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8:48PM NITEL 3-24-75 DEB

TO ALL SACS

FROM DIRECIOR

SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE 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, ATTENTIONS BUDGET AND ACCOUNTING SECTION, SETTING FORTH

SEPARATELY THE NUMBER OF SACS, ASACS, SUPERVISORS AND AGENTS ASSIGNED

TO INTERNAL SECURITY AND COUNTERINIELLIGENCE MATTERS. PERCENTAGES

OF AN AGENTS TIME, WHEN NOT 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 SECURITY AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE. YOUR RESPONSE SHOULD

BE LIMITED TO AGENT PERSONNEL ONLY.

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Date: MARCH 25, 1975

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TO DIRECTOR, FBI

ATTENTION: BUDGET AND ACCOUNTING SECTION

FROM COLUMBIA (105-NEW)

SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES.

RE BUREAU NITEL TO ALI SACS, MARCH 24, 1975.

COLUMBIA PRESENTLY HAS ZERO AGENTS ASSIGNED COUNTER

INTELLIGENCE MATTERS. IN INTERNAL SECURITY MATTERS COLUMBIA

HAS THE FOLLOWING NUMBER OF AGENTS AND SUPERVISORS ASSIGNED

THE FOLLOWING PERCENTAGES OF TIME:

AGENTS

1-75%, 1-308, 3-208, 1 - 108,

3 - 5% OR LESS

SUPERVISORS

1 - 20%

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The enclosed is for your information. If used in a future report, ( conceal all

sources, [ paraphrase contents.

Enclosed are corrected pages from report of SA

dated

Remarks:

Enclosed for your information is a copy of

an article by Mr. William Safire entitled

"MI.

Church's Cover-Up" that appeared in the

November 20, 1975, issue of "The New York Times.

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Mr. Church'& Cover-Up

The committee is not asking embar-

By William Safire

rassing questions even when answers

are readily available. A couple of

WASHINGON, NOV. 19- On Oct. 10,

weeks ago, at an open hearing, an

1963, the then-Attorney General of the

inadvertently started

United States put his personal signa-

blurt out an episode about newsmen

ture on a document that launched and

Who were wentapping in 1962 With

legitimatized one of the most horren-

the apparent knowledge of Attornel

dous abuses of Federal police power in

General Kennedy. The too-willing wit:

this century.

ness was promptly shooshed into si

In Senator Frank Church's subcom-

lence, and told that such information

mittee hearing room this week,

the

would be developed only in executive

authorized

wiretapping

and subse-

session. Nobody raised

quent unauthorized bugging and at-

That pattern of containment by the

tempted blackmailing of Martin Luther

Church committee is vividly shown by

King

Jr. is being gingerly examined,

the handling of the buggings at the

with the "investigation" conducted in

1964 Republican and Democratic con-

such a way as not to unduly em-

barrass officials of the Kennedy or

ESSAY

Johnson Administrations.

With great care,

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

ventions which were ordered by Lyn-

the committee counsel first set forth

don Johnson. Such invasions of politi-

the result of shuffling through press

cal headquarters were worse than the

clips, it seemed as if no Justice De-

crime committed at Watergate, since

partment had existed in 1962; today,

they involved the use of the 'F.B.I.,

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

but the Church investigators seem to

was Robert Kennedy who authorized

be determined not to probe too deeply.

the wiretap of Dr. King, and that "the

If F.B.I. documents say that reports

President of the United States and the

were made to specific Johnson aides,

Attorney General specifically discussed

why are those men not given the

their concern of Communist influence

same opportunity to publicly tell their

with Dr. King."

so avidly given the next Presi-

But the Church committee showed

dent's men? If Lyndon Johnson com-

no zest for getting further to the Ken-

mitted this impeachable high crime of

nedy root of this precedent to Water-

using the F.B.I. to spy on political,

gate eavesdropping. If Senator Church

opponents, who can be brought for.

were willing to let the chips fall where

ward to tell us all about it?

they may, he would call some knowl-

But that would cause embarrass-

edgeable witnesses into the glare of

ment to

Democrats,

and

the camera lights and ask them some

Church wants to embarrass profes-

questions that have gone unasked for

sional employees of

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-

tion? How does the F.B.I. know the

President was consulted or informed?

After Mr. Katzenbach assumed of-

fice, and the wiretapping continued, j

he was told by angry newsmen

that

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

formation about Dr. King. Why did he

wait for four months, and for a thou-

sand telephonic interceptions, to dis-

continue the officially approved tap?

of course, this sort of testimony

would erode Senator Church's political

base. That is why we do not see for-

mer

Assistant F.B.I. director

Cartha

(Deke)

Deloach, Lyndon

Johnson's

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

witness chair. What did President

Johnson know about the character-

assassination plot and when did he

know il? What conversations took

place hetween Mr. Deloach and Presi-

dent Johnson on the tapping of Dr.

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

any other intrusions into the lives of

THE NEW YORK TIMES

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20th, 1975

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