credentials

through the cooperation of NBC officials and newsmen.

DeLoach confirmed the account but said he did not

snow how the credentials were used

• In his testimony, Katzenbach drew a picture of Hoover

as a man who held "conservative views" and as he "grew

older and the country changed-for the worse, in his

view— the intensity of those feelings and the irustrations

at what was taking place grew."

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idents Kennedy and Johnson, constitutional government

and the nation."

But Katzenbach said: "I would not have expected him

to risk the bureau's reputation-his life's work-by re-

sorting to unlawiul or improper tactics."

His vendetta against Dr. King, if successful, could hav

ed to a civil strife of frightening magnitude " Katzenbach

said.

DeLoach gave a first-hand account of the Hoover-King

feud. He said it began with din interview King gave in

"made the statement that Soutnern

pert reared and educated rBt agents were not io bi

trusted" by civil rights workers

DeLoach said Hoover was bitter and resentful and con-

sidered King's remarks as casting a siur on the integrity

of FBI agents.

Later at a Washington news conference, Hoover called

King a "notorious liar" and threw in a trash basket notes

meeting between Hoover and King was laler :

anged that turned out to be so amicable that DeLoa

described it as a "love feast." Nevertheless, the FBI con

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Damages Asked for

FBi Probe Targets

Froin The Washington Post

WASHINGTON -The American Civil Liberties Union

in a suit filed Tuesday charged the FBI with harassing a

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, Pa.,

iS the first broad-based class action directed against the

FBI since the information about its operation, known as

Cointelpro, became known last year.

The FBI has said that the Cointelpro activities stopped

in 1971, but the Socialist Workers Party, in a $27 million

suit it filed last month, has alleged that it was harassed by

The ACLU suit charged that FBI agents from the

pureau's Jackson, Miss., office had harassed Muhammad

Kenyatta with threatening letters while Kenyatta was

working with the Jackson Human Rights Project at Tou-

galoo College.

One letter to Kenyatta, who is. now head of a black

community development group in Philadelphia, warned

this note" if he did not leave.

The ACLU suit requested that, in addition to Kenyatta

each of the persons involved in 362 separate Cointelpre

actions receive similar $125,000 payments for compensato.

ry and punitive damages.

John Shattuck, an ACLU national staff counsel involved

in the suit, said Tuesday that the ACLU was also seeking

specific

information

names of cit pursons involved.

on Cointepro activities and the

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Klam Violence.

names

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. Aiso, 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 scryed six years as an FBI

undercover agent before surfacing in

1965 as the star witness against three

klansmen accused of lolling a white

civil rights worker in Lowndes Coun-

ty, Ala. Since then he has veen niving

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In southern Calitornia under an assumed namer

Rowe was one of to former undercover Operatives

no, testined 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 Vieinam Veterans Against the War

Testimony by both witresses 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 FBl, observed. that the

bureau's innitration of the klan not only tailed to prevent

violence, but indeed may have contributed to it"

Sen. Walter: F. Mondale (D-Vont.) 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.iself and really led toward the un

dermining of crucial public .confidence essential to.law.en

forcement agencies in the country."

Mondale criticized the FBEtor 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, weregoing

to protect the (National) Councit of Churches from; yeterf

ans and so on

"Adams disagreed that the FBI had bungled in the politi-

cal intelligence. neid .but agreed that restraining: legisla

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FBI Allegedly Knew Klanklans in Advance

Ex-Undercover Man Says Warnings of Violence Were lanored

BY JACK NELSON

Times Washington Bureau Chiet

WASHINGTON-The FBI had ad-

vance knowledge of—but took no ac-

tion to prevent-instances of

Ku

Klux Klan violence and other civil

liberties violations in, the 1960s, a

operative

matin& civil righer ciolatione mine

of civil rights

March 25, 1905, murder of a white ci-

vil rights worker, Mrs.

Viola Liuzze

of Detroit, in Lowndes County, Ala.

Sirice the trial, Rowe, now a pri

vale detective, has been living under

an assumed name in Southern Cali:

fornia.

Interviewed by The Times in the

presence of his attorney,

Rowe re-

counted details of a lengthy deposi-

tion he had given Senate investiga-

tors.

Among Rowe's allegations, some of

which The Times has corroborated

from

from other sources and all of which

attorney said he was pre-

pared to tell the canmiles.

-The FBi participated in at least

dozen cases. of electronic

surveil-

lance involving churches and klans-

mer's homes, as well as King's motel

room.

-He gave the FBI three weeks'

notice that the klan, in a conspiracy

with Birmingham police, was plan-

ning to assault. "freedom riders" in

1961 in Birmingham. (Freedom riders

traveled to Alabama to test segrega-

pion barriers. The, FBI apparently

never relaved"*

then warning do the

Justice Department and the assault.

decurred without federal interven-

Xion,

-Klachmen

Mouse:

Fand "t

the Jetterson

County sheriff's office, with the FBI's

advance

knowledge, "planted"

evidence of illegal liquor at an integ.

rated country club. The club was

padlocked

after the

"planted"

evidence was seized in a sherit's raid.

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-Klansmen had

access to Bir Rowe said he decided to tell hi:

mingnam police files on civil rents tory to the Senate committee be

leaders and also rode around in' Bir cause the FBI had failed to give hin

mingham police cars planning vi, lifetime government job and to ful

olence, all with the FBEs knowledge ill other promises that he said thi

In addition to otate maior

Mowe worked on that

15, 163. cover work

= oureau made in retum for his unde

Birnubghani churos, bombing: that

Rowe said that when first recruit

killed four young black girls attend-ed by the FBl in 1960 he was tol

ing Sunday school.

Je disclosed thai he gave the FBiblence whatsoever:

that he was to "participate in no v

the names of eight klansmen suspect-

"This went on for.several months,

Later, he said,:

bureau with the name of a state in-

tell one of the klansmen to "kee, his

goddam moute shut.". i questioned

about the hombing:

The case has

never neen solted

him in "compromising situations."

Ele quoted

one. or

"hated King with a purple passion."

King, who was murdered

U8ed

the damaging. information

leader into silence about the boreau.

agents who took part in the

King campaign and other incidents.

licipated in civil liberties

not only are still alive but still work

for the FBI.

Atty. Gen. Edward H. Levi tol

The Times that the Justice Depart:

ment was "running a series of Crimin

al investigations now on all kind of

matters" involving the FBI. But he

said a major problem is that "wher

you run into abuses long after the

fact, the answer always is somebod!

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He said he explained that he could

Asain. Rowe said, he passed along

not "get information on violence by the formation to the FBI.-

merely attending klan meetings, that

On Mother's Day-May 14. 1961--

he would have

to go.on what thea mob of klansmen and other whites

"klan called "missionary work"

andswarmed over the freedom riders in

this would put him in jeopardy if heBirmingham, beaung them, No police

did not join in the violence.

"They said, 'Well, we have lo tell

"I had thought the National Guard

you by law that you can't get in-or somebody would be there to stop

volved, but we... know you areit." Rowe said, "especially with the

have to get the information, that'sand but

get involved. Youcrowd armed with clubs and sticks

the main thing.!

Obsarving the scene of violence he

"So after that I became very active said, were several FBI agents. includ-

in the missionary work," Rowe said, ing it couple taking movue pictures

"but each and every time I would re- of il

port to the FBI what we were going

to do: And nothing was ever done

about it."

Rowe, whose FBI code name was

"Karl Cross," said that with the FBI's

knowledge he heiped plan a joint

Man-police reception for

riders when they traveled to. Ala-

Some members of the Birmingham

police force worked with him as they

did with other klansmen. never real-

izing that he was doing undercover

work for the FBI. Rowe said.

A Birmingham detecuve. he said:

introduced him le a cy police officer

the freedom riders " me ion thee

would never forgel."

"I said "What do you meän, you

want their asses kicked?' " Rowe con-

tinued. "And he said, 'We don't care

if you kill 'em, burn 'em, homb 'em

Rowe said he passed that informa-

ton on to FBI agents. who told him

to arrange another meeting with the

officer and to get more information

He said he later met with the officer

i a restaurant with two agents sit

ting six tables away "while we dis

cussed. who would attack the buse.

and how they would be attacke

when they rolled into Birmingham."

Rowe said the oificer "told me they

would allow us 15 minutes to get in

there and do whatever in the hell we

wanted to do and there would be no

police officers-to mise

But after that time they would have

to make a show of force to keep the

government from sending troops in."

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was pumig

anto a like everybody else The / response, Flowg said, was

a big black guy of ahat it had no jurisdiction.

Klansman

when. somebody

yelled "Who the hell are we going to re-

'Look out." 1 looked up, and the blackport it to wheu the police department

guy cựt me on the throat." As the wiis planning it," he quoted an agent as

olence continued, Rowe said, a Bilsaying.

"All we're supposed to do is

mingham.

detective "ran over andobserve and take information. We

grabbed me by the shoulder and saidare not an enforcement agency."

'Goddammit, goddammit, your

minutes is up, get 'em out of herr "If Rowe said,

"we used Birmingham

police cars at least a dozen times for

"I said 'OK, gang, let's go.'" Row surveillances to commit violence. The

recalled.

disperse."

'''Let's go, everybody outbureau was well aware of this. But.

nothing,

"We were running away,": RawGothme.

ever was cione, assolutely

said. "I only lived about eight block:

away and we were running up the

street. li looked like about 100 polic

officers were coming down the

street. We stepped over and let them

by. We. had clubs and chains.

You

name it, we had it. Not one officer

asked us what was going on." None

of the klansmen was arresied

Burke Marshall, a Yale law school

professor who

was director of the

Justice Depariment's civil rights divi-

sion at the time of the freedom rides

said Rowe's

description of the Bir

mingham

rioience

"is approximately

, what happened."

Asked

whether the FBI passer

along a warning three weels in ad

vance that the klan planned to at

Marshal

said. "not three wries not three

days, not three minuies.

The Jusuce. Departiass: would

have dispatched U.S. marshals to the

scene or would have taken some oth-

er action had it been alerted to the

planned violence, he said.

John Doar, a New York attorney

aho also was an official in the civil

rights: division at the time, also suid

the division had received no warning

from the FBI and "never was fur

nished with pictures purported to be

taken by the FBI."

Rowe said that aiter the Birming

ham violence he complained bitteri

to the FBI. "I told them it didn't do

any good to give them information it

they let that happen. I told them 1 al-

most gou killed when my throat wis

cut. A doctor certified that my jugu-

lar vein was barely touched.

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Mr.

By William Safire

WASHINGON, Nov. 19-On Oct. 10,

1963, the then-Attorney General of the

United States put his personal signa-

ture on a document that launched and

legitimatized one of the most horren-

dous abuses of Federal police power in

this century.

In Senator Frank Church's subcom-

mittee hearing room this week, the

authorized wiretapping and subse-

quent unauthorized bugging and at-

tempted blackmailing of Martin Luther

King Jr. is being gingerly examined,

with the "investigation" conducted in.

such

a way

as not to unduly em-

barrass officials of the Kennedy or

Church's Cover-Up

The committee is not asking embar-

rassing questions even when answers

are

readily available. A. couple of

weeks ago, at an.open hearing, an

F.B.I. man inadvertently started to

blurt out an episode about newsmen

who were weritapping in 1962 with

- the apparent knowleage of Attorned

General Kennedy. The too-willing wit,

less was promptly shooshed into sl

lence, and told that such information

would be developed only in executive

• session. Nobody raised an eyebrow.

That pattern of containment by the

Church committee is. vividly shown by

the handling of the buggings at the

1964 Republican and Democratic con-

ESSAY

Johnson Administrations.

With great care, the committee has

focused on the F.B.I. Yesterday, when s

the committee counsel first set forth

the result of shuffling through press

clips, it seemed as if no Justice De-j

partment had existed in 1962; today,

an F.B.I. Witness pointed out that it

was Robert Kennedy who authorized

the wiretap of Dr. King, and that "the

President of the United States and the

Attorney General specifically discussed

their concern of Communist influence

with Dr. King."

But the Church committee showed

no zest for getting further to the Ken-

nedy root of this precedent to Water-

gate eavesdropping. If Senator Church

were willing to let the chips fall where

ventions which were ordered by Lyn-

don Johnson. Such invasions of politi-

cal headquarters. were worse than the

crime committed at Watergate, since

they involved the use

of the 'F.B.I.,

but the Church investigators seem to

be determinet not to probe too deeply.

If F.B.l. documents say that reports

were made to specific Johnson aides,

why are those men not given the

same opportunity, to publicly tell their

story so avidly given the next Presi-

dent's men? If Lyndon Johnson com-

mitted this impeachable high crime of

using the f.B.I. to. spy on political

ward to tell us all about it?

they may, he would call some knowl-

edgeable witnesses into the glare of

the camera lights and ask them some

Church wants to embarrass profes-

questions that have gone unasked for

sional employees

investigatory

thirteen years.

agencies only. A new sense of Con-

For example, he could call Nicholas

gressional decorum. exists, far from

Katzenbach, Attorney General Ken-

the sense of outrage expressed in the

nedy's deputy and successor, and ask

Senate Watergate committee's hear-

what he knows of the Kennedy de-

ing room. When it is revealed that the

cision to wiretap Dr. King. Who at

management of NBC News gave press

Justice concurred in the recommenda-

credentials to L.B.J.'s spies at the 1964

tion? How does the F.S.I. know the 1

President was consulted or informed?

vendon, every dey anushes a mure

After Mr. Katzenbäch assumed of-!

which netsork executive made what;

fice, and the wirctapping continued, !

decision under what pressure.

he was told by angry newsmen that

the F.B.I. was leaking scurrilous in-

readers for years about the double

formation about Dr. King. Why did he

standard applied to Democratic and

wait for four months, and for a thou-

Republican political crimes, and had

sand telephonic interceptions, to dis-

hoped the day would come when the

continue the officially approved rap?

hardball precedents set by the Ken.

Of. course, this •sort of testimony

nedy and Johnson men would be laic

would erode Senator Church's political

before the public in damning detail.

base. That is why we do not see for-

Obviously, Democrat Frank Church

mer Assistant F.B.I. director Cartha

is not the man to do

it. His jowl-

(Deke) Deloach, Lyndon

Johnson's

shaking indignation is ali too selec-

personal contact with the F.B.I. in the

tive; the trail of high-level responsi-

witness chair.

What

did

President

bili y for the crimes committed against

Johnson

knel about the character-

Dr. King and others is evidently going

assassination plot and when did he

kno:

it? What conversations took

Pity. You'd think that after all the

place between Air. Deloach and Presi-

dent Johnson on the tapping of Dr.

nation has been through in tie past

few years, our political leaders would

King, or about the use of the F.B.I. in

have learned that the one thing that

any other intrusions into the lives of

brings you down is the act of cover-

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FBI 'Degenerate'

BY PAUL HOUSTON

Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON-A former FBI intelligence agent

Tuesday called the FBI "a degenerate dictatorship" under

which agents, out of blind loyalty, condone unethical anc

illegal activities within the bureau.

Arthur Murtagh, who retired in 1971 after 20 years ir

the bureau, broke into.tears several times as he made the

sweeping charges before the House Intelligence Commit.

tee.

Later he exchanged angry shouts with the committee's

top-ranking. Republican,, Rep. Robert McClory. of Illinois

when McClory demanded more specifics and challenged

Murtagh's claim' that "hundreds" of agents had quit the

FBI in disgust.

Murtagh did supply details of some things that he saic

the knew about personally. He cited. the leaking of wiretar

information on the late Dr. Martin Luther King, hiring

discrimination against blacks and liberals, the harsh disci.

plinary practices of the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover;

the blackmailing of a Midwestern senator and an attempt.

•led dirt trick against Ren. Andrew Young (D.Ga),

\ However, Murtagh said he thought that it was a "rari

ty" for the FBI to use agents provocateurs- that is, intor

mants who help the FBI entrap persons in illegal activity.

The FBI had no comment on Murtagh's testimony.

Meanwhile, FBI officials appeared before the committee

and strongly defended the bureau against charges.by_othe

er witnesses that members of such groups as the Socialist

Workers Party and the Institute for Policy Studies had

been unduly harassed, wiretapped, burgled and tailed.

Asst. FBI Director James B. Adams raised the possibili-

ty of terrorists bringing "fireworks" to the nation's bicen-

tennial celebration next year and pleaded that the FBI'S

domestic intelligence "flexibility" be preserved.

He suggested that congressional monitoring of the FBI

might be accomplished by creation of a special Senate.

House committee,

In other testimony, the committee, headed by Rep. Otis

G. Pike (D-V.Y.), heard a Camden, N.J., contractor tell of

serving as an FBI agent provocateur in a raid on draft;

board offices by an antiwar group in 1971:-

The contractor, Robert Hardy, said he was not proud of

his role. He said he began as an FBI tipster and wound up

as the protest group's leader, taking instructions from FBI

agents.

He taught the group of professors, students and clergy

how to cut glass and open windows noiselessly, rented

trucks, obtained floor plans-and taught fast ladder

climbing and safe roof walking.

"My neighbors began to wonder why I had this crowd

of people climbing up the side of my house and parading

along the edge of my roof every day," Hardy said. "I be-

gan to feel like the Pied Piper."

Members of the group were arrested as they attempted

o preak into ine drait board offices. Later all were ac

ouitted.

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Murtagh, who was assigned to the FBI's internal securi-

ty intelligence squad in Atlanta for 10 years, said he often

refused to participate in questionable bureau activities.

For example, shortly after Young, a civil rights leader,

announced his candidacy for Congress, Murtagh said he

was asked to obtain handwriting samples of several of

Young's associates in King's Southern Christian Leader-

ship Conference.

Murtagh said he told his supervisor that he "knew

damn.well it was going to be used in a counterintelligence

operation to destroy Mr. Young's chances of getting elect-

ed to the House of Representatives."

Murtagh said his supervisor's reaction was: "Now, don't

get excited, Art, we will manage some other way."

Young won the election.

Murlagh charged that the incident showed how preju-

dice against.blacks.and liberals had pervaded the FBI and

affected its operations.

As another example he cited the leaking to the press of

personal information on King and others. "The leaked in

formation always seemed to involve persons of libera

persuasion," Murtagh said. "From my years in the bureau

I can only assume that the bureau had deduced that per.

sons of liberal persuasion are somenow more apt to sleep

with somebody else's wife, drink too much liquor or b

sexually perverted than are solid conservatives.'

In this connection, Murtagh related that a former top

FBI official, Cartha DeLoach, once told him and other

agents that the bureau had blackmailed a Midwestern

senator who Mau been picked up for arunken, hit-and-run

driving in the company of an attractive blonde.

"DeLoach told us that by noon of the next day the sen-

ator was aware we had the information, and we've never

had-any-problem with him on appropriations since," Mur-

tagh related.

le said the bureau's main problems stemmed fro

oover's practices of hiring people "who were political

disposed to the right, as he was," providing no grievance

Drocedures and imposing harsh discipline.

