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Mr. J. B. Hotis)

1 - Mr?

f. I. Wannall

1 - lix. W. 0. Cregar

September 8, 1975

The Attorney General

Director, FBT

1 - Mr. S. F. Phillips

ON INTSLLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN SUNG ASSIFIEL

DATE 10/1600

Reference is made to this Burcau's letter and

memorandum dated September 3, 1975, which effected a partial

delivery to the SSC of materials concerning Dr. Vartin luther

King, Jr., based on SSC requests dated July 8, 1975, and July

14, 1975.

Enclosed for your approval end fomerding to the

SSe is the original of a memorandum in further partial responor

to the aforementioned two SSC requests.

ilso enclosed for your records is a copy of che

memorendum which is being delivered to you with & set of the

meterials which ere being delivered to the SSC.

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Dep. AD Adm. -

Enclosures (2)

/ 2 ENCLOSURE

1 - the leputy Attorney Genoral

Attention:

itichael 5. Shaheon, Jr.

Special Counsel for?' 1-1"

Intelligence Coordination

ST 100

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wrote

150

SEP 16/1975

Dep. AD inv. _ (9)

Asst. Dir.:

vioc (s

Admin..

- NOTE:

Single copies of the 7/8 and 14/75 SSC requests are

Ext. Affairs _attached to the file copy of enclosed IHM.

Exact copies of the

Files & Com-materials being furnished are maintained in the office of the

Ident. -

-SENSTUDY Project and a detailed record has been maintained

Inspection— of the materials furnished. Arrangements have been nade for a

Laboratory — representative of the Legal Counsel Division to deliver the

Plan & Eval -attached memorandum as well as the materials being provided to

Training -

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Director Sec'y —

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2 - Mr. J.

Mintz

(1

- Mr. J. B. Hotis)

1 - Mr. W. R. Wannall

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- Mr.

w.

0. Gregar

1 - Mr. S. F. Phillips

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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

September 8, 1975

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

U. S. SENATE SELECE COMMITIRE TO

DATE LI 2/60

STUDY GOVENCIENTAL. OPEFATIONS WITH

RESPECT TO IFTEULIGENCE LCTIVITIES (SSC)

Reference is made to the lecter from the Ghairmen

of the SSe to the Attorney General dated August 28, 1975,

requesting delivery of previously-requested FBI materials

pertaining to Dr. Marcin Luther King, Jr. Reference is also

made to FßI renorandum dated September 3, 1975, thich

effectea delivery of materials in partial response to SSC

requests dated July 8 and 14, 1975.

Materials requested in Items 7 and 19 of the

July 8, 1975, request and in Items 7, 8, 9, and 13 of the

JuLy 14, 1975, request are being delivered to the SSC with

this memorandum.

It is noted that Item 7 of the July 14, 1975,

request reforred to the original of an FBI Director

nemorandun dated ilovember 17, 1963, to l'essis. Tolron,

Belmont, Deloach, Losen, and Sulliven. Ho such memorandum

could be located in FBI

files. However, e similarily-

aúdressed memorandum dated November 7, 1963; was located

i being furtshed, as it apperently is the Emot of

SSC interest.

issoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm. -

With respect to our response to Item 13 of the

Dep. AD In. July 14, 1975, roquest, two additional documents (13a and

At 13b) are responsive but are included in response to Item 9

Comp. Syst, and therefore are not duplicated under Item 13.

Files & Com. -

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Inspection _ SFP: els

I'has document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi

Intell.

nation outside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

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Laboratory

your Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person-

Plan. & Eval. -

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SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

With respect to the excision of the material being

delivered herewith, appropriate notations appear where

the excisions concern the protection of an Informant or a

peculiarly sensitive foreign intelligence operation. All

other excisions pertain to portions which actually summarize

or quote from conversations monitored during electronic

surveillance of Dr.

• King.

In most cases, it can be ascertained

precisely which information in FBI files came from electronic

surveillances of Dr. King; however, there exist areas where

documentation of the information is not

precise and no

accurate determinetion can be made.

Therefore,

no assurances

can be given that portions of the material being furnished

do not contain information developed as a result of electronic

surveillances

of. Dr. King.

In connection with any response where we have

included Xeroxes of newspaper articles or news releases, we

have not

necessarily furnished all relating to a particular

matter which may be scattered throughout FBI files, but have

included those readily

available and generally representative

of the media accounts of the particular matter.

An example,

would be those included in the response to Item 7 of the

July 8, 1975, SSC request:

The remaining materials in the SSC requests of July 8.

and 14, 1975, and August 20, 1975, (Part VII) are receiving

continuous attention and the results will be forwarded on

"a periodic basis as soon as possible.

The Attorney General

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FRANK CHUACH, IDANO. CHERIRMAN

SORM G. TOVEN, TEXAS. VICE CHAI'S

PHILIP I. HAIT, MICH.

HONIARDH. JAKER, IRATENT.

MALTET-F. MONDALE. MIN.

PIARE GOLDWATER, ARIZ.

WALTIND, HUDDLISTON, MY.

CHAFLES MCG. MATHIAS, JR., MD.

MOSIAT MONGÄN, PL.C.

MICHANDS. SCHIVEIKER, PHY

GARY HART, COLO.

WILLIAM G. MILLER, STAFF DIRECTOR

FREDEKICK A.D. SCHWARI, JH., CHIEF COUNSEL

CURTIS R. SMOTHERS, MINURITY COUNSEL

¿Crites States Senate

SELECT MMITTEE TO

ETUOT GOVIRMMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH

FELIPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

(MATEURNT TO S. ALS. 11, SETH CONGRESS)

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

July 8, 1975

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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED . .

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

K. William O'Connor, Esq.

Special Counsel for Intelligence Coordination

Office of the Deputy Attorney General

U. S. Department of Justice

Dear MI. O'Connor:

Pursuant to Section III. A. of the notification

attached

to the Committee's letter of June 27, 1975, 1 am

forwarding herewith an additional request for

materials

which relate to this matter.

The specificity of this request is not, of

course, intended to limit in any way the agreement to come

forward with all relevant information and materials, Inclua

ing documents, whether of not they have been brought to the

Committee's attention or have been specifically requested

by the Committee:

As Mx. Schwarz and I indicated in our meeting

with you a few days ago, there are still outstanding sev-

eral items relating to this matter which the Committee re-

quested some time ago.

This request should in no way delay

rurcher the avallability of the previously requested items,

and we would expect that individual items will be supplied

whenever they become separately ready for submission.

Your cooperation is appreciated. •

Sincerely,

CC DAG

SFP/ers

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RECEIVED

JUL 8 1975

KwoC

John T. Elliff

Director

Domestic Intelligencé Iask Force

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1. Access to all memoranda, airtels, teletypes, and any

other materials which relate in any way to:

a.

The dissemination to any person or organization

outside the executive branch of the federal govern-

ment of information Iclating to Martin Luther king,

b.

Contacts between FBI personnel and persons outside

• the executive branch of the federal

- government con-

cerning DI. King-

2.

All memoranda and any other materials which relate to

meetings or proposed meetings between FBI headquarters

and Di. King, including, but not limited to:

a. All memoranda and any other materials reflecting

such proposals.

b. All correspondence and any other materials reflect-

ing invitations extended for such meetings.

c. All correspondence and any other materials reflect-

ing replies to any such invitations.

d. All memoranda and any other materials reflecting

briefings or preparations for such meetings.

e. All memoranda and any other materials reflecting

what occurred

at such meetings.

f. All memoranda and any other materials reflecting

actions recommended or taken following such meetings.

3. All memoranda and any other materials which relate to a

meeting between

the FBI Director and reporters on

November 18, 1964, incluäing, but not limited to:

a. Proposals, invitations, and replies. for such meeting.

b. Arrangements, briefings, and preparations for such

meeting.

c. Summaries or other evidence of what occurred at

such meeting.

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4. All memoranda and any other materials which relate to

a meeting between the President and Roy Wilkins,

A. Philip Randolph, Whitney Young, Mrs. Dorothy Haight,

James Farmer, and Jack Greenberg on November 19, 1964.

•5. A copy of a November 19, 1964, telegram from Dr. King

to Director Hoover, and all notes, memoranda, and any

other materials reflecting the disposition of, or

actions taken as a result of the receipt of, said tele

gran. ...

6. All memoranda and any other materials relating to the

award of the Nobel Peace Prize to DI. King on or about

December 10, 1964.

7. All memoranda and any other materials relating to a

banguet held in honor of DI. King in Atlanta, Georgia,

on January 25, 1965.

8. All memoranda and any other materials which relate to

a meeting between the President and DI. King on

February 9, 1965.

9. All materials which formed the basis for the FBI's

response dated June 12, 1975, captioned "Reguest Per-

taining to Electronic Surveillance", which pertained

to the travel of certain former agents of the FBI.

10. All memoranda and any other materials'which relate to

mail openings, and mail covers, with respect to

DI. King.

11. Access to all memoranda and any other materials which

relate to electronic surveillance of Dr. King by state

or local agencies or governments.

12.

All memoranda and any other materials which relate to

the transfer of former Special Agent Robert R. Nichols

to the Oklahoma City office of the FBI in June 1969.

13:

All Forms FD 185 and attachments (including forms

entitled

"Performance Rating Guide for Investigative

• Personnel") fron 1959 until retirement for:

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14.

15.

16.

17.

18°

a. Former Special Agent Robert R. Nichols.

b. Former Special Agent Alan Sentinella.

All memoranda and any other materials which relate to

a letter from former Associate Director Clyde A. Tolson

to newspaper columnist Carl I. Rowan concerning Dr. King,

as reported in the Washington Evening Star on June 18,

1969.

All memoranda and any other materials relating to

arrangements, briefings, and preparations for an inter-

view of the FBI Director by any reporters for the

Washington Evening Star on June 19, 1969; all memoranda

and any other materials referred to, quoted from, or

displayed during such interview; and all memoranda and

any other materials reflecting what occurred at such

interview.

Access to all materials upon which "Black Extremist"

COINTELPRO summaries 16, 23, 63, and 156 were based.

An August 17, 1964, memorandum from former Assistant

Attorney General John Doar to the FBI Director request-

ing a name check on certain individuals connected

• with

the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

All memoranda and any other materials

reflecting the inception of la) all headquarters files

. and

(b) all Atlanta, Georgia, field office files con-

cerning DI. King and concerning the Southern Christian

Leadership Conference, together with the basis and

authority for opening such files.

19. All memoranda and any other materials reflecting or

relating to a 1963 meeting at FBI headquarters which

was attended by former Special Agents Robert R. Nichols,

Henry Rouse, William Sullivan, and other FBI personnel,.

and which related to DI. King.

20: All memoranda prepared by the Internal Security Section

and by former Assistant Director William Sullivan con-

cerning the August 1963 March on Washingion.

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21. All memoranda and any other materials which reflect

or relate to communications between the FBI Director

or FBI headquarters personnel and the President or the

President's staff in June 1969 concerning electronic

surveillance of DI. King-

N.B.:

• .

The Bureau's search for the above-requested

nate

rials should include a check of pertinent field

office files as well

as headguarters files.

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HA. MANI.

TOUTH TICAS, VICE CHAINAN

HOLYARES MI SA:CH. JP... TENH.-

BAIRY COOLINATEP. AMIZ.

GHANLING GARATIANS, JHONIO,

RICHARUS.JLIINEHER.PA.

LAST HART, CULO.

WILLJAM G-MILLER, STAFF DIPLETOR

FREDRICK A. O. SCHVIARI, JA-, CHILE COUNSEL

CURTIS R. SMOTHERS, MINDHITY COUNSEL

Hernies

SELECT COMMTTIE TO

STUDY GOVERNMENTAL GERATIONS WITH

RESPECT TO INTELLICENCE ACTIVITIES

(PURSUANT TO 5. RES. IL ITH CONGHESS)

WASHINGTON, D.G. 20510

JUlY 14, 1975

K. William O'Connor, Esq.

Special Counsel for Intelligence Coordination

Office of the Deputy Attorney General

U. S. Department of Justice

Washington, D. C. 20530

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

Dear Mr. O'Connor:

Reference is made to your letter of July 8, 1975,

transmitting certain materials relating in the Martin Luther

King, JI. monographs.

We would appreciate being supplied the following

additional items in response to Appendixu, Item s,. ui ile

Committee's letter of May 14, 1975:

1. All materials refelcting the carlier recommenda-

tion and approval which are indicated in the first

sentence of Mr. Sullivan's October 15, 1963

memorandum to MI. Belmont.

2.

The identity of the author of the monograph which

was attached to MI. Sullivan's October 15, 1963

memorandum to Mr. Belmont.

3.

All materials which reflect or relate to Mr.

sullivan's instructions to subordinates concerning

the preparation of the 1963 monograph.

4 a

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materials which reflect or relate to the trans-

mission of the monograph to Me. Sullivan from

subordinates prior to Mr. Sullivan's October 15, 1963

memorandum to Mr. Belmont.

5.

All materials which reflect ME. Tolson's transmission

to the Director of Mr. Belmoni's memorandum of

October 17, 1963.

RECEIVE L

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• 6.

All materials which reflect what transpired "tween

the Director's approval of Mr. Sullivan's Ocwber 15,

1963 memorandum, and the transmission of Mr. sullivan's

October 18, 1963 memorandum to Mr. Belmont.

7.

A xerox of the original of the Director's Notember 17,

1963 memorandum to Mssrs. Tolson, Belmont, De Loach,

i.

.8.

Rosen, and Sullivan.

A xerox of the original

of the director's Fioruary 5,

1964 memorandum to Mssrs. Tolson, Belmont, Riden,

Sullivan, De Loach, and Evans.

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Access to the original memoranda from MI. Su livan

to Mr. Belmont, dated:

a. November 22, 1964;

b. November 27, 1964.

10. The identity of the authui of the 1951 "ap-ti-date

revision" of the 1963 monograph.

11. All materials wnich reflect or relate iu Mr. Sullivan's

instructions to subordinates in 1964 to revise the

1963 monograph.

12. All materials which transmitted for approva: and/or

signature the December 1, 1964 letter from :?e

Director to Mr. Moyers.

13. All materials which reflect the approval of Mr.

Belmont, MI. Tolson, and/or the Director Of:

a.

Recommendations contained in Mr. Sullin's

November 22, 1964 memorandum to Mr. Beiront;

Recommendations contained in Mr. Sullivin's

November 27, 1964 memorandum to Mr. Bei ont;

C.

The December 1, 1964 letter from the Director

to Mr: Moyers.

14.

Access to the second page (unexcised) of tha

December 17, 1964 memorandum from Mr. BaumarGner

to Mr. Sullivan.

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K.. William O!Connor

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July 14, 1975

15.

•16.

All materials reflecting the approval of Mr.

Sullivan, Mr. Belmont, MI. Tolson, and/or-the Director

•of the recommendation contained in ME. Baumgardner's

December 17, 1964 memorandum to Mr. Sullivan.

All memoranda and any other materials which relate

to the preparation of a memorandum captioned

"Martin

Luther King, JI.: His Personal Conduct" which is

- referred to and was apparently enclosed with, the

Director's December 21, 1964 letter to Senator

Humphrey. (Please do not supply the memorandum.)

17. The identity of the author of the memorandum

... described in item #16 above and of any other similar

memoranda.

18. All memoranda and any other materials which relate

to the dissemination

to senator humparor or the

memorandum described in item #16 and which relate

to any other dissemination of the said inozandum

or any other similar memorandum.

19. The identity of the author of the 1967 revision of

the Martin Luther King, Jx. monograph.

20.

All material which reflect or relate to Mr. Sullivan's

and/or Mr. C. D. Brennan's instructions to sub-

ordinates in 1967 to revise any earlier Martin Luther

King, JI. monograph.

21.

Access to an unexcised copy of the August 24, 1967

memorandum from Mr. C. D.. Brennan to Mr. Sullivan.

22. All materials reflecting Mc. Tolson's suggestion,

and the Director's agreement, that the king monograph

be brought up to date in 1968, as indicated in the

February 29, 1968 memorandum from Mr. G. C. Moore

to Mr. Sullivan.

Sincerely

ShuT. Ellf

John I. Elliff

Dixector

Domestic Intelligence Task Force

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5-140 (Rev. 1-21-74) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535

Addressee:

SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE

Memo [Report dated_ 9/8/75

Caption of Do Senate Set Const teen

Items 7 and 19

7/14/75 Request, Items 7,8,9 and 13

Originating Office:

Delivered by:

Far Cele

Date: 9/8/75

Received by:

politely

Title:

OTEL

Return this receipt to the Intelligence Division, FBI

745-1-479-79767

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNGLASSIFIED

DATE NESUNEL BY SPALAC

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SEE INSTRUCTIONS ON REVERSE

BEFORE COMPLETING.

TO:" Intelligence* Community Staff

ATTN: Central Index

CLASSIFY AS APPROPRIATE

FROM:

FOr

SUBJECT: Abstract of Information Provided to Select Committees

If a document was made available

note.)

I DOCUMENT

BRIEFING

INTERVIEW

I TESTIMONY

JOTHER

2. DATE PROVIDED

9/0/75

3. TO WHOM PROVIDED

(check appropriate term;

add specific names if appropriate)

SSC

HSC

4. IDENTIFICATION (provide descriptive data for documents; five name or identification number of briefer,

interviewee, testifier and subject)

ALL INFORIMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIEI

Monorandun and eñclosures

DATE 10/166.00

5. IN

RESPONSE TO (list date and item number

if in response to formal request, other-

6. CLASSIFICATION OF

wise

state verbal request of (name), initiative, subpoena, etc.)

INFORMATION (enter

codeward)

TS or

SSC lotters 7/8/75 Itoss 7 and 19 ond 7/14/75

Itcas 7/9/9 and 13

7. KEY

WORDS (enter

the appropriate key words from the list provided separately; if key words not listed are

for emphasis

Information handling

Intelligence collection

8.

SUMMARY (see reverse side before completing this item)

Material relating to a honquet held in honor of De. Ring on 1/25/65

and naterinte colating to & 1963 meting at FBIHQ whick was

attented by somer Special Agents: and other FBI gersonnel, thich

relatad to De. King-

Coples of 11/17/63 cnd

2/5/Gy monorandan

fron the Director to Masrs. Tolson, Bermont,

Reboach, Roser and

Sullivan; 12/22/64 and 11/27/64 memoranda from Sullivon to Helmont

and materinls which reflect the approval of the above two

menorendun and a 12/1/64 letter from the Director to Mr. Moyers

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IN CONNECTION WITH SENSTUDY 75

TREAT AS YELLOW

CLASSIFY AS APPROPRIATE

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INSTRUCIIONS

• Type or print clearly in ink.

• Indicate classification of the abstract top and bottom.

• Date the abstract and put on any internal control numbers required.

• "FROM" entry should clearly identify the organization providing the

information.

• If additions (as when a copy of document sent to SSC is later sent to

HSC) or changes to a previously submitted form are necessary, submit a

copy of the original abstract, with the change indicated.

SPECIFIC ITEM NO: 8. SUMMARY - enter brief narrative statement describing

substance of information and showing relationship to Intelligence Community

matters if appropriate. Any feedback or evidence of investigatory interests

should be noted. Commitments

made to supply additional information should be

noted. Additionally, certain administrative information may be entered here,

e.g., restrictions on review of a document, if document was paraphrased, whether

interviewee is current or former employee, etc. If actual document or transcript

is provided, that fact should be noted and no summary is required. Additional

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The

Attorney General

Director, FBI

3%

SENATE SELECT CONMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACPIVITIES (SSC)

2. - Mr. J. A. Mintz

(1 - Mr. J. B. Hotis)

1 - Mr. W. R. Wannall

September 8, 1975

1.

W. 0. Cregar

1 - Mr. J. P. Lee

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIEL

18/25-andreturned 9/5135

belt.

Refarence is made to memorandus from Mr. Michaei

Shaheen of the Department of Justice to Mr. John A. Mintz of

this Bureau, captioned "Special Procedura's for Processing SSC

Requests Relating to Mail Survelllances," dated August B, 1575,

in which MT.

Shaheen referred to the pending SSC request for

materials relating to mail surveillance and attached a copy of

the epecial procedures to be followed in responding to this

reguest.

Inclosed is a memorandum for forwarding to the Conmittee

which responds to a request originally set forth as Item 4,

in a letter fron Mr. John T. Ellife dated June 13, 1975.

at the lagon i?

remoranda and documentation regate in parap caN

of the June 13, 1975, letter are being delivered with this

communication.

Also enclosed for your records is a copy of the

memorandum prepared for the Cornittee.

Enclosures (2)

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General

Attention:

michael

Assoc. Dir.

Special

Shaheen, JI. 62-11603

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The Attorney General

NOTE:

SSC made general request for information concerning FBI

mail surveillances in a letter dated May 14, 1975. This request

was later amplified in a June 13, 1975, letter.

Response to

this request was deferred since Department of Justice was

conducting

By memorandum August

'8, 1975,

Mr. Shaheen of the Department advised of special procodures

were to be followed in responding to mail opening requests. Since

that time we have delivered all material relating to the "Hunter"

project which was a mail surveillance by CIA. The LEM enclosed

with our letter to the Attorney General contains additional

responses concerning eight mail surveys involving interception

and opening of mail by the FBI. It is noted that SSC request

for names of all individuals who participated in mail openings

is not being complied with.

They are being told we do

have such a list available although it is not considered

complete.

We feel access to such a list by SSC staff at this

time should be specifically authorized by the Department.

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SOCIET

2 - Mr. J. A. Mintz

(1 - Mr. J. B. Hotis)

1 - Mr. W. R. Wannall

1 - Mr. W. O. Cregar

1 - Mx. J. P. Lee

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UNIDID STARDS SMITTE SPLECT COLTITUDE

TO BIUDY COVERIIIIE OPLIAEIOUS

WIZE RESPICE TO ITIUILIGINCE ACRIVITITS (SSC)

10/16100

CLASSIFIED BYSPALM eL

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X_/

RE: IIXIE SURVELE-AUCE

I John t Farene noo state me 111197oE0x

of tho Deparcront of Juctice. Pis lotics anplitics prior

in Iton 4, Appendix B, of the SSC docurent

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT

OTHERWISE.

SHOWN

WHERE

roquest datod T'ay 14, 1075, with syceilic roforenco to the

technique referrcû to da "nail curveillance, Including nail

covers and oponing mail* and tho utilization of thir icolnique

int intone me i gene olition, and/os counter-

tho rcquosts in the June 13, 1975, lctter voro contained

in threa occtions gonorally covcring (1) certain inforation

concerning all incidonts of mail oponing or nuil incorcept,

certain inforation concorning all incidonts of nail covera

that soro opccifically conducted by FlI ennloyces, and (3) u11

documonts and macoranda thich discuss, roice, or rolato to the

origino, auchorizations, conduct and tranciscion of, ard

policios and procoduros for, tho mail oponingo, intercopes,

and covars icontitiod atovc.

tho folloving infornation is ost forti responsive to

the three categorico of Icquoss outlined above:

(1)

In tho cacogory of mail oponing or nail intercept

Eron January 1, 1960, until the prosent.

uc have idontified cight

-such survnyd thich voro conducsod by the FBI.

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Dep. AD n ration reuponsive to the SSC Icquose in bot forth undcr the

Admin.

Comp. Syst. -

Ext. Affairs

Files & Com. -

Gen. Inv. -

Ident.

Inspection -

Intell.

Laboratory

Plan. & Eval.

Spec. Inv. -

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U. S. Senate Select Committee on

Intelligence Activities (9SC)

Re:

Mail Survoillance

heading of the FBI code name for each such survey.

Due to the

nature of the records maintained for each of these surveys, you

will note that the amount of information furnished may vary

considerably from survey to survey.

For instance, an appreciable

volume of Material: and detail has beon developed concerning the

so-called Sam Survey since a control file was maintained and

the operacion was conducted over an approximate seven-year

period, primarily in new York, bug tien some acciutty occurring

in several other field divisions. le sun Survey on the othere

nana, was a much more narrow operacion conducted only in New York

for a one-year period, No control file or documentation was

locatod for thie progran.

With

respect to the request for the names of individuals

who participated in the programe listed, retrievability of this

information also presented a problem.

FBI Headquarters" racords

were not neipful in this area. By canvassing appropriate field

alvisions, we have been able to reconstruct a partial list of

such individuals. However, the nature of, those recoras

are

such that the list cannot be coneidered complete.

In view of

this, and since mail surveillance by the FBI is the subject of

an on-going Investigation by the Department of Justice,

involving natters' which may invite sanctions of a criminal

nature, a llat Is not being included in this response.

At the

direction of the department of Justice, the list will be made

available to sSc staff members,

A description of oach of the eight mail surveys is

set forth along with the physical location, the type of mail

involved, and the purpose of the survey:

I Coverage.

The longest-running progran began in

Washington, D.

C., In 1940, and involved the opening of mail

addressed to various foreign embassies then of interest to the

United States.

at the conclusdon of world Har II, effort was

then concentrated against soviet and Soviet bloc nations.

During the period of operation in Washington, the survey

was

discontinued at least once and it was completely discontinued

in July, 1966. Z Coverage:

from about

Mission to the United Nations.

It was also operated against

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U. S. Senate Select Committee

Intelligence Activities (SSC)

Re: Mail Surveillance

the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New York from

August,

1962, until May, 1965•

The mail surveyed under this

program was that specifically addressed to the target establish-

ment and the objective of the program was to detect individuals

in contact with these establishments who might be attempting

to make contact for espionage reasons, for purposes of defecting

or who might be illegal espionage agents.

The physical

location in Washington, D. C., was the Main Post Öffice and

selected mail was opened in FBI Headquarters' space. In

New York, mall directed to the Soviet Mission was intercepted

at the Lenox Hill Post Office and suspect letters were carried

to the New York FBI Office for opening.

Coverage against the

Cuban Mission involved the Grand Central Post Office and later

the Lenox Hill Post Office in New York City.

Sam Survey.

This survey was aimed at detecting the

presence of Soviet illegal agents in the United States so that

they might be neutralized.

The survey was based on certain

indicators and mail addresses in European countries which we

had learned were being used in illegals' communications.

The

survey was directed against outgoing airmail from the United States

being sent to certain European cities and countries, Mexico,

Japan, and Canada.

the survey was operated in New York

(October 1, 1959, to July 22, 1966); Boston

(rebruary: 27,

1962,

to September 13, 1962) ; WEO (August 20, 1961, to August 8,

1966); Detroit (May 14, 1962, to September 21, 1962)E LOS

Angeles

(September 28, 1961, to November 17, 1962) and Seattle.

(september 8, 1961, to February 8, 1963).

The following physical locations were used for the

opening or intercept of mail in this survey:

New York - FBI New York Office and U. S. Postal

facilities Idlewild (now J.F.R.) International Airport.

Boston - Airmail Facility, Logan International Airport;

East Boston, Massachusetts.

Washington, D. C. - U. S. Post Office, Washington

International Airport Branch, and Dulles International Airport

Branch:

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Detroit - New Post. Office.

Jos Angeles - U. S. Post. Office Airmail Facility,

Foreign Unit, and Los Angeles International Airport Airnail

Facility.

Seattle - U. S. Post Office Airmail Facility,

seattle-lacona International Airport.

eus survek

This survey was also aimed at detection

of soviet Illegal agents based on our Inowledge that communications

were sent through regular mail channels to soviet illegals by

intelligence personnel stationed in the United States in

official capaoitles.

Type of mail covered was first-class mail

directed to certain

target areas such as rooming house and

transient hotel districts.

This program began in larch, 1961, in

New York City and was operated with Post Office porsonnel until

August 22, 1961, at which tina we began operating the progran

utilizing Special Agents.

The program was discontinued in

New York on March 9, 1962. The Detroit Office operated a

similar survey using Postal employees from October, 1951, antil

February, 1962, at which tine it was discontinued.

The

San Francisco Office also operated a similar survey from

October, 1961, until February, 1962.

Pacilities utilized in New York hero the FBI Office:

Madison Square Post Office, Cathedral Substation; Planetarium

Substation; and the Ansonia Post Office, all lew York City.

The Detroit Office survey was located in the Roosevelt Park

Annex, and the San Francisco operation in the Rincon Anner.

Sun Survey. This survey was a review of nail directed

to known intelligence officers of the soviet and soviet bloc

countrios who were employees of the United Nations. the

purpose

of the survey was to letect contacts of an intelligenge nature

with these individuals since it was believed they were receiving

such mail using the securo cover of thotr united Nations

employment.

The program was operated in New York only from

June 25, 1963, to June 26, 1964. The physical locations involveds

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U.S. Senate Select Committee on

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Re:

Mail Surveillance

in this survey were the New York Office of the FBI and the

Grand Cantral Pont Office in Now York City. The mail involved

was post cards and first-class

letters.

Joe Survey. This survey was instituted to scroen air

mail from Miami to Cuba and Puerto Rico to Cuba in two specific

Cuban counterintelligence opcrations.

the purposa of this survey

tas to locate clandestine cormunications through the use of certain

indicators on the mail as voll as a knowledge of the mail drops

in Cuba.

The mall was intercepted at the Biscayne Annex Post

offico in flami and suspected itens opened at that location or

in some instances delivered to the FBI Laboratory at IDI lead-

quarters

for special processing. First-class mail vas primarily

involved.

Chiprop Survey.

This survey screened

• first-class

mail entering the United states from the People's Republic of

China and Hong Kong.

as a mail cover and

ong rand mail gening

The operation began in Septerbor, 1954,

mail opening began on August 1, 1956.

the

program was finally terminated in January, 1966.

our original

introduction into this survey was in connection with the efforts

of the U. S. Customs Service, Restricted Merchandise Section,

to intercept communist propaganda heing sent into the United states

from abroad.

Tater the Foreign' Propaganda Unit; U.S. Customs,

was our point of contact, which subsequently moved to the Rincon

Annex Post Office.

Ultimately, coverage was secured through

the Airmail Facility of the V. S. Post Office in San Francisco.

In all instances, mail selected for opening was processed at

the San Francisco FBI Office.

Chiclet Survey®

This survey was initiated in October,

1963, in San Francisco and was concerned with airmail originating

In the United States and being sent to the People'e lapublio of

China.

Coverage was

maintained through the Airnail Facility of

the U. S. Post Office, San Francisco, however, all itons selected

for opening were further processed at the san

Francisco FBI office.

The purpose of this survey was to obtain foreign counterintel-

ligence information concerning Americans residing in China wilo

were of interest to the FBI and other agencies of the U. s.

Government; to detect efforts to persuade scientiots and others

of Chinese descent in the United States to return to China; and

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Intelligence Activities (SSC)

Re:

Mail Surveillance

12a0 2ao30

to develop information concerning econonic and social conditions

in communist China,

as well as secure information concerning

subjects in the United States of security interest who vere

corresponding with persons in communist China.

This survey was

discontinued In January, 1966.

Chican Survey. This survey was conducted from January

to Novenber, 1961, In San Francisco.

It was aimed at screening

first-class

mail fron Chinose individuals in Canada to Chinese

individuals in the united states.

The purpose for the survey

was to detect Chinese communist intelligence operations directed

against the United States.

the exact location of the scrcening

in than survey has not been determined fron our recorde.

(2) A review of logical recoras at FBI Ecadquarters

did not disclose any information concerning mail covers (apart

from the surveys listed above) that were physically conducted

by FBI employees whether alone or in cooperation with Postal

Service employees.

Canvass of selected field offices was

unproductive of such information except that our Washington

Field Division reported that mail covers, physically conducted

by FBI employees,

were maintained on various Soviet and soviet

bloc establishments in Washington, D. C., From about 1960 to

Septenber 30, 1964.

We are currently attempting to develop

additional infornation and documentation concerning these

incidents and further advice will be forthcoming as soon as it

1e available.

(3) Documentation and momoranda requested concerning

the survoys liated in this memorandun have been prepared, with

the noted exception of the Sun Survey, and are being delivered

to the Department of Justice under the delivery/access procedures

agreed upon by the Departent of Justice and the ssC.

1 - The Attorney General

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5/14/75, Appendix B, Item 4 also

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CLASSIFY AS APPROPRIATE

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* DOCUMENT L

BRIEFING

INTERVIEW

I TESTIMONY

OTHER

2. DATE PROVIDED

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3. ТО WHOM PROVIDED (check appropriate term; add specific names if appropriate)

sSC

4. IDENTIFICATION (provide descriptive data for documents; five name or identification number of briefer,

interviewee, testifier and subject)

Memorandum and enclosures

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SUMMARY (see reverse side before completing this item

Eight nail opening or nail intercept surveys from 1/6/60,

until present have been identified, each survey set forth along

with physical location, the type of nail involved, and the

purpose of the survey.

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• Date the abstract and put on any internal control numbers required.

• "FROM" entry should clearly identify the organization providing the

information.

• If additions (as when a copy of document sent to SSC is later sent to

HSC) or changes to a previously submitted form are necessary, submit a

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SPECIFIC ITEM NO. 8. SUMMARY - enter brief narrative statement describing

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matters if appropriate. Any feedback or evidence of investigatory interests

should be noted. Commitments made to supply additional information should be

noted. Additionally, certain administrative information may be entered here,

e.g., restrictions on review of a document, if document was paraphrased, whether

interviewee is current or former employee, etc. If actual document or transcript

is provided, that fact should be noted and no summary is required. Additional

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FD-263 (Rev. 12-19-67)

FEDERAL

BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

PHILADELPHIA

TITLE OF CASE

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

NEW YORK

• GOMEN IS LIBERATION MOVEMENT

DATE

OCT 2 0 1970

REPORT MADE BY

JOHN C. F. MORRIS

CHARACTER OF CASE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

8/20/70-9/26/70

TYPED BY

cIp

IS - MISC

EX-110

REC-89

REFERENCES

Report of SA J. ROBERI NEWTON dated 8/14/70 at New York.

-RUC-

INFORMANTS

PH I-1

PH I-2

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 1016/00

INFORMANT

134-1661 Sub

A - 55

This report

INFORMANT

134-29 Sub A - 4257

FUG.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

O NONE

LACQUIT-

RECOVERIES

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR [

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

100-4532

X3

•1 OCT 21 1970

CONVIC

AUTO.

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1-MI

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2-New York(Rm)

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tending per STE, Mis

(100-51132)

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Dissemination Record of Attached Report

2 destroyed

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OSE, NIS, 5S,

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PH T-3

CONTA

JOY F. SOKEITOUS

1122 Spruce Street

"(By Request)

100-51132 - 13,14

This report is classified confidentiat since it

contains information from PH I-1 and I-2, informants of

continuing value whose compromise would adversely affect

the internal security of the United States.

:

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FD-204 (Rov. 303-59)

NIIDENIIAI

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy to:

Report of:

Date:

Field Office File #:

Title:

1-MI, OSI, NISO

JOHN C. F. MORRIS

OCT 2 0 1970

100-51132

WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

Office: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Bureau File #:

100-453233

INTERNAL SECURITY - MISCELLANEOUS

Character:

Synopsis:

Principal activity of Women's Liberation Movement

SALE

in Philadelphia has been celebration of women's

Rights Day on 8/26/70. Occasion used by organizations such

as Socialist Workers Party and Communist Party to distribute

literature. MAREEN/JASON, Socialist workers Party member. ac-

tive in Women's Liberation Movement up to mid-September 1970.

Address used by Women's Liberation Movement at 928 Chestnut

Street shared by number of organizations.

-RUC-

Details:

The Philadelphia Resistance Movement sponsored a

meeting of a Women's Liberation Group at St. Mary's

Church Parrish House in Philadelphia, Pa., on September 20,

1969.

There were approximately sixty persons in attendance,

of whom fifty were women. MAREEN JASINSKI was among those in

attendance along with joung adults, college students, and some

older women. The session which was to last all day had only a

few persons present by noon and practically all had left by

adjournment time in mid-afternoon.

DECLASSIFIED BY S02AM CL

on 10lel0

PH T-1

September 22, 1970

GRoUP

EXCLUDED

FROM

AUTOMATIC DOWNGRADING

AND DECLASSIFICATION.

CONF

I

ENTIAL

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It la the property of the FBI and is Joaned te

your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outsido your agency.

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PH 100-51132

MARREN JASINSKI, also known as

Jason, held a

leadership position in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP)

in Philadelphia as of mid-September 1970.

PH T-1

September 14, 1970

The SWP has been designated by the Attorney

General of the United States, pursuant to Executive Order

# 10450.

"The Daily World," an East Coast Communist News-

paper, in its issue dated March 17, 1970, contained an article

concerning a discussion of the Philadelphia Social Science

Forum held at the Hotel Philadelphia,

Philadelphia, Pa.

The

topic of the discussion was the Women's Struggle for Libera-

tion.

Among the speakers was one MARYMC CAlle who identified

herself as from "Women's Liberation.

"The Distant Drummer," a local Philadelphia publica-

tion, carried an,

article on June 18, 1970, reporting the es-

tablishment of Women's Liberation Center at 928 chestnut

Street, Philadelphia

The District Committee of the Communist Party (CP)

of Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware met in Philadelphia on

August 9, 1970. At that meeting an announcement was made that

the CP would have a table at the rally of the Women's Libera-

tion group to be held in Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia on

August 26, 1970. It was stated at this meeting that the CE

had been invited to participate in the women's Liberation Move-

ment on that day.

Militar ?

-fu aren"a

to man that PH T-2

If.

August 19, 1970

JOY IYSOKEITOUS formed an organization in Phila-

delphia in early August August called POWER, using the initials

from the full title, philadelphia Organization of Women for

employment kignts.

SOREITOUS was

formerly a member of National

Organization

of Women (NOW); however, she left that organization

because of dissension among

its members.

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While a member of NOW she reportedly met MAREEN

JASON who went with SOKEITOUS into the new organization,

POWER. JASON arranged for POWER to use the telephone number

and address of 928 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, as a

telephone listing and a mailing address.

"New Mobe"

also

has an address at 928 Chestnut Street and JASON arranged for

that organization to do the printing for POWER at a reduced

rate.

SOKEITOUS and others began organizing immediately

for a Women's Rights Day rally to be held in Rittenhouse

Square, Philadelphia, on August 26, 1970. Their only pur-

pose was to call attention to the need for equal employment

rights for women. Most of the details of organizing the

rally were taken over by TASON since SOKEITOUS and others

did not have the time to devote to it and lacked the necessary

organizational ability.

When SOKEITOUS and her associates arrived at Ritten-

house square for the rally on August 26, 1970, they were

shocked to see organizations such as the CP,

the swe, and the

Black Panther Party (BPP) all represented there and all dis-

tributing literature.

A characterization of the BPP is contained

in the appendix hereto.

JASON made no attempt to conceal from the members

of POWER that she was a member of the SWP and stated that she

would be departing for Houston in the near future.

The fourth floor at 928 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,

where POWER has its headquarters, is shared by a number of or-

ganizations to whom the telephone and rental expenses are pro-

rated.

These other organizations are the Gold Flower Brigade,

_Professional Momen's Caucus, -Homophile Action League, Lemple

University Women, PennsyIvania Association to Reveal Abortion

Law, Momen Inited or Abortion Rights, "and several other groups

for the study of racism, anthropology, and sex.

Telephones at the address are answered by volunteers

and each organization has a

folder in which its mail is place

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and later picked up by someone from the specific organization.

The Philadelphia Resistance prints material for all of

the

organizations

at reduced

rates.

PH:

PH T-3

August 31, 1970

September 14, 1970

The Philadelphia Resistance, in its literature,

describes itself as a community of young Americans fighting

the draft.

Literature distributed by NOW describes the organi-

zation as a new civil rights group pledged to work actively

to bring women into

full participation in the main stream

of American Society exercising all the privileges and responsi-

bilities thereor in truly equal partnership with men. Its

program calls for the following:

Passage of the Equal Rights Amendment now before

Congress

Abolition of Laws penalizing abortion

Revision of State Protective Laws for Women

Enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title 7

Campaign to change the mass media's portrayal of women

Participation of women on an equal basis with men in

Church life and practice

Greater participation of women in programs against

poverty

Revision of Divorce and Alimony arrangements

Revision of Social Security laws.

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Provision of Maternity rights

Expansion of Child care services

Revision of tax laws

Full participation of women in political activities

Revision of the Education System

NOW literature shows their address as Post Office Box

15505, Philadelphia, Pa., telephone JE 3-7474.

Literature distributed by POWER describes its goals

as follows:

Equal pay for equal work

Equal job and promotional opportunities

Equal training and educational opportunities

These goals are to be reached through education

and political action through the democratic process.

POWER planned a leadership training course on under-

standing local politics to be held twice weekly for a period

of lour weeks, beginning September 14, 1970, as a part of their

program to attain their stated goals.

A program announcement put out by Women's Liberation

Center, 928 Chestnut Street, outlined a series of films, panel

discussions, and symposiums

for the month of August 1970.

One

of these, entitled "The Causes of Women's Oppression and the

Paths to Their Liberation," was to feature NOW, the Socialist

Labor Party, SWP, CP, Gold Flower Brigade, and Independent

Women's Liberationists:

Those desiring further information were advised to

call the Women's Liberation Center at WA 3-8330, and to ask

fOr MAREEN Or NANCY.

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"*'sf* "

Literature distributed at the Women's Rights Day in

Rittenhouse Square on August 26, 1970, included the following:

A pamphlet issued by student Mobilization Committee

(SMC) to end the war in Vietnam, 928 Chestnut Street,

entitled "Women Unite Against the War."

A pamphlet issued by the Young Socialist Alliance

entitled "Women's Liberation - A Socialist View."

"A Woman's Declaration of Liberation from Military

Domination," issued by Women's Strike for Peace.

A characterization of the SMC and Young

Socialist Alliance is contained in the

appendix hereto.

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BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP)

aka

Black Panther Party for Self Defense

According to the official newspaper of the BPP, the BPP was started

during December, 1966 in Oakland, California, to organize black people so they

can take control of the life, politics, and the destiny of the black community.

It was organized by BOBBY G. SEALE, BPP Chairman, and HUEY P. NEWTON, Minister

of Defense, BPP.

The official newspaper, called "The Black Panther", regularly states

that the BPP advocates the use of guns and guerrilla tactics

in its revolution-

ary program to end oppression of the black people. Residents of the black

community are urged to arm themselves against the police who are consistently

referred to as "pigs" who should be killed.

The newspaper, in its issue of September 7, 1968, had an article by

the then Minister of Education, GEORGE MURRAY. This article ended with the

following:

"Black men. Black people, colored persons of America, revolt

everywhere! Arm yourselves.

The only culture worth keeping

is revolutionary culture. Change. Freedom everywhere.

Dynamite!

Black power.

Use the gun. Kill the pigs everywhere."

The BPP newspaper, issue of October 5, 1968 had an article introduced

with the following statement: "We will not dissent from American government.

We will overthrow it."

DAVID HILLIARD, Chief of Staff, BPP, in a speech at the San Francisco

Polo Field on November 15, 1969, said "We will kill Richard Nixon."

DAVID HILLIARD, in the "New York Times", issue of December 13, 1969

was quoted as follows:

"We advocate the very direct overthrow of the govern-

ment by way of force and violence."

