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9:59PM MITEL 5-3-75 MSE

IO ALL SACS

FROM DIRECTOR

PER SO'JAL

(SP- 115395)

ATTENT

VON

SENST LD Y 75

CAPTIONED MATTER PERTAINS TO BUREAU'S HANDLING OF REQUESS

FROM SENATE AND HOUSE SELECI COMMITTEES TO SUDY GOVERNMENTAL

OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES. IN CONNEC

I ION WITH WORK OF THESE COMMITIGES, STAFF MEMBERS MAY SERK

TO INTERVIEW CURRENT AND FORMER FBI EMPLOYEES.

RICE TLY, THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTE? (SSC) SIAFE HAS

INTERVIEWED SEVERAL FORMER EMPLOYEES AND IT IS ANTICIPATED

THAT MANY MORE SUCH PERSONNEL WILL BE CONTACTED.

TH. FBI HAS PLEDAED FULL COOPERATION WITH THE COMMITTEE

AND WE WISH TO ASSIST AND FACILITAIE ANY INVESTIGATIONS UNDER-

TAKEN BY IHE COMMITTEE "ITH RISPECT TO THE FBI. HOWEVER, WE

DO HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO INSURE THAT SENSITIVE SOURCES AND

METHODS AD ONGOING SENSITIVE INVESTIGATIONS ARE FULLY

reindere of

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PRO1 SCIAD.

SOULD ANY FORMER EMPLOYEE CONTACT YOUR OFFICE AND

HAVE ANY QUESTION REGARDING HIS OBLIGATION NOT TO DIVULGE INFOR -

MATIO! OBTAINED BY VIRTUE

OF HIS PAST FBI EMPLOYMENT, HE SHOULD

BE INSTRUCIED TO CONTACI LEGAL COUNSEL, FBIHC, BY COLLECI CALL.

YOUR COVERSATIONS WITH FORMER EMPLOYEES MUST BE IN KEEPING WITH

OUR FLEDGE. IT IS BELIFVED SUCH A PROCEDURE WOULD INSURE PROPER

PROTECTION AND ALSO FACILITATE THE "ORK OF THE SSC.

IHE ABOVE PROCEDURE ALSO APPLIES TO CURRENT EMPLOYEES

OF YOUR OFFICE. HOWEVER, CONTACI WITH THE LEGAL COUNSEL SHOULD

BE HANDLED THROUGH THE SAC.

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FER CORAL ATTEM IOW

SEUSZ IDY 75

CAST TONED MOTIR PERTAINS TO BURENU'S HANDLING OF RECESS

WINGINHUNOS SONS O1 SIALLINNOD 101795 3500n GaY IVEd 1000

OPORAY IONS MITH RESPECT TO INTILLIGINCE ACTIVITIES. IN CONNEC-

• TID! WITH WEAK OF TUES" COMMITICUS, STAFF YONDERG MAY 33ЕК

PECT CLY, QUE REVAT" SELFCT CORMITTES (SSC) STAFF HAS

INDORVIANEP SSUERAL FORMED TUFLOYEES AND IT IS ANTICIPATED

THAT ANY KORE SUCY PERSCINEL VILL DO CONTACTED.

INE FOI HAS CLEDOEN FULL COOFRATION WITH THE COXMITTEE

AND HE TIDY TO ASDICT AND FACILITAIC ANY INVESTICATIONS UNDER-

TAVE BY THE COMMITTER WITH POSPRCT TO THE FOI. HOMEVET, JE

DO SAVE AN OBLICATICH TO INSURO THAT SENCITIVE SOURCES AND

METHODS AUD COOING COSITIVE IVESTICATIONS ARE FULLY

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COULD ASY FOR IR AGPLOYCE CONTACT YOUR OFFICE AND

MAY. ASY CLESTIC: RECARDING HIS CELIGATIO: NOT TO DIVULCE INFOR -

DE INSORUCITD TO CONTACT LEGAL COUNSELE FEINCA BY COLLECT CALL.

YOUR COVERSATIONG WITH FORCER INPLOYCES NUST DE IN KEEPING WITH

IT IS BOLIEVED CUCK A PROCEDURE VOILE INCURE FROPER

•O58 3MI GO BOOM TAL ALVITTION 051 CV C010a10b

THE ARCE BROCEDURE ALCO AFPLICE TO CURRENT MPLOYEES

OF YOUR OFFIC

LONGVIN, CONTACT WITH THE LOCAL COURAEL SHOULD

BE HOLES THROUGH THE SAC.

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NRD36 WA CODE

5:25PM NITEL 5-20-75 PAW

TO ALL SACS

FROM DIRECTOR

(62-116395)

PER SO MAL ATTENT 1O W

SENSTUDY - 75.

REBUTEL MAY 2, 1975.

IN CONNECTION WITH WORK OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE SELECT

COMMITTEES, ITS REPRESENIATIVES MAY CONTACI YOUR OFFICE FOR

INFORMATION.

IN ONE RECENT INSTANCE, A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SENATE

SELECT COMMITTEE TELEPHONICALLY INQUIRED AS TO IDENTITY OF SAC

IN A PARTICULAR OFFICE DURING 197D.

IN HANDLING SUCH INQUIRIES INSURE ESTABLISHING BONA FIDES

OF REPRESENTATIVE BY SHOW OF CREDENTIALS ON PERSONAL CONTACI OR,

IF TELEPHONIC CONTACT, BY TELEPHONING BACK TO COMMITTEE.

UNLESS INFORMATION IS OF A PUBLIC NATURE, AS IN THE INSTANCE

CITED ABOVE, OBTAIN FBIHQ CLEARANCE PRIOR TO SUPPLYING ANY

INFORMATION. FBIHQ MUST BE EXPEDITIOUSLY ADVISED OF ALL

INFORMATION FURNISHED

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NROSS WA CODE

5:25PM WITEL 5-22-75 PAW

TO ALL SACS

FROM DIRECTOR

162-1163957

PERSONAL ATTENTION

SENSTUDY - 75.

REBUTEL MAY 3, 1975.

IN CORNECTION WITH WORK OF THE SENATE AM HOUSE SELECI

COMMITTEES, ITS REPRESENTATIVES MAY CONTACT YOUR OFFICE FOR

INFORMATION.

IN ONE RECENT INSTANCE, A REPREJENTATIVE OF THE SENATE

SELECI COMMITTEE TELEPHONICALLY INQUIRED AS TO IDENTITY OF SAC

IN A PARTICULAH OFFICE DURING 1970,

IN HSIOLING SUCH INCUIRIES INSURE ESTASLISHING BON FIDES

OF REPRESOMTATIVE BY SHOW DE CREDENIIALS ON PERSONAL CONTACT OF.,

IF IELEPHOHIC CONIAGI, BY TELEPHONING DACK TO COMHITTEE.

UNLESS INFORINTION IS OF A FUBLIC HATURE, AS IN THE INSTANCE

CITED ABOVE, OBTAIN FBIHO GLEARANCE PRIOR TO SUPPLYING ANY

INFORMATION, FBING GUST BE EXPEDITIOUSLY ADVISED OF ALL

INFORMATION FURNISHED,

END

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NRO5S WA CODE

10:47PM NITEL 5/28/75 PLD

TO ALEXANDRIA

ATLANTA

BALTIMORE

CHARLOTTE

NEWARK

OMAHA

PHILADELPHIA

PORTLAND

CHICAGO

PHOENIX

KANSAS CITY

TAMPA

LITTLE ROCK

WASHINGION FIELD

FROM DIRECTAR

(62-116355)

PERSONAL

ARGENTION

SENSTUDY

REBUTEL

MAY 2, 1975.

INQUIRIES MADE OF BUREAU BY SENATE SELECT COMMITIIE (SSC)

CONCERNING A NUMBER OF PRESENT AND FORMER FBI EMPLOYCES, IN

CLUDING THEIR CURRENT WHEREABOUTS, SUGGESTS THEY MAY EE INTER-

VIEWEL BY SSC

STAFF, EXACT SUBJECT MATTERS FOR INTERVIET UN-

KNO.:". SET OUT BELOW ARE NAMES AND LAST KNOWN ADDRESSES LF

FORMER

BUREAU EMPLOYEES ND OFFICE OF ASSICIMENT OF INCUNDENTS,

ALL OF WHOM

SSC HAS INQUITED ABOUT.

EACH OF THUS FORMER EMPLOYEES IS TO BE IMMEDIATELY CON-

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SSC S

TACTED AND ALERTED THAT HE (SHE MIGHI BE APPROACHED BY THE

TAFF, SUBJECT MATTER UNKNOUN. THEY SHOULD BE TOLD THAT

IN THE EVEUT THEY ARE INTERVIEWED AND DURING THE COURSE OF SAME,

QUESTIONS ARE

ASKED WHICH RELATE TO SENSITIVE BUREAU OPERATIONS

(SOURCES, METHODS, TECHNIQUES, THIRD AGENCY RULE, AND ONGOING

INVESTIGATIONS), THEY MAY REQUEST THAT AN FBI AGENT BE PRESENT.

BUREAU WILL PROVIDE AGENT ON REQUEST OF INTERVIEWEE. AS A

PRELUDE TO INTERVIEW, THE FORMER EMPLOYEE MAY, AFTER BEING

CONTACTED BY SSC STAFF, CONTACT BUREAU'S LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION

BY COLLECT CALL FOR FULL INFORMATION IO ASSIST HIM, INCLUDING

OBLIGATIONS AS TO CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMA

TION ACQUIRED AS

FBI EMPLOYEE. IT IS EMPHAS

IZED THAT BUREAU'S OFFER OF ASSISTANCE

IS NOT INTENDED TO IMPEDE SSC WORK BUT IS DONE AS COOPERATIVE

GESTURE AND TO SAFEGUARD SENSITIVE BUREAU INFORMATION. CONTACTS

WITH THESE FORMER EMPLOYEES TO BE HANDLED

PERSONALLY BY SAC OR

ASAC. IN EVENT THIS NOT FEASIBLE FOR JUST CAUSE, TO BE HANDLED

BY A SENIOR SUPERVIS

1 OR.

INCUMBENT EMPLOYEES TO BE ADVISED THAT IF CONTACTED BY SSC

STAFF FOR INTERVIEW, LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION TO BE IMMEDIATELY

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NOTIFIED THROUGH SAC.

IMMEDIATELY AFTER CONTACI, RESULTS SHOULD BE FURNISHED

BUREAU BY TELETYPE IN ABOVE CAPTION. IF A FORMER EMPLOYEE NO

LONGER IN YOUR TERRITORY OR TEMPORARILY AWAY, SET OUT LEAD TO

OTHER OFFICE IMMEDIATELY WITH COPY TO FBI HEADQUARTERS.

ALEXANDRIA: COURTLAND J. JONES, 6607 N. 29TH STREET,

ARLINGTON, VA.; ROBERT G. KUNKEL, SAC; BERNARD A. WELLS,

5311 MONTGOMERY STREET, SPRINGFIELD, VA.

ATLANIA: ALDEN F. MILLER

BALTIMORE: ERNEST H. BELTER, 616 EDNOR ROAD, SILVER SPRING,

MARYLAND; STERLING B. DONAHOE, 2813 SPIRAL LANE, BOWIE, MARYLAND;

ROBERI H. HAYNES, 205 NORTHMOOR DRIVE, SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND

CHARLOTTE: JOSEPH A. SIZOO, 84A PINE CRESCENT, WHISPERING PINES,

NORTH CAROLINA

CHICAGO: OLGA CIESA, 10409 S. INDIANA AVENUE, CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS

KANSAS CITY: BILL D. WILLIAMS, SAC

LITTLE ROCK: JOHN J. CREAMER, JR., ASAC

NEWARK: JOHN J. CONNOLLY; RITA AGNES AMBROSIO,

1604 JOHN STREET, FORT LEE, NEW JERSEY; RALPH W. BACHMAN,

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610 NORWOOD DRIVE, WESIFIELD, NEW JERSEY; KARL L.

BROUSE,

5 BURRINGION GORGE,

WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

ОМАНА: ROBERT L. TAGG

PHILADELPHIA: JOHN B. MEADE

PORTLAND: LEO B. APP, JR. EDGAR O. INGALLS

PHOENIX: MILDRED E. RISK, 11830 113TH DRIVE, YOUNG TOWN,

ARIZONA

TAMPA: MICHAEL J. ROZAMUS, 6509 GULF DRIVE, HOLMES BEACH,

FLORIDA

WFO: JAMES J. GAFFNEY; ELMER L.

TODD-

COPY TO ROME, WITH ITS EMPLOYEES NAMED, BY MAIL.

END

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NR722 WA CODE

1:56PM NITEL 6-13-75 VLJ

TO ALL SACS

FROM DIRECTOR (62-116464)

PER SOTAL ATTENTION

HOUST WY 75.

REBUIELS MAY ?, 20, 1975,

"SENSUDY 75."

BUFILE 62-115464 AND CODE NAME "HOUSTUDY 75" DESIGNATED

FOR ALL MATERS RELATING TO HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY

GOVERNME T AL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

AND BUREAU'S HADLING OF MATTERS PERTAINING IHERETO. USE

THIS FILE NUMBER AND CAPTION FOR MATTERS RELATING IO HOUSE

COMMITIZE AS SEPARATE FROM SENSIUDY 75 FOR MATTERS RELATING

TO SENATE COMMITEE.

END

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NR-75 YA

C0D"

PM URGE"T

4-13-75 AC

TO DETROIT

40 CLULU

LOS ANGELES

MILWAUKE:

195-110705)

JU'S

IN CO: ECITON WITH SENATE SELECT COMMIITOE POOUGST,

FALL''I O CATA BI VESTEN CY PETURN TELETYPE ATTENTION INTD -

". 0. M-SA?.

LIOTT O'I GURUCILLANCE INDICES AT FBIHO DO NOT INDICATE

OVERHEARS O" KOCH TECTICAL IUSTALLATIOUS ON MARTIN LUI HOR

KING, JR. FOR FOLLOWI"G DATES AND LOCATIONS:

WIRET APS

62-10741-811

APRIL 24 - 25, 1934

HYATT HOUR MOTEL

LOS A CELES, CALIFOR "IA

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JULY 7 - 9, 1954

HYATT YOUJE MOTEL

LOS ANGELES

JA"UARY 5 - ?, 1931

WILLAPD HOTEL

dANUARY 27, 1954

MIR GENTR HOTEL

GILMAUKEE, VISCO SIN

FEBRUARY 15 - 20, 1954

HILTON MA"AIIA" VILLAGE

HONOLULU,

"AWAII

FEBRUARY 20

-21, 1964

AMBASSAD OR HOTEL

LOS ANGELES

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PAGE TIRES

FEBRUARY 22 - 24, 1964

HYATT HOUSE MOTEL

LOS A CELTS

MARCH 19 - 22, 1954

STATLER HOTEL

APRIL 03 - 24, 1954

SENAT O% HOTEL

SACRAME IO, CALIFORNIA

JULY 7 - 9, 1964

HYATT MOUSE HOTEL

LOS ANGELES

OFFICES REVIEN ELECTROWIC SURVFILLANCE INDICES A'D

FURNIS FBIUS FIRST DATE THAT KING WAS OVERHEARD ON ABOVE

TECHITCAL INSTALLATIONS. IF ME WAS TOT HEARD, SO ANVISE.