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BX BRYCE NELSON

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•CHICAGO- A special Cook County: grand jury accused

members: of the: Chicago Police Department Monday of

burglary, illegal electronic eavesdropping and incitement

lo violence in the department's infitration of community

political groups since 1969.

The grand jury, which made its accusations in a'44 page:

report.issued after.an eight-month investigation, said. the,

security section of the police intelligence division- some-

times called:" the red 'squad"-had. not only, violated con-

stitutional rights but had "nothing to show for their intens

sive efforts except a substantial waste of time and money:"

Furthermore, the grand, jury: said that police officers

had successfully infiltrated the Weatherman faction of

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the Students for. a Democratic Society before: the October,

1969,. "days, of rage" rampage through Chicago streets,

had gathered evidence about the intended violence a

week before the rampage and could have arrested the

• Weatherman leadership

"and prevented the riots, but

they did not!":

This "callous: disregard," the grand jury charged, was

characteristic of the entire police spying operation: Peace-

fu groups were spied. on or disrupted for apparently

political reasons while a violent group was permitted to

carry. out their intended plan of violence."

The "days of rage rioters broke windows and caused.

considerable property, damage on Chicago's near north

side. Richard J. Elrod, then an attorney for the city.and*

now Cook County sheriff, suffered injuries during the ri.

ots that crippled.him for.life.

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Edition,Morning Final

Author: BRYCE NEGOCN

The grand jury criticized Chicago's Police: Department:

and city government, for not cooperating with the jury's

investigation and asked the court to hold former. Chicago

police: Supt. James B. Conlisk, Ir. in contempt for his. "tru-

ly outrageous conduct' before the grand jury-for what it

called his "obstructive, evasive and contumacious answers

to questions."

Conlisk, nowia senjor officer in the Police Department,

was the city superintendent of police from 1967:to 1973, a

period during which there were violent confrontations in

mcago during both the "days of rage" and the. 1968

Democratic National; Convention.

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The grand jury said that indictments could have been

"issued but that it chose not to do so. It gave the fonowing

le grand jury; the death of several key witnesses, anc

destruction of evidence by the Police Department and b

the the net are i of a criminal perlientle would be to

highlight a few disjointed criminal acts, rather than to

present a comprehensive overview of an extremely se-

rious problem," the grand jury said. "The grand jury chose

to submit a report, instead, to alert the public against

such excessive abuse in the future," said State's Atty. Ber-

Mard Carey, a Republican, who was responsible for the in-

• yestigation.

Carey said that a sealed list of 13 police officers who

liad acted illegally had been delivered to the city's. current

police superintendent, James M. Rochfora.

Rochford said Monday," If Carey had any evidence of

wrongdoing, he should have indicted." He added that the

I report vindicated his department. Speaking of the 21 Chi-

cago policemen who, Carey said, had taken the Fifth

Amendment before the grand jury, Rochford said, "They

• just took the protection they were entitled to."

The Democratic mayor of Chicago, Richard J. Daley,

has consistently defended the Police Department's infiltra-

tion of political groups as necessary to prevent terrorist

acts. Chicago's city government hired two criminal law-

•yers to represent the police officers called before the

grand jury.

"The overwhelming weight of the evidence presented to

this grand jury clearly established that the true motiva-

fion for spying on community groups was political," the

report stated. It added that the groups infiltrated "at o

ne-or-änother were critical of the policies of the may

of Chicago." Daley was mayor during the period covered

by the grand jury investigation.

Among the groups that, according to the testimony of

roup has been intiltrated or burglarized by the polic

were the Rev. Jesse Jackson's PUSH, the Citizen's Actio

; Program, the Independent Voters of Illinois and the Chi-

and that "none of the many community groups brought to

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its, files to the Chicago Police Department."

The grand jury said" that the. golce Department inter

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ligence division had received "as much as $779,000 in fed-

eral funds" between 1972 and 1974.

our attention advocated violence; nor had-any:exhibited

any history of violence."

The report stated that a police officer had testified

about his becoming, president of a political organization,

The grand jury said testimony indicated that the police

testimony. confirmed-by.other members-of..the organiza-

security; section had had regular contact with: federal in

tion, and that he had "urged members to commit acts of

telligence agencies, including the FBI and the Army's

violence. That officer specifically urged members to shoot

113th Military Intelligence Group, then headquartered in

Chicago police officers. He then demonstrated the most

Evanston; Ill.

strategic placement of: snipers in downtown Chicago

The grand jury. said it had, received testimony that

which would make possible, the highest number oficasual-

"court records and documents had been destroyed" by the

Army; thus hampering the investigation, and: that em-

•ties:!

The grand, jury said that "undercover, agents and'infor

ploves of the BL and Army intelligence:had: "on at least

mants. are important.tools.needed.by by law enforcement

two occasions" violated. "federal law. by supplying.data.in

agencies in the:prevention of crime," but that when such

groups were used politically, "these otherwise proper tools Los Angeles Times

of law enforcement become.a:serious threat to: the very

foundations of our democratic society.

The grand jury-said-that: Chicago.-intelligence.officers

received.no:training.in.intelligence.work-and:that-the.in

telligence system used by the Police Department "pro-

duces inherently inaccurate and distortive data."

The report stated that a person's attendance at only two

meetings of a group was enough for the police to label

that person a member of the group and to forward that

information to federal agencies.

One: Chicago-police.officer. told. the grand.jury "that.he

illegally entered the Chicago offices of a: presidential: can-

didate, and removed records and office equipment in.or-

der, to disrupt his campaign."

Tha orand fury gave several recommendations: to con-

Tues. Nov. 11, 1975=Part&. VL

trol' improper police surveillance

-The Tlinois Legislature should pass laws requiring

the head of a police department, the "highest elected offi

cial directly responsible for the law enforcement agency!

(in Chicago, the mayor), andia grand jury to approve any

police request, to infiltrate a group.

_"An individual should have the right to the informa

tion relating to him.or her contained in police intelligence

files" and this right should be legally guaranteed:

_Files should be kept only on criminal activity or

threatened criminal activity, not on political beliefs.

All intelligence officers should be adequately trained

including "an in-depth study:öf the United States Consti

tution with special emphasis.on the Bill'of Rights."

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BY RONALD J. OSTROW

Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON-FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley

raised this specter Tuesday: that congressional investiga:

tions and news media interest in the bureau could benefit

"domestic estremists and foreign agents."

Kelley's comments, in a speech to the Lubbock (Tes.)

Chamber of Commerce that was made available here;

marked his strongest and most direct attack on the vari-

ous congressional investigations of the FBI.

"Impartial inquiry and evaluation of national security.

are considerably different from the relentless bombard.

ment we have been subjected to in the public.forum for

so many months," Kelley said. "The danger is that exces-

sive restraints crippling. to pur domestic securty efforts

could be imposed on us."

Kelley's remarks coincide with personnel shifts in the

intelligence agencies that some members of Congress

think signal reduced cooperation betiveen these agencies

and the investigating committees.

Robert J. Havel, director of public information for the

Department of Justice, sair that Kelley'e speech hau iri

been cleared in advance with his office and that it was

not the department's practice to require such clearance.

A White House spokesman gave a similar reply, saying:

"It's a solo effort."

Kelley's comments constituted a plea for public support.

"We are concerned that the highly publicized scrutiny

ind criticism of our domestic intelligence operations in re-

sent months will undermine the trust Americans tradi-

ionally have placed in the FBI," he said. "We must con-

inue to have that trust if we are to function effectively in

he future."

Kelley said that the FBI has been devoting "an appreci:

ble amount of resources" to research and preparation of

etailed reports for congressional testimony "to the des

riment of more productive investigative activities."

There are now at least 12 congressional investigations

wvolving the FBI.

"Perhans our operations will derive benefit from the un.

recedented surge ot..news media and official Interest in

he FBI,'Kelley said."

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but we must fervently hope unar aomesuc extremis

nd foreign agents committed to the destruction of ol

democracy will not be the ultimate beneficiaries," he said.

• The FBI director took exception to news reports of a

General Accounting Office audit of the Bureau's domestic

security programs. He said that the news reports "made

much of the fact that only four convictions resulted from

676 domestic intelligence investigations in 1974."

T'his emphasis by the news media indicated "a callous

lack of understanding of what our domestic security work

is all about," Kelley said.

eror come in in are de aroner in the.

erred, the potential assassin who is frustrated," he said.

Kelley said that the FBI welcomed guidelines for its

domestic security activities now being. prepared by the

Department of Justice. He said legislative guideline

should be established specifically permitting us to ac

promptly and effectively when domestic security is. im-

periled as it was in the 1960s."

"But in considering such guidelines, and most certainly

before considering any, further restraints, the total pictur

should be clarified."

Kelley said that the picture had not been presented in

"In the flow of news emanating from Washington, toc

often a miscue by an FBI agent is inflated to represen!

massive assault on individual rights by the bureau," he said

Kelley stressed the danger of terrorist violence during

the nation's bicentennial celebration. He said that the

FBI's aim was to reduce the threat of violence "within the

parameters of law? and reason."

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Senate Probers Tell of 238 Break-in:

by FBi Against Subversive Targets

BY ROBERT L. JACKSON

Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON-FBI agents

con-

ducted at least 238 break-ins over a

26-year period against "domestic sub-

versive targets" in the United States,

nostly radical political groups, Sen-

ate investigators said Thursday.

Documents released by the Senate

Select Committee on Intelligence Ac-

tivities showed that the FBI regarded

its break-ins as "clearly illegal" and

took steps to hide and later destroy

records of thern.

According to available documents,

J: Edgar Hoover, the late FBI direc-

tor, emphasized in memos in 1966

and 1967 that these "black bag" jobs

should be terminated. But the break-

ins continued until at least April,

1968, committee officials said.

Sen. Frank Church (D-Ida.), the

committee chairman, said the subject

of domestic break-ins was still so sen-

sitina that: #RT Mirantin Claranna M

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none on one for ain tae

bassies in the United States in con-

nection with its counter-espionage

duties, but no statistics on these acti-

ion, reported on July 19, 1966

"We do not obtain authorizatio

for 'black bag' jobs from outside the

bureau. Such a technique involves

trespass and is clearly illegal; there-

fore, it would be impossible to obtain

any legal sanction for it.

"Despite this, black bag jobs have

been used because they represent an

technique

in

subversive activities of a clandestine

nature aimed directly at undermining

and destroying our nation."

The memo added

that a break-in

had to be approved by the special

agent in charge of an FBI field office

and an assistant director at FBI head-

quarters. Approval hinged on the as.

umptio

that a break-in

afely use

without any danger of

embarrassment to the bureau," Sulli-

van's memo said.

Describing how records of break-

ins must be hidden, the memo said

reports were forwarded to Hoover o

no long time satan, he la erde

Colson,

Sullivan explained that the field

agent then prepared

"an informal

showing he had ob

tained approval for the illegal entry

This memo was kept in his safe for

bureau insectors to read, and was

later destroyed, Sullivan wrote.

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er hah bottom in his memo too.

more such techniques must be used.".

approval in the future."

ig approved of them for years.

Huston Plan

Huston Plan to citiool domesti

are to wich President Richard t

Nixon had authorized it.

to do this had been voided.

Brennan said break-ins had been

used mainly against extremist groups

to obtain their membership lists anc

financial records. He agreed witt

Sen. Richard S. Schweiker (R-Pa.,

that under the FBI's "do not file" sys.

com, burea ef has ound no record:

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Schweickets the persect coverup,*

Despite years of investigation-

much of it under pressure from Pres-

idents Johnson and Nixon-the FBI

never found evidence of substantial

foreign funding of U.S. radical and

antiwar groups, Brennan said. There

was ample evidence, however, that

American antiwar leaders had at-

tended conferences in Havana, Mos-

cow and Hanoi, he said.

en. Howard H. Baker Jr. (1

'enn.) asked Brennan: "Did the FE

ever get caught?"

"I don't think we did, senator." he

replied. Calling the FBI "the finest

group of individuals I have ever

with," Brennan said the

worked could benefit trom better su

pervision by Congress

'What are the guidelines?" he

asked. "What do you want us to do?

What are the limits of our activities?

We would be glad to comply.

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Church Tells of FBI Break-Ins

Of Domestic Subversive Targets

WASHINGTON (AP) - The

FBi conducted hundreds of

operated from: 1952. to -1973,

break-ins against

"domestic

also intercepted letters to or

,,from. Sen.

subversive: targets,"

over. a

Edward M. "Kens

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26year period ending: in:1968;

nedy, D-Mass., Sens Hubert H.

the chairman of the Senate:

Humphrey, D-Minn., and Sen.

i Frank

Intelligence Committee, said"

Church,

D-Idaho,.

chairman of the committee.

* today:

• Releasing. information

The question of the CIA?s,

supplied to:the.committee by.

responsiblity

under the law,

was raised by testimony given

p.

5

TRESS COURIER

OXNARD, CALIFORNIA

the: FBI, Sen: Frank. Church;

D-Idaho, said •there Were: Were:238

in closed session on Sept,a2 b

breakins conducted against 14

James J. Angleton,

former

"domestic subversive

chiet of counterintelligence

" itargets" from:1942 to 1968 and:

for the CIA. The transcript of

'"numerous ‹entries'

against

that hearing quoted him' as

saying

"It is, inconceivable

three other,

similar. targets

→ from 1952 to 1966:

that a secret intelligence arm

Charles Brennan; • former

of government nas to comply:

head of the FBI Domestic

With all the overt rules of the

government,"

Several members of the

Intelligence Division, testified

that the F.BI's,use of break-ins

fas

an

intelligence gathering

itool began to die, out in the

early 1960s.

Brennan said it was his

Kopinion that the practice was

curtailed as a result of in-

creased

emphasis. on

organized. crime and scivil

rights,. and of 'the late FBI

Director.. Edgar Hoover's

fear

'of

creasing..an em-

barrassing

incident.

"which

vould give critics a chance to

demand his resignation as he!

neared. the

mandatory

retiremen ads

mait-"

surveillance program, which

committee pressed him about

that statement Wednesaay..At

first: Angleton, replied: "Tits

(the transcript)accurate, it

shouldn't have been said.

Then he said;:

"I'd been

rather Impertinent in making.

those remrks."

"Do you:,

withdraw the

chdray the statement?"

' Eventually, Angleton replied:

"I do."

In part he said, "We want.to:

know. why the CIA opened the

mail of organizations;such as

the Ford Foundation, Harvard

Uin were Foundation vot

Rockefeller

the

why mail to and from persons

i such.

as (Eederal. Reserve-

Date: 9/25/75

Edition: Thursday

Author:

Editor:

Title: Church Tells Cf FBI

• Break-Ins of Domestic

Subversive Targets

Character:

: Board:

Chairman) Arthur

Burns, Rep. Bella Abzug, Jay

Rockereller

Martin

• Luther

"King Jes

Richard

Nixon

and Daward.

Hubert 'Humphrey

Kennedy

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VASHINGTON (AP)

Tie FBi conducied handrecis

of break-ins

against

comestic

sabrersive

over a 2 reat period

ending in 186S, the chairman

of the

Senate Intelligence

Committee said inday.

Relasing information sup-

Bled to the committee by the

FBI, Sen. Frank Church, D-

Idabo, said there were 239

break ins conducted against

14 "domestic subversive

targets" from 1342 to 1965 and

"numenous entries" against

thiee other similar largels

from 3452 80 1985.

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AIRIEL

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TO:

FROM:

RE:

DIRECIOR, FBI (62-116395)

ATIN: INTD

I. O. CREGAR

ACTING ADIC, LOS ANGELES (66-5243)

SENSTUDY 75

Attached is the original and sevon copies of a

letterhead nemorandun containing the results of Interview ot

SAC RALPI J. RANITON bY U. S. Senate Select Committee on

Intelligonce Activities Staff Membor Michacl T. Epstein•

This interview took place on 9/23/75, in a building adjacent

to the Dirksen building on e street.

Washington, D. C.

SAC RAMPION reported to Roon G308, Dirksen Bullding, and was

requested to accompany fir. Epstein to the building across

C Street opposite the Dirksen Building.

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STATES DEPARTMENT OF

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGITION

Los Angeles, California

September

: 25, 1975

USTICE

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE

(SSC) ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

RE: INTERVIEW OF SAC RALPH J.

RAMPTON BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

On September 23, 1975,

Senate Select Committee (SSC)

Staff Member Michael T. Epstein interviewed Special Agent in

Charge Ralph J. Rampton in the building

located across C Street

from the Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C.,

in the presence of Staff Member Mary De Oreo, who took notes

for Mr. Epstein.

The interview began at 1:37 pm, and concluded

at 3:07 pm.

At the outset of the interview Mr. Rampton was

signatures of Mr. Rampton, Miss De Oreo and Mr. Epstein is

attached.

Following the signing of the Advice of Rights Form

the interview began with Mr. Epstein requesting Mr. Rampton to

briefly review his assignments in the Bureau, beginning with

his assignment to the Communist Front Unit at Bureau Headquarters

in 1960.

After Mr. Rampton gave this background information

Mr. Epstein asked Mr. Rampton to read a FBI memorandum dated

October 22, 1962, relating to the Southern Christian Leadership

8-Bureau (6-2116395)

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(9) Das

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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U. S. SENATE SELECT COLMITTEE

(SSC) @ INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

RE: INTERVIEW OF SAC RALPH J.

RAMPTON BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

Conference (SCLC). This memo in essence recommended approval

of a Communist infiltration investigation of the SCLC and

proposed sending a letter to the New York and Atlanta Offices,

believed dated October 23, 1962, instructing those offices to.

begin investigation.

Mr. Epstein was interested in the reasons

and the background which prompted the recommendation for this

investigation. He asked Mr. Rampton if those initials (RJR)

on the two documents represented Mr. Rampton as the dictator.

Mr. Rampton replied they were his initials and that he recalled

writing these documents.

Mr. Epstein asked Mr. Rampton how he obtained

information to compose these documents which indicate Stanley

David Levison, a secret member of the Communist Party (CP) and

Hunter Pitts O'Dell, a member of the National Committee of

the CP were associated with Dr. Martin Luther King, head of

the SCIC.

Mr. Rampton replied

he could not specifically recall

how the information came to his attention, but that it would

be normal for him to receive reports from various sources,

such as field offices and other units at the Bureau which may

have referred to the association of Dr. King with CP members.

Mr. Epstein asked Mr. Rampton whether the Bureau reguired

field offices to report on racial incidents, such as sit-ins,

and Mr. Rampton replied field offices were normally required

to report any incidents of civil strife which would be disseminated

to appropriate agencies of the Executive Branch such as the

Department of Justice and the White House.

The context of

this question was whether reporting on racial incidents might

influence Mr. Rampton or other Bureau officials to focus

attention on the SCLC and Dr. Martin Luther King. Mr. Rampton

told Mr. Epstein such matters would not normally come to his

attention and the thing that focused Mr.. Rampton's attention

on the SCLC and Dr. Martin Luther King was information which

at tempts to donna e

indicated CP attempts to dominate or influence DI. King and the

SCL.C.