In the issue of April 25, 1970, the BPP newspaper had an article by

Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS

as follows:

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"The only way to make this racist US government administer

justice to the people it is oppressing, is...by taking up

arms against this government, killing the officials, until

the reactionary forces...are dead, and those that are left

turn their weapons on their superiors, thereby passing

revolutionary judgement against the number one enemy of all

mankind, the racist U. S. government."

The BPP Headquarters is located at 1046 Peralta Street, Oakland,

California. Branches of the BPP, and Committees to Combat Fascism, under

control of the BPP, have been established in various locations in the USA.

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STUDENT MOBILIZATION COMMITTEE, aka

Student Mobilization Committee to

End the War in Vietnam;

National Student Mobilization Comnittee

A source advised on May 16, 1969 that the Student Mobilization

Committee originally grew out of the National Student Strike for Peace confer

ence held in Chicago, Illinois, on December 28-29, 1966, which resulted in a.

call for massive antiwar demonstrations in New York City and San Francisco,

California, on April 15, 1967.

The National Student Strike for Peace was

originally called by the Communist Party.

Divisions arose between elements

of the Connunist Party and the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), culminating in

a takeover by the SWP element in the Summer of 1968 and the Communist Party

element withdrawing.

Source further advised the Student Mobilization Comnittee

locally and nationally is controlled by the SWP and its youth arm, Young

Socialist Alliance (YSA), as evidenced by their participation in Student

Mobilization Committee functions and their leadership role played in the

Student Mobilization Committee.

The SW has been designated pursuant to Executive Order 10450.

A report by the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of

Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, First Session, dated March 31, 1967,

entitled, "Conmunist Origin and Manipulation of Vietnan Week (April 8-15,

1967)" stated that the Student Mobilization Committee and the April 15, 1967

anti-war demonstrations were communist dominated and inspired.

A second source on April 3, 1969 made available a copy of "The

Student Mobilizer'' dated April 5, 1969, which was self-described as being

published by the National Office of the Student Mobilization Committee to End

the War in Vietnam, 857 Broadway, Room 30%, New lork, New lork 10003. In this

issue the aims of the Student Mobilization Committee were set forth as: Bring

the GIs home from Vietnam now; end campus complicity with the war; and win

self-determination for Vietnam and Black America.

In this issue of the publication, the Student Mobilization

Committee pledged itself to organize high school students, college students,

future draftees, GIs and all young people to fight until every last GI is

brought home.

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A third source on August 5, 1969 advised that the Student

Mobilization Committee currently occupies Room 307 at 857 Broadway, New York,

New York.

A characterization of YSA is attached hereto.

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YOUNG SOCIALIST ALLIANCE

A source advised on May 15, 1969 that the Young Socialist

Alliance (YSA) maintains its national headquarters at 41 Union Square West,

New York, New York, and has as its official publication the "Young

Socialist." The YSA is the youth organization of the Socialist Workers

Party (SWP) and has been described by the SWP as the main recruiting ground

for the SWP.

The SWP has been designated pursuant to Executive Order 10450.

11*.

COXPIPERTINE

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FD-523 (Rev. 11-29-61)

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

Title

WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

Character

Reference

INTERNAL SECURITY - MISCELLANEOUS

Philadelphia report of SA JOHN C. F.

MORRIS, dated and captioned as above.

All sources (except any listed below) whose identities

are concealed in referenced communication have furnished reliable

information in the past. .

Insufficient contact has been had with PH I-3

to determine reliability.

- 12.

This document contains neither recommendations

• the FBI and Is lodied to you cry 1l and lta condonia do get de

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NR017 PH PLAIN

1:34 PM URGENT 10-22-70 KLL

TO

DIRECTOR (180-453233)

AYBANY

ALEXANDRIA

BUFFALO

BALTIMORE

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

NEW HAVEN

NEW, YORK (100-164665)

PITTSBURGH

WASHINGION FIELD (100-49208)

FROM PHILADELPHIA (103-51132)

'WiL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WUMGUNICATIONS SECTION

UCT 261970.1

TELETYPE

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WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT (WLM); IS - MISCELLANEOUS

00: NEW YORK •

• RE WO TELETYPE TO THE BUREAU DATED TEN TWENTY-ONE LAST.

FOR INFORMATION OFFICES NOT RECEIVING REFERENCED TELETYPE,

WEO ADVISED AS FOLLOWS:

RELIABLE SOURCE STATED ON TEN TWENTY-ONE LAST THAT WLM

REPRESENTATIVE IN WASHINGTON, DO, DISTRIBU DEC-10

LEAFLET TO

+11-253233-1

SELECTED MEMBER OF WIM TO ATTEND SPECIAL MEETING AT FELLOWSHIP*

ME IN IS FOR PEOPLE SET THE US THE = * t TUR

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PAGE TWO

P

REVOLUTION, "BECAUSE FOR AN OPRESSIVE, RACIST, SEXIST SOCIETY

TO REALLY CHANGE WITHOUT REVOLUTION IS IMPOSSIBLE." INVITATION

CONTAINS DIRECTIONS TO LOCATE FELLOWSHIP FARM.

RECEIVING OFFICES ENCOURAGE INFORMANIS WHO MAY HAVE

RECEIVED INVITATIONS TO ATTEND. LOCATION OF FELLOWSHIP FARM

KNOWN TO PHILADELPHIA.

NO PHILADELPHIA INFORMANS EXE RECEIVED INVITATIONS.

PHILADELPHIA INSTITUTING ELSUR

END

MKA FBI WASH DC

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FD 996 (RONg 5-22-64)

Transmit the following in

Via

AIRTEL

TO:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

FBI

Date:

10/27/70

(Type in plaintext or code)

REGISTERED MAIL

(Priority)

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-453233)

SAC, PHILADELPHIA (100-51132) (P)

WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

(WLM)

IS - MISCELLANEOUS

(00: New York)

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREINIS UNCLASSIFIED

20. 75.

73, 1)

Re WFO teletype to the Bureau dated 10/21/70, and

New York teletype to the Bureau dated 10/22/70.

Enclosed for the Bureau are five copies of a letter-

head memorandum dated 10/27/70, for referral to Legat, Ottawa,

regarding Quebec license number observed at the WIM meeting.

For information of offices not previously informed,

WFO teletype stated that a source had provided a leaflet con-

cerning a WLM meeting at Fellowship Farm in Limerick, Pa.,

10/23/70 through 10/25/70.

Leaflet distributed to selected

WIM members stating the meeting was for people interested in

discussing need for active revolution "because for an oppressive,

racist, sexist society to really change without revolution is

impossible."

Attendees told to contact New York telephone number

212-799-1008.

2

2

2

2

2

2

3

- Bureau (Enc. 5)..

- Albany (RM)

- Baltimore

- Charlotte (RM)

Two: it

Indianapolis (RM)

Newark (RM)

- New York (100-164665) (RM)

- Springfield (RM)

-WFO (100-49208) (RM)

- Philadelphia

EX-115

OCT 30 1970

JCEM/eas

(26%-

ApproveaND/ 1 0 197C1

Special Agent in Charge

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New York teletype stated leaflet was distributed at

Women's Center, 36 West 22nd Street, New York City, captioned,

"About a Meeting of Revolutionary Women for..."

Leaflet stated

in part, "Some of the suggestions we've discussed for raps are

things

like - what do we

really mean when we say women's revo-

lution - what are its priorities - what are the pros and cons

collective living

Ior women - are we ready for a group offensive

- what forms can it take?..." and "because we are committed to.

social revolution (underlining supplied) meaning we know that in

without eneme to meet scist society, any real change

New York teletype further stated that

a reliable source

advised on lu/zt/l0, that one diAnatie at the given New york

celephone number had said that "Revolutionary Women's

Convention"

was being held on a farm in Limerick,

, Pa. The telephone number

FA 6-3008 in Limerick was given for transportation to the farm.

JEANETTE said the announcement for the convention was made at a

WLM meeting in New York City on 10/12/70.

On 10/22/70, It. GEORGE FENCI, Civil Disobedience Unit,

Philadelphia, Pa., Police Department, had one of his police

women make a pretext telephone call to the New York number.

talked to a woman who identified herself as LEE.

LEE said each

attendee should expect to contribute $1.00 and should bring food

and wine. She said two films would be shown, one on abortion

and the other on an actual sex act being performed. The film on

the latter subject was to be narrated by

one of the women who

participated who would describe her feelings at the time.

They

she contact the "Plain Dealer" to let them know about this affair

and to have them promote it. The "Plain Dealer" is a Philadelphia

underground newspaper.

According to an article appearing in the "Pottstown

Mercury," Pottstown, Pa., on

6/25/51, a 120 acre farm near

Fagleysville, Pa., had been purchased by a national organization

to ease racial and religious intolerance and to study other

social problems.

The farm to be called Fellowship. Farm had been

owned by a wealthy eccentric Pottstown citizen.

Also referred to as Fellowship House, according to

the

article, the farm would be open

to students of junior and

senior high school age who had used the area in the past for

meetings.

Fellowship House is sponsored by the Society of

2

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There were at that time 15 Fellow-

ship Houses in the country following the establishment of the

movement in 1931.

Fellowship House acquired Fellowship Farm,

according to a spokesnan,

"because we simply overflowed

all

available places in Philadelphia."

SAW. RICHARD THIRLWELL and SA JOHN C. 'F. MORRIS

surveyed the area at Fellowship Farm in the early hours of

10/25/70, and cruised through at first light. They obtained

the license numbers from cars parked in the parking area,

observing a number of people sleeping in sleeping

bags on the

ground near the cars.

Following this they gave a ride to a

white female, age about so, who said she was

an early riser and

was out looking

for coffee

and cigarettes.

Agents took her to

the Limerick Diner for breakfast.

She later introduced herself

as PHYLLIS: SCHUYLER, nee Harlow,

from New York City.

She said

members of WOMEN'S

LIBERATION had

gathered at the farm for a

weekend of discussions.

Agents listened to her talk for about

40 minutes without revealing their identity.

She talked

incessantly about women's rights, exploitation, unfair salary

schedules, the need for better, cheaper medicine for all, the

evils

of military industrial complex which contributes

to the

exploitation of women, the necessity for ending the stigma

attached to homosexuals of both sexes, and the need to erase

social pressures against illegitimate children.

Mrs. SCHUYLER

seemed to be hung up on sex.

She said

there were a number of lesbians at the camp who had put up

posters

"Lesbians Unite."

The avowed lesbians shared quarters

somewhat separated from the other women. Mrs. SCHUYLER has an

aversion to lesbians, she said, but she does

not think they

should be penalized for their

sexual habits.

She estimated that there were 200 to 300 people li

attendance at the conterence. "this is very doubtru...

She

said they had shown a film on the evening of 10/24/70, but

she had not seen it.

She understood it was newsreel type

footage.

Some of the women also put on a theater presentation

on the subject of exploitation, intending to illustrate how

the upbringing of children results in attitudes which cause

them to exploit each other.

She said the discussions and meetings held on

Saturday impressed her as

mainly bickering and yelling sessions

with all of the women trying to talk at once and the moderator

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unable to maintain order. They put forth no clear-cut program,

arrived at no conclusions, and as of Sunday morning, appeared

to be no more cohesive than they had been when they first arrived

at the camp. Mrs. SCHUYLER said she personally was not sure what

she wanted, and she thought many of the other women felt the same

She regarded the whole thing as an opportunity for a

pleasant weekend in the country among other females of more or

common interests.

Agents took Mrs. SCHUYLER back to the farm, secured

additional license numbers, and observed a number of

women of

various ages who appeared to be just getting up.

Mrs. SCHUYLER said that each attendee had contributed

$1.00 and had brought some food. She thought the $1.00 might

have been to help pay

some of the overhead

and to pay kitchen

help which was provided to prepare the meals.

She said Fellow-

ship Farm is owned by the Quakers and that they made the farm

available to groups who desired to study means of bringing about

social improvements.

LEADS

GENERAL

Receiving domestic offices have motor vehicle records

reviewed for information on registered owners of cars from your

division.

Advise interested office if residence not covered by

your division.

Inform New York and Philadelphia of results, with

information available from your files on the individuals.

ALBANY

AT ALBANY, N.Y.:

At Department of Motor Vehicles,

check the Following New York licenses:

XFA029

5428CT

8N5785

270Z660

YZ8156

50RD

93570Z

8186YD

8622YG

YW3454

4957KC

LZ1786

5606TK

YG6301

1673W0

5575YV

YL9479

81330C

813502

LB3102

ET4066

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AT MONTPELIER, VT.: At the Motor Vehicle Department,

check the following Vermont

licenses:

T8611

V7518

BALTIMORE

Check Department of Motor

CHARLOTTE

AT RALEIGH, N.C.:

Check Department of Motor Vehicles

on North

Carolina Ticense XKF669.

INDIANAPOLIS

AT INDIANAPOLIS, IND.:

Check Commissioner of Motor

Vehicles on Indiana license 3B856.

NEWARK

Vehicles on New very License Seek 9.

Check Commissioner of Motor

SPRINGFIELD

AT SPRINGIELD, ILL.:

Check Auto Filé Section,

Office of Secretary of State, on Illinois license FH152.

WEO

AT WASHINGTON, D.C.

At Department of Motor Vehicles,

check following District

Di Columbia licenses:

629758

725367

818090

800121

PHILADELPHIA

Pennsylvania Licenses 64N483 and CK61787 were

observed. This is being handled separately.

AT LIMERICK, PA.: Determine identity of subscriber to

Limerick telephone number FA 6-3008.

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In Reply, Please Refer 10

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUS* CE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107

October 27, 1970

WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

A conference of members of the Women's Liberation

Movement was held on a farm near Limerick, Pennsylvania,

during the weekend of October 23 through 25, 1970, Special

Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation observed license

numbers on automobiles parked in the area where the conference

was being held. Among them was Ottawa• license 9A6952.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREINS UNCLASSIFIED

!

100-45-3233-902

1002000067

ENCLOSURE

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WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

LEAD

Please determine registered owner of car bearing

ottawa License 9A6952 and provide any information already on

record with respect to this individual.

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FEDERA BUREAU OF INVLSTIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

NEW YORK.

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

NEW YORK

DATE

3/12/71

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

3/15/70-3/2/71

TITLE OF CASE

WOMEN'S LIEBRATION MOVIMENT

REPORT MADE BY

J. ROBERT NEWTON

CHARACTER OF CASE

TYPEO

cai

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEROIN IS UNCLASSFIED

DATE 10/16/02 BY 5p2Aem(ly

IS - MISCELLÁNEOUS

1. 2908

REFERENCE:

New York report of SA J. ROBERT NEWION, dated 8/14/70.

New York letter to. Los Angeles (IO), dated 3/1/71.

C pH -

A)

ADMINISTRATIVE:

Concerning nformation incided in this report about

women's conferences in Canada with Indochinese women, March

24, - April 7, 1971, a case file has been opened in the

NYO captioned

"PROJECTED CONFERENCES IN CANADA WITH INDOCHINESE

WOMEN - MARCH 24 - APRIL 7, 197÷ IS - MISCELLANEOUS (NYfie

100-171548)"

CONVIC

AUTO.

FUG.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

LI NONE

ACQUIT-

RECOVERIES

TALS

CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR [

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

YES EINO

SPECIAL AGENT

APPROVED

COPIES MADE;

4

IN CHARGE

Bureaul (100

453233) (RM)

Baltimore (INFO) (RM)

Boston 100-40255 INFO (RM)

Los Angeles (RM)

New Haven (157-1498) (INFO)(RM)

Newark (100-51160) (IN20)

Philadelphia

100-51132

San Francisco (100-62721) (INFO) (RM)

2

- New York

_(100-164655)

Dissemination Record of Attached Reposi

Notalions

Agency

DIH, 3S

70-TS:

Request Recd.

Date Fad.

2114-171

10w ford.

DO NOT WRITE IN SPACES BELOW

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ADMINISTRATIVE: (cont'a).

The SAS who observed demonstrations set forth

in this report on

• the dates indicated were:

18/26/70 (At City Hali)

HENRY E. NAEHLE and

'J.. ROBERT NEWTON

8/26/70

VINCENT A. ALVINO,

(At 59th Street and Fifth

JAMES I. BURNETT,

Avenue and Bryant Park, NYC) RAYMOND F. MOHR and

EUGENE F. O'NEILI

12/2/70

WILLIAM H. BATTS and

J. ROBERT NEWTON

172/12/70

JOHN W. MINOGUE and

J. ROBERT NEWTON

Case files have been opened and investigation

instituted regarding all persons listed in this report

as officers of the Women's Liberation Center of New York

as

well

as DEBORAH ENSIGN (listed as a paid staff member

of

WLC).

It is noted that WLC bank account is with the

Amalgamated Bank of New York, whorecords are no longer

available to the NYO because of a law suit brought against

the bank and the FBI by the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace

Parade Committee.

This report is classified "Secret" to protect

the sensitive nature of the relationship between NY I-15

NFORMANT with the Revolutionary Union (RU) as specified

Dy the

CITY

Office.

. The attached report is not being disseminated

to the local intelligence

agencies in view of SAC letter

new daten to surrent terest to aFoy, toy coi

It is felt that information contained

Air Force to warrant dissemination to these agencies.

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ADMINISTRATIVE: (cont'd) :

Characterizations of individuals and organizations

mentioned in this report have been included where they are

available.

Rorause of the extensive information furnished

by. INFoRMANT regarding WIM organization and activities, two

T symbols, NY T-1 and NY T-3 are being used to further

conceal the identity of this informant.

INFORMANTS

Identity of Source

NY T-1

INFORMANT

NY P=?

i INFORMANT.:

NY T=2

INFORMANT

File Where Located

• Used to character-

100-164665-869

ize BARBARA REILLISE,

-890

= 891

134-15562A-819

-818

=601

-700

- 761

Used to character-

ize JUDY GUMBO

134-17567A-239

100-164665-1B14

100-164665-730

- 659

134-15562A-751

- 865

-399

- 603

-758

-867

-730

-780

-705

-706

(5)

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INFORMANTS: (cont'd)

Identity of Source

NY T-4

NETTIE DI MAURO

-(panel Source),

NY T-5

Detective WALTER KIRBY

SSD, NYCPD,

New York, New York

(by request)

NY T-6

Detective JOHN JUDGE

BOD, NICPD,

New

York, New York

(by request)

NY T-T

Detective FRED JENOURE

SSD, NYCPD

New York, New York

• (by request)

• NY T-S

INFORMANT

AX 1-9

Detective MICHAEL, O'CONNER

SSD, _NYCPD

New

York, New York

(by request)

NY 9-70

• INFORMANT

File Where Located

CoNFiSauFEr: 100-164665-660

- 898

- 899

100-164665-660

100-164665-660

100-164665-660

134-17781A-19

100-164665-823

100-164665-823

=.

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INFORMANTS (cont'd)

Identity of Source

NY T-11

Detective HENERETTA LANGE,

SSD, NYCPD

New

York, New York

NY T-12

Detective FRANK MURPHY

79K.

SIS, NYCPD

New York,

New York

(by request)

NY IT-1?

INFORMANT

NY T-14

LINFORMANT

NY T-15

INFORMANT

NY T-16

LiNFORMANT

Used to characterize

RUTHANN MILLERIE,

Used to characterize

WENDY REISSNER

Used to characterize

RACHAEL TOWNE.?.

NY T-17

INFORMANT

NY T-18

INFORMANT

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100-164665-823

•100-164665-898

-899

100-164665-856

- 857

100-164665-612

100-164665-1B15 (1)

:100-164665-690.

100-164665-630

134-9382-1443

-1450

100-164665-829

134-170941-341

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INFORMANTS: (cont'a)

Identity of Source

NY. T-19

INFORMANT

File Where Located

134-12736A-127

100-164665-708

NY T-20

134-6858A-787

INFORMANT

100-164665-876

NY T-01

INFORMANT

Used to characterize

DIANNE DONGHI

NY T-22

Used to characterize

TOSEPH GRUBISICL DIANNE DONGHI

Intelligence DiVision

Chicago; Ill. PD CONFSOURCA

by request)

NY T-?3

L INFORMANT

INFORMANT

Used to characterize

CATHERINE HENRY ST

Used to characterize

BARBARA REILLEST

for the Offices requiring investigation (Los Angeles and

Philadelphia) based on information that WIM organizations

are active in these Divisions.

One copy of this report is

being furnished to other Offices for information purposes.

LEADS

LOS ANGELES

AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

Will conduct appropriate

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LEADS (cont'd)

investigation as set forth in Section 87E of the Manual of

Instructions,

based on information in this report and information

in referenced New York letter to Los Angeles and furnish

results of investigation in report form.

PHILADELPHIA

AT PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

Will report on

Women's Conference held in the Philadelphia Division, October

23 - 25, 1970 and conduct any additional investigation pursuant

to Section 87E, Manual of Instructions and furnish report

to Bureau and New York.

NEW YORK

AT NEW YORK, NEW YORK.

Will follow activities on

subject organization.

Він- ДЕі

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iS STATES DEPARTMENT OF JU.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

•CE

Copy to:

Report of:

Date:

Field Office File #:

Title:

J. ROBERT NEWTON

3/12/71

100-164665

WOMEN'S IIBERATION MOVEMENT

Office:

Bureau File #:

New York, New York

100-453233

-m6.17275

• Character:

Synopsis:

INTERNAL SECURITY - MISCELLANEOUS

Women's Liberation Movement (WIM), NYC maintains

an Office (New York Wonen's Liberation Center) (WIC)

at 36 West 22nd Street, NYC. Although officers are listed for

WLC for bank account purposes, there are no officers of wit

in the usual sense.

Paid staff memoer of WLC and WIC Steering

- Committee members set forth. WIM is not a membership organization

however, WIC, NYC maintains a mailing list of approximately

3,000 names.

Listing of NYC area WIM groups set forth. Meetings!

and activities of NY area WIM groups set forth.

Affiliation

and/or sympathy with other organizations and contact with foreign

women's groups set forth.

• P*

GROUP\I

Excluded from automatic down.

grading and declassification

This document contains neither seconnendcions nor conclusions of the FBI. Il is the property of the FIlI and is lounel to your agency; it und iis contents i

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NY 100-164665

TABLE OR CONTENTS

I. BACKGROUND, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES.

II, LOCATION . .

III. .

LEADERSHIP AND FINANCES

IV. MEMBERSHIP•

v.

MEETINGS OF NEW YORK CITY WIM

(AT WOMEN'S CENTER AND CITY WIDE).

VI.

RALLIES AND DEMONSTRATIONS SPONSORED BY

AND/OR PARTICIPATED IN BY WIM GROUPS •

VII.

LISTING OF NYC AREA WIM GROUPS AND THEIR

ACTIVITY . . ... ...

, VIII.

EVIDENCE OF AFFILIATION AND/OR SYMPATHY

WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS •

IX. CONTACT WITH FOREIGN WOMEN'S GROUPS.

X. PUBLICATIONS . •

XI. CHARACTERIZATIONS OF INDIVIDUALS

APPENDIX •

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FEDERAL CURENS CE INVESTICATION

COMMUNICATIONS SECTIÜN

TELETRA

tels

Mr. Tolrox

Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Mohr

Mr. Bishop.

Mr.BrennanU'D

Mr. Caliahal

Mr. Conred..

Mr. Dalbey-

Mr. Felt

Mr. Gale...

Mr. Rosen

MI. Tarin

Mr. Walters-

Mr. Sevara-

Tele. Room

Miss Holines

Miss Gandy-

NRODI PH CODE

AM NITEL 4-9471 JEW

TO DIRECTOR

NEY YORK (100-172646)

DATE 121100

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

ALEXANDRIA

Greet

WASHINGTON FIELD

FROM PHILADELPHIA (129-52802)

Liberatise Moveme:

WOMENS NATIONAL MARCH ON THE PENTAGON, APRIL IEN NEXT. IS-MISC.

RE NEW YORK AIRTEL AND LIM TO DIRECTOR, APRIL TEN NEXT. IS-MISC.

SOURCE AND INFORMANTS AT PHILADELPHIA UNABLE TO FURNISH ANY

INFORMATION ON ALLEGED WOMENS NATIONAL GARCH ON THE PENTAGON APRIL

TEN NEXI. ESTABLISHED SOURCE AT BUS COMPANIES, PHILADELPHIA, ADVISED

NO BUSES LEASED FOR THAT DATE FOR WOMENS IRIP. PHILADELPHIA HAS

ALERTED INFORMANTS AND WILL FURNISH ANY

INFORMATION RECEIVED TO

BUREAU AND INTERESIED OFFICES.

END

+79100-453255-133

12 APR = 1 1971

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J6.

FROM :

SUBJECT:

7)20171R48:108

2-My

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

MAY 1082 EDITION

ISA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.8

UNITED STATES GI

ERNMENT

Memorandum

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-453233)

DATE: JUL 1 6 1971

SAC, PHILADELPHIA (100-51132. (RUC!

WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT (WILM)

IS - MISC.

(00: New York)

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

EREIN IS UNCLASSIRE

ATE L060U BYSPALMAL

Re New York report of SA J. ROBERT NEWTON dated

3/12/71; and Bureau communication to Philadelphia on 6/17/71.

Enclosed for the Bureau are ten copies of an IHM

dated as above. Iwo copies are enclosed for New fork.

The LiM is being classified confidential as it

contains information furnished by confidential sources, the

disclosure of whom could impair their future effectiveness.

Records of the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Harrisburg,

Pa., as reviewed on 4/1/71, revealed the following information

regarding license numbers observed at the Fellowship Farm Con-

ference on 10/25/70.

Pennsylvania 64N-483

DAVID AS SELIER

429 Semple Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Pennsylvania, CK61787

RICHARD L. BARTHOLD

2010 Mt. Vernon Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

A review of captioned file reveals that there is

no active chapter or organization of the Women's Liberation

Movement in Philadelphia.

In view of the above

no further

investigation is being conducted in Philadelphia VACB.

Identities of sources utilized in the um are main-

tained on Philadelphia copy.

CREC: 34

0g.

INCLUSURE

@ - Bureau (100-453233) (BROLS 1 (RM)

•2 - New York (10C-164665) (Encls. 2) (RM)

1 - Philadelphia (100-51132)

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PH 100-51132

First Source

Second Source

Third Source

Fourth Source

is

is

is

is

Officer DIXIE GILDON, Intelligence

Unit, MPD, WDC.

Informant

Lieutenant GEORGE FENCI, CD Unit,

Philadelphia PI.

SA JOHN C. F. MORRIS, Philadelphia

Division.

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In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

CONFIDENTIAL

UNILD STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

JUL 1 6 1971

• .

DECLASSITIED

NOMENIS, LIBERATION MOVEMENT CONFERENCE

IELD AT FELLOWSHIP FARM, LIMERICK, PA.)

ON OCTOBER 23-25. 1970

Women's Liberation Movement (WLM' is made up of

loosely structured groups throughout the country, which

grouds have been publicly described as advocating complete

equality for women.

on October 21, 1970, a reliable source advised thai

Betty Garman, WLM representative in Washington, D.C., had dis-

tributed a leaflet to selected WuM members to attend

a special

meeting at a "Fellowshio Farm" in Limerick, Pa., on October

23-25, 1970.

The leaflet stated the meeting was for people in-

terested in discussing the need for an active revolution

"because for an oppressive racist, sexist, society to really

change without revolution is impossible."

The leaflet advised

those nanning to attend to contact New York telephone number

212-799-1008 and furnished directions to the farm.

On October 22, 1970, a second reliable source advised

that a leaflet was distributed

at Women's Center, 36 West 22nd

Street, New York City, concerning a meeting of revolutionary

The leaflet furnished directions to a "Fellowshi, Farm"

in Limerick, Pa.

• On October 22, 1970, a thira reliable source stated

This document contains neither recommenda-

tions nor conclusions of the FBI. It is

the property of the FBl and is loaned to

your agency: it and its contents are not

ch

•to be distributed outside your agency.

_GROUPI

Ixeluded from automatio

downgrading and

terrassification.

-CONFIDENTIAL

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Be APPROX

-CONFI

DENTIAL

WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT CONFERENCE

HELD AT FELLOWSHIP FARM, LIMERICK, PA.,

ON OCTOBER 23-25, 1970

a phone call was made on October 22, 1970, to New York nhone

number 212-799-1008. The nhone was

answered by a woman who

identified herself as Lee.

Lee stated that each attendee

should contribute $1.00 and should bring food and wine.

She

stated two films would be shown, one on abortion, and the

other on an actual sex act being nerformed. A guerrilla

theater called "Burning City" was also being planned.

Un October 25, 1970, a fourth reliable source was

in the area of Fellowship Farm during the early morning hours

not spoke hate fer ended at City Les won

told source that members of Women's Liberation had gatherea

at the farm for a weekend of discussions.

cessantly about women's rights; exploitation; unfair salary

schedules; the need for better, cheaper medicine for all:

the evils of the military industrial complex which contributes

to the exploitation of women: the necessity for ending the

stigma attached to homosexuals of both sexes: and the need

to erase social nressures against illegitimate children.

She

advised there were a number of lesbians at the farm who had

put up

posters "Lesbians Unite" and that the lesbians shared

quarters somewhat

i separated from the other women.

Mrs. Schuyler estimated that there were 200 to 300

people in attendance at the conference.

She stated that a

film had

been shown on the evening of October 24, 1970, but

that she had not seen it. Some

• of the women

I also put on a

theater presentation on the subject of exploitation, intend-

Ing to illustrate how the uobringing of children results in

attitudes which cause them to exploit each other.

She said the discussions and meetings held on Saturday

impressed her as mainly bickering and yelling sessions with all

of the women trying to talk at once and the moderator unable

to maintain order.

arrived at no conclusions; and, as of sunday morning, anpeared

to be no more cohesive than they had been when they first

arrived. Mrs. Schuyler said she nersonally was not sure what

she wanted, and she thought many of the other women felt the

same way.

She regarded the whole thing as an onportunity for

a pleasant weekend in the country among other females of more

or less common interests.

institut eit

tot, far

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OPTIONAL PORM NO. 10

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA PPAIR 141 CERS 1O1-11.d

• UNITED STATES GO

YRNMENI

Memorandum

: Mr. J. B.

Adams

1

-

Mr. Mintz

1

. - Мт.

Wannall

1 - Mr. Cregar

DATE: 9/5/75

1 - Mr. Hotis

1 - Mr. Daly

FROM : Legal,

Counsel

Assoc, Dir. moon

Dop. AD Adm. =

Dop. AD Ipr. -

Ässi. Dir.:

Admin.

Comp.Syst.com

Ext. Alfairs .

Filos & Com. -

Gon.Inv.-

Idont. -

Inspection

Intell. -

Labordtory

HOUSTUDY

SENSTUDY 75

Holes start

Spoc. Inv.

Training

(elephone Kiti-

The Bureau has been receiving numerous requests from

the House and Senate Select Committees. As an indication of

the number of requests being received, on September. 3, 1975,

we received four requests from the House Committee alone.

Many of the requests involve complex research and review

of

Bureau materials, etc. We have recently experienced continu-

ing pressure by both Committees to comply with their requests

as quickly as possible.

Additionally, we have received in-

dividual telephonic requests from Staff personnel of the

Committees to expedite one particular request ahead of another;

and in many instances, the request for expeditious handling of

a particular item conflicts with the request of some other Staff

Member.

The current

guidelines with the Senate Select Com-

mittee require responses be prepared on short dealines and it

has reached the point with regard to the Senate Select Com-

nittee that it is not possible to comply with their request.

within the stated deadlines.

While every effort is

being made

to abide by the

guidelines adopted by the Department and

Committee, the shear volume of the material requested and

work involved makes compliance with these

guidelines not

possible.

SA Daly of this Division brought this matter to the

attention of Michael E. Shaheen, Jr., Special Counsel for In-

telligence Coordination in the Department

he understood the problems being generated in the weste

requests being received by the FBI.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

OCT AQ 1975

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

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DATE 10/1660

CONTINUED - OVER

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Legal Counsel to Mr. Adams

RE: HOUSTUDY

SENSTUDY 75

Shaheen subsequently advised SA Daly that he had::

brought this matter to the attention of the Senate Select

Committee orally in a conversation with Mark Gitenstein on

9/4/75 including the problems being encountered with in-

dividual Staff Members declaring that their particular

request had a higher priority than any other particular

request.

Gitenstein told Shaheen that he would attempt to

correct this problem.

In a subsequent conversation with Start Member Mark

Gitenstein, Gitenstein stated he had been informed by the

Department of the problem the Bureau is encountering in

responding within the deadlines set for various Committee

requests.

He indicated that he would take

steps to make

sure individual Staff Members do not on their own initiative

attempt to place their request ahead of any other particular

request without coorcinating it with him. Additionally, he

stated it was his intention to bring this to the attention of

John Elliff, Task Force Dixector of the Domestic Task Force of

the Senate Select Committee, and

suggest a meeting be held with

Bureau representatives on Monday, 9/8/75,

in an effort to solve

this particular problem.

LI a meeting is held on that date, It

is expected that 'a representative of the Intelligence Division,

Legal Counsel Division and the Department will be in attendance.

RECOMMENDATION:

For information.

fin

give

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The ritorney tiencral

1 - Mr. J. B. Adams

1- HI. 8. A. Mintz

3. - Mx. W. Pe. Wannall

1 - Mi. A. B. Falton

September 5, 1975

Director, FBI

62-116395=

GENERAI. ACCOUNTING CETICE (GAO>

REVIEW OF FBI OPERATIONS:

SIDDY CE DOVESTIC INTELLIGENCE

JURISDICTION

1 - Mr. A. E. Watters, Jr.

1 - Mr. A. I. Lacey, dr.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

EREN SUNGLASSIFIE

Reference is made to my letter to you captioned "United States

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence," dated April 14, 1975, wherein a

copy of "intelligence Division Position Papez' on Jurisdiction," dated

Echruary 13: 1975, was enclosed. This position paper was also furnished

to GAO pursuent to ite request in confirmation with its ravier of 7BI

operations.

Enclosed horein is a copy of GAO letter dated July 3, 1975:

which transmitted a list of questions posed by CAO concerning the paper of

February 13, 1975, and a copy ce the response to these questione.

It will be noted that responses are not providod to certain

questions concorning the FBI Manual of Instructions and the paper dated

May 19, 1972, The deterrination to emit responses to these questions

was made during consultations with lit. AlanS. Goldberg, GAO research

stall, to focilitste an espeditious roply focused on those isrues of primary

importance to its analyais. We bove agreed te provide reponses to

such questions if advised by CAC that further clarification is necessery.

Inasmuch es this material deals with jurisdiction, it is beieg

forwarded for your information and roview.

Assoc. Dir..

_Enclosures - 2

Dep. AD Inv, -

Asst, Dir.:

Admin.

Comp. Sy.!.

Ext. Affarre

Files & Com.

Gani, Ins.

Ident.

Inspostio

Irrell.

Lnboratory

Plan, & Evol

Spec. Inv.

Training

Lagul Coun..

Toteplinno Re.

NOTE:

See memorandum.A. B. Fulton to Mr. W. E. Wannall, dated 8/29/75.

captioned "General Accounting Offier (GAO) Review of FBI Operations,"

prepared by Arw: vo.

9 SEP 1 7, 1975,

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i..

Fuis

Assoc. Dir. -

Dep. AD Admi. -

Dep. AD Inv. -

ACCOUNTING

. UNTED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING GrFICE

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548

Asst. Dir.:.

Admin. =

Comp. Syst.

Ext. Affairs -

JUL

GENERAL GOVERNMENT.

DIVISION

3 1975

Filos & Com. _

Gen. Inv.

Ident. _

is pector

Mr. W. Raymond Wannall

Assistant Director

Intelligence Division

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Department of Justice

Laboratory

Logal-Coun. K

Blan, & Eval. _

Spec. Inv. -

Training

Dear Mr. Wannall:

senstudy: 25

Telephone Rm. -

Director Sec'y —

On April 24, 1975, Director Kelley responded tour reque:

regarding the Bureau's legal authority to conduct domestic intelli-

gence operations by providing material concerning the collection,

maintenance, dissemination, and destruction of information resulting

from such investigations.

We have reviewed that portion of the Bureau's response relating

to its authority to conduct domestic intelligence investigations

and

believe that some clarification of matters therein is necessary for

us to better understand the Bureau's position.

Accordingly, we would

appreciate a written response to the enclosed questions which relate

to the papers prepared by you and Messrs. Watters and Lacey;

a portion

of the Domestic Intelligence Division position paper, "Investigations

of Subversion," May 19, 1972; and portions of Sections 87 and 122 of

the FBI Manual. To facilitate analysis, we would appreciate if the

Bureau could use the same format as the questions with any questions

not requiring an answer because of a prior response being so noted.

Should you or your staff desire to discuss these questions for

any reason, we would be glad to do so. If any clarification is needed,

please call Alan S. Goldberg on 386-3575. Thank you for your cooperation.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

MEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE Le 1600 BY SPLALMCL

ENCLOSURE

Sincerely yours,

Enclosures

cc:.

Mr. John Mintz

Assistant Director

Legal Counsel Division

Federal Bureau of Invescigation

Danul a Starte

Daniel F. Stanton•

Dandel te Beaten Ts

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FEDERAL, BURFAU OF INVESTIGATION

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

SEP 07 1975

TELETYPE

HHM

Assoc, Dir. -

Dep.-A.D.-Adm-

Dep.-A.D.-Inv.

Asst. Dir.:

Admin. ..

Comp. Syst.

Ext. Affairs

NR 003 PD

9:55 PM

TO:

PLAIN

NIT EL

SEPTEMBER S, 1975

BUREAU

-FROM:

SEATTLE (66-2894)

PORTLAND

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

SENSTUDY 75

RE BUT EL

SEPTEMBER 5, 1975 AND SEATTLE TELETYPE TO PORTLAND,

SEPT EMBER

6

1975.

PAUL

BIBLER,

FORMER ASAC, SEATLE, WAS CONTACIED IN ACCORDANCE

WITH

INSTRUCTIONS IN REBUTEL ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1975, AT HIS

RESIDENCE AT RI. 1 BOX 743, PARKDALE, OREGON. BIBLER STATED

HE CANNOT RECALL PARTICIPATING IN "MAIL OPENING ACTIVITIES"

_WHILE IN FBI. HE ADVISED HE WOULD NOTIFY PORTLAND OFFICE IF HE

IS CONTACTED BY SSO STAFF AND, SHOULD THIS OCCUR, PORTLAND WILL.

HEREAFTER ADVISE FBIHO.

0320: 1361

PERSONNEL

PM

FBIHQ CLR

Plan. & Eval,

Spec. Inv. +

Training

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Telephone Rm -

Director Sec'y

62-116375

5

SEP 16 1375

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

Idle

TU:

SU PLAIN

NITEL SEPTEMBER 6, 1975 VKW SEP Q 619/5

KIRKCTUR, FBI (62-116395) TELETYPE

ATTENTIUN: W. CREAGAR, INTD

SAN DIEGU (66- 1714)

Assoc. Dir.

Dep.-A.D.-Adm.

Dep.-A.D.-Inv.

Asst. Dir.:

Admin. -

Comp. Syst

Ext. Affairs

Files & Com.

Gen. Inv. -

NaY-

SENSI UD Y

73

RE BUREAU

TELETYPE DATED SEPTEMBER 5, 1975.

FRANK LO/ PRICK, 2705 TOKALUN SHEET, SAN DIEGO,

CALIFURNIA, WAS TELEPHUNICALLY CONTACTED BY ASAC BARGER,

SAN DIEGU DIVISIUN, LATE THIS AFTERNOON, CUNCERNING CUNIENIS

UF REGERENCED TELETYPE. MR. PRICE WAS APPRECIATIVE OF THE

Spec. Inv. Triu

Training

Legal Coun. 1441

Telephone Rm.

Director See'y

HEREINIS UNCLASSIFIED

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

ADVANCE AUTICE AND AUVISED THAT HE HAS NU INTENTIONS UF TALKING

TUZHE SSC.

HE RECALLED THAT H& SIGNED AN UATH AND AGREEMENT

UESUNFIDENTIALITY WHEN HE JUINED THE BUREAU, AND HAS NU

ENTENTION UN VIULATING THAT UATH EVEN THOUGH IHE BUREAU MAY

IVILATERALLY RELIEVE HIM UF THAI UBLIGATIUN. HE WAS

FEST SHED TELEPHUNE NUMBER UF THE LEGAL CUUNSEL DIVISION AND

WASTINVITED IU CALL THAI UFFICE SHUULD HE BE CUNTACTED

EY 55C. HE ALSU PUINEE OUT THAT T AS BEEN UUT, OF INS BUREAU 5 - 647

REC-16

FUR ELEVEN TEARS, AND HIS MEMURY OF SPECIFIC DETAILS UF BUREAU.

UPERALIUNS AND EVENTS UCCURRING DURING HIS EMPLUYMENT WUULSEP 16 1875

NUT PERMIT HIM TU FURNISH ANY ACCURATE TESTIMONY UN THE WALTER

UNDER STUDY.

KNU

Bruce

MPM FOIHQ ACK FOR TWO AND CLR

3.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

SEP 0 6 1975

TELETYPE

Assoc. Dir. -

Dep.-A.D.-Adm.

Dep.-A.D.-Inv-

Asst. Dir.:

Admin.

Comp. Syst.

Ext. Affairs

Files & Com. -

Gen. Inv. _

Ident.

Inspection

Laboratory

Plan.

& Eval.

Training

Legal Coun,16.

Telephone Rm. I-

Director Sec'y

NR 051 LA PLAIN

09:31 PM NITEL 95-75 BDW

IO BUREAU. (62-116395)

ANGELES (66-6243)

SENSTU DY

75

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

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

EL ETYPE:

WILLIAM

EGALI FORNIA.

SIMON, 2035 LOMBARDI ROAD, SAN MAR INO,

WESLEY G.

GRAPP, 4240 BON HOMME ROAD, WOODLAND HILLS,

CALIFORNIA.

ARNOLD C./

LARSON, 4232 ABBINGTON COURI, WESTLAKE VILLAGE,

CALIFORNIA.

EACH EXPRESSED SUPPORT OF SPIRE AND PLEDGED COOPERATION

-646

IN THIS MATTER.

REC-16 62-11634s

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

AUGUSI 31, 1975, BY SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE STAFF MEMBER MIKE :

EPSTEIN AND HAS PREPARED A LETTERHEAD MEMORAND UM WHICH CONTAINED

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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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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

TELETYPE

Assoc. Dir. -

Dep.-A.D.-Admn.

Dep.-A.D.-Inv.

Asst. Dir.:

Admin.

Comp. Syst.

Ext. Affairs

Files & Com.

Gen. Inv. -

Ident.

Inspection

Intell.

Laboratory

Hac In T

Spec. Inv. -

Training

Legal Couri

Telephone

Director Secy

NRO26 DL CODE

1036M NITEL,

SEPTEMBER 5, 1975

TO

DIRECTOR (62-116395)

FROM

SAC, DALLAS (105-5731)

SE NST UD Y 75

REBUTEL TO

EL C

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

or sparkly

DATE 10/U6

ALEXANDRIA, ETAL, SEPTEMBER

1975.