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FBI

Date:

June 16, 1975

Transmit the following in

TELETYPE

CODE

(Type in plaintext or code)

NITEL

Via

(Priority)

015

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-116395) 949-PLD

FROM:

SAC, WFO (62-10744) (P)

ATTENTION INTD. W. O. CREGAR.

SENSTUDY 75.

REFERENCE BUREAU TELETYPE DATED JUNE 13, 1975.

BASED ON INFORMATION CONTAINED IN REFERENCED TELETYPE

WEO IS UNABLE TO LOCATE ANY INFORMATION REGARDING ELECTRONIC

SURVEILLANCE OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DURING PERIOD

INDICATED IN REFERENCED COMMUNICATION.

END.

1- Tickler

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IIR015 WE CODED

948 PIL MITEL JUNE 16, 1975 WWC

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-116395)

FROM:

SAC, WFO (62-19744) (P)

ATTENTION INTD. W. D. CREGAR.

SENSTUDY 75.

REFERENCE BURZAU TELETYPE DAIED JUNE 13, 1975.

BASED ON INFORMATION CONTAINED IN REFERENCED TELETYPE

VO IS UNABLE TO LOCATE ANY INFORMATION REGARDING ELECTRONIC

SURVEILLANCE OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DURING PERIOD

INDICATED IN REFERENCED COMMUNICATION.

END.

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IRD4S WA CODE

5:19PM IMMED IMMEDIATE

6/ 18/75 GHS

TO NEW YORK

MIAMI

BOST 01

SAN FRANCISCO

DETROIT

LOS ANGELES

SEATTLE

WFO

FROM DIRECT OP.

SECRET

SE STUDY 1975; BUDED: JUNE 24, 1975.

INE FOLLOWING REQUEST FOR INFORMATION HAS BEEN ADDRESSED

TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL AND FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO FBIHA

FROM THE SEMATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENTAL

OPSONT ICNS "ITH RISPECT TO INTELLIGENCY ACTIVITIES: "

TKS FOLLOWING REQUESTS PERTAINING TO THE TECHNICUS REFERRED TO

AS MAIL SERVILLACE, INCLUDING MAIL COVERS AND OPENING MAIL'

AND IYE UIILIZATION OF THIS TECHMIQUE 'IN INTERNAL SECURIIY,

IT_LLICTO COLLECTION, AND/OP COUNTERINTELLIGENCE MATTERS,

OPERATIRE MO ACTIVITICS:"

(1) FOR ALL INCIDENTS OF MAIL

OPENIC OR MAIL INTERCEPT BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU

# INVESTIGA ION FROM JANUARY 1, 196D, UNTIL THE PRESENT, PLEASE

DOWNGRADED TO

SECRET

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SECRETLAB

STAE THE PHYSICAL LOCATION WHERE THE OPENING OR INTERCEPT WAS

CONDUCTED, HE NAMES OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHO PARIICIPATED IN THE

OPENING OR INTERCEPT, THE TYPE OF MAIL OPENED OR INTERCEPTED,

AND THE PURPOSE OF THE OPENING OR INTERCEPI. (2) FOR ALL

INCIDENTS OF MAIL COVERS THAT WERE PHYSICALLY CONDUCIED BY FBI

EMPLOYEES, WHETHER ALONE OR IN COOPERATION WITH POSAL SERVICE

EMPLOYEES, FROM JANUARY 1, 1960, UNTIL THE PRESENT, PLEASE SATE

HE PHYSICAL LOCATION WHERE THE COVER WAS CONDUCTED, THE NAMES

OF IHE INDIVIDUALS WHO PARIICIPAIED IN IHE COVER, THE TYPE OF

MAIL COVERED, AND IME PURPOSE OF IME COVER. (3) PLEASE PROVIDE

ALL DOCUMENTS AND MEMORANDA WHICH DISCUSS, REFER, OR RELATE 10

ILE ORIGINS, AU HORIZATIONS, CONDUCI AND TERMINATION OF, AND

POLICITS AND PROCEDURES FOR, THE MAIL OPENINGS, INTARCIPIS, AND

COVERS IDEMIFIED ABOVE."

EACH OFFICE SHOULD IMMCDIATELY REVIEW ITS FILES FOR ALL

INFORMATIO! REQUESTED BY THE SENATE COMMITEE. ZW YORK, BOSTON,

DETROIT, LOS ANGELES, SEATTLE, AND IFO SHOULD FURNISH INFOR

MATION CO CARING SAM SURVEY.

NEW YORK, DETROIT, AND SAN

FRANCISCO SHOULD FURNISH INFORMATION CONCERNING GUS SURVEY.

NS! YORK AID "FO SHOULD FURNISH INFORMATION CONCERNING Z COVERAGE.

SAM

2

Sam

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P

SEC PET

SAN FRANCISCO S OULD FURNIS INFORMATION CONCERNING CHIPROP

A'D CHICLET. MIAMI SHOULD ADVISE IF IHE INFORMATION RECEIVED

FROM MM S9R-S RESULTED FROM I TEPCEPT OF MAIL AND IF SO

APPROPRIATE INFORMATION SHOULD BE FURNISHED. RESUL S SHOULD BE

SUEMIIIED BY TELETYPE, ATTENTION OF SAI. O. CREGAR, AND SHOULD

REACH THE BUREAU BY JUNE 24, 1975.

LASSIFIED BY 3676, XGDS 2 AND I, INDEFINITE.

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NROD7 MP CODE

7:37 PM NITEL JUNE 20, 1975

LSB

TO

DIRECTOR

W FO

OMA HA

(62-3439)

FROM

MINNEAPOLIS

(66-3613)

ATTENTION: JOHN C. GORDON, ROOM 078, GENERAL CRIMES UNIT,

GENERAL INESTIGATIVE DIVISION.

c...

SENAT OR CHURCH'S COMMITTEE INVESTIGATING

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6/23/75

CODE

TH. ETYPE

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

DOW AGRADED TO

SECRET

т (98107 022

Date_

FROL:

SAC, NFO (62-10744)

TÒP SECRET

SEN STUDY, 1975 (BUDED JUNE 24, 1975)

RE BUREAU TELETYPE JUNE 18, 1975.

THE FOLLOWING INFORJATION WAS OBTAINID THROUGH A

• THOROUGH RIVIEN OF WEO INDICES.

I. Z COVERAGE (NFO FILE 66-2091)

THIS PROJECT CONCURNID THE OPENING OF MAIL, ADDRISSID

TO THE SOVIET AND SOVIET SATOLLITE DIPLOMATIC ISTABLISH-

HUNTS IN WDC.

BASED ON THE RICOLLICTION OF SA JAMES T. FETED, WEO,

IMPLOYEDS OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTHINT SEPARATED THE

MAIL WHICH YAS THEN PICKED UP AT THE MAIN POST OFFICE, WDC,

BY FBI SPECIAL AGINTS BETWEEN TWO AND FOUR AN ON A DAILY

BASIS. THE MAIL WAS TAKEN TO AN UNIDENTIFIED ROOM IN THE

FBI FADQUARTURS BUILDING, LABORATORY DIVISION.

AP:th

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NFO 62-10744

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The SECRET

IN THE LABORATORY DIVISION THE MAIL CONSIDERED

PIRTINENT WAS OPENED, PHOTOGRAPHED, RESEALID, AND THE

MAIL RETURNED TO THE POST OFFICE.

THE FILM OF THIS MAIL, WAS DEVELOPED IN THE FBI

PHOTOGRAPHY LABORATORY, AND TAKEN TO WEO WHERE IT WAS

RIVINED, AND TRANSLATED IF NECESSARY, BY EMPLOYEES OF

THE WE. PERTINENT INFORMATION FROM THESE LITTERS WAS

DISSTMINATED TO THE APPROPRIATE CASE AGENT FOR WHATIVOR

ACTION DEEMED NECESSARY. THE SOURCE OF THE INFORMATION

WAS ALWAYS GIVIN AS AN "ANONYMOUS SOURCE. "

INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN PICKING UP THE HAIL, OPINING

IT, PHOTOGRAPHING IT AND TRANSFERRING IT TO WEO IN THE

FARLY 1960'S INCLUDED CAS JAMES DUKES (RETIRED), JOHN DE

BETTENCOURT (DECEASED) AND DENSIL I. MOORE (RETIRED) .

NO RECORD EXISTS AS TO IDENTITY OF SAS WHO HANDLED THIS

PROJECT.

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WEO 62-10744

PAGE THREE

THE PURPOSE OF THIS PROJECT WAS TO DETERMINE THOSE

PERSONS WHO WERE COOPERATING WITH THE FOREIGN INT ILI,IGENCE

SIRVICES, AS YELI, AS IDINTIFYING DIPLOATS INVOLVED IN

INTELLIGENCI GATHERING ACTIVITIES.

- COVERAGE WAS INAUGURATED IN WDC IN 1920 (WO LETTER

TO BUREAU DATUD JANUARY 31, 1948) AND CONTINUED UNTIL EARLY

1964. (ALI. SERIALS NOT LOCATED IN 66-2091 WERE DEGTROYED

POR URR ON JUNE 24, 1964). NO OTHER MATURIAL HAS ECON

PLACED IN THIS FILE SINCE THAT PERIOD AND NO MORE

RECINT REFERINCE TO THE OPERATION COULD BE LOCATED IN

WFO TILES. COPIES OF ALI. DOCUMINIS IN THIS FILE ARE

ATTACHED FOR FBIHQ.

SAM SURVEY (WFO FILE 65-8300)

SAM SURVEY WAS A PROGRAM INITIATED BY WEO ON

AUGUST 20, 1961 FOR FBI PERSONNII. TO EXAMINE U. F. MAIL,

SENT PER AIR MAIL, TO SPECIFIC FOREIGN LOCATIONS KNOWN

TO HAVE BEIN USED BY FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICES AND

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WFO 62-10744

PAGE FOUR

NO SECRET

AND LETTERS WITH UNIQUE MARKINGS, ALSO KNOHN TO HAVE BEEN

USED EX FOREIGN INTELIIGENCE SERVICES.

ORIGINALLY THE PROCISSING AND RESEALING OF THE MAIL

WAS ACCOMPLISHED IN A STORAGE ROOM FURNISHED BY THE

U.S. POST OFFICE AT THEIR WASHINGION NATIONAL, AIRPORT

BRANCH. ON APPROXINATULY JUNE 14, 1962, THE OPERATION WAS

MOVID TO ROOM 74-C AT NATIONAL AIRPORI. SUBSEQUINT TO

THE OPENING OF DULLES INTIRNATIONAL AIRPORT, THE OPERATION

WAS MOVID THERE ON MARCH 18, 1963 AFTER ARRANGEMENIS FOR

CONTINUATION OF THE PROGRAM WERE MADE THROUGH MR. In. J.

CARRICO, ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF MAILS AT DULLES

INTERNATIONAL, AIRPORT.

THE BOLOW LISTED SPECIAL AGENTS SUBMITTED SHIFT

REPORTS OR INITIATED PERTININT INTORMATIVE TYPE MEMORANDA:

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VFO 62-10744

PAGE FIVE

TOP SOCRIT

ORVIS J. AUERSWALD

ORVILLE G. AUSEN

ROBORT H. BATES

CLAUDE H. BOGLEY

CHARLES T. COUNTS

WILLIAM DESONIA

PETER R. DURLAND

JAMES T. FEILD

HARVEY FINSTERMACHER

CHARLES A. FERGUSON

ROBERT H. FEUER

CARL I. GRAHAM

DARWIN M. GREGORY

ROBORT S. KENNENUR

ROBERT KLEINSCIMIDT

WILLIAM O. LANDER

ERNEST J. LANDREVILLE

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Top SECRET

CARLION D. LEAF

NORMAN A. LEONARD

GEORGE LEX

THOMAS A MENDENHALL.

DINSIL, E. MOORE

JAMES MORRISEY

MASON B. NOAH, JR.

GEORGE A, NORTHUP

THOHAS O'LOUGHLIN

ROBERT I. OLSEN

EL. DUDLEY PAYNE

EUGINE P. PITIAN

FARL G. POLESKI, JR.

PATRICK H. RICE

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PAGE SEVEN

NO SECRET

THE PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM WAS TO IDINTIFY PERSONS

CORRESPONDING WITH KNOWN SOVINY MAIL, DROPS IN EUROPE,

AND TO IDENTIFY AND LOCATE INDIVIDUALS IN THE UNITED

STATES SENDING AIR HAIL LETTERS TO EUROPE WHO MAY BE

PART OF A SOVIIT ILLEGAL NETHORK.

THE PROGRAM WAS TERHINATED ON AUGUST 8, 1966, UPON

INSTRUCTION FROM INSPECTOR D. E. MOORE, ACCORDING TO A

FILE NOTATION MADE BY SECURITY COORDINATING SUPERVISOR

COURTLAND JONES.

ATTACHED FOR THE BURDAU ARE THE INTERNAL, WEO

MEMORANDA PERTAINING TO THE SAM SURVEY. THE BUREAU IS IN

POSSESSION OF ALL, OTHOR INTER OFFICE COMMUNICATIONS PER-

TAINING TO THE SAM SURVEY.

II, AS OF JANUARY 1, 1960, MAIL COVERS, PHYSICALLY

CONDUCTED BY FBI EMPLOYERS, WERE BEING CARRIED OUT ON VARIOUS

SOVIET AND SOVINT-BLOC ESTABLISHMENTS IN WDC. ALL THESE

MAIL, COVERS WERE DISCONTINUED ON SEPTEMBER 30, 1964, PER

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TOP SECRET

INSTRUCTIONS OF FBIHQ. THE FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THESE

ESTABLISHMENTS, ITS ADDRISS, FOLLOWED BY THE ADDRESS WHERE

THE MAII COVER HAS CONDUCTED:

POLISH EMBASSY, 2640 I6TH STRIPT, N. W., MAIL COVER

CONDUCTED AT COLUMBIA HEIGHTS POST OFFICE, 1423 IRVING

STREET, M. H., WDC.

POLISH EMBASSY ANNOX, 2224 WYOMING STREET, N. W.,

MAIL, COVER CONDUCTED AT CLIVELAND PARK POST OFFICE, 3430

CONNECTICUT AVINUE, N. W., WDC.

HUNGARIAN EMBASSY, 2437 15TH STREET, N. W., MAIL

COVER CONDUCTED AT COLUMBIA HEIGHTS POST OFFICE.

ROMANIAN EMBASSY, 1601-07 2SRD STREET, N. W., MAIL,

COVER CONDUCTED AT CLEVELAND PARE POST OFFICE.

CZECHOSLOVAKIAN EMBASSY, 2349 MASSACHUSEITS AVE.,

N. I., MAIL, COVER CONDUCTED AT CLEVELAND PARK POST OFFICE.

SOVIET EMBASSY, 1115 I6TH STREET, N. I., MAIL COVER

CONDUCTED AT CLEVELAND PARK POST OFFICE.

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PAGE NINE

TOR SECRET

SOVIET MILITARY OFFICE, 2552 BILMONT ROAD, N. V=,

MAIL, COVER CONDUCTED AT CLEVELAND PARK POST OFTICE.