Mr. Rampton told Mr. Epstein he was not in sympathy

with this inquiry by the SSC and that while he would cooperate,

he desired to point out the inquiry was reducinc

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U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE

(SSC) ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

RE:

INTERVIEW OF SAC RALPH J.

RAMPTON BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

the effectiveness of the FBI. Mr. Rampton pointed out the FBI

does not need additional legislation or rules to circumscribe

its efforts in that the policy of the Bureau has

always been

to protect the rights of citizens and Communist infiltration

investigations are very carefully supervised, stringently.

circumscribed and limited in scope to determine the degree

of infiltration or influence subversive organizations have

on legitimate organizations.

Mx. Epstein asked Mr. Rampton whether Mr. Rampton

was

aware of such matters as sit-ins, racial incidents and

so forth. Mr. Rampton replied that he read the newspapers

and may have seen memoranda which incidentally referred to

such information, but that it was not the area of Mr. Rampton's

specific interest in the Communist Front Unit and that

Mr. Rampton, as a member of that Unit, was required to review

all reports that might indicate CP or other subversive

organizational activities wherever they might occur.

Mr. Epstein asked Mr. Rampton the purpose of

Communist infiltration investigations whereupon he showed

Mr. Rampton copies of pages containing specific references

from Section 87E of the FBI Manual of Instructions which

contain FBI policy concerning Communist

infiltration investigations.

Mr. Rampton explained to Mr. Epstein that the purpose of the

Communist infiltration investigation was to determine whether

or not the CP was dominating or influending a legitimate

organization, such as the SCLC. Mr. Rampton explained these

investigations had to be authorized by the Bureau, that the

field did not have the prerogative to begin these investigations,

and that such investigations were strictly limited in scope.

Mr: Rampton explained that it is not now and was not then

permissible to develop informants and sources in the legitimate

organization, but that sources were developed in the subversive

organization, which

i was infiltrating the legitimate organization.

Mr. Epstein asked if it was permissible to direct these

sources to join the legitimate organization and Mr. Rampton

replied that it was

not permissible to do so; however, if the

sources were invited to join, the handling Agent had to avoid

any direction of the source's activities in the legitimate

organization, which would influence the normal activities of

the legitimate organization.

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U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE

(SSC) ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

RE: INTERVIEW OF SAC RALPH J.

RAMPTON BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

•Mr. Epstein asked if the ultimate objective of

the Communist infiltration investigation would be to make

the organization a Communist front so that an all out

investigation could be conducted. Mr. Rampton replied this

was not

the objective, but if, in effect, the CP or other

subversive organization reached the point where it controlled

and directed the activities of the legitimate organization,

it was conceivable the organization would then be considered

a Communist front and become of wider investigative interest

to the FBI. Mr. Epstein asked Mr. Rampton if he could

recall any legitimate organizations becoming front

organizations through infiltration.

Mr. Rampton replied he

could not recall specifically, but did not rule out this

had occurred in some instances.

Mr. Epstein directed

attention to

a memorandum

written in June 1962 by deceased Agent William Forsyth, which

memorandum instructed Atlanta and New York to remain alert

to Communist attempts to influence the SCLC. Mr. Epstein

asked if Mr. Rampton knew Mr, Forsyth and was aware of that

memorandum which also mentioned and was possibly captioned

Stanley David Levison and Hunter Pitts O'Dell. Mr. Rampton

advised he could not remember Mr. Forsyth, but the name seemed

vaguely familiar and could not remember the memorandum itself

but could not rule out the possibility of having read it.

Mr. Epstein asked Mr. Rampton whether this memorandum might

have contained the basis for Mr. Rampton preparing the

memorandum of October 22, 1962, to recommend the Communist

infiltration investigation of the SCIC.

Mr. Rampton replied

he could not be sure since he could not remember the

memorandum specifically.

There was a reference in Mr. Rampton's memorandum

of October 22, 1962, to the effect information had been received

the CP may be exerting an influence on the SCLC and then later

in the same paragraph a reference to the CP connection of

Levison and O'Dell who were associated with Dr. King.

Mr. Epstein asked Mr. Rampton whether the first reference

was roughly equivalent to the second reference. Mr. Rampton

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RAMPTON BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

advised he could not be sure since he could not recall what

was available to him in 1962 which led to the phraseology

mentioned above.

A reference was made in one of the documents which

apparently was a letter to Atlanta and New York written

in 1962 requesting these offices to review files and make

recommendations to the Bureau concerning a Communist infiltration

investigation of the SCLC.. Mr. Epstein asked Mr. Rampton

whether this amounted to an instruction to the field to

make a positive recommendation to investigate the SCLC.

Mr. Rampton replied it was not an instruction to the field

to make a positive recommendation; that what Mr. Rampton

obviously had in mind was to determine the facts from the

field reports; and to analyze the facts then decide whether

to recommend an investigation be instituted. Mr. Epstein

indicated he believed such terminology was tantamount to an

instruction to the field to come back with a positive

recommendation and it would be unlikely the field would come

back with

à negative set of facts.

Mi. Rampton said this

was an unjustifiable conclusion and if Mr. Epstein understood

Bureau terminology he would realize the field would have

recommended action according to the facts at hand.

Mr. Epstein

asked whether conferences were held by Mr. Rampton and other

Bureau Officials which resulted in focusing attention on

the SCLC and Dr. King. Mr. Rampton replied he could not

recall any conferences which would have resulted in a decision

to focus attention on the SCLC or DI. King, but that it was

possible reports received from the field which indicate CI

influence with Dr. King would have been discussed with members

of the Communist Front Unit. In any event Mr. Rampton

said the review of reports from various sources was a

continuing assignment and when Mr. Rampton became aware of

CP influence on the SCLC it was his job to analyze this and

present a recommendation which had to be approved at a

higher level for a Communist infiltration investigation of

the SCIC.

Mr. Epstein asked Mr. Rampton whether he had

ordered disruptive techniques to be used against the SChC.

Mr. Rampton replied that he had not and wouldn't have done

so since the SCIC was a legitimate organization.

Mr. Epstein

asked if Mr. Rampton had engaged in COINTELPRO activities

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U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE

(SSC) ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

RE: INTERVIEW OF SAC RALPH J. RAMPTON

BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

in regard to this or other investigations and Mr. Rampton

replied that he was not cleared to discuss COINTELPRO with

Mr. Epstein.

Mr. Epstein referred to a wiretap on DI. King

and asked Mr. Rampton whether he could have authorized such

hampton shether

an unusual technique when he first made the recommendation

for the Communist infiltration investigation of the SCLC.

Mr. Rampton told Mr. Epstein he had no personal information

concerning the "so-called" wiretap on Dr. King (MI. Epstein

advised Mr. Rampton such a wiretap was authorized in connection

with the Communist infiltration investigation of the SCLC

in October 1963.), but in any event wiretaps had to be

approved by the

• Attorney General and sufficient information

would have to be available to justify asking the Attorney

General for such authorization.

The facts which existed

in October 1962 were not supportive of such a reguest;

Mr. Rampton pointed out.

Mr. Epstein asked Mr. Rampton whether or not

DI. King was on the

Reserve Index or Security Index when the

Communist infiltration investigation was ordered.

Mr. Rampton

repliéa thai he was not aware of any such designation

fOI

DI. King.

Mr. Epstein asked whether COINTELPRO operations

were considered concerning the SCLE and then he added he

would not get into this area, after looking at the memoranda

before him, because it was "after Mr. Rampton's time."

This was a reference to the fact that Mr. Rampton was

transferred from the Communist Front Unit in late 1962:

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FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO, CHAIRMAN

JOHN G, TOWER, TEXAS, VICE CHAIRMAN

PHILIP A. MANT. MICH.

HOWARD H. BAKER

VIALTERF, MONDAIE, MINN.

BARRY GOLDWATE

WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, KY.

CHARLES MCC. MA

53. JR., MD.

ROBERT MORGAN, M.G.

RICHARO S. SCHIYEINER, PA.

БАН НАТ, COLO.

WILLIAM O. MILLER, ETATE DIRECTOR

FREDERICK A. O, SCHWARZ, JT., CHIEF COUNSEL

CURTIS R. SMOTHERS, MINORITY COUNSEL

Inited States Benate

SELECT COMMITTEE TO

STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH

RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

(PURSUANT TO S. MES, 11, 1ITII CONOREDO)

WASHINGTON. D.C. 20510

ADVICE OF RIGHTS

Before you answer any'questions, we would like to advise you

of your rights.

This interview is completely voluntary and you have a right.

to leave without being interviewed, or to terminate the inter-

view at any time.

You have the right to remain silent.

Although the Senate Select Committee is not a prosecutive

body, it is possible that anything you say might become avail-

able to a prosecutive body and could be used against you in

court.

You have the right to consult with an attorney before any

questions are asked, and you may have an attorney here with

you during questioning.

If you cannot afford an attorney, the Committee shall then.

endeavor to obtain counsel for you.

If you decide to answer questions without an attorney present,

you still have the right to stop answering questions any time;

or you may defer your answer until you consult with an attorney.

WAIVER OF RIGHTS

I have read this statement of rights and I understand what my

rights are.

I am willing to be Interviewed and to answer ques-

tions without a lawyer at this time. No promises or threats

have been made to me and no pressure or coercion of any kind

has been used against me.

Signed:

I astro

Date:

9123175

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TO LOS ANGELES

NEW YORK

FROM DIRECTOR (62-116395)

SENSTUDY 75

REBUTEL SEPTEMBER 17, 1975, AND LATEL SEPTEMBER 18, 1975.

LOS ANGELES DISCONTINUE EFFORÍS TO CONTACI FORMER SA JOHN

KEANE. SENATE SELECI COMMITTEE (SSC) HAS NOT BEEN FURNISHED

NAME OF MR. KEANE IN CONNECIION WITH SSC INTEREST • IN COINTELPRO.

NEW YORK CONTACI FORMER SA JOHN KEARNEY, WHO SUPERVISED

COINTELPRO-BLACK. EXTREMIST, 1968-197D, IN ACCORDANCE WITH

INSTRUCTIONS IN REFERENCED BUREAU TELETYPE. BUREAU FILES SHOW.

LATEST ADDRESS FOR KEARNEY AS 2512 MARTIN AVENUE, BELIMORE,

NEW YORK.

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ATTN: INTD

LOS ANGELES (66-6243)

REBUTEL 9/18/75.

SAC RALPH J. RAMPTON WILL DEPART LOS ANGELES AT

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SENSTUDY 75

ATTN: INTD W. O. CREGAR

REBUTEL 9/17/75.

THE FOLLOWING FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE FBI LISTED IN LOS

ANGELES WERE. CONTACTED 9/18/75 BY SAC RALPH J. RAMPTON, CURRENT

ADDRESS INFO IS LISTED BELOW:

• RICHARD J. STILLING, 11648 AMESTOY STREET, GRANADA HILLS,

CALIF. 91344, EMPLOYED AT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON CO., POB 800,

2244 WAINUT GROVE AVENUE, ROSEMEAD, CALIE. 91770

JOHN S. TEMPLE, 2145 WEST GRENADIER, SAN PEDRO, CALIE. 91732,

EMPLOYED AT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL;

1420 SOUTH CENTRAL, GLENDALE,

CALIF. 91204

JOHN KEANE (NOT KEARNEY) , WHOSE ADDRESS, REMAINS 4140 MAYFIEDD

STREET, NEWBURY PARK, CALIF. IS CURRENTLY TRAVELING WITH HIS WIFE

IN A MOBILE HOME WITH AN UNCERTAIN ITINERARY. HE HAS; BEEN IN THIS

STATUS SINCE APRIL 1975 AND WILL NOT RETURN HOME IN. THE FORSEEABLE

FUTURE. HE MAINTAINS IRREGULAR CONTACT 'WITH HIS SON, JOHN JR.,

WHO. IS AN ORTHODONIST IN LOS ANGELES.

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9/16/75, FROM MAINE AND DISCLOSED HE IS EN ROUTE TO VIRGINIA

AND HE IS EXPECTED TO ATTEND THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF THE

SOCIETY OF FORMER FBI AGENTS 11/5-8/75 IN HOUSTON, TEXAS.

IT IS PROBABLE HE WILL CONTACT HIS SON IN LOS ANGELES BY

TELEPHONE NEAR THE END OF SEPTEMBER, AND A STOP HAS BEEN

PLACED WITH THE SON TO CONTACT THE LOS ANGELES OFFICE CONCERNING

THIS MATTER.

MSSRS STILLING AND TEMPLE WERE NOT SURPRISED BY THE INFO

CONTAINED IN RETEL AND EXPRESSED COMPLETE COOPERATION IN THE

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SENST UDY 75

THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE HAS REQUESTED THAT SPECIAL

AGENTS IN CHARGE THEODORE P. ROSACK AND RALPH J. RAMPION BE

MADE AVAILABLE IN WASHINGION, D. Go, FOR INTERVIEW BY THAT

COMMITTEE ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1975. THE INTERVIEW WILL INVOLVE SACS

RAMPT ON 'S AND ROSACK'S. KNOWLEDGE OF THE BUREAU'S. INVESTIGATION

OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP

CONFERENCE, STANLEY DAVID LEVISON, AND COMMUNISI INFLUENCE IN

THE RACIAL MOVEMENT. SACS RAMPION AND ROSACK SHOULD ARRANGE

TO ARRIVE IN WASHINGION, D. Co, IN TIME TO BE BRIEFED BY A

REPRESENTATIVE OF THE LEGAL COUNSEL AND INTELLIGENCE DIVISIONS

AT 9 A.Mo, SEPTEMBER 23, 1975, IN ROOM 4589 OF THE JUSTICE

BUILDING.

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RICHMOND

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DETROIT

MEMPHIS

JACK SON

NEWARK

ST. LOUIS

SAN DIEGO

SEATTLE

FROM DIRECTOR (62-116395)

PERSONAL

ATTENTION

SENST UDY

75

REBUTELS MAY 2, 1975, AND SEPTEMBER 4, 1975, IO

ALL OFFICES AND BUTELS SEPTEMBER 3, 1975, TO SELECTED OFFICES

INFORMING LATTER THAT SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE (SSC) HAD

REQUESTED IDENTITIES OF ALL SUPERVISORS AND COORDINATORS FOR

COINTELPROS IN SELECTED OFFICES FOR (1) NEW LEFT AND BLACK

EXTREMIST, 1967 THROUGH 1971, AND (2) FOR WHITE HATE, 1964

THROUGH 1971.

SSC ALSO REQUESTED LOCATIONS OF PERSONS NAMED IN FIELD

RESPONSES TO REFERENCED SEPTEMBER 3, 1975, TELETYPES, AND

LATEST INFORMATION IN FBIHQ FILES HAS BEEN FURNISHED TO SSC.

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SSC STAFF MAY CONTACT CURRENT AND/OR FORMER EMPLOYEES NAMED,

TO INTERVIEW THEM CONCERNING THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF COINTELPROS

IN WHICH THEY HAD SUPERVISORY OR COORDINATING RESPONSIBILITIES.

EACH OF THE FOLLOWING FORMER EMPLOYEES EXCEPT MESSRS.

CROKE AND MCMANUS IS TO BE CONTACIED IMMEDIATELY AND ALERTED

THAT HE MIGHT BE APPROACHED BY THE SSC STAFF FOR INTERVIEW..

THE FORMER EMPLOYEE MAY, AFTER BEING CONTACTED BY SSC STAFF,

CONTACI BUREAU'S LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION BY COLLECT CALL FOR

FULL INFORMATION TO ASSIST HIM INCLUDING OBLIGATIONS AS TO

CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION ACQUIRED AS FBI EMPLOYEE. IT .

IS EMPHASIZED THAT BUREAU'S OFFER OF ASSISTANCE IS NỌT

INTENDED TO IMPEDE SSC WORK, BUT IS DONE AS COOPERATIVE

GESTURE AND TO SAFÉGUARD SENSITIVE BUREAU INFORMATION.

CONTACIS WITH THESE FORMER EMPLOYEES IO BE HANDLED

PERSONALLY BY SAC OR ASAC. IN EVENT THIS IS NOT FEASIBLE

FOR JUST CAUSE, TO BE HANDLED BY A SENIOR SUPERVISOR.

REGARDING FORMER SAS CROKE AND MCMANUS, SSC HAS BEEN

INFORMED OF THEIR POOR PHYSICAL CONDITION AND REQUESTED TO

TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION IN ANY ACTION CONTEMPLATED BY

SSC CONCERNING THEM. WE DO NOT, HOWEVER, KNOW THAT SSC WILL

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NOT CONTACT THEM.

NEW YORK OFFICE, IN COORDINATION WITH.

NEWARK SHOULD ARRANGE TO HAVE CONTACT MADE WITH CROKE AND

MCMANUS BY A FORMER ASSOCIATE TO MAKE FRIENDLY INQUIRY AS TO

THEIR CURRENT CONDITION. IT IS BEING LEFT TO DISCRETION OF

SAS NEW YORK AND NEWARK, BASED ON RESULTS OF SUCH INQUIRY,

WHETHER CROKE AND MCMANUS SHOULD BE INFORMED REGARDING

POSSIBLE CONTACT OF THEM BY SSC. FBIHQ DOES NOT DESIRE

THAT THEY BE UNDULY ALARMED, BUT WOULD NOT WANT THEM SURPRISED

BY CONTACT OF SSC STAFF IF THIS COULD IMPAIR THEIR HEALTH.

IMMEDIATELY AFTER CONTACI, RESULIS SHOULD BE FURNISHED

BUREAU

NITEL

IN ABOVE CAPTION, ATTENTION INTD, W. O. CREGARe

BRIEFLY INCLUDING REACIION OF FORMER EMPLOYEES CONTACTED. IF

A FORMER EMPLOYEE NO LONGER IN YOUR TERRITORY OR TEMPORARILY

AWAY, SET OUT LEAD TO OTHER OFFICE IMMEDIATELY WITH COPY TO

FBIHQ.