FORMER BUREAU EMPLOYEES KENNETH E. COMMONS, 2458 DOUGLAS

DRIVE, CELEPHONE 915-949-4817) AND PAUL HO SIODDARD, 3814

CHATTERION DRIVE, TELEPHONE 915-949- 162D), BOTH SAN ANGELO,

TEXAS, CONIACTED

SEPTEMBER 5, 1975, AND ALERTED REGARDING POSSIBLE

APPROACH FOR INTERVIEW BY SSC SIAFF.

REC

BOTH EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FOR ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE OF

POSSIBLE CONTACI AND OFFER OF ASSISTANCE BY BUREAU'S LEGAL COUNSEL

FIVISION.

NEITHER MR. COMMONS NOR MR. STODDARD ANTICIPAIES ANY PROBLEM

IF CONTACTED BY SSC,BOIH STATING IUSY HAVE NO KNOVLEDGE OF SUBJECT

MATTER INVOLVED •

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Assoc. Dir.

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NR009 JN CODE

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FROM

JACKSON (30-490)

Caref

SENST UDY 75

REBUTEL TO ALEXANDRIA, ET AL, SEPTEMBER S, 1975.

FORMER SAC WILLIAMS WEBB BURKE, 1847 AZIEC DRIVE, JACKSON,

MISSISSIPPI, PERSONALLY CONTACIED BY ASAC JACKSON EVENING

SEPTEMBER 5, 1975, AND PERTINENTLY INFORMED AS INSTRUCTED

RETEL• BURKE WAS MO-ST APPRECIATIVE AND CORDIAL BUT OFFERED

NO FURTHER REACTION OR COMMENT.

END.

ANY RETAINED IN

PERSONNEL RECORDS UNIT

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COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

SEP 05 1975

TELETYPE

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7:20PM

TO

NITEL SEPTEMBER 5, 1975 SMC

DIRECTOR (62-116395)

FROM

EL PASO (66-1587)

Assoc. Dir.

Dep.-A.D.-Adm.

Dep.-A.D.-Inv.-

Asst. Dir.:

Admin.

Comp. Syst.

Ext. Affairs

Files. & Com.

Gen. Inv. -

Ident.

Inspection eno

Intell.

Laboratory

Plau. & Eval.

Spec. Inv. -

Training

Legal Coun.

Telephone Rm.

Director Sec'y

SENSTUDY 75

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 101le 00

RE BUNITEL, SEPTEMBER 5, 1975.

FORMER SAC KARL W.

DISSLY, 7800 BIG BEND, EL PASO,

EXAS, TELEPHONE NO., 755-3798, CONTACIED IMMEDIATELY

ASAC IN ABSENCE OF SAC. DISSLY WAS ADVISED THAT HE

'AINED

MIGHT BE CONTACTED BY A SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE (SSC)

STAFF AND WAS ADVISED CONCERNING CONTADOVITE BURPAN'S -11638-643

• LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION AS SET FORTH

IN REFERENCED BUREAU

NITEL• FORMER SAC DISSLY ADVISED THAT THERE IS NOTHING

5

HE COULD TELL THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE. HE ADVISED

SEP 161

THAT HE WILL NOTIFY BUREAU IF HE IS CONTACTED

BY SSC

STAFF CONCERNING THIS MATTER.

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OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA FPAIR 141 CFR 101-11.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

•Mr. J. B. Adams

1 - Mr. Mintz

- Mr. Adams

1 - Mr. Wannall

1 - Mr

DATE: 975/75

1 - Mr. Hotis

1 - Mr. Daly

FROM

:Legal Counsel

SUBJECT: SENSTUDY 75

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm. Q

Dep. AD Inv f

Asst. Dir.:

Admin.

Comp. Syst. -

Ext. Affairs -

Files & Com. -

Gon. Inv. —

Ident..

Inspection.

Intell.

Loboratory

lan. & Eval. _

pec. Inv. -

raining.

Telephone Rm.

Director Soc'y -

On 9/5/75, SA Paul V. Daly of this Division was

advised by Michael

E. Shaheen, Jr., Special Counsel for

Intelligence Coordination in the Department, that Paul

Wallach of the Senate Select Committee had informed him

that the Committee desired the presence of Shaheen and

SA Daly at an executive session at 2 p.m., Tuesday,

9/9/75, to explain why the material requested relating

to mail openings had not been delivered to the Committee.

Shaheen requested that every effort be made by the

Bureau to avoid the necessity of explaining to the Committee

the lack of production of the mail opening material at the

executive session.

The above information was brought to the attention

of Paul Mack, Executive Assistant to the Deputy Associate

Director (Investigations) who in turn advised that Mr. Adams

had instructed that every effort be made to produce the re-

quested material prior to the executive session.

Unit Chief James Lee was advised of this decision.

_4p7/8

grie

RECOMMENDATION:

For information.

Whew to

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DATE IRON BY IAN

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she attacey General

2

17 .

J.

A. Mintz

- Mr. J. B. Hotis)

1 - Mr.

1

W. R. Wannall

- Mr.

W. 0. Cregar

1 - Mr. T. E. Burns

September 2, 1975

Director,

FBI

62-116-383-6411

U. S+

STANT SILECT COMITTEE Off

INTELI IGENCE ACTIVILIES (SSC)

!

Reference is made to the menorandun from the SSC

dated lay 14, 1975, and appendices thereto, requesting cer

tain docunents and other intormation txon the FBI and my

letter to you dated June 20, 1975, enclosing a menorandun

dated

June 20, 1975, for the ssc.

Enclosed for your approval and forarding to the

Cormittec is the original of a menorandun with enclosure

which supploments our response to the ssc contained in the

Junc 20, 1975, memorandun referred to above.

The enclosure

to the memorandum is a copy of your letter to ar. bloya i+

Cutler, dated August 5, 1975, which has a direct bearing on

this natter since it auchorized the FlI to revicw the scaled

UNRECORDED COPY FILET

W...

A copy of this menorandun with enclosuic is being

furnished for your records.

Enclosures - (4)

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

62-116395

DATE 10/10/02 BY sparsel

1 - The Deputy Attorney General

Attention:

Michael I: Shaheen, I.

Special Counsel for

Intelligence Coordination

deleines

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm. -

Dep. AD Inv. -

Asst. Dir.:

Admin. -

Comp. Syst. -

Ext. Affairs

Files & Com.

Gen. Iny. -

Ident. -

Inspection -

Intell. -

Laboratory .

Plon. & Eval. -

Spoc. Inv. -

Training -

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Telephone Rm.

Director

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Mr.

J. A. Mintz

(1

1

- Mr.

J. B. Hotis)

1

- MI. W. R. Wannall

- Mr. W. 0. Cregar

1 - MT. T. E. Burns

62-116395

September 2, 1975

U. S. SENATE SELECT COMNITIZE TO

STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERAFIONS WITH

RESPECT TO ILTETIIGENCE ACEIVIRIES (SSC)

RE:

REQUEST PERIAINING TO

ELECIRONIC SURVEILIANCE

DECLASSIFIED BYSPLALM Cli

oN 101600

Reference is made to SSC letter to the Attorney

General dated May 14, 1975, With appendices attached thereto,

requesting certain documents and other information fron the

FBI and to FBI memorandum to the SSC dated June 20, 1975,

captioned as above.

Iten number 17 in Appendix D of referenced SSC

letter requested all memoranda and other materials reflecting

written or oral authorization and re authorization by the

Attorney General and/or the Director of the FBI for electronic

surveillance of Josoph Kraft.

Refcrenced June 20, 1975, FDI memorandur responded

to the above request as it pertained to the unsealed portions

of the Joseph Kraft file. The sealed portion of the file was

not reviewed for the reguosted information since material con-

tained therein was subject to an arrangement between Mr. Iloyd i.

Cutler, as attorney for Joseph Krait, and the Attorney General.

This agreement precludes examination of the sealed portion oi

lir, Kraft's file except upon personal approval of the Attorney

General subsequent to his notification of ir. Fraft or his

counsel, in writing, at least ten days prior thereto and pro-

viding him or them with an opportunity to discuss the matter

Assoc. Dir.

personally with the Attorney Genoral before the grant is made.

Dep. AD Adm. _

Dep. AD Inv. - TEB: ImhImn

Asst. Dir.:

Admin.

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ORIGINAL. AND ONE TO ATTORNEY GENERAL

Comp. Syst. -

Ext. Affairs -

Files & Com. -

SEE NOTE PAGE 2

Wor

Gen. Inv. -

Ident. -

Inspection

NOTE THAT NOTE ON YELLOW, PP 2-3, IS SECRET PUM

Intell.

Laboratory

Plan. & Eval.

T'his document is prepared in response to your request and is not for aussemi

nation outside your Committee.

Spoc. Inv..

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

your committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person

Training

Legal Coun

nei without the express approval of the FBI.

Telephone Rm. _

Director Sec'y -

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SENADD SELECI COLILTIRE ON IUTELLICENCE ACTIVIIINS (SCC)

RUE: .REQUESE PENIAIVINE DO ELECTRONIC CURVEILIANCE

By lotter dated August 5, 1975, the Attornoy Genoral

advisod Mr. Cutler thai pursuant to the above arrangonent tho

Attornoy Goncral was furnishing noticication that no sooner than

ten days fron such dato an appropriato official oi the FDI nay

rcnovo fron the scaled files monoranda requasted by the Sonato

Selcot Cormittce on Intolligenco Opcrations.

A rovicw df tho scaled portions ot the ‹Josoph Fraft

file by a reprosentative of the IaI on August 25, 1975, fatled

to roveal any written or oral authorization or rc-zuthorization

by the itborncy Gencral and/or the Dircotox of the fbI for

clcotronic aurveillance of Josoph Krait as Icqunstod in Io-

forentod SSc lottor dated May 14, 1975,

Enclosed with this nenorandum for your infomation is

a copy of the Attornoy Coneral's August 5, 1975, lotter to ltr.

Iloyd il. Cutlcr, rcforrod to abovo.

Enclosuro

I - The Attorney General

NOTE :

SEC

RET

The subject of above SSC inquiry, Joseph Kraft,

is the well-known newspaper columnist. A review of the

Kraft file reveals that the French security service, the

DST, conducted a microphone surveillance on Kraft's hotel

room for approximately one week during a 1969 visit by

Kraft to Paris.

such coverage was effected through the

urging of W. C. Sullivan former Assistant to the Director

who travelled to France at such time apparently at the

direction of deceased FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Details'

of the above coverage have appeared in the media apparently

as a result of leaks within the administration of former

President Nixon.

Kraft himself testified in đetail 5/10/74,

regarding this matter before the United State Senate Subcom-

mittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, the Subcon-

mittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judi-

ciary, and the Subcommittee on Surveillance of the Committee

on Foreign Relations. Pursuant to an agreement between

Kraft and the Attorney General certain documents, recordings

SEGRET

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SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

RE: REQUEST PERTAINING TO ELECTRONIC SURVEILIANCE

NOTE CONTINUED:

SECRET

and other records which describe the contents of the over-

hears from the electronic surveillance were sealed. The

above memorandum to the SSC refleats review of such sealed

documents for requested information as per authorization

from Attorney General contained in the enclosure to such

memorandum.

This note has been Classified "Secret" in

order to protect the contidentiality of our relationshir

with the French security service the disclosure of which

could reasonably be expected to result in serious damage

to national security.

Classified by 6283, XGDS 1, Indefinite.

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Offire of the Attuney General

Washingtan, B. 0. 20530

August 5, 1975

Mx. Lloyd N. Cutler, Esq.

Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering

1666 K Street, N.W.

washington, D.C.

20006

Deax Mr. Cutler:

• My office has received your lettex, of July 23, 1975,

concerning the Church Committee access to FBI files

which

maybe under seal pursuant to my agreement with Mr. Joseph

Kraft.

In order to comply strictly with that agreement,

I am writing to notify you that no sooner than

ten days

from today appropriate officials of the FBI may remove

f=om

the sealed files mamnranda requester by the

senate

Select Committee on Intelligence operations.

After these documents are removed and prepared for

submission to the committee pursuant to the procedure you

suggested, you will be furnished copies of those documents.

• Sincexely,

Attorney General

ORAITON CONTAITED

BISH

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Offire of the Attorney General

Washington, H. 0. 20530

ALL FBI INFORMAXION CONTAINED

LENN ONES ALM d

Johna,

Here's the letter to Joeph Kreft's Lowere. Wicked

Shalan has a but of the saterial the Chauch

Commite seeks.

Serous

TER:

Tate: Fuller called me at 2248/20/15 and said the

2.0. intended for E1B1 to uniew Kigtsustai

the letter to Cutter 8/5/15 aul

told him 2 шая

requested a cagey el use that as hacie to 841

the directo. The alto ill at lan Gutte

attached 815 letter were recen

1234 8/20/75 aul

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Office of the Attarey General

Washingian, A. 0. 20530

August 5, 1975

MX. Iloyd N. Cutler, Esq.

wilmer, Cutler &

Pickering

1666 K Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C.

20006

Dear Mr. Cutler:

My office has received your letter, of July 23, 1975,

concerning the Church Committee access to FBI files which

maybe under

seal pursuant to my agreement with Mr. Joseph

Kraft.

In order to comply strictly with that agreement,

I am writing to notify you that no sooner than ten days

from today appropriate officials of the FBI may renove

from the sealed files memoranda requested by the Senate

Select Committee on

• Intelligence Operations.

After these documents are removed and prepared for

submission to the committee pursuant to the procedure you

suggested, you will be furnished copies of those documents.

sincerely,

cualft.7in.

Attorney General

ALL JET INFORNIATION CONTAINED

INREIN IS UNCISASSLHIE

THUGE THI

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TO

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA FPAIR (41 CFR) 101 -11.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

: Mr. J/ B. Adams

1 - Mr.

Mintz

- Mr. Mooney

- Mr. Walsh

1 - Mr.

Wannall

DATE: 9/2/75

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adn

Dep. AD Iny

Asst. Dir.:

Admin.

Comp. Syst. _

Ext. Affairs -

Files & Com. -

Gen. Inv. -

1 - Mr. Cregar

FROM : Legal Counsel l

1 - Mr. Hotis

1 - Mx. Daly

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

SUBJECT:

SENSTUDY 75

HEREINIS UNCLASSIFIED

Spec. Inv. -

DATE 10/16/00 BY 502ALM A

Telephone Rm. _

Director Sec'y -

On September 2, 1975, Mark Gitenstein of the Senate

Select Committee requested the following current employees of

the Bureau be made

Select Committee concerning their knowledge of the

avarlable for Staff interview D'"official

"he Senate hot

and confidential" files which were maintained in former Director

Hoover's Office.

The current assignment of these personnel set

forth

• in this memorandum was furnished by Mr. Gitenstein.

(1) Thomas Barden Dudney-Chief Clerk, WEO;

(2) Special Agent Joseph E. Dowling-WFO;

(3) Special Agent Joseph E. Battle-WFO;

(4) Kenneth Shaffer-Clerk, WEO;

(5) Raymond Smith-Auto Mechanic, FBI Academy, Quantico;

(6) Jesse Peterson, Jr.-Mechanical Section,

Administrative Division, FBIHQ;

(7) Thomas F. Peyton-Exhibits Section, Administrative

Division, FBIHQ;

-(8) Inspector John P. Dunphy-Administrative Division

FBIHQ; and

(9) Mrs. Erma D. Metcalf-Director's. Office, FBIHQ._

All of the aforementioned employees were interviewed

during the inspection inquiry into the

"official and confidential"

files matter which was conducted at the request of the Department:

The Committee has already been delivered a summary

of the results

of that inspection inquiry and has reviewed FD-302's reporting the

interview of employees concerning this matter.

1 - Personnel. File - Thomas Barden Dudney

1 - Personnel

File - Joseph E. Dowling

1 - Personnel

File - Joesph E. Battle

• 1 - Personnél

File - Kenneth Shafte

1 - Personnel

File - Raymond Smith 12116345-141

• l - Personnel

File - Jesse Peterson, JEe

• 1 - Personnel

File - Thomas F. Peyton

1 - Personnel File - John *. Lunphy

I. - Personnél File - Erma D. Metcalf SeP 12115

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RE: SENSTUDY 75

RECOMMENDATIONS:

(1) That the aforementioned employees be released

from existing employment agreements for purposes of interview

by the Senate Select Committee.

(2) That the Legal Counsel Division will advise the

Senate Select Committee when appropriate clearance has been

• received for the aforementioned employees and make the necessary

arrangements.

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The

Attorney General

Director, FBI

S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE

ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

1 - Mr. J. B. Adams

2 - Mr. J. A. Mintz

(1 - Mr. J, B. Hotis)

August 20, 1975

1 - Mx.

W. R. Wannall

i to

Mit.

W.

0. Cregar

I - MT=

Thomas

ALLINFORMATION CONTAINED

WIS UNGLASSIFIED

BY SPAALM

LD/16

HEREI

RATE

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm. _

Dep. AD inv. -

Asst. Dir.:

Admin.

Comp. Syst._

Ext. Affairs.

Files & Com.

Gen. Inv. -

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inspection -

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SEt memorandum August 18, 1945, In response to en

ose request 10r EBl materials, contained information that

natorials rosponsive to tart I. of that request relating to

"Homen's Liberation" would be available for review by SSC

Stait Kember's, Those materials were reviewed by SSC Stale

Lenbers Michael lipstein on August 20, 1075, and Martha Talley

on August 21, 1975.

On August 25, 1975, lix. Ipstein sequested delivery

os the aforenentioned

material.

Enclosod is a memorandun for your approval for

forwarding to the Connittee in response to lir. Ipstein's

request.

Also enclosed for your records is a copy

nomorandun propared for the Cormittoe.,

of the

Enclosures (2)

62-116395

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";:

I = The Deputy Attorney General

Attention: Michael E. Shaheen, JI.

Special Counsel for

Coordination

- 640

5 SEP 16 1975

131.

Steer

IPT:jvI

NOTE:

Materials being furnished are serials 67, 88, 87,

90X

(Philadelphia airtel to Bureau 10/27/70) and enclosed Lail,

126,

137

and 165 of Bureau file 100-453233.

Regarding

serials

67

and 126, New York reports dated 8/14/70 and 3/12/71,

no pages

after the table of contents were reviewed by the Sst nor are

they being furnished herewith, in as much as the sSC did

not

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1 - Mr. J. B. Adams

2 - Mr. Je

A. Mintz

(1 - Mx. J. B. Hotis)

*Nait, Cochrant

1 - Mr.

W. R. Wannall

1

main

Mr. W. O, Cregar

I - Mr endguSt 700 1575

U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO

STUDY GOVERNHENTAL OPERATIONS WIFE

RESPICE TO INTELLIGIICE ACFIVITIES (SSC)

Reference is nade to the oral request of SSC Staff

FBI naterials relating to "Honen's

Kenhor Michael Instein oa hugust 23uuberation,u mich

1975, for delivery of

naterials vere previously reviewed by SSC Staff Henbers,

pursuant to the request made by the SSe on August 5, 1975,

Past I.

The Special Counsel for Intelligence Coordination,

United States Department of Justico, has approved compliance

with the aforementioned pral request of Mr. Epstein. It is

noted that normally such requests are submitted in miting

and future requests for delivery of materials should be

submitted in writing to the Special Counsel.

The requested material has been processed and

will be delivered to the SSC with this memorandum.

1 - The Attorney General

JPT: jV]

(•9%

ORIGINAL AND ONE COPY TO AG

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIEL

Assoc. Dir. -

Dep. AD Adm. -

Dep. AD Inv. -

Asst. Dir.:

Admin.

Comp.Syst.-

Ext. Affairs —

Files & Com. -

Gen. inv. -

Ident. -

Inspection -

Intell. -

Laboratory

Plan. & Eval. -

Spec. inv. -

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5-140 (Rev. 1-21-74) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20535

Addressee:

SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE

Report dated_ 8/26/75

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Caption 'Document: Activities. (Oral request of SSC

8/25/75 re "Women's Liberation.")

Originating Office: -

cant SA Richard anglum 9/5/15 29%8

Received by:

Maithe Tally

Title: -

Reasasches

Return this receipt to the Intelligence Division, FBI

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

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SEE INSTRUCTIONS ON REVERSE

BEFORE COMPLETING.

CLASSIFY AS APPROPRIATE

FROM:

TO:

Intelligence Community Staff

ATTN: Central Index

18X

SUBJECT: Abstract of Information Provided to Select Conmittees

If a document was made available

for review but

DOCUMENT

note.)

BRIEFING

INTERVIEW

TESTIMONY

JOTHER

2. DATE PROVIDED

8/26/75

3. TO WHOM PROVIDED (check appropriate term; add specific names if appropriate)

SSC

HSC

4. IDENTIFICATION (provide descriptive data for documents; give name or identification number of briefer,

interviewee, testifier and subject)

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

Memorandun and enclosures

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

RESPONSE TO (list date and item number if in

response to formal request, other-

wise state verbal request of (name), initiative, subpoena, etc.)

U, C,

'Codeword)

Oral request of SSO Staff Member on 8/25/75 for

delivery of material previously requested on 8/5/75-

Fart by for Ioview

7. KEY

ised underline

line fore phase see key words tron

$

list provided

separately; if key words not listed are

Informatien handling

Intolligence colicetion

8. SUMMARY (see reverse side before completing this

item)

Material relating to "Notien's Uberstion"".

62-176395

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IN CONNECIION WITH SENSTUDY 75

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'INSTRUCTIONS

• Type or print clearly in ink.

• Indicate classification of the abstract top and bottom.

• Date the abstract and put on any internal control numbers required.

• "FROM" entry should clearly identify the organization providing the

information.

• If additions (as when a copy of document sent to SSC is later sent to

HSC) or changes to a previously submitted form are necessary, submit a

copy of the original abstract, with the change indicated.

SPECIFIC ITEM NO. 8. SUMMARY - enter brief narrative statement describing

substance of information and showing relationship to Intelligence Community

matters if appropriate. Any feedback or evidence of investigatory interests

should be noted.

Commitments made to supply additional information should be

noted. Additionally, certain administrative information may be entered here,

e.g., restrictions on review of a document, if document was paraphrased, whether

interviewee is current or former employee, etc. If actual document or transcript

is provided, that fact should be noted and no summary is required. Additional

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• FEDERAL

BUREAU OF INVE

UTIGATION•

REPORTING OFFICE

NEW YORK

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

NEW YORK

TITLE OF CASE.

GOMEN'S ITBERATION MOVEMENT

5T

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE ID. 16/00 BY SLALM eL

REFERENCE

DATE

8/14/70

REPORT MADE BY

J. ROBERT NEWTON

CHARACTER OF CASE

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

1/15/70-8/3/70

IS-MISCELLANEOUS

TYPED BY

kbm

New York report of SA J. ROBERT NEWTON dated 1/23/70,

-p*-

im94

ADMINISTRATIVE

The SAS who observed the demonstration on 4/15/70,

at Foley Square, NYC, Were HORACE P. BECKWITH and ANTHONY

E. CONSTANTINO.

The demonstration on 6/22/70, was observed by SA

RAYMOND F. MOHR.

SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR

ADD. DISSEMINATION.

AUTO.

FUG.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS CLAIMED

FINES

SAVINGS

NONE

ACQUIT.

RECOVERIES

TALS

• CASE HAS BEEN:

PENDING OVER ONE YEAR EYES ENO

PENDING PROSECUTION

OVER SIX MONTHS

YES

_NO

APPROVED

SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

OPIE MADEL

Bureau (100-453233)

(RM)

-

100th MI Group.,

NYC

(RM)

1

NISO, NYC (RM)

OSI,

2nd Air

• Force, NYC

Baltimore 1100-

(RM)

- Boston (100-40255) (RM)

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ADMINISTRATIVE CONT 'D

The demonstration on 7/15/70, was observed by SAS

ALBERT E. FALLER and J. ROBERT NEWTON.

With regard to future planned activity by Women's

Liberation Movement (WIM), included in this report, a separate

case file has been opened

WOMEN'S STRIKE FOR EQUALITY" (NY 100-170260) •

for this activity captioned "AUGUST 26

The August 26 strike

will be worked under the new case and reported accordingly.

Characterizations of individuals and organizations

mentioned in this report have been set forth where they are

available.

This report is being classified "Confidential" because

the disclosure of information fron informants of continuing value

(NY T-] through NY T-22) could reveal the identity thereof and

could be injurious to the national security of the US.

Because of the extensive information furnished by

INFORMANT regarding WIM organization and activities, two T

• symbols (NY T-1 and NY T-3) are being used to further conceal

the identity of this informant.

In view of the fact that: INFORMANT AND INFORMATION

WHiCH TENDS"

TO iDENTIFY

INFORMANT

• advised that there

art iù trecueu vIlicers vI the wiM, no active investigation of

those persons listed on the bank account declaration is being

instituted at this time.

COPIES CONT 'D

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2

2

• Ken trave i 043 , (201)

2

• Philadelphia (100-

(RM)

2

- San Francisco (100-62721) (RM)

2.

- Seattle (100-30009) (RM)

2 - Washington Field (100-49208) (RM)

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INFORMANTS

Identity of Source

NY T-1

• INFORMANT

Used to characterize

CAROL LEFCOURT

File Number Where Located

100-164665-258

- 577

100-164665-1B

134-15562A-583

-4

-505

NY T-2

INFORMANT.

NY T-3

INFORMANT

-664

-621

-517

-561

-677

-622

-591

-688

-478

- 607

134-842738

100-164665-255

134-15562A-529

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-564

-651

-688

-749

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INFORMANTS CONT'D

Identity of Source

File Number Where Located

-583

- 652

-626

-624

- 630

- 590

-482

-462

• -466

-479

-495

100-164665-526

NY T-4

Mr. THOMAS DUFFIE,

Investigator,

NY Telephone Company

140 West Street, NyC

(protect by request)

(Into turnished to SA

FRANK J. MEYERS)

NY T-5

INFORMANT

• NY T-6

INFORMANT

-

Used to characterize

SUE ANMUTH

INFORMANT

100-164665-1B12

-1B10

134-12736A-57

134-16386A-153

-161

100-164665-1B7

100-164665-430

100-164665-237

-571

-274

-411

134-17094A-171

-173

-150

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INFORMANTS

Identity of Source

NY T-R

INFORMANT.

File Number Where Located

100-164665-544

-547

-417

-549

134-17567A-71

100-164665-243

NY T-9

THIRD

AGENCY

NY T-10

INFORMANT

NY T-11

• INFORMANT

134-15431A-624

- 650

-626

-779

-790

134-9382A-1430

-1395

-1430

Used to characterize

JUDY WHITE

Used to characterize

JOYCE DEGROOT

Used to characterize

ARTHUR MAGLIN

Used to characterize

RUTHANN MILLER

Used to characterize

EVELYN NOVACK

Used to characterize

MARY ALICE WATERS

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INFORMANTS CONT I D

Identity of Source

MY m-?2

_INFORMANT..

PSI

NY T-13

THOMAS CONROY

PaneL sOurCe

NY T-74

INFORMANT..

PSI

NY T-15

: INFORMANT

NY T-16

_INFORMANT

NY T-17

A Confidential Mail

• Box of the NYO

NY T-18

I INFORMANT.

NY T-19

INFORMANT

File Number Where Located

NY 100-148047

100-148047-A49-77

COME SOURCE

134-17655A-10

134-4008A-451

NY 100-164665-523

100-164665-549

NY 100-164665-413

NY T-20

INFORMANT

PSI

Used to characterize

JOAN BIRD

Used to characterize

LESLIE CAGAN

NY T-27

INFORMANT

Used to characterize

DEBBY GERSON

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INFORMANTS CONT'D

Identity of Source

NY T-22

INFORMANT

File Number Where Located

Used to characterize

MARY ALICE WATERS

Copies of this report are being furnished for

information to local intelligence agencies.

Copies of this report are also being designated to

offices which information listed in this

report indicates WLM

organizations in: those field offices.

:

A1l offices receiving copies of this report with

the exception of Philadelphia and Charlotte have received

previous copies of WLM reports.

LEADS

CHARLOTTE

AT CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA. Will conduct appropriate

investigation as set forth in section 87E of the Manual of

Instructions to determine organization activities of captioned

organization in their respective division: and submit results

• of

' investigation in report form.

PHILADELPHIA

AT PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. Will conduct appropriate

investigation as set forth in Section 87E of the Manual of

Instructions to determine organiation activities of captioned

organization in their respective division. and submit results

of investigation in report form.

NEW YORK

AT NEW YORK, NEW YORK. Will follow activities of

subject organization.

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F15.204 (REV. 3-3 39)

Copy 10:

Report of:

Date:

Field Office File #:

Title:

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL: BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

CONPIPENIAL

4 - 108th MI Group, NYC (RM)

- NISO, NYC (RM)

1 - OSI,

2nd Air Force, NYC (RM)

J. ROBERT NEWTON

Office:

New York, New York

8/14/70

100-164665

Bureau File #: 100-453233

WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT

want's

Character:

Synopsis:

INTERNAL SECURITY - MISCELIANEOUS

Women's Liberation Movement (WIM), NYC;

maintains

an office (Women's Liberation Center) (WLC) at 36

west zzna street, NiC. Although oilicers are listed, for bank

account purposes, there are no officers of WIM ir the usual

sense of the term. Financial data set forth. Listings of

natirn-wide and New York area WIM groups set forth.

WLM is

not & membership organization, however, WLC,

NYC, maintains

a mailing list of 3,200 names. Meetings and activities of

New York area WIM groups set forth.

Affiliation and/or

sympathy with other organizations set forth.

-P*-

DETA: LS:

DECLASITZED BY SPHALMIC

ON 1D

16/00

CONPIDONTAI

GROUP 1

EXCluded crom automatic

downgrading and

declassifigation

This document contess brither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FIl and is lonned to your agency, it and its eunicite

are not to be dist abi duside your agers.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

I.

Page

4

II.

BACKGROUND, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:

LOCATION.............

...

.5

III. LEADERSHIP AND FINANCES..

...

IV. MEMBERSHIP..."......

. ... d

7

11

V. MEETINGS OF NEW YORK CITY WLM (CITY-WIDE) •

VI. WIM RALLIES AND DEMONSTRATIONS, NYC..

A. General.........

B. Actions Against Publishers ana

Publications......

12

16

16

...

19

VII. PROPOSED FUTURE ACTIONS OF WLM...

23

VIII. LISTING OF WIM GROUPS THROUGHOUT THE US

27

IX.

WLM GROUPS IN NYC AREA AND THEIR ACTIVITIES..

29

A. Listing of Groups.....

29

B. Barnard College WIM.

35

C. The Bronx Coalition.

D. Brooklyn College WIM.

E. City College of New York

(CCNY) WLM.

F. Columbia University (CU)

WLM.

G.

Congress To Unite Women.

н.

The Feninists....

I. High School. wLM...

J.

Hunter College WIM.

K. Lavender Menace..

Is.

M.

National Organization For Women (NOW)

New York Radical Women

N. New York University (NYU) WIM..

49

58

59

59

50

71

72

0.

Redstockings....

P.

Women's International Terrorist

76

Conspiracy From Hell (WITCH).

Q.. The Women's Brigade.

R.

Women's Liberation #55.

S. Women's Media Conference.

7'1

77

79

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X.

EVIDENCE OF AFFILIATION AND/OR

SYMPATHY WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.

A. Black Panther Party (BPP)....

B. Students for a Democratic Society

(SDS).....•

C. Student Mobilization Committee to

End the War in Vietnam (SMC)

D.

E.

Socialist workers Party (SWP).

Women's Committee to Free Joan

BIrO (WCEOB)....•

F.

G.

Young Socialist Alliance (YSA)

Youth Against War and Fascism

(YAWF).............

XI. CHARACTERIZATIONS OF INDIVIDUALS

XII. APPENDIX.

Page

. =

79

79

85

95

76

79

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106

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OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA FPAIR (41 CFN 101-11.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

: Mr.

B. Adams

1 - Mr. Mintz

1 - Mr. Gallagher

(Attn: David Rarity, Jr..)

1 - Mr. Wannall

DATE: 8/25/75

FROM : Legal Counse

1 - Mr. Cregar

1 - Mr.. Hotis

1 - Mx. Daly

SUBJECT: SENSTUDY

75

On 8/22/75, Supervisor David Rarity, JI., advised

that the Senate Select Committee was going to interview Dr.

Sidney Gottlieb of the CIA in the near future.

Rarity stated

that the Bureau had a pending investigation captioned "Dr.

Sidney Gottlieb-Destruction of Government Property" involving

Gottlieb relating to his destruction of certain records at the

Ten relating to his dee

Central Intelligence Agency and requested that a determination

be made as to whether such an interview was being contemplated

by the Committee.

John Elliff, Task Force Director of the Domestic

Task Force for the Senate Select Committee, was telephonically

advised of our investigative interest in Mr. Gottlieb and of

our desire that the Committee be aware of this investigative

interest so that their activities would not adversely impact

on the Bureau's investigation.

Elliff was appreciative of

being advised and indicated that he was also aware of the

Senate Select Committee's interest in Dr. Gottlieb and would

insure

that the Committee Staff Member was apprised of the

Bureau's investigative interest.

He stated they would take

Bureau's investigation in this matter.

HE SEP 11 1975

RECOMMENDATION:

For information.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

#2 662574463547

Assoc. Dir. -

Dep. AD Adm. -

Dep. AD inv. -

Asst. Dir."

Admin.

Comp. Syst. -

Ext. Affairs

Files & Comp

Gen. Inv. €

Ident.

Training -

Telephone Rm.-,

Director Soc'y _

RECORDED COPY FILE $ 5-2

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Vic. I Fi. Wannall

A. B. Fulton

COINTELPEOS

1-

Wannall

1 =

Go

Cregar

Deegan

1- JiT. Fo

In Chockelford

8/19/75

1 - HEr, A. B. Fulton

1 - Nix.

D.

Ryan

I - ViX. D. K. Pettus

MICHCONTANaD

AU. NFORM

S0r1

This is to identify nine serials, copies of which were

furnished to Arthur Jefferson, staff member of the Senate Select

Committee (SSC), on 8/15/75 for retention in SSC offices,

The nine serials, eight of which relate to Black Extremist

matters and one to Ivew Leit, corprise a total of 34 pages.

Jeferson originally requested the serials for delivery

on 8/12/75. Subsequent to the request for delivery, the serials were

excised to insure information which would tend to identify sensitive

sources was deleted. Excisions in each serial, prior to being made

avalable for delivery, were approved by appropriate Section Chief,

Jefferson accepted delivery from SA Pettus and signed attached list

indicating receipt.

Barbara Banoff, SSC staff member, previously requested

that a number of serials relating to White Hate matters be excised so

that they could be delivered to SSC offices. The attached list contains

212 copies relating to White Hate which have been excised and reviewed

by the appropriate Section Chief for delivery to SSC offices. One set

of the 212 serials is being permanently maintained in roor 4126, JEH.

An exact duplicate set, which is available for delivery to SSC offices,

is also being maintained in 4426 until a specific request is made by an

appropriate SSC staff member for delivery.

Enclosures

62-116009

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1 = 100-449698 (New Leit)

1 * 100-440000 (Back Extremist

1 - 157-9 (White Hate)

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Memorandum to Mir. W. R. Wannall

Fe: Cointelpros

62-116009

Attached are nine copies of serials which were delivered

to Jelferson on 8/15/75 as well as the list indicating receipt which was

also signed by Jefferson.

ACTION:

None, For information.

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MI.

W. /F. Wannall

A. B., Fulton

COINTELPROS

1 - Nir.

w.

Wannall

1 - MI.

W.

Cregar

1 - Wir. Il. Ii.

Shackelford

8/25/75

I - Mr. A. B. Fulton

1 - Mr. D. Ryan

1 - Mr. D. K. Pettus

This is to idently additional copies of excised serials

which are being made available in room 4171, JEH building, for

review by stati members of the Senate Select Committee (ESC). The

copies have been excised to protect sensitive sources and delete infor-

mation from other agencies where there were sensitivities.

Prior to being made available for review to nembers

of the SSC staff, each serial is approved by the Section Chief.

A total of 138 copies of excised serials regarding CPUSA

was made available to SSC on 8/19/75. 278 copies of CPUSA were

also made available on 8/22/75. The intlal 138, which consists of

two volumes, and the latter 278 which consists of four volumes, are

being maintained in room 4426, TEH.

ACTION:

None. For information.

ALLIE FORMATIONCO MANZO

DIE 16200 DISPALMO

HIN

62-116009

1 - 100-3-104 (CPUSA)

- 62-116395 (Senstudy) - (=)

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62.116983

NOT RECORDED

46 SEP 26 1975

840CT 1 1975

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OPTIONAL FORA NO, 10

5010-106

AY 1962 EDITION

SA GEN, REG.

NO. 27

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SECRET

1

- Mr.

Mr.

- NiX.

N.

3.

P.

Callahan

B.

Adams

A.

Mintz

01O1

: Mr.

W

&. Wannali

DATE: 8/22/75

Mr. W. R.

LENTAL Mr. N. Ö.

FROM

: S. F.

Phillips,

Wannall

Cregar

Phillips

SUBJEC

2:23.81

Garrot

SENSTUDY-75

Classifled EX

3042 PUTTONS

Declassily on:

BADR 3/6/89

REO-15

This memorandum addresses itself to the

letter, 8/14/15, from Chairman Frank Church of

attached

the Senate

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. Ap

Dep. VAS

Asst. Din

Admin.

Comp. Syst. —

Ext. Affairs _

Files & Com. -

Gen. Inv. -

Ident.

Laboratory -

Legal Coun. _

Plon. & Eval. -

Spec. Inv. -

Training

Telephone Rm. -

Director Sec'y

20

involve the suggestion of removal of myself from a certain

4

'important phase of the SENSTUDY-75 project which concerns the

Martin Luther King, Jr., case. I intend to set forth in this

memorandum arguments and other observations which I believe

will best serve the Bureau's land, thusly, also the Department's

interests in considering the suggestions of Senator Church and

i; of the Department.

My Motivation in Resisting the Suggestions for Removal

AS

Lis.

It would be easy indeed for me to sit back and accept

Suadimy removal from the King case aspects of SENSTUDY-75. I have

not found my efforts in this matter to be necessarily a picnic

6076 or Sunday fun-outing.

Rather, I have experienced mental strain

FILEU

and fatigue from this work but, nonetheless, have always tried,

to the

best of my ability, to do what I have felt is in the

Bureau's best interests.

I do not think my removal is in the

COP

Bureau's best interests and being the most knowledgeable person

ED

FINALIZED

in the Bureau on this matter I feel compelled to present my

views in as candid a way as I can for the benefit of the Directors

and other Bureau officials in their consideration of this matter a

Though it is untortunate,

in a way, that the issue

involves me personally, I believe that the issue should be viewed

in a much larger sense because it may involve a confrontation

between the Bureau and the SSC.

The entire investigation by the

SSC of the FBI has developed into an adversary proceeding which

sano

CLASSIFIED

DEPARTME

DATE:

it was undoubtedly destined to be.

The SSC has continuously

dictated its demands, its procedures, etc., to us.

We have had

only minimal support

from the Department and have, in most

Instances, had

had to subjugate logelves to the

Up

to now

Enclosures - 2

REC-16 662113135

-63

62-116395

1 - 61=(Personnel

1

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{ Seymor Fred Phillips)

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.

Memorandum to Mr.

RE:

SENSTUDY-75

62-116395

W.

R. Wannall

SECRET

CONNDENTIAL

about the only real issue on which we have shown unbending

resistance has been that concerning the revelation of the

identities of our confidential informants--and that issue

is still in dispute.

Now comes another issue which on its surface may

appear small but which I consider a major one.

nas are 4 ca

And this issue

concerns me personally and is difficult for me to be 100 per

cent objective about, try as I might. On every review of

this

matter I still come up with the same conclusion.

We must not

let ourselves be dictated to in how and with what personnel we

intend to defend ourselves.

(And let us not kid ourselves.

When I say "defend," I mean that we are playing this "game"

with our defensive

unit).

To sum it up, it is as though the

opposition not only wants to make the rules of the game, but

also insists on dictating who and who not we can use in the

game.

It is that simple.

What Is the SSC's Motivation Which Has Created This Issue?

Obviously, I cannot answer this question with any

degree of certainty.

But I can make a studied guess. I have

been the Bureau's consultant on theyinterviews by the SSC, most

of them by soc stall Member Michaelstenin the king case!

There have been instances When, aften consulting with me, an

Agent or former Agent would be

counseled by me to not answer a

particular question.

I have done this generally for two main

reasons.

First and

foremost, it has been vitally necessary for

me to protect the identities of most important and valued

Informants relating to the SOLO operationand more will be (u

said about this later in this memorandum.

been many instances where the interview has gone well outside

agreed upon parameters necessitating my advice in some

instances for personnel to not answer certain questions. This

was the correct and only course of action I could take. It

has obviously rankled the SSC (actually, probably just Epstein).

I believe that this is evident from the

: 34-page LHM which I

recently prepared on Epstein interview of me and which I have been

told the consensus is that it clearly indicated my considerable

cooperation with the SSC but that at the same time I was not

permitting myself to be dominated.

If Epstein believes me a

hindrance to his work, it is logical to believe he would desire

my removal.

I might add at this point that there have been a

number of instances

where the consultation with me by personnel

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RE:

SENSTUDY-75

62-116395

CONFIDENTAL

has resulted in my directing that answers be given.

As a

matter of tact,

I am sure that

to be given that to not be given.

If lotten directed answers

When the issue (involving my removal) first arose

about two weeks ago, I was given to understand that Epstein,

as a result of interviewing me, might believe that I had a

direct involvement in the King composite tape which was

prepared in the Laboratory and mailed to the King family and

that there, therefore, appeared to be a "conflict in interest"

on my part if I continued to handle the King case aspects for

SENSTUDY-75. As I full well know, and as I believe my

superiors are also convinced, I have been honest and forthright

on this issue. I was not directly involved in the composite

tape preparation or mailing and thus there is no "conflict of

interest."

The Shaheen Letter of 8/20/75

I do not believe that Shaheen's letter and its relay

of the Deputy Attorney General's (DAG) suggestion as to my

removal is altogether timely under the circumstances. First,

Shaheen is aware that I was interviewed on the King case and

that he would receive the results thereof, as he has of all King

interviews we know details about. Shouldn't Shaheen and indeed

ade thes

the DAG have first had the benefit of the results of the interview

of me? (Shaheen now has it as my 34-page LHM was delivered to

him 8/20/75).

Secondly, wouldn't it have been far more

appropriate for the Department to have at least first asked for

our views before making the suggestion as to my removal?

The DAG refers to Church's letter as having "some

merit." I find "some merit" unconvincing.

It seems to me that

for the action being asked for by the DAG's suggestion there

should be a showing by Church of considerable or substantial

merit, not just "some." To me, "some" could apply to merit which

is minuscle in proportion.

Arguments Persuasive of My Not Being Removed

I am concerned of the precedent that might be set by my

removal. Just as I have by chance become the Bureau's "expert"

on the King case and also had supervised that case, we have two

other similar situations in the hopper at the moment. Supervisor

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Memorandum to Mr. W. R. Wannall

RE :

SENSTUDY -75

62-116395

James Lee has been considerably involved in handling our responses

to the ssC concerning mail opening operations and he personally

supervised matters relating to this down

through the years.