SOVIET COMMERCIAL, COUNSELOR, 1706 I6TH STREET, N. W.,

MAIL, COVER CONDUCTED AT CLEVELAND PARK POST OFFICE.

SOVINT INFORMATION DEPARTMINI, 1706 I8TH STREET, N.H.,

MAIL, COVER CONDUCTED AT CLEVELAND PARK POST OFFICE

SOVIET CONSULAR OFFICE, 1609 DESATUR STREDT, N. W.,

MAIL, COVER CONDUCTED AT CLEVELAND PARK POST OFFICE.

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE NAMES OF THE EBI EMPLOYEES

WHO PARTICIPATID IN CONDUCTING MAIL COVER, NOTING THAT

THE IDENTIFICATION OF THESE EMPLOYFES WAS MADE THROUGH

INITIALS AND MAY NOT CONSTITUTE THE COMPLETE IIST INASMUCH

AS SOME NITIALS WERE ILLDGIBLE AND OTHERS WERE UNIDENTIFIABLE:

JAMES H. RYAN

JAMES A. SCHWITZ

RICHARD E. COFFIAN

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HORBERT O, THOMPSON

ROBERT L. OLSEN

ROBERT J. COLLINS

GUY I. TUNSTALL

NORHAN A. LEONARD

ROBERT I. OLMERT

GORALD P. GRIMALDI

ITE MASON EIDSIN

JERONE E, VEIGLE

PAUL, I. FINZEL

EUGENE D. THOMPSON

WENZEL, F. NEIDIG

CARL, THACKSTON

ROBERT TAYLOR

CLAUDE BOGLEY

THE TYPE OF HAIL, COVERED INCLUDUD ALL INCOMING MAIL.

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PAGE ELEVEN

TOP SECRETS

THE PURPOSE OF THE COVER WAS TO IDITIFY THE

CONTACTS OF THE VARIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS FOR THE OBVIOUS

CONCOMITANT BINEFITS.

FBIFQ IS IN POSSESSION OF ALL, PERTININT DOCUMENTS

INVOLVING TENSI MAIL COVIRS.

III. ALL, DOCUMENZS AND MEMORANDA REQUESTED IN RE

TELETYPE WHICH ARE NOT ALREADY IN THE POSSESSION OF FBIHQ

ARE ATTACHED AS NOTED.

CLASSIFIID BY 819, XGDS CATEGORY 2 AND 3, INDEFINITE.

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orge Vu

60)

File -

Serial No.

Class.

66-2091

Case No.

Last Serial

Pending

I Closed

Description of Serial

ALL BERIAIS NOT FOUND IN THIS

FILE DESTROYED PER M.R.R.

_ Date_ 6/24/64

Date

Charged

PERMANENT CHARGE OUT

МЕНК ІСАКФОРИКИ«КАЦІ

weariner

Employee

RECHARGE

Date -

To

From

Date charged

Employee

Location

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-ETE TA

Washington Field Division

Room 1705

Washington, Dol®

January 31, 7918

REN :HS

:

PERSONAL AND CONFTENTTAL

DIRECTOR, FBI

RE: Z COVERAGE

INTERNAL S&CURITY - & and R

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your Personal and Con Mdential

Honorandun dated January o, 194o, requesting to be acvised what

steps are taken by this office in the handling of material

received fron Confidential Informant Z.

Please be advised that this coverage was inaugurated

in 1940 and since then it has been the practise to furnish copies

of material believed to be of interest to other offices with a

cover letter indicating the source of the material and that under

no circumstances could this source be disclosed. In cases

whore the material oxamined appeared to be of intorest to the

Bureau photostatic copies of same were transmitted by latter. .

The confidential character of Infornant Z is generally.

understood throughout the liole. In cases there the material

does not appear to be of any value it is destroyed and disposed

of through the regular channals at the Seat of Goverrment.

very truly yours,

:

GUY HOTEL

Special Agent in Charge

46-1041-2

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STANDARD FORM NO. 64

Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

PARSONAL, AND COLETDONEIAL

TO

:

SAC, Hashington, D. C.

JES FROM : Director, IBI

DATE: January 9, 1948

SUBJECT:

& COT URAGH

INLEAL SECURITY - C and R

The Bureau realizes thai the confidential 2 coverage is a nost

lucratira source of infornation concerning Communist, Russian and satellite

activities.

In order to insure that the uinost rosults are being obtained

fron this scuice it is desired that your office outline to the Bureau the

nocedure now being hondled with recard to the dissenination of this

inforaction do the Seat of covernment and the interested Tield Offices.

this letios should clearly reflect the stens tolen by your oilice in the

nondling of this material concerning individuals, orechinations, comorations,

scrools,

and so forth,

It should also roflect tho disposition of material

rocrived wich is of interest to othor Field Offices, that is, nether or

not this inforntion is furnished to then and what instructions are issued

to the iutorested Field Offices, in order thrt the Bureau not be in a

position to 101low the future handling and investigation of thesc natters.

It is secuested that this natter be sivon your inneniate consicera-

tion end a reply furnishon to the bureau within üne next ten drys.

1.

;...

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

3010-107

MAY 1882 EDITION

GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

U'NITED STATES GOV

NMENT

Memorandum

TO

: SAC, WFO (65-8300)

FROM : SA H. DUDLEY PAYNE

SUBJECT:

SAM SURVEY

ESP - R

DATE:

.11/22/65

On 11/9/65, the writer obtained from the Chief

of Police at Dulles International Airport, 9 visitors

parking permits. These permits

authorized unrestricted

parking in Area 5 (Post Office parking lot). All agents

when working in SAM SURVEY will use these permits exclusively.

They should be promptly displayed in the vicinity of the

front building.

The permits are numbered 1 through 9 and

are charged to the writer who is being held responsible

for the care and return of them when they are no longer

needed. They have been assigned as follows:

1. MASON B. NOAH Ti

2.

DENSIL E. MOORE

3.

CLAUDE W. BOGLEY

4.

RUBER! KLEINSCHMIJT Y

5.

CHARLES I. COUNTSCIL

6.

JAMES THOMAS FEILD 274

7. NORMAN A. LEONARD ='"=

8. Special Schedule folder.

9. H. DUDLEY PAYNE

Number 8 is to be maintained in the surveillance

folder for use of

agents not regularly assigned to the

SAM SURVEY Program.

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CONCTLEATZAL

CONCZDENTIAL

AIRPORT MAIL FACILITY,

WASHINGION I, D. Co

CONFIDENFTAL

August 19, 1961

From:

superintendent,

Airport Hail. Facility,

Hashingion 1, D. Co

To: All. Supervisors,

A11. Acting Supervisors.

Effective 8:30 Poll, Sunday, August 20, 1961 the following

instructions will ba in erfect:

3

will be worked through the cases until such maid has been

cleared by the Supervisor

As mails for these countries are received, keep then sut

up and placed in trays.

It will no longer be necessary to hold out mails for

France postmarked by the City.

See that the above unils are placed in the Area between

the Supply Room door and door leading to platform, Deliver

this mail in Utility Carts, marked lin, and renove any from

this area market (OUT) That marked (OUT) is cleared for

working in case.

Suggest the Countries in this catagory that you have dis

patches on your tour be talen care of 1175t

On each Country

thet you have a dispaich for decide a lin That you need the

mald to complete distribution on in order to make your disparch,

At this cut off tina any mail for & country that you have a dis

paich on is is ba salieuted and worked through case for disparat

Make up a list of the Countries you have dispaiches on your

Your showing the time limit for eat Country, Make up this list

on your first dalivery after this erfective date, this list to be

• in effect until a change is made in a dispatch, then place a new

ilme linis in the Country tray on which a chenge has been mades

Reel fores

ce: Files

stops,

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!

STANDARD FORM NO, 64

•Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENI

TO

SAC, WEO (65-8300)

DATE: November 14, 1961

FROM

:

L.

W. R. OBERNDORE, SOS

SUBJECT:

SAM SURTEY

The following procedures will be observed

in handling matters under this program.

A record shall be maintained by each shift

os the volume of mail handled bu comm, as well as of

any mail received which could not be handled. A rough

-

(2)

A memorandum shall be submitted by each

shift at the end of the shift specifically noting items

which have been removed for processing.

This will list

the addressee, addressor if any, details re postmark,

postage, type

of envelope, whether typed, handwritten or

printed, and any other distinguishing or noteworthy

characteristics.

No memorandum is necessary if no items

aTe removed for processing.

These memoranda are to be

designated for the sub A section of this file.

(3)

When photographs are received from the

Bureau of processed material, the following action will

be taken:

(a) Film will be maintained as a bulky exhibit,

until no longer needed.

(b) Material in English, requiring no further

action,

to be destroyed.

An appropriate notation will

be made

the memorandum in the sub A reflecting the

removal of this piece for processing.

(c) Material in foreign languages will be sub-

mitted to the staff Supervisor, squad 6,

for expedite

cranslation, is the language can be handled in Wro.

If

not,

such items will be submitted promptly to the FBI

Laboratory for translation.

All correspondence for this

purpose will be maintained

in the sub A file.

Craser

Banka fals

65-F5C234

INFO

LWRO/pon

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Fantara ion,

Descrica 15

N0V1 < 1951

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WE 0 65-8300

Is material in English requires action or

investigation involving more than a check of office

records, a separate memorandum shall be dictated promptly

setting forth the pertinent facts and requesting that a

new case be opened.

A copy of this memorandum,

title of

which will be based on the item processed, shall be

designated for the subB section of this Jule. Con-

currently,

an appropriate notation shall appear on the

nemoranaum in the sub A initially recording receipt of

the item.

The title (SAl SURVEY shall appear after the

subject

name in each case.

(5)

The same procedure shall be followed with

regard to material translated by the FBI Laboratory or

squad #6.

In these instances, the translations should be

submitted as attachments with

the initial memorandum opening

the case.

Photographs and film strips in cases under

points 4 and 5 shall be made appropriate exhibits in the

pertinent case file.

All other photographs, film and translations

should be destroyed if no active

investigation is initiated.

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

5010-101

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

SAC, WFO (65-8390.)

DATE:

2/13/62

FROM:

SA THOMAS A. MENDENHALL

SUBJECT:

SAM SURVEY

ESP

R

Bulet to NY,

dated 1/39/62, captioned "TRANSLATION

MATTERS"

(WFOfile 66-2384 in 666) stated in part as follows:

Whenever submitting written material to the Bureau

for translation in connection with SAIl SURVEY, the submitting

office should retain copies of the written material until

aLso staced that a photographic negative of a document

coula be considered

The Bureau further requested that the letter of

transmittal include the fact that a copy of the foreign

language material submitted was being retained until the

receipt of the requested translation.

This is being incorporated into this file so that

these instructions are readily available to agents handling

this material.

TAM: pik

(1)

TAn

65 - 8360.21

SARNED

SUARE CHO LEE

FEB 1.31002

FBL - WAster..

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ÓPTIONAL FORM NÓ. 10

5010-101

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

:

SAC, WTO (65-8300)

DATE:

May 21, 1962

FROM

I. W. R. OBERNDORI, SCS

SUBJECT:

SAN SURVEY

In examining communications which may be

Soviet intelligence communications of writings,

the

manner

in which a particular communication may be

folded. and placed

in an envelope can be of significant

importance.

Special Agents handling matters in the sall

SURVEY, and any other Special Agents handling matters

which may pertain to soviet intelligence communications,

are instructed to take careful note of the exact manner

in which questioned documents are joldea and placed in

envelopes for mailing. Specific comments on the results

of such examinations are to be placed in case memoranda.

and such comments shall be in addition to those presently

required in the sai SURvEy with regard to the envelope

itself and with regard to handwriting or typewriting

characteristics of the message.

17-

65-7973 - METHODS OF DETECTING

SOVIET ILLEGAL AGENTS)

- 100-16597 - SODAC)

LWRO/pon

(3)

war

this

all agents

CER

Sectión

a/11017

allaced slip since

removed.

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OPTIONAL FORM ND. 10

3010-101

UNITED

STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

SAG, WEO

FROM :

THOMAS A. MENDENHALI, SA

SUBJECT:

SAM SURVEY

ESP - R

DATE:

June 14,

1962

ATTN: PROPERTY CLERK

In connection with the efficient operation

of the above-captioned case, it became desirable to

utilize a room on the lower

level of the Hashington

National Airport. Room 74-C at the airport has been

turned over to the exclusive use of Wro Special Agent

personnel and no other individuals have access to this

space.

To facilitate the handling of work at this

SaM plants it is, of course, necessary that a limited

amount of Bureau property be maintained and utilized at

this plant.

The purpose of this memorandum is to itemize

all of the Bureau property presently being maintained

and used at this location.

All of this property is to

be properly charged on a permanent basis to the plant,

rather than to individual special Agents:

I. one document camera in fitted custom case with

built in lighting and stage, suitable for 110

volt or 12 volt use. The camera is a 35 mm.

Vaduz, Kilfitt-Makro, D, 1:3.5/4 CM.

one yet te - Royal Portable, Serial No..

3.

One Art detal, oft, 4 drawer, metal jule

cabinet with locking bar (external).

65-8300

Property Clerk

TAM/pen

(2) pam

65, 8500-5:

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One Master Padlock No. X 22813 (used to l00k

above-listed file cabinet).

5.

6.

One 3'x 2' wood table with one drawer.

One florescent desk lamp, Model U1-P-2324-16,

made by the Dazor Mig. Corp., st. Louis, Mo.

Two wood swivel chairs.

8. One grey colored folding metal chair.

9. One grey-colored, metal, cloth-upholstered,

stenographic swivel chair

10. One pencil sharpener (APSCO - Giant)

11.

One grey metal wastebasket.

12.

One GE Table Model 875, radio, Serial No. 5701.

13.

one alien one me table, with handle,

14.

a topen terened soreens, approximately

15.

One 5" diameter Bausch and. Lombe magnifying

glass.

Moved

Dulles

Airport

1

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SOTT-NAL FORM NO. 10

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

SAC, WFO (65-8300)

FROM

:

SA H. DUDLEY PAYNE

SUBJECT:

SAM SURVEY

ESPIONAGE - R

DATE:

10/11/62

if our present schedules were adequate to promptly handle

our responsibilities at that location.

Mr. SHORB advised at

the present the mail

was being handled in a very satisfactory

manner, and it was not anticipated that any schedules would be

changed until Day Light Saving Time goos off the end of october,

and no would advise us oi any changes to be made at that time.

He was asked concerning the proceedure for handling

mail when the Dulles Airport opens.

Ho stated that at this

time it was anticipated that the processing of mail insofar

as our operation is concerned will be handled

at National.

1 - WFO

HDP :mb 1

(1)

Opinid 117/6

Dullen

No change- TAn

light faring.

Human

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SAC, NFO (65-8479)

October 30, 1962

JANES F. HORRISSEI, SA

JARO

ESP - R

In airtel dated 10/5/62, Baltimore reported

BA 1229-s% as stuting in part that on 10/2/62 male subject

was reading to female subject what sounded like a message.

In this message he was instructed, "In your letters, don?

forget to unswer all questions".

To date subject's mail drop is not known.

It will be recalled that subjects possess an

olympia typewriter.

Copies of typing samples obtained from

this machine, which has a distinctive foreign-type appearance,

are audilable to sau sURvEy agents. copies of the distinctive

typing used by jemale subject in connection with a cosmetology

application are likewise aucilable.

