FBI/SECRET SERVICE AGREEMENT
Agency: HSCA
Originator: WH
From: CHASE, GORDON
To: BUNDY, MR.
Document date: 01/25/1965
Document type: MEMORANDUM

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CHASE, GORDON

BUNDY, MR.

FBI/SECRET SERVICE AGREEMENT

DATE: 01/25/1965

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USSS

FBI

DOCUMENT TYPE: MEMORANDUM

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: Consulted

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DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/30/1993

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THE WHITE HOUSE

WASHINGTON

January 25, 1965

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MEMORANDUM FOR MR. BUNDY

SUBJECT: FBI/Secret Service Agreement

Authority

By smy

- NARS, Date 5/119/221

1. Attached, for your clearance, is a draft agreement between the FBI and the

Secret Service concerning Presidential protection; it is acceptable to both the

FBI and the Secret Service.

2. One point of interest appears on Page 2. Under the agreement, the EBI,

in connection with its responsibility to investigate subversive organizations,

".. . will be alert to and promptly notify the Secret Service of any information

indicating a possible plot against the person of the President."

It can be argued

that more active verbiage would be preferable, which would make it the respon

sibility of the FBI to actively dig for information regarding plots in subversive

organizations.

The FBI, however, resists more active wording on the grounds

(a) that the FBI would have to redirect its whole investigative effort with respect

to subversive organizations to comply with more active verbiage and (b) that

such a large-scale redirection of effort is not called for.

Another point demonstrates

the same sort of problem. In the last sentence of

Paragraph 2 on Page 2, it is made the responsibility of the Secret Service to

initiate action in the neutralization of a plot. While both the FBI and the Secret

Service want it this way, it can be argued that the initiative should be given to the

FBI. (In practical terms, it would seem to make little difference - in the event

of a plot against the President, the Secret Service would undoubtedly and quickly

call on the FBI for assistance, and the FBI would undoubtedly and quickly respond.)

First, the EBI and the Secret Service,

who are the ones who have to live with it, favor the agreement.

We should give it

a chance to work; if it doesn't, we can revise it. Second, the agreement is a long

step in the right direction. For one thing, some good work has been done in the

area of defining criteria for the identification of persons dangerous to the President.

For another thing, the process of hammering out the agreement has done much to

improve coordination between the Secret Service and the FBI at all levels. Third,

in practice, I don't think we need worry excessively about the general FBI reluc-

tance to dive deeply into the field of Presidential protection.

The FBI is a good

organization, is now very sensitive to the high-level interest in Presidential pro-

tection, and, I think, will turn in a good performance. In a related regard, I

worry far more about the performance of the Secret Service in doing its job; but

the core of the problem is the supervision of the Secret Service and, as such, is

beyond the scope of this agreement.

4. Does the agreement look O. K. to you? "

COPT

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