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HOUSTUDY 75.

REBUTELS MAY 2, 29, 1975, "SENSTUDY 75."

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NAME "HOUSTUDY 75" DESIGNATED •

FOR ALL MATIERS RELATING TO HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY

GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO INPELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

AND SUREAU'S HANDLING OF MATTERS PERIAINING THERETO. USE

THIS FILE NUMBER AND CAPTION FOR MATTERS RELATING TO HOUSE

COMMITTEE AS SEPARATE FROM SENSTUDY 75 FOR MATERS RELATING

TO SENATE COMMITTEE.

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FROM DIRECTOR

TEST IMONY BEFORE HOUSE CIVIL RIGHTS AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

SUBCOMMITTEE FEBRUAR Y 11, 1976.

• THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND I TESTIFIED BEFORE

CAPTIONED SUBCOMMITTEE TODAY CONCERNING LEGISLAT IVE

POLICIES AND GUIDELINES FOR THE FBI. COPIES OF IHE

STATEMENIS PRESENTED TO THE COMMITTEE BY THE ATTORNEY

GENERAL AND ME ARE BEING MAILED TO ALL. OFFICES TODAY. FOR

YOUR INFORMATION, THERE FOLLOWS A SYNOPSIZED ACCOUNT OF THE

MAJOR AREAS OF THE SUBCOMMITTEE 'S QUESTIONS IO ME, TOGETHER

WITH MY RESPONSES:

(1) IN RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS REGARDING THE

PREVENTIVE ACTION PROVISION IN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL 'S

PROPOSED GUIDELINES FOR THE FBI WHICH ARE CITED IN HIS

PREPARED STATEMENT, I STATED THAT THE PRIMARY MANDATE OF

LAW ENFORCEMENT IS PREVENTION; THAT WE CANNOT INVESTIGATE

SOLELY "AFTER THE FACT"; THAT ACTION IO PREVENI LEGITIMATE

DISSENT UNDER OUR DEMOCRATIC FORM OF GOVERNMENT WOULD BE

INTOLERABLE; THAT PRIOR TO TAKING PREVENTIVE ACTION IN A

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DOMESTIC SECURITY CASE TODAY WE WOULD ASCERTAIN THE NATURE.

AND EXTENT OF THE THREAT INVOLVED, CONSULT WITH THE DEPARTMENT,

AND REACH A WORKABLE SOLUTION AS TO ANY NECESSARY AND PROPER

ACTION TO BE TAKEN •

(2) REGARDING THE GUIDELINES, QUESIIONS WERE ASKED

CONCERNING MY INPUT MY RESPONSE WAS THAT THE FBI HAS A

REPRESENTATIVE ON THE GUIDELINES COMMITTEE, AND I RECEIVE

REPORIS FROM TIME TO TIME CONCERNING THE THRUST OF THESE

GUIDELINES) AND WHETHER THE GUIDELINES IN PRESENI FORM ARE

TOO STRICT OR LOOSE MY RESPONSE WAS THAT THE FBI IS NOT

UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE GUIDELINES; THAT I CANNOT BROADLY

CATEGORIZE THEM AS STRICI OR LOOSE; THAT THEY ARE STILL

UNDER CONSIDERATION BUT AT THIS POINT ARE NOT TOO RESTRICTIVE.

(3) IN RESPONSE IO A QUESTION AS TO WHETHER THE

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE SUPERVISES THE FBI; I STATED THAT I

RECOGNIZE THAT IT DOES AND THAT I CAN STATE UNEQUIVOCALLY THAT

I HAVE A VERY PLEASANT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

AND THAT WE GET ALONG VERY WELL.

(THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AGREED AND POINTED OUT THAT

THE FBI HAS TO HAVE CONSIDERABLE AUTONOMY, THAT THE FBI

DIRECIOR'S RESPONSIBILITY IS GREAT, AND THAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

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HAS. GENERAL OVERSIGHI RESPONSIBILITY OVER THE BUREAU. HE NOTED

THAT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL "IS NOT RUNNING IHE FBI" -- OR HE

WOULD NOT HAVE TIME FOR ANYTHING ELSE -- AND THAT THERE

IS "SOME DISTANCE" BETWEEN THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND THE FBI

DIRECIOR.)

(4) IN RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS CONCERNING CONTINUED

OVERSIGHT OF THE FBI BY CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES, I STATED

THAT SINCE APRIL, 1975, THE FBI HAS DEVOTED 45 OD AGENT DAYS

AND 2221 CLERICAL DAYS TO PROVIDE CONGRESS WITH THE INFORMATION

THAT IT HAS REQUESTED; THAT SOME SOURCES AND INFORMANIS

HAVE BECOME UNWILLING TO FURNISH US INFORMATION BECAUSE OF

THE WIDESPREAD DISCLOSURE OF THE MATERIAL WE HAVE PROVIDED

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES; THAT THE FBI DOES NOT OBJECT TO

OVERSIGHT; THAT WE ARE WILLING TO HAVE OVERSIGHI AND

GUIDELINES BUI THAI WE WANT TO DEVELOP SOME BALANCE SO

THAT WE MAY MAINTAIN OUR CAPABILITIES INTACT TO FULLY

DISCHARGE OUR RESPONSIBILITIES•

ALL LEGATS ADVISED SEPARATELY.

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FROM DIRECTOR

DIRECTOR'S APPEARAVCE BEFORE HOUSE SUBCOMMITTE ON APPROPRIATIONS

FISCAL YEAR 1977.

THIS MORNING I APPEARED BEFORE THE MOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE

I APPROPRIATIONS IN CONNECIION WITH THE FBI'S FISCAL

YEAR 1977 BUDGEI REQUEST. AS YOU HAVE BEEN ADVISED, THIS

RECUEST INCLIDED SEVERE CUIS FOR TRAINING OF STATE AND LOCAL

LAW ENFORCEMEVI OFFICERS AID ADMIVISTRATIVELY UNCONTROLLABLE

OVERTIME CAUO). NEITHER OF THESE CUTS WAS INITIATED BY THE

FUI; HOWEVER, THEY WERE ADMINISTRATION POLICY DECISIONS AND

• OUR 1977 BUDGET JUSTIFICATION SHOWED THEM AS SUCH IN SUPPORT

OF THE PRESIDENT'S BUDG-I.

DURING INE MORE THAT THREE HOURS OF HEARINGS, THE

CINERAL TONOR OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS WAS THAT THESE CUTS

ARE UNCONSCIONHELE ESPECIALLY IN IME FACE OF RISING CRIME.

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VIRILALLY, EVERY MENDER OF THE COMMITIRE HAD GUESTIONS

REGARDINE THE CUT IN AUD AND HOW IT WOULD AFFECI THE WORKLOAD

MORALE AND INDIVIDUALS IN COME. I RESPONDED CONCERNING THE

HEAVY WORKLOAD AND VOTED THAT THE IMPACT ON OUR SPECIAL

AGENTS' MORALE WOULD BE MOSI DETRIMENTAL. ONE MEMBER STATED

I WOULD DEFINIIELY NOT SUPPORT A BUDGET SHOWING CUTS OF

SUCH MAG IUDE.

AS I, MAVE STATED BEFORL, IHIS ENTIRE MATTER IS

CONTINGE I UPON THE RESULTS OF CONGRESSIONAL ACTION; HOWEVER

I JUST WANIED YOU TO KNOW THAT OPPORTUNITILS AROSE TO SUPPORT

THE INTERESIS OF OUR AGITS AND ALSO THE ATTITUDE DISPLAYED

LAT TODAY'S HEARINGS. YOU WILL BE KEPT ADVISED OF

¿SUE SEQUENT DEVELOPMENIS.

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