In an attempu to determine the mail drop possibly

being used by the subject, it is recommended that in addition

to the standards normally used in selections under the sall

survey programs " card record be made of all letters using

Olympia typing which emanate from the Baltimore and Vashington

Do Go, aredo

Letters which are patently commercial in nature

can be disregarded; however, any doubt should be resolved in

savor of recording the information. In the unierest of security,

where a selection is made jo? Jano purposes, no further aceton

is to be taken at this time, other than to record the infornation.

Pertinent addresses of the subjects and others

of possible use are available to sall SURVEl agenis.

tinved

discon

65-8300 SAM SURVEI

(2)

15-8300-7!

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OPTIONAL FORAL NO, 10

5010-106

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA GEN. REG. NO, 27

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

:

SAC, WFO (65-8300)

DATE:

3/7/63

FROM

SA H. DUDLEY PAYNE

SUBJECT:

SAVE SURVEY

ESP-R

On 3/5/63, SA H. DUDLEY PAYNE contacted L. J.

CARRICO, Assistant Superintendent of Mails, regarding

permitting us to continue the Sam Survey Program at

Dulles Airport.

Mr. CARRICO advised that the unofficial

date for the transfer from National to Dulles is expected

to be or is 3/18/63.

He said he would appreciate a note

addressed to the rostmaster requesting the same courtesies

be extended to us at Dulles as we had enjoyed at National.

Such a note was personally delivered to him.

On 3/7/63, Mr. CARRICO advised that our request

had been approved.

He also advised that if we should

have any difficulties regarding access to the grounds,

the building, or

parking facilities, he would have

Subsiubnotituted postal clerk passes issued to the appropriate

agent-

won

CARRICO, advised that we would like to inspect

the premises wnich we were to occupy.

he suggested we

contact SHORB at National and arrange with him for either

he or LARUE to visit Dulles with us for such a purpose.

On 3/5/63, SA PAYNE contacted SA ROLAND COKER,

Resident Agency, Alexandria, Virginia, to ascertain if

they had

any contacts at Dulles.

COKER advised that

Chief of Police BANARIK has been

very cooperative, but

he would

suggest for our purpose we contact HERBERT

FLETCHER who is in charge of Operations and Safety, and

felt that he would be cooperative in arranging parking

facilities for agents.

-WrO

HIDP: mlb

(1)

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TO

FROM

SUBJECT:

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

3010-106

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SAC, INFO (65-8300)

DATE:

June 23, 1964

#. DUDLEY PAINE, SA

SAN SURVEY

on 6/22/64 P. A. SHORB, Superintendent of

National and Dulles airports post office substations.

aavised that I'A nos instituted daily, nonstop flighti

from Dulles to London departing Dulles at 1:30 p.".

Also, that Pan American has instituted a direct flight

leaving Dulles at 9:00 p.m. on hondays, wednesdays and

Saturdays; it goes to paris and the remaining days of

the week it goes to London.

Hail trucks carrying mail for the above

flights arrive at Dulles 3:15 p.n.,

4:50 p.m., 5:30 p.m.

and 7:10p.m.

In view of the above, it will be necessari

8:00 p.M. Honday

through Friday.

Accordingly, one agent should be schedulea

to work 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.M. and one scheduled 12:00 noon

to 8:00 p.M.

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K(I)

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10/6/64

TO: SAGS WTO (65-8517)

FROL: SA JOHN L. STANLEI

UNSUB; KGB AGENT KNOWN AS "SASHA"

ESPIONAGE R

(00: нго )

The principal suspect for the unsub, "SASHA" in this case

¿S IGOR ORLOT who resides with his wife,

ELEONORE ORLOV, and

their two small sons at 112 south Pitt street,

sell reproductions of paintings, and which is located in their

residence.

The orLovs are known to correspond with the following rel

atives of Ars. ORLOV, and WO is interested in mail which is

addressed to these individuals:

ALBERT STIRNER (brother)

Eichendorff Str. 31

83 Landshut / Bayerr

West Germany

UTS. ROSA STIRNER (mother)

20/b Frocitmaningor St.

Munich 23/b, Germany

It is requested that the above two names be placed on the

SAM SURVEY Watch List.

Mail to these relatives and others, bearing the ORLOT return

address of 112 south Pitt Streets

Alexandria, Virginia, partic

ularly mail directed to Germany,

should be covered if possible.

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SAC, WrO (65-8300)

SA CARL E. GRAHAM

SAM SURVEY

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DATE:

1-21-66

For information of the captioned case.

This

is to note that "ICEBOAT" is a double agent operation

of which Baltimore is origin.

It is noted one of the

accommodation addresses in that case utilized by the

double agent on instructions of his Soviet principal

was:

PROFESSOR DR. SIMEON

Sternwartestr. 75, Vienna XVIII

The above address should be added to the

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

MAY IASZ EDITION

3010-107

GSA GEN. REG. NO, 27

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SAC, NFO (+75-705565 65-83063

FROM : SA W. SCOTT JARRETT, JR.

SUBJECT: KORKBAL

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DATE:

2/24/66

ILSE RUTH LAUER is a permanent resident alien born

in Germany who entered the U.s. in 1961 an resides in Chicago:

In 9/65 and 10/65 she visited her parents in East Germany. While

there she met on Fritz Bellstedt who showed her around Last Germany.

Shortly before her departure from East Germany Bellstedt requested

Lauer to foreward a letter for him on her

return to t.S. This letter

would be mailed to her in the US and she in turn was to foreward the

letter. She agreed to do this.

On 1/7/66 she received a letter from urs Muentaus Margare

2200 Falrama Rd. NE, EDC. Enclosed in this letter was a sealed envelo!

addressed to Mr. Schlak Wilhelm, 13-A Alf-lermersieben, Magdeburg,

- Fast Germany, This letter bore a return address of Mr. Becker Oslar,

3241 Tiest Diversey, Chicago, Illinois.

One Margaret N. Nuehlhauss resides 3105 Patterson St.

N, KDC and is employed as Secretary to the Chairman of the Board

Federal Reserve Board. 2200 Kalerama Rd. Ni is the Offices of the

Cultunal Attache and Education Bureau of the UAR.

On 2/8/66 Lauer received a letter with return address

an envelope

addressed to as was

letter..

On 3/7/66 Lauer received another letter with return

address of Meuhlhaus Margaret as above. This letter contained an

envelope addressed as the first letter received 1/7/66.

BrAllletters received RaaN kas bear Cyrillic handwriting

characteristics.

It is requested that the address of "Ur. Schlali

Wilhelm (or kilhelm Schlal), 13-a Alf- Fernersleben, Magdeburg

East Germany" be added to the sam

survey watch list. Examination

of

pertinent items should

be restricted to obseryation of the exterior

of the envelopes.

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• RePHairtel 7/8/66 captioned COUSLIP, ESP - R.

Re airtel indicated that the subject in the

COVSLIP case had received a letter from ERNEST HAFNER,

Berlin, Germany.

WrO has added HAFNER's name and address to SAM

SURVEY wacch list.

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INVESTIGATIONS UNDEPIAKEN BY IHE SEC WITH DESPECT TO THE FBI;

AND (2) SET FORTH NEW PROCEDURE RELATING TO SSC STAFF

INTEPVIEUS DE CURRENT AND FOPMER FBI EMPLOYEES.

FOR INFORMATION OF THOSE OFFICES WHICH HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY

YAD CUPPENT OR FORMER EMPLOYPES IN ITS TERRITOY INTERVITWED

BY IHE SSE, IHE BUREAU FREGUENILY LEARNS FROM THE SSC OR

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INTERVISH SY THE SSO STAFF. INSTRUCTIONS ADE ISSUER FOP. THE

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ON-THE-SCENE PERSONNEL FOR CONSULIATION PURPOSES TO ASSIST

EITHER CURRENI OF FORMER EMPLOYEES. PROSPECTIVE INTERVIEWEES

SHOULD BE TOLD THAT, IF THEY DESIRE ASSISTANCE OF THIS NATURE

DURING AN INTERVIEW, THEY MAY CONTACT EITHER PERSONALLY (IF

INTERVIEW IS IN WASHINGION, D. CO) DR BY COLLECI CALL, THE

ASSISTANT DIRECIOR OF THE INTELLIGENCE DIVISION, MR. W. R.

WANNALL; OR, IN HIS ABSENCE, SECTION CHIEF W. O. CREGAR.

THIS CHANGE IN

PROCEDURE SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS

LESSENING THE ASSISTANCE WE ARE FURNISHING TO CURRENT AND

FORMER EMPLOYEES.

FOR YOUR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, I AM WORKING WITH THE

DEPARIMENT IN EXPLORING AVENUES TO ARRANGE LEGAL REPRESENTATION,

WHEN NECESSARY, FOR CURRENT AND FORMER EMPLOYEES WITHOUT

EXPENSE TO THEM. YOU WILL BE KEPT ADVISED OF DEVELOPMENTS

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Washington, D.C.

20535

September 22, 1975

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

RE: INTERVIEW OF SPECIAL AGENT JOSEPH E. DOULING

BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

Special Agent (SA) Joseph E. Dowling, rederal Bureau

of Investigation (IBI) was intervieved on Septenber 19, 1975,

at approximately 1:30 p.il. at the SSC Offices by SSC Staff

Members lary Debreo and Hark Citenstein. No mention vas

made by staff members regarding Constitutional Rights and

no mention was made as to whether or not this interview as

voluntary.

SA Dowling was asked if he had ever assisted in

the renoval of certain boxes from the residence of the late

J. Edgar Hoover.

He replied that within one or two weeks

after Mr. Hoover's death, he accompanied Robert G. Kunkle,

who at that tine was Special Agent in Charge of the Washington

field Office of the FBI, to Mr. Hoover's residence and assisted

in removing six to eight cardboard boxes. These boxes

were taken from the basement of the residence and delivered

to the Hashington Field Office of the FBI loading dock in

the rear of the Old Post Office Building, 12th and Pennsylvania

Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. The boxes were placed on the

loading dock in the custody of either Kenneth Shaffer or

Thomas

; Dudney, FBI employees.

Concerning the boxes transported fron Mr. Hoover's

residence to the Old Post Office Euilding, Special Agent

Dowling advised the SSC Staff Members that these boxes vere

sealed with tape and that at no tine did SA Dowling see what

was in the boxes. In addition, SA Dowling did not discuss the

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U.S. SENATE SELECT COLITTEN ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

RE: INTERVIEW OF SA JOSEFH E. DOLING

BY SSC STAFF HEBERS

contents vith Special Agent in Charge Kunile. SA Dozling vas

asked who was present at the Hoover residence then he made

of liiss Helen Gandy, a former nember of ir. Hoover's Staff.

This interview lasted approximately fifteen minutes.

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AIRTEL

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-116395)

FROM:

SAC, NFO (62-0)

U.S. SENATE SELECT COLMITTEE

OIT INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITILS

MISCELLANLOUS - INFO CONCIRNINS

ATTENTION: INTD

17. 0. CREGAR

Enclosed is the original and seven copies of an

LIll setting forth the contents of the intervicw by the Seloct

Cormittee on Intelligence Activities of SA JOSUPH E. DOULING

on 9/19/75.

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Washington, D.C.

20535

September 23, 1975

U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTDE OIT

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

RE: INTEEVIEW OF CHIEF CLERK KENNETE SHATTER

BY SSC STAFF LEMBERS

On September 19, 1975, at the request of the Legal

Council Division, Federal

Bureau of Investigation (FBI) -

Headquarters (HQ), Kenneth Shaffer, Chief Clerk, Washington

Field Office, appeared at the Senate Office Building for

the purpose of being interviewed by the Staff lembers of the

United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Activities.

The interview was conducted by Senate Select Staff

Kembers, Mary DeOreo and Mark Gitenstien. At the on-set of

the interview, fir. Shaffer was not advised of his Constitu-

tional Rights

nor was he advised that he was being questioned

on a voluntary basis.

During the month of June, 1975, Mr. Shaffer was

intervieved at IBI-HQ, relative to his participation in

the handling and destruction of material fron the residence

and Justica Building Office of the late J. Edgar Hoover.

As a result of this interview an ID-302 (Report of Interview

form) was prepared. Prior to the time of the interview by

the Staff hembers,

Ir. Shaffer had not had the opportunity

to read this report.

lit. Shaffer requested that he be

permitted to read the rD-302 report. Arter a short conference,

between the Staff lembers, they agreed that it would be

permissible for him to read the report.

The interview by the Staff Members lasted approximately

one hour and 15 minutes.

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U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE AGTIVITIES (SSC)

RE: INTERVIEW OF CHIEF CLERK KENNETH SHAFTER

BY SSC STAFE LEMBERS

The questions asked by the two Senate Select Committee

Staff Members were relative to above mentioned matter.

The questions and replies set forth below are as

best as it. Shaffer can recall.

Question: How long have you been the Assistant Chief Clerk

at the Washington Field Office?

Answer:

Five years.

I am now Chief Clerk. I replaced Iir.

Dudney who was transferred to Headquarters.

Question: How long have you worked for the Bureau?

Answer:

Thirty-one years.

Question: Do you know it. John P. Mohr?

AnSwer:

I have known lic. Mohr personally for twenty-five years.

Question: Do you lnor lir. Mark Felt?

Answer:

Yes, I do.

Question: Do you know Miss Gandy?

Answer: I met her on two or three occasions over the years.

Question: Have you ever discussed this natter with li.

Mohr or Mr. Felt?

Answer:

No, I have not.

Question: After the death of iir. Hoover, how much time lapsed

before you began picking up cartons fron his office

for disposal?

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U.S. SIMATE SELECT COLMITTEE ON

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RE: INTERVILY OF CHIEF CLERK KENNEIH SHAFTER

BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

Answer: A weel: or two.

Question: That was going on in the Director's office when

you picked up the cartons?

Answer:

Personal effects were being packed and the rooms

were being prepared for painting and redecorating.

Question: Do you think Mr. L. Patrick Gray knew what was taking

place?

Answer: I rcally do not know.

Question: Did you see iir. Mohr, Mr. Felt or Miss Gandy?

Answer: No, I did not.

Question: Ino did you see in the Director's office?

Answer; I believe I did speak to fix. Moten.

Question: Who is lit. Hoten?

Answer; He was li. Hoover's chauffeur.

Question: How many times have you been in the Director's office?

Answer:

Several times.

(During the course of this questioning, I ronarked

that to the best of my recollection, I was not in

the Director's inner office during this pertinent

tine.)

Cuestion: How many times did you go to the Director's office

to pick up cartons of material for destruction?

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Answer: Possibly two or three tines.

Question; How many boxes vere there?

Answer:

As far as I can recall, there were six to nine

boxes.

Question: Were the cartons macked in any way?

Answer:

As I recall, they were not marled, but tere sealed

then received and remainad sealed until time of

destruction.

Question: Did Mr. Battle at any tine go over to the Justice

Building with you to pick up cartons?

Answer:

Yes, I believe he did.

(The interviewer stated that my reply was contrary

to that of Mir. Battle. Mr. Battle indicated that

he was not at the Justice Building with you).

Question: Did you ever go to the Justice Building alone to

pick up cartons of mterial for destruction?

Answer: No, I did not.