ALEXANDRIA:

SETH F. EIKENBERRY, 5367 SUMMIT DRIVE, FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA

JESSE C. HALL, JR., 4535 EATEN PLACE, ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA

ATLANTA:

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GEORGIA

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CHARLES S. HARDING, 2243 PINECLIFF DRIVE, N. E., ATLANIA,

BOSTON:

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MASSACHUSETTS

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KNOXVILLE:

RICHARD H. BLASSER, 129 ACADEMY AVENUE, WEYMOUTH,

FREDERICK M. CONNORS, 15 LONGFELLOW ROAD, MELROSE,

MICHAEL J. MCDONAGH, 28 SPRINGVALE ROAD, NORWOOD,

JOHN F. NOONAN, 122 VERNON ROAD, SCITUATE, MASSACHUSETIS

- ROBERT F. O'NEILL, 2551 IROQUOIS, DETROIT, MICHIGAN

ROY K. MOORE, 107 SWALLOW DRIVE, BRANDON, MISSISSIPPI

W. HERSHEL CAVER, 3714 NORTHWEST 40TH STREET, GAINESVILLE,

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IRVING R. ANDERSON, 1D29 PERCH DRIVE, CONCORD, TENNESSEE

LOS ANGELES;

JOHN KEARNEY, 4148 MAYFIELD STREET, NEWBURY PARK,

CALIFORNIA

RICHARD J. STILLING, 11648 AMESTOY STREEI, GRANADA HILLS,

/ MEMPHTSE

JOHN S. TEMPLE, 2145 GRENADIER, SAN PEDRO, CALIFORNIA

PHILIP S. ENDRES, 22 SOUTH SECOND STREET, MEMPHIS,

TENNESSEE

NEWARK:

• BENJAMIN P. MCMANUS, 25 MICHAEL STREET,

FORDS, NEW JERSEY

NEW YORK:

THOMAS J. CROKE, JR, 15 HOFSTRA DRIVE, GREENLAWN, NEW YORK

JOHN J. DUNLEAVY, 10 SOUTHVIEW CI., CARLE PLACE, NEW YORK

•JOSEPH H. GAMBLE, 24 GREYSTONE ROAD, ROCKVILLE CENTRE,

NEW YORK

RICHM OND :

CHARLES F. HEINER, 25 TWIN LAKE LANE, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

RANDOLPH E. TROW, 1792 RANCH DRIVE, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

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SAINT LOUIS:

MISSOURI

SAN DIEGO:

JOHN H. WAGNER, 8229 BARNINGHAM ROAD, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA

JOHN J. BUCKLEY, 9469 HARALD DRIVE, WOODSON TERRACE,

EDMUND C. WELION, 825 DEANDELL COURT, FERGUSON, MISSOURI

ROBERT S. BAKER, 4268 HORTENSIA, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

SEATTLE:

LEROY W. SHEETS, 5725 72ND STREET, N. E.g MARYSVILLE,

WASHIN GT ON

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ATTN: INTD, W.O. CREGAR

SENSTUDY 75.

RE BUREAU TELETYPE SEPTEMBER 3, 1975.

THE FOLLOWING SUBMITTED BY LOS ANGELES OFFICE.

RE COINTELPRO - BLACK EXTREMIST, BUREAU FILE 100-448006,

LOS ANGELES FILE 157-1751:

SUPERVISOR JOHN S. TEMPLE, MARCH, 1968 - MAY, 1968, RETIRED;

SUPERVISOR RICHARD H. BLOESER, MAY, 1968 - MAY, 1971, ASSIGNED

LOS ANGELES; COORDINATORS SA FRANCIS G. KAHL, MARCH, 1968 -

SEPTEMBER, 1968, ASSIGNED LOS ANGELES; SA LEROY W. SHEETS,

SEPTEMBER, 1968 - MAY, 1971, RETIRED.

COINTELPRO - BLACK EXTREMIST, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, BUREAU

FILE 100-448006, LOS ANGELES FILE 157-4054:

SUPERVISOR RICHARD H. BLOESER, JUNE, 1969 - MAY, 1971,

ASSIGNED LOS ANGELES; COORDINATORS SA WALLACE E. WARD, JUNE, 1969 -

SEPTEMBER, 1969, ASSIGNED LOS ANGELES; SA RICHARD WALLACE HELD,

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SEPTEMBER, 1969 - MAY, 1971, ASSIGNED FBI HEADQUARTERS.

COINTELPRO - NEW LEFT, BUREAU FILE 100-449698, LOS ANGELES

FILE 100-71737:

SUPERVISORS RICHARD J. STILLING, MAY, 1968 - OCTOBER, 1968,

RETIRED; HOMER A. PORTER, NOVEMBER, 1968 - FEBRUARY, 1969,

ASSIGNED LOS ANGELES; JAMES I. CLOAR, JR., MARCH, 1969 - MAY,

1971, ASSIGNED LOS ANGELES; COORDINATOR SA JOHN C. O'NEILL,

JUNE, 1968 - MAY, 1971, ASSIGNED LOS ANGELES.

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FROM LOS ANGELES (66-6243)

SENSTUDY 75

MAG CARD

RE BUTEL, SEPTEMBER 5, 1975.

THE FOLLOWING FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE BU RESIDING IN

LA TERRITORY, WERE PERSONALLY CONTACTED SEPTEMBER 5, 1975,

BY SAC RALPH J. RAMPTON, CONCERNING THE CONTENTS OF RE

TELETYPE:

WILLIAM G. SIMON, 2035 LOMBARDI ROAD, SAN MARINO,

CALIFORNIA.

WESLEY G. GRAPP, 4240 BON HOMME ROAD, WOODLAND HILLS,

CALIFORNIA.

ARNOLD C. LARSON, 4232 ABBINGTON COURT, WESTLAKE VILLAGE,

CALIFORNIA.

EACH EXPRESSED SUPPORT OF THE BU AND PLEDGED COOPERATION

IN THIS MATTER.

JOSEPH K. PONDER, AS THE BU IS AWARE, WAS INTERVIEWED

AUGUST 31, 1975, BY SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE STAFF MEMBER MIKE

EPSTEIN AND HAS PREPARED A LETTERHEAD MEMORANDUM WHICH

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THE RESULTS OF THIS INTERVIEW AND WHICH WAS FORWARDED

TO THE BU.

IN VIEW OF THIS, NO CONTACT WAS MADE WITH MR. PONDER

AS A RESULT OF RE TELETYPE.

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• DALLAS

JACKSON

LOS ANGELES

NEW YORK

PHILADELPHIA

SAN DIEGO

BALTIMORE

CHICAGO

EL PASO

JACKSONVILLE

MEMPHIS

OKLAHOMA CITY

PHOENIX

SAN FRANCISCO

BIRMING HAM

CINCINNATI

INDIA NAPOLIS

LOUISVILLE

MIAMI

OMAHA

SI. LOUIS

SAVANNAH

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FROM DIRECTOR (62- 116375)

PERSONAL ATTENTiON

SENSTUDY 75

REBUTELS MAY, 2, 1975, AND SEPTEMBER 4, 1975.

SENATE SELECI COMMITTEE (SSC) HAS REQUESTED WHEREABOUIS

OF A NUMBER OF FORMER FBI EMPLOYEES INDICATING THEY MAY BE

INTERVIEWED BY THE SSC STAFF.: LISTED BELOW, BY FIELD OFFICE

TERRITORY, ARE THESE FORMER EMPLOYEES AND THEIR LAST KNOWN

ADDRESSES AS CONTAINED IN BUREAU FILES.

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INFORMATION FROM SSE INDICATES NAMES OF FORMER SA'S

LITRENTO AND STEWART DEVELOPED AS HAVING BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR

SUPERVISING COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE FBI AND CIA CONCERNING

MAIL OPENING ACIVITIES. ALL OTHERS IN LISI BELOW WERE EITHER

SAC, ASAC, OR BOTH, DURING PERIOD 1959 - 1966 IN ONE OR MORE

OF THE FOLLOWING OFFICES: BOSTON, DETROIT, LOS ANGELES, MIAMI;

NEW YORK', SAN FRANCISCO, SEATTLE, AND WASHINGION FIELD. THEY

PRESUMABLY ARE ALSO KNOWLEDGEABLE CONCERNING MAIL OPENINGS:

EACH OF THESE FORMER EMPLOYEES IS TO BE IMMEDIATELY

CONTACTED AND ALERTED THAT HE MIGHI BE APPROACHED BY THE SSC

STAFF FOR INTERVIEW. THE FORMER EMPLOYEE MAY, AFTER BEING

CONTACTED BY SSC STAFF, CONTACT BUREAU'S LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION

BY COLLECT CALL FOR FULL INFORMATION TO ASSIST HIM INCLUDING

OBLIGATIONS AS TO CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION ACQUIRED AS

FBI EMPLOYEE. IT IS EMPHASIZED THAI BUREAU'S OFFER OF

ASSISTANCE IS NOT INTENDED TO IMPEDE SSC WORK, BUT IS DONE

AS COOPERATIVE GESTURE AND TO SAFEGUARD SENSITIVE BUREAU

INFORMATION:

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CONTACTS WITH THESE FORMER EMPLOYEES TO BE HANDLED

PERSONALLY BY. SAC OR ASAC. IN EVENT THIS IS NOT FEASIBLE

FOR JUST CAUSE, IO BE HANDLED BY A SENIOR SUPERVISOR:

IMMEDIATELY AFTER CONTACI, RESULTS SHOULD BE FURNISHED

BUREAU BY NITEL IN ABOVE CAPTION, BRIEFLY INCLUDING REACTION

OF FORMER EMPLOYEES CONTACTED:

IF A FORMER EMPLOYEE NO

LONGER IN YOUR TERRITORY OR TEMPORARILY AWAY, SET OUT LEAD TO

OTHER OFFICE IMMEDIATELY WITH COPY TO FBIHQ.

ALEXANDRIA:

W. DONALD STEWARI, CRYSTAL HOUSE I, APARTMENI 202, ARLINGTON;

VIRGINIA®

JAMES H: GALE; 3307 ROCKY MOUNT ROAD, FAIRFAX, VIRGINIA

THOMAS E BISHOP, 8820 STARK ROAD, ANNANDALE, VIRGINIA

BALTIMORE:

ANTHONY P® LITRENTO, 2810 STONYBROOK DRIVE, BOWIE, MARYLAND

PAUL O'CONNELL, JR., 2417 STRAITON DRIVE; POTOMAC, MARYLAND

DONALD E: RONEY, 131 CAMBRIDGE DRIVE, WINDSOR HILLS,

WILMINGTON, DELAWARE

VICIOR TURYN, 264 TURF VALLEY ROAD, ELLICOTT CITY,

MARYLAND

DONALD W. MORLEY, BOX 222, NEW MARKET, MARYLAND

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BIRMINGHAM:

JOHN DAVID POPE, JR., 221 REMINGION ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA

BOSTON:

LEO L® LAUGHLIN, 9 EVERETT AVENUE, WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETIS

EDWARD J. POWERS, ID COLONIAL DRIVE, BEDFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE

JoF. DESMOND, 185 FRANKLIN STREET, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETIS

CHICAGO:

MARLIN W: JOHNSON, CANTEEN CORPORATION, THE MERCHANDISE

MART; CHICAGO, ILLINOIS •

HARVEY G. FOSER, 1012 SOUTH HAMLIN, PARK RIDGE, ILLINOIS

CINCINNATI:

PAUL FIELDS, 2677 CYCLORAMA DRIVE, CINCINNATI, OHIO"•

HARRY J. MORGAN, 5314 ELMCREST LANE, CINCINNATI, OHIO

DALLAS:

PAUL H. STODDARD, 3014 CHATTERION DRIVE, SAN ANGELO, TEXAS

KENNETH E. COMMONS, 2458 DOUGLAS DRIVE, SAN ANGELO, TEXAS

EL PASO:

KARL W. DISSLY, POST OFFICE BOX 9762, EL PASO, TEXAS

INDIANAPOLIS:

DILLARD W. HOWELL, 6413 CARDINAL LANE, INDIANAPOLIS,

INDIANA

ALLAN GILLIES, 8228 HOOVER LANE, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

JACKSON:

WILLIAMS W. BURKE, JR.., 1847 AZTEC DRIVE, JACKSON,

MISSISSIPPI

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JACKSONVILLE:

DONALD K. BROWN, 826 BROOKMONI AVENUE, EAST JACKSONVILLE;

FLORIDA

WILLIAM M: ALEXANDER, 4857 WATER OAK LANE; jACKSONVILLE,

FLORIDA

LOUISVILLE:

BERNARD C. BROWN, 2301 NEWMARKET DRIVE, N.E.., LOUISVILLE,

KENTUCKY

LOS ANGELES:

WILLIAM G. SIMON, 2075-LOMBARDY ROAD, SAN MARINO,

20350

1: 356-3330

1:681-2120

CALIFORNIA

WESLEY G. GRAPP, 4240 BON HOMME ROAD, WOODLAND HILLS,

0: 646-3722

646-5921

1: 340-6308

CALIFORNIA

CALIFORNIA

ARNOLD C. LARSON, 4232 ABBINGTON COURT, WESTLAKE VILLAGE,'

0: 646-8314

h: 889-4290

/ JOSEPH K. PONDER, 3719 CARRIAGE HOUSE COURT, ALEXANDRIA, 0: 272-9357

VIRGINIA. BUSINESS ADDRESS: 3030 SOUTH RED HILL AVENUE,

h:

SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA

TRE 9460 Wilbure Blud, Beverly Has Caly

MEMPHIS:

• E. HUGO WINTERROWD, 1558 NORTH PARKWAY, MEMPHIS,. TENNESSEE

MIAMI:

THOMAS MC ANDREWS, 324 NEAPOLITAN WAY, NAPLES, FLORIDA

• FREDERICK F. FOX, 1145D. W. BISCAYNE CANAL ROAD, MIAMI,

FLORIDA.

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NEW. YORK:

JOSEPH L. SCHMIT, 656 HUNT LANE, MANHASSET, NEW YORK

HENRY A.. FITZGIBBON, 76 EASION ROAD., BRONXVILLE, NEW. YORK

OKLAHOMA CITY:

JAMES T. MORELAND, 108 FERN DRIVE, POTEAU, OKLAHOMA

LEE 0. TEAGUE, 2581 N.W... 121ST STREET, OKLAHOMA CITY,

OKLAHOMA

OMAHA :

JOHN F. CALLAGHAN, IOWA LAW ENFORCEMENT ACADEMY,

CAMP DODGE, POST OFFICE BOX 13D, JOHNSTON, IOWA

PHILADELPHIA:

RICHARD J. BAKER, 219 JEFFREY LANE, NEWION SQUARE,

PENNSYLVANIA

JOHN: F. MALONE, 25 GARFIELD: AVENUE, CARBONDALE, PENNSYLVANIA

PHOENIX:

PALMER M. BAKEN, JR, 3832 EAST YUCCA STREET, PHOENIX,

ARIZONA

SI. LOUIS:

THOMAS S. GEARTY, 6630 CLAYTON ROAD NR. 105, RICHMOND HEIGHTS,

MISSOURI

WESLEY I. WHALEY, 286 GREEN TRAILS DRIVE, CHESTERFIELD,

MISSOURI

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SAN DIEGO:

FRANK L. PRICE, 2705 TONALON STREET, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO:

CURTIS O. LYNUM, 644 EAST HILLSDALE BOULEVARD, SAN MATEO,

CALIFORNIA

HAROLD E. WELBORN, 13067 LA VISTA COURI, SARATOGA,

CALIFORNIA

SAVANNAH:

TROY COLEMAN, 36 CROMWELL ROAD, WILMINGION PARK, SAVANNAH,

*GEORGIA

JOSEPH D. PURVIS, 721 DANCY AVENUE, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

SEATTLE:

LELAND V. BOARDMAN, ROUTE 3, BOX: 268, SEQUIM, WASHINGION

RICHARD D. AUERBACH, P.O. BOX 1768; SEATTLE, WASHINGION

JAMES E. MILNES, 4317 - 50TH AVENUE, N.E., SEATTLE,

WASHINGTON

. PAUL R. BIBLER, 15.134 - 38TH AVENUE, N.E,o, SEATTLE,

WASHINGTON

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AIR MAIL

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•Date:

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TO:

FROM:

RE:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-116395)

ACTING ADIC, LOS ANGELES (66-6243)

U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) ;

INTERVIEW OF FORMER ASSISTANT

DIRECTOR JOSEPH K. PONDER

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

Re telephone conversation between Former Assistant

Director JOSEPH K. PONDER and Inspector JOHN B. HOTIS,

Legislative Matters Section, Legal Counsel Office, : 9/3/75.

Enclosed herewith for the Bureau is the original

and seven copies of letterhead memorandum dictated by

Mr. PONDER with respect to the interview conducted on

8/31/75, by SSC Staff Member MIKE EPSTEIN. This interview

took place at Mr. PONDER's home at San Clemente.

Mr. PONDER dictated the following impressions

for the Bureau's information:

"Following this interview and upon further

reflection I believe Atlanta did have some coverage on

KING at the time I arrived in Atlanta. I believe that

coverage was on his home as opposed to the coverage on

his offices at Southern Christian Leadership Conference

which we obtained while I was there.

"Based on my brief discussion with Epstein

and his manner in making the appointment, I had the

feeling that' his interview of me was arranged over the

•Bureau (Enc. 8)

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Mar sat me

was in

Labor Day weekend to suit his personal convenience

or to fit his personal travel plans. He was pleasant,

low-keyed, and not at all aggressive or probing and I

had the impression that he learned nothing during the

interview that he had not known before.

I told him

on several occasions during the interview that my memory

of this ten year old matter is very poor, that he should

rely on the

records made at the time for

a more accurate

account.

leads

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In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Los Angeles, California

September 5, 1975

NIX

U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) ;

INTERVIEW OF FORMER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR JOSEPH K. PONDER

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

1776-1970

55235

On August 28, 1975, I received a call from Mike

Epstein of the Staff of the Senate Select Committee.

said he planned to be in Southern California on Labor Day

weekend and asked whether I would be available for

interview on Sunday, August 31, 1975. I told him I would.

Epstein subsequently called me on August 30 and agreed

to meet me at my home at San Clemente on Sunday afternoon,

August 31, 1975.

The interview with Epstein took place between

3:40 pm and 4:05 pm.

This included the time spent in

amenities and general conversation.

Regarding my Bureau background Epstein asked

during what period of time I was Special Agent in Charge

in Atlanta.

I told him from April or May 1964 to

December 1966.

He asked where I had been assigned before

that (Buffalo) and where I went after leaving Atlanta

(New York). He asked no other questions about my Bureau

He asked if I were aware of telephone taps

maintained by the Atlanta Office on Martin Luther King.

I replied that I was aware of certain taps placed and

removed during my tenure in Atlanta.

He asked if there

were such coverage before I arrived in Atlanta and I told

him I was not aware of any. In response to these and

other subsequent questions I pointed out to Epstein that

I had

not been personally involved in the King matter,

that I had various other responsibilities in Atlanta and

that after ten years I cannot now clearly

recall information

which might answer his questions., I told him that every-

thing that was done was properly recorded, that the

records were accurate, and wherever my recollection differs

from the record, he should rely on the record to determine

what happened.

466-6243-26

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 distrilAltrED

outside your agency.

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U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC);

INTERVIEW OF FORMER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR JOSEPH K. PONDER

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

He asked whether the request for the king

coverage originated at the Bureau or in Atlanta. I told

him I did not recall, but that in any case it was

approved by the Bureau. He asked where it was monitored

and I told him the monitoring was done in an apartment

rented for that purpose. He asked if I knew the name in

which the apartment was

rented and I said I did not.

