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AIRTEL

1 - Mr. Mintz

2 - Mr. Coulson

1 - Mr. Heller

1/2/79

To:

SAC, Albany

From: Director, FBI

GHOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

Reurcal to FBIHQ 12-14-78.

Enclosed is one copy each of pages 269 and 270 requested

by ASAC, Albany consisting of comments made on 11-17-78 by

Chairman Stokes of captioned Committee concerning testimony of

SA Rose given on that date.

Enclosures (2)

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NOTE: On 12-14-78 ASAC Bob Olmert requested comments made by

Chai rman of captioned Committee describing SA Rose of that office as

a "Racist." The attached comments were made by the Chairman during

testimony of former Assistant Director Charles D. Brennan on 11-17-78.

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as the leader of the civil rights movement.

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The Chairman.

And what was there, given the kind of tone

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that was set from the top by Mr. Hoover, the realization

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that he wanted DI. King destroyed, and with that notion

being prevalent throughout the entire bureau, and trickling

4934

all the way down to men like Rose who came in this afternoon

4935

and admitted under oath that he was racially prejudiced,

4936

with the knowledge existing throughout the entire bureau

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that Hoover wanted him destroyed, what would stop some agent

from feeling that he could with impunity kill DI. King?

Mr. Brennan. I think that is an extreme supposition.

think that the people in the FBI, at least on the basis of

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my personal experience over the years that I worked in the

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FBI for more than 26 years, were men of great dedication and

integrity, and I would say that that would be

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extreme case.

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Now I am not saying that we

never had any bad apples in

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the FBI, and that somebody would

not consider doing a bad

4947 thing, but I would be shocked and

amazed if any individual

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in the FBI ever did consider such a step.

The Chairman., Were you shocked and amazed that it was

testified to here that when MI. Rose heard DI. King had been

killed he expressed joy, and used the term

''They got the

SOB''? Did that shock and amaze you?

MI. BIennan. That shocked me, yes.

I don't see how any

man, particularly the men of the caliber, of the type that

we try to get into the FBI, would be joyful over that type

of assassination.

The Chairman.

Regrettably, Mr. Rose is still with the

FBI.

MI. Brennan. Well, sir, that is not of my doing.

The Chairman.

I do not fault you for that.

I fault the

system for keeping him.

The gentleman from the District of Columbia, MI. Fauntroy.

MI. Fauntroy.

MI. Chairman,

I have no questions.

I am

exhausted.

The Chairman.

The gentleman from Ohio, Mr. Devine.

Mr. Devine.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

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The

Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division

Attention: Mi. Robert Reuch

Director, FEI

FEDERAL GOVERNI

1 - Mr. Long - Enc.

1 - MI.

Foster - Enc.

2 - Mr. Coulson

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December 22, 1978

1 - Mr. Heller - Enc.

ROUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

In accordance with Attorney General Order 116-56,

this memorandum advises that Special Agent Thomas J. Deakin,

Public Affairs Office, FBIHQ, was interviewed on December 14,

1978.

A memorandum setting forth Mr. Deakin's account of

this interview is enclosed for your infornation.

Enclosure

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1 - Personnel file - Thomas J. Deakin - Enclosure

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DEC 2 6 1978

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December 15, 1978

INTERVIEW BY HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE

ON ASSASSINATIONS

On December 14, 1978, Special Agent Thomas J.

Deakin, Public Affairs Office,

on Assassinations regarding the Racial Counterintelligence

Program which Special Agent Deakin supervised for a period

of time in 1967 and 1968.

The questions asked by the Committee staff

related to the justification of selecting Martin Luther

King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as

targets of the Counterintelligence Program and at what

level of the FBI this selection was made.

General information on the method of originat-

ing and handling Counterintelligence Program suggestions

was explored, as was the particulars of the Counter-

intelligence

Frogram aimed at the Poor Peoples Campaign.

The Comnittee investigators were particularly

interested in the amount of counterintelligence sugges

tions generated by former Assistant Director W. C. Sullivan

and whether these were on his own initiative or by oral

instructions from J. Edgar Hoover,

This last area was, of

course, beyond the knowledge of Special Agent Deakin.

A final area of inquiry was what was described

by the Committee investigators as factionalism withir

Bureau Headquarters between C. D. LeLoch and w. C. Sullivan.

This interview was not under oath as Mr. Webb

explained the Committee only planned to take a deposi-

tion if new information was obtained from Special

Agent Deakin.

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