Supervisor David Ryan has been immersed in preparing material and

coordinating the preparation of material relating to COINTELPRo.

He likewise was the principal overall Bureau supervisor relating

to COINTELPRO down through the years.

significantly, both ot

these areas, like the King case, have been designated as abuse

areas by the SSC. Remove Phillips today from the King case and

we might be asked to remove Lee and Ryan tomorrow from their

participating in the SENSTUDY-75 project.

Surely we cannot

permit the loss of these men in these important areas.

In his letter, Church refers to my "personal interest."

I have no personal interest as I am not guilty of any illegality,

impropriety, abuse or whatever.

My only interest in the King

case has and remains an official one and I am prepared to defend

anything and everything I did officially in that case.

There is no showing in either of the communications

attached that the FBI's (and, thusly, also the Department's)

interests will be adversely affected by my continued assignment

in this matter.

Conversely, there are strong arguments available

to show that my being removed could well work to the detriment of

the FBI/Department. I refer now to our SOLO operation and the

overriding necessity for protecting the informants engaged therein

There has already been one clear cut important example where I

believe it is likely that I prevented information from being

acquired by the SSC which could well have been damaging to us

and the informants.

This concerned the testimony in an Executive

Session of former SA Robert Nichols.

I accompanied him to that

Session although not present.

My questioning of him in advance

of his testimony revealed that he had, or at least believed he had,

revealed, that

certain information which, if given to the SSC, about one Stanley

Levison, could well have been most damaging to

the secret Communist Party member who was King's principal

advisor).

When questioning of Nichols turned to Levison's back-

ground, Nichols resisted questioning and eventually told Epstein

that he was proceeding on advice of me. I felt that it was

imperative to have given him that advice and the record of the

Nichols testimony and factors relating thereto are clear on this.

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W.

R. Wannall

tUNE

HIAL

Immodestly I must be candid to let you know that there

is not likely another individual presently on the rolls of the

Bureau who would have the background and knowledge of all aspects

of the king and related matters to be able to handle the important

consultation phase of the SENSTUDY-75 project relating to the

King matter.

Additional Observations Which Should Be Considered in Any Overall

Judgment On This Matter

In his letter, Shaheen refers to "for the sake of

appearances."

To me this is far too general and imprecise to

be used as an argument of merit. Just exactly who does he

have in mind in respect to "appearances?" Appearances to whon?

Senator Church is equally imprecise in his reference to

"standpoint of appearances." Appearances to whom? He refers to

"some may conclude" that there is a conflict between my personal

interest and the interests of the FBI and the Department of

Justice. Exactly who are the "some" he refers to?

It appears to be an irony indeed that Church can very

indirectly and obliquely suggest possible improprieties on my

part, improprieties in the eyes of unspecified persons, without

the Senator citing even a single specific example or incident

and his obvious lack of ability to do so after

the exposure by

the SSC to considerable involvement on my part. I say it is

ironical because at the same time that there is an oblique

suggestion as to an impropriety on my part, the sse staff, whicl

is looking into abuses, has been guilty.

There are a number oi

improprieties which I am prepared to document. Some examples are

illustrated.

After my first consultation experience which occurred

in Atlanta, Georgia, when SSC Staff Member Lester Seidel

interviewed retired

SA Alan G. Sentinella, I wrote a memorandum

from W. O. Cregar to you (Mc. Wannall) dated 5/13/75.

I pointed

out two instances related to this interview which were very

suggestive of a lack of objectivity on the part of Seidel.

One

concerned Seidel's comment

that the FBI was not letting Sentinella

give him

"good information."

I pointed out that to begin with

this was an unjustified allegation and Seidel was set straight

immediately after his remark.

Actually, the mere fact that Seidel

was referring to "good" information suggested that certain

information fits SSC's desires and others does not.

There appeared

to be a lack of regard for merely securing the

facts regardless of

what those facts might indicate. Another indicator of lack of

objectivity was sender stinguy about

"illegal use of taps."

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Our files are replete with instances where Epstein, in

questioning present and former SAs, has gone outside the parameters

agreed upon for interviews.

There have been instances where interviews were

conducted with former SAs without giving us agreed advance

recently one pertained to former

Laboratory section chiet Richard Millen and John IllifE of

the SSC, when it was brought to his attention, agreed that

we should have had advance notice and apologized.

Another

concerned an interview former Assistant Director Charles Brennan.

I find the bulk of Church's letter is comprised of

weasel-worded innuendos. He uses such terms as "may be

a cause of

concern"; "possible problem"; "presumably, compiling

materials." The latter reference is to a presumption that I am

compiling materials for the SSC on the King case.

It seems to

me that the Senator should either know or not know the fact, and

if he does not know, he should not presume anything. To set the

record straight, I have not been compiling materials. The

assignments have been made to other personnel.

I have, however,

assisted the other personnel in locating materials and

in

coordinating replies.

And, of course, I do review the replies

prior to their transmittal.

As a matter of fact, if the SSC's

insistence that I be removed were to come to pass, I believe

that it would end up

having actually suffered to a degree in

securing information from us. Our retrieval system is not the

best Ior the purposes we have encountered and my participation

in the retrieval of much of the material involved has placed me

in a position to locate or assist in locating material whicl

might well otherwise never be located for the SSC.

It seems strange indeed that in these days of such

concern by Congress for the rights and privacy of individuals,

there seems to be no addressing my privacy or rights in this matter.

I find it also strange that the Senator never once

mentioned my name in his letter. He, or whoever prepared the

letter, certainly knew my name.

I would like to know why the

Senator chose not to mention my name.

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FIDENTIAL

Again referring to when this matter first surfaced

about two weeks ago, the initial advice to me of it was by you,

Mr. Wannall, who had obtained your information orally from

Messrs. Shaheen and Blackhurst of the Department, who had

apparently received their information orally from the SSC. I

explained my position and I received from you your confidence

One aspect related to the fact that the SSC "compläint"

was far too general and that if the SSC had something to say it

ought to be in writing and specific. I appreciated and so stated

to you this confidence in my integrity in this entire matter.

You next told me that you had discussed this matter with

Associate Director Callahan who shared your views both as to my

integrity and as to the issue relating to obtaining specifics,

not generalities, and in writing.

It heartened me.

Finally,

you passed to me the fact that Mr. Callahan had discussed the

matter with the Director and the general reaction was that the

SSC would first have to

• "put up or shut up" before any action

would be taken as

to my removal. This was likewise most

heartening to me.:

I

see nothing in either the Church or Shaheen letters

that indicates the SSC has "put up." As far as I am concerned

the SSC has dealt with generalities and has produced nothing

of substance.

I trust that our position

today would be, the same

as it was initially, "put up or shut up."

Not surprising is Church's verbiage, such as serving

"the interests of the country" and

"assure the American people."

To me, this may sound alright as a speech on the floor of the

Senate or a political speech.

It is very unconvincing to me in

the context of the issue involved.

Summarizing and concluding as to the Church letter, .

em reminded of the often told story about the Texan, a man of

considerable proportion, some 6'6"

in height and weighing about

250 pounds. As the story goes, when all the Bs is squeezed out

That's how I feel about the

Church letter.

Jim Adams In town and this memorandum would have to pass through

Sorry Jim!).

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RECOMMENDATION:

I believe it is obvious as to how I feel about acceding

to the suggestion of the SSC and the Department.

I hope I have

been helpful in preparing this memorandum.

I would be happy to

discuss it with the Director.

The Ilnal decision Is, of course,

his and I will, as I have done for almost 35 years, be guided

by that decision.

warmall

resence

coordenatesia

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To

been

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SECRET

AUG 2 0 1975

John A. Mintz, Assistant Director

Lisgal Counsel Division

Federal Bureau of Investigation

FROM:

Michael E. Shaheen, Jr.

Special Counsel for Intelligence

Coordination

SUBJECT: Seymor Phillips

The attached letter is self-explanatory and, though mentzoning

no name, concerns Seynor Phillips.

On Friday, August 15, 1975, I orally advised Messrs. Callahan

ant Wannall that the Deduty Attorney General thought that Senator

Church's letter had some merit and that for the sake of appearances

it was the Deputy's suggestion that Mir. Phillips be removed from

such conspicuous and open involvement with the SSC's reguests and

agent interviews as they may relate to Martin Luther King matters.

Mir. Callahan

Hir. Wannall

SII, FBI INTORITAMION DOLILADUELS

HERE IS UNCLE SUITE

DAME 016/00515panel;

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" FRANK CHURCH, IDAHO, CHAIRMAN

JOHN G. TOWER, TEXAS, VICE C'IAIRMAN

PHILIP A. HART.

WALTER F: MONDALE MINN.

HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., TENM.

WARRY GOLDWATER, ARIZ.

WALTER D. MUDULESTUN, KY.

RODERT MORGAN, N.C.

CHARLE

MCC. MATHIAS, JR., MD.

-GARY HART, COLO.

RICHAt

5. SCHWEIKER, PA.

WILLIAM G. MILLER, STA

DIRECTOR

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

CURTIS R. SMOTHERS, MINORITY COUNSEL

Sai.

@nited States Senate

SELECT COMMITTEE TO

STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH

RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

(PURSUANT TO S. RES, 21, 81TH CONGRESS)

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510

August 14, 1975

Honorable Edward H. Levi

Attorney General

U. S. Department of Justice

Washington, D. C. 20530

Dear Mi. Attorney General:

ALL'NFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

I am writing to call your attention to a mat-

ter which may be a cause of concern to you and to the

Select Committee at some time in the future.

you may know, a special unit has been estab-

lished in th= FBI Intelligenca Division to bandle this

Conmittee's requests for materials and to handle certain

arrangements for the Committee staff's interviews.

Special Agents assigned to this unit accompany Bureau

witnesses to the Committee offices, travel to out-of-town

locations where Committee staff interviews are conducted,

and apparently "de-brief" interview subjects after the

interviews.

One possible problem has arisen with this arrange-

ment.

As you are aware, one of the alleged abuses which

the Committee is examining pursuant to S: Res. 21 involves

the FBI's activities with respect to the late Dr. Martin

Luther King, JI.

As the inquiry has proceeded, informa-

tion has been developed to indicate that one of the

•Special Agents who has been handling Committee staff inter-

views,

"de-briefing" witnesses, and, presumably, compiling

materials with respect to the King matter was also the

supervisory case agent during the time that some of the

alleged FBI improprieties regarding DI. King took place.

Moreover, as a logical step in our investigation, it was

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recently necessary to interview this Special Agent to

determine the nature and extent of his involvement in and

knowledge of the alleged abuses at the time when he served

as supervisory case agent with respect to the King case.

During the interview he did provide detailed information

concerning his substantial participation in this matter.

The Committee in no way intends at this juncture

to pre-judge the propriety of the FBI's activities with

respect to Dr. King, and it would be inappropriate to

characterize

the conduct of any of the Bureau's personnel

regarding this case until all the facts are in.

Neverthe-

less, I am concerned that in this kind of situation, the

interests of the FBI and the Depärtment of Justice might

best be served, from the standpoint of appearances, by re-

cunsidering the assignment di this opcoial Agent to the

King matters.

It is possible that some may conclude that

there is a conflict between the Special Agent's personal

interest, and the interests of the FBI and the Justice

Dopartment in ensuring that full disclosure to the Commit-

tee is made with respect to this case.

has

Finally, let me assure you that the Committee

no evidence that the present arrangement has prevented

the Committee from obtaining the full disclosures sought;

but it seems to me that it would be mutually beneficial

for appropriate steps to be taken so that we will both be

able to assure the American people and the Congress that

our oversight responsibilities were fulfilled in an objec-

tive and impartial way•

I hope you will share my view that this course

will best serve our respective interests

and, of course,

the interests of the country.

rank Church

Chairman

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SENSTUDY '75

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Enclosed for the Bureau are eight copies each of

LHMs covering interviews by the U.S. Senate Select Committee

on Intelligence Activities covering interviews of SAC CHARLES W.

BATES, SA LEO S. BRENNEISEN, and former SAS DAVID E. TODD, ALBERT P,

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It is noted that accompanying the LiM concerning

interview of former SA DAVID E. TODD is a three-page xerox of

sa brief summary and chronology prepared by TODD and furnished

to Mr. SEIDEL.

It is noted that the chronology under the date

of 8/19/70 bears a notation, "CLEAVER released from prison."

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In Reply, Please Refer 10

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 15, 1975

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED.

HEREIN IS. UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 271.30/2331512 TAP/ NEC SWANE MAM CHARLES W. BATES

CA#15-6203

and Mx. Lock Johnson, Staff Members of the Senate Select™

the evening of August 11, 1975, MI. Lester Seidel

the senate

Committee, met with Special Agent in Charge Charles W. Bates

of the San Francisco Office.

This meeting occurred over dinner.

No statements were made by either of these individuals as to

any rights

that SAC Bates might have in connection with the

interview.

During the dinner, Mr. Seidel referred to COINTELPRO

involving the FBI's investigation of the Black Panther Party

in San Francisco. Bates advised him that he was in charge of

the San Francisco Office from July, 1967 until the end of

April, 1970, when he was transferred to Chicago. Bates stated

that he was

aware of the investigation being conducted on the

Black Panther Party but was not personally conversant with

all the details of this investigation as such details were

all contained in the FBI's file.

Mr. Seidel referred to specific facts occurring in other parts

of the country involving anonymous letters sent to individuals

under COINTELPRO. He asked if Bates agreed that these actions

were proper.

Mr. Seidel was told that Bates had no way of

knowing the facts as he related were true or any other of

the circumstances

involved and that, therefore, he was unable

to comment at all.

MI. Seidel asked if Bates had any recommendations

for legislatión which the Committee could propose that would

assist

the FBI in the domestic counterintelligence field.

Bates informed him that he was not fully conversant with this

entire field and that it was thefperogative of FBI officials

•at Washington and Department of Justice officials to recommend

such legislation.

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions

of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your

your agency.

agency, it and its contents are not to be distributed outside

12-116393=

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SSC;

INTERVIEW OF SAC

CHARLES W. BATES

BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

that an extension of electronic surveillances into the domestic

intelligence field would be of assistance. Bates informed

him that the FBI was operating according to current court

decisions as involve electronic surveillances and that the

courts had recently precluded this action in strictly domestic

intelligence matters.

Mr. Seidel was informed that this was

a decision for FBI officials in Washington.

occasion Bates informed him that he was not aware of the

"Houston Plan" and his only knowledge of it is what he has

seen in the public press.

At one time Mr. Johnson asked if

thought that Mr. Hoover had turned down the "Houston

Plan" because he was afraid for his job. Bates again replied

that he had no firsthand knowledge having anything to do with

"Houston Plan" but he was certainly aware that Mr. Hoover

was not afraid

of anything or anyone.

Both Mr. Johnson and Mr. Seidel asked if Bates felt

that the use of "black bag jobs"

would be of advantage in

conducting domestic counterintelligence operations.

Bates

replied that he had no personal direct knowledge of such matters

and

had never been involved in such matters.

OVERSIGHT

During the evening, Mr. Seidel asked if Bates felt

that a congressional oversite. committee of the FBI was sound

and proper.

coat of congressional derate lot a a res with uhtive.

and not destructive.

Mr. Seidel asked if Bates felt that the

FBI's security operation

should be completely divorced from

its criminal responsibilities and handled as a separate

agency

or a separate part of the FBI.

Bates informed him that it

appeared that the FBI's efforts in both the criminal and the

security field had been effective and appeared to be proper

in its present context.

Mr. Seidel inquired if Bates was

personally acquainted with Mr. William C. Sullivan, former

FBI official.

Mr. Seidel was informed that Bates worked in

the same division with Mr. Sullivan in the 1950's and knew

him

as another supervisor at FBI Headquarters.

Seidel then asked if Bates was aware of the dis-

agreements that Mr. Sullivan had had with Mr. Hoover and he

was informed that he had no details concerning this matter.

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SSC;

INTERVIEW OF SAC

CHARLES W. BATES

BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

Mr. Seidel asked if Bates

knew former SAC Harry

Morgan. Bates told him that he knew him as he had replaced

him as

; SAC in San Francisco at the end of April, 1970.

then asked It Bates was aware of why Mr. Morgan was transierrea

from San Francisco,

Bates told him that some problem had

but that they would be available at FBI, Headquarters.

said the only reason he was asking was that he was thinking

about interviewing Mr. Morgan but he did not want to embarrass

him and then asked if Morgan's transfer from San Francisco

had anything to do with a drinking problem.

Bates said again

that he was not aware of the specifics.

on the afternoon of August 13, 1975, Mr. Lock Johnson

came into the San Francisco FBI Office saying he had just a

few more questions he wanted to ask Bates.

He then asked if

the San Francisco Office was involved in foreigh counter-

intelligence work, and he was informed that we were as were

many other FBI offices.

He then asked if we surveilled every-

one who went into or came out of the Soviet Consulate in San

Francisco.

He was informed that Bates did not intend to dis-

cuss with

him any investigative techniques or anything having

to do with pending investigations.

Mr. Johnson said he was

attempting to find some individual who was an expert in foreign

counterintelligence, particularly the Soviet threat to the

United States. Bates informed him that there were probably

a number of people in the United States who would qualify in

this category but Bates did not consider himself as an expert

during these dabove represents specific matters brought up

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File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL, BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 13, 1975

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED.

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE /1/30/83 BY 5P-2 TAP) U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITIBE ON

ROG INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

INTERVIEW OF SA LEO S. BRENNEISEN BY

SSC STAFF MEMBER

Prior to interview by SSC Staff Member, SA LEO S.

BRENNEISEN telephonically contacted SA DENNIS MILLER at

FBI Headquarters making four inquiries on Zugust 6, 1975;

on the same date, the following answers were received?

is it permissible for agent to give general

answers concerning the Black Panther Party (BPP) as to

membership number and Chapter numbers at various dates?

Answer: Yes.

Local media has previously set forth a memorandum

purportedly from the FBI, San Francisco Office, suggesting

consideration should be given to furnishing fabricated

documents originating with the Oakland Police Department

and the FBI, San Francisco, when, in fact, the memorandum

came from the Bureau.

If questioned concerning this memorandum,

may agent point out that this document originated with the

Bureau rather than San Francisco?

Answer: Yes.

In contemplation of possible questioning concerning

false correspondence directed to ELDRIDGE CLEAVER and others

abroad, can agent refer SSC Staff to Bureau when questioned

concerning identity of agents. preparing correspondence?

Answer: Yes.

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 SA LEO S. BRENNEISEN

Is it necessary for agent to express an opinion

as to morality, legality of said Counterintelligence

Program (COINTEL) ?

Answer: You are not obliged to answer those

questions you do not desire to answer, but if you wish you

may comment on the legality or morality of the plan.

SA DENNIS MILLER related that he desired that it

be borne in mind that the Bureau in no way wished to impede

the SSC investigation.

LESTER B. SEIDEL, SSC Staff Member, appeared at the

'San Francisco Office of the FBI on August 11, 1975, and

interviewed :SA LEO BRENNEISEN from 1:03 PM to 2:30

PM.

SEIDEL prefaced the interview by explaining that hé had

been advised that BRENNEISEN was the Coordinator for the

COINTEL in San Francisco from May 16, 1969 to May I, 1970.

It was pointed out to him that the case was assigned to

agent from May 16, 1969 to May 1, 1971.

SEIDEL asked if agent had, in fact, approved all

proposals coming from the San Francisco Office. He was

advised that not necessarily because if another agent made

a proposal the person approving it in San Francisco would

be the person signing the outgoing mail, namely, the Supervisor

or Relief

supervisor.

SEIDEL asked what Squad agent had been assigned

to during this Program,

and he was advised S-6.

He inquired

if there was any COINTEL in San Francisco against US; he

was advised to the contrary.

He inquired as to the usual

number of cases assigned agent, and was advised that to

agent's best recollection probably 30 at any one time. He

asked if agent's work was exclusively security during the

handling of the COINTEL Program and he was advised

agent

did have some criminal assignments.

He inquired it there

was

any relationship between COINTEL and

criminal assignments,

and he was advised no and that agent desired to limit the

scope of his questioning to the COINTEL Program.

SEIDEL then asked how many suggestions the agent

had submitted in COINTEL. . He was advised that an estimate

would be difficult but probably the nearest figure would be

some two suggestions a month with possibly six months in

two years when no suggestions were made. He inquired as

to agent's knowledge of what percentage of total proposals

from all

sources submitted to the Bureau had been approved,

and he was advised

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, U.S. " SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) ;

INTERVIEW OF SA LEO S. BRENNEISEN

At this point, SEIDEL requested agent to outline the

types of COINTEL proposals submitted by San Francisco.

He

was answered that anonymous letters, letters with pseudonyms,

and letters signed with the name of an existing person had

It was pointed out that the program had included

the use of anonymous letters, including those directed to

landlords advising that the Black Panther Party was occupying

their property; letters to people supporting BIP programs,

' including the Breakfast Program and enclosing copies of the

BPP color book for children encouraging the shooting of

police officers and/or articles from the "Black Panther

Party", the official BPP newspaper, showing their propensity

and

advocacy of violence; letters to organizations containing

articles that showed the BPP in direct opposition to their

aims, such as a letter to a Jewish organization showing BPP

support

of palestine guerrillas.

It was pointed out that letters had been directed

to ELDRIDGE CLEAVER in Algeria in the names of BPP members.

At this point, SEIDEL interrupted to explain that he was

enlisting the

complete cooperation of the interviewee, that

there had been some Congressional criticism of the COINTEL,

that there were some segments of the population that were

anti-FBI and that he desired to present the FBI in a proper

desiret to

light, and that he

had good friends in the Bureau.

SEIDEL asked, was it necessary to have utilized

COINTEL. Agent advised that it was difficult to correctly.

judge the effect of the program but it was felt it was not

without some effect because the Black Panther Party had not

only dwindled from a

• membership of approximately 1,000 in

1969 to perhaps 200 in 1973, but that the organization became

split with dissension and had dropped much of its former

advocacy for violence.

SEIDEL then requested that the agent give his

recommendation on what COINTEL in the future should be;

whether there should be a division between security and

criminal investigations to different agencies in order that

a possible intrusion on the rights of an individual in

intelligence matters might not necessarily preclude his

being prosecuted by the Bureau

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refused to furnish his "off-thecuff" opinion, pointing

out that he felt that it was without the scope of his

release.

types of COINTEL proposals, SEIDEL next asked if the

at the time COINTEL was initiated, and what proposals were

submitted in COINTEL based on information from ELSUR.

SEIDEL was advised agent's release would not allow

him to discuss ELSUR.

SEIDEL asked if the San Francisco Division had made

any "snitch" proposals. When asked to clarify

the question,

he stated that this was a suggestion to the effect that a

Black Panther Party member be accused of being an FBI

informant.

Agent replied that to the best of his recollection

no such recommendations had been made

to the Bureau by San

Francisco, and on the contrary, agent knew that it had been

pointed out by San Francisco that any such allegation. should

be most carefully considered inasmuch as BPP history has

indicated that they had dealt severely with suspected infor-

mants, even to the point of killing them.

SEIDEL then asked if the San Francisco Division

had received a great deal of "flak" from the Bureau on this

program.

He was advised that the Bureau operates a "tickler

system"

for following investigations and that the program

had received some priority from the fBI but agent had never

considered correspondence from the Bureau as being "flak".

SEIDEL at this point instead of questioning made

the statement that the Bureau gave this matter "high priority".

No comment was made to this statement.

SEIDEL next questioned agent if he had read any

publicity concerning a May 1l, 1970 letter from the Bureau

- to San Francisco entitled, "Special Operations Research", in

which it was suggested that some consideration be given to

furnishing the BPP spurious documents that supposedly

originated with the Oakland Police Department and the FBI.

He explained that some newspaper had received a copy of the

document under the Freedom of Information Act and thereafter

published it. He inguired if a response to the letter

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had been made by San Francisco. Agent advised that it was

his recollection that San Francisco had responded recommending

against both proposals, pointing out that the BEP had in the

short past published contingency plans of the Berkeley Police

Department for a said on National Headquarters to the

embarrassment of that agency.

San Francisco was of the

opinion that if spurious documents were furnished to the

BPP they would immediately publish them, rather than attempt

to develop an informant and the operation presented a great

• deal of possible embarrassment and publicity for the Bureau.

SEIDEL asked for agent's knowledge of why the letter

had been captioned as previously described rather than

Counterintelligence Program, Black Panther Party. Agent

stated he had no recollection of exact caption of the letter.

SEIDEL then went on to explain that he had been advised

that

the Bureau had several COINTELS and the one covering Special

operations Research was

a COINTEL covering foreign operations.

Agent made no comment.

SEIDEL requested what proposals had been made to

disrupt the BPP newspaper; how did the proposals originate,

and what offices submitted them. He was advised that it was

agent's recollection that the Bureau may have requested

suggestions from several offices but that to agent's knowledge

none had been approved.

When SEIDEL continued to question the

agent concerning specific proposals and why their approval

was not recommended by San Francisco, he was advised that one

proposal was the use

of a foul-smelling chemical to put on

the paper. San Francisco was of the opinion it would not .

be practical inasmuch as it would contaminate an airplane

and would subject the airline or the printing company to

damages. SEIDEL was further advised that it was believed

the suggestion may have been made for the changing of a first

page of an issue at the printing company to embarrass the BPP,

but it was pointed out that this would also merely result in

• a claim being filed against the printer.

SEIDEL was advised that there may have been a

suggestion that some thought should be given to the possible

delay of the plates for the paper, that suggestion coming .

at the time when the paper was being printed in New York

with the master copy being filmed in San Francisco. San

Francisco did not suggest approval because a mere delay would

have been of little benefit because the paper was not timely.

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SEIDEL asked about the disruption of the BPP

Breakfast Program. The answer was given that agent had

no recollection of this, and SEIDEL was asked did he have

any information from the Bureau that we had attempted a

disruption of the program in San Francisco. He related

that he believed not and that it probably happened ir

San Diego.

SEIDEL asked about a suggestion that informants

set up a possible confrontation between the BPP and the

Republic of New Africa (RNA). Agent stated he had no

recollection of such a proposal and did not believe it had

been

submitted by San Francisco because the membership and

activity in RNA had been minimal in this area.

SEIDEL then asked if we had suggested that landlords

in the San Francisco area be encouraged to insist on their

rent from the BPP. Agent advised he had no recollection

of this, but could see nothing wrong in it.

SEIDEL inquired as to the amount of knowledge.

that SAC CHARLES BATES would have had concerning COINTEL.

He was advised that agent had no information, that he, himself,

had never discussed the program with Mr. BATES while it was

in operation SEIDEl, then inquired if former SAC HARRY

MORGAN had been ill during the time he was assigned to San

Francisco-and-the reason for his transfer.

Agent replied

he had"no information concerning-this-matter.

SEIDEL was asked if he felt that anyof the actions

agent described as being taken by the San Francisco Division

were illegal. SEIDEL stated that he did not believe that

these were matters that were in violation of any existing

criminal statutes, but there might be some question as to

whether the FBI had the specific authority to do these things.

SEIDEL ended the interview by again reiterating

• inquiry and

desired to obtain the opinions of both Headquarters

and agents in the field, and that he may make a request to the

Bureau to widen the scope of agent's release.

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Agent was not placed under oath and when agent

refused to furnish opinions in those cases noted above or

to discuss ELSUR, SEIDEL suggested that he, SEIDEL, put

away his pencil and pad.

Agent replied that that was not

necessary.

The only right explained to agent was the fact

that all information furnished by him was at his own

volition and was entirely voluntary.

No mention was made

that any part of the interview might be utilized in a

possible court proceeding against

the agent.

Agent did not consult with Bureau representative

during course of the interview.

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In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 14, 1975

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED.

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE/1/30/33 BYSP-2 TAPIRBG

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

INTERVIEW OF FORMER SA ALBERT P. CIARK

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

On August 13, 1975, former Special Agent Albert P.

Clark, who was a supervisor in the San Francisco FBI Office

and who retired in December of 1969, advised as follows:

He was interviewed in his home at 66 Elm,

Larkspur, California, by SSC Member Lester B. Seidel from

5:40 P.M. to 6:55 P.M., August 12, 1975.

Clark was not placed under oath and no mention

was made of his rights. However, Seidel was pleasant and

in no way antagonistic. The interview was general, not

penetrative, not in depth, and very few specific questions were

asked.

There appeared to be no discernible criticism of

either the Counterintelligence Program (COINTEL) or the

Bureau's investigation of the Black Panther Party (BPP) Dy

Seidel.

Seidel was compelled on more than one occasion

to declare that he was pro-FBI, that the object of his

inquiries was to assist the United States Senate in under-

standing the problem in order that they could consider

possible legislation that may eliminate any abuses in the

future.

information had been leaked to the press that Jane

seidel did mention the fact several tire seber?"

the movie actress, had become pregnant by a BPP official.

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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Seidel finally asked Clark if he would have okayed

a COINTEL proposal like this and he answered that he would

have if he felt that it would have sufficiently hindered

the BPP, stating that possibly in some of these occasions

someone might get hurt but on the other hand,

of the BPP by the FBI might be made easier and it might

also cut down on the number of BPP supporters.

Clark was asked to whom the main BPP case was

assigned and to whom COINTEL had been assigned in the San

Francisco Division.

Clark replied that he did not remember

but possibly during the time of his supervision, more than

one Agent.had handled the matters.

Seidel asked how many BPP informants the San

Francisco Division had. Clark replied he did not recall

one he did not believe that selded had a right to know.?

seidel inquired about the BPP wire tap, asking

who had requested the tap, the Bureau or the San

• Francisco

Division.

Again, Clark replied that he did not recall but

the San Francisco Division would not have necessarily

waited for the Bureau to initiate the matter but might have

requested the Bureau rather than the Bureau having initiated

the matter.

Seidel wanted to have an example of a COINTEL

proposal.

He was not given a specific example but general

conversation was had to the effect that any move that might

be suggested that would aid the San Francisco Division in

their investigation of the BPP in determining their

supporters and financiers and possibly disenchanting those

individuals might be an example.

Seidel did not ask Clark whether he had done a

particular thing.

Questioned concerning whether he felt COINTEL had

been effective, Clark replied he did not believe the matter

was susceptible to proof but the BPP had sure gone into a

steep decline.

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Seidel again brought up the Seberg matter and

asked if it had done any good. Clark stated he replied,

"Maybe."

During this conversation, Clark got the general

impression that perhaps Seidel did not feel that COINTEL

had been necessary but Clark had argued that it had made

the BPP more difficult to operate and possibly easier

for the FBI to investigate.

Seidel then wanted to know what there was about

the BPP that caused such a concentration of FBI investi-

gative attention.

to be answered in the context of time, that at the time the

program was initiated, there was no doubt that the BPP

a violent, racist organization opposing all law enforce-

ment, attacking officers and

generally disturbing the

tranquility of the community.

Seidel then went on to discuss the business of

Had Special Agent in Charge Charles W. Bates

and the Bureau put too much pressure on the matter? Clark

stated there was undoubtedly pressure because everyone

was interested in doing the best type job possible

and

finding out everything possible concerning the BPP. There

was obvious pressure from the Bureau in the matter and the

Bureau, in a

case like this, could never be satisfied.

Clark stated that he related that perhaps too much

pressure had come from the Bureau because he had felt at

the time he was a

supervisor that San Francisco Division

knew more about the BPP than the Bureau. On the other

hand, he related that Bureau officials were probably

under pressure because of the national interest and the

demands on them in Washington.

Seidel related that he was interested in ascer-

taining what Agent would make the best witness to appear

in Washington to explain and testify concerning COINTEL.

He specifically requested Clark's recommendation and mentioned

the names of Special Agents Leo S. Brenneisen of San

Francisco and Bob Baker of Los Angeles.

Clark stated that

he had countered by suggesting that somebody in Washington

who directed the program and approved all proposals might

be a better witness.

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Clark recalled that near the first of the inter-

view, Seidel probably, more to make conversation than to

obtain information, asked a few questions concerning US

and the Republic of North Africa (RNA). He was

advised

that US had not been active in this division and there had

been no pertinent RNA activity brought to his attention.

Seidel asked if Ron Karenga of US had visited San Francisco

and Clark replied he had no exact recollection of this.

Seidel talked and asked Clark's opinion on the

separation into different agencies of the Bureau's criminal

security investigations.

Clark stated that he told

Seidel that in the past he had considered this and felt that

frankly it might have advantages, and at the same time,

might have disadvantages.

He pointed out that the

disadvantages were that you could not be sure that it, in

fact, would work and that if you remove the security

investigations from the Bureau, you would undoubtedly

lose a great deal, including public support.

Seided asked if Clark had worked under former

SAC Harry- Morgan.

He advised that he had retired prior tô- - -

the time Morgan was assigned tö the San Francisco Division. ...

Clark pointed out that during the interview, a

recorder appeared prominently on his desk, and Seidel.

could, of course, not be sure that it was not in operation,

although as the duration of the interview lengthened,

it

must have been obvious to seidel that it was not operating.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

San Francisco, California

August 14, 1975

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED.

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

DATE /1/30/83 BY 5P-2.TAP/RB G

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

•INTERVIEW OF FORMER SA WILLIAM A. COHENDET

BYSSC STAFF MEMBER

William A. Cohendet was.

: On August 14, 1975, retired former Special Agent •

dg has:

Interviewed from 9:30. A.M: to:

21:15 A.M. by Lester B: Seidel, Investigator fola issci..

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activites

The interview took place at the Holiday Inn on Van Ness

Avenue, San Francisco.

Mr. Seidel mentioned that he was serving as a

counsel for the SSC, investigating all phases of the United

States intelligence community, and he had chosen the Black

Panther Party and the Counterintelligence Program (COINTEL)

as his field. He stated that he was hoping for full

cooperation on the part of the former Special Agent.

He was advised that former Special Agent Cohendet

was willing

to cooperate with the committee and he trusted

that something constructive would come out of the effort

being put forward.

Former Special Agent Cohendet also

pointed out that in his opinion the Black Panther Party (BPP)

had, been a group devoted to violence, thievery, and traud,

and the committee should realize the type of Subjects with

whom they are dealing in order to place the investigation

in its proper framework.

The first question concerned the former Special

Agent's background and Bureau service. This was briefly

furnished.

Seidel then asked when and how the technical

surveillances had been installed, who initiated them, and

who approved them.

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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INTERVIEW OF FORMER SA WILLIAM A. COHENDET BY

SSC STAFF MEMBER

The former Special Agent replied that he was

not party to any of these arrangements and did not know

any of the details.

Seidel then asked if former Special Agent

Cohendet knew the origin and purposes of the COINTEL

Program. He was informed that the former Agent did not

know the origin of the program, and said he believed its

purposes were those as set forth in the instructions which

Seidel had and which spoke for themselves.

The former

Agent admitted that said program at one time had been

assigned to him but due to the press of other functions,

he had been unable to give it a great deal of time and

felt that during the period that it had been assigned to

him, it had been largely ineffective.

Seidel then asked if there was any connection

between ELSUR and COINTEL and the reply was given that

obviously there would be if the ELSUR material being

reviewed could be considered as having any pertinence to

a COINTEL operation.

However, former Special Agent Cohendet

could not recall having used this material while the case

was assigned to him, at least to any

significant degree.

Not having the files available made it impossible to

state positively if there had been any specific instance of use

of this material.

Seidel asked as to the possible effectiveness of

anonymous letters and he was informed that in the opinion

of the former Agent,

such letters, particularly having to

do with personal infidelity or thievery, which were the

usual suggested avenues, would have little effect on the

recipients who were active in such fields themselves much

of the time.

In the more serious areas of perhaps trying

to falsely show that an individual was an FBI or police

informant, the former Special Agent said that the use of

this technique would not be used for fear of causing bodily

harm or death to an innocent person due to the well-known

propensity of the BPP of dealing harshly with any suspected

deviator let alone informant.

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Seidel then asked as to the value of ELSUR to

the BPP investigation and the former Special Agent stated

that in his belief it was extremely valuable in many ways.

For instance, it assisted

and

gauged the true Huey Newton,

his plans, and weaknesses.

It was also valuable in esti-

mating the possible effect of a certain COINTEL program

as possibly suggested by some other office.

As a result

of their information, the San Francisco Office usually

rejected most

suggestions as being unlikely to be successful.

Seidel wondered if ELSUR was not the most

valuable, single investigative aid that the Bureau had hac

in this investigation, and the former Special Agent agreed

that he was probably correct.

Seidel then wondered if the COINTEL proposals)

should be part of some legislation proposed by Congress

and the former Special Agent replied that the Bureau

officials, in his opinion, should be allowed to comment

on this because the fact that the program would be ineffective

against the BPP might not be a valid argument that it would

not work to better advantage in other circumstances.

Former Special Agent Cohendet declined to

comment on the effectiveness of COINTEL as used against

the socialist Workers Party, not having had any experience

with its use in that field.

Seidel then asked about informants and asked if

there had been any pressure from the Bureau in the develop-

ment of such sources.

Former Special Agent Cohendet

acknowledged that there certainly had been great pressure

in this direction, as it was well known that informants were

a necessary part of any investigation and a police organi-

zation can never give up on this phase of its work no matter

how difficult the circumstances were in their development.

In the case of the BPP, the development of informants was

particularly difficult because of the fear that many persons

in the black community felt concerning the BPP as well as

the lack of desire to cooperate against another black

person.

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SSC STAFF MEMBER

Seidel asked about foreign funds being raised

and given to the BPP, and former Special Agent Cohendet

recalled that "Masai" Hewitt and others went to Sweden

and other countries where the BPP raised money on speech

making tours.

Seidel then asked about any investigation of

BPP funds and former Special Agent Cohendet said that it

was his recollection that investigation of BPP funds had

been undertaken through legal channels but he had no

personal knowledge of the investigation and declined to

go further into this field.

Seidel asked about referrals of Bureau information

'to the Internal Revenue Service and former Special Agent

Cohendet said that he had no personal knowledge of what

had been done in this direction.

Seidel then asked about the affair between

Actress Jean Seberg

and "Masai" Hewitt, which had appeared

Hollywood gossip column and had alleged that Seberg

had become pregnant by Hewitt.

Seidel said that the Los

Angeles Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had

admitted leaking this information to someone in the press.

Former Special Agent Cohendet knew that this

couple had been lovers for a brief period but denied any

knowledge of any leak to the press by either San Francisco

or Los Angeles.

Seidel asked if the former Agent thought that

leaking this type of information was appropriate. No

comment was offered as to this question.

Seidel, at the conclusion of the interview, said

that he had noted that the "faking" of police records as

suggested had never been undertaken and he observed that he

believed the COINTEL abuses were being overplayed by the

press. From what he

learned in interviews in San Francisco,

It seemed to him that the program had been mostly played

down and indeed, an independent judgment had been exercised

in the implementation of the program.

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INTERVIEW OF FORMER SA WILLIAM A. COHENDET BA

SSC STAFF MEMBER

A general discussion of the BPP ensued in which

former Special Agent Cohendet reiterated the criminal

background and threatening attitude of many of the BPP

members, their mendacious ways, and their lack of credi-

bility in their public statements. The

former Special

Agent credited the news media with helping to build up

the BPP beyond its actual strength and influence.

Seidel asked about the former Agent's knowledge of

for the removal of former SAC Harry Morgan

"from San" -

Francisco. He said the only reason he was asking this

question was in order to avoid embarrassing former SAC

Morgan when he interviews him concerning his possible.-

knowledge of BPP activities sometime in the future. Former

Special Agent. Cohendet had no knowledge as to why

Mr. Morgan

was transferred.

In summation,

Seidel ventured the opinion that he

thought the ELSUR technique was far moré valuable in the

carrying out of the investigation of the BPP than the

COINTEL. Former Special Agent Cohendet had to agree

to the above observation.

Former Special Agent Cohendet was not advised

of any rights that he might have in declining to answer

any questions and Seidel said he was actually seeking

witnesses for a possible hearing

• in Washington, D.C.

He

stated that no names would be mentioned in any write-up

he would make concerning his interviews.

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File No.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED.

S UNCLASSIFIED

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 13, 1975

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

INTERVIEW OF FORMER

SA DAVID E. TODD

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

On August 12 1975 retired former SA David E. Toda

was

interviewed from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. by Lester B. Seidel,

Investigator for the SSC.

The interview took place at the

Holiday Inn, San Francisco.

By way of background, in'all contacts with Seidel

previously, former SA Todd has

indicated to him great reluctance

to discuss

these matters without clearance from the Bureau,

and pointed out to Seidel that the Bureau had released former

SA Todd from the Employment Secrecy Agreement for the purpose

of a staff interview, but Seidel was told that former SA Todd

did not think it was

either his

responsibility or his prerogative

to provide information or make information public; that while

employed he was acting as an Agent of the Federal Government

and felt it was the responsibility of the Federal Government to

provide the information, and that if the Senate Committee

desired information from former SA Todd, the questions should

have been submitted to him in writing, and his answers should

have been made in writing and first forwarded to the FBI, and

in writing and

then after the FBI determined it advisable to make these answers

more can our a

available to the Committee, that would have been the proper

channel.

Seidel pointed out the Committee and the Bureau had

made an agreement whereby the Bureau would make Agents available

to the Committee for interview.

Former SA Todd pointed out to

Seidel that he is not in the category of an Agent, being a

retired Agent, and

at this point there was

• no additional discussion

on 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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SSC;

INTERVIEW OF FORMER

SA DAVID E. TODD BY

SSC STAFF MEMBER

Seidel was also told that nothing that was said by

former SA Todd should be interpreted as being critical of

the Counterintelligence Program (COINTEL) itself, and that if

the Bureau felt that such a Program was necessary in the interest

of national defense, he had carried it out in the best way

he

saw fit, and that in

recommending against specific proposals

as being impractical or inadvisable, these recommendations were

against the specific incidents recommended and not against the

Program as a whole.

Seidel's first questions dealt with former SA Todd's

background and the extent of his Bureau service, and whether

he had worked security or criminal matters.

Former SA Todd

gave him chronologically the offices in which he had served

in the Bureau, and stated he had been associated from 1952 to

1956 with the Domestic Intelligence Division, Washington, D.C.,

and had become Supervisor in San Francisco in December, 1969,

of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and that during his Bureau

career

he had worked

both criminal and security matters.

Seidel asked the name of the squad which was originally

the

Racial Squad, and subsequently changed to Extremist Matters,

and he asked whether the work was strictly intelligence, or

whether it combined intelligence or criminal work. It was

pointed out Bombing Matters were originally being handled on

this Squad for a period of time, and that both the criminal

activities of the Panthers, as well as intelligence activities,

were combined in the assignment.

Seidel then asked when the technical surveillances on

the Panthers were installed. Former SA Todd replied that they

were functioning at the time he was appointed Supervisor.

Seidel

then asked how was the technical

surveillance related to the

COINTEL, if at all, and specifically whether information coming

from the technical

surveillance was used in carrying. out the

COINTEL.

Former SA Todd advised that he

could not recall

specifically what was done in either Program without reviewing

the

files and comparing the information therein with the source.

Seidel seemed very interested in this, but actually the question

could not be answered on the basis of recollection alone, and

was not.