He

asked why the taps were discontinued and I told him I

do not now recall whether I was told why they were

discontinued, but if I were I cannot now recall the

He asked whether

we had a bug on King as opposed

tap and I told him, "no."

He asked whether it were

possible there were taps and bugs placed and maintained

without my knowledge.

I told him that was not possible

because of the size of the office and the relationship

I had with the supervisors and

Agents that nothing was

done without my knowledge or without Bureau approval.

Epstein asked whether we had conducted any

Counterintelligence Program against King or the Southern

Christian Leadership Conference and I told him I recalled

none.

He asked whether we had made efforts to prevent

King from receiving the Nobel Prize or efforts to interfere

with or make more difficult the raising of funds for a

banquet to honor King for his receipt of the Nobel Prize.

I told him I knew of no such efforts.

He asked whether Sullivan (Assistant Director

William C. Sullivan) had visited Atlanta. I told him

Sullivan had been to Atlanta in connection with a regional

conference dealing with the Bureau's investigation of the

Klan. He

wanted to know if Baumgartner had been with Sullivan

and I told him I thought so.

'He asked who else had

accompanied Sullivan and I told him Arbor Gray had

accompanied Sullivan and perhaps someone else whose name

I cannot now recall.

He asked whether Sullivan had met

with Ralph Magill (then publisher of the Atlanta

Constitution).

I told him Sullivan may have met with Magill,

that I may have accompanied Sullivan to Magill's office,

but I cannot specifically recall such a meeting and if it

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U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC);

INTERVIEW OF FORMER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR JOSEPH K. PONDER

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

were held I cannot recall anything discussed.

He asked

the purpose of such a meeting and I told him if such a

meeting took place it was in the nature of a social

call with Sullivan paying his respects to Magill and a

public: relations-type of meeting.

He asked whether there

was any discussion between Sullivan and Magill regarding

any anti-king activities and I told him, "no."

He asked

whether Sullivan had made any other visits to Atlanta

and I told him I knew of none.

He asked whether I was aware of any inquiry

made by the Bureau into the handling of the King

investigation either through the Inspection Staff or

otherwise.

I told him I was not aware of any. He asked

whether Nichols, the Agent assigned to the King

investigation had been in Atlanta while I was there. I

told him I had hazy recall of Nichols, but did not

recall him. He asked the same thing about Al Sentinella.

I told him Sentinella was there when I arrived and was

still there when I left Atlanta. He asked who had

supervised the security Squad. I told him supervisor

Charles Harding.

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FROM DIRECTOR (69-116395>

PERSONAL ATIENTION

SENSTUDY 75

REBUTEL MAY 2, 1975.

PURPOSES OF INSTANT TELETYPE ARE TO (1) REITERATE THAT

FBI HAS PLEDGED FULL COOPERATION WITH THE SENATE SELECT

COMMITTEE (SSC) AND WISHES TO ASSIST AND FACILIIATE ANY

INVESTIGATIONS UNDERTAKEN BY THE SSC WITH RESPECT TO THE FBI;

AND (2) SET FORTH NEW PROCEDURE RELATING TO SSC STAFF

INTERVIEVS OF CURRENT AND FORMER FBI EMPLOYEES®

FOR INFORMATION OF THOSE OFFICES WHICH HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY

HAD CURRENT OR FORMER EMPLOYEES IN ITS TERRITOY INTERVIEWED

BY THE SSC, THE BUREAU FREQUENILY LEARNS FROM THE SSE OR

OTHERWISE THAT FORMER EMPLOYEES ARE BEING CONSIDERED FOR

INTERVIEW BY THE SSC STAFF. INSTRUGTIONS ARE ISSUED FOR THE

FIELD OFFICE TO CONTACI THE FORMER EMPLOYEE TO ALERT HIM AS TO

POSSIBLE INTERVIEW, REMIND HIM OF HIS CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT

• WITH THE BUREAU AND SUGGEST THAT IF HE IS CONTACTED FOR

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INTERVIEW, HE MAY CONTACI THE LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION BY

COLLECT CALL FOR FURTHER INFORMATION. IN THE USUAL CASE,

AS CIRCUMSIANCES UNFOLD, THE FORMER EMPLOYEE IS TOLD(I)

THAT HE HAS A RIGHI TO LEGAL COUNSEL, BUT THAT THE BUREAU

CANNOT PROVIDE SAME; (2) THAT THE BUREAU HAS WAIVED THE

CONFIDENTIALITY AGREEMENT FOR THE INTERVIEW WITHIN SPECIFIED

PARAMETERS; AND (3) THAT THERE ARE FOUR PRIVILEGED AREAS IN

WHICH HE IS NOT REQUIRED TO ANSWER QUESTION. THESE AREAS

ARE RELATING TO INFORMATION WHICH MAY (A) IDENTIFY BUREAU

SOURCES; (B) REVEAL SENSITIVE METHODS/TECHNIQUES; (C) REVEAL

IDENTITIES OF THIRD AGENCIES, INCLUDING FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

AGENGIES, OR INFORMATION FROM SUCH AGENCIES; AND (D) ADVERSELY

AFFECT ONGOING BUREAU INVESTIGATIONS.

HERETOFORE, BUREAU HAS OFFERED INTERVIEWEES CONSULIATION

PRIVILEGES WHEREBY A BUREAU SUPERVISOR WOULD BE AVAILABLE

NEARBY, ALTHOUGH NOI ACTUALLY AI INTERVIEW, SO INTERVIEVEE

MIGHI CONSULT WITH HIM SHOULD QUESTIONS ARISE AS TO PARAMETERS

OF INTERVIEW OR PRIVILEGED AREAS. THE CONSULTANI DID NOT ACI

AS A LEGAL ADVISOR.

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, BUREAU WILL NO LONGER PROVIDE

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ON-THE-SCENE PERSONNEL FOR CONSULTATION PURPOSES TO ASSIST

EITHER CURRENT OF FORMER EMPLOYEES. PROSPECTIVE INTERVIEVEES

SHOULD BE TOLD THAT, IF THEY DESIRE ASSISTANGE OF THIS NATURE

DURING AN INTERVIEW, THEY MAY CONTACT EITHER PERSONALLY IF.

INTERVIEW IS IN WASHINGTON, D. C.) OR BY-COLLECT CALL, THE

ASSISTANI DIRECIOR OF THE INTELLIGENCE DIVISION, MR. W. R.

LANWALL, OR, IN HIS ABSENCE, SECTION CHIEF W. O. GREGAR.

I IS CHANGE IN PROCEDURE SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS

LESSENING THE ASSISIANCE WE ARE FURNISHING TO CURRENT AND

FORMER EMPLOYEES•

FOR YOUR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, I AM WORKING WITH THE

DEFARTMENT IN EXPLORING AVENUES TO ARRANGE LEGAL REPRESENIATION,

WHEN NECESSARY, FOR CURRENT AND FORMER EMPLOYEES WITHOUT

EXPENSE TO THEM. YOU WILL BE KEPT ADVISED OF DEVELOPWENTS

IN THIS REGARD•

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5:40PM NITEL

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TO BOSTON

DETROIT

NEWARK.

SAN DIEGO.

CHICAGO

LOS ANGELES

NEW YORK

ST: LOUIS

FROM DIRECTOR

(62-116395)

SENSTUDY 75:

SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE (SSC) HAS REQUESTED IDENTITIES OF

ALL

SUPERVISORS AND COORDINATORS FOR NEW LEFT AND BLACK EXTRE-

MISI COINTELPROS FOR 1967 THROUGH 1971 IN RECIPIENT OFFICES®

BY NITEL SEPTEMBER 5, 1975; ATTENTION INTD, W. O. CREGAR;

FURNISH IDENTITIES OF SUCH PERSONNEL AND: DATES OF PERTINENT

COINTELPRO ASSIGNMENIS: IF INDIVIDUAL IS STILL ASSIGNED TO

YOUR OFFICE, SO STATE.

END.

GLD FBI LOS ANGELES

CLR AND IKS

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911a/75

TELETYPE

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TO:

FROM:

DIRECTOR, FBI (105-288406/105-111366)

(PERSONAL, ATTENTION)

ACTING LOS ANGRESS (205-13068)

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RE BUREAU TERRE TOES ANGELES, AUGUST 27, 1975, CAPTIONED

LOS ANGELES TELEIYPE DATED JUNE 20, 1975, CAPIONED

"SENSTUDY "75", WHICH IS CIASSIFIED IMP SECRET, AND LOS ANGELES

AIRTEL, TO BUREAU DATED JUNE 20, 1975, CAPTIONED "SENSTUDY 175".

AS THE BUREAU. IS AWARE, THE PROGRAM OF MAIL INTERCEPT BY

BUREAU AGENTS AT RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, COMMENCED ON MARCH 26,

1964, AND TERMINATED SEPTEMBER 30, 1964. THE MAIL COVER

COMMENCED JANUARY 25, 1963, AND TERMINATED SEPTELBER 30, 1964.

LOS ANGELES HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF ANY MAIL COVER OR MAIL

INTERCEPT IN 1962 IN THE RIVERSIDE,, CALIFORNIA AREA.

AS THE BUREAU IS AWARE, THE MAIL INTERCEPT PROGRAM WAS

CARRIED ON WITH THE FULL CONSENT AND COOPERATION OF THE POSIAL

INSPECIORS AND WITH BUREAU APPROVAL. BY BUREAU LETTER TO

6243-83

LOS ANGELES, DATED NOVEMBER 29, 1962, (BUREAU FILE 105971366)

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LOS ANGELES WAS REQUESTED TO RECOIMEND INSTITUTION OF A

MAIL COVER

FROM A CANVASS OF THE AGENTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS

PROGRAM, NO AGENT RECALLED ANY INSTANCE IN WHICH A POSTAI

INSPECTOR OBSERVED ONE OF THE RESIDENT AGENTS OR ANY OTHER

AGENT OPENING A LETTER. AS A MATTER OF FACT, NO RIVERSIDE

RESIDENT AGENT EVER PARTICIPATED IN THE OPENING OF ANY MAII..

DUE TO THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS CASE, THIS MATTER WAS HANDLED

BY AGENTS OF THE ESPIONAGE SQUAD FROM FBI HEADQUARIERS, LOS

ANGELES, WHO TRAVELED TO RIVERSIDE ON A DAILY BASIS.

DURING OPERATIONS IN RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, THE RIVERSIDE

RESIDENT AGENCY SPACE AND THE POSTAL INSPECTOR'S OFFICE ON IHE

SECOND FLOOR OF THE POST OFFICE BUILDING WERE AT OPPOSITE ENDS OF

"I," SHAPED CORRIDORS. IT WAS THE PRACTICE OF THE POSTAL INSPECTOR

TO RECEIVE THE MAIL, IN HIS OFFICE HITHOUT AGENTS BEING PRESENT

AND THEN TELEPHONICALLY CALI, AGENTS FROM THE RESIDENT AGENCY SPACE

WHO WOULD THEN PROCEED TO THE POSTAI, INSPECTOR'S OFFICE TO PICK UP

THE MAIL, AND RETURN WITH SAME TO RESIDENT AGENCY SPACE.

THE RESIDENT AGENCY SPACE HAS SO SITUATED THAT IT WAS

NECESSARY TO ENTER A CORRIDOR, ENTER SECOND DOOR INTO THE RESIDENT

AGENCY SPACE THICH WAS OCCUPIED BY SPECIAL AGENTS STANLEY H.

FUEHRER AND HECTOR I.. PELLEGATTA. IT WAS THEN NECESSARY TO

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PROCEED THROUGH THIS ROOM TO ENTER A SECOND DOOR TO ENTER A

BACK ROOM WHERE OPERATIONS CONCERNING THE MAIL, WERE CONDUCIED.

AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE SURVEY OF THE MAIL, IT WAS RETURNED BY

THE AGENTS TO THE POSTAL, INSPECTOR. NO ONE OTHER THAN THE POSTAI

INSPECTORS, THEIR INTEDIATE SUPERIOR IN LOS ANGELES AND POSSIBIX

THEIR SECRETARY WERE AWARE OF THIS OPERATION, TO THE BEST KIOWLEDGE

OF IOS ANGELES.

FROM A CANVASS OF THE AGENTS CURRENTLY ASSIGNED TO THE LOS

ANGELES DIVISION, IT WAS RECALLED THE FOLLOWING SPECIAI AGENIS

CURRENTLY ON THE ROLIS PARTICIPATED IN THIS PROGRAM:

HOMER A. PORTER, JR.; RICHARD I, CROMVELL; WILLIAM I.

MC DERVOTT; CHARLES J. NAGLE, JR.

THE THO RESIDENT AGENTS ASSIGNED TO THE RIVERSIDE RESIDENT

AGENCY AT THAT TIME DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE OPENING OF ANY

MAIL AND ARE IDENTIFIED AS STANLEY H, FUEHRER AND HECTOR I..

PELLEGATTA.

FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE BUREAU, BY LOS ANGELES LETTER TO

THE BÚREAU DATED MARCH 16, 1964, CAPTIONED "WALTER HENRYK DUDA",

THE BUREAU WAS ADVISED IT HAD BEEN DETERMINED DUDA COMMUNICATED

WITH TWO ACCOMMODATION ADDRESSEES FOR THE POLISH INTELIIGENCE SERVICE.

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SUBJECT ADMITTED FORWARDING MATERIALS TO THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS

AID A NEW YORK SOURCE, WHÒ IS NOT KNOT IO BE OPERATIONAL AT THE

PRESENT TIME, IDENTIFIED THESE INDIVIDUAIS AS REAL PERSONS THOSE

FUNCTION WAS TO TURN OVER LETTERS MAILED TO THEM BY POLISH

INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND FORKERS OUTSIDE OF POLAND.

DUDA DURING INTERVIEV BY BUREAU AGENTS ON JANUARY 18, 1964,

ADMITTED BEING CO-OPTED BY POLISH INTELLIGENCE SERVICE, AS SET

FORTH IN REPORI OF SPECIAL AGENT HOVER A, PORTER, JR., DATED

FEBRUARY 14, 1964, CAPTIONED "WALTER HENRYK DUDA, IS-PO".

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Date:

8/15/75

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AIR MAIL

(Priority)

TO:

FROM:

DIRECIOR, FBI (62-116395)

ADIC, IOS ANGELES (66-6243) _(P)

SUBJECT:

U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC);

INTERVIEW OF SA WALLACE E. WARD

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

Re Bureau teletype to Los Angeles dated 7/31/75

captioned "SENSTUDY 75"

Los Angeles airtel dated 8/7/75

and Bureau telephone call 8/15/15.

Enclosed herewith for the Bureau are the original

and seven copies of a

Letterhead memorandum (LHM) concernin®

the above interview.

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In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Los Angeles, Calliornia

August 15, 1975

U. S. SENATE SELECT. COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC);

INTERVIEW OF SA WALLACE E. WARD

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

On August 5, 1975, Special Agent (SA) Wallace E.

Ward was interviewed by SSC

Staff Member Lester Seidel at

Angeles Field Office regarding Cointelpro/Black

Panther Party. The interview lasted from 9:12 a.m. to

9:22 a.m.

SA Ward was advised by Mr. Seidel that the

interview was voluntary but SA Ward was not advised of

his rights in this matter.

Seidel asked how long SA Ward had been a

Special Agent with the FBI, and SA Ward responded nine

He further requested previous offices SA Ward

had been assigned to, and SA Ward responded Cincinnati,

Ohio.

Seidel advised the Bureau informed him that SA

Ward had been assigned Cointelpro/Black Panther Party

in June 1969. Seidel requested to know what work SA

Ward had been assigned before this, to which SA Ward

responded he could not remember, but believed general

criminal work.

Seidel requested to know what specific

instructions were issued with regard to operating

Cointelpro/Black Panther Party. SA Ward advised

that due to his employment agreement, the sensitive

nature of the Bureau work, and the possible overlap

of Bureau investigation, he did not feel he could

respond to any further questions.

Seidel advised he

understood SA Ward's position as he, Seidel, had

worked criminal matters himself and knew the need

for secrecy.

at this point.

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In a friendly conversation that followed

fox approximately ten to fifteen minutes, SA Ward

advised Seidel that he had only been assigned the

months and had no knowledge that would be of value

to Seidel. The Cointelpro/Black Panther Party matter

was not further discussed.

The rest of

the time was

involved in discussing points of interest in the Los

Angeles basin of tourist value, such as Marineland,

Palos Verdes, and Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

SA Ward advises that he is aware that the

Director waived his employment agreement with certain

exceptions regarding privileged areas.

With this in

he could not disclose any information without following

the prescribed procedure:

FBI in each such instance by presenting

the full text of my proposed disclosure in writing to

the Director of the FBI at least thirty (30) days prior

to disclosure"

With this in mind, SA Ward answered Mr.

Seidel as noted heretofore.

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 content:

are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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8/15/15

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SAC, LOS ANGELES (06-6243) (P)

D. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACIIVILIES (SSC);

INTERVIDI? OF

SA WAMLACE D. WARD

BY SSC. STAFF MEMBER

'Re Bureau teletype to Los Angeles dared 7/ 3073%

captioned. SENSTUDY 75,4A

AIRTEL 811/75 & BUTEL CALL 8/15/75

Enclosed herewith for tha Bureau are ine origimi

and seven copies of & letterhead memorandun couverming t

above interview.

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File No."

UNITED

STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

LOS

Angeles, California

August

7, 1975..

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSG) ;

INTERVIEW OF SA WALLACE E. WARD

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

on August 5: 1975, Special Agent (SA) Wallace E.

Ward wa's interviewed by SSC Staff Member Lester Seidel at

Los Angeles Headquarters regarding Cointelpro/Black Panther

Party.

The

interview lasted from 9:12 a.m., to 9:22 arm..

Seidel asked how long SA Ward has been a

Special Agent with the FBI, and SA Ward •responded nine

years. He further requested previóus offices SA Ward

had been assigned to, and SA Ward responded Cincinnati,

Ohio. Seidel advised the Bureau informed him that SA Ward

had been assigned Cointelpro/Black Panther Party in June,

1969. Seidel requested to know what work SA Ward had been

assigned before this

to which. SA Ward responded he. could

not remember, but believed general criminal work.

Seidel requested to know what specific instructions

were issued with regard to operating Cointelpro/Black

Panther Party. SA Ward advised that due to his employment

agreement, the sensitive nature of the Bureau work, and

the possible overlap of Bureau investigation, he did not

feel he could respond to any further questions. The official

interview was terminated at this point.

SA Ward was advised by Mr. Seidel that; the interview

was voluntary but SA Ward was not advised of his rights in this

matter.

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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AIRTEL

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•Date: 8/7/75

(Type in plainical or code)

AIRMAIL

(Priority)

TO:

FROM:

• DIRECTOR, FBI (62-116395)

SAC, LOS ANGELES (66-6243) (P)

SUBJECT: U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE .ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) ;

INTERVIEW OF SUPERVISOR RICHARD

• H. BLOESER

BY SSC MEMBER

'Re Bureau teletype to Los Angeles dated 7/3J/75,

captioned SENSTUDY 75.'