Question: If you had gone alone would you have had to account

for your time to lit. Dudney?

Answer: Io,

Question: lore you ever at Ir. Hoover's residence?

Answer:

No.

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U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

RE: INTERVIEW OF CHIEF CLERK KENNETH SHATTER

BY SSC STAFF MELBERS

Question: Did you see lit. Kunkel in an autonobile with tir.

Battle on occasions when cartons were delivered

from fir. Hoover's residence to the loading platforn?

Answer: I do not recall seeing him.

Question: Tell us how you were advised that material was

ready to be picked up?

Answer:

kir. Kunkel would receive a telephone call and in

turn would contact tir. Battle and advise him.

Enroute fron lír. Hoover's residence, tr. Battle

would contact the Radio Room and request that I

meet him at the platform.

Question: Here these cartons ever placed in the office of

It. Kunkel?

Answer:

No.

(For the record, I did retract this answer and

stated "that the beginning of the project, they

were placed in a room within his office and kept

there until it was tine for destruction. After

a time, they were taken directly to the disintegrator

room. Mr. Dudney and I had the key to this roon.")

Question: Is there another storage room in the lashington

Field Office where the cartons night have been

stored until time for destruction?

Answer:

No.

(Following the intervier, in talking to fir. Dudney,

I then realized that the

intervievers vere referring

to a walk-in vault where lic. Dudney had placed

material on one or two occasions.)

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U.S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

RE: INTERVILW OF CHIEF CLERK KENNETH SHAFFER

BY SSC STAFF LEMBERS

Question: What sort of material was in the cartons?

Answer: Photography, old personal letters, post cards,

Christmas cards, etc., and other personal records.

Question: Do you recall seeing letters which had holes

punched in them indicating that they may have been

part of a file?

Answer:

Yes, there vere sone letters, but they vere torn

up and nixed in with other material.

Question: Do you recall seeing at least 150 to 200 3x5 index

cards?

Answer:

No, but it is possible that they could have been

mixed in vith other material.

Question: If they were in a box, would the disintegrating

machine be able to handle them?

Anster:

No, it would not.

(The capabilities and operations of the machine

were fully explained to the Staff intervievers

at this time.)

Question: How long did it take for you to destroy the material?

Answer:

Betteen six to nine hours over a two reel period

of time.

Question: Is there any record thich would refloci the time

spent in the destruction of the material or the

amount of material destroyed?

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Answer: No

Question: Has there any destruction of material after the

First week of July?

Answer:

No.

Question: Knowing that the Bureau had its own disintegrating

facilities, why do you think fir. Kunkel was requested

to handle the destruction of the material?

Answer: Prior to lír. Kunkel's becoming a Special Agent, he

was a Clerical Employee assigned to the Director's

office. Miss Gandy may have requested his assistance

in the destruction of lit. Hoover's personal papers.

Question: Thy do you think that such precautions were taken

in the handling and destruction of this material?

Answer:

The material was that of a prominent deceased

individual and the contents need not be publicized.

Question: Are you assigned to operate the disintegrator

machine?

Answer: No, we have employees assigned this duty.

Question: Thy did Ir. Kunkel ask you and Mr. Dudney to

porsonally handle the destruction of the late

Director's material?

Answer:

As Special Agent in Charge, Mt. Kunkel requested

Nx. Dudney and I to handle and destroy all maicrial.

He did so without question.

Question: Early this year an article appeared in a local

newspaper relative to the destruction of naterial

from the office of Iir. Hoover. Did you read this

article?

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Answer: Yes, I did.

Question: How did this affect you?

Anstrer:

It really did not affect me. It becare a private

joke between lit. Dudney and myself in that wa

may have made the newspapers, but did not realize

we were or would ever be involved.

Question: Did you read an article in "Time" or "Newsweel."

relative to the destruction of natorial fron the

office of lit. Hoover?

AnSWEr:

No sir, I did not.

Question: Did you discuss this matter with anyone?

Answer:

No, I did not.

The interviewer emphatically stated that I did

discuss the matter at the time I was interviewed

as reflected by the copy of ID-302 in his possession.

(I stated that I thought he was referring to a

possible discussion with personnel assigned to

the Washington Field Offica.)

There may have been other questions asked of me;

however, as stated above these are the questions I can recall.

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AIRTEL

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PRO::

SAC, TITO (62-0)

U.S. SEISTL SELECT COITTEE

ON INTELLICENCE ACTIVITIES

MISCELLANIOUS - INTO CONCERIING

ATTENTION: INTD

I. O. CREGAR

Inclosed arc an original and sovon copirs of an

Lill sciting forth information irlativr to thr intrrvict by

the Soiret Committee on Intelligenor Activitirs of KENNETH

SHAFFER, Chicf Clorl, Washington Firld Office on 9/19/75.

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Washington, D.C. 20535

September 26, 1975

UNITED STATES SELECT COMMITTEE

ON ILTELLICENCE ACTIVITIES; SSC

RE: INTERVIEW OF FBI

SPECIAL AGENT JOSEPH I. BATTLE

BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

ATTORNEY MARK GITTENSTEIN,

MARY DEORIO,

JONNI SMITH,

SA Joseph I. Battle was interviewed on Septenber 19, 1975

by the above SSC staff members from approximately 10:15 until

11 a.I.

The irterview was conducted in a ground floor assembly

room located in the Russell Senate Building.

Prior to the commencement of the interview, it is to be

Constitutional rights str did mey andylate he cottie of his

represented by counsel in this matter.

To the best of SA Iuttle's knowledge and recollection,

the following questions were presented by the staff members and

the ansvers given by SA Battle are so denoted.

This document contains neither

recommendations nor conclusions of

the FBI.

it is the property of

the FBI and is lans! to your agency;

it and its contents are not to be

distributed outside your agency.

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After the Director's death, did you

remove files from his office?

No.

Weren't you frequently in the

Director's office?

No.

Weren't you in the Director's office

after his death?

No.

Were you ever in the Director's office?

Yes.

When?

In 1951 while in training school

in conjunction with the Director's program

of meeting all new agents, and I saw him in

1955 while at In-Service.

Well then, were you ever in Miss Gandy's

office?

Yes.

At the time of the Director's death?

No.

Well, when was it?

Approximately a year or two before the

Director's death.

For what reason?

I was told to pick up a package at National

Airport and deliver it to Miss Gandy's

office, which I did.

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Yes, Miss Gandy indicated it was a

plaque honoring the Director and

she

didn't know what she was going to do with

it inasmuch as there was no more available

wall space to hang it.

Do you know Miss Gandy well?

No, other than her official position.

When did you first meet her?

At the aforementioned time.

Any other time?

Yes.

When was that?

In approximately April, 1972, I drove

her from her residence to Bureau headquarters.

Why was that?

It was a Saturday and the Cherry Blossom

Parade was in progress, and she feared

difficulty in getting through the Parade

route to work.

When did you see her next?

After the Director's death.

Under what circumstances?

I drove her to the Director's house.

Weren't you in her office then?

No, I met her in the courtyard.

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I thought you said you said you didn't

know her well.

I wouldn't construe the above as knowing

her well.

What was the purpose of driving her to

the Director's house?

She said she had to meet with some lawyers

concerning the Director's estate.

Do you know who was present at the meeting?

No.

: Were you?

No, I waited outside.

Who ordered you to drive Miss Gandy?

• Mr. Kunkel

Weren't you on his squad?

No.

Whose squad were you on?

The ASAC'S.

Who ras that?

Ed Campbell

Weren't you considered the #3 man in WFO?

No.

Weren't you a supervisor?

No, a relief supervisor.

To Campbell?

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No.

What are your duties?

Presently I'm assigned to Squad C-4,

and I'm assigned a variety of criminal

cases.

Be more specific.

Well, I handle numerous extortion type

cases pertaining to the various Senators

and Congressmen, I'm assigned the

Washington, D.C. phase of the Hoffa case

and I assist in bank robberies and other

major crimes.

What did you do on the ASAC Squad?

I handled major criminal matters and

drove the ASAC to the crime scene and

assisted him at the scene, and I also

worked personnel matters.

Do you know John Mohr?

No, other than his official position.

You didn't know him personally?

No.

You never met with him?

No.

Did you ever remove anything from the

Director's house after his death?

Yes.

What was that?

Some cardboard boxes.

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Were they official FBI boxes?

I don't know what you mean by any

official FBI boxes.

Well, were they plain cardboard boxes?

Yes.

Were they sealed?

Yes.

How many times did you go on this

assigment?

About 3 or 4.

How many boxes did you take out?

About 6 to 8 each time.:

Was anybody present?

Yes.

i

Who?

Miss Gandy and Mr. Kunkel

Anybody else?

On one occasion, I saw the maid, Anna

and the chauffeur, Crawford, and a woman

who Mr. Kunkel introduced as MI. Tolson's

secretary, but I didn't know her.

What was she doing?

She was writing checks.

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Director's house?

I don't know.

Did you see any file cabinets?

No, to the best of my recollection.

Do you know what was in any of the boxes?

Yes •

. What was that?

white shirts.

How do you know that?

Because Miss Gandy pointed them out.

After you left the Director's house,

where did you go?

I drove to the loading platform at WFO.

Who met you there?

Either Dudney or Shaffer.

And then what?

I helped unload the boxes and drove off.

Do you know where the boxes were then

taken?

No.

Didn't you and Mr. Kunkel talk about

what was in the boxes and the purpose

of these trips?

No.

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Because he never volunteered anything

and I figured it was none of my business.

Don't you think this is kind of odd?

No, I've helped other people move and

clean out their cellars and I considered

this about the same thing..

Didn't you become suspicious and scared

when you read in the newspapers that

allegedly secret files were taken out

of the Director's office and destroyed?

No, why should I, as I said before,

I wasn't in the Director's office.

Mi. Battle, Mr. Shaffer states you

and

he removed boxes from the Director's.

office at the direction of Mr. Kunkel.

Well, Mr. Shaffer is wrong. I never went

to the Director's office with he or anyone

else.

Have you discussed this matter with

anyone else?

Yes, with the FBI Inspectors who called

me in.

That was when?

In June, you can get the exact date

from the

302.

Have you discussed this matter with

anyone else?

Well, you know Shaffer, Dudney and Dowling

and I come up here this morning together

and naturally the matter was discussed.

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was circulated by the Bureau concerning

this inquiry?

No.

When did you last see Kunkel?

About 6 months ago, I saw him at an

elevator bank in the Bureau and we

exchanged greetings.

How about prior to that?

When he left for St. Louis

You haven't discussed this matter with

anyone?

No, other than the above.

How come Kunkel was transferred to St.

Louis, there was a lot of publicity

about it?

I don't know anything more about it than

as you say the national publicity.

Wasn't there a personal feud between

Gray and Kunkel?

If there was, I don't have any direct

knowledge of it.

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AIRTEL

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-116395)

FROM: SAC, WTO (62-10744) V

UNITED STATES SELECT COMMITTEE

ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES; SSC

RE: INTERVIEW OF FBI SPECIAL, AGENI

JOSEPH E. BATTLE, BY SSC STAFF MEMBERS

ATTN: INTELLIGENCE DIVISION

WILLIAM O. CREGAR

Enclosed herewith for the Bureau is the original and

seven copies of an IIM reflecting intervlew of SA BATTLE, which

is self-explanatory.

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TO ALL SACS

FROM DIRECTOF

INTERVIEWS OF FBI EMPLOYEES BY CONCRESSIONAL COMMITTEES

BY MEMORANDUE TO ALL EMPLOYEES DATED HAY 2E, 1975,

CAPTIQUE) "INTERVIENS OF FBI EMPLOYEES," ALL EMPLOYZES WERE

ADVISED OF INE NECESSITY OF SECURING FEI HEADQUARTERS APPROVAL

PRIOR TO SUBITTING IC INTERVIEUS DY REPRESELTATIVES OF CON-

CHESSICAL COMITTERS. THE NECESSITY CE SECURING THIS AP-

PROVAL IS PROMPTED BY THE EMPLOYMENT AGAZESENT ALL EMPLOYEES

HAVE SIENED.

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YOU WERE ADVISED THAT CONGRESSIONAL STAFF MENDERS

VERE CONDUCTING INTERVIEWS OF FORMER AND/OR CURRENT EMPLOYEES

AND THAT THIS BUREAU HAD PLEDGEO ITS COCPERATION WITH COU-

GRESS. OUF COOPENATIVE EFFORIS, OF COURSE, USI BE CONSISTENT

WITH BUREAU PROCEDURES.

SEATCHES SECONDEREl' mom

SCENTLY, E HAVE HAD ATTEMPTS DY CONCESSIONER EN RESE

COMITTEE STAFF HENDERS TO INTERVIZU CURRENT DIPLOYAGS WITHOUT :

PRICE CONTACT WITH FEI HEADQUARTERS.

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THAT IF A REPRESENTATIVE OF A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE SHOULD

•CONTACT A BUREAU EMPLOYEE, THAI EMPLOYEE SHOULD DECLINE TO

RESPOND TO QUESTIONS POSED TO HIM AND ADVISE THE CONGRES-

SIONAL STAFF MEMBER OF THE NECESSITY OF RECEIVING FBI

HEADQUARTERS APPROVAL BEFORE RESPONDING TO QUESTIONS.

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AIRTEL

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DIRECTOR, FBI: (62-116395)

• AL

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(ATTN: INTD -

W.

O. CREGAR)

, FROW:

SẠC, WEO (62-19744)

"SENSTUDY-75"

Enclosed are eight copies of an: L'M dated as

above and captioned "U.S. Senate Select Comnittee on

Intelligence Activities: (SSC)" and "Re: Interview of

FBI Special Agent HOMER W. SCHWEPPE by SSC Staff Member

JAMES DICK."

The following background information is being

supplied in connection with the enclosed LIM:

SA SCHWEPPE;

ät the express direction of SA PAUL.

DALY, FBIHQ, presented himself for interview at 10:00 a.n.

on 9/23/75, to SSC Staff Member JAMES DICK in Room 308,

Dirkésen

Senate Office Building, Washingtos, D. C. (WDC)

At about 10:00 a.I.

DICK and staff stenotypist SUSAN

HANBACK repaired to a sixth floor room in the former

Carroll Arms Hotel.

DICk had a key for this room, which

appeared to have been used before, possibly for similar

interview purposes, inasmuch as there was a supply of

stenotype paper on hand

CONFIDENTIAL

Classified by #7366

Exempt from Gos,

Category

2

Date of Declassification Indefinite

2-Bureau (Enc. 8)

2-WFO

(I-SA SCHWEPPE's Personnel file)

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DICK was friendly and affable but businesslike

throughout the interview. In a brief initial off-the-record

exchange, Dick explained that he was interested in schweppE's

knowledge of the

• "Hunter Project," When SCHWEPPE indicated

he was not familiar with the term, DICK consulted his notes

to confirm whether SCHVIPPE in fact was the party he intended

to interview. A check by him corroborated that SCHVEPPE's

name had been provided him by the Department of Justice

as an individual with knowledge of "Hunter" and related

projects.

During this initial exchange, SCHWEPPE indicated

that his recollection of specifics such as "exactly when?"

and "Did you ever see?" or "When did you first see or learn?"

or "How many times did you see?" based on material possibly

seen by him over a period of several months as far back

as 1958 was limited.