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INTERVIEW OF FORMER

SA DAVID E. TODD BY

SSC STAFF MEMBER

Seidel then asked how would the Panther COINTEL

be defined with regard to aims, techniques and results.

The

answer to this was that the aims were to counter generally the

revolutionary objectives and activities of the Panthers.

The

question concerning techniques was left unanswered, and as

far as results go, former SA Todd told Seidel that he did not

feel there had been any great results from the Program as it was

pursued in the San Francisco Office, but he could not speak

for the rest of the Program as far as the Bureau is concerned.

Seidel asked whether the Agents working the criminal

aspects of the BPP received information that was received from

a technical

source, and he was told procedures by which

information had been routed to them in their cases, and that at

the time we operated these technical surveillances, we felt they

had been installed lawfully, and that the information received

could be used.

Seidel asked whether there was a great deal of pressure

put on the San Francisco Office for the development of informants.

He was told yes, that informants were the backbone of good law

enforcement and the Bureau constantly urged better informant

coverage.

Seidel asked if there had been similar pressure placed

on the office in the COINTEL, and former SA Todd replied that

he did not feel that any great pressure had been put on the

office to carry out this Program, but that the Bureau had recom-

mended the Program, however, had left it up to the office

pretty much as to how it should be carried out.

Seidel asked whether the Program had been successful

in causing dissention within the Party. Former SA Todd told

him that he did not feel this had been particularly effective

in any way, and that causing dissention had not been a primary

objective of the Program in the San Francisco Office, and that

the policy had been to use the Program for primarily two

purposes: 1) for the purpose of developing informants by

attempting to dissuade them from their loyalties to the Party;

and 2)

to make representations to Panthers for whom outstanding

arrest warrants had been issued in order to flush them out so

they could be apprehended.

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Seidel asked specifically about the COINTEL involving

the Breakfast

Program, and was told a recommendation had been

made for putting some kind of .contamination in the Breakfast

Program food, and that this office had felt this extremely

inadvisable and recommended against it, and it was not carried

out here.

Former SA Todd was also asked

about a COINTEL

proposal relating to "The Black Panther" newspapers, and was

told that such a proposal had been made involving saturating

the papers with a foul smelling fish oil or some substance,

however, we recommended against this as it would serve no purpose.

Seidel was advised that the San Francisco policy had

been to recommend against harassment, per se,

and also recommended

against leaking information to the press. Seidel then raised

the question about the incident where Huey P. Newton's high

standard of living was given to the press, and he was told

that this fell into the category of informant development on

the basis it was felt that if those Panthers who

were living

practically in poverty could realize what Newton's standards

of living were, it might change their allegiênce to him and

they could be contacted for informant purposes.

Seidel was also told that in this phase of the

COINTEL, it was former SA Todd's recollection that this infor-

mation

regarding Newton's high standard of living had been

disseminated by informants, and that the press was well aware

of Newton's standards of living without having to make this

information available to them.

Seidel asked what the instructions had been from the

Bureau in carring out the COINTEL. Former SA Todd told Seidel

that he had reviewed this file after being appointed Supervisor,

but could not recall specifically what the Bureau instructions

were. The only other instructions received were at a two day

conference in Washington, D.C., on BPP matters conducted by

former Assistant to the Director William Sullivan, and Section

Chief George Moore, at which time it was pointed out that the

COINtEl to be coordinated with the Bureau,

but that former SA Todd did not recall any firm prohibition against

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taking certain actions without Bureau authority, and that the

field had some leeway in what they did, but, in general, offices

made proposals to the Bureau with copies to San Francisco

prior to taking any action.

Seidel asked why San Francisco

got copies of all proposals, and was told this was because

San Francisco was office of origin in the BPP case and other

offices were required to

furnish a copy of all correspondence.

Seidel then asked to what extent Special Agent in

Charge Charles W. Bates had knowledge of the COINTEL as it

related to the BPP, and he was told that former SA Todd could

not speak for Bates

and his knowledge would be dependent upon

how carefully he read incoming mail and reviewed files, and

former SA Todd had no knowledge as to what extent Bates did this.

Seidel was told that under the supervisory setup in the

office at the time, former SA Todd felt it was his responsibility

100 a hat

to direct this Program in San Francisco and not Bates.

Seidel indicated that out of his investigation in the

hearings, undoubtedly there would be some legislation coming

out of Congress that would either enable of prohibit such

things as the COINTEL, and he stated that was one reason he

was asking concerning its effectiveness, and wondered what former

SA Todd would recommend.

Seidel was told that former SA Todd

felt it essential that

the Government should have the right to

defend itself against individuals and groups who advocate

violent revolution or who are aligned with foreign powers,

and that there was a need for some sort of legislation within

the framework of constitutional government which would enable

the government to do this; but, of course, it should be done

under proper control. Seidel asked for suggestions as to what

sort of control, and

was told that this was a matter for

Congress to decide, but perhaps Congress should look. into some

legislation similar to wiretap legislation, where the responsi

bility is upon a Federal judge to issue a warrant.

Former SA Todd had prepared a brief summary of what

he recalled of

the activities of the BPP, and he made a copy of

this available to Seidel.

Former SA Todd also had made a

chronology to assist him

in answering questions, together with

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some notes concerning COINTEL policy, former SA Todd's general

recollection of matters, questions of law regarding agent -

principle, privileged information problems, ongoing litigation

and national defense, and informants and sources.

Seidel asked

fOr

a copy of this chronology and this, too, was given to him.

Seidel expressed great interest in receiving the one

page summary of the Panthers' activities, and stated that he

had chosen the Panthers for a case study, and he seemed more

interested in this than in the COINTEL.

He also indicated that

there might be future interviews and that former SA Todd might

be called as a witness before the Committee at a later date.

At the outset of the interview, Seidel asked whether

former SA Todd desired his rights be read to him. Former

SA Todd told him that since he did not interpret this as a

custodial interview, and it was his understanding Seidel had no

police power, that he could forego reading the rights:

Former SA Todd did not feel it was necessary to

consult with a Bureau representative at this time.

The above information was furnished by former SA Todd

voluntarily and was not solicited.

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CHRONOLOGY

Approximate

Dates

Dec. 1969

Feb. 1970

May

1970

Aug

1970

AUg

1970

Jan 1971

Feb 1971

March 1971.

April 1971

April 1971

May 1971

August 1971

August 1971

August 1971

Deco 1971

Designated supervisor. Reviewed Cointelpro file.

No recollection of any actions by s. E. In file.

Conference in ilashington, D.C. Briefed on Baltimore

Black Panther murder. Cointelpro discussed.

Cointeloro letter.

Suggestion rejected by s. F.

Maria Court shootout (Jonathan Jackson-Judge Haley)

Cleaver relegeed from prison.

Letters to Algeria to provoke Cleaver to return to

So. so arrest could be effected.

Newton becomes Supreme Commander, Cleaver expelled.

Robert Webb murder.

Sam Napier murder.

Iwo New lork police officers wounded.

Four New York police officers murdered.

George Jackson killed in prison break attempt.

Officer Kowalski murder attempt - Washington

& Bottom arzest

S. I.. Ingleside Station attack - Officer Young nurdered.

Retired.

~ COINTELPRO:

RECOLLECTION:

Recommended against many proposals.

Approved reconnendation to try to induce Cleaver

to return to U.S.

Hould have approved actions to persuade Panthers

"to change loyalty from party and become informants, but

cannot recall any specific ones.

Hould not have approved any proposals solely for

harrassment or for leaking information to press; there

must have been some bona fide investigative purpose

behind proposal before considering 1t.

Recall only generalities. Requested 1f could review

Bureau files prior to interview.

This was denied.

Cannot testify with any specificity without review

of files.

AGENT-PRINCIPAL PRIVILEGED INFORMATION: Sensitive techniques

Informants & Sources

Ongoing Investigations

•Foreign Intelligence

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OngOLnE IltIgation: Panthers to FBI & IRS, USDO, S. F. O1VII rights.

National Defense: Documents reviewed were classified.

Does

executive

branch have right to defend

nation against

advocates

of revolution (public

Interest Issue).

Informants & sources:

Cannot reveal.

(Includes information

that might reveal identity

$

provide or

Neither my responsibility nor my prerogative to make this informatior

public. I

acting as an agent of the federal government and 1t

1s responsibility of government to provide the information

Any questions should be submitted in writing and my answers in

writing should be forwarded to FBI and if FBI deems It advisable

to make these answers avallable to

Committee, that

should be

proper channel.

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The 'Inves

gation of the Black Panthes Party was a

National Defense matter.

Information on file points to colla-

boration with foreign powers by leaders of the party.

Throughout the two-year period in which I supervised

the Investigation there were strong liaisons between Black Panthers

and dissident groups abroad as well as with the governments of

foreign nations.

The Black Panthers had support and or branches

In France, Germany and Scandinavia, and were international in

Eldridge Cleaver, wanted on felony warrants, had been

granted asylum in Algeria and with his entourage was residing

in a villa provided by the Algerian government.

During this

period he made at least one trip to Moscow, Russia.

Several

Black Panthers travelled to Cuba.

Huey Newton, In

1971, travelled

Red China by way of Canada and Hong Kong at the invitation

the chinese government at a time when the united states nad

no aloonatic relations with them.

At the time I began serving as supervisor in late 1969,

the Black Panther Party was under co-leadership of Huey Newton,

then contined to prison in California, and Eldridge Cleaver, living.

In exile in Algeria.

The Black Panther Party, both in the news-

paper 1t published weekly at San Francisco, and in public statements

by its officers and leaders, advocated violent revolution; 1t

published instructions on guerrilla warfare, directions for the use

of weasons, and printed detailed drairings and instructions on

the manufacture of bombs and explosive devices, and 1t agitated

term "off the

which means

"kill the police," was a Black Panther catch-

phrase. The history of the Black Panther Party during the period

I acted as supervisor is replete rith incidents of murder, violence

and inciting to revolution.

The revolutionary quotation of Mao.

Ise-luag, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,"

became a

Black panther motto.

Sometime in early 1971 a solit occurred in the Black

Panther- Party.

Huey Newton, following his release fron prison

in 1970, gained control of one faction headquartered in Berkeley,

Califoria, and he broke openly with aldridge Cleaver, publicly

expelling Cleaver and Cleaver's lieutenants from the Party.

Newton faction thereaiter gradually took a more moderate approach,

advocating social change through community service in place of Its

prior profile of violence.

No change was noted in the policies of

the Cleaver faction directed from Algiers, and 1t continued to

advocate violent revolution; it began publication in New York

of its own newspaper proclaiming its revolutionary policies; ano

followers

belonging to this faction continued to commit crimes of

violence.

The following crimes of violence attributed to the Cleaver

faction of the Black panthers have been documented in the book "Target

Blue," by former Deputy Police Commissioner Robert Daley of New York

City

(De11 Publishing Co., Inc., 1973):

Ambush attacks against police officers which resulted in

T officers murdered, 3 wounded, and one attempted murder thwarted, which

led to the solution of the other cases and established these

attacks

to be

a nationwide conspiracy; and the murder of two Newton-faction

Black Panthers.

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In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

UNITED

STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 15, 1975

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

INTERVIEN OF SAC CHARLES W. BATES

BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE /1/30/83 BYSA-2TAP/RBG

on the evening of August the 915, Mr. Lester Seidel.

and Mr. Loch Johnson, Staff Members of the Senate Select

Committee, met with Special Agent in Charge Charles W. Bates

of the San Francisco Office.

This meeting occurred over dinner.

No statements were made by either of these individuals as to

any. rights that SAC Bates might have in connection with the

interview.

During the dinner, MI. Seidel referred to COINTELPRO

involving the FBI's investigation of the Black Panther Party

in San Francisco, Bates advised him that he was in charge of

the San Francisco Office from July, 1967 until the end of

April, 1970, when he was transferred to Chicago.. Bates stated

that he was aware of the investigation being conducted

on the

Black Panther Party but was not personally conversant with

all the details of this

investigation as such details were

all contained in the FBI's file.

On at least two occasions

Mr. Seidel referred to specific facts occurring in other parts

of the country involving anonymous letters

sent to individuals

under COINTELPRO. He asked if Bates agreed that these actions

were proper.

MI. Seidel was told that Bates had no way of

knowing the

facts

as he related were true or any other of

the circumstances involved and that, therefore, he was unable

to comment at all.

Mr. Seidel asked if Bates had any recommendations

for legislation which the Committee

could propose that would

assist the FBI in the domestic counterintelligence field.

Bates informed him that he was not fully conversant with this

entire field and that it was the prerogative of FBI officials

•at Washington and Department of Justice officials to recommend

such legislation.

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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BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

Mr. Seidel also inquired as to whether Bates felt

that an extension of electronic surveillances into the domestic

intelligence field would be of assistance. Bates informed

him that the FBI was operating according to current court

decisions as involve electronic surveillances and that the

courts had recently precluded this action in strictly domestic

intelligence matters.

Mr. Seidel was informed that this was

a decision for FBI officials in Washington.

on several occasions during the evening, Mr. Johnson

asked

Bates if he was aware of the "Houston Plan.

On each

occasion Bates informed him that he was not aware of the

"Houston Plan" and his only knowledge of it is what he has

seen in the public press.

At one tine Mr. Johnson asked if

Bates

thought that MI. Hoover had

turned down the "Houston

Plan" because he was afraid for his. job. Bates again replied

that he had no firsthand knowledge having anything to do with

the "Houston Plan" but he was certainly aware that Mr. Hoover

was not afraid of anything or anyone.

Both Mr. Johnson and Mr. Seidel asked if Bates felt

that the use of "black bag jobs" would be of advantage in

conducting domestic counterintelligence operations.

Bates

replied that he had no personal direct knowledge of such matters

and had never been involved in such matters.

During the evening, Mr. Seidel asked if Bates felt

that a congressional oversight committee of the FBI was sound

and proper.

Bates

informed that he certainly agreed with the

concept of congressional oversight as long as it was constructive

and not destructive.

Mr. Seidel asked if Bates felt that the

FBI'S

security operation should be completely divorced from

its criminal responsibilities and handled as a separate agency

or a separate part of the FBI.

Bates informed him that it

appeared that the FBI's efforts in both the criminal and the

security field had been effective and appeared to be proper

in its present context.

Mr. Seidel

inquired if Bates was

personally acquainted with Mr. William C. Sullivan, former

FBI official.

Mr. Seidel was informed that Bates worked in

the same division with Mr. Sullivan in the 1950's and knew

him as another supervisor at FBI Headquarters.

Seidel then asked if Bates was aware of the dis-

agreements that Mr. Sullivan had had with Mr. Hoover and he

was informed that he had no details concerning this matter.

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CHARLES W. BATES

BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

Mr. Seidel asked if Bates knew former SAC Harry

Morgan.

Bates told him that he knew him as he had replaced

him as

SAC in San Francisco at the end of April, 1970..

then asked if Bates was aware of why Mi. Morgan

was transferred

from San Francisco.

Bates told him that some problem had

arisen in connection with his running the San Francisco Office

but that he was not personally aware of the specific details.

but that they would be available at FBI Headquarters.

Seidel

said the only reason he was asking was that he was thinking

about interviewing Mr. Morgan but he did not want to embarrass

him and then asked if Morgan's

transfer from San Francisco

had anything to do with a drinking problem.

Bates said again

that he was not aware of the specifics.

On the afternoon of August 13, 1975, Mr. Loch Johnson

came into the San Francisco FBI Office saying he had just a

few more questions he wanted to ask Bates.

He then asked if

the San Francisco Office was involved in foreign counter

intelligence work,

and he was informed that we were as were

many other FBI offices.

He then asked if we surveilled every-

one who went into or came out of the Soviet Consulate in San

Francisco.

He was informed that Bates did not intend to dis-

cuss with

him any investigative techniques or anything having

to do with pending investigations.

Mr. Johnson said he was

attempting to

find some individual who was an expert in foreign

counterintelligence, particularly the Soviet threat to the

United States.

Bates informed him that there were probably

a number of people in the United States who would qualify in

this category but Bates did not consider himself as an expert

in this field.

The above represents specific matters brought up

during these discussions.

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In Reply, Please Refer 10

File No.

UNITED

STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 13, 1975

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED.

DATE /30 / 855F-2TA12B0

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

INTERVIEW OFSA LEO S. BRENNEISEN

SSC STAFF MEMBER

BY

Prior to interview by SSC Staff Member, SA LEO S.

BRENNEISEN telephonically contacted SA DENNIS MILLER at

FBI Headquarters making four inquiries on Fugust 6, 1975;

on the same date, the following answers were received:

Is it permissible for agent to give general

answers concerning the Black Panther Party (BPP) as to

membership number and Chapter numbers at various dates?

Answer: Yes.

Local media has previously set forth a memorandum

purportedly from the FBI, San Francisco Office, suggesting

consideration should be

given to furnishing fabricated

documents originating with the Oakland Police Department

and the FBI, San Francisco, when, in fact, the memorandum

came from the Bureau.

If questioned concerning this memorandum,

may agent point out that this document originated with the

Bureau rather than San Francisco?

Answer: Yes.

In contemplation of possible questioning concerning

false correspondence directed to ELDRIDGE CLEAVER and others

abroad, can agent refer SSC Staff to Bureau when questioned

concerning identity of agents preparing correspondence?

Answer: Yes.

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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INTERVIEW OF SA LEO S. BRENNEISEN

Is it necessary for agent to express an opinion

as to morality, legality of said Counterintelligence

Program (COINTEL) ?

Answer: You are not obliged to answer those

questions you do not desire to answer, but if you wish you

may comment on the legality or morality of the plan.

SA DENNIS MILLER related that he desired that it

be borne in mind that the Bureau in no way wished to impede

the SSC investigation.

LESTER B. SEIDEL, SSC Staff Member, appeared at the

'San Francisco Office of the FBI on August 11, 1975, and

interviewed :SA LEO BRENNEISEN from 1:03 PM to 2:30

SEIDEL prefaced the interview by explaining that he had

been advised that BRENNEISEN was the Coordinator for the

COINTEL in San Francisco from May 16, 1969 to May 1, 1970.

It was pointed out to him that the case was assigned to

agent from May 16, 1969 to May 1, 1971.

SEIDEL asked if agent had, in fact, approved all

proposals coming from

the San Francisco Office.

He was

advised that not necessarily because if another agent made

a proposal the person approving it in San Francisco would

be the person signing the outgoing mail, namely, the Supervisor

or Relief

• supeivisor.

:

SEIDEL asked what Squad agent had been assigned

to during this Program, and he was advised S-6.

He inquired

if there was any COINTEL in San Francisco against US; he

was advised to the contrary.

He inquired as to the usual

number of cases assigned agent, and was advised that to

agent's best recollection probably 30 at any one time. He

asked if agent's work was exclusively security during the.

handling of the COINTEL Program and he was advised agent

did have some criminal assignments.

He inquired if there

was

any relationship between COINTEL and criminal assignments,

and he was advised no and that agent desired to limit the

scope of his questioning to the COINTEL Program.

SEIDEL then asked how many suggestions the agent

had submitted in COINTEL. He was advised that an estimate

would be difficult but probably the nearest figure would be

some two suggestions a month with possibly six months in

two years when no suggestions were made.

He inquired as

to agent's knowledge of what percentage of total proposals

from all sources suomitted to the Bureau had been approved.

and he was advised only a small percentage.

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At this point, SEIDEL requested agent to outline the

types of COINTEL proposals submitted by San Francisco.

He

was answered that anonymous letters, letters with pseudonyms,

and letters signed with the name of an existing person had

been used.

It was pointed out that the program had included

the use of anonymous letters, including those directed to

landlords advising that the Black Panther Party was occupying

their property; letters to people supporting Bee programs,

including the Breakfast Program and enclosing copies of the

BPP color book for children encouraging the shooting of

police officers and/or articles from the "Black Panther

Party", the official BPP newspaper, showing their propensity

and advocacy of violence; letters

to organizations containing

articles that showed the

BPP in direct opposition to their

aims, such

as a letter to a Jewish organization showing BPP

support

of Palestine guerrillas.:

to ELDRIDGE CLEAVER in Algeria in the names of BPP members.

At this point, SEIDEL interrupted to explain that he was

enlisting the complete cooperation of the interviewee, that

there had been some Congressional criticisn of the COINTEL,

that there were some segments of the population that were

anti-FBI and that he desired to present the FBI in a proper

light, and that he had good friends in the Bureau.

SEIDEL asked, was it necessary to have utilized

COINTEL.

Agent aavised that it was difficult to correctly.

Juage the elect of the program but it was felt it was not

without some effect because the Black Panther Party had not

only dwindled from a membership of approximately 1,000 in

1969 to

perhaps 200 in 1973, but that the organization became

split with dissension and had dropped much of its former

advocacy for violence.

SEIDEL then requested that the agent give his

recommendation on what COINTEL in the future should be;

whether there should be a division between security and

criminal investigations to different agencies in order that

a possible intrusion on the rights of an individual in

intelligence matters might not necessarily preclude his

being prosecuted by the Bureau

in a criminal matter. Agent

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refused to furnish his "off-thecuff" opinion, pointing

out that he felt that it was without the scope of his

release.

Without further questioning agent concerning the

types of COINTEL proposals, SEIDEL next asked if the

Electronic Surveillance (ELSUR) on the BPP was in operation

at the time COINTEL was initiated, and what proposals were

submitted in COINTEL based on information from ELSUR.

SEIDEL was advised agent's release would not allow

him to discuss ELSUR.

SEIDEL asked if the San Francisco Division had made

any "snitch"

proposals.

When asked to clarify the question,

he stated that this was a suggestion to the effect that a

Black Panther Party member be accused of being an FBI

informant.

Agent replied that to the best of his recollection

no such recommendations had been made to the Bureau by San

Francisco, and on the contrary, agent knew that it had been

pointed out by San Francisco that any such allegation. should

be most carefully considered inasmuch as BPP history has

indicated that they had dealt severely with suspected infor-

mants, even to

the point of killing them.

SEIDEL then asked if the San Francisco Division

had received a great deal of "flak" from the Bureau on this

program.

He was advised that the Bureau operates a "tickler

system"

for following investigations and that the program

had received some priority from the FBI but agent had never

considered correspondence from the Bureau as being "flak"

SEIDEL at this

point instead of questioning made

the statement that the Bureau gave this matter "high priority".

No comment was made to this statement.

SEIDEL next questioned agent if he had read any

publicity concerning

a May 11, 1970 letter from the Bureau

- to San Francisco entitled, "Special Operations Research", in

which it was suggested that some consideration be given to

furnishing the BPP spurious documents that supposedly

originated with the Oakland Police Department and the FBI.

He explained that some newspaper had received a copy of the

document under the Freedom of Information Act and thereafter

published it. He inquired if

a response to the letter

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had been made by San Francisco.

Agent advised that it was

his recollection that San Francisco had responded recommending

against both proposals, pointing out that the BEP had in the

short past published contingency plans of the Berkeley Police

Department for a raid on National Headquarters to the

embarrassment of that agency.

San Francisco was of the

opinion that if spurious documents were furnished to the

BPP they would immediately publish them, rather than attempt

to develop an informant and the operation presented a great

• deal of possible embarrassment and publicity for the Bureau.

-

SEIDEL asked for agent's knowledge of why the letter

h been captioned as previously described

Counterintelligence Program, Black Panther Party. Agent

stated he had no recollection of exact caption of the letter.

SEIDEL then went on to explain that he had been advised

the Bureau had several COINTELS and the one covering Special

Operations

a COINTEL covering foreign operations.

Agent made no comment.

SEIDEL requested what proposals had been made to

disrupt the BPP newspaper; how did the proposals originate,

and what offices submitted them. He was advised that it was

agent's

recollection that the Bureau may have requested

suggestions from several offices but that to agent's knowledge

none had been approved.

When SEIDEL continued to question the

agent concerning specific proposals and why their approval

was not recommended by San Francisco, he was

advised that one

proposal was

the use of a foul-smelling chemical to put on

damages. SEIDEL was further advised that it was believed

the suggestion may have been made for the changing of a first

page of an issue at the printing company to embarrass the BPP,

but it was pointed out that this would also merely result in

• a claim being filed against the printer.

SEIDEL was advised that there may have been a

suggestion that some thought should be given to the possible

delay of the plates for the paper,

that suggestion coming

at the time when the paper was being printed in New York

with the master copy being filmed in San Francisco. San

Francisco did not suggest approval because a mere delay would

have been of little benefit because the paper was not timely.•

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SEIDEL asked about the disruption of the BPP

The answer was given that agent had

no recollection of this, and SEIDEL was asked did he have

any information from the Bureau that we had attempted

disruption of the program in san Francisco he relatec

that he believed not and that it probably happened in

San Diego.

SEIDEL asked about a suggestion that informants

set up a possible controntation between the Bpe and the

Republic of New Africa (RNA). Agent stated he had no

recollection of such a proposal and did not believe it had

been submitted by San Francisco because the membership and

activity in RNA had been minimal in this area.

in the San Francisco area be encouraged to insist on their

rent from the BPP. Agent advised he had no recollection

of this, but could see nothing wrong in it.

SEIDEL inquired as to the amount of knowledge.

that SAC CHARLES BATES would have had concerning COINTEL.

He was advised that agent had no information, that he, himself,

had never discussed the program with Mr. BATES while it was

in operation. SEIDEL then inquired if former SAC HARRY

MORGAN had been ill during the time he was assigned to San

Francisco and the reason for his transfer.

Agent replied

he had no information concerning this matter.

SEIDEL was asked if he felt that anyof the actions

agent described as being taken by the San Francisco Division

were illegal. SEIDEL stated that he did not believe that

the war sata

these were matters that were in violation of any existing

criminal statutes, but there might be some question as to

whether the FBI had the specific authority to do these things.

SEIDEL ended the interview by again reiterating

that he was a friend of the Bureau, that he was making an

inquiry and

desired to obtain the opinions of both Headquarters

and agents in the field, and that he may make a request to the

Bureau to widen the scope of agent's release.

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Agent was not placed under oath and when agent

refused to furnish opinions in those cases noted above or

to discuss ELSUR, SEIDEL suggested that he, SEIDEL, put

away his pencil and pad.

Agent replied that that was not

necessary. The only right explained to agent was the fact

that all information furnished by him was at his own

volition and was entirely voluntary.

No mention was made

that any part of the interview might be utilized in a

possible court proceeding against

the agent.

Agent did not consult with Bureau representative

during course of the interview.

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In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 14, 1975

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED.

HEREIN

IS UNGLASSIFIE 2 TAP/RBG

DATE/1/30/83 BYS

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

SSC STAFF MEMBER

INTERVIEW OF FORMER (SA ALBERT P. CLARK BY

on August 13, 1975, Iormer Special Agent Albert P.

Clark, who was a

supervisor in the San Francisco FBI Office

and who retired in December of 1969, advised as follows:

He was interviewed in his home at 66 Elm,

Larkspur, California, by SSC Member Lester B. Seidel from

5:40 P.M. to 6:55 P.M., August 12, 1975.

Clark was not placed under oath and no mention

was made of his rights.

However, Seidel was pleasant and

in no way antagonistic. The interview was general, not

penetrative, not in depth, and very few specific questions were

asked.

There appeared to be no discernible criticism of

either the Counterintelligence Program (COINTEL) or the

Bureau's investigation of the Black Panther Party (BPP) by

Seidel.

Seidel was compelled on more than one occasion

to declare that he was pro-FBI, that the object of his

inquiries was to assist the United States Senate in under-

standing the problem in order that they could consider

possible legislation that may eliminate any abuses in the

future.

Seidel did mention the fact several times that

information had been leaked to the press that Jane seberg,

the movie actress, had become pregnant by a BPP official.

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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Seidel finally asked Clark if he would have okayed

a COINTEL proposal like this and he answered that he would

have if he felt that it would have sufficiently hindered

the BPP, stating that possibly in some of these occasions

someone

might get hurt but on the other hand, investigation

of the BPP by the FBI might be made easier and it might

also cut down on the number of BPP supporters.

Clark was asked to whom the main BPP

case was

assigned and to whom COINTEL had been assigned in the San

Francisco Division.

Clark replied that he did not remember

but possibly during the time of his supervision, more than

one Agent had handled the matters.

Seidel asked how many BPP informants the San

Francisco Division had. Clark replied he did not recall

and::? he did not believe that seidel had a right to know.

Seidel inquired about the BPP wiretap,, asking

who had requested the tap, the Bureau or the San Francisco

Division.

Again, Clark replied that he did not recall but

the San Francisco Division would not have necessarily

waited for the Bureau to initiate the matter but might have

requested the Bureau rather than the Bureau having initiated

the matter.

Seidel wanted to have an example of a coINtEL

proposal.

He was not given a speclilc example but general

conversation was had to the effect that any move that might

be suggested that would aid the San Francisco Division in

their investigation of the BPP in determining their

supporters and financiers and possibly disenchanting those

individuals might be an example.

Seidel did not ask Clark whether he had done a

particular thing.

Questioned concerning whether he felt COINTEL had

been effective, Clark replied he did not believe the matter

susceptible to proof but the BPP had sure gone into a

steep decline.

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Seidel again brought up the Seberg matter and

asked if it had done any good. Clark stated he replied,

"Maybe."

During this conversation, Clark got the general

impression that perhaps Seidel did not feel that COINTEL

had been necessary but Clark had argued that it had made

the BPP

more difficult to operate and possibly easier

for the FBI to investigate.

Seidel then wanted to know what there was about

the BPP that caused such a concentration of FBI investi-

gative attention.

Clark pointed out that this would have

to be answered in the context of time, that at the time the

program was initiated, there was no doubt that the BPP

was

a violent, racist

organization opposing all law enforce-

ment, attacking officers and

generally disturbing the

tranguility of the community.

Seidel then went on

to discuss the business of

pressure. Had Special Agent in Charge Charles W. Bates

and the Bureau put too much pressure on the matter?

Clark

stated there was undoubtedly pressure because everyone

was interested in doing the best type job possible and

finding out everything possible concerning the BPP.

There

was obvious pressure from the Bureau in the matter

and the

Bureau, in a case like this, could never be satisfied.

Clark

stated that he related that perhaps too much

pressure had come from the Bureau because he had felt at

the time he was a

supervisor that San Francisco Division

knew more about the BPP than the Bureau.

On the other

hand, he related that Bureau officials were

probably

under pressure because of the national interest and the

demands on them in Washington.

Seidel related that he was interested in ascer-

taining what Agent would make the best witness to appear

in Washington to explain and testify concerning COINTEL.

He specifically requested Clark's recommendation and mentioned

the names of Special Agents Leo S. Brenneisen of San

Francisco and Bob Baker of Los Angeles.

Clark stated that

he had countered by suggesting that somebody in Washington

who directed the program and approved all proposals might

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Clark recalled that near the first of the inter-

view, Seidel probably, more to make conversation than to

obtain information, asked a few questions concerning US

and the Republic of North Africa (RNA) •

He was advised

that US had not been active in this division and there had

been no pertinent RNA activity brought to his attention.

Seidel asked if Ron Karenga of US had visited San Francisco

and Clark replied he had no exact recollection of this.

Seidel talked and asked Clark's opinion on the

separation into different agencies of the Bureau's criminal

and security investigations.

Clark stated that he told

Seidel that in the past he had considered this and felt that

frankly it might have advantages, and at the same time,

might have disadvantages.

disadvantages were that you could not be sure that it, in

fact, would work and that if you remove the security

investigations from the Bureau, you would undoubtedly

lose a great deal, including public support.

Seidel asked if Clark had worked under former

SAC Harry Morgan.

He advised that he had retired prior to

the time Morgan was assigned to the San Francisco Division.

Clark pointed out that during the interview, a

recorder appeared prominently on his desk, and Seidel

could, of course, not be sure that it was not in operation;

although as the duration of the interview lengthened, it

must have been obvious to Seidel that it was not operating.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Rejer ta

File No.

San Francisco, California

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED.

August 14, 1975

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE// 30/83 BYJP-2TAPIRBE

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

INTERVIEW OF FORMER (SA WILLIAM A. COHENDET

SSC STAFF MEMBER

BY

On August 14, 1975, retired former Special Agent •

William A. Cohendet was

interviewed from 9:30 A.M: to

11:15 A.M. by Lester B. Seidel, Investigator for the U.S.

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activites (SSC).

The interview took place at the Holiday Inn on Van Ness

Avenue, San Francisco.

counsel

Mr. Seidel mentioned that he was serving as a

for the SSC, investigating all phases of the United

States intelligence community, and he had chosen the Black

immestiga ting

Panther Party

and the Counterintelligence Program (COINTEL)

as his field.

He stated that he was hoping for full

cooperation on the part of the former Special Agent.

He was advised that former Special Agent Cohendet

was willing. to cooperate with the committee and he trusted

that something constructive would come out of the effort

being put forward. Former Special Agent. Cohendet also

pointed out that in his opinion the Black Panther Party (BPP)

nad been a group devoted to violence, thievery, and traud

and the committee should realize the type of Subjects with

whom they are dealing in order to place the investigation

in its proper framework.

The tirst question concerned the former Special

Agent's background and Bureau service. This was briefly.

furnished.

Seidel then asked when and how the technical

surveillances had been installed, who initiated them, and

who approved them. .

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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The former Special Agent replied that he was

not party to any of these arrangements and did not know

any of the details.

Seidel then asked if former Special Agent

Cohendet knew the origin and purposes of the COINTEL

Program. He was informed that the

former Agent did not

know the origin of the program, and said he believed'its

purposes were those as set forth in the instructions which

Seidel had and which spoke for themselves. The former

Agent admitted that said program at one time had been

assigned to him but due. to the press of other functions,

he had been unable to give it a great deal of time and

felt that during the period that it had been assigned to

him, it had been largely ineffective.

Seidel then asked if there was any connection

between ELSUR and COINTEL and the reply was given that

obviously there would be if the ELSUR material being

reviewed could be considered as having any pertinence to.

a COINTEL operation.

However, former Special Agent Cohendet

could not recall having used this material while the case

was assigned to him, at least to any significant degree.

Not having the files available made it impossible to

state positively if there had been any specific instance of sc

of this material.

Seidel asked as to the possible effectiveness of

anonymous letters and he was informed that in the opinion

of the former Agent,

such letters, particularly having to

do with personal infidelity or thievery, which were the

usual. suggested avenues, would have little effect on the

• recipients who were active in such fields themselves much

of the time. In the more serious areas of perhaps trying

to falsely show that an individual was an FBI or police

informant,

the former Special Agent said that the use of

this technique would not be

propensity of the BPP of dealing harshly with any suspected.

deviator let alone informant.

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Seidel then asked as to the value of ELSUR to

the BPP investigation and the former Special Agent stated

that in his belief it was extremely valuable in many ways.

For instance, it assisted and gauged the true Huey Newton,

his plans, and weaknesses. It was also valuable in esti-

• mating the possible effect of a certain COINTEL program

as possibly suggested by some other office. As a result

of their information,

the San Francisco Office usually

rejected most

suggestions as being unlikely to be successful.

Seidel wondered if ELSUR was not the most

valuable, single investigative ald that the Bureau had had

in this investigation, and the former Special Agent agreed

that

Seidel then wondered if the COINTEL proposals

should be part of some legislation proposed by Congress

and the former Special Agent replied that the Bureau

officials, in his opinion, should be allowed to comment

on this because the fact that the program would be ineffective

against the BPP might not be a valid argument that it would

not work to better advantage in other circumstances.

Former Special Agent Cohendet declined to

comment on the effectiveness. of COINTEL as used against

the Socialist Workers Party, not having had any experience

with its use in that field.

Seidel then asked about informants and asked if

there had been any pressure from the Bureau in the develop-

ment of such sources.

Former Special Agent Cohendet

acknowledged that there certainly had been great pressure

in this direction, as it was well known that informants were

a necessary part of any investigation and a police organi-

zation can never give up on this phase of its work no matter

how difficult the circumstances were in their development.

In the case of the BPP, the development of informants was

particularly difficult because of the fear that many persons

in the black community felt concerning the BPP as well as

the lack of desire to cooperate against another black

person.

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Seidel asked about foreign funds being raised

and tormer spectal Agent Conendet

Hewitt and others went to. Sweden

and other countries where the BPP raised money on speech

making tours.

Seidel then asked about any investigation of

BPP funds and former Special Agent Cohendet said that it

was his recollection that investigation of BPP funds had

been undertaken through legal channels but he had no

personal knowledge of the investigation and declined to

go further into this field.

Seidel asked about referrals of Bureau information

to the Internal Revenue Service and former Special Agent

Cohendet said that he had no personal knowledge of what

had been done in this direction.

Seidel then asked about the affair between

Actress Jean Seberg

and "Masai" Hewitt, which had appeared

in a Hollywood gossip column and had alleged that Seberg

had become pregnant by Hewitt. Seidel said that the Los

Angeles Office of the

Federal

Bureau of Investigation had

admitted leaking this information to someone

in the press.

Former Special Agent Cohendet knew that this

couple had been lovers for a brief period but denied any

knowledge of any leak to the press by either San Francisco

or Los Angeles.

Seidel asked if the former Agent thought that

leaking this type of information was appropriate.

NO

comment was offered as to this question.

seidel, at the conclusion of the interview, said

that he had noted that the "faking" of police records as

suggested had never been undertaken and he observed that he

believed the COINTEL abuses were being overplayed by the

press.

From what he learned in interviews in San Francisco,

it seemed

to him that the program had been mostly played

down and indeed, an independent judgment had been exercised

in the implementation of the program.

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A general discussion of the BPP ensued in which

former Special Agent Cohendet reiterated the criminal

background and threatening attitude of many of the BPP

members, their mendacious ways, and their lack of creai-

bility in their public statements.

The

former Special

Agent credited the news media with helping to build up

the BPP beyond its actual strength and influence.

Seidel asked about the former Agent's knowleäge of the reason

for the removal of former SAC Harry Morgan from San

Francisco.

He said the only reason he was asking this

question

was in order to avoid embarrassing former SAC

Morgan when he interviews him concerning his possible

knowledge of BPP activities sometime in the future. Former

Special Agent Cohendet had no knowledge as to why

Mr. Morgan was transferred.

In sunnation,

Seidel ventured the opinion that he

thought the ELSUR technique was far moré valuable in the

carrying out of the investigation of the BPP than the

COINTEL. Former Special Agent Cohendet had to agree

to the above observation.

Former Special Agent Cohendet was not advised

of any rights that he might have in declining to answer

any questions and Seidel said he was actually seeking

witnesses for a possible hearing in Washington, D.C.

He

stated that no names would be mentioned in any write-up

he would make concerning his interviews.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

San Francisco, California

August 13, 1975

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED.

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 1/30/83 BYUP-2 TAP/RBG

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

INTERVIEW OF FORMER SA DAVID E. TODD

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

On August 12, 1975, retired former SA David E. Todd

was interviewed from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. by Lester B. Seidel,

Investigator for the SSC.

The interview took place at the

Holiday Inn, San Francisco.

By way of background,

in all contacts with Seidel

previously, former SA Todd has

indicated to him great reluctance

to discuss

these matters without clearance from the Bureau,

and pointed out to Seidel that the Bureau had released former

SA Todd from the Employment Secrecy Agreement for the purpose

of a staff interview, but Seidel was told that former SA Toda

did not think it was either his responsibility or his prerogative

to provide information or make information public; that while

employed he was acting as an Agent of the Federal Government

and felt it was the responsibility of the Federal Government to

provide the information, and that. if the Senate Committee

desired information from

former SA Todd, the questions should

have been submitted to him in writing, and his answers should

have been made in writing and first forwarded to the FBI, and

then after the FBI determined it advisable to make these

answers

available to the Committee, that would have been the proper

channel.

Seidel pointed out the Committee and the Bureau had

made an agreement whereby the

Bureau would make Agents available

to the Committee for interview.

Former sa lodd pointed out to

Seidel that he is not in

the category of an Agent, being a

retired Agent, and at this point there was no additional discussion

on 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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Seidel was also told that nothing that was said by

former SA Todd should be interpreted as being critical of

the Counterintelligence Program (COINTEL) itself, and that if

the Bureau felt that such a Program was necessary in the interest

of national defense, he had carried it out in the best way he

saw fit,

and that in recommending against specific proposals

as being impractical or inadvisable, these recommendations were

against the specific incidents recommended and not against the

Program as a whole.

Seidel's first questions dealt with former SA Todd's

background and the extent of his Bureau service, and whether

he had worked security or criminal matters.

Former SA Toda

gave him chronologically the offices in which he had served

in the Bureau, and stated he had been associated from 1952 to

1956 with the

Domestic Intelligence Division, Washington, D.C.,

and had become Supervisor in San Francisco in December, 1969,

of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and that during his Bureau

career he had worked both criminal and security matters.

Seidel

asked the name of the squad which was originally

the Racial Squad, and subsequently changed to Extremist Matters,

and he asked whether the work was strictly intelligence, or

whether it combined

intelligence or criminal work.

It was

pointed out Bombing Matters were originally being handled on

this Squad for a period of time, and that both the criminal

activities of the Panthers, as well as intelligence activities,

were combined in the assignment.

Seidel then asked when the technical surveillances on

the Panthers were installed. Former SA Todd replied that they

were functioning at the time he was appointed Supervisor. Seidel

then asked how was

the technical surveillance related

to the

COINTEL, if at all, and specifically whether information coming

from the technical surveillance was used in carrying out the

COINTEL.

Former SA Todd advised that he could not recall

specifically what was done in either Program without reviewing

the files and comparing the information therein with the source.

Seidel seemed very interested in this, but actually the question

could not be answered on the basis of recollection alone, and

was

not.

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Seidel then asked how would the Panther COINTEL

be defined with regard to aims, techniques and results. The

answer to this was that the aims were to counter generally the

revolutionary objectives and activities of the Panthers.

The

question concerning techniques was left unanswered, and as

far as results go, former SA Todd told Seidel that he did not

feel there had been any great results from the Program as it was

pursued in the San Francisco Office, but he could not speak

for the rest of the Program as far as the Bureau is concerned.

Seidel asked whether the Agents working the criminal

aspects of the BPP received information that was received from

a technical source, and he was told procedures by which

information had been routed to them in their cases, and that at

the time we operated these technical surveillances, we felt they

had been installed lawfully, and that the information received

could be used.

Seidel asked whether there was a great deal of pressure

put on the San Francisco Office for the development of informants.

He was told yes, that informants were the backbone of good law

enforcement and the Bureau constantly urged better informant

coverage.

Seidel asked if there had been similar pressure placed

on the office in the COINTEL, and former SA Todd replied that

he did not feel that any great pressure had been put on the

office to carry out this Program, but that the Bureau had recom

mended the Program, however, had left it up to the office

pretty much as to how it should be carried out.

Seidel asked whether the Program had been successful

in causing dissention within the Party. Former SA Todd told

him that he did not feel this had been particularly effective

in any

way, and that causing dissention had not been a primary

objective of the Program in the San Francisco Office, and that

the policy had been to use the Program for primarily two

purposes: 1) for the purpose of developing informants by.

attempting to dissuade them from their loyalties to the Party;

and 2) to make representations to Panthers for whom outstanding

arrest warrants had been issued in order to flush them out so

they could be apprehended.