Enclosed herewith for the Bureau are the original

and seven copies of a letterhead memorandum concerning the

above interview.

Bureau (Enc.. 8)

Los Angeles

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

In Reply, Please Refer so

File No.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

• Los Angeles, California

August 7, 1975

U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) ;

INTERVIEW OF SUPERVISOR RICHARD H. BLOESER

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

1776-1978

55235

On August 5, 1975, Supervisor Richard H: Bloeser

was interviewed by SSC Staff Member Lester Seidel at the

Los Angeles FBI Office regarding the COINTELPRO/Black Panther

Party (BPP) .

Mr. Seidel advised Supervisor Bloeser that the

interview was voluntary, but did not advise Supervisor

Bloeser of his rights in this matter.

Mr. Seidel inquired of Supervisor Bloeser as to

how many offices he had served in, his length of service in

the Bureau, and how long had been spent on intelligence

investigations.

Supervisor Bloeser replied that he had

served in Philadelphia, El Paso and Los Angeles, had been

in the Bureau approximately 24½-years, and had been assigned

to intelligence work for 22 years.

Mr. Seidel inquired as to whether Supervisor Bloeser

believed that the Bureau had placed undue pressure on the

field to come up with counter intelligence proposals concerning

the BPP and was it difficult to come up with a proposal.

Supervisor Bloeser responded that there was no undue pressure

placed on the field uy thé Bufau, that the CUINTELPRO/BPP

was merely another case assigned to an agent and that agent,

as in any other case, had the responsibility of handling the

matter whether it concemed the solving of a case or the

submission of proposals. •Mr.-Seidel was also informed that

it was not unduly difficult tö come üp with a proposal and that

a number of proposals were rejected at the field level and

never submitted to the Bureau:

Mr. Seidel inquired specifically as to counter

intelligence proposals involving cartoons ridiculing the BPP.

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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U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) ;

INTERVIEW OF SUPERVISOR RICHARD H. BLOESER

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

Supervisor Bloeser responded that he vaguely remembered such

proposals but without reviewing the file had no definite

recollection. Mr. Seidel did not request that the file be

reviewed.

Mr. Seidel inquired specifically about a business

card which allegedly had been prepared by the Bureau bearing

the phrase "Karenga is impotent."

Mr. Seidel requested

Supervisor Bloeser's views on the distribution of this cara

by the FBI. Supervisor Bloser responded that he

vaguely

remembered the card, that he thought it was humorous, and

that the word impotent had various meanings.

Mr. Seidel then inquired about the blood feud

which existed in the past between the US Organization and

the BPP and the efforts of the Bureau to keep this feud

alive and thus promote violence.

He specifically inquired

as to the personal feelings of Supervisor Bloeser concerning?

any counter intelligence proposals which, if placed in

operation, could lead to violence between the two groups.

Supervisor Bloeser responded first that personally

he had no apologies for the counter intelligence program as

a whole, that proposals submitted six or seven years.ago. is wi

were believed necessary at that time due to the circumstances;

specifically that at that time the BPP 'and the US Organizatin

were involved in violent activity against the community as a

whole: Mr. Seidel was informed that the feud between the US

Organization and the BPP occurred long before the FBI

COINTELPRO became involved in the feud and that any proposals

-approved by the Bureau had relatively little effect on the

violence committed by either group. Mr. Seidel was alsoir

reminded that six of seven years ago the Congress of the

United States fully supported the wär in Vietnam in which

• thousands of people were killed but that under todays:

circumstances no support has been

i given. to South Vietnam.

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U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) ;

INTERVIEW OF SUPERVISOR RICHARD H: BLOESER

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

Mr. Seidel then posed a hypothetical question

involving the following factors:

Would Supervisor Bloeser

now or in the past approve a counter intelligence proposal

whereby one extremist with a criminal record of violence

be anonymously informed that another extremist with a

killed. Supervisor Bloeser replied that under the present

conditions such a proposal would not be approved, but

that he could not give an answer as to what his feelings

might have been six or seven years ago under any given

situation.

Mr. Seidel was again reminded that Congress

in the past has not hesitated to support wars which kill

thousands of people but that recently they have critized

the CIA for allegedly plotting to assassinate one individual

Mr. Seidel was also informed

that it was ironic that Congress was investigating another

agency of the Federal Government which was attempting to

prevent revolutionary violence in this country.

Mr. Seidel then inquired into the counter

intelligence proposals approved by the Bureau in relation

to the actress Jean Seberg and. Raymond Hewitt, a leader

of the BPP.

This proposal concerned the fact that seberg,

.. = Who was, then married to a French producer; admitted being

pregnant by Hewitt who was also married at the time...the ta.:

Bureau approved anonymously leaking this information to.jar co.

Hollywood columnist.

Mr. Seidel inquired as to whether

Supervisor Bloeser did or did not believe that this was. an

invasion of privacy. Supervisor Bloeser responded that the

item was news worthy and that it would have been any fair game

for: any newsmen had they come: across it in the course of their

'business which they could have probably easily done, and that

certainly Congress would not have critized a newspaper for

printing such an item or claim it to be an invasion of privacy.

Mr. Seidel inquired as to. the purpose of this particular

operation and he was informed that Miss Seberg was giving

support to the BPP and that it was hoped that such publicity

would. prevent any future.support.by.her.of the BPP

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U. S. SENATE SELECI .COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) ;

INTERVIEW OF SUPERVISOR RICHARD H. BLOESER

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

He was further advised that it was the responsibility of the

FBI to determine who was funding revolutionary groups in this

country.

Mr. Seidel then inquired as to whether or not it

was difficult to conduct intelligence investigations under

present statutes and under the Criminal Rules of Procedure.

He was informed that it was somewhat difficult to conduct an

effective intelligence operation under present circumstances

and that perhaps new legislative or executive orders would be

helpful to the FBI in order to allow the FBI to continue its

investigations in the Domestic Intelligence field.

Mr. Seidel

inquired as to whether it would be helpful to have specific

legislation which might completely separate criminal and

intelligence operations so one would not taint the other..

He was informed that if such legislation could be enacted

that it would undoubtedly help the FBI.

The interview lasted approximately two hours and

it was not necessary to consult with another Bureau

representative during this time.

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AIRTEL

AIR MAIL

TO:

FROM:

RE :

DIRECTOR, FBI

ADIC, LOS ANGELES: (66-6243) .

SENSTUDY 75•

ReButel 7/30/75.

Enclosed are 8 copies of IHM reflecting interview

of ADIC ROBERI E: GEBHARDI by LESTER SEIDEL, Staff Member

of the Senate Select Committee, United States Senate.

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In Reply, Please Refer to

• File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Los Angeles, _California

August

7; 1975

U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

ACTIVITIES (SSC) ; INTERVIEW OF ASSISTANT

DIRECTOR IN CHARGE ROBERT E. GEBHARDT BY

SSC STAFF MEMBER

SELOLUTION

• On August 7, 1975, 'Assistant Director Robert E.

Gebhardt, Los Angeles Division, was interviewed in the Los .

Angeles FBI Office by Mr. Lester Seidel, Staff Member of

the Senate Select Committee, United States Senate.

Gebhardt's rights were not explained to him by

z a t he Fit i cata on be the Black Ran he Party

when Gebhardt was the Special Agent in Charge of the San

Francisco Division from 1970 to 1972:

The interview lasted fom 9:05 AM until 10:30 AM,

and it was not necessary for Gebhardt to consult with any

Bureau representative.

Gebhardt had previously been advised by a Bureau

representative of his right to counsel, the privileged areas

of information, consultation privileges, and the parameters

of interview.

Seidel inquired at the outset as to whether Gebhardt

was aware of the Cointel Program relative to the Black Panther

Party investigation on a day to day basis being specifically

advised details of the investigation as it relates to the

Cointel Program.

It was explained to Seidel that as Special

Agent in Charge of the San Francisco FBI Office wherein

over 500 employees were located at the time, Gebhardt had

many responsibilities in the operation of that division and

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therefore,

relied upon the experience, expertise, and judgment

of the various supervisors assigned to the office for the

day to day direction of the various matters under investigation,

including the investigation of the Black Panther Party.

It was further explained that if a problem was

encountered or a particularly unusual situation developed,

Gebhardt was, of course, consulted and was available for

such consultation to resolve

any particular problem areas.

Gebhardt was next asked if he recalled being SAC

when

the electronic coverage of the Black Panther Party and

the various officials at BBP was instituted and eventually

terminated. Seidel was advised that the electronic coverage

was already in effect upon Gebhardt's arrival, however, he

oes recall receiving a phone call after th

"Keith Decision"

was handed

down instructing that all electronic coverage of

the BPP

and the various members of the BPP be discontinued.

The call was received from Bureau Headquarters and the

discontinuance was effected immediately.

Seidel inquired as to whether Gebhardt felt the

intelligence type investigations should be completely removed

from the criminal investigations which investigations would be

looking. toward eventual prosecution.

Seidel was informed by Gebhardt that even in criminal

investigations looking

toward prosecutions, much intelligence

information is obtained from time to time which really has no

value from a prosecutive standpoint, but does have possible

value with respect to the direction of the investigation.

some criminal investigations a great deal of intelligence

information may be obtained and in other types, very little.

Insofar as the FBI is concerned, however, every effort is

made to make certain there is some Federal law which would be

a basis for an investigation which procedures would include

matters commonly referred to as security investigations.

In some instances, in such security investigations

a great deal of intelligence information would be obtained

therefore, it was Gebhardt's opinion that so-called intelli-

gence type investigations should not be removed from or

differentiated from criminal type investigations looking

toward prosecutions since intelligence information is an

outgrowth of the basic investigation.

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Gebhardt was asked if he. felt the Cointelpro was a

separate entity distinguished trom the basic investigation

and it was explained that the Cointelpro was a phase of the

overall investigation in any particular organization or

individual.

Gebhardt was asked if he felt Congress should enact

Legislation which would set torth specitic investigative

• techniques that could or could not be utilized by the FBI or

other Federal investigative agencies. He was advised in

Gebhardt's opinion, such legislation should not be enacted,

and in reply to the question as to why such legislation should

not be enacted, it was pointed out that as an investigative

agency, there must of necessity be allowed a certain flexi-

bility

because no two investigations are exactly alike and the

circumstances of such*

related to such Federal law.

In answer to the question as to how Congress should

assure the American public that questionable activity such

as the Cointelpro, was not being engaged in by an investigative

agency such as the FBI, Seidel was informed that the Congress

and the American people must rely upon the integrity and

honesty of the Director of the FBI and the Attorney General.

It was pointed out that both the Director of the

FBI and the Attorney General are nominated by the President,

hearings are held before the various Congressional Committees

and finally approved by the Senate.

It was further pointed

out that Director Kelley has recently stated in connection with

the publicity relative to Cointelpro, that he has no intention

of permitting this program to be reinstituted in the FBI and

if circumstances ever arose which circumstances he could not

contemplated at this time, wherein it was thought such

activities should be embarked upon, he would obtain the personal

approval of the Attorney General prior to such instituting.

Seidel was informed that Gebhardt was in total agreement with

this statement of Mr. Kelley.

Gebhardt was asked as to what his feelings were

relative to what the relationship should be between the FBI

and Congress. He was informed that a Senate Oversight

Committee was recently established and it was felt. that this

was a good start and that this Committee should formalize and

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standardize their oversight responsibilities and make regular

inquiries of the Director and other officials of the FBI as

to our activities. He was informed that there should be

either a joint oversight committee between the House and

Senate or if the Congress decided on two oversight Committees

in both the House and Senate,

these committees should be the

entities through which all information relative to the

activities of the FBI should

flow.

It was emphasized 'however, that there

should be

regular consultation between, these representatives and the

FBI.

Inquiry was made as. to Gebhardt's opinion relative .

to the relationship between the Department of Justice and

the FBI and Seidel

was informed the relationship, in Gebhardt's

pinion, is excellent, should continue, and there should be

a free

flow of information between the

FBI and the Depártment

of Justice:

At the conclusion of the interview, Gebhardt summed

up his comments by stating that Congress should definitely

set up

a structured oversight procedure of the activities

of the

FBI with due regard to the confidentiality of many

of the FBI operations and investigations and must assure

itself that the members of the Committee and its staff will'

maintain the confidentiality where necessary.

Secondly, in the areas of investigative matters

usually referred to as national defense, national security

or intelligence operations, all of the FBI investigations

must be based on the application of the facts toward a

particular Federal statute and if the facts are so oblique

that they cannot be clearly applied to a particular Federal

se had in all instances th the Department of Justice should

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NR95O WA CODE

9:01PM NITEL 7-31-75 FLC

TO LOS ANGELES

SAN DIEGO

SAN FRANCISCO

FROM DIRECTOR (62-116395)

SENSTUDY 75

REBUTEL JULY 3D, 1975.

REPORTING PROCEDURES TO FOLLOW RELATIVE IO SENATE SELECT

COMMITTEE (SSC) STAFF INTERVIEWS OF PRESENT AND FORMER SAS: .

FOR INCUMBENTS: IMMEDIATELY AFTER INTERVIEW PREPARE LHM

REPORTING AS DETAILED AS POSSIBLE QUESTIONS ASKED AND REPLIES

GIVEN. INCLUDE WHETHER OR NOT INTERVIEWEE'S RIGHTS WERE

EXPLAINED TO HIM; DURATION OF INTERVIEW; AND IF IT WAS NECESSARY

FOR INTERVIEWEE TO CONSULI WITH BUREAU REPRESENTATIVE, SO STATE.

ALSO' INCLUDE ADVICE GIVEN TO INTERVIEWEE BY BUREAU REPRESENTATIVE

AS TO RIGHT IO COUNSEL, PRIVILEGED AREAS, CONSULTATION PRIVILEGES,

AND PARAMETERS OF INTERVIEW, ALL AS DISCUSSED IN REFERENCED

TELETYPE, LHM SHOULD BEAR DUAL CAPTION: "U.S. SENATE SELECT

COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITES (SSC)"; "INTERVIEW OF SA

(INSERT NAME) BY SSC STAFF MEMBER." SUBMIT ORIGINAL AND SEVEN

COPIES OF EACH LHM TO BUREAU BY COVER AIRTEL, ATTENTION INE 23-14

W.O. CREGAR.

Ward tou

SENALIZEN

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FOR FORMER SAS: ANY FORMER SA WHO HAS BEEN INTERVIEWED

AND VOLUNTEERS TO FURNISH RESULIS CNOTE THAT SUCH INFORMATION SHOULD

NOT BE SOLICITED BY FBI BUT MERELY ACCEPTED WHEN OFFERED) SHOULD

BE THOROUGHLY DEBRIEFED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER INTERVIEW AND

LHM PREPARED AND SUBMITTED IN LINE WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR

INCUMBENTS. SECOND HEADING OF LHM SHOULD USE TERM "FORMER SA."

END

MAH OF FBI LOS ANGELES FOR ONE PLUS TWO

OTHERS LA CLR

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NR953 WA CODE

8:35PM NITEL 7-30-75 FLC

TO LOS ANGELES

SAN DIEGO

SAN FRANCISCO

FROM DIRECTOR (62-11.6395) -

SENSTUDY 75

REBUTEL MAY 2, 1975.

• SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE (SSC) STAFF MEMBER LESTER SEIDEL

HAS FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR INTERVIEWS

IN YOUR OFFICE: SAN DIEGO JULY 3D, 1975 SAS EARL. M. PETERSEN,

LAWRENCE F. WIRICK; LOS ANGELES AUGUST 5, 1975 WALLACE E. WARD,

RICHARD A. BLOESER, AUGUST 7, 1975 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ROBERT E:

GEBHARDT; SAN FRANCISCO AUGUST 11, 1975 LEO S. BRENNEISEN, AUGUST

11-12, 1975. SAC CHARLES W: BATES. PURPOSE OF INTERVIEW IS TO BE

COINTELPRO AND BUREAU INVESTIGATION OF THE BLACK PANTHER: PARTY:

ADDITIÓNALLY SAC BATES WILL BE INTERVIEWED CONCERNING KNOWLEDGE OF

"HOUSTON PLAN" BY SSC STAFF MEMBER LOCK JOHNSON.

I HAVE WAIVED YOUR EMPLOYMENI AGREEMENTS FOR PURPOSES OF

THESE INTERVIEWS. EACH SHOULD NOTE THAT HE HAS THE RIGHT TO

COUNSEL; HOWEVER, THE FBI IS UNABLE. TO PROVIDE PRIVATE COUNSEL.

THERE ARE CERTAIN PRIVILEGED AREAS CONCERNING WHICH SAS WOULD

to. Bloese

Word

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SERIALIZED.

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NOI BE REQUIRED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. AREAS CONCERN INFORMATION

WHICH MIGHT DIVULGE IDENTITIES OF FBI SOURCES; INFORMATION

RELATING TO SENSITIVE METHODS AND TECHNIQUES; INFORMATION WHICH

MIGHT ADVERSELY AFFECI ONGOING FBI INVESTIGATIONS; AND INFORMATION

WHICH ORIGINATED WITH OTHER AGENCIES, INCLUDING FOREIGN

INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES.

SAN FRANCISCO NOTE RELEASE ALSO APPLIES TO FORMER SAS

ALBERT P. CLARK AND WILLIAM A. COHENDET WHO, ALONG WITH OTHER

EX-SAS ON WEST COAST, MAY ALSO BE INTERVIEWED. CLARK AND COHENDET

HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED FOREGOING ADVICE REGARDING PRIVATE COUNSEL

AND PRIVILEGED AREAS AND HAVE ASKED FOR CONSULTATION ASSISTANCE

WHICH BUREAU IS APPROVING AS BELOW•

NORMALLY, FBIHQ WOULD SUPPLY REPRESENTATIVE TO BE ON-THE-

SCENE FOR CONSULTATION PURPOSES. HOWEVER, DISTANCE AND IIME

SCOPE MAKES THIS NOT FEASIBLE IN THIS INSTANCE.

THE RANKING FBI OFFICIAL IN EACH OFFICE WILL SERVE FOR

CONSULTATION PURPOSES. IN HIS ABSENCE, AN SAC IN LOS ANGELES OR

ASAC IN SAN DIEGO AND SAN FRANCISCO MAY SO SERVE. PURPOSE OF

CONSULTANI, WHO WILL NOT BE PRESENI AT INTERVIEW BUT AVAILABLE

NEARBY, WILL BE TO SUPPLY ASSISTANCE IN THE EVENT PERSON BEING

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INTERVIEWED IS ASKED QUESTIONS IN ONE OF THE PRIVILEGED AREAS

OR QUESTIONS: OUTSIDE THE SPECIFIED PARAMETERS OF THE INTERVIEW

(COINTELPRO/BLACK PANTHER PARTY) • SHOULD QUESTIONS ARI'SE WHICH

CONSULTANT REPRESENTATIVE CANNOT HANDLE, SUGGEST IMMEDIATE

TELEPHONE CALL TO LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION.