DICK agreed and

suggested that there

really might be no need to continue the interview, but in

the end he suggested that since all parties were in place,

the interrogation might as well proceed.

He indicated that a transcript of the interview

would be available for review by SCHWEPPE in about a week.

DICK said he would contact SA DALY at FBIIQ at the

appropriate time.

On contact on 9/30/75, DICK said the

transcript probably would be available for review in about

a weeks.

As of 10/15/75, it had not been made available.

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SECRET

UNITED STATES SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)

RE: INTERVIEN OF FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

(FBI) SPECIAL AGENT HOMER W. SCHWEPPE BY

SSC STAFF MEMBER JAMES DICK

On September 23, 1975, after a short orientation

discussion and after advising him of his rights under the

Constitution and reminding him that his appearance was

Special Agent Homer W. Schweppe in the presence of SSC

stenotypist Susan Hanback regarding his knowledge of

following:

The "Hunter Project," "Bureau Informant

200," "the SAM Survey," "Z Coverage," and opening of mail

by FBI employees.

At the outset Dick asked Schweppe to document his

FBI service.

Assignments

Schweppe responded by listing the following:

in San Francisco from late 1946 to mid 1947;

in Los Angeles from mid 1947 to mid 1951; at FBI Headquarters

(FBIHQ) from May, 1951, to May, 1958, and again from late

1960 to November, 1961; in the

Washington Field Office (YFO)

of the FBI from May, 1958, on, except for the 1960 to 1901

period

just cited.

During the course of the interview Schweppe was

also asked to indicate the nature of his assignments at

FBliQ. He indicated he was assigned for the main part to

units within the Domestic Intelligence DIVISiOn deaLing

with Soviet military attache personnel and with members

of Elizabeth Bentley's "espionage ring.

ASAC Callion-

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Dick's initial inquiry was directed to the extent

of Schweppe's knowledge of the L

When

JFK Act 6 (1) (B)

Schweppe conceded he was not familiar with the term, Dick

offered as an exhibit for review a copy of a February 6,

1958, memorandum directed to Director Hoover entitled

This memorandum outlined

JEK AC

6 (1) (B)

"JEK Act

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(1) (B)

JEK: Act

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Dick also queried Schweppe about his knowledge

of the "SAM Survey" (SAM) and "Z Coverage" (2).

He

asked Schweppe whether he knew when "SAll" and "7" were

initlated, what they consisted ot, when they ceased,

when he first became aware of then, and whether he hac

seen

">" were on a need-to-know basis within WFO but

that he in time heard about them through office "shop

talk" and then concluded that those designations indicated

projects in which mail to and/or from the Soviet Union and

Soviet bloc countries was monitored.

He said he did

not know when those projects were initiated or when they

terminated.

He said that he would have to guess within a

tolerance of two or three years that he first heard of those

projects in the early 1960s.

Schweppe said he was called

on from time to time to translate correspondence in Geran,

which correspondence had been photographed by some source

not identified initially.

Schweppe suggested that on later

inquiry about the source of the correspondence he was

informed it was either from "SAM" or "Z." He said he was

unable to recall specifically who so advised him.

He felt

it was possible that word was just "passed along" to that

oitect. He could not recall whether each specific individual

item was identified in a particular, special manner so as

to tie it in to its source.

Schweppe stated that he believes

all such material translated by him was directed to officials

at the soviet and/or Soviet bloc embassies in Washington,

D. C., and not to any non-diplomatic personnel. such

translation requirements were quite infrequent, and Schwerpe

was not called on to translate any such material within

the past eight or ten years, to the best of his recollection.

Schweppe said it was his impression that "SAM"

in New York City was handled in space at one or the other

of New York's airports.

specific arrangements in Washington, D. C. He related that

he was aware that FBI Special Agent John De Bettencourt,

since deceased, was directly involved in FFO's "Z Coverage"

project but that he did not know specifically to whom De

Bettencourt was answerable.

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Dick asked whether Schweppe was aware of any

mail having been opened by FBI employees in situations other

than the projects referred to above.

Schweppe, after making

the observation that Federal law and FBI regulations

prohibit such activity, said he himself had never opened

anyone's mail in his capacity as an fBi employee, that he

never observed any other FBI employee so engaged, and that

he personolly was not aware of any specific instances in

which that might have happened. At this point Schweppe

related that while he was assigned to the Los Angeles

Office, he suspected that a female employee, whose name he

could not recall, might possibly have

been engaged in the

surreptitious opening of other people's mail because of

the suspiciousnature of her actions at certain times.

Schweppe added that these were suspicions raised by

circumstantial evidence only.

Dick then presented a hypothetical situation in

which agents on duty might obtain mail posted by an

individual and then proceed

to open the same and review

the contents.

He asked whether Schweppe was aware of any

such instances.

Schweppe acknowledged that the suggested

Scenario sounded realistic enough but added that he could

recall no such actual situations.

During the course of the interview, schweppe

indicated that he had been assigned to soviet-relatea

investigatory matters in WFO until early 1959, after

which he was assigned to the handling of German, Latin

American, Middle East, and Chinese Investigatory matters

at different times.

Schweppe concluded by stating that his knowledge

and recollection oi the subject matter constituting the

basis for the inquiry were weak. He reiterated that he

never opened any other person's mail in his capacity as an

FBI employee, that he never winessed any other Isl employee

opening any such mail, and that he cannot recall ever

being avare of any situation in which mail was opened by

eB1 employees, exclusive of the "SAll" and "z" projects

mentioned above.

This interview commenced about 10:15 a.M.,

September 23, 1975, and concluded at about 11:15 a.m.

the same day.

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Mr

By William Safire

WASHINGON, Nov. 19-On Oct. 10,

1963, the then-Attorney General of the

United States put his personal signa-

ture on a document that launched and

legitimatized one of the most horren-

dous abuses of Federal police power in

this century.

In Senator Frank Church's subcom-

mittee hearing room this week, the

authorized

Wiretapping and subse-

quent unauthorized bugging and at-

tempted blackmailing of Martin Luther

King Jr. is being

gingerly

examined,

with the "investigation" conducted in

such a way

as not to unduly em-

barrass

officials of the Kennedy or

Johnson Administrations.

With great care, the committee has

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

the committee counsel first set forth

the result of shuffling through press

clips, it seemed as if no Justice De-:

partment had existed in 1962; today,

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

was Robert Kennedy who authorized

the wiretap of Dr. King, and that "the

President of the United States and the

Attorney General specifically discussed

their concern of Communist influence

with Dr. King."

But the Church committee showed

no zest for getting further to the Ken-

nedy root of this precedent to Water-

gate eavesdropping. If Senator Church

were willing to let the chips fall where

they may, he would call some knowl-

eageable witnesses into the glare of

the camera lights and ask them some

questions that have gone unasked for

1171599-

Church's Cover-Up

'The committee is not asking embar-

rassing questions even when answers

are readily available. A couple of

weeks ago, at an open hearing, an

F.B.I. man inadvertently started to

biurt out an episode about newsmen

who were weritapping in 1962 With

• the apparent knowledge of Attorney

General Kennedy. The too-willing wit!

lesse, was told thy such indorma sir

would be developed only in executive

session. Nobody raised an eyebrow.

That pattern of containment by the

Church committee is vividly shown by

the handling of the buggings at the

1964 Republican and Democratic con-

For example, he could call Nicholas

Katzenbach, Attorney General Ken-

nedy's deputy and successor, and ask

what he knows of the Kennedy de-

cision to wiretap Dr. King. Who at

Justice concurred in the recommenda-

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

President was consulled or informed? i

After Mr. Katzenbach assumed of-

fice, and the wiretapping continued,

he was told by angry newsmen that

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

formation about Dr. King. Why did he

wait for four months, and for a thou-

sand telephonic interceptions, to dis-

continue the officially approved tap?

Of course, this sort of testimony

would erode Senator Church's political

base. That is why we do not see for-

mer Assistant F.B.I. director Cartha

(Deke)

Deloach,

Lyndon Johnson's

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

witness chair. What did President

Johnson know about the character-

assassination plot and when did he

know it? What conversations took

place between Mr. Deloach and Presi-

dent Johnson on the tapping of Dr.

Fung, or about the use of the F.B.I. in

any other intrusions into the lives of

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ventions which were ordered by Lyn-

don Johnson. Such invasions of politi-

cal headquarters were worse than the

crime committed at Watergate, since

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

but the Church investigators seem to

be determined not to probe too deeply.

If F.B.I. documents say that reports

were made to specific Johnson aides,

why are those men not given the

story so avidly given the next Presi-

dent's men? If Lyndon Johnson com-

ward to tell us all about it?

ment to Democrats,

Church wants to embarrass

sional

employees

of

investigatory

gressional decorum exists, far from

the sense of outrage expressed in the

Senate Watergate committee's hear-

ing room. When it is revealed that the

management of NBC News gave press

credentials to L.B.J.'s spies at the 1964

Iyand nobody demands to moo

ly-and nobody demands to

which network executive made what

decision under what pressure.

I have been haranguing

readers for years about the

double

standard applied to Democratic and

Republican political crimes, and had

hoped the day would come when the

hardball precedents set by the Ken-

nedy and Johnson men would be laid

before the public in damning detail.

Obviously, Democrat Frank Church

is not the man to do it. His. jowl-

shaking indignation is all too

selec-

•tive: the trail of high-level resnonsi-

bility for the crimes committed against

Dr. ling and others is evidently going

to be allowed to cool.

Pity. You'd think that after all the

nation has bech through in tlie past

few years, our political leaders would

have learned that the one thing that

brings you down is the act of cover-

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WASHINGTON FIELD

FRCH DIRECTOR (62-116464)

HOUSE STUDY 75.

THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE (HSC) HAS INDICATED DESIRE TO

INTERVIEW CERTAIN FORMER BUREAU EMPLOYEES CONCERNING ANY

KNOWLEDGE THEY MAY POSSESS PERTAINING TO THIS BUREAU'S PURCHAS-

ING PRACTICE WITH U. S. RECORDING COMPANY. LISTED BELOW ARE

THE NAMES OF THE FORMER EMPLOYEES CONCERNING WHOM HSC HAS

EXPRESSED AN INTEREST AS WELL AS THE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS OF

EACH INDIVIDUAL AS IT APPEARS IN HIS PERSONNEL FILE: RUFUS R.

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THE HSC THEY SHOULD, DEFORE SUBHITTING TO INTERVIEW,

IELEPHONICALLY CONTACT THE OFFICE OF LEGAL COUNSEL AT BUREAU

HEADQUARTERS COLLECT TO SECURE RELEASE FROM THEIR EMPLOYNENT

AGREEMENT AND TO ASCEFTAIN PARAMETERS WITHIN WHICH INTERVIEW

MAY BE CONDUCIED. ADVISE HCADQUARTERS SHOULD DIFFICULTY DE

INCOUNTERED IN CONTACTING ASOVE-LISTE INDIVIDUALS.

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5:1 7PM IMMEDIATE 1-13-75 DLA

TO NEW YORK

WASHINGTON FIELD

FROM DIRECTOR (62-116395)

CONFIDENTIAL

JUNE

SENSTUDY 75.

IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST OF THE SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE

(SSC) YOU ARE REQUESTED TO FURNISH THE RESULTS OF THE FOLLOWING

ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCES. A REVIEW OF ELSUR INDICES AT FBIHQ

INDICATES THAT THE LISTED INDIVIDUALS WERE EITHER A PARTY TO

OR WERE MENTIONED ON THE SPECIFIC DATES SET FORTH:

INDIVIDUAL

DATE

WARREN, EARL

MARCH 9, 1964

NY295D-S (ASTERISK)

CHIEF JUSTICE

WARREN, EARL, JR

RUSSELL, RICHARDU:

RUSSELL, RICHARD

MARCH 2, 1964

APRIL 25, 1967

NOVEMBER 8, 1963

SENATOR FROM GEORGIA

BOGGS, HALE CeM... ''NOVEMBER 23, 1961

MC CLOY, JOHN

APRIL 14, 1964

EMB CHILE -WFO

CHINA-WFO

NY4171-S (ASTERISK)

ALG EMB-WFO

siblin.

CC plared in 65-7795066-

GREEK-WFO

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SE BILIZERS FILED LE

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MARCH 31, 1964

NY1 137-S (ASTERISK)

REDLICH, NORMANEUTE, JANUARY 29, 1964

NY 3401-S (ASTERISK)

NEW YORK AND WFO SHOULD FURNISH THE TEXI OF THE OVERHEAR,

IF AVAILABLE, AND ANY OTHER IDENTIFYING INFORMATION AS TO THE

INDIVIDUAL INVOLVED.

SUTEL RESULIS OF YOUR REVIEW EXPEDITIOUSLY.

CLASSIFIED BY 3676, XGDS 2, INDEFINITE.

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NODI HE CODED E

9: 01AM URGENT 1-15-76 KLS

TO:

FROM :

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-116395)

SAC, WFO (62-19744) (RUC)

ATTENTION INTD. JUNE

SECRET

SENSTUDY 75

RE BUREAU TELETYPE JANUARY 13, 1976.

SET FORTH ARE THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE

COVERAGE REQUESTED IN REFERENCE TO BUREAU TELETYPE OF

JANUARY 13, 1976:

EARL WARREN, JR., MARCH 2, 1964:

WE 141R-S, WHO PROVIDES INFORMATION CONCERNING THE

EMBASSY OF CHILE PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AT

6:11 P.M. ON MARCH 2, 1964:

EARL WARREN, JR., AND PRESTON LASI NAME UNKNOWN (LNU)

LONG DISTANCE FROM SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, IO AMBASSADOR

SERGIO GUTIERREZ.

AFTER CHATTING ABOUT PRESTON'S RECENT ILLNESS, PRESTON

ADVISED THAT THEY HAVE RUN INTO SOME DIFFICULTY BECAUSE OF

THE GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE, AND HE WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIED

SERIALIZE 220, FILED -

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APRIL 3. GUTIERREZ THEN ASKED IF HIS PROPOSED VISIT THERE

IS REALLY OF INTEREST RIGHT NOW OR IF IT SHOULD BE POSTPONED

UNTIL LATER. PRESTON REPLIED THAI APRIL WOULD BE AN

APPROPRIATE TIME, BECAUSE BY THAT TIME THEY WILL HAVE THE

CALIFORNIA - CHILE FUND GOING, AND BY THAT TIME ALSO THEY

WILL HAVE EMBARKED ON THE FIRST PROJECTS IN COOPERATION WITH

THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT. PRESTON ADDED THAT ALSO UNDERSTANDS

THAT AT ABOUT THAT TIME THE PEOPLE ON CAPITOL HILL 'WHO DO NOT

LIKE US' ARE GOING IO LAUNCH AN AITACK ON US, SO IT WOULD

SEEM ABOUT AS AN APPROPRIATE TIME AS COULD BE IMAGINED.

GUTIERREZ SAID HE WOULD CONSULT HIS SCHEDULE VERY CAREFULLY

AND WILL CALL PRESION TOMORROW OR WEDNESDAY.