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the Breakfast Program, and was told a recommendation had been

made for putting some kind of contamination in the Breakfast

Program food, and that this office had felt this extremely

inadvisable and recommended against it, and it was not carried

out here.

Former SA Todd was also asked about a COINTEL

proposal relating to "The Black Panther" newspapers, and was

told that such a proposal had been made involving saturating

the papers with a foul smelling fish oil or some substance,

however, we recommended against this as it would serve no purpose.

Seidel was advised that the San Francisco policy had

been to recommend against harassment, per se, and also recommended

against leaking information to the press. Seidel then raised

the question about the incident where Huey P. Newton's high

standard of living was given to the press, and he was told

that this fell into the category of informant development on

the basis it was felt that if those Panthers who

were living

practically in poverty could realize what Neyton's standards

of living were, it might change their allegience to him and

• they could be contacted for informant purposes.

Seidel was also told that in this phase of the

COINTEL, it was former SA Todd's recollection that this infor-

mation regarding

Newton's high standard of living had been

disseminated by informants, and that the press was well aware

of Newton's standards of living without having to make this

information available to them.

Seidel asked what the instructions had been from the

Bureau in carring out the COINTEL.

Former SA Todd told Seidel

that he had reviewed this file after being appointed Supervisor,

but could not recall specifically what the Bureau instructions

The only other instructions received were at a two day

vonference in Washington, D.C., on BPP matters conducted by

former Assistant to the Director William Sullivan, and Section

Chief George Moore, at which time it was pointed out that the

Bureau desired the COINTEL to be coordinated with the Bureau,

but that former SA Todd did not recall any firm prohibition against

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taking certain actions without Bureau authority, and that the

field had some leeway in what they did, but, in general, offices

made proposals

to the Bureau with copies to San Francisco

prior to taking any action. Seidel asked why San Francisco

got copies of all proposals, and was told this was because

San

Francisco was office of origin in the BPP case and other

offices were required to furnish a copy of all correspondence.

Seidel then asked to what extent Special Agent in

Charge Charles W. Bates had knowledge of the COINTEL as it

related to the BPP, and he was told that former SA lodd could

not speak for Bates and his knowledge would be dependent upon

how carefully he read incoming mail and reviewed files, and

former SA Todd had no knowledge as to what extent Bates did this.

Seidel was told that under the

supervisory setup in the

office at the time, former SA Todd felt it was his responsibility

to direct this Program in San Francisco and not Bates.

Seidel indicated that out of his investigation in the

hearings, undoubtedly there would be some legislation coming

out of Congress that would either enable or prohibit such

things as the COINTEL,

and he stated that was one reason he

was asking concerning

its effectiveness, and wondered what former

SA Todd would recommend.

Seidel was told that former SA Todd

felt it essential that the Government should have the right to

defend itself against individuals and groups who advocate

violent revolution or who are aligned with foreign powers,

and that there was a need for some sort of legislation within

the framework of constitutional government which would enable

the government to do this; but, of course, it should be done

under. proper control. Seidel asked for suggestions as to what

sort of control, and was told that this was a matter for

Congress to decide, but perhaps Congress should look into some

legislation similar to wiretap legislation, where the responsi-

bility is upon a

Federal judge to issue a warrant.

Former SA Todd had prepared a brief summary of what

he recalled of the activities of the BPP, and he made a copy of

this available to Seidel.

Former SA Todd also had made a

chronology to assist him in answering questions, together with

5

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'The -=

SSC;

INTERVIEW OF FORMER

SA DAVID E. TODD BY

SSC STAFF MEMBER

some notes concerning COINTEL policy, former SA Todd's general

recollection of matters, questions of law regarding agent -

principlé, privileged information problems, ongoing litigation

and national defense, and informants and sources.

Seidel

asked

for a copy of this chronology and this, too, was given to him.

Seidel expressed great interest in receiving the one

page summary of the Panthers' activities, and stated that he

had chosen the Panthers for a case study, and he seemed more

interested in this than in the COINTEL.

there might be future interviews and that former SA Todd might

be called

as a

witness

before the Committee at a later date.

At the outset of the interview, Seidel asked whether

former SA Todd desired his rights be read to him. Former

SA Todd told him that since he did not interpret this as a

custodial interview, and it was his understanding Seidel had no

police power, that he could forego reading the rights.

Former SA Todd did not feel it was necessary to

consult with a Bureau representative at this time.

The above information was furnished by former SA Todd

voluntarily and was not solicited.

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RONOLOGY

Approximate

Dates

Dec. 1969

Feb. 1970

May 1970

AUg

: 1970

Aug 1970

Jan 1971

Feb 1971

March 1971.

ADIIL 1911

April 1971

May 1971

August

1971

August

1971

August 1971

Deco 1971

Designated supervisor. Reviewed Cointelpro file.

No recollection of any actions by s. F. in file.

Conference in Hashington, D._C. Briefed on Baltimore

Black Panther murder. Cointelpro discussed.

Cointeloro letter.

Suggestion rejected by S. E.

Marin Court shootout (Jonathan Jackson-Judge Haley)

Cleaver relegsed from prison.

* 5

Letters to Algeria to provoke Cleaver to retura to

U.S. so arrest could be effected.

Newton becomes Supreme Commander, Cleaver expelled.

Robert Webb murder.

Hour Her 80tx, p0196

George Jackson killed in prison break attempt.

Officer Kowalski murder attempt - Washington & Bottom arrest

S. I. Ingleside Station attack - Officer Young murdered.

Retired.

--

- COINTELPRO:

RECOLLECTION:

Recommended against many proposals.

Approved recommendation to try to induce Cleaver

to return to U.S.

Would have approved actions to persuade Panthers

to change loyalty fron Party and

cannot recall any specific ones.

become informants, but

Would not have approved any proposals solely for

harrassment or for leaking information to press; there

must have been

some bona fide investigative purpose

behind proposal before considering 1t.

Recall only generalitles.

Requested if could review

Bureau

files orior to interview.

This was denied.

Cannot testify with any specificity without review

of files.

AGENT-PRINCIPAL PRIVILEGED INFORMATION: Sensitive techniques

Informants & Sources

Ongoing Investigations

Foreign Intelligence

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•i Y

Ongoing Iltigation: Panthers v. FBI & IRS, USDO, S. F. 01v1l rights.

National Defense: Documents

reviewed were classified.

executive

branch have right to defend

nation against advocates of revolution (public

Interest issue).

Informants & sources:

Cannot revéal.

(Includes information

that might reveal identity.)

provide or

leither my responsibility nor my prerogative to make this information

I was acting as an agent of the rederal government, and it

1s responsibllity of government to provide the information

Any questions should be submitted in writing and my answers in

writing should be forwarded to fBi and if FBI deems it advisable

to make these answers

avallable to

Committee, that should

be

proper channel.

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The Investig:

lon of the Black Panther

ty. was a

National Defense matter.

Information on file points to colla-

boration with foreign powers by leaders of the party.

Throughout the two-year perlod in which I supervised

the investigation there were strong liaisons between Black Panthers

and dissident groups abroad as well as with the governments of

foreign nations The Black Panthers had support and/or branches

in France, Germany and Scandinavia, and were international in

Eldridge Cleaver, wanted on felony warrants, had been

granted asylum in Algeria and with his entourage was residing

in a villa provided by the Algerian government.

During this

period he made at least one trip to Moscow, Russia.

several

Black Panthers travelled to Cuba.

Huey Newton, in 1971, travelled

to Red China by way of Canada and Hong Kong at

the Invitation

of the chinese government at a time when the united states had

At the time I began serving as supervisor in late 1969,

the Black Panther Party Was under co-leadership of Huer Newton,

then confined to prison in California, and Eldridge Cleaver, living.

in exile in Algeria. The Black Panther Party, both in the news-

caper it published weekly at san francisco, and in public statements

by its officers and leaders, advocated violent revolution; it

published instructions on guerrilla warfare, directions for the use

of weapons

and printed detailed drarings and instructions on

the manufacture of bombs and explosive devices, and lt agitated

openly for the murder of police officers.

The term "off the

pigs,

which means

"kill the police,

"was a Black Panther catch-

phrase. the history of the black ranther Party during the period

I acted as supervisor is replete with incidents of murder, violence

and

Inciting to revolution.

The revolutionary quotation of Mao.

Ise-lung, "Polltical power

became a

grows out of the barrel of a gun,"

Black Panther motto.

Sometime in early 1971 a split occurred in the Black

Panther. Party.

Huey Newton, following his release from prison

In 1970, gained control of one faction headquartered in Berkeley,

California, and he broke openly with aldridge Cleaver, publicly

expelling Cleaver and Cleaver's lieutenants from the Party. The

Newton faction thereaiter gradually took a more moderate approach,

advocating social change through community service in place of 1ts

prior profile of violence.

No change was noted in the policies of

the Cleaver faction directed from Algiers, and it continued to

advocate violent revolution; it began publication in New York

o1 its own newspaper proclaiming itsrevolutionary policies; and

followers

violence.

belonging to this faction continued to commit crimes of

The following crimes of violence attributed to the Cleaver

faction of the Black Panthers have been documented In the. book "Target

BLUE,

by former Deputy Police Commissioner Robert Daley of New York

City (Dell Publishing Co., Ine., 1973):

Ambush attacks against police officers which resulted 1a

officers murdered, 3 wounded, and one attempted murder thwarted, which

led to the solution of the other cases and established these

attacks

to be a nationwide conspiracy; and the murder of two Newton-faction

Black Panthers.

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()

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

MAY 1962 EDITION

ROSA EPAIR 141 CFR 101-11.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

: Mr.

.. Adams

FROM

: Legal

counsel

SUBJECT: SENSTUDY -

115

1

- Mr. Callahan

1

1

- Mx. Adams

- Mr.

Jenkins

1 - Mr.

Mintz

DATE: 8/19/75

1 - Mr.

Wannall

- Mr. Cregar

- Mx.. Hotis

I - Mr. Daly

Assoc. Dir.

ep. ADIAO

Jep. Apalh

AssthDir

Admini

Comp. Syst. -

Ext. Affairs

Files & Com. -

Gen. Inv. -

Ident. -

Inspection

Intell. -

Telephone Rm. -

Director Sec'y -

Memorandum 8/12/75 from Mr. Cregar

to. Mr. Wannall

outlined discussions. between the Bureau, the Department and

the Senate Select Committee concerning the protection of in-

dividuals. to whom we have incurred an obligation to protecting

their identity and/or relationship with the FBI as related to

COINTELPRO documents. Prior to furnishing copies of Bureau

documents relating to COINTELPRO, we were excising the iden-

tities of individuals to whom we

protect their identity and/or relationship with the FBI and the

Committee complained that this was not in line with

the agreed

• upon procedures.

Pursuant to the instructions of the Deputy. Attorney

General, an attempt was made at reaching a compromise concerning

this matter.

As part of the compromise, it was suggested that

a certain number of these individuals whose name had been deleted

be furnished to the Senate Select Committee representatives for

their interview by the Committee.

As a result of the preliminary discussions, SA Daly

of this Division was advised on 8/15/75 by Steven Blackhurst

that the Attorney General had met with Senator Church on the

• evening of 8/14/75 and Church had agreed that the Committee

would attempt a limited number of interviews of people whose

identities and/or relationship with the Bureau had been pro-

tected.

to be allowed to contact the proposed interviewees to inform

them of the proposed interview to determine whether the inter-

viewee was receptive to such

an interview.

62-116395-635

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 10/16/00

_ BY SPLALMMA

ST. 109

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CONTINUED - OVER

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Legal Counsel to Mr. Adams

RE: SENSTUDY

On 8/18/75, SA Daly was telephonically advised by

John I. Elliff, Task

Force Director of the Domestic Intel-

ligence Task Force of the Senate Select Committee, that

Senator Church had reconsidered his agreement with the

Attorney General to the aforementioned procedures and hac

Iratted a letter to the Attorney General stating that these

procedures were not acceptable to the Committee.

Elliff

stated Church was not in town on this date and that Church

anticipes get signed a letter in linc with the above but he

• a letter to be

signed and furnished the De-

partment and the Bureau in the immediate future. Elliff

stated Church's change in position in this matter was

occasioned by arguments advanced by the Senate Select Com-

mittee Staff Members that this procedure was contrary to

established procedures.

RECOMMENDATION:

Action. Information.

upon receipt of copy

of senator

Church's

letter it will be

analyzed and recommendations

will be

submittea.

pus

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

SEP 0 8 1575

TELETYPE

IR D03 AX CODE

6800 PM URGENT SEPT. 8, 1975 VAN

TO:

DIRECTOR (62-116395)

SAN DIEGO

Assoc. Dir.

Dep.-A.D.-Adm.

Dep.-A.D.-Inv.-

Asst. Dir.:

Admin. -

Comp. Syst. -

Ext. Affairs

Files & Com.

Gen. Inv. -

Ident.

Inspection

Intell.

Laboratory

Plan. & Eval.

Spec. Inv. -

Training -

Legal Coun

Telephone Kx. =

Director Sec'y

FROME

ALEXANDRIA

(66-217)

SENSTUDY, 1975.

1975 AND BUREAU NITEL, SEPTEMBER 5, 1975.

BE SLE X ME 2A TELEPHONE CALL TO SAN DIEGO, SPENER SO CHIN

THIS WILL. CONFIRM REFERENCED TELEPHONE CALL IN WHICH

SAN DIEGO AS ADVISED THAI FORMER EMPLOYEE, THOMAS E, BISHOP,

RESIDES 17417 RANGISCO DRIVE, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, 92128.

DS

IN

@COR

END:

RETAINED

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREINIS UNGLASSIFIC

DATE 12/16,00 BYSALMA

PERSONNEL

ST. 109

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CODE

TELETYPE

1 - Mr.

J.

A. Mintz

1 - Mr.

W.

TO SACS MIAMI

SEPTEMBER 5, 1975

NEW YORK

1 - Mr. W. O. Cregar

FROM

DIRECTOR FBI (62-116395)

(Attn: S. F. Phillips)

1 - Mr. J. G. Deegan

SENSTUDY 75, BUDED SEPTEMBER 8, 1975.1 - MY. J. I. Aldhizer

REHMAIRTEL MAY 23, 1966, NYAIRTELS MAY 18, 1965, MAY 28,

1965, AND NYLET JULY 29, 1965, ALL CAPTIONED "MARTIN LUTHER

KING, JR., SECURITY MATTER - C," MIAMI FILE 200-15079,

NEW YORK FILE 100-136585.

5339m

ATAN CONTAINED

...SHED

150

2:238/BY SPYAM

THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE (SSC) HAS REQUESTED ACCESS TO

ALL MEMORANDA AND OTHER MATERIALS WHICH RELATE TO ELECTRONIC

SURVEILLANCE OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING BY STATE AND LOCAL

"AGENCIES OR GOVERNMENTS.

REFERENCED COMMUNICATIONS INDICATE THAT THE DADE COUNTY

SHERIFF'S OFFICE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, AND THE NEW YORK CITY POLICE

TE

DEPARTENT USED ELECTRONIC SURVEILIANCE EQUIPMENT IN THEIR

HE

COVERAGE OF DR. KING.

IN ORDER FOR FBIHQ TO BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO THE SSC REQUEST

IT WILL BE NECESSARY FOR MIAMI AND NEW YORK TO CONTACT APPRO-

PAYATE OFFICIALS ON THE DADE COUNTER 1O OR AND TI

NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT AND ADVISE

THEY

BM OF THE SSE LOS

OF THE SiSE 633

IINRECORDED COPY PILED IN

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm. =

Dep. AD Inv. _

Asst. Dir.:

Admin.

Comp. Syst.

Ext. Affairs

Files & Com. -

Gen. Inv. -

Ident. _

Inspection -

Intell. -

Laboratory

Plan. & Eval.

1 - 100-106670 (King)

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62-116395

REQUEST. SECURE THEIR COMMENTS RELATIVE TO:

WHETHER

THEY HAVE ANY OBJECTION TO OUR RELEASING TO SSC THE MATERIAL

FROM THEM CONTAINED IN REFERENCED COMMUNICATIONS, WHICH WOULD

DISCLOSE THAT THEY USED ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCES IN THEIR

COVERAGE OF KING. THEY SHOULD BE APPRISED OF THE FACT

EVEN IF FBIHQ DOES NOT VOLUNTARILY SUPPLY REQUESTED

INFORMATION, SSC MAY SUBPOENA FBI RECORDS.

EXPEDITE AND SUBMIT BY TELETYPE IN THE ABOVE CAPTION,

ATTENTION INID, I. O. CREGAR, BY CLOSE OF BUSINESS SEPTEMBER 8,

1975.

END

NOTE:

Pursuant to a request from the Senate Select Committee

(SSC), Bureau files were reviewed and specific information

pertinent to the above question was discovered.

Department used clectronic surveillance equipment in their

coverage of Martin Luther King.

Headquarters considers it appropriate and necessary to

have New York and Miami contact the local agencies involved for

their position regarding possible disclosure and release of

information pertaining to their electronic surveillance coverage

of King to the SSC.

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CODE

TELETYPE

1 - Mr. W. O. Cregar

1 - Mr. J. P.

Thomas

NITEL

SEPTEMBER 3, 1975

TO ALEXANDRIA

ATLANTA

JACKSON

RICHMOND

FROM DIRECTOR

• (62-116395)

SENSTUDY 75•

SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE (SSC) HAS REQUESTED IDENTITIES

OF ALI SUPERVISORS AND COORDINATORS FOR WHITE HATE COINTELPROS

FOR 1964 THROUGH 1971 IN RECIPIENT OFFICES.

BY NITEL SEPTEMBER 5, 1975; TO ATTENTION INTD,

W. O. CREGAR; FURNISH IDENTITIES OF SUCH PERSONNEL AND DATES

OF PERTINENT COINTEL ASSIGNMENTS. IF INDIVIDUAL IS STILI

ASSIGNED TO YOUR OFFICE, SO STATE.

END

JPT:en en

(4)

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN DUNGLASSPIED

DATE 10/e/00 BY SALINE

NOTE :

Above based on SSC request dated 8/26/75, Part I,

item 9, deadline 9/12/75.

ST 109

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62-14-315-632

dE SEP 10 1975

Wite

Assoc. Dir. _

Dep. AD. Adm. -

Dep. AD Inv. -

Asst. Dir.:

Admin.

Comp. Syst. -

Ext. Affairs _

FEDERA

COMMO.

NATIONS SECTION

1.:

Files & Com. -

Gen. Inv. _

Ident..

Inspection -

Intell. -

Laboratory -

SEP 0 J 13/3,

TUP SIP

TELETVP

Pian. & Eval. -

Spec. Inv. -

Training -

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Tolephond 7 @ SEP 1 7 1975

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CODE

TELETYPE

-W. 0. Cregar

- J. P. Thomas

NITEL

TO BOSTON

CHÍCAGO

DETROIT

LOS ANGELES

NEWARK

NEW YORK

SAN DIEGO

SAINT LOUIS

SEPTEMBER 3, 1975

FROM DIRECTOR (62-116395)

SENSTUDY 75.

-SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE (SSC) HAS REQUESTED IDENTITIES OF

ALI SUPERVISORS AND COORDINATORS FOR NEW LEFT AND BIACK EXTRE-

MIST COINTEIPROS 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 ASSIGNMENTS. IF INDIVIDUAL IS STILL ASSIGNED TO

YOUR OFFICE, SO STATE.

END

JPT: pal pial

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

EREN SUNGLASSIFIE

DATE 10/1600 BY SPALLeL

NOTE:

Above based on SSC request dated 8/26/75, Part I, item 8,

deadline 9/12/75.

BI 109

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REG-37

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Dep. AD Adm. -

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Asst. Dir.:

Admin. -

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Ext. Affairs -

Files & Com. _

Gen. Inv. -

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COMMUCCATONS SEChiOCI

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Laboratory -

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4312 (Rev. 12-11-73)

Date of Mail

9/2/75

Has been removed and placed in the Special File Room of Records Section.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

DATE 1576,01 pAy

See File 66-2554-7530 for authority.

Subject

JUNE MAIL SENSTUDY '75

Removed By

File Number

7 9 SEP 1 7 1975.

62-116395-630

Permanent. Serial Charge. Out

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

FBI

Date:

8/29/75

Transmit the following in

(Type in plaintext or code)

Via

AIRTEL

AIRMAIL

(Priority)

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-116395)

ATTENTION: BUREAU SUPERVISOR THOMAS E. HOWARD,

ROOM 4052, HOOVER BUILDING

FROM:

SAC, JACKSON (62-496) (6) ALLINFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNGLASSIFIED

SENSTUDY 75

DATE 1016/00

BY SOLALMICL

BUDED 0729/75

Re telephone call from Bureau Supervisor THOMAS F.

HOWARD to Jackson Division Supervisor L. C. BUTEAU,_ 8/25/75;

telephone call from Bureau Supervisor HOWARD to SA FRANK B.

WATTS, 8/21.15, and Bureau teletype to Jackson, dated 8/25/75,

concerning

information requested by the U. S. Senate Select

Committee to study governmental operations with respect to

intelligence activities.

Bureau Supervisor HOWARD, in

referenced telephone calls, requested certain information,

namely:

Item #1. All materials reflecting contacts and

reports of contacts (and the substance

thereof) by the and/or among the FBipolice

Meridian, Miss., of Jackson,

and A. I. BOTNICK, Str9099/1/67 to 3/31/70.

Item #2.

All materials reflecting contacts between

the FBI and TOM HENDRICKS, from 5/1/68 to

8/31/68.

Item #3.

All materials reflecting the information

supplied by, and Bureau supervision of the

handling of, ALTON WAYNE ROBERTS, RAYMOND

GORDON CLARK, known to the

Senate Select Committee to have been

informants, From 5/1/68 to 8/33 668 10 1975

Bureau

Jackson

FBW: bal

7 9 SEP 1 7 1975•

Approved: _

Special Agent in Charge

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JN. 62-496

Item #4. A synopsis of the main files only contained

in the Jackson indices regarding THOMAS

ALBERT TARRANTS, III, AND KATHLEEN MADLYN

AINSWORTH.

Enclosures are being submitted::. :..

Material submitted under each of captioned items

is result of Jackson indices

check on 8/26/75, as it pertains

to the following individuals:

A. I. BOTNICK

TOM HENDRICKS

ALTON WAYNE ROBERTS

RAYMOND LADELLE ROBERTS

GORDON LESTER CLARK

THOMAS ALBERT TARRANTS, III

KATHLEEN MADLYN AINSWORTH

Item F1.

A. I. BOTNICK

JN 170-502-3

JN 170-502-4

| 170-502-5

WN 170-502-6

IJN 170-502-7

JN 174-135-66

WN 174-161-640-207 pert

+174-161-642 748 pest

JN 174-161-649

JN 174-161-656

Item $2.

THOMAS M. HENDRICKS

The indices of the Jackson Office reveal that

this individual furnished information to this Bureau during

2

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JN 62-496

he period 5/1/68 to 8/31/68, but was never an informant

Two

opies each are enclosed of the below listed serials: whic

contain in formation furnished by HENDRICKS during this period:

VIN 174-161-642 pot pert

_JN 174-161-634 Hot JuT

\ Item #3.

A.

ALTON WAYNE ROBERTS

The indices of the Jackson Office revealed no

information furnished by this individual for the period

May 1, 1968, to August 31, 1968.

Enclosed are two copies of an airtel entitled

"BOMBING INVESTIGATIONS IN MISSISSIPPI. BOMBING MATTERS,"

(Bufile 174-1-54, Jackson file 174-135), which states that

ALTON WAYNE ROBERTS would be agreeable to prevailing upon

Mississippi, and further that a series of conferences were

held during June, 1968, with RAYMOND and ALTON WAYNE ROBERTS,

THOMAS M. HENDRICKS, JR., an attorney and former SA, and

Detective LUTHER L. SCARBOROUGH, Meridian, Miss., Police

Department, regarding this matter.

In this regard, ALTON WAYNE ROBERTS was present

during a number of meetings with the above mentioned

individuals; however,

all information was actually furnished

by his brother, RAYMOND.

ALTON WAYNE ROBERTS has never been an informant of

the Jackson Division; however, he was instrumental in obtaining

the cooperation of his younger brother.

ALTON WAYNE ROBERTS is presently confined in the

Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Texarkana, Texas,

where he is serving a l0-year sentence as a result of his

part in the murder of the three civil rights workers near

Philadelphia, Miss., on June 21, 1964•

Serial enclosed is as follows:

JN 170-626-3

3

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V Item #3.

B.

RAYMOND LADELLE ROBERTS

The indices of the Jackson Office reveal that

cat per the bet on 4 a sortal in Conta in on a rong

Also, included

handling of ROBERTS.

JN 170-626-15

170-626-2

\JN

JN

JN

170-626-3

170-626-4

170-626-5

170-626-6

170-626-7

170-626-9

170-626-14

170-626-SF1-1

not wach

~JN

170-626-SEI-2

IJN

170-626-SFJ-3

JN

170-626-SF1-4

IJN

170-626-SF1-5

>JN

170-626-SF1-6

AJN

170-626-SF1-7

JN

170-626-SF1-8

JN

170-626-SF1-9

IJN

IJN

170-626-SF1-10

174-161-634

\ JN 174-161-642

The Bureau's attention is directed to Bureau file

170-3281.

Subject of this file is known to the Bureau and

was opened by the Jackson Office 6/18/68, as a Confidential

source - racial,

and case was closed by Jackson letter to the

Bureau, dated 9/12/69. During the period that the case was

open, this source was paid by this Bureau a total of $392.

At the time this subject was developed as a confidential

source, it was the distinct understanding between source and

Agents

contacting him that all information furnished by him

would be held in strict confidence and the revelation of

information furnished by him would most assuredly result in

his, as' well as other members of his family, immediate death.

This Bureau has never violated that trust.

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JN 62-496

Source and his brother, however, were publicly

article is enclosed.

Item #3. C.

GORDON LESTER GLARK

The indices of the Jackson Office revealed no

information furnished by this individual for period

5/1/68-8/31/68.

The Bureau's attention is directed to Bureau file

170-5883.

Subject of this file is known to the Bureau and

was opened by the Jackson Office January 4, 1972.

This source's identity has never been publicly

disclosed. Informant was sole source of information in the

proposed bombing by BYRON DE LA BECKWITH of the residence

Of A. I. BOINICK, head of the Anti-Defamation League in

Louisiana and Mississippi, on or about september 41, 19/3. It

is noted that during

Federal and state trials, lasting approxi-

mately 22 years, that it appeared the primary function of the

defendants and their klan-type lawyers

was to determine the

identity of informant in this case.

Efforts were directed at

handling Agent on numerous occasions in an effort to have him

make some slip which would reveal identity of informant.

Numerous Federal court decisions were utilized and, in fact,

Agent was excused by State Judge from testifying since he was

convinced that any testimony in state court by the Agent would

reveal source's identity and possibly cost him his life.

In view of the above, the Bureau should make every

affort to insure source's identity is not disclosed.

VItem #4. A.

KATHLEEN MADLYN AINSWORTH

The indices of the Jackson Office reflect the

following main files on KATHLEEN MADLYN AINSWORTH:

JN 174-159

JN 174-123

JN 174-161

JN 157-8937

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JN 62-496

Material contained in Jackson file 174-161 is

synopsized under Item #4. B.

Enclosed are two copies each of the following:

V Synopsis of Jackson file 174-123, entitled

"THOMAS LABERT TARRANTS,

(DECEASED, BOMBING OF BETH SKATE CONGREGATTON SENAGOGUE,

S3LS OLD CANTON ROAD

1967.

BOMBING MATTER JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI, SEPTEMBER 18,

- destinger.

A correlation memo dated 1/2/69, captioned

"KATHY AINSWORTH.

RM - . KLAN

of her investigation. - de

repeatch stop si the contents

NELSON MC INTOSH - VICTIM.

ETITE BYAD, RANKIN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, JUNE 6, arges

BOMBING MATTER."

Item #4. B.

THOMAS ALBERT. TARRANTS, III

The following main files on THOMAS ALBERT TARRANTS,

Ill, were

reflected in the indices of the Jackson Office:

JN 4-5

JN 174-161

JN 157-9795

JN 44-2383

JN 91-1134

JN 91-1127

JN 88-2017

JN 174-126

JN 174-123

Jackson indices reflect the following main file

on THOMAS ALBERT TARRANTS, III, captioned

"SAMUEL HOLLOWAY

BOWERS, JR.; THOMAS ALBERT TARRANTS, III,". Jackson file 4-5.

and enclosed are two copies each of serials 148 through 260.

Enclosed are two copies of synopsis of Jackson

file 174-161, captioned "KATHLEEN MADLYN AINSWORTH (DECEASED);

THOMAS ALBERT TARRANTS, III; ATTEMPTED BOMBING RESIDENCE OF

MEYER DAVIDSON, 2904 36TH STREET, MERIDIAN, MISSISSIPPI,

JUNE 30, 1968.

BOMBING MATTER."

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JN 62-496

Enclosed are two copies each of the following

serials:

JN 174-161-10,

13,

8_38,

8Q, 369,

457,

502,

634,

640, 644,

671,575,

692,

700,

760, 763,

783, 1162, 422, To2.

V A summary of Jackson file 174-159 is reported

appropriately under Item Number 4. A.

• Enclosed are two copies of synopsis of Jackson files

07H9 RESIDENT DE PEER SUCKEY, SANDHITY

"UNKNOWN SUBJECTS;

MAY 2, 1968; PIZER

BUCKNER - VICTIM. CIVIL RIGHTS," AND

COMMUNITY, RANKIN COUNTY, MISSISSIPP-'THOMAS ALBERT TARRANTS,

III; SHOOTING INTO THE RESIDENCE OF FLOSSIE LINDSEY, SANDHILL

COMMUNITY, RANKIN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, MAY 2, 1968; FLOSSIE

LINDSEX; BETTY JEAN MC LIN - VICTIMS. EXTREMISI MATTERS. "-destraye

COMMUNITY, RANKIN COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, MAY 2, 1968; FLOSSIE LINDSEY;

BETTY JEAN MC LIN - VICTIMS. CIVIL RIGHTS.

CIVIL RIGHTS ACT

OF 1968. - destroyed.

BALLEYE BRANH, KAMPHES, TENNESONA, 6/1/8. MARK ROBBAMA,"

revealed upon the original investigation instituted in this

the above captioned bank robbery.

Enclosed are two copies each of a synopsis of

the following files:

Jackson file 91-1127, entitled, "THOMAS ALBERT

TARRANTS, III; SIMMONS FIRST NATIONAL BANK, JEFFERSON SQUARE

OFFICE,

PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS, JUNE 4, 1968. BANK ROBBERY."

hay

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JN 62-496

Jackson file 88-2017, entitled "THOMAS ALBERT

'ARRANIS, I11, aka; MALCOLM EUGENE HOUSTON, aka; LOUIS

MERCER SHADOAN (DECEASED); JOE DANIEL HAWKINS, aka; WILLIA

BURNETT WALDROL• ITSMV; BR; PV; UFAC - ARMED ROBBERY, CHILD

MOLESTATION, AND ATTEMPTED BOMBING; ASSAULTING A FEDERAL OFFICER:

HARBORING - AIDING AND ABETTING - CONSPIRACY; NATIONAL FIREARMS

ACT; STATE FIREARMS CONTROL ASSISTANCE ACT."

-destrigeet.

V Jackson file 174-126,

MATTER. "- distries.

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AIRMAIL - REGISTERED

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ATTN: LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION

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SENSTUDY 75

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINEO

¿CLASSIFIED

DATE

The following is being provided for information

of;

provided the Iollowing intormation of possible interest to

Last week PAl sHiA (phonetic), investigator lor

investigative committee headed by U.s.

Senator FRANK CHURCH,

telephonically contacted REITER for an interview. REITER

picked up sHEA and his suitcases at the residence of JOHN

HEADE (JOHN PATRICK HEADE, Bufile 100-458601, PDfile 157-639).

and then to the airport.

SHEA gave

REITER telephone number to call in Washington, D.C. to verify

position with CHURCH Committee and REITER made call.

SHEA

mentioned lack of sensitivity between the FBI and local

authorities while discussing

activities in Portland,

Oregon

during 1970 such as Portland State University "riots" and

activities in connection with the People's Army Jamboree

(Bufile 100-459278, PDfile 100-11705) both before and after the

American Legion Convention wichoyas held in Portland in

1970 (8128170-913/70).

628.

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SHEA made comments

that he had FBI "reports" alleging

HEADE was an "informer."

ADMINISTRATIVE

No re-contact was made with REITER by Special Agents

of the Portland Office knowledgeable in above matters to obtain

Portland letters to FBIHQ dated 10/8/70 and 10/23/70 and FBIHQ

letters to Portland dated 10/20/70 and 11/6/70 in matter

entitled

"COINTELPRO, NEW LEFT,

(Bufile

100-449690, PDfile 100-11040).

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OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA FPAIR (41 CFRI 101-11.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

1' - Mr. Mintz

1. - Mr. Wannall

1 - Mr. Cregar

TO

:Mr. J. B. Adams

DATE: 8/27/75

1 - Mr. Hotis

1 - Mr. Daly

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AR AQ

Dop. AD

Asst. Dir.

Admin.

Comp. Syst.

Ext. Affairs

Files & Com. _

Gen. Inv. -

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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIEI

DATE 19/16/00

SUBJECTE

SENSTUDY - 75

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Plan: & Eval. -

Spec. Inv. -

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Telephone Rm. -

Director Sec'y —

By memorandum 8/19/75, you were advised that John

Elliff, Director of the Domestic Task Force of the Senate

Select Committee, indicated that the Senate Select Committee

was not going to interview so-called "recipient sources" in-

volved in COINTELPRO.

Ellift indicated a letter to that

effect would be drafted by him and forwarded to the Depart-

ment and the Bureau.

On 8/25/75, Elliff was asked whether he had furnished

a letter in connection with his decision concerning COINTELPRO

"recipient source" interviews and stated he had not. Additionally,

he stated that the Senate Select Committee did not intend to con-

at this time: However, he

did not plan to put this decision in writing.

On 8/26/75, Michael E. Shaheen, Jr., Special Counsel

for Intelligence Coordination in the Department, advised that

John Elliff informed the Deputy Attorney General of the Senate

Select Connittee's decision not to int loew "recipient sources

in COINTELPRO at this time.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

AUG 27 1975

TELETYPE

Assoc. Dir.

Dep.-A.D.-Adm.

Dep.-A.D.-InV.

Asst. Dir.:

Admin. .

Comp. Syst.

Ext. Affairs

Files & Com..

Gen. Inv. -

4:55 PM URGENT AUGUST 27, 1975 LLB

TO DIRECTOR

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

FROM

NORFOLK (62-1057)

HERE 15/6/00 BY SALu

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIEL

SENSTUDY 75.

RE BALTIMORE TELETYPE TO BUREAU , AUGUST 27, 1975.

ON AUGUST 27, 1975, FORMER FBI EMPLOYEE, JAMES F. BLAND,

CONTACTED THROUGH HIS DAUGHTER, WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, AND

WAS ADVISED OF CONTENIS OF REFERENCED TELETYPE.

Lai ratory

Plan. & Eval.

Spe. Inv. --

Trining

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vire

*Secy

1.

BLAND STATED HE HAS BEEN IN WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, FOR

PAST SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS ASSISTING IN BUILDING COTTAGE WHICH IS

FAMILY PROJECT WITH CHILDREN. BLAND STATED THAT WHEN CONTACTED

BY SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE (SSC), HE WILL CONTACI BUREAU'S

LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION. HE HAS NOI BEEN CONTACTED

TO DATE.

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OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10

5010-106

MAY 1902 EDITION

OSA GEN. RET: NO. 27

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

: Mr.

W.

R. Wannalfel

FROM : W. 0

GregarWo 48

2 - Mr. J. A. Mintz

(1 - Mr. J. B. Hotis)

1 - Mr. W. R. Wannall

DATE: 8/26/75

1 - Mr. W. O. Cregar

1 - Mr. S. F. Phillips

SUBJECT:

SENSTUDY 75

ALLINFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adi. -

Dep. AD inv. -

Asst. Dir.:

Admin.

Comp. Syst. -

Ext. Affairs -

Files & Com. -

Gen. Inv. -

Ident. -

Inspection -

Intell. -

Laboratory

egal Goun.

Plon & Eval. -

Spec. Inv. -

Training

abouts of several former SAs, including Paul L. Cox.

Memorandum 8/25/75 prepared for delivery to the SSC and furnished

Cox's latest known address

as contained in his personnel file.

It was his address at time he retired several years ago in

Hyattsville, Maryland.

2 marineient t

abdresses

We subsequently learned that Cox has a mailing address

of a trailer court in Sarasota, Florida, and that he was

currently on a lengthy motor trip, exact current whereabouts

unknown. By teletype 8/26/75, we instructed Tampa to make

necessary arrangements through the trailer court to eventually

be in touch with Cox so he might be alerted that the SSC might

contact him for an interview.

On the afternoon of 8/26/75, Cox telephonically

contacted Supervisor S. F. Phillips of the SENSTUDY 75 Project

from Washington, D. C. He indicated that he had been visiting

the area the last couple of days in connection with a long trip

he had taken through Canada and the Midwest, and had learned

through a mutual acquaintance who is also employed in the

Intelligence Division and has been assisting on the SENSTUDY 75

Project and thus knew of our current interest in Cox, that the

Bureau was attempting to locate Cox. Phillips briefed Cox in

the same manner as he would have been briefed had the Tampa

Office been able to contact him.

He indicated that if he was

contacted by the SSC Staff he willemake

oa collect call to the

Legal Counsel Division for further in

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Memorandum to Mr. W. R. Wannall

Re:

SENSTUDY 75

62-116395

eventually is interviewed he would certainly want to tell the

Bureau the results of the interview. In addition to the

trailer court address we have on

record, Cox furnished an

address where he is more apt to be located, which is also a

trailer court.

That address is number 353, 1300 South Airport

Boulevard, Melbourne, Florida 32910, telephone area code

305, 724-4104. Nothing was said to Cox concerning the

consultation aspects relating to interviews of former Agents,

as this is a matter under current study with possible change

in procedure to be effected.

In view of the conversation had with Cox on the

afternoon of 8/26/75, Phillips telephonically contacted

ASAC, John Beale

of the Tampa Office and advised

him that no action need be taken by the Tampa Office in

attempt to locate Cox, as this has already been handled by

FBIHQ as above.

RECOMMENDATION:

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Date: 8/26/75

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DIRECTOR, FBI (62-116395)

ACTING ADIC, LOS ANGELES

ATTN:

w. O. CREGAR

(Inteiligence Division)

ALLINFORMATION CONTAINED

Re telephone call between Los Angeles Supervisor

EDMUND J. BIRCH and Bureau Supervisor WOLFINGER on 8/26/75.

Enclosed for the Bureau are Xerox copies of following

serials from Los Angeles file on DELIA COOVER, aka (100-19949) :

Mann of Sa GIC. BEAT dated

2.

FBI, Los Angeles, letters to District Director,

Internal Revenue Service, Los Angeles, dated

7/25/72 and 6/5/73.

3.

Newspaper article from "Los Angeles Times" by

BELIA STUMBO, which appeared in the 7/19/72

edition.

For the information of the Bureau, CSLA 6596-s is

a source of continuing value furnishing current information

regarding matters under investigation by the Los Angeles

Division.

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OFTIONAL FORM NO. 10

MAY 1932 EDITION

GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.8

• UNITED STATES GO -ERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

:SAC, LOS ANGELES (100-19949)

DATE:

6/5/72

FROM : SA GILBERT G. BENJAMIN

SUBJECT: "CHANGED"

BELLA STEMBO, aka. ..

Della Hoover

SM - (TROTSKYIST) (ADEX)

00: Los Angeles

On 5/31/72, OSLA 6596-S advised DELLA COOVER iS

using the pseudonym Bella Stumbo, so this matter has been

marked "changed".

CSLA indicated COOVER 1s using the Bella Scumbo

alias in connection with her position as a staft writer tor

"Los Angeles Times"

ACTION

ADEX should be changed to include the new alias and

subject's positiona a staff writer for the Times. Also,

since subject is writing under a still different pseudonym,

for the Monterey Park Progress newspapers, it is suggested

that consideration be given to advising the Internal Revenue

Service that she may be receiving payroll checks under these

pseudonyms and not reporting her total income correctly. Appro-

priate investigation should be conducted to verify subject's

use of the additional pseudonym.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

•DATE 10/10/50 BY SPALS.

134-3171A (CSLA 6596-S)

80-420

LOS ANGELES TIMES

100-199 4 608)4

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11000 Wilshire Boulevard

Los Angeles, Calitomia 90024

June 5: 1973

District Director

Internal Revenue service

POSE OffiCE BOX 391

Ios Angeles, Califomia

• 90053

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREINIS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 10/16,00 BY SPALME

ATIN: LYNE SULLIVAN (Dield Audit #1502)

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to our letter of July 25, 1972,

relating to an investigacion me were conducting at that time

involving Della Coover, born Septenber I, 1920, social Security

Account Number |

JFK Act 6 13) | and to the telephone call between

Spocial igent Gilbert &. Benjamin of this office end Lynn

sullivan, at your office

located at 9150 Last Flais Drive, El

Nonte, Callinia, 91731, on Honday, June 4, 1973.

to aid in your investigation in this matter, chere

ure enclosed to zerox duplicatione of articles which appeared

in the

"tos Angeles Free Press.

issues ot narch 20 and June 19s

1970, bearing the byline o1 Della Rosa, whichis believed to be

another pseudonym utilized by

Mies. Coover.

This information is being furnished for whatever

action may be appropriate.

Very truly yours,

JOE D.

ANTESON

Assistant Director in Charge

Enclosures 2

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11000 Wilshire Boulevard

Los Angeles, California 90024

JUly 25, 1972

District Director

Internal Revenue Service

P. 0. Box 391

Los Angeles, California 90053

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

Dear Sir:

For your information the Los Angeles Office

of the fBI is conducting an official investigation involving

a Della Coover, born September 1, 1920, Social Security

Account Number

JFK Act 6 (3)

It has come to the attention of the Los Angeles

Office that Della Coover is a staff officer fos the"Los

Angeles Times" newspaper using pseudo name of Bella Stumbo

and that she may not be reporting her earnings from this

employment.

Enclosed is a recent article written by Bella

Stumbo-

This information is being brought to your attention

for whatever action you deem necessary.

Very truly yours,

WESLEY

€. GRAPP

Special Agent in Charge

iNw 55160

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3 FAMILIES VISITED

They Said

He Shot a

Little Girl'

BY BELLA STUMEO

i Times Staff Writer

Early in the evening of July 2, a 4-year-old girl

named Joyce Ann Huff was shot to death as sho played

in a yard in Hawaian Gardens. She was hit with 42

shotgun pellets fired from a passing car. Subsequently,

thres Chicano youthis from the neighboring Norwalks

barrio were arrested. Being hold on suspicion of murder

in the killing are Donald Antelo, 21, Oscar Hernandez,

22, and Michael Ramirez, 17.

Donald Antelo's mother Beatrice, 50, is a devout.