SHOULD ADDITIONAL. FORMER SAS CONTACI YOUR OFFICE FOR ASSISTANCE,

COORDINATE WITH THEM WAIVER FROM EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT THROUGH

LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION AND FURNISH CONSULTATION SERVICES AS

REQUESTED:

NOTE THAI RANKING OFFICIAL SERVING IN CONSULTANI

POSITION DOES NOT REPRESENT THE PARTICULAR EMPLOYEE AS PRIVATE

COUNSEL:

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

FBI

Date:

7/11/75

Transmit the following in

Via

TELETYPE

CODE

(Type in plaintext or code)

NITEL

(Priority)

TO DIRECTOR, FBI (62-116395)87M

FROM LOS ANGELES (66-17005

SENSTUDY 75. BUDED: COB JULY 14, 1975.

RE BUREAU TELETYPE JULY 9, 1975.

PURSUANT TO REQUEST IN RE BUREAU TELETYPE, SET FORTH

BELOW IS INFORMATION CONCERNING THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

PROGRAM - BLACK PANTHER PARTY.

(1) IDENTITIES OF POLICE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL CONTACTED

RELATIVE TO COINTELPRO: NONE.

(2) IDENTITIES OF MEDIA PERSONS CONTACTED: GEORGE

PUTNAM, NEWSCASTER KTTV, CHANNEL 11, LOS ANGELES. SEE

LOS ANGELES AIRTEL TO BUREAU DATED JULY 30, 1970, CAPTIONED

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE MATTERS, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, RACIAL

MATTERS.

(3) LIST OF FBI PERSONNEL CONNECTED WITH COINTELPRO:

CASE AGENT OCTOBER, 1968 - JUNE, 1969, SA LEROY W.

SHEETS (RETIRED, WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN) .

JUNE, 1969 - SEPTEMBER, 1969, SA WALLACE E. WARD, PRESENTLY

ASSIGNED LOS ANGELES.

SEPTEMBER, 1969 - MAY, 1971 WHEN PROGRAM DISCONTINUED,

RHB/ jer /

666-6243

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AS

SA RICHARD W. HELD, PRESENTLY ASSIGNED SUPERVISOR, EBIHO.

IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE, SA RICHARD H. ROSS, PRESENTLY

ASSIGNED AS A SUPERVISOR AT FBIHQ, WAS CASE AGENT ON THE

• BLACK PANTHER PARTY ORGANIZATION AND, AS SUCH, PARTICIPATED

IN THE PREPARATION OF COMMUNICATIONS CONCERNING THE COINTELPRO -

BPP .

SA BRENDAN O. CLEARY, PRESENTLY ASSIGNED LOS ANGELES,

ALSO ASSISTED IN THIS PROGRAM.

THE SUPERVISOR DURING THE ENTIRE TIME THE PROGRAM WAS

IN EXISTENCE WAS SUPERVISOR RICHARD H. BLOESER, PRESENTLY

ASSIGNED TO LOS ANGELES.

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SPECIAL

GP 0 909-767

NR055 WA CODE

11:42PM NITEL 7/9/75 PLD

IO LOS ANGELES

SAN DIEGO

SAN FRANCISCO

FROM DIRECTOR (62-1.16395)

SENS TUDY 75 56-1700-4174

BUDED COB JULY 14, 1975

UNITED STATES SELECI COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL

OPERATIONS WIH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES IS

EXAMINING "MEASURES DIRECED AGAINST THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY

(BPP) IN THE LATE 1960S AND EARLY 1970S IN SAN FRANCISCO -

OAKLAND, LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, BY THE FIELD .

OFFICES OF THE FBI." AS A PARI OF THIS REQUEST FBIHQ. HAS BEEN

REQUESTED TO FURNISH "A LIST OF ALL LOCAL POLICE DEPARIMENIS

AND PERSONNEL CONTACTED RELATIVE TO THIS COINTELPRO; A LIST OF

ALL MEDIA PERSONS CONTACTED IN RELATION TO THIS COINTELPRO AND

THE MEDIA AFFILIATION; AND A LIST OF ALL FBI PERSONNEL

CONNECTED WITH THIS COINTELPRO, THEIR SPECIFIC CONNECTION, AND

THEIR PRESENT LOCAION." IN ADDITION TO ABOVE, THE COMMITTEE

66-6243-11

SEARCHED

56-1200/4194/I

= IMDEXED

SERIALUED

FLED

1975

1BILL0S ANCILES

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PAGE IWO

REQUESTS INFORMATION AS TO THE WHEREABOUTS AND CURRENT

RELATIONSHIP TO THE FBI OF "PRIMARY CASE AGENTS RESPONSIBLE

FOR THIS COINTELPRO IN THE FIELD."

IT IS FELT BY FBIHQ THAT THE ABOVE INFORMATION SHOULD

BE EXCLUDED FROM DATA BEING FURNISHED COMMITTEE; HOWEVER,

SHOULD NEGOTIATIONS. FAIL IN OBTAINING AND EXEMPTION, THIS

DATA IS BEING COMPILED AT FBIHQ. IÝ IS REALIZED THAT A

PARTIAL ANSWER TO THESE QUESTIONS MAY. BÈ AVAILABLE IN BUREAU.

FILES; HOWEVER; COMPLETE DAIA NECESSARY IS NOI AVAIABLE AI

FBIHQ: ALL OFFICES SHOULD FURNISH BY TELETYPE NO LATER

THAN CLOSE OF BUSINESS JULY 14, 1975, ATTENTION INTELLIGENCE

DIVISION - MR. W: 0. CREGAR, DATA REQUESTED BY THE COMMITTEE

SE OUT ABOVE•

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NROD3 WA CODE

7:25AM NITEL 6-28-75 TJT

TO. ATLANTA

BIRMINGHAM

• ALBANY

JACKSONVILLE

FROM DIRECTOR

(82-1168957.

PERSONAL ATTAILO

SENSUDY 75

KNOXVILLE

LOS ANGELES

TAMPA

CHICAGO

+6605041 (5175)

66-1700-47-01 00ftn

: 61700-4722975 7e

REBUTEL MAY 2, 1975.

INQUIRIES MADE OF BUREAU BY SENATE. SELECT COMMITTEE (SSC)

CONCERNING A NUMBER OF PRESENT AND FORMER FBI EMPLOYEES,

INCLUDING THEIR CURRENT WHEREABOUTS, SUGGESTS THEY MAY BE

INTERVIEWED BY SSC STAFP CONCERNING BUREAU'S FORMER INVESTIGA-

TION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. SET OUT BELOW ARE NAMES AND

LAST KNOWN ADDRESSES OF FORMER BUREAU EMPLOYEES AND OFFICE OF

ASSIGNMENT OF INCUMBENTS, ALL OF WHOM SSC HAS INQUIRED ABOUI.

EACH OF THESE FORMER EMPLOYEES IS TO BE IMMEDIATELY

CONTACTED AND ALERTED THAT HE MIGHT BE APPROACHED BY THE SSC

STAFF ABOUT THE KING INVESTIGATION. THEY SHOULD BE TOLD THAT

66-6243-10

66-1700-4124/77

00 - 24345€

bellest

telephone call

EL - LOS ANGELES.

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IN THE EVENT THEY ARE INTERVIEWED AND DURING THE COURSE OF

SAME, QUESTIONS ARE ASKED WHICH RELATE TO SENSITIVE BUREAU

OPERATIONS (SOURCES, METHODS, TECHNIQUES, THIRD AGENCY RULE

AND ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS, THEY MAY REQUEST THAI AN FBI

AGENI BE PRESENT. BUREAU WILL PROVIDE AGENT ON REQUEST OF

INTERVIEWEE. AS A PRELUDE TO INTERVIEW, THE FORMER EMPLOYEE

MAY, AFTER BEING CONTACIED BY SSC STAFF, CONTACI BUREAU'S

LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION BY COLLECT CALL FOF FULL INFORMATION

TO ASSIST HIM, INCLUDING OBLIGATIONS AS TO CONFIDENTIALITY

OF INFORMATION ACQUIRED AS FBI EMPLOYEE. IT IS EMPHASIZED

THAT BUREAU'S OFFER OF ASSISTANCE IS NOT INTENDED TO IMPEDE

SSC WORK BUT IS DONE AS COOPERATIVE GESTURE AND TO SAFEGUARD

SENSITIVE BUREAU INFORMATION. CONTACIS WITH THESE FORMER

EMPLOYEES TO BE HANDLED PERSONALLY BY SAC OR ASAC. IN EVENT

THIS NOT FEASIBLE FOR JUST CAUSE, TO BE HANDLED BY A SENIOR

SUPERVISOR. •

-

INCUMBENT EMPLOYEES TO BE ADVISED THAI IF CONTACTED BY

SSC STAFF FOR INTERVIEW, LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION TO BE

IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED THROUGH SAC.

IMMEDIATELY AFTER CONIACI, RESULTS SHOULD BE FURNISHED

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BUREAU BY TELETYPE IN ABOVE CAPTION. IF A FORMER EMPLOYEE IS

NO LONGER IN YOUR TERRITORY OR TEMPORARILY AWAY, SET OUT LEAD

TO OTHER OFFICE IMMEDIATELY WITH COPY TO FBI HEADQUARTERS.

ATLANTA: INCUMBENTS - DONALD P. BURGESS, RICHARD E. .

FUGATT, EDMUND F. HAGGERTY, O. RICHARD HAMILTON, CHARLES I.

HAYNES, WILBUR W. SEITZER, ROBERT W. THOMSON. FORMER -

MARION E. CHEEK, 1613 GAIL AVENUE, ALBANY, GEORGIA 31705;

CHARLES T. HARDING, 2243 PINECLIFF DRIVE, NORTHEASI, ATLANIA,

GEORGIA 30345.

BIRMINGHAM: LAWRENCE I. GURLEY, 1340 WESTMINISTER

PLACE, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 35235:

ALBANY: HENRY G. ROWSE, JR.,

39 NORTH MAIN STREET,

ENOSBURG FALLS, VERMONT D5450.

• JACKSONVILLE: WILLIAM LEE BOLYARD - INCUMBENT.

KNOXVILLE: W. JOHN BENION - INCUMBENI.

LOS ANGELES: JAMES M. KELLOGG - INCUMBENI. |I

TAMPA: JAMES E. MCMAHON, 3118 COCOS ROAD, TAMPA,

FLORIDA 33618.

CHICAGO:

JOHN BASSEIT - INCUMBENT.

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FP-36 (Ray. 15-22-64)

Transmit the following in

Via

TELETYPE

FBI

Date: 6/20/75

CODE

(Type in plaintext or code)

URGENT

(Priority)

20

Downgraded en

087W74343

7118116

tO SECRET

TO:

FROM:

DIRECTOR, FBIMPM

(ATTENTION:

= W. 0. CREGAR) (INTD)

SAC, LOS ANGELES (300-243456)

IOP SECRET

SENSTUDY 1975, BUDED JUNE 24, 1975

RE BUREAU TELETYPE DATED JUNE 18, 1975.

FROM A REVIEW OF FILES, LOS ANGELES OFFICE, IT WAS DETER-

MINED THAT THERE WERE THREE SEPARATE CASES IN WHICH MAIL WAS

EITHER INTERCEPTED OR OPENED. THESE CASES ARE AS FOLLOWS:

SAM SURVEY, ESP - R, BUREAU FILE 65-65884, LOS ANGELES

FILE 65-6984.

WAITER HENRYK; DUDA, IS - PO, 00: LOS ANGELES, BUREAU

FILE 105-111366, LOS ANGELES FILE 105-13068.

VICTOR JAMES KORDELL; MARGARET KORDELL, ESP - R, BUREAU...

FILE 65-67719, LOS ANGELES FILE 65-7236.

WLM/mlh

(1)

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Special/Agent in Charge

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LA 100-243450.

SAM SURVEY

(1)

A. PURPOSE OF OPENING OR INTERCEPT

(BUREAU LETTER IO BOSTON MAY 31, 1961)

I. TO IDENTIFY PERSONS CORRESPONDING WITH KNOWN SOVIET

MAIL DROPS IN EUROPE.

2. TO IDENTIFY AND LOCATE INDIVIDUALS IN THE UNITED STATES

SENDING LETTERS TO EUROPE WHICH MAY BE PART OF A SOVIET ILLEGAL

NETWORK.

B. TYPE OF MAIL OPENED OR INTERCEPTED

(BUREAU LETTERS TO BOSTON DATED MAY 31, 1961, AND AUGUST 14,

1961)

1. SAME AS "A" ABOVE.

2. SPECIFICALLY MAIL GOING TO COPENHAGEN, DENMARK; OSIO,

NORWAY; STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN; FRANKFURT, BERLIN ANE HAMBURG, GERMANY;

TOKYO, JAPAN.

C. ORIGIN AND TERMINATION

1. (BUREAU LETTER TO BOSTON DATED AUGUST 14, 1961, AND

LOS ANGELES RADIOGRAM DATED SEPTEMBER 28, 1961)

ended

THIS OPÉRATION COMMENCED SEPTEMBER 28, 1961, UNVIL NOVEMBER 9,

1961. IT WAS REINSTITUTED JANUARY 27, 1962, AND TERMINATED

NOVEMBER 17, 1962. SOURCE OF TERMINATION: BUREAU LETTER TO

LOS ANGELES JANUARY 21, 1963.

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or .

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LA 100-243450

D. PHYSICAL LOCATION

1. UNITED STATES POST OFFICE (USPO), AIRMAIL FACILITY,

FOREIGN UNIT, 5741 WEST 98TH STREET, LOS ANGELES. (IOS ANGELES

LETTER TO DIRECTOR DATED APRIL 10, 1961, MARKED "JUNE")

USPO AIRMAIL FACILITY, LAX. (LOS ANGELES LETTER TO DIRECTOR

DECEMBER 19, 1961)

E. NAMES OF AGENTS PARTICIPATING IN OPENING OR INTERCEPT

THIS WORK WAS PERFORMED BY AGENTS ASSIGNED TO THE ESPIONAGE

SQUAD, THE SCHEDULES RELATING TO THE IDENTITY OF THESE AGENTS

HAVE BEEN DESTROYED.

WALTER HENRYK DUDA

(1)

A. PURPOSE OF OPENING OR INTERCEPT

1. SUBJECT WAS IDENTIFIED BY RELIABLE SOURCE AS POSSIBLY

IDENTICAL TO A KNOWN AGENT OF THE POLISH INTELLIGENCE SERVICE (PIS).

(BUREAU LETTER TO SAN DIEGO DATED JUNE 19, 1962)

2. SUBJECT CONSIDERED IDENTICAL WITH THE PIS AGENT. (BUREAU

LETTER IO LOS ANGELES DATED NOVEMBER 29, 1962)

3. IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY SUBJECT'S CONTACTS AND ACTIVITIES

THE INTERCEPTION AND OPENING WAS DEEMED ADVISABLE.

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IA 100-243450

B. TYPE OF MAIL OPENED OR INTERCEPTED

ANY CORRESPONDENCE FROM OR TO THE SUBJECT ORIGINATING IN

AND OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES. (LOS ANGELES AIRTEL TO BUREAU

DATED MARCH 16, 1964)

C. ORIGIN AND TERMINATION

I. LOS ANGELES AIRTEL TO BUREAU DATED MARCH 16, 1964,

REQUESTED AUTHORITY TO ENGAGE IN INTERCEPTION AND OPENING OF

SUBJECT'S CORRESPONDENCE. (BUREAU LETTER TO LOS ANGELES DATED

MARCH 26, 1964, AUTHORIZED SAME)

THE OPERATION BEGAN ON MARCH 26, 1964, AND TERMINATED ON

SEPTEMBER 30, 1964. (LOS ANGELES LETTER FROM SAC WESLEY G. GRAPP

TO J. G. HUDSON, ASSISTANT INSPECTOR IN CHARGE, USPO, SEPTEMBER 30,

1964)

D. PHYSICAL LOCATION

I. USPO, RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA. (MEMORANDUM FROM SA HOMER A.

PORTER, JR., TO SAC, LOS ANGELES, DATED APRIL 16, 1964)

E. NAMES OF AGENTS PARTICIPATING IN OPENING OR INTERCEPT

THIS OPERATION WAS CONDUCTED BY AGENTS ASSIGNED TO THE

ESPIONAGE SQUAD ON A SCHEDULED BASIS. SCHEDULES PERIAINING THERETO

HAVE BEEN DESTROYED.

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LA 100-24345C

(VICTOR: JAMES KORDELT/MARGARET KORDELI

(I)

A. PURPOSE OF OPENING OR INTERCEPT

1. (LOS ANGELES LETTER TO DIRECTOR DATED AUGUST 7, 1962)

THE SUBJECTS WERE SUSPECTED OF HAVING ENGAGED IN A COVERT

CONTACT WITH TWO NAVAL, ATTACHES IN THE SOVIET EMBASSY, WASHINGTON,

D. C., ON JULY 26, 1962, IN LOS ANGELES.

B. TYPE OF MAIL OPENED OR INTERCEPTED

I. (LOS ANGELES LETTER TO DIRECTOR AUGUST 7, 1962)

MAIL WHICH WOULD AID MATERIALLY IN DETERMINING CONTACTS,

EMPLOYMENT AND FINANCIAL DATA OF THE KORDELS.

C. ORIGIN AND TERMINATION

1.

•LOS ANGELES AIRTEL TO BUREAU DATED OCTOBER 3, 1962,

REQUESTING AUTHORIZATION TO CONDUCT A GUS AND SAM TYPE SURVEY ON

KORDELS' CORRESPONDENCE.

2. MEMORANDUM FROM ASAC H. A. ONSGARD (DECEASED) TO SAC

OCTOBER 12, 1962. (INSPECTOR DON MOORE, SOG, GAVE VERBAL APPROVAL

TELEPHONICALLY ON OCTOBER 15, 1962)

ACTUAL OPERATION COMMENCED OCTOBER 26, 1962, AND TERMINATED

DECEMBER 10, 1962. (MEMORANDUM OF CHARLES J. NAGLE, JR., TO

SAC DECEMBER 12, 1962)

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IA 100-243450

D. PHYSICAL LOCATION

1. BALDWIN PARK POST OFFICE, BALDWIN PARK, CALIFORNIA.

(MEMORANDUM OF SA NAGLE ABOVE)

E. NAMES OF AGENTS PARTICIPATING IN OPENING OR INTERCEPT

SAS STANLEY E. COUPE (RETIRED), FRANK E. CHOVANEC, RICHARD I.

CROMWELL, CHARLES J. NAGLE, JR., AND HARRY H. WHIDBEE.

for pertinent percor

<) A REVIEW OF READILY AVAILABLE RECORDS, FAILS TO REFLEC!