WARREN THEN SPOKE IO GUTIERREZ AND REFERRED TO GUTIERREZ'S

PREFERENCE FOR INFORMAL MEETINGS, AND ASKED IF HE WOULD HAVE

ANY OBJECIIONS TO MAKING A COUPLE OF FORMAL APPEARANCES, ONE

IN THE NORTH, AND ONE IN THE SOUTHERN PARI OF THE STATE.

GUTIERREZ SAID HE WOULD GO ALONG WITH ANY PLANS THEY WISH

TO MAKE. "

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RICHARD RUSSELL, APRIL 25, 1967:

WE 1779-5, WHO PROVIDES INFORMATION CONCERNING THE

EMBASSY OF CHINA, WDC, AT 2:40 P.M.

ON APRIL 25, 1967,

PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

"ERV SWANSON 'FROM THE L.S. SENATE' TO MINISTER WOO,

SHIH - YING. SWANSON ADVISED WOO HE KNEW A VERY POWERFUL

PERSON WHOM THEY MAY WISH TO INVITE IO THE PARTY. THE MAN

IS WILLIAM JORDAN, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY TO SENATOR RICHARD

RUSSELL OF GEORGIA. JORDAN HAD SHOWN INTEREST IN GOING TO

TWIN OAKS AND IT WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS TO INVITE HIM. HIS

ADDRESS IS ROOM 2D5, SENATE OFFICE BUILDING."

HALE BOGGS, NOVEMBER 23, 1964:

WE 1523-5, WHO PROVIDES INFORMATION CONCERNING THE

ALGERIAN EMBASSY, "DC, MADE AVAILABLE THE FOLLOWING

INFORMATION AT 3:93 P.M. ON NOVEMBER 23, 1964:

"SECRETARY IN THE OFFICE OF REPRESENTATIVE HALE BOGGS,

SAYING: MR. AND MRS. BOGGS AND DAUGHTER, CORINNE WILL

ATTEND THE RECEPTION ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER

19. "

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4901 671 TIddo 10To Su SiNor

MISTACHUSETIS ARDUIT AN HOMORARY COMMITTRE FOS THE GEVADION

(PYOVETIC LIPPARY IN ATHENG AT DUP ECHOOL. PROFESSOF

FRAIGIS MALTON FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY WROTE YOU A LETTER

RECEIVED YOUR REPLY, MATSA: SAYS: IT PROBARLY CAME WHILE

I"AS MUAY HOWLIN: OTHERE WHO MAVE ACCEPTED ARE:

IRS. BLISS, MP. LABONISSE THE AMPASSADOR IN OPENCE,

THOMAS LAMONT DE NEW YORK, JONY D1. ME CLOY AND ME. LILLY.

MATSAS: I'M SORRY BUT I'LL CHECK ON THIS LATER, HOPE TO

SEE YOU COON, nOOn RyE."

"SAILVAISINILOV

CLASSIFICO RY CI21, YADE O AND 7.

INDEFINITE.

1S THE PURCAU IS AWARE, THE ELGUR LUCICES INDICATE ONLY

THE FIRST OCCASINH IN MATCH TUE TADIVICHAL IS INTERCEPTED

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IN THE INSTANT TELETYPE, WEO HAS ONLY ENDEAVORED TO

PROVIDE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE ELECTRONIC INTERCEPTIONS

OF THE INDIVIDUALS REQUESTED IN THE BUREAU TELETYPE OF

JAVUARY 13, 1976. WO HAS NOT CONDUCTED A COMPREHENSIVE

REVIEW OF ITS ELSUR INDICES OR ITS STANDARD INDICES CONCERNING

THE INDIVIDUALS SET FORTH IN THE REFERENCED BUREAU TELETYPE.

IT IS, THEREFORE, POSSIBLE THAT THE INDIVIDUALS MENTIONED

ABOVE MAY HAVE BEEN INTERCEPIED ON OTHER OCCASIONS THAN ARE

SET FORTH ABOVE OR MAY HAVE BEEN INTERCEPTED IN OTHER

ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCES CONDUCTED BY WFO. VACB, WO WILL

NOT CONDUCT A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF ITS ELSUR INDICES OR

STANDARD INDICES CONCERNING THE INDIVIDUALS SET FORTH IN

BUREAU TELETYPE OF JANUARY 13, 1976.

END.

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1/14776 •

CODED

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TELETYPE

URGENT

(Precedence)

TO:

FROM:

DIRACTOR, FBI (62-116395 95L ASN

SAC, WFO (62-10744) (RUC)

ATTENTION INTD. JUNE

SECRET

SENSTUDY 75

RE BUREAU TELETYPE JANUARY 13, 1976.

SET FORTH ARE THE RESULIS OF THE ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE

COVERAGE REQUESTED IN REFERENCE TO BUREAU TELETYPE OF

JANUARY 13, 1976:

EARL WARREN, JR., MARCH 2, 1964:

WE 1410-S*, WHO PROVIDES INFORMATION CONCERNING THE

EMBASSY OF CHILE PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION AT

6:11 P.M. ON MARCH 2, 1964:

EARL WARREN, JR., AND PRESTON LAST NAME UNKNOWN (INU) .

LONG DISTANCE FROM SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, TO AMBASSADOR

SERGIO GUTIERRE?

AFTER CHATTING ABOUT PRESTON'S RECENT. ILINESS', PRESTON

ADVISED THAT THEY HAVE RUN INTO SOME DIFFICULTY BECAUSE OF

THE GOVERNOR'S SCHEDULE, AND HE WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL

1- Tickler

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(Precedence)

-- PAGE TWO WEO 62-19744 SECRET ---

APRIL 3. GUTIERREZ THEN ASKED IF HIS PROPOSED VISIT THERE

IS REALLY OF INTEREST RIGHT NOW OR IF IT SHOULD BE POSTPONED

UNTIL LATER. PRESTON REPLIED THAT APRIL WOULD BE AN

APPROPRIATE TIME, BECAUSE BY THAT TIME THEY WILL HAVE THE

CALIFORNIA - CHILE FUND GOING, AND BY THAT TIME ALSO THEY

WILL HAVE EMBARKED ON THE FIRST PROJECTS IN COOPERATION WITH

THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT. • PRESTON ADDED THAT ALSO UNDERSTANDS

THAT AT ABOUT THAT TIME THE PEOPLE ON CAPITOL HILL 'WHO DO NOT

LIKE US' ARE GOING TO LAUNCH AN ATTACK ON US, SO II WOULD

SEEM ABOUT AS AN APPROPRIATE TIME AS COULD BE IMAGINED.

GUTIERREZ SAID HE WOULD CONSULT HIS SCHEDULE VERY CAREFULLY

AND WILL CALL PRESTON TOMORROW OR WEDNESDAY..

WARREN THEN SPOKE TO GUTIERREZ AND REFERRED TO GUTIERREZ'S

PREFERENCE FOR INFORMAL MEETINGS, AND. ASKED IF HE WOULD HAVE

ANY OBJECTIONS TO MAKING A COUPLE OF. FORMAL APPEARANCES, ONE

IN THE NORTH, AND ONE IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE STATE.

GUTIERREZ SÄID HE WOULD GO ALONG WITH ANY PLANS THEY WISH

• TO MAKE. "

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PAGE THREE WEO_62-10744_S E_C

RICHARD RUSSELL, APRIL 25, 1967:

WE 1779-S*, WHO PROVIDES INFORMATION CONCERNING THE

EMBASSY OF CHINA, WDC, AT 2:40 P.M. ON APRIL 25, 1967,

PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:

"ERV SWANSON 'FROM THE U.S. SENATE' TO MINISTER WOO,

SHIH - YING. SWANSON ADVISED WOD HE KNEW A VERY POWERFUL

PERSON WHOM THEY MAY WISH TO INVITE TO THE PARTY. THE MAN

IS WILLIAM JORDAN, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY TO SENATOR RICHARD

RUSSELL OF GEORGIA. JORDAN HAD SHOWN INTEREST IN GOING TO

TWIN OAKS AND IT WOULD BE ADVANTAGEOUS TO INVITE HIM. HIS

ADDRESS IS ROOM 205, SENATE OFFICE BUILDING."

HALE BOGGS, NOVEMBER 23, 1964:

WE 1523-S*, WHO PROVIDES INFORMATION CONCERNING THE

ALGERIAN EMBASSY, WDC, MADE AVAILABLE THE FOLLOWING

INFORMATION AT 3:03 P.M. ON NOVEMBER 23, 1964:

"SECRETARY IN THE OFFICE OF REPRESENTATIVE HALE BOGGS,

SAYING: MR. AND MRS. BOGGS AND DAUGHTER, CORINNE WILL

ATTEND THE RECEPTION ON WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9. "

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JOHN T. MC CLOT, APRIL 14,

1964:

WE - 1549-S*, WHO PROVIDES INFORMATION CONCERNING THE

GREEK EMBASSY, WDC, MADE AVAILABLE THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION

AT 10:55 A.M. ON APRIL 14, 1964:

MR. HOWLIN (PHONETIC) TO AMBASSADOR ALEXANDER MATSAS

SAYING: I JUST RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL FROM CAMBRIDGE,

MASSACHUSETTS ABOUT AN HONORARY COMMITTEE FOR THE GENADION

(PHONETIC) LIBRARY IN ATHENS AT OUR SCHOOL. PROFESSOR

FRANCIS WALTON FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY WROTE YOU A LETTER

TWO OR THREE WEEKS AGO ASKING IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE AN

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND HE HAS NOT

RECEIVED YOUR REPLY. MATSAS SAYS: IT PROBABLY CAME WHILE

I WAS AWAY. HOWLIN: OTHERS WHO HAVE ACCEPTED ARE:

MRS. BLISS, MR. LABOUISSE THE AMBASSADOR IN GREECE,

THOMAS LAMONT OF NEW YORK, JOHN J. MC CLOY AND MR. LILLY.

MATSAS: I'M SORRY BUT I'LL CHECK ON THIS LATER, HOPE TO

SEE YOU SOON, GOOD BYE. "

ADMINISTRATIVE:

CLASSIFIED BY 6121, XGDS 2 AND 3. INDEFINITE.

AS THE BUREAU IS AWARE, THE ELSUR INDICES INDICATE ONLY

THE FIRST OCCASION IN WHICH THE INDIVIDUAL IS. INTERCEPTED

IN CONVERSATION IN A GIVEN ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE.

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URGENT

(Precedence)

_PAGE FIVE NFO 62-10744 SECRET_

IN THE INSTANT TELETYPE, WEO HAS ONLY ENDEAVORED TO

PROVIDE INFORMATION CONCERNING THE ELECTRONIC INTERCEPTIONS

OF THE INDIVIDUALS REQUESTED IN THE BUREAU TELETYPE OF

JANUARY 13, 1976. WEO HAS NOT CONDUCTED A COMPREHENSIVE

REVIEW OF ITS ELSUR INDICES OR ITS STANDARD INDICES CONCERNING

THE INDIVIDUALS SET FORTH IN THE REFERENCED BUREAU TELETYPE.

IT IS, THEREFORE, POSSIBLE THAT THE INDIVIDUALS MENTIONED

ABOVE MAY HAVE BEEN INTERCEPTED ON OTHER OCCASIONS THAN ARE

SET FORTH ABOVE OR MAY HAVE BEEN INTERCEPTED IN OTHER

ELEOTRONIC SURVEILLANCES CONDUCTED BY WEO. UACB, WEO WILL

NOT CONDUCT A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF ITS ELSUR INDICES OR

STANDARD INDICES CONCERNING THE INDIVIDUALS SET FORTH IN

BUREAU TELETYPE OF JANUARY 13, 1976.

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO :

Clarence Kelley, Director

¡ FBI

tle pho

DATE: January 12

FROM : Edward H. Levi 1

Attorney

General

SUBJECT:

Joseph Kraft burglary

Among the documents from Federal Bureau of Investigation

files provided to my office under a cover memorandum dated

October 7, 1975, there was a memorandum dated July 18, 1973

and titled "Joseph Kraft,"

This document, along with the others,

was provided to Mr. Kraft's attorneys pursuant to the agreement

of August 5, 1975, for review before the department furnished

it to the Senate Select Committee.

When Mr. Kraft and his attorneys reviewed the July 18, 1973,

document they raised a question about a reference on page two of

the document which stated:

1976

$

"Or September 4, 1969, Joseph Kraft

advised the Washington Field Office of the

FBI that he left his home (3021 N Street,

N. W., Washington D. C.) at approximately

9:20 P.M. on September 3, 1969, to visit

with former Governor Averell Harriman who

resided a few doors from the Kraft "residence.

At approximately 9:45 P.M. Mrs. Kraft, who

was in the second floor bedroom of the

residence, came down the stairs and found

the door open.

"Subsequently, it was discovered by

Mr. and Mrs. Kraft several items of sterling

silver were missing from the dining room and

the pantry which items, according to the

Krafts, had

an estimated value of approximately

$10,000.

"A crime scene search and processing of

the crime scene by the Metropolitan Police

Department produced negative results. No

forcible entry was noted and Mr. Kraft advised

investigative officers of the Metropolitan

Police Department that he had probably left

the front door ajar when he departed the

residence.

Assoc.

Die

Dep.-A.D.-15%

Agst. Dir.:

Admin.

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"On the morning of September 4, 1969,

the Metropolitan Police Department was advised

by the Washington National Airport Police that

some silverware had been found near one of the

entrances to the terminal at the Washington

National Airport.

The silverware was recovered

by the Metropolitan Police Department and

processed for latent fingerprints without

success and the items were returned to Mrs.

Kraft upon her identification of the silverware.

No suspects were developed by either the FBI

or the Metropolitan Police Department in the

investigation of the matter."

Mr. Kraft does not recall having spoken to the FBI about the

burglary: Documents provided more recently to Mr. Kraft pursuant

to the August 5, 1975, agreement do not shed any light on this

question.

The incident is curious in that the only reference to it comes

in the memorandum of July 18, 1973, discussing a press report about

the activities of John D. Erlichman. Could you have someone look

into this matter for me?

The obvious questions are: What other

documents in FBI files say about the September 3, 1969, burglary?

What files of the Bureau or its Washington field office indicate

about how the conversation about the burglary took place?

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To:

SAC, Washington Field Office

, From: Director, EBI (62-116395)

SENSTUDY 75

BUDED 1/30/76

(Precedence)

1/23/76

(Date

(This line for LEFT MARGIN.)

Enclosed is a self-explanatory letter from the

Attorney General dated 1/12/76.

Joseph Kraft, the subject of the inquiry, is the

well-known newspaper columnist and a Washington, D. C. resident

During the past year, information contained in FBI Headquarters

files relating to Kraft has been furnished to the U.S.

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities (SSC)

pursuant to SSC requests.

Kraft and his attorneys have re-

viewed the material furnished to the SSC regarding him in

accordance with an agreement between Kraft and the Attorney

General, referred to in paragraph one of the enclosure.

AS

noted in the enclosure, Kraft, as a result of a review of

information regarding the burglary of his residence on 9/3/69,

raised certain questions.

(Do not type BEYOND THIS MARGIN.)

WEO should furnish FBIHQ with Xeroxes of all serials

in its files which relate to the 9/3/69 burglary except WO

airtel and letter to the Bureau dated 9/4/69 and 10/17/69,

respectively, captioned "UNSUB; Burglary of residence of

Joseph Kraft, 3021 N. Street N. W., Washington, D. C., Loss

of silverware, 9/3/69 in excess of $5,000.00 ITSP (00:WFO) "

file number 87-17564.