Catholie. She has a makeshift altar in her bedroom

where she prays each night before going to bed.

She had just finished her rosary the night police

came looking for her son.

"There were four of

them at the door. Iney

rushed through the house. searching for Don. 1

said he wasn't home. but what did they want him

for? And they said because he shot a little girl,

that my boy killed a child."

Beatrice Antelo was sitting at her kitchen table,

staring listiessly at a cold cup of coffee in front of

her, her voice a weary whisper.

"They didn't have uniforms on, so I thought

maybe they were some of Don's friends playing a

bad joke. I told them to stop fooling around about,

something so awful."

Though it was nearly noon now, Beatrice Antelo

still wore her houserobe and slippers. Her small

kitchen was half lost in the stagnant gloom of

drawn shades and closed windows.

"I said no, it was impossible. Not my son. He

would never in his life io such a terrible thing."

Beatrice Antelo dropped her head Into her

hands. In emaciated woman who lost a lung to

tuherculosis years aro, she has now taken a three-

wook vacation from her iph. She spends most of

her days in hed reliving the night she last saw her

"They told me I better help them fird Don. They

air dozens of police were searching all over the

Cue t9r bim bad Famed gight shoot is g

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Los Angeles, Calif.

Date: 7/19/72

Edition: Wednesday final

Author:

Editor:

Title:Dell " Coover

Character:

of

Classification: 100-19949

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A Family Retres on Welfare

• Beatvice, Anteln, a long-line divorcee, lar two lie saii.

There to me adit his ground me and

10 rears older than Don. A daughter

She paused, fighting hack tears. "And he cried

died during infancy of encephalitis. "Until the like a little child."

boys were old chough to set by without me at

Then Beatrice Antelo, weary with an agony few

home," she says, she reared them on welfare. Then"mothers ever know, laid her head down on her ta-

went to work at a local inod packing plant bie and sobbed in helpless, hopeless despair.

where she earns $230 a month. Rent on her small,

tro-bedreom house, which is no better, no worse

than most. of the other dilapidated bungalows lin-

Helen Hernandez, 49. and her husband Antonio,

ing the narrow streets of Norwalk's half-square

55, sat side by side on their couch in a spotless liv

mile Mexican-Amcrican barrio, is $75 a month,

ing room overflowing with glittering sports tro

"I was sure they would kill him," Mrs. Antelo

phies and pholographs of their five sons, ages 22-

continued dully. "So I went with two of them. We

16. They looked stunner, like two people who

drove everywhere I could think of looking for my

have tried, yet failed to comprehend fully what

has happened to them this summer.

During that futile search, she says, she tried to

Which is probably understandable, for nothing

tell the two officers, who listened politely, that, in their experience has prepared them to deal with

they had made come grotesque mistake.

a murder charge against a member of their family

she knew her son. He was a good boy. He loveil-least of all against Oscar, their quietest, eldest

children. He and his girlfriend wanted to have a.

big lamily when they got married-which would

be as soon as Don found a joh. It isn't easy to find

a job hen you don't have a car to look outside the

barrio, she had explained.

good grades,

out of himself."

Beatrice Antelo absentmindedly stroked a tiny

brown dog siceping peacefully in her lap. He is

her watchdog.

ontinued, an edge of bitterness creeping into he

oice as she told how he had been thrown out o

milar experiences.

'Won't Care About Saving Him'

"You hare to live here to know what it's like.

Police everywhere, poverty vou can't escape, no

So make ler voice loo tin a less she caus

ing her the mother of a monster or threatening to

somb her house or, worse still, to harm her older

• "I guess it makes people feel better to get the

a this hange cheste shen do me thi has horrible

as this happens." she sighed.

But her mind clearly wasn't on herself-it was

still on that last night, on the scene that had

awaited her when she and the two officers re-

"They had already found Don and the Ramirez

oy," she said. "They were standing nut front, su

ounded br police. Ther had handcuffs on."

Beatrice Antelo turned her face away, toward

the wall, where a huge calendar of the Ascension

hung in the gloom. The police had freed his bands

so she-rould talk to 1'", she said,,

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Heler and Antonio Her

It is therefore,

en and Antonio Hernan-

came

to Nonalk

dez report there are

no

Phoenix 25 years ago.

high

school dropouts in

Since then, they have eri- their family-and no loa-

dentis lived according to a fers, no hippies, no bums,

single, uncomplicated

phi- no

convicts. Only hard-

losophy - namely, people working,

sports- minded,

who

work hard,

worship clean - living, patriotic

God, discinline,

Americans. Especially the

dren, and mind their own latter.

business will make out ac-

When

Helen Hernan-

cordingly. Life might be dez's 19-year-old

son was

measer, but it will advance drafted,

she

"heams,

he

smoothly and

peaceably

went to serve his country

and, perhaps,

for

their

without questich. He was

children, it may even be-

in the Army for a year, un-

come printil sure the ter. til an automobile accident

until July, the Her-

earned him both a medical

nandez

formula hadidischarge and a per-

seemed a sound one.

per-

manent speech impe

Antonio, a big solid man diment. Now he works in a

dressed in neat polyester Norwalk packing plant.

slacks and a crisp button-

Likewise,

when Oscar

down shirt, is a grinder in Hernandez was drafted he

a nearby steel foundry. He

to

has saved his money and

o went willingly, servit

as

a guard at Da Nans A

now almost owns his mod-

est little pink house which

Force base in Vietnam un-

by barrio standards, is a

til his discharge with two

Bronze

comfortable one. He takes

Stars,

Jast sum-

pride in it.

mer. He had been looking

• for a job ever since.

? Bashful Woman

"He never really talked

Helen, a stout,

bashful much about Vietnam. Ex-

woman with a fresh-

cept he was glad he didn't

scrubbed,

friendly face,

have to kill anybody,

" says

prone to twisting nervous-

Helen Hernandez, her

ly at her wedding rings,

has always been

voice shy, hestant.

single-

"Oscar never liked to box

mindedly devoled to her

in high school either, he-

duties as a wife and moth-

cause he didn't like to hit

er. Never has she even

anybody. So he

considered

working out-

baseball And track played

side her home, though the

She blushed, embar-

Hernandez family, Ilke

rassed, it seemed, to de-

most in the barrio, has al- fend her son's passive na-

ways needed more money

ture.

have had.

Inde

ed,

SOO1

'Both devoted Jehovah's amply apparent lo a stran-

Witnesses, the couple ger i

th

have also enforced a rigid household that making ex

brand. of religion in their cuses for Oscar-who is

household. Their sons accused of driving the cal

taught,

among that carried Joyce Ann

ither things, that riolense, ered

Huff's killer-is consid-

somehow

fied, even unpatriotic, in-

sofar as it might imply a

fear that the American

ystem of justice is incap

bl

e of discovering tru

sionately on its own.

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"I've been tryng to get

ding tath that to their in tre courage to call airs: maciel and two of them

abiding faith that justice

• will be done, the Hernan-

Huff," she said, nervously

richly pregnant agame

, dez couple have the added

fingering the album in her

sat sprawled on the

solace, unlike Beatrice An- lap.

"But,

I guess

I'm

ragged, filthy chairs and

telo, of having a private

afraid. I just don't know | couches.

were

ren-

attorner,

a family friend,

what to say to her. Except

dered inordinately ill-tem-

who will represent their

that I know how she must

son in court.

'So Easygoing'

be feeling. And I cry for heat, they said.

miserable

her child, too, just as I cry

And four of Ramirez's

"Oscar was so quiet, sn

for Oscar."

grandchildren-two

boys

STATERIE

and two girls, aged 2 to 4

easygoing. He stayed

Normally, 12 people live

-crawled, ran and scram- i

home almost all the time,"

in the four-room house-

bled in a shrieking, laugh-

says

Helen Hernandez

hold of Miguel Ramirez,

ing fury through the

proudly. "Ile watched tele-

53, a disabled construction

house, chasing a single ra-

vision,

he read a lot

of

worker. At present,

vaged dog and, more often

books

and sports maga-

however, there are only 10

than not,

taking

advan-

zines. And he always

because his wife Rose

tage of one of their own,

helped

me around the

visiting an ailing brother

too-a pathetic 4-year-old

house. Every morning we

in Mexico and his son Mi-

made the

beds

boy, the red-eyed victim of

logether

chael, 17, is in jail.

chicken pox.

and washed the dishes."

On a recent hot weekday

Senior Daughter

Abruptly, she vanished

morning, eight family

into a back room, return-

ing instantly with a buft

On a couch, half covered

about the tiny squalid liv-

were scattered by a sheet, Jolanda Rami-

ing photograph album.

ing room, dank with the

rez, 24, the senior daughter,

turned out to be what, in

sour odors of diapers,

was outshouting a Popeye

her heart, Helen Hernan-

des considers immutable

cooking foods and

cartoon blaring

proof

of

many bodies packed too

television. Now seven-

her

son's in-

close together without

months pregnant, for the

nocence in

this bizarre

benefit of even a fan.

third time, she was trying

episode.

There was Ramirez

to resolve the question of a

The book was filled with

blouse with her

himsell, a faw,

pictures Oscar had taken

man who sat in his under-

sister Marina, 21, six

in Vietnam - photos of

shirt in a corner chair,

months pregnant, who sat

children.

Waits. orohans

refugees who hung arounc

somehow projecting rock

methodically

rolling

with

Oscar and

Oscar's

solid stability in an other-

breakfast beans into tortil-

friends.

wise incredibly fluid hu-

las, burrito style, at the

"He loved children," said

man scene unfolding be

end of the room.

A near-obese third

Helen Hernandez, as An-

tonio nodded

vigorous

Taxce.of his four daugh-, daughter,

agreement. She looked

ters--all mothers, all un-

of two of the rampaging

children, sat bulging out

suddenly grim, as if she

tight shorts, fan-

had realized,

maybe for

ning herself with a purple

the first time, how serious-

crochet doily which she

ly important that point

had snatched from a

night eventually become

I haven't visited hir

screaming baby who had

yet," she said, self-con-

spun it wildly in the air

enough finally to

knock the fire off her ciga-

really locked up in jail."

She would probably just

"%, she said.

she added, she's

gotten past her initial hys-

teria with a dose of tran-

quilizers-and by having

her telephone number

hanged. Like Mis. Ante

a she was getting hate

calls at a daily rate."

ret and get smacked for it.

"God, they'll all get the

pox • and

what a

mess

that'll be," lamented Syl-

via.

"Well, hell, they all gotta

get it sometime," observed

Yolanda sagely,

momen, the thy a the

most philosophic.

"None of us are mar-

ried," she said,

looking.

downright amused at. the

question, "because the

guys who knocked us up

are all either bums or they

don' amilthe joas to sups.

port families."

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So, she said, they ad live i

on Aid in Families With

Dependent Children bene- i

fits - including Ramirez

himself who,

for undis-

closed reasons, hasn't been

able to acquire welfare aid

himself although he suf-

fers from a severely ar-

thritic back. Lately, 100,

he grinned, he's been suf-

fering

from a finger that

was half bitten off the oth-

er night in a bar fight.

"The

guy

really

had

some

set of teeth," he

chuckled, relishing

the

memory of "the little

squabble."

But seriously, he said, he

would like to tell the state

to go shore its welfare.

"I want to work, but all 1

ever knew was hard labor.

Now, who's going to hire a

53-vear-old Mexican for a

desk job? I can barely

even r'ead."

Without AFDC aid,

he

added,

"we'd all probably

starve." As it is, he's $1,-

000 behind in his house

payments so, sooner or la-

ter, they'll all probably he

out on the street anyway.

Nohody

looked

very

alarmed.

Nobody looked, either,

like they

even

remem-

bered their brother Mi-

chael, until Ramirez sud-

denly reminded them.

"I don't even have the

money for gas to go see

my son," he said.

The mood in the room

changed instantly to se-

• riousness.

What concerned every-

body present, it seemed,

was not so much Mike's

plight, but rather the ef

fect it would have on his

mother when she returns

from

Mexico,

sometime

later this week

She has suffered from

severe nervous disorders

for years, they said. And

when she finds out what's

• happened to her son-the

dren--it

"God,

push

garet.

served

Miguel

promising

ner.

suspiclou

wrong,

" ob-

who

had

they got."

already,

cynically,

to the chd.

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The Attorney General

Director, FBI

U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE

INTHLLIGENCE ACIIVITIES

-.-.

1 - Ms.

J.

A.

Mintz

1 - Mr. W.

R. Wannall

1

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J.

G. Deegan

1 - Mr. D. Ryan

August 26, 1975

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Ww 0. Cregar

1 - Mr. S. F. Phillips

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREINIS UNCLASSIFIER

DATE 1013/00

Enclosed for your information are two copies each of

five memoranda concerning interviews by Staff Members of captioned

Committee of an FBI Special Agent in Charge, and one current and

three former FBI Special Agents. One set of these memoranda is

for forwarding to Mr. James A. Wilderotter, Associate Counsel to

the President.

For your additional information, the following should

be noted in respect to all five of the individuals intervieved.

The persons intervieved vere all advised previous to

the interviers that the Director of the FBI had waived their

employment agreements relating to confidentiality for purposes of

the interviews.

Each was told that he had the right to counsel;

however, the FBI was unable to provide private counsel. They

vere told that there were certain privileged areas concerning

which they would not be required to answer questions. These areas

concerned information which might divulge identities of FBI

sources; information relating to sensitive methods and techniques;

information thich night adversely affect ongoing FBI investigations;

and information which originated vith other agencies, including

foreign intelligence agencies. The individuals were also advised

of the parameters of the individual interviews; that they vere

all concerning the FBI's Counterintelligence Frogram as it

sop. AD Adm Celated to the Black Panther Party.

In addition, the parameters

Dep. ADIv. of the interview of Special Agent in Charge Charies. H

Bates

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The Attorney General

NOTE:

IHMs being furnished to the Attorney General were

received by San Francisco airtel 8/15/75 captioned "Senstudy 75."

the information in the last paragraph above vas to be included

in the LiMs per Bureau instructions to San Francisco.

However,

they were not so included and this inadvertence was telephonically

brought to SAC Bates' attention 8/18/75 by Supervisor S. F.

Phillips of the Senstudy 75 Project.

It is believed that having

this information in instant letter and not in each of the LHMs

will suffice under the circumstances.

Copies of the airtel and

the IHMs will be designated for the respective personnel files

of the personnel who were interviewed.

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UNITED

STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

In Reply, Please Refer 10.

File No.

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 15, 1975

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

INTERVIEW OF SAC CHARLES W. BATES

BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

DATE

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED'

BYSPZALM C

On the evening of August 11, 1975, MI. Lester Seidel

and MI. Loch Johnson, Staff Members of the Senate Select

Committee, met with Special Agent in Charge Charles W. Bates

of the San Francisco Office.

This meeting occurred over dinner.

No statements were made by either of these individuals as to

any rights

interview.

During the dinner, Mr. Seidel referred to COINTELPRO

involving the FBI's investigation of the Black Panther Party

in San Francisco. Bates advised him that he was in charge of

the San Francisco Office from July, 1967 until the end of

April, 1970, when he was transferred to Chicago.

Bates stated

he was aware of the investigation being conducted on the

Black Panther Party but was not personally conversant with

all the details of this

investigation as such details were

all contained in the FBI's file.

on at least two occasions

Mr. Seidel referred to specific

facts occurring in other parts

of the country involving anonymous letters

sent to individuals

under COINTELPRO. He asked if Bates agreed that these actions

were proper.

Mr.. Seidel was

told that Bates had no way of

knowing the

facts

as he related were true or any other of

the circumstances involved and that, therefore, he was unable

to comment at all.

for

Mt. Seidel asked if Bates had any recommendations

legislation which the Committee. could propose that would

assist the FBI in the domestic counterintelligence field.

Bates informed him that he was not fully conversant with this

entire field and that it was the prerogative of FBI officials

• at Washington and Department of Justice officials to recommend

such legislation.

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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SSC: -

INTERVIEW OF SAC

CHARLES W. BATES

BY SSC. STAFF. MEMBERS.

Mr. Seidel also inquired as to whether Bates felt

that an extension of electronic surveillances into the domestic

intelligence field would be of assistance. Bates informed

him that the fBI was operating according to current court

decisions as involve electronic surveillances and that the

courts had recently precluded

this action in strictly domestic

intelligence matters.

Mr. Seidel was informed that this was

a decision for fBI officials in washington.

On several occasions during the evening, Mr. Johnson

Bates if he was aware of the "Houston Plan."

On each

occasion Bates informed him that he was not

aware of the

"Houston Plan" and his only knowledge of it is what he has

seen in the public press.

At one time Mr. Johnson

asked if

Bates

thought that Mr. Hoover had turned down the

"Houston

Plan" because he was afraid for his job. Bates again replied

that he had no firsthand knowledge having anything to do wich

"Houston Plan" but he was certainly aware that Mi. Hoover

was not afraid of anything or anyone.

Both Mr. Johnson and Mr. Seidel asked if Bates felt

that the use of "black bag jobs" would be of advantage ir

conducting domestic counterintelligence operations.

Bates

-replied that he had no personal direct knowledge of such matters

and had never been involved in such matters.

During the evening, MI. Seidel asked if Bates felt

that a congressional oversight committee of the fBi was souno

and proper. Bates

informed that he certainly

agreed with the

concept of congressional oversight as long as it was constructive

and not destructive. Mr. Seidel asked if Bates felt that the

FBI's security operation should be completely. divorced from

its criminal responsibilities and handled as a separate agency

or a separate part of the FBI.

Bates informed him that it

appeared that the FBI's efforts in both the criminal and the

security field had been effective and appeared to be proper

in its present context.

Mr. Seidel inquired if Bates was

personally acquainted with Mr. William C. Sullivan, former

FBI official.

Mr. Seidel was informed that Bates worked in

the same division with Mr. Sullivan in the 1950's and knew

him as another supervisor at FBI Headquarters.

Seidel then asked if Bates was aware of the dis-

agreements that Mr. Sullivan had had with Mr. Hoover and he

was informed that he had no details concerning this matter.

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SSC;

INTERVIEW OF SAC

CHARLES W. BATES

BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

Mr. Seidel asked if Bates knew former SAC HarIY

Morgan.

Bates told him that he knew him as he had replaced

him as

SAC in San Francisco at the end of April, 1970.

then asked if Bates was aware of why Mr. Morgan

was transferred

from San Francisco. Bates told him that some problem had

arisen in connection with his running the San Francisco Office

but that they would

be available at FBI Headquarters.

said the only reason he was asking was that he was thinking

about interviewing Mi. Morgan but he did not want to embarrass

him and then asked if Morgan's transfer from San Francisco

had anything to do with a drinking problem.

Bates said again

that he was not aware of the specifics.

On the afternoon of August 13, 1975, Mr. Loch Johnson

came into the San Francisco FBI Office saying he had just a

few more quastions he wanted to ask Bates.

He then asked if

the San Francisco Office was involved in foreigh counter-

intelligence work,

and he was informed that we were as were

many other FBI offices.

He then asked if we surveilled every-

one who went into or came out of the Soviet Consulate in San

Francisco.

He was informed that Bates did not intend to dis~

cuss with

him any investigative techniques or anything having

to do with pending investigations.

Mr. Johnson said he was

attempting to find some individual who was an expert in foreign

counterintelligence, particularly the Soviet threat to the

Bates intormed him that there were probably

a number of people in the United States who would qualify in

this category but Bates did not consider himself as an expert

during these discussions.

The above represents specific matters brought up

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In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 13, 1975

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

INTERVIEW OF (SA LEO S. BRENNEISEN

BY

SSC STAFF MEMBER

Prior to interview by SSC Staff Member, SA LEO S,D

BRENNEISEN telephonically contacted SA DENNIS MILLER at

FBI Headquarters making four inquiries on Lugust 6, 1975;

on the same date, the following answers were received:

Is it permissible for agent to give general

answers concerning the Black Panther Party (BPP) as to

membership number and Chapter numbers at various dates?

Answer: Yes. '

Local media has previously set forth a memorandum

purportedly from. the FBI, San Francisco Office, suggesting

consideration should be given to furnishing fabricated

documents

originating with the Oakland Police Department

and the FBI, San Francisco, when, in fact, the memorandum

came from the Bureau.

If questioned concerning this memorandum,

may agent point out that this document originated with the

Bureau rather than San Francisco?

Answer: Yes.

In contemplation of possible questioning concerning

false correspondence directed to ELDRIDGE CLEAVER and others

abroad, can agent refer SSC Staff to Bureau when questioned

concerning identity of agents preparing correspondence?

Answer: Yes.

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 SA LEO S. BRENNEISEN

Is it necessary for agent to express an opinion

as to morality, legality of said Counterintelligence

Program (COINTEL) ?

Answer: You are not obliged to answer those

questions you do not desire to answer, but if you wish you

may

comment on the legality of morality of the plan.

SA DENNIS MILLER related that he desired that it

be borne

in mind that the Bureau in no way wished to impede

the SSc investigation.

LESTER B. SEIDEL, SSC Staff Member, appeared at the

'San Francisco Office of the FBI on August 11, 1975, and

interviewed SA LEO BRENNEISEN from 1:03 PM to 2:30

SEIDEL prefaced the interview by explaining that he had

been advised that BRENNEISEN was the Coordinator for the

COINTEL in San Francisco from May 16, 1969 to May 1, 1970.

It was pointed out to him that the case was assigned to

agent from May 16, 1969 to May 1, 1971.

SEIDEL asked if agent had, in fact, approved all

proposals coming from the San Francisco Office.

He was

advised that not necessarily because if another agent made

a proposal the person approving it in San Francisco would

be the person signing the outgoing mail, namely, the Supervisoi

or Relief Supervisor.

SEIDEL asked what Squad agent had been assigned

to during this Program, and he was advised S-6. He inquired

if there was any 'COINTEL in San Francisco against US; he

was advised to the contrary. He inguired as to the usual

number of cases assigned agent, and was advised that to

agent's best recollection probably 30 at any one time. He

asked if agent's work was exclusively security during the

handling of the COINTEL Program and he was advised agent

did have some criminal assignments. He inquired if there

was

any relationship between COINTEL and criminal assignments,

and he was advised no and that agent desired to limit the

scope of his questioning to the COINTEL Program.

SEIDEL then asked how many suggestions the agent

had submitted in COINTEL.

He was advised that an estimate

would be difficult but probably the nearest figure would be

some two suggestions a month with possibly six months in

two years when no suggestions, were made.

He inquired as

to agent's knowledge of what percentage of total proposals

from all sources submitted to the Bureau had been approved,

and he was advised only a small percentage.

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U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) ;

INTERVIEW OF SA LEO S. BRENNEISEN

At this point, SEIDEL requested agent. to outline the

types of COINTEL proposals submitted by San Francisco.

He

was answered that anonymous letters, letters with pseudonyms,

and letters signed with the name of an existing person had

been used.

It was pointed out that the program had included

the use of anonymous letters, including those directed to

landlords advising that the Black. Panther Party was occupying

their property; letters to people supporting BEP programs,

including the Breakfast Program and enclosing copies of the

BPP color book for children encouraging the shooting of

police officers and/or articles from the "Black Panther

Party", the official BPP newspaper, showing their propensity

advocacy of violence; letters to organizations containing

articles that showed the BPP in direct opposition to their

aims, such as a letter to a Jewish organization showing BPP

support

of Palestine guerrillas.

It wa's pointed out that letters had been directed

to ELDRIDGE CLEAVER in Algeria in the names of BPP members.

At this point, SEIDEL interrupted to explain that he was

enlisting the

complete cooperation of the interviewee, that

there had been some Congressional criticism of the COINTEL,

that there were some segments of the population that were

anti-FBI and that he desired to present the FBI in a proper

light, and that he had good friends in the Bureau.

SEIDEL asked, was it necessary to have utilized

COINTEL.

Agent advised that it was difficult to correctly.

judge the effect of the program but it was felt it was not

without some effect because the Black Panther Party had not

only dwindled from a membership of approximately 1,000 in

1969 to perhaps 200 in 1973, but that the organization became

split with dissension and had dropped much of its former

advocacy for violence.

SEIDEL then requested that the agent give his

recommendation on what COINTEL in the future should be;

whether there should be a division between security and

criminal investigations to different agencies in order that

a possible intrusion on the rights of an individual in

intelligence matters might not necessarily preclude his

being prosecuted by the Bureau, in a criminal matter. Agent

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refused to furnish his "off-thecuff" opinion, pointing

out that he felt that it was without the scope of his

release.

Without further questioning agent concerning the

types of COINTEL proposals, SEIDEL next asked if the

Electronic Surveillance (ELSUR) on the BPP was in operation

at the time COINTEL was initiated, and what proposals were

submitted in COINTEL based on information from ELSUR.

SEIDEL was advised agent's release would not allow

him to discuss ELSUR.

SEIDEL asked if the San Francisco Division had made

any "snitch"

proposals. When asked to clarify the question,

stated that this was a suggestion to the effect that a

Black Panther Party member be accused of being an FBI

informant. Agent replied that to the best of his recollection

no such recommendations had been made to the Bureau by San

Francisco, and on the contrary, agent knew that it had been

pointed out by San Francisco that any such allegation should

be most carefully considered inasmuch as BPP history has

indicated that they had dealt severely with suspected infor-

mants, even to the point of killing them.

SEIDEL then asked if the San Francisco Division

had received a great deal of "flak" from the Bureau

on this

program.

He was advised that the Bureau operates a

"tickler

system"

for following investigations and that the program

had received some priority from the FBI but agent had never

considered correspondence from the Bureau as being "flak"

SEIDEL at this point instead of questioning made

the statement that the Bureau gave this matter "high priority".

No comment was made to this statement.

SEIDEL next questioned agent if he had read any

publicity concerning a May ll, 1970 letter from the Bureau

- to San Francisco entitled, "Special Operations Research", in

which it was suggested that some consideration be given to

furnishing the BPP spurious documents that supposedly

originated with the Oakland Police Department and the FBI.

He explained that some newspaper had received a copy of the

document under the Exeedom of Information Act and thereafter

published it. He inquired if a response to the letter

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had been made by San Francisco. Agent advised that it was

his recollection that San Francisco had responded recommending

against both proposals, pointing out that the Bip had in the

short past published contingency plans of the Berkeley Police

Department for a raid on National Headquarters to the

embarrassment of that agency.

San Francisco was of the

opinion that if spurious documents were furnished to the

BPP they would immediately publish them, rather than attempt

SIDEL, asked for agent's knowledge of why the letter

had been captioned as previously described rather than

Counterintelligence Program, Black Panther Party. Agent

stated he had no recollection of exact caption of the letter.

SEIDEL then went on to explain that he had been advised

that

the Bureau had several COINTELS and the one covering Special

Operations Research

was a COINTEL covering foreign operations.

Agent made no comment.

SEIDEL requested what proposals had been made to

disrupt the BPP newspaper; how did the proposals originate,

and what offices submitted them.

He was advised that it was

agent's

recollection

that the Bureau may have requested

suggestions from several offices but that to agent's knowledge

When SEIDEL continued to question the

agent concerning specific proposals and why their approval

was not recommended by San Francisco, he was advised that one

proposal was the use of a foul-smelling chemical to put on

San Francisco was of the opinion it would not .

be practical inasmuch as it would contaminate an airplane

and

would subject the airline or the printing company to

damages. SEIDEL was further advised that it was believed

the suggestion may have been made for the changing of a first

page of an issue at the printing company to embarrass the BPP,

but it was pointed out that this would also merely result in

• a claim being filed against the printer.

SEIDEL was advised that there may have been a

suggestion that some thought should be given to the possible

delay of the plates for the paper, that suggestion coming .

at the time when the paper was being printed in New York

with the master copy being filmed in San Francisco. San

Francisco did not suggest approval because a mere delay would

have been of little benefit because the paper was not timely.

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SEIDEL asked about the disruption of the BPP

Breakfast Program. The answer was given that agent had

no recollection of this, and SEIDEL was asked did he have

any information from the Bureau that we had attempted a

disruption of the program in San Francisco.

He related

that he believed not and that it probably happened in

San Diego.

SEIDEL asked about a suggestion that informants

set up a possible confrontation between the BPP and the

Republic of New Africa (RNA). Agent stated he had no

recollection of such a proposal

and did not believe it had

been submitted by San Francisco because the membership and

activity in RNA had been minimal in this area.

SEIDEL, then asked if we had suggested that landlords

in the San Francisco area be encouraged to insist on their

rent from the BPP. Agent advised he had no recollection

of this, but could see nothing wrong in it.

SEIDEL inquired as to the amount of knowledge.

that SAC CHARLES BATES would have had concerning COINTEL.

He was advised that agent had no information, that he, himself,

had never discussed the program with MI. BATES while it was

in operation.

SEIDEL then inquired if Former SAC HARRY

MORGAN had been ill during the time he was assigned to San

Francisco and the reason for his transfer.

Agent replied

he had no information concerning this matter.

SEIDEL WaS

asked if he felt that anyof the actions

agent described as being taken by the San Francisco Division

were illegal. SEIDEL stated that he did not believe that

these were matters that were in violation of any existing

criminal statutes, but there might be some question as to

whether the FBI had the specific authority to do these things.

SEIDEL ended the interview by again reiterating

that he was a friend of the Bureau, that he was making an

• inquiry and

desired to obtain the opinions of both Headquarters

and agents in the field, and that he may make a request to the

Bureau to widen the scope of agent's release.

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Agent was not placed under oath and when agent

refused to furnish opinions in those cases noted above or

to discuss ELSUR, SEIDEL suggested that he, SEIDEL, put

away his pencil and pad.

Agent replied that that was not

necessary. The only right explained to agent was the fact

that all information furnished by him was at his own

volition and was entirely voluntary.

No mention was made

that any part of the interview might be utilized in a

possible court proceeding against

the agent.

Agent did not consult with Bureau representative

during course of the interview.

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In Reply, Please Refer 10

File No.

, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 14, 1975

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREINIS UNCLASSIFIED

DATE 1016/00

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

INTERVIEW OF FORMER

(SA ALBERT P. CLARK

SSC STAFF MEMBER

BY

Clark, who was

on so st ev 5975 in ones seand scent a bete

and who retired in December of 1969, advised as follows:

He was interviewed in his home at 66 Elm,

Larkspur, California, by SSC Member Lester B. Seidel from

5:40

P.M. to. 6:55 P.M., August 12, 1975.

Clark was not placed under oath and no mention

was made of his rights.

However, Seidel was pleasant and

in no way antagonistic. The interview was general, not

penetrative, not in depth, and very few specific questions were

There appeared to be no discernible criticism of

either the Counterintelligence Program (COINTEL) or the

Bureau's investigation of the Black Panther Party (BPP) by

Seidel.

Seidel was compelled on more than one occasion

to declare that he was pro-FBI, that the object of his

inquiries was to assist the United States Senate in under-

standing the problem in order that they could consider

possible legislation that may eliminate any abuses in the

future.

Seidel did mention the fact several times that

information had been leaked to the press that Jane Seberg,

the movie actress, had become pregnant by a BPP official.

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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Seidel finally asked Clark if he would have okayed

a COINTEL proposal like this and he answered that he would

have if he felt that it would have sufficiently hindered

the BPP, stating that possibly in some of these occasions

someone might get hurt but on the other hand, investigation

of the BPP by the FBI might be made easier and it might

also cut down on the number of BPP supporters.

Clark was asked to whom the main BPP case was

assigned and to whom COINTEL had been assigned in the San

Francisco Division.

Clark replied that he did not remember

but possibly during the time of his supervision, more than

one Agent had handled the matters.

Seidel asked how many BPP informants the San

Francisco Division had.

Clark replied he did not recall

ands:. he did not believe that Seidel had a right to know.

Seidel inquired about the BPP wire tap, asking

• who had requested the tap, the Bureau or the

San Francisco

Division.

Again, Clark replied that he did not recall but

the San Francisco Division would not have necessarily

waited for the Bureau to initiate the matter but might have

requested the Bureau rather than the Bureau having initiated

the matter.

Seidel wanted to have an example of a COINTEL

proposal.

He was not given a specific example but general

conversation was had to the effect that any move that might

be suggested that would aid the San Francisco Division in

their investigation of the seP in determining their

supporters and financiers and possibly disenchanting those

individuals might be an example.

Seidel did not ask Clark whether he had done a

particular thing.

Questioned concerning whether he felt COINTEL had

been effective, Clark replied he did not believe the matter

was

• susceptible to proof but the BPP had sure gone into a

steep decline.

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Seidel again brought up the Seberg matter and

asked if it had done any good. Clark stated he replied,

"Maybe."

During this conversation, Clark got the general

impression that perhaps Seidel did not feel that COINTEL

py hat sax

not that ta st made

had been necessary but Clark had argued that it had made

the BPP more difficult to operate and possibly easier

for the FBI to investigate.

Seidel then wanted to know what there was about

the BPP that caused such a concentration of FBI investi-

gative attention.

Clark pointed out that this would have

to be answered in the context of time, that at the time the

program

was initiated, there was no doubt that the BPP

was

a violent, racist organization opposing all law enforce-

ment, attacking officers and

generally disturbing the

tranquility of the cormunity.

Seidel then went on to discuss the business of

pressure.

Had

• Special Agent in Charge Charles W. Bates

and the Bureau put too much pressure on the matter? Clark

stated there was undoubtedly pressure because everyone

was interested in doing the best type job possible and

finding out everything possible concerning the BPP.

There

was obvious pressure from the Bureau in the matter and the

Bureau, in a case like this, could never be satisfied.

Clark stated that he related that perhaps too much

pressure had come from the Bureau because he had felt at

the time he was a supervisor that San Francisco Division

knew more about the BPP than the Bureau.

On the other

hand, he related that Bureau officials were probably

under

pressure because of the national interest and the

demands on them in Washington.

Seidel related that he was interested in ascer-

taining what Agent would make the best witness to appear

in Washington to explain and testify concerning COINTEL.

He specifically requested Clark's recommendation and mentioned

the names of Special Agents Leo S. Brenneisen of San

Francisco and Bob Baker of Los Angeles.

Clark stated that

he had countered by suggesting that somebody in Washington

who directed the program and

approved all proposals might

be a better witness...

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Clark recalled that near the first of the inter-

view, Seidel probably, more to make conversation than to

obtain information,

asked a few guestions concerning US

and the Republic of North Africa (RNA). He was advised

that US had not been active

in this division and there had

been no pertinent RNA activity brought to his attention.

Seidel asked if Ron Karenga of US had visited San Francisco

and. Clark replied he had no exact

recollection of this.

Seidel talked and asked Clark's opinion on the

separation into different agencies of the Bureau's criminal

and security investigations.

Clark stated that he told

Seidel that in the past he had considered this and

felt that

frankly it might have advantages, and at the same time,

might have disadvantages. He pointed out that the

disadvantages were that you could not be sure that it, in

fact, would work and that if you remove the security

investigations from the Bureau, you would undoubtedly

lose a great deal, including public support.

Seidel asked if Clark had worked under former

SAC Harry Morgan. He advised that he had retired prior to

the time Morgan was assigned to the San Francisco Division.

Clark pointed out that during the interview, a

recorder appeared prominently on his desk, and Seidel.

could, of course, not be sure that it was not in operation;

although as the duration of the interview lengthened, it

must have been obvious to seidel that it was not operating.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

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In. Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

San Francisco, California

August 14, 1975

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) .

•INTERVIEW OF FORMER

SA WILLIAM A. COHENDET

SSC STAFF MEMBER

DANG

HEREINIS UNCLASSIFIED

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

146

BY.SPHALM

BY

• On August 14, 1975, retired. former Special Agent.

William A. Cohendet was interviewed from 9:30 A.M: to

11:15 A.M. by Lester B. Seidel,

Investigator for the U.S.

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activites' (SSC).

The interview took place at the Holiday Inn on Van Ness

Avenue, San Francisco.

Mx. Seidel mentioned that he was serving as a

counsel for the SSC, investigating all phases of the United

States intelligence community, and he had chosen the Black

Panther Party and the Counterintelligence Program (COINTEL)

as his field. He stated that he was hoping for full

cooperation on the part of the former Special Agent.

He was advised that former Special Agent Cohendet

was willing to cooperate with the committee and he trusted

that something constructive would come out of the effort

being put forward.

Former Special Agent Cohendet also

pointed out that in his opinion the Black Panther Party (BPP)

lad been a group devoted to violence, thievery, and traud

and the committee should realize the type of Subjects with

whom they are dealing in order to place the investigation

in its proper framework.

The first question concerned the former Special

Agent's background and Bureau service. This was briefly

furnished.

Seidel then asked when and how the technical

surveillances had been installed, who initiated them, and

• who approved them.

This document contains neither recommendations nor conciusions

of the rBl. It is the property of the FBl and is loaned to

• your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed

outside your agency.

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The former Special Agent replied that he was

not party to any of these arrangements and did not know

any of the details.

Seidel then asked if former Special Agent

Cohendet knew the origin and purposes

• of the COINTEL

Program. He was informed that the former Agent did not

know the origin of the program, and said

he believed'its

purposes were those as set forth in the instructions which

Seidel had and which spoke for themselves.

The former

Agent admitted that said program at one time had been

= assigned to him but due to the press of other functions,

he had been unable to give it a great deal of time and

felt that during the period that it had been assigned to

him, it had been largely ineffective.

Seidel then asked if there was any connection

between ELSUR and COINTEL and the reply was

given

that

obviously there would be if the ELSUR material being

reviewed could be considered as having any pertinence to

a COINTEL operation.

However, former Special Agent Cohendet

could not recall having used

this material while the case

was assioned to him, at least to any significant degree.

Not having the files available made it impossible to

the material.

state positively if there had been any specific instance of use

Seidel asked as to the possible effectiveness of

anonymous letters and he was informed that in the opinion

of the former Agent,

such letters, particularly having to

do with personal infidelity or thievery, which were the

usual

suggested avenues, would have little effect on the

recipients who were active in such fields themselves much

of the time. In the more serious areas of perhaps trying

to falsely show that an individual was an FBI or police

informant,

the former Special Agent said that the use of

this technique would not be used for fear of causing bodily

harm or death to an innocent person due to the well-known

propensity of the BPP of dealing harshly with any suspected

deviator let alone informant.

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Seidel then asked as to the value of ELSUR to

the BPP investigation and the former Special Agent stated

that in his bellet it was extremely valuable in many ways.

For instance, it assisted and gauged the true Huey Newton,

his plans, and weaknesses. It was also valuable in esti-

mating the possible effect of a certain COINTEL program

as possibly suggested by some other office.

As a result •

of their information,

the San Francisco Office usually

rejected most

suggestions as

being unlikely to be successful.

Seidel wondered if ELSUR was not the most

valuable,

single investigative aid that the Bureau had had

in this

investigation, and the former Special Agent agreed

that

he was probably

way probably cosect.

Seidel then wondered if the COINTEL proposals

should be part of some legislation proposed by Congress

and the former Special Agent replied that the Bureau

officials, in his opinion, should be allowed to comment

on this because the fact that the program would be ineffective

against the BPe might not be a valid argument that it would

not work to better advantage in other circumstances.

Former Special Agent Cohendet declined to

comment on the effectiveness of COINTEL as used against

the Socialist workers Party, not having had any experience

with its use in that field.

Seidel then asked about informants and asked if

there had been any pressure from the Bureau in the develop-

ment of such sources.

Former Special Agent Cohendet

acknowledged that there certainly had been great pressure

in this direction, as it was well known that informants were

a necessary part of any investigation and a police organi-

zation can never give up on this phase of its work no matter

how difficult the circumstances were in their development.

In the case of the BPP, the development of informants was

particularly difficult because of the fear that many persons

in the 'black community felt concerning the BPP as weil as

the lack of desire to cooperate against another black

person.

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• Seidel asked about foreign funds being raised

and given to the BPP, and former Special Agent Cohendet

recalled that "Masai'

Hewitt and others went to Sweden

and other countries where the BPP raised money on speech

making tours.

Seidel then asked about any investigation of

BPP funds and former Special Agent Cohendet said that it

was his recollection that investigation of BPP funds had

been undertaken through legal channels but he had no

personal knowledge of the investigation and declined to

go further into this field.

Seidel asked about

referrals of Bureau information

to the Internal Revenue Service and former Special Agent

Cohendet said that he had no personal knowledge of what

had been done in this direction.

Seidel then asked about the affair between

Actress Jean Seberg and "Masai" Hewitt, which had appeared

Hollywood gossip column and had alleged that Seberg

had become pregnant by Hewitt. Seidel said that the Los

Angeles Office of the Federal

Bureau of Investigation had

admitted leaking this information to someone in the press.

Former Special Agent Cohendet knew that this

couple had been lovers for a brief period but denied any

knowledge of any leak to the press by either San Francisco

or Los Angeles.

Seidel asked if the former Agent thought that

leaking this type of information was appropriate.

NO

comment was offered as to this question.

Seidel, at the conclusion of the interview, said

that he had noted that the "faking" of police records as

suggested had never been undertaken and he observed that he

believed the COINTEL abuses were being

overplayed by the

press.

From what he learned in interviews in San Francisco,

it seemed to him that the program had been mostly played

down and indeed, an independent judgment had been exercised

in the implementation of the program.

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A general discussion of the BPP ensued in which

former Special Agent Cohendet reiterated the criminal

background and threatening attitude of many of the BPP

memoers, their mendacious ways, and their lack of credi

bility in their public statements. The former Special

Agent credited the news media with helping to build up

the BPP beyond its actual strength and influence.

Seidel asked about the former Agent's knowledge of the reason

for the removal of former SAC Harry Morgan from San

Francisco.

He said the only reason he was asking this

question was in order to avoid embarrassing former SAC

Morgan when he interviews him concerning his possible

knowledge of BPP activities sometime in the future. Former

Special Agent Cohendet had no knowledge as to why

Mr. Morgan was transferred.

In summation,

Seidel ventured the opinion that he

thought the ELSUR technique was far moré valuable in the

carrying out of the investigation of the BPP than the

COINTEL. Former Special Agent Cohendet had to agree

to the above observation.

Former Special Agent Cohendet was not advised

of any rights that he might have in declining to answer

any questions and Seidel said he was actually seeking

witnesses for a possible hearing in Washington, D.C. He

stated that no

names would be mentioned in

he would make concerning his interviews.

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In Reply, Please Refer 10

File No.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

San Francisco, California

August 13, 1975

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

INTERVIEW OF FORMER

SA DAVID E. TODD

BY SSC STAFF MEMBER

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREINIS

On August 12, 1975, retired former SA David E. Todd

was interviewed from 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. by Lester B. Seidel,

Investigator for the SSC.

The interview

took place at the

Holiday Inn, San Francisco.

By way of background, in all contacts with Seidel

previously, former SA Toda has

indicated to him great reluctance

to discuss these matters without clearance from the Bureau,

and pointed out to Seidel that the Bureau had released former

SA Todd from the Employment Secrecy Agreement for the purpose

of a staff interview, but Seidel was told

that former SA Todd

did not think it was either his responsibility or his prerogative

to provide information or make information public; that while

employed he was acting as an Agent of the Federal Government

and felt it was the responsibility of the Federal Government to

provide the information,

and that if the Senate Committee

desired information from

I former SA Todd, the questions should

have been submitted to him in writing, and his answers should

have been made in writing and first forwarded to the FBI, and

then after the FBI determined it advisable to make these answers

available to the Committee, that would have been the proper

channel.