ANY INSTANCE WHERE MAIL, COVERS WERE PHYSICALLY CONDUCTED BY FBI

EMPLOYEES EITHER ALONE OR IN COOPERATION WITH POSTAL SERVICE

EMPLOYEES.

AND

(3) DOCUMENTS EN MEMORANDA PERTAINING TO (I) WILI BE SUB-

MITTED UNDER SEPARATE COVER.

CLASSIFIED BY 2182, XGDS 2 AND 3, INDEFINITE.

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FROM:

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Date:

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NITEL

(Priority)

DIEBCTOR (62-116465) MPlY bars:

LOS ANGELES (66-1700-4124)

76

INTD, WILLIAM O.

CREGAR

SENSTUDY 1975.

REBUTEL TO LOS ANGELES, 6/17/75.

THE LOS ANGELES OFFICE IS UNABLE TO IDENTIFY

ANY INSTANCE THAT WAS ALLUDED TO IN CAPTIONED AIRTEL AND

THERE IS NO RECORD OF ANY AGENTS BY THE NAME OF RON MASCAR

OR WILLIAM MILLER ASSIGNED TO THE LOS ANGELES DIVISION

SINCE 1956 TO PRESENT.

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SPECIAL

GP O 909.767

NR048 WA CODE

4:38PM IMMEDIATE 6/18/75 GHS

TO NEW YORK

BOSTON

MIAMI

SAN FRANCISCO

DETROIT

SEATTLE

LOS ANGELES

WFO

FROM DIRECTOR

100-5454504t6

TOP

'RE T

702-194/15

SENSTUDY 1975; BUDED: JUNE 24, 1975.

THE FOLLOWING REQUEST FOR INFORMATION HAS BEEN ADDRESSED

TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO FBIHO

FROM THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL

OPERATIONS WITH RESPECI IO INTELLIGENCE ACIIVITIES: " . .

THE FOLLOWING REQUESTS PERTAINING TO THE TECHNIQUE. REFERRED TO

AS "MAIL SURVEILLANCE, INCLUDING MAIL COVERS AND OPENING MAIL'

AND THE UTILIZATION OF THIS TECHNIQUE 'IN INTERNAL SECURITY,

INTELLIGENCE COLLECIION, UND /OR COUNTER INTELLIGENCE MATTERS,

OPERATIONS, OR ACTIVITIES: ' (1) FOR

ALL INCIDENT'S OF MAIL

OPENING OR MAIL INTERCEPT BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU

OF INVESTIGATION FROM JANUARY 1;

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SERIALIZED

FILED.

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STATE THE PHYSICAL LOCATION WHERE THE OPENING OR INTERCEPT WAS

CONDUCTED, THE NAMES OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE

OPENING OR INTERCEPT, THE TYPE OF MAIL OPENED OR INTERCEPTED,

AND THE PURPOSE OF THE OPENING OR INTERCEPT. (2) FOR ALL

INCIDENTS OF MAIL COVERS THAT VERE PHYSICALLY _CONDUCTED BY FBI

EMPLOYEES, WHETHER ALONE OR IN COOPERATIÓN HIH POSTAL SERVICE

EMPLOYEES, FROM JANUARY 1, 1960; UNTIL THE PRESENT, PLEASE STATE

THE PHYSICAL LOCATION WHERE THE COVER WAS CONDUCTED, THE NAMES

OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE COVER, THE TYPE OF

• MAIL COVERED, AND THE PURPOSE OF THE COVER. 13%

PLEASE PROVIDE

ALL DOCUMENTS AND MEMORANDA WHICH DISCUSS, REFER, OR RELATE TO

THE ORIGINS, AUTHORIZATIONS, CONDUCT AND TERMINATION OF, END

POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR, HE MAIL OPENINGS, INTERCEPIS, AND

COVERS IDENTIFIED ABOVE."

EACH OFFICE SHOULD IMMEDIATELY REVIEW ITS FILES FOR ALL

INFORMATION REQUESTED BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE. NEW YORK, BOSTON,

DETROIT, LOS ANGELES, SEATTLE, AND WFO SHOULD FURNISH INFOR -

MATION CONCERNING SAM SURVEY.

NEW YORK, DETROIT, AND SAN

FRANCISCO SHOULD FURNISH INFORMATION CONCERNING GUS SURVEY.

NEW YORK AND WO SHOULD FURNISH INFORMATION CONCERNING Z COVERAGE.

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SAN FRANCISCO SHOULD FURNISH INFORMATION CONCERNING CHIPROP

AND CHICLET. MIAMI SHOULD ADVISE IF THE INFORMATION RECEIVED

FROM MM 890-S RESULTED FROM INTERCEPT OF MAIL AND IF SO

APPROPRIATE INFORMATION SHOULD BE FURNISHED. RESULTS SHOULD BE

SUBMITTED BY TELETYPE, AITENTION OF SAW. 0. CREGAR, UND SHOULD

REACH THE BUREAU BY JUNE 24, 1975.

• CLASSIFIED BY 3676, XGDS 2 AND 3, INDEFINITE.

END

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SENT 2:44AM 06/18/75

PM URGENT 6

0-17-75 RLF

SEUSTUDY T5

76 504)

+6-1700-412474

- 4124

TO LOS ANGELES

FROM DIRECTOR

124464

(62-116295;

SENSTUDY 1975

THE FOLLOWING REQUEST IS BEING MADE IN CONNECTION WITH

SENATE SELECT COMMIIIEE (SSC) HEARINGS.

SUTEL REPLY

ATTENTION

INID, WILLIAM O. CREGAR

witwess is :

DURING A RECENI HEARING, AN SSC STAFF REPRESENIATIVE QUES-

John

TIONED A WITNESS WHETHER OR NOT HE KNEW OF MAIL OPENINGS IN

Torpey

LOS ANGELES BY FBI AGENIS RON MASCAR (PHONETIC) AND (FNU, BUT

POSSIBLY WILLIAM MILLER. THE WITNESS REPLIED THAT HE WAS NOT

P.o.officiAl

KNOWLEDGEABLE ON THIS MATTER AND NEVER HEARD OF THE ABOVE TWO

Dep. Chiet

AGENIS.

PostAL Inspector

IT WAS THE WITNESSES' OPINION THAT THE QUESTION MAY HAVE

based in WoC

BEEN POSED AS A TEST QUESTION ONLY AND ASKED THAT THE INFORMA-

TION BE CAREFULLY HANDLED BY THE FBI.

SO FBIHQ WILL BE IN POSSESSION OF ALL BACKGROUND INFORMA-

TION UPON WHICH WE MAY BE CALLED IO TESTIFY, LOS ANGELES ADVISE66-6243-55

REGARDING ANY DETAILS WHICH MIGHT ILLUMINATE THIS MATTER AND/OR

SERIALIZED.

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IDENTIFY SPECIAL AGENTS CONCERNED. IF SUCH ALLEGED ACTION

OCCURRED., ADVISE AS TO ALL DETAILS AND ANY COMMUNICAIIONS OR

NOTIFICATION IO FBIHQ CONCERNING SAME.

HANDLE ON AN EXPEDITE BASIS •

END .

• PLS ACK FOR SIX

FBI LA ACK FOR 6 TELS

'RLD • CLR

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7R.O6 WA CODE

SIOPE NATEL 5-20-75 PAW

TE ALL SACS

FRON DIRECTOR

(62-116395)

ATSAONAL ATTENTION

PERSTUDY - 75.

REPUTEL MAY 2, 1975.

IN CCINECTION WITH WORK OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE SELECI

COMMITIRES, ITS REPRESENTATIVES MAY CONTACT YOUR OFFICE FOR

ICFURNATIONO

I! COE RECENT INSTANCE, A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SENATO

SULECT COMMITTEE TELEPHONICALLY INQUIRED AS TO IDENJITY GE SAC

ST A PARTICULAR OFFICE DURING 1970. •

IN HANDLING SUCH INQUIRIES INSURE ESTABLISHING BONA FIDES

C7 AUPESEUTATIVE EY SHOW OF CREDENTIALS ON PERSONAL CONTACT ORP

?? PELEPNOCIC CONTACI, BY TELEPHONING BACK TO COMMITTEE.

MELTOG TOFSROATION IS OF A PUBLIC NATURE, AS IN IME INSTANCE

BITED ABOVE, OSTAIN FEIME CLEARANCE PRIOR TO SPARINE ANY

LAPOJEATIQNO FBINE MUST BE EXPEDITICUSLY ADVISED OF ALL

LORRATIC! FURNISHED O

TART NIC TUC AND CLR

Reproducten thet

SAC Mumo

Will on

firting

1-t 6-6243-

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WINDEXED

SERIALIZED.

..FILED

, MAY&UN

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done 5/22/75

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77.7

NR074 WA CODE

8:55PM NITEL 5-2-75 MSE

TO ALL SACS

FROM DIRECTOR (62-116395)

PERSONAL

ATTARON

SENSTUDY 75

CAPTIONED MATTER PERTAINS TO BUREAU'S HANDLING OF REQUESTS

FROM SENATE AND HOUSE, SELECI COMMITTEES IO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL

OPERATIONS WITH RESPECI TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES. IN CONNEC-

TION WITH WORK OF THESE COMMITTEES, STAFF MEMBERS MAY SEEK.

• TO INTERVIEW CURRENT AND FORMER FBI EMPLOYEES.

RECENTLY, THE SENATE SELECI COMMITEE (SSC) STAFF HAS

INTERVIEWED SEVERAL FORMER EMPLOYEES AND IT IS ANTICIPATED

THAT MANY MORE SUCH PERSONNEL WILL BE CONTACTED.

THE FBI HAS PLEDGED FULL COOPERATION WITH THE COMMITTEE

AND WE WISH TO ASSIST AND FACILITATE ANY INVESTIGATIONS UNDER-

TAKEN BY THE COMMITTEE WITH RESPECI TO THE FBI. HOWEVER, WE

DO HAVE AN, OBLIGATION IO INSURE THAT SENSITIVE SOURCES AND

METHODS AND ONGOING SENSITIVE INVESTIGATIONS ARE FULLY

Ranton 1.

66-6243-3

G6 100.

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PROTECTED. SHOULD ANY FORMER EMPLOYEE CONTACT YOUR OFFICE AND

HAVE ANY QUESTION REGARDING HIS OBLIGATION NOT TO DIVULGE INFOR-

MATION OBTAINED BY VIRTUE OF HIS PAST FBI EMPLOYMENT, HE SHOULD

BE INSTRUCTED TO CONTACT LEGAL COUNSEL, FBIHQ, BY COLLECT CALL.

YOUR CONVERSATIONS WITH FORMER EMPLOYEES MUST BE IN KEEPING WITH

OUR PLEDGE. IT IS BELIEVED SUCH A PROCEDURE WOULD INSURE PROPER

PROTECTION AND ALSO FACILITATE THE WORK OF THE SSC.

THE ABOVE PROCEDURE ALSO APPLIES TO CURRENT EMPLOYEES

OF YOUR OFFICE. HOWEVER, CONTACI WITH THE LEGAL COUNSEL SHOULD

BE HANDLED THROUGH THE SAC•

END

MAH OF FBI LOS ANGELES -FOR SIX TÉLS LA CLR

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Date:

9

Transmit the following in

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3/26/75

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URGENT

(Priority)

TO: DIRECIOR, FBI STE ATIN: BUDGET AND ACCOUNTING SECTION

FROM: LOS ANGELES

66-6243

SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

RE BUTEL, MARCH 24 LAST.

LOS ANGELES DIVISION HAS CAREFULLY BROKEN DOWN BY

PERCENTAGES THOSE AGENTS WORKING INTERNAL SECURITY AND COUNTER-

INTELLIGENCE WORK USING THOSE CLASSIFICATIONS PROVIDED BY

SUPERVISOR GROOVER. DIVISION HAS A TOTAL OF 91 AGENTS PLUS

ONE SAC, FOUR SUPERVISORS ASSIGNED TO INTERNAL SECURITY AND

ONE SUPERVISOR ASSIGNED TO COUNTERINTELLIGENCE, ASSIGNED TO

SUCH CLASSIFICATIONS. THIRTY FIVE OF THESE WORK COUNTERINTELLIGENCE

AND 56 WORK INTERNAL SECURITY.

ADMINISTRATIVE

LOS ANGELES IS SUBMITTING FOR BUREAU'S CONSIDERATION, IF

PERTINENT. THREE OF THE ABOVE 56 CLASSIFIED AS SECURITY AGENTS

WORK FULL TIME ON BOMBING MATTERS WHICH ARE ALMOST ALI MATTERS,

WHEREIN WE HAVE NO JURISDICTION EXCEPT FOR DATA KEEPING FOR

NATIONAL BOMB DATA CENTER. TWELVE of the 56 SECURITY AGENTS

JLS: sas

(1) D0O

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ARE INVOLED FULL TIME IN OUR FALSE IDENTITY PROGRAM.

THIS PROGRAM ORIGINATED WITH OUR WEATHFUG ACTIVITIES, HOWEVER,

THE FRAUDULENT USE OF DECEASED INFANT IDENTITY PAPERS HAS

EXPANDED TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT THE VAST MAJORITY INVOLVE

CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES OTHER THAN SECURITY WORK. SEVEN of the 56

AGENTS ON SECURITY ARE INVOVLED FULL TIME IN FUGITIVE

INVESTIGATIONS WHICH ORIGINATE WITH SOME DEMONSTRATION OR

ACT OF TERROR, ETC, BUT AT THE PRESENT THEY ARE CLEAR CUT

CRIMINAL FUGITIVE INVESTIGATIONS. ONE OF THE 56 IS INVOLVED

FULI, TIME IN THE HANDLING OF FOREIGN POLICE COOPERATION

MATTERS WHICH IS TECHNICALLY AN APPLICANT-TYPE INVESTIGATION,

BUT THE 163 CLASSIFICATION WAS INCLUDED IN THE SECURITY

CLASSIFICATIONS. SUMMARIZING THESE EXCEPTIONS WE HAVE A TOTAL

OF 23 AGENTS WHO ARE ASSIGNED TO SECURITY WORK BUT ARE, IN

FACT, NOI INVOKED IN ANY INTERNAL SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS,

LEAVING ONLY 33 AGENTS DEVOTING THEIR FULL TIME EFFORTS TO

INTERNAI. SECURITY MATTERS PLUS, THE ABOVE MENTIONED 35

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AGENTS.

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NR 009 LA CODE

12: 09 PM URGENT 3-26-75 SMA

TO DIRECTOR

FROM LOS ANGELES

ATIN: BUDGET AND ACCOUNTING SECTION

SENATE SELECI COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

RE BUTEL, MARCH 24 LAST.

LOS ANGELES DIVISION HAS CAREFULLY BROKEN DOWN BY PERCENTAGES

THOSE AGENTS WORKING INTERNAL SECURITY AND COUNTER-INTELLIGENCE

WORK USING THOSE CLASSIFICATIONS PROVIDED BY SUPERVISOR GROOVER •

DIVISION HAS A TOTAL OF 91 AGENIS PLUS ONE SAC, FOUR SUPERVISORS

ASSIGNED TO INTERNAL SECURITY AND ONE SUPERVISOR ASSIGNED TO

COUNTER INTELLIGENCE, ASSIGNED TO SUCH CLASSIFICATIONS. THIRTY

FIVE OF THESE WORK COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AND 56 WORK INTERNAL SECURITY.

ADMINISTRATIVE

LOS ANGELES IS SUBMITTING FOR BUREAU'S CONSIDERATION, IF

PERTINENT. THREE OF THE ABOVE 56 CLASSIFIED AS SECURITY AGENTS

WORK FULL TIME ON BOMBING MATTERS WHICH ARE ALMOST ALL MATTERS

WHEREIN WE HAVE NO JURISDICTION EXCEPT FOR DATA KEEPING FOR

NATIONAL BOMB DATA CENTER. TWELVE OF THE 56 SECURITY AGENIS

SEARCHES

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ARE INVOLVED FULL TIME IN OUR FALSE IDENTITY PROGRAM. THIS

PROGRAM ORIGINATED WITH OUR WEATHFUG ACTIVITIES, HOWEVER,

THE FRAUDULENT USE OF DECEASED INFANT IDENTITY PAPERS HAS

EXPANDED TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT THE VAST MAJORITY INVOLVE

CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES OTHER THAN SECURITY WORK• SEVEN OF THE 56

AGENTS ON SECURITY ARE INVOLVED FULL TIME IN FUGITIVE

INVESTIGATIONS WHICH ORIGINATE WITH SOME DEMONSTRATION OR

ACT OF TERROR, ETC, BUT AT THE PRESENT THEY ARE CLEAR CUT

CRIMINAL FUGITIVE INVESTIGATIONS. ONE OF THE 56 IS INVOLVED

FULL TIME IN THE HANDLING OF FOREIGN POLICE COOPERATION

MATTERS WHICH IS TECHNICALLY AN APPLICANT-TYPE INVESTIGATION,

BUT THE 163 CLASSIFICATION WAS INCLUDED IN THE SECURITY

CLASSIFICATIONS• SUMMARIZING THESE EXCEPTIONS WE HAVE A TOTAL

OF 23 AGENTS WHO ARE ASSIGNED TO SECURITY WORK BUT ARE, IN

FAGI, NOT INVOLVED IN ANY INTERNAL SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS,

LEAVING ONLY 33 AGENTS DEVOTING THEIR FULL TIME EFFORIS TO

INTERNAL SECURITY MATTERS PLUS, THE ABOVE MENTIONED 35

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE AGENTS.

END

JIG FBIHQ CLR

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NR 046 WA CODE

8:35PM NITEL 3-24-75 DEB

TO ALL SACS

FROM DIRECTOR

SENATE SEL ZET COMMITTEE ON INTELIGENCE ACTIVITIES

SENATOR FRANK CHURCH, CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE SELECT

COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES HAS MADE AN INITIAL REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

FROM. THE FBI. AMONG THE ITEMS REQUESTED IS A BREAKDOWN OF

FIELD AGENT: PERSONNEL ASSIGNED TO INTERNAL SECURITY AND

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE MATTERS.

ACCORDINGLY, WITHIN FOUR EIGHT HOURS EACH SAC SHOULD SUTEL

TO. FBIHQ, ATTENTION: BUDGET AND ACCOUNTING SECTION, SETTING FORTH

SEPARATELY THE NUMBER OF SACS, ASACS, SUPERVISORS AND AGENTS ASSIGNED

TO. INTERNAL SECURITY AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE MATTERS. PERCENTAGES

OF AN AGENT'S TIME, WHEN NOI ASSIGNED FULL-TIME TO. THESE ACTIVITIES,

SHOULD BE USED IF APPROPRIATE, PARTICULARLY IN THE SUPERVISORY

CATEGORIES. THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN SEPARATELY

BETWEEN INTERNAL SEGURITY AND COUNTERINIELLIGENCE. YOUR RESPONSE SHOULD

BE LIMITED TO AGENT PERSONNEL ONLY.

3'"

END

Bert.

HOLD

66-6243-1

Oper

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