Seidel pointed out the Committee and the Bureau had

made an agreement whereby the Bureau would make Agents available

to the Committee for interview. Former SA Todd pointed out to

Seidel that he is not in the category of an Agent, being a

retired Agent,

and at this point there was no additional discussion

on 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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SA DAVID E. TODD BY

SSC STAFF MEMBER

Seidel was also told that nothing that was said by

former SA Todd should be interpreted as being critical of

the Counterintelligence Program (COINTEL) itself, and that if

the Bureau felt that such a Program was necessary in the interest

of national defense, he had carried it out in the best way he

saw fit, and that in recommending against specific proposals

as being impractical of inadvisable, these recommendations were

against the specific incidents recommended and not against the

Program as a whole.

Seidel's first questions dealt with former SA Todd's

background and the extent of his Bureau service, and whether

he had worked security or criminal matters.

Former SA Todd

gave him chronologically the offices in which he had served

in the

Bureau, and stated he had been associated

• from 1952 to

1956 with the

Domestic Intelligence Division, Washington, D.C.,

and had become Supervisor in San Francisco in December, 1969,

of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and that during his Bureau

career he had worked both criminal and security matters.

Seidel asked the name of the squad which was originally

the

Racial Squad, and subsequently changed to Extremist Matters,

and

he asked whether the work was strictly intelligence, or

whether it combined intelligence or criminal work.

It was

pointed out Bombing Matters were originally being handled on

this Squad for a period of time,

and that both the criminal

activities of the Panthers, as well as intelligence activities,

were combined in the assignment.

Seidel then asked when the technical surveillances on

the Panthers were installed. Former SA Todd replied that they

were functioning at the time he was appointed Supervisor. Seidel

then asked how was the technical surveillance related to the

COINTEL, if at all, and specifically whether information coming

Former SA Todd advised that he could not recall

specifically what was done in either Program without reviewing

the files and comparing the information therein with the source.

Seidel seemed very interested in this, but actually the question

could not be answered on the basis of recollection alone, and

was

not.

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SA DAVID E. TODD BY

SSC STAFF MEMBER

Seidel then asked how would the Panther COINTEL

be defined with regard to aims, techniques and results.

answer to this was that the aims were to counter generally the

revolutionary objectives and activities of the Panthers.

question concerning techniques was left unanswered, and as

far as results go, former SA Todd told Seidel that he did not

feel there had been any great results from the Program as it was

pursued in the San Francisco Office, but he could not speak

for the rest of the Program as far as the Bureau is concerned.

Seidel asked whether the Agents working the criminal

aspects of the BPP received information that was received from

a technical source, and he was told procedures by which

information had been routed to them in their cases, and that at

the time we operated these technical surveillances, we felt they

had been installed lawfully, and that the information received

could be used.

Seidel asked whether there was a great deal of pressure

put on the San Francisco Office for the development of informants.

He was told yes, that informants were the backbone of good law

enforcement and

the Bureau constantly urged better informant

coverage.

Seidel asked if there had been similar pressure placed

on the office in the COINTEL, and former SA Todd replied that

he did not feel that any great pressure had been put on the

office to carry out this Program, but that the Bureau had recom-

mended the Program, however, had left it up to the office

pretty much as to how it should be carried out.

Seidel asked whether the Program had been successful

in causing dissention within the Party. Former SA Todd told

him that he did not feel this had been particularly effective

in any way, and that causing dissention had not been a primary

objective of the Program in the San Francisco Office, and that

the policy had been to use the Program for primarily

two

purposes: 1) for the purpose of developing informants by.

attempting to dissuade them from their loyalties to the Party;

and 2) to make representations to Panthers for whom outstanding

arrest warrants had been issued in order to flush them out so

they could be apprehended.

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INTERVIEW OF FORMER

SA DAVID E. TODD BY

SSC STAFF MEMBER

-

Seidel asked specifically about the COINTEL involving

the Breakfast Program, and was told a recommendation had been

made for putting some

kind of contamination in the Breakfast

Program food, and that this office had felt this extremely

inadvisable and recommended against it, and it was not carried

out here.

Former SA Todd was also asked about a COINTEL

proposal relating to "The Black Panther" newspapers, and was

told that such a proposal had been made involving saturating

the papers with a foul smelling fish oil

or some substance,

however, we recommended against this as it would serve no purpose.

Seidel was advised that the San Francisco policy had

been to recommend against harassment, per se,

and also recommended

against leaking information to the press. Seidel then raised

the question about the incident where Huey P. Newton's high

standard of living was given to the press, and he was told

that this fell into the category of informant development on

the basis it was felt that if those Panthers who were living

practically in poverty could realize what Newton's standards

of living were, it might change their allegience to him and

they could be contacted for informant purposes.

Seidel was also told that in this phase of the

COINTEL, it was former SA Todd's recollection that this infor-

mation regarding Newton's high standard of living had been

disseminated by informants, and that the press was well aware

of Newton's standards of living without having to make this

information available to them.

Seidel asked what the instructions had been from the

Bureau in carring out the COINTEL.

Former SA Todd told Seidel

that he had reviewed this file after being appointed Supervisor,

but could not recall specifically what the Bureau instructions

were.

The only other instructions received were at a two day

conference in Washington, D.C., on BPP matters conducted by

former Assistant to the Director William Sullivan, and Section

Chief George Moore, at which time it was pointed out that the

Bureau desired the COINTEL to be coordinated with the Bureau,

but that former SA Todd did not recall any firm prohibition against

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SSC STAFF MEMBER

taking certain actions without Bureau authority, and that the

field had some leeway in what they did, but, in general, offices

made proposals to the Bureau with copies to San Francisco

prior to taking any action. Seidel asked why San Francisco

got copies of all proposals, and was told this was because

San Francisco was office of origin in the BPP case and other

offices were required to furnish a copy of all correspondence.

Seidel then asked to what extent Special Agent in

Charge Charles W. Bates had knowledge of the COINTEL as it

related to the BPP, and he was told that former SA Todd could

not speak for Bates and his knowledge would be dependent upon

how carefully he read incoming mail and reviewed files, and

former SA Todd had no knowledge as to what extent Bates did this.

Seidel was told that under the supervisory setup in the

office at the time, former SA Todd felt it was his responsibility

to direct this Program in San Francisco and not Bates.

Seidel indicated that out of his investigation in the

hearings, undoubtedly there would be some legislation coming

out of Congress that would either enable or prohibit such

things as the COINTEL, and he stated that was one reason he

was asking concerning its effectiveness, and wondered what former

SA Toda would recommend.

Seidel was told that former SA Todd

felt it essential that the Government should have the right to

defend itself against individuals and groups who advocate

violent revolution or who are aligned with foreign powers,

and that there was a need for some sort of legislation within

the framework of constitutional government which would enable

the government to do this; but, of course, it should be done

under. proper control. Seidel asked for suggestions as to what

sort of control, and was told that this was a matter for

Congress to decide, but perhaps Congress should look into some

legislation similar to wiretap legislation, where the responsi-

bility is upon a Federal judge to issue

warrant.

Former SA Todd had prepared a brief summary of what

he recalled of the activities of the BPP, and he made a copy of

this available to Seidel. Former SA Todd also had made a

chronology to assist him in answering questions, together with

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some notes concerning COINTEL policy, former SA Todd's general

recollection of matters, questions of law regarding agent -

principle, privileged information problems, ongoing litigatior

and national defense, and informants and sources.

Seidel asked

for a copy of this chronology and this, too, was given to him.

Seidel expressed great interest in receiving the one

page summary of the Panthers' activities, and stated that he

had chosen the Panthers for a case study, and he seemed more

interested in this than in the COINTEL.

He also indicated that

there might be future interviews and that former SA Todd might

be called

as

a witness

before the Committee at a later date.

At the outset of the interview, Seidel asked whether

former SA Todd desired his rights be read to him. Former

SA Todd told him that since he did not interpret this as a

custodial interview, and it was his understanding Seidel had no

police power, that

he could forego reading the rights.

Former SA Todd did not feel it was necessary to

consult with a Bureau representative at this time.

The above information was furnished by former SA Toda

voluntarily and was not solicited.

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RONOLOGY

Approximate

Dates

Deco 1969

Feb. 1970

May 1970

Aug 1970

Aug 1970

Jan 1971

Feb 1971

March 1971.

ADril 1971

April 1971

May 1971

August

1971

August

1971

August 1971

Deco 1971

1'%e

Designated supervisor. Reviewed Cointelpro file.

No recollection of any actions by s. F. In flle.

Conference in Washington, D._C. Briefed on Baltimore

Black Panther murder. Cointelpro discussed.

Cointeloro letter.

Suggestion rejected by S. F.

Marin Court shootout (Jonathan Jackson-Judge Haley)

Cleaver released from prison.

Letters to Algeria to provoke Cleaver to return to

U.S. so arrest could be effected.

Newton becomes Supreme Commander, Cleaver expelled.

Robert Webb murder.

San Napier murder.

Two dew lork police officers wounded.

Four New York police officers murdered.

George Jackson killed in prison break attempt.

Officer Kowalski murder attempt - Hashington & Bottom

sIrest

S. I. Ingleside Station attack - Officer Young murdered.

Retired.

- COINTELPRO:

RECOLLECTION:

Recommended against many proposals.

approved recomendation to try to induce Cleaver

to return to U.S.

Hould have approved actions to persuade Panthers

"to change loyalty from Party and become informants, but

cannot recall any

specific ones.

Would not have approved any proposals solely for

harrassment or for leaking information to press; there

must have been some bona fide investigative purpose

behind proposal before considering 1t.

Recall only generalities.

Requested if could review

Bureau

files orior to interview.

This was denied.

Cannot testify with any specificity without review

of files.

AGENT-PRINCIPAL PRIVILEGED INFORMATION: Sensitive techniques

Informants & Sources

Ongoing Investigations

Foreign Intelligence

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Ongo1ng l1tigation: Panthers v. FBI & IRS, USDO, S. F. 01v1l rights.

National Defense: Documents

reviewed were classified.

Does executive

branch have right to defend

nation against

advocates

of revolution (public

Interest issue).

Informants & sources:

Cannot reveal.

(Includes information

that might reveal identity.

provide or

either my responsibility nor my prerogative to make this informatior

oublic. I was acting as an agent of the Federal government, and 1t

is responsibility of government to provide the information

Any questions should be submitted in writing and my answers in

writing should be forwarded to FBI

and if FBI deems it advisable

to make these answers

avallable to committee, that should be

proper channel.

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The Investiga

son of the Black Panther

rty was a

National. Defense matter.

Information on file points

to colla-

boration

with foreiga powers by leaders of the party.

Throughout the two-year period in which I supervised

the investigation there were strong liaisons between Black Panthers

and dissident groups abroad as well as with the governments of

foreign nations. The Black Panthers had support and/or branches

in France, Germany and Scandinavia, and were International in

Eldridge Cleaver, wanted on felony warrants, had been

granted asylum in Algeria and with his entourage was residing

In a villa provided by the Algerian government.

During this

period he made at least one trip to Moscow, Russia.

Several

Black Panthers travelled to Cuba.

Huey Newton, In 1971, travelled

to Red China by way of Canada and Hong Kong at

the invitation

of the chinese government at a time when the United States had

no dipbunatic relations with them.

At the time I began serving as supervisor in late 1969,

the Black Panther Party was under co-leadership of Huey Newton,

in exile in algeriao the black Panther Party, both in the news-

caper it published weekly at san francisco, and in public statements

by its officers and leaders, advocated violent revolution; it

published instructions on guerrilla warfare, directions for the use

of weanons,

and printed detailed drawings and Instructions on

the manufacture of bombs and explosive devices, and 1t agitated

open to me can a collecticers. the term "off the

pigs,

which means.

"kill the polices

" Was a Black Panther catch.

phrase. The history of the Black Panther Party durine the perioi

¡acted as supervisor 1s replete with incidents of murder, violence

and inciting to revolution.

The revolutionary quotation of Mao.

Ise-Tung, "Polltical power

grows out of the barrel of a gun,"

became a Black Panther motto.

Sometime in early 1971 a solit occurred in the Black

Panther. Party.

Huey Newton, following his release from prison

1n 1970, gained control of one faction headquartered in Berkeley,

California, and he broke openly with aldridge Cleaver, publicly

expelling Cleaver and Cleaver's lieutenants from the Party. The •

Newton faction thereafter gradually took a more moderate approach,

advocating social change through community service in place of 1ts

prior proitle o1 violence.

the cleaver faction directed from Algiers, and it continued tes o

advocate violent revolution; it began publication in New York

of its own newspaper proclaiming Itsrevolutionary policies; and

followers

belonging to this faction continued to commit crimes of

violence.

The following crimes of violence attributed to the Cleaver

faction of the Black Panthers have been documented in the book "Target

Blue," by former Deputy Police Commissioner Robert Daley of New York

City (Dell Publishing Co., Ine., 1973):

Ambush attacks against police officers which resulted in

T officers murdered, 3 wounded, and one attempted murder thwarted, which

led to the solution of the other cases and established these

attacks

to be a nationwide conspiracy; and the murder of two Newton-faction

BLaCK Panthers.

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AND FUNISHED THE FULLOWING INFORMATION: K(U)

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SLECT COMMITTLE ON INCELLIGENCE OPORATIONS (SSCIO) WHO INTERVIEWED

UN AUGUSI 10, 1975 IS PATRICK ARTHUR SHEA. SHEA TOLD SOURCE

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NY 145 - 146601

CUNFIUINIIAL

NUKING THE TIME THAT JAFFE WAS RELATING TO MILLER INFORMATION

ABOUT HIS ASSOCIATION WITH SAS WILLIS AND GAMBER ANU HIS RELAI IONSHIP®

WITH THE FbI, SENATOR CHURCH, THE CHAIRMAN OF SSCIO, ENTERED MILLER'S

OFFICE ANO DECAME VERY MUCH INIERESIED IN JAFFE'S STAINENIS. JAFFE

TOLD MILLER THAT WHEN HE RETURNAU FROM HONG KUNG (SOURCE BELIEVES

THIS TO DE IN 1966- 1968), HE LEARNED THAT HE WAS "FINGERED" bY A

MIGHLY REGARDEO SOVILI EFECTUR WHO TOLU AN FBI OFFICIAL IN WASHINGION,

DE THAI WHILE IN MOSCOW, USSA, HE SAW SAM JAFFE'S NAME ON A PIEÇE OF

PAPER ON THE DESK UF A HIGHLY PLACEU GO OFFICER• SHA TOLD SOURCE

THAL JAINE INDICATED IU MILLER THAT THIS SUVILI DEFECIOR'S NAME

WAS PENKOVSKIY (SHEA PRUNOUNCEU THIS NAME AS PENT KOVSKIY)• SOURCE

INQUIRED OF SICA IN THIS WAS INE SAME PERSUN WHO IS THE SUBULCT OF

THE BOUK "PENKOVSKIY'S PAPERS", ANU SHA REPLICO "THAT'S IHE ONE" F(U)

SHEA DIU NUT INUICATE IU SOURCE HOW JAFFE DECAME AWARE OF HIS

BEING "'INGEREN" DY THE SOVILI ULNACIUR OR WHEN THE SOVIET DEFECTOR

DAW JAPIL'S NAME ON THE DESK UF A GO OFFICER IN MOSCOW. JAFFE TOLD

MILLER THAI IHE *BI, UPON LEARNING THAT INFURMATION, FELT THAT JAFFE

WAS 'A "DOUDLE AGENI" DE CAUSE ON THE CUOLNESS UN BUREAU PERSONNEL

TOWARD HIN WHEN HE RETURNED IU THE UNITED STATES FRUM HONG KONG. EK(U)

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CONFIUENIIAL

JAFFE TOLD MILLER THAT EVER SINCK HIS RETURN FRUM HONG KONG,

HE CANNUT HOLD A JOD, AND

bELIEVES THE FOI IS THE CAUSE OF HIS

PREDICAMENÍ• JAFFE IS ON THE OPINION THAI THE FỘI IS BEING

VIN ICEIVE TOWARD HIM IN PURSUING THIS MATTER AND DEPRIVING HIM OF

MAKING A LIVELIHOOD. X(U)

SOUNCE TOLD SHA THAT HE DIN NUT FEEL THAI THERE WAS ANY

SUASIANCE TO JAFFE'S SIAILMENI IHAT IRE DOI WAS BEING VINUICIIVE

US RESPONSIOLE POR JARRE'S UNENPLUYRENE PRUDEN. BE (4)

SHEA TULU SOURCE THAT HE SPENT ABUUI FIVE HOURS DURING IHE PAST

WEEKLI IN ERVILWING JAFFE ADOUT THE ADOVE MATTER. SHEA TOLD SOURCE

¿NAL HE HAS DEEN ASSIGNEU TO IHIS MATTER BECAUSE UE IWO REASONS.

THE FIRST KEASON DLING IHAT SENATOR CHURCH WAS INTERESIED IN THE

MATTER, AND THE SECONU REASON BEING THAT EVEN THUUGH JAFFE'S

INFORMAL IUN IS UUISIDE THE SCOPE OF SSCIO'S INVESTIGATION, IT IS

LOOKING INTO IHE MATTER IU DEIERMINE IF JAFFE'S SIAIEMENIS ARE TRUE

AND IN DO, DETERMINE IF LEGISLATION SHOULD BE PROPOSED TO ELIMINATE

UR CURTAIL SUGH VINDICT IVE PRACTICES. * (4)

SOURCE AUVISON THAT IN RESPONSE IU SHEA'S QUESTIONS, HE TOLD

SHEA THAI HE AND GANDER FIRSI APPRUACHED JAFFE WHEN JAFFE WAS

*(4)

CONFIDENTIAL

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NY 1W5 - 146601

CUNFIDENTIAL

COPLOYKU DY THE UNIIEU NAT LONS IN NEW YURK CITY (NYC) AS A

CURRESPOWEN. SOURCE TULU SHOA IHAT IN ADDITION TO JAFFE, HE AND

LANDER TALKED TO MANY PEOPLE ASSUCIATEU WISH THE UNITED NATIONS, AND

THAS PRIOR IO IALKING TU JAFFE, A DACKGROUND INVESTIGATION WAS

CON UCIEN ON JAFFE. SUURCE SOLD SHEA INAI IU THE DESI ON HIS

RECOLLEG ION, NO IN LETH BACKGRUUNU INVESTIGATION OF JAFFE WAS

GUN ULTED. SHEA ASKED SOURCE IF JAFFE HAU SIGNED A STATEMENI IO THE

EFFECT THAI HE WOULU KELP CONFIUENIIAL HIS RALATIONSHIP WITH THE

*BLO SOURCE TULD SHEA THAT HE WULS NUI RECALL IF JAFFE SIGNED SUCH

A SIALEMEN, QUI THAI HE RECALLIU THAT THE MATTER OF CONFIDENTIALITY

WAS DISCUSSED WITH JAFFE. ((U)

SOURCE TOLD JAFFE THAT HE ANU GAMDER WERE PRIMARILY INTERESTED

LIV JAFFE'S SOVILI CONTACIS IN THE UNITED STATES, HOWEVER, WHENEVER

JAFFE WENI ABRUAU, HE WAS INIEKVICWED ON HIS RETURN IU THE UNITED

STALES TO ULTERINE IN HE HAD ANY CUNIACIS WITH SOVILIS WHILE

ADRUAN• SHEA INQUIRED I WHEN JAFFE WINS ADROAD, PARIICULARLY TO

ThE VODK, IN IHO FDI MADE HIN AVAILABLE TO THE CIA FOR OPERATIONS.

SOURGE TOLD SHIA I HAI H HAD NU INFORMATION IN IHAI REGARD. A (4)

SHEA TOLD SOURCE THAT FE HAD NO INSIRUCH IONS TO INTERVIEW

FURIEN SPECIAL AGENT GAMBER REGARDING IHIS WATTER, AND ADDED THAT

*(4)

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105 - 146601

•CONTINENTIAL

ARICK HE SUbMITS THE RELLIS ON HIS INERVIEW WITH THE SOURCE, HE

MAY NECKIVE AN ASSIGNUINT IU INTERVICW GAMBER. SOURCE TOLD SHEA

¡HAS GANDER REI IRED PRUN INE NDI IN 1275, ANU IS NOW EMPLOYED AS A

VICE PREDIVEN UF WELLS FARGU IN AILANIA, GEORGIA• SOURCE ADVISED

INAL NO HAS NOT AUVISED GANDER UF HIS CONTACT WITH SHEA, AND DOES

NOI MAN TO DU SO. SUURCE AUDEU THAI HE HAU NO ODULCIIONS IF THE

DURAU DEDIKES TO NUIIFY GANDEN INAT SOURCE HAS BEEN INTERVIEWED

REGARDING JAFFE. SOURCE ADVISEU THE INTERVIKWING PERSONNEL THAT IT

WAS HIS UPINION THAT GAUDER WOULU DE CUNTACTLO DY A REPRESENTATIVE

Or DOCIO MEGARDING IHE JAFFE MATIER, SINCE JAFFE'S STATEVENIS

PENTAIN IO A PERIOU OF LINE WHEN SUURCE WAS RETIRED AND JAFFE WAS

HANULED DY GANEER. X(U)

SHEA INQUIREU IF JALFE WAS PAIU ANY MONLY BY THE ÜBI. SOURCE

TULD SULA IHAT JARFE WAS NUI PAIU FUR HIS SERVICES RENDERED, DUT

WAS NO IUDURSEU PUR ANY EXPENSES JAFFE INCURRED IN DEVELOPING

LUTORMAN ION HOK THE NOT. TK(U)

SOURCE SIAIEU THAI SHEA UNY DISCUSSED THE ABOVE MATTER, AND NO

DiNKA CUPIES WERE DISCUSSEL. SUURCE AUDED IHAT SHEA DID NOT MENTION

ANY OTHER INVESTIGATiON ON INE POI, NUR DIU HE MENION ANY OTHER

MAVILS UN PURVER OR CURRENE EUPLUYERS UF THE EDI. SOURCE ADVISED THAT (N)

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NY 1KD-1460601

CONTIUENIIAL

SHEA JULD HIM THAT HE MAY CALL UPON SOURCE AGAIN FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION REGARUING JAFFE. SOURCE TOLU INTERVIEWING PERSONNEL

IHAL HE WOULU PROMPTLY AUVISE THE NYO SHOULD HE AGAIN BE CONTACTED

DI A REPRESENIATIVE OF SSCIO. SOURCE STATEU IHAT H& DID NOT ASK

AND HE LIN NOT MURNISH SHA A SIGNED STATEMENI. ME YE(4)

SOLACE ADVISED THAI THE LAST TINK HE SAW JAFFE WAS ON JANUARY

Z1, 107K, WHEN HE MET JAFFE AT JUNN F. KENNEDY INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

WAKIA) • DUURCE STATEN THAT JAFFE UN THAT OCCASION WAS AN AMERICAN

DROAUCASILNG CUMPANY (ABC) CORRESPUNDENT COVERING THE PAN AMERICAN

INAUGURAL 747 FLIGHE PRUN JFKIA IU LUNDUN, ENGLAND. K (U)

SULACE STATEN IHAT ON IHIS UCCASIUN, JAFFE WAS VERY FRIENDLY

AND SHOWED NU ANIMUSITY TUWARU THE SUURCE. SOURCE ADDED THAT THE

"DIWAS NUS DISCUSSED DURING IHIS MEETING, NUR WAS THEIR PREVIOUS

KELA: UNSHIP MEN IUNRO DURING SHE BRICE CONVERSATION. K(4)

HOLU

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OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10

HAY 1962 EDITION

GSA FPAIR (41 CFR) 101-11.6

*"UNITED' STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

: Mr. J. B

Adams

1

- Mr. Mintz

1 - Mr. Wannall

(Attn :

Mr.

Cregar)

I - Mrs. Metcalf

1

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MI.

1 - Mr. Daly

Hotis

DATE: 8/20/75

Dep. ADjAb

Jep. MP

Assk

Admi

Comp. Syst.

Ext. Affairs

Files & Com..

Gen. Inv. -

Ident.

FROM : Legal

Counsel

SUBJECT:

STATUS OF RESPONSES TO CONGRESSIONAL

COMMITTEE REQUESTS

Laboratory

Legal oon,

Pion. &iEval. -

Spec. Inv. -

Training

Telephone Rm. -

Director Sec'y -

The purpose of the memorandum is to set forth in

summary form the requests we have received from various Com-

mittees in Congress and the status of our replies.

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

Тал

BY spo

DATE 1/30/0

Senate Select Committee on

Intelligence Activities (Church's Committee)

Date of Request

Nature of Request

Letter, 7/14/75

Material pertaining to

Martin Luther King.

Status

102211

192118

Response deliver

1699229

Letter, 8/5/75

Request for FBI materials

Response being 3

with respect to surreptitious prepared.

entries.

Letter, 8/7/75

Request for briefing re-

garding mail openings.

Briefing held

8/18/75.

Letter, 8/8/75

Request for materials

Response being

relating to mail

prepared.

surveillance.

Letter, 8/12/75

UNRECORDED COPY FILED

Letter, 8/13/75

Letter, 8/13/75

c SEP

- T 1975.

Request that FBI provide

Response being

third-agency clearance of

prepared.

FBI material Grossessed by

IRS.

REC-10 62

Request for access to

116395-621

Response being

materials pertaining to

prepared.

organized crime.

AUG 27 1975

Request for underlying

materials related to

Response being

prepared.

Department of Justice file

182-46-5.

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12 1975

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:

Legal Counsel to Mr. Adams

RE:

STATUS OF RESPONSES TO CONGRESSIONAI

COMMITTEE REQUESTS

Committee on the Judiciary

Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights (Tunney's Committee)

Date of Request

Nature of Request

Letter, 7/25/75

Request concerns limited

message-switching im-

Status

Response. being

prepared.

plementation plan.

Subcommittee on Postal Facilities, Mail, and

Labor Management

House Post Office and Civil Service Committee (Wilson's Committee)

Date of Request

Nature of Request

Status

Letter, 8/6/75

Request pertaining to

Response delivered.

mail openings.

Subcommittee on Government Information and

Individual Rights

Committee on Government Operations (Abzug's Committee)

Date of Request Nature of Request

Letter, 8/16/75

Request for waiver of

Status

Response being

prepared.

garding non-court-ordered

surreptitious entries.

Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties and the

Administration of Justice

Committee on the Judiciary (Kastenmeier's Committee)

Date Of Request

Nature of Request

Letter, 8/6/75

Request pertaining to the

National Security Index.

Status

Response being

prepared.

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Legal Counsel to Mr.. Adams

RE:

STATUS OF RESPONSES TO CONGRESSIONAL

COMMITTEE REQUESTS

House Select Committee (Pike's Committee)

Date of Request

Nature Of Request

Status

Letter, 7/22/75

All documents and materials Department decided

provided to the Senate Select 8/19/75 to make SSC

Committee to Study Govern-

material available

ental Operations and request for review in Burea

For all materials related to space

budgetary authority.

Letter, 7/28/75

Inquiry to encompass all

aspects of the FBI budget

Partial response

prepared.

as it relates to gathering,

use and dissemination of

Letter, 8/11/75

Letter, 8/19/75

Letter, 8/19/75

Request for briefing of

Assistant Director

Wannall on general

operations

of the In-

telligence Division.

Request for information

concerning Bureau

informants.

Request (7/22/75) all

documents provided to SSC:

(7/22/75) General Counsel's

opinions of authorities;

7/29/75) most current FBI

Briefing held with

HSC Staff Member's

on 8/18/75.

Response delivered

to the Department.

Response being

prepared.

Letter, 8/19/75

Request for materials relat- Response being

ing to wiretaps and electronic prepared.

surveillance.

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Legal Counsel to Mr. Adams

STATUS OF RESPONSES TO CONGRESSIONAL.

COMMITTEE REQUESTS

Date of Request

Letter, 8/19/75

Nature of Request

Request for current

Bureau organizational

chart.

Status

Response being

prepared.

Hearings

Date of Request

ORALy, 7123/75

Nature of Request

Status

Request to arrange testimony Date of testimony

before Subcommittee on Postal has not beer

Facilities, Mail, and Labor

established.

Management of the Post Office

nd Civil Service Committe

oncerning mail covers and mai

openings.

Anticipated Hearings

We have been informally advised that there will be

The topic for the House Select Committee hearings is not known.

RECOMMENDATION:

For information.

pals

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(3)

(4)

if not, please explain.

if so, does the FBI assert that

the same assumption of continuing

intelligence investigations would

apply to individuals or groups

lacking the same or similar proven

(5)

violent background?

if yes, please explain both in

general and with specific reference

to any support provided by the

Coyne letter.

A. Who, if anyone, has disputed that "such

matters as domestic terrorism certainly

affect the internal security and

national welfare * **."?

B.

How was the armed attack on the

President (Truman?) connected with the

Coyne letter?

A. With reference to page 1 of the

report to the NSC dated Mar. 5, 1954:

(1) Does an overall reading of this

page reasonably convey the impres-

sion that program objectives were

designed to protect against sub-

veision by domestic groups that

might be directed, or controlled

by a foreign power?

(2) If yes, and since

"the IIC members

recognize their responsibility as

assigned by the Directives * **"

does this mean that the Directives

apply to only such domestic groups

and the members recognized this

(3)

limitation? If not, please explain.

If A(l) is no, please explain

giving specific consideration to

the necessity for the first 3

paragraphs on the page and the

need to integrate domestic and

foreign intelligence. (See goal 1.)

A. Do Mr. Hoover's Nov. 6, 1958 comments

concerning the usurpation of jurisdic-

tion from local authorities indicate

his belief

that the FBI was not

and should not be a national police

force responsible for maintaining law

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and order throughout the country?

B. Was it ever the FBI's position that it

was not and/or did not desire to be a

national police?

C. Is crime prevention through the gathering

of intelligence a police function?

D. If not, please explain.

E. If yes, how do the FBI's domestic intelli-

gence gathering activities differ from

the usual police function?

F. If there is no substantive difference,

does this mean the FBI, in the area of

domestic intelligence gathering, now con-

stitutes and performs as a national

police force?

G. If not, please explain.

A. Is the Emergency Detention Law (EML) the

same as Subchapter II of the Internal

Security Act of 1950? (ISA)?

B. Mx. Hoover's testimony (Emergency Supple-

mental Appropriations Bill, 1940, at

304) indicates that the FBI maintained a

list or index of subversive individuals

prior to the enactment of the ISA:

(1) What did the FBI call this list or

index?

(2) Did the list contain the names or

individuals whether or not potentiall

dangerous?

C. Did the EML/ISA specifically require the

FBI to maintain a list of potentially

dangerous subversives?

(1) If so, how did the EML/ISA list

differ from the subversive list

already being maintained by the FBI?

(2) If there were differences between

the

two lists, what criteria was

used to determine whether to list

an individual on the EML/ISA index?

(3) If there were no significant

differences between the lists, why

was the EML/ISA list necessary aside

from any statutory requirement?

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D. When and under what authority was Sub-

chapter II of the ISA repealed?

E. Identify the specific criminal statutes

covering acts of expionage or sabotage?

F.

Did the ISA ever provide for the emer-

gency detention of individuals who might

possibly commit, or conspire to commit,

acts other than espionage or sabotage?

(1) If so, please identify such other

acts.

(2) If not, did the EML/ISA list ever

contain the names of individuals

who might engage in subversive

activities other than expionage or

sabotage?•

(3)

If so, what authority permitted

their

inclusion on the EML/ISA list?

A. Is the Domestic Intelligence Division

mentioned in Mr. Hoover's memorandum of

May 11, 1961, an FBI or DOJ division?

A. Besides the memorandum of Attorney

General Clark, dated Sept. 14, 1967, con-

cerning urban riot activity:

(1) How many other specific case-by-case

instructions regarding domestic

intelligence investigative matters

have been received from

the Attorney

General or DOJ?

(2)

(3)

When were such instructions received?

What were the subject matter of the

instructions?

(4) Please provide copies of such

instructions.

A. "* * * the FBI gradually came to be

assigned intelligence investigations out-

side the foreign controlled espionage and

sabotage matters ***":

(1) Does this sentence mean that initiall

the FBI had authority to only conduct

intelligence operations of those

domestic organizations or individuals

that were controlled by or connected

with a foreign power and could

• possible be used for espionage or

sabotage?

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(2)

(3)

If not, please explain.

If so, what document (describe

and give date) enlarged the FBI's

authority so that it could conduct

investigations regarding "other

intelligence matters affecting

the internal security % **."

A. Does 28 U.S.C. 533(1) provide the

statutory basis for the FBI's investi-

gation of criminal violations in the

internal security area?

B. If not, what is the statute that

provides such authority?

Exactly when did the FBI begin to use

its statutory authority to conduct

criminal investigations as a basis for

its domestic intelligence operations?

A.

Does the FBI view Attorney General

Clark's Sept. 14, 1967 memorandum as

a directive to:

(1)

Provide information of possible

criminal violations resulting

from riots that had already

occurred, or

(2)

Engage in a continuing intelligence

operations with respect to black

nationalist groups, or

(3) Engage in continuing intelligence

operations with respect to any

extremist group or individual?

B. If none of the above, what is the

import of the memorandum?

C. Did this memorandum constitute additional

authority for the FBI to conduct domestic

intelligence investigations?

D.

If so, what additional authority in

this area is conveyed to the FBI?

A. Does the FBI view the Feb. 18, 1969

DOJ memorandum as constituting any

additional authority for the FBI to

engage in domestic intelligence

investigations?

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B. If so, what additional authority in this

area is conveyed to the FBI?

A. The "President's proclamation" mentioned

by Mr. Hoover on Nov. 30, 1939, during

his testimony on the Emergency Supple-

mental Appropriations Bill, 1940, at 304:

(1) Is the "President's proclamation"

the Sept. 6, 1939 Presidential

Directive?

(2)

If not, to what does "President's

proclamation" refer? Please provide

copy if not already provided.

B. What were the "national defense statutes"

referred to in Mr. Hoover's testimony,

supra?

C.

In his testimony, supra, did Mr. Hoover

• ever detail what

activities constituted

"subversive activities * * * or any

activities that are possibly detrimental

to the internal

security of the United

States"?

D.

If so, please provide copy of such

testimony.

E. If not, how could Congress at that time

know or appreciate what the FBI was

actually doing in the area of domestic

intelligence investigations.

A. During Mr. Hoover's testimony on Jan. 5,

1940, on the Justice Department Appro-

priations Bill, 1940, at 153, did Mr.

Hoover ever explain what constituted

"being active in any subversive activity

or in movements detrimental to the

internal security"?

B. If so, please provide copy of such

testimony®

C.

If not, how could Congress at that time,

know or appreciate in detail what the

FBI was doing in the area of domestic

intelligence investigations?

D. Mr. Hoover's testimony of June 6, 1940 on

the Supplemental National Defense Appro-

priation, 1941, at 180, mentions a

National Defense Division. Is this the

successor division to the Intelligence

Division mentioned in Mr. Hoover's testi-

mony of Jan. 5, 1940, at 153?

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E. MI. Hoover also mentions at 181, that

the general intelligence index included

the names of such persons as "known espio-

nage agents, known sabotears, leading

members of the Communist party; and the

bund."

(1) Can it be reasonably concluded that

this listing reflects what. the FBI,

at that time, considered its intelli-

gence investigation authority under

the Presidential Directives to be,

i.e., limited solely to espionage

and sabotage matters, and domestic

groups connected with foreign

governments?

(2)

(3)

If not, please explain.

If other types of groups or individ-

uals were included in the index,

please describe their activities.

(4)

If other groups or individuals were

included in the general index but

not mentioned in the testimony,

could Congress be fully

apprised of

of the scope of the FBI's intelli-

gence investigation activities at

that time?

(5) If so, please explain.

A.

Does the FBI believe that Congress has,

by receiving testimony about the FBI's

domestic intelligence activities as well

as intelligence information, recognized

the scope of FBI domestic intelligence

activities and tacitly approved of those

activities?

B. If not, please explain.

C. If so,

does the FBI consider this tacit

approval to be an additional authority

to conduct domestic intelligence

activities?

D. If not, please explain.

A. Is it the FBI's position that, aside

from any intelligence investigation

authority granted by the Presidential

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Directives, 28 U.S.G. 533, in conjunction

with various criminal statutes, authorizes

the FBI to infiltrate groups or other-

wise engage in affirmative, active

intelligence gathering operations prior

to the commitment or alleged commitment

of a violation of one of the criminal

statutes?

B. If not, please explain.

C. If so, what language in 28 U.S.C. 533,

considered in conjunction with various

criminal statutes, authorizes such

operations?

D.

Is it the position of the FBI that the

Executive Orders relating to Federal

employee loyalty matters authorize

the FBI to infiltrate domestic groups

or otherwise conduct continuing investi-

gations of groups or individuals for

intelligence purposes?

E.

If so, please identify the Executive

Orders and the specific language in

each that constitutes such authorization?

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POSITION PAPER:

INVESTIGATIONS OF SUBVERSION, AN OVERVIEW,

May 19, 1972

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A. Besides the Sept. 14, 1967 instructions

from the Attorney. General and the Feb. 18,

1969 instructions from the Assistant Attorney

General, Internal Security Division, has

the Department of Justice (DOJ) provided

any other instructions or directives,

applicable to a general situation rather

than a specific group or individual, that

pertain to FBI domestic intelligence

B.

investigations?

If so, please provide copies of such

instructions and directives.

C. If not:

(1) In what manner were these two instruc-

tions amplified by other policy

instructions?

(2) Were policy instructions pertaining to

specific cases ever used by the FBI as

guidance for a policy in a more general-

ized situation where no pertinent instruc

tions had been received from the Attorney

General or DOJ?

(3)

If so, please list the areas where this

was done and provide pertinent docu-

mentation.

(4)

The parenthetical information suggests

that besides the above mentioned dated

memoranda other policy instructions

were received and not all of these

concerned specific cases.

(1) Is this correct?

(2) If so, please explain if question A,

above, was answered in the negative.

A.

Testimony by Mr. Hoover as early as Nov. 30,

1939, indicates that the FBI was maintaining

indices on saboteurs, espionage agents,

subversives and others:

(1)

In light of this, why was it necessary

for the FBI to query DOJ about the

propriety of maintaining a list similar

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to the Security. Index when the legal

authority for the Security Index was

repealed?

(2)

Please provide a copy of the FBI inquiry

concerning this matter and the DOJ/

Attorney General response.

B. Did the FBI maintain any other index concur-

rently with the Security Index?

C. If so, please identify and explain the need

for such index.

A. Does the statement, "There are no investi-

gations of members of an organization which

does not advocate the use of force & * ¿"

mean that investigations are conducted of:

(1) Members to determine if they are

leaders?

(2) Organization leaders?

B. If investigations are made of group leaders,

do such investigations encompass individuals

who are not officers of the organization?

C. If so, how is "leadership" determined.

• D.

What is the difference between:

(1) "A demonstrated propensity for violence, "

and

(2) "subversive or revolutionary activity"?

E. Are leaders or members of civil rights

organizations investigated?

F. If so, what distinction is there between

such an organization and its leaders and

members?

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MANUAL SECTION 87: INVESTIGATION OF SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATIONS

AND INDIVIDUALS

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4

Question

A. FBI investigations under Section 87

are based on statutes and Departmental

Directives.

(1) Does this mean that no authority

was conferred on the FBI by the

various Presidential Directives?

(2) If so, please explain in view of

the position taken by Messrs.

Wannall, Watters and Lacey that

intelligence investigative

authority was delegated to the FBI

by Presidential Directives in

addition to

statutory jurisdictior

(3)

If Presidential Directives did

delegate authority to FBI, why

aren't the Directives cited as

authority for investigations.

B. What are the Department instructions

to which reference is made?

C. Are these the same Department instruc-

tions mentioned in Section 122,

paragraph Ala, page 1? If not, what

are these instructions?

A.

What considerations affect the

"desirability" of conducting an

investigation of possible statutory

violations discovered during the

course of an investigation of sub-

versives?

B. Would these same criteria apply to

possible violations discovered in

the course of extremist investigations

(see Section 122, paragraph Alc,

page la.)?

C. If not, please explain.

A. "'subversive activities" in the

What authority exists for defining

manner set forth?

A. Since specific statutes provide the

basis for FBI investigations and

since a preliminary inquiry can be

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conducted for 90 days without a

specific indication of the statutory

basis for the authority:

(1) Please explain how statutory

authority exists for such a

preliminary inquiry during the

90 day period.

(2)

Does such a procedure mean that

a contact. of unknown nature

between an individual and a

subversive group is sufficient

in itself to constitute an

activity "which may result in a

violation" of some statute even

if the statute is not specified?

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MANUAL, SECTION 122:

EXTREMIST MATTERS AND CIVIL UNREST

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A. What is the purpose of the Manual?

A. Please identify the "Departmental

instructions" and provide copies of

B.

As regards 18 U.S.C. $9241, 2383,

2384, 2385, are attempts and con-

spiracies encompassed by the phrase

activities which may result in a

violation ***"?

(1)

If not, what activities does

the phrase encompass?

(2)

If so, what other activities

(describe generally) are

covered by the phrase?

(3)

Where conspiracy is itself the

crime (see 18 U.S.C. $9241,

2384 and 2385), what activities

are covered by

the phrase?

A. Is the import of the first sentence

that:

(1)

The various Presidential

Directives charged the FBI with

only responsibility for the

collection and coordination of

(2)

internal security information?

This coordination and collection

responsibility was passive

in nature, not requiring active

(3)

investigations?

No intelligence investigative

authority was conveyed to the

FBI by the Presidential Direc-

tives?

B. If A(1) is no:

(1) What is meant?

(2)

Why does the third sentence

state that there is a difference

between the FBI's collection

and coordination responsibility

and its "jurisdictional authorits

for conducting active investi-

gations" under various statutes.

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C. If A(2) is no, why does the third

sentence emphasize that the authority

for "active investigations" is

derived from statutes and Departmental

Directives?

If the Directives did convey authority

(1)

What is the difference between

a "responsibility" as in

"responsibility to coordinate.

and collect" and "authority"

as in "jurisdictional authority"?

(2)

Why does paragraph Ala of

Section 122, at page 1, not

mention the Presidential Direc-

tives as authority for investi-

gations?

E. If A(1), (2), (3), or any one of them

is answered

yes, how can such an

answer be reconciled with the position

found in the papers by Messrs. Wannall

Watters and Lacey that the FBI was

delegated authority to conduct active

intelligence investigations by

various Presidential Directives both

oral and written?

A. What is the authority

for defining

"extremist activities" in the manner

set out?

B.

How do "extremist activities" as

defined differ from "subversive

activities"

as defined in Manual

Section 87, paragraph A4, page 4?

C. If the definitions are the same of

substantially the same, why is a

distinction between extremists and

subversives necessary?

A. What is a characterization of an

individual or organization?

A. Please list all indices at both

FBI headquarters and field office

levels on which extremist individuals

may be listed in addition to the

ADEX and EPA.

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