This material should of course include

any serials which would indicate the manner in which the

burglary was reported to WFO and how the conversation about the

burglary took place.

Enclosure

(Do not type below this line.)

63-10244-22

SEARCHED.

JAN 2 - 1976

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Airtel to Washington Field Office

Re: Senstudy 75

62-116395

In addition to the review of all files pertinent to

his inquiry, WFO should review the newspaper morgues of daily

newspapers published in Washington, D. C., at such time for

articles concerning the burglary and which may shed some

additional light on this matter

This matter must be given expeditious attention

and results submitted by airtel to reach Bureau by

c.0.b. 1/30/76.

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1/29/76

AIRTEL

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-116395) •

FROM:

SAC, WEO (62-10744)

SENSTUDY 75

BUDED 1/30/76

ReBu airtel to WrO dated 1/23/76.

Enclosed for the Bureau are the following serials

from WEO file 87-17564 entitled UNSUB; Burglary of Residence

of JOSEPH KRAFT, 3021 N St., N.W., Washington, D.C. , Loss

of Silverware, 9/3/69, in Excess of $5,000, ITSP, 00: LEO:

WEO memorandum of SA ANGELO J. LANO dated 9/22/69, Baltimore

letter to WFO dated 10/21/69, Alexandria letter to WFO dated

10/22/69 and WFO memorandum of SA ANGELO J. LANO dated

12/5/69.

The above enclosures constitute all serials

requested by the Bureau in referenced airtel to WrO dated

1/23/76 regarding the burglary of the residence.of JOSEPH

KRAFT, 3021 N Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. on 9/3/69.

On 1/28/76 the papers published for 9/1/69 through

9/7/69 inclusive by the Washington Post and the Evening Star,

both local dallies of general circulation in the Washington,

D.C. area, where searched for an article regarding the KRAFT

burglary.

The search was conducted at the Library of Congress

periodical microfilm section with negative results.

2-Bureau (Enc. 4)

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NROE5 WA PLAIN

8:35PM URGENT 2/10/76 EMS

TO NEW YORK

WASHINGTON FIELD

FROM DIRECTOR

0.222

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

RE BUTELEPHONE CALLS TO NEW YORK OFFICE AND WASHINGTON

FIELD OFFICE THIS DATE.

THE BUREAU WAS SERVED WITH THREE SUBPOENAS AND THREE SUB-

POENAS DICES TECUM, FACSIMILES OF WHICH ARE BEING SENI TO YOU

TODAY. THEY REQUIRE SAS DAVID G. JENKINS (NY), WALTER C. ZINK

(NY), AND JOHN P. LOOMIS (WIO) TO TESTIFY BEFORE THE HOUSE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS

AI 9:30 A. "1o, FEBRUARY 25, 1976, AND TO PRODUCE CERTAIN

DOCUIIENIS TO THE SUBCONMIITEE ON OR BEFORE FEBRUARY 18, 1976.

THIS MATTER IS BEING COORDINATED WITH THE DEPARTNENT OF

JUSTICE.

IF THESE AGENTS DESIRE TO HAVE THE DEPARTMENT OBTAIN COUN

SEL TO REPRESENT THEM, THEY SHOULD SO ADVISE THE BUREAU, LEGAL

CCUNSEL DIVISION.

SAS JENKINS, ZINK, AND LOOMIS SHOULD REPORT TO PCOIl 3659,

it it clairse.

JEH BUILDING, 9TH AND PENNSYLVANIA AVE, WASHINGION D

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THE MORNING OF FEBRUARY 24, 1976.

BRING THIS COMMUNICATION AND THE FACSIMILE COPIES OF THE

SUEPOENAS TO THE PERSONAL ATTENTION OF SAS JENKINS, ZINK,

AND LOOMIS.

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S83SROD URGE 4T 2/10/763SMS

WASH OSTON 1BLDS

POOR DARESTOR

RODER COOMECOLCSON DOVERERENE OPERATIONS.

MARE SUTCLEPIONE CALLS TO NEW YORK DISTOL ARD MASHINGTON

SEBLO/ORSICE THIS DATAY

THE CORDAD GAS SERVEO UNT SHARE SUSROGLASS DO CEREE EUS -I

P7 SO 0O, FEE RUARVES,

1976, AND TO PRODuCENCONTALS

Dacunsins

C 2NE SURGEONSO CION BETONE DOORMAN 18.0906

DUSTUCE •

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ORIGINAL

BY AUTHORITY OSA THE AVISE DE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CONGRESS OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Robert Sa Fink

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John to "Bucky" Locis, Washington, Fteld

Office, Federal Bureau of Investisation. Washington 0. C: 20530

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date or dates

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then and there bn testify Enshing mathers of inquiry comritted to said Conemittee; and be is

nos to depart without leave of said Committee.

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Witness my hand and the real of the House of Representatives

el the Uniied States, at the sity of Washington, this

4th, day of february.

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MY AUTHORITY OF THE HOUSE OF REFRESENTATIVES DE THE CONGRESS OF: THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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Love tentions 201 East 69ch Street, Res Vonk, M.V. 10021

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SCHEDULE

Any and all recores* in his possession, under his desinica or

control, or withe his, paans te produce, concerning or relating to

the interocation by, excatnation by, requests by or fres ar delivery

to or for any engioyce or agent of ani departtants agency, burcau, or

athar entity of she United States, Since January 1, 1947, cfme

(1) inforcation as to the existence, contents, substance, purports

effect, caning, sendar's or recipient of any interstate or toretgi

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and

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carriers, icebuning but not liniced to, inforacion as to the identity

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BY AUTHORITY OF THE HOUSE OF REFRESENTATIVES OF THE CONGRESS OF THE

LINUTED STATES OF AMERICA:

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Malter C. Zink, Federal, Bureau of

Investivation Col East, 09th Street Ken Vons Rue 20021

Soverent intomation and individualitights

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Ist to depart oilsut leave of said Cosmittee,

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Witness try bard and the seal of the House of Representalaves

af the United States at the eity of Washington, this,

Athu day dEsbruary.

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DIRECTOR, FBI

ATIN: LEGAI. COUNSEI. DIVISION

2/17/76

SAC, #FO (62-10744)

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

Re Bureau teletype, 2/10/76.

Special Agent (SA) JOHN PAUL LOOMIS desires

Department obtain counsel to represent him during testimony

before House Subcommittee on Government Information and

Individual Rights, 2/25/76.

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REGARD ME GOULD TECTIFY TO, IHAI THE FRI HAS DOING A

FINE J03,

THAT HE, "OUTSONERY, DID NOT APPPOUS OF THE MAY THE CHURCH

COMMITTET HAD HAVDLED ITSELF IM THE PAST AID THAT THEY SHOUL?

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TRRIBLE MAY TO ATTRIPT TO GET TACTS. SAC DATTS SUGGESTED TO

HIM IT ME FELT SO STRONGLY AROUT IT, HE SHOUL CONCIER MAITINE

AN APTICLE FOR THE EXAMINTO AS TO THE APPROACH MADE TO HIM BY

THE COMMITTEE. MONTCY BETIPE SOUEDAL MONTHS ARD, BUI IS

STILL CLOCT ТО ТИЕ ВУЛИТЛЕР.

ABOUT RING SUPMITTER FOR BURTAN'S INFORMATION.

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HO! STUDY 75.

THE HORSE SPLECT CONMITTET (HEG) HAS INDICATED RESIRE IO

PENIT FOLIO SET IT DIRECTOY 194 ARE SONIS

MO LEDGE HE YAY POSSESS PERTAINING TO THE BURFAU'S PURCHASING

RECORDING COMPANY. PERSONNEL FILE OF

HAIKAPT LISTS HIS LAST KNOWN HOME ADDRESS AS OF 1972 TO BE

3715 MELTHAM STREET, SOUTYEASI, WASHINGTON, D.C. 2002.

WASHINGTON FIELD IS PEQUESTED TO CONTACT WAIKART AND ADVISE

HIM OF AROVE-STAIED HSC INTENTION. HE SHOULD BE INSTRUCTED THAT WHEN

AND IF CONTACIER BY THE HEC HE SHOULD, BEFORE SUBMITIING TO

INTERVIE!, TELEPUOMICALLY CONTACT THE LEGAT COUNSEL DIVISION AT

BUREAU HEADQUARTERS TO SECURE RELFASE FROM HIS EMPLOYMENT

AGREEMENT AND TO ASCERTAIN PARAMETERS WITHIN WHICH INTERVIEW MA

BE CONDUCTED. ADVISE HEADOUARTERS ONLY IF DIFFICULTY SHOULD

BE INCOUNTERED IN ESTABLISHING CONTACT WITH WATKART.

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TO: SAC:

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Baltinore

Birmingham

Boston

Buffalo

Butte

Charlotte

Chicago

Cincinnati

Cleveland

Columbia

Dallas

Denver

Detroit

El Paso

Monolulu

(Copies to Offices Checked)

Houston

Indianapolis

Jackson

Jacksonville

Kansas City

Knoxville

Las Vegas

Little Rock

Los Angeles

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Memphis

Miami

Milwaukee

Minneapolis

Mobile

Newark

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Norfolk

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12/30/75

RE:

Date

/IRECTORS APPEARANCE BEFORE SENATE SELECT

COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES,

DECEMBER 10, 1975

Retention

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

sources, [ paraphrase contents.

Enclosed are corrected pages from report of SA

dated

Remarks:

conceal all

ReButel to all SACs and Legats, 12/10/75.

Enclosed for each Office and Legat is •

one copy of the transcript of questions which

vere asked Mr. Kelley during captioned appearance,

long with Mr. Kehley's answers to those questions.

Aare Watt sor

162-10744

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The Mnited Statra Srnate

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Report of Proceedings

Hearing held before

Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations

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INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATION

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United States Senate,

Select Committee to Study Governmental

Operations with Respect to

Intelligence Activities,

Washington, D. C.

The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:10

o'clock a.m., in Room 318, Russell Senate Office Building,

the honorable Frank Church (Chairman of the Committee)

presiding.

Present: Senators Church (presiding), Hart of Michigan,

Mondale, Huddleston, Hart of Colorado, Baker, Goldwater and

Mathias.

Also present: William G. Miller, Staff Director; Frederick

A. O. Schwarz, JI., Chief Counsel; Curtis R. Smothers, Minority

Counsel; Paul Michel, Joseph diGenova, Barbara Banoff, Frederick

Baron, Mark Gitenstein, Loch Johnson, David Bushong, Charles

• Lombard, John Bayly, Charles Kirbow, Michael Madigan, Bob

Kelley, John Elliff, Elliot Maxwell, Andy Postal, Pat Shea,

Michael Epstein and Burt Wides, Professional Staff Members.

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The Chairman. The Committee's

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the Honorable Clarence M..Kelley, the Director of the Federal

Bureau of Investigation.

Mr. Kelley was appointed Director in July of 1973 in a

troubled time for the FBI. His experience as an innovative

law enforcement administrator in charge of the Kansas City

Police Department for over ten years, and his previous work as

a Special Agent of the FBI have made him uniquely qualified

to lead the Bureau.

The Select Comnittee is grateful for the cooperation

extended by Director Kelley in the course of its inquiry over

the past months. The Committee is also impressed by the

openness of the FBI's witnesses before this Committee, and

their willingness to consider the need for legislation to

clarify the Bureau's intelligence responsibility.

It is important to remember from the outset that this

Committee is examining only a small portion of the FBI's

activities. Our hearings have concentrated on FBI domestic

intelligence operations. We have consistently expressed our

admiration and support for the Bureau's criminal investigative

and law enforcement work, and we recognize the vital importance

of counterespionage in the modern world. But domestic

intelligence has raised many difficult questions.

The Committee has also concentrated on the past rather

than on present FBI activities.

The abuses brought to light

in our hearings occurred years and even decades before Director

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The Staff has advised the Committee that under Director

Kelley the FBI has taken significant steps to rethink previous

policies and to establish new safeguards against abuse.. The

FBI is now placing greater emphasis on foreign related intelli-

gence operations, and less on purely domestic surveillance.

The FBI is working more closely with the Justice Department in

developing policies and standards for intelligence. These

are welcome developments.

Nevertheless, many important issues remain unresolved.

Therefore, we have invited Director Kelley to share with the

Committee his views on some of the considerations the Congress

should take into account in thinking about the future of

FBI intelligence. Among these issues are whether FBI surveil-

lance should extend beyond the investigation of persons

likely to commit specific crimes; whether there should be

outside supervision or approval before the FBI conducts certain

types of investigations or uses certain surveillance techniques;

whether foreign related intelligence activities should be

strictly separated from the FBI's domestic law enforcement

functions, and what should be done to the information already

in the FBI files and that which may go into those files in

the future.

The Committee looks forward to a constructive exchange

of views with Director Kelley this morning, with Attorney •

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General Levi tomorrow,

and with both the FBI and the Justice

Department in the next months as the Committee considers

recommendations that will strengthen the American people's

confidence in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. That

confidence is vital for the effective enforcement of Federal

law and for the security of the nation against foreign

espionage.

Director Kelley, we are pleased to welcome you, and if

you would have a prepared

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STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE CLARENCE M. KELLEY,

DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Mr. Kelley. Thank you very much, Senator Church and

gentlemen.

I welcome the interest which this Committee has shown in

the FBI and most particularly in our operations in the intelli-

gence and internal security fields.

I share your high regard for the rights guaranteed by the

Constitution and laws of the United States. Throughout my

35 year career in law enforcement you will find the same insis-

tence, as has been expressed by this Committee, upon programs

of law enforcement that are themselves fully consistent with

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I also have strongly supported the concept of legislative

oversight. In fact, at the time my appointment as Director of

the FBI and was being considered by the Senate Judiciary

Committee two and one half years ago, I told the members of

that Committee of my firm belief in Congressional oversight.

This Committee has completed the most exhaustive study

of our intelligence and security operations that has ever been

undertaken by anyone outside the FBI other than the present

Attorney General. At the outset, we pledged our fullest

cooperation and promised to be as candid and forthright as

possible in responding to your questions and complying with your

requests.

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I believe we have lived up to those promises.

The members and staff of this Committee have had unprece-

dented access to FBI information.

You have talked to the personnel who conduct security-type

investigations and who are personally involved in every facet

of our day-to-day intelligence operations.

You have attended numerous briefings by FBI officials who

have sought to familiarize the Committee and its staff with

all major areas of our activities and operations in the national

security and intelligence fields.

In brief, you have had firsthand examination of these

matters that is unmatched at any time in the history of the

Congress.

As this Committee has stated, these hearings have, of

necessity, forcused largely on certain errors and abuses. I

credit this Committee for its forthright recognition that the

hearings do not give a full or balanced account of the FBI's

record of performance.

It is perhaps in the nature of such hearings to focus

on abuses to the exclusion of positive accomplishments of the

organization.

The Counterintelligence Programs which have received the

lion's share of public attention and critical comment constituted

an infinitesimal portion of our overall work.

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to conduct a thorough study of the FBI's Counterintelligençe

Programs has reported that in the five basic ones it. found

3,247 Counterintelligence Programs were submitted to FBI

Headguarters from 1956 to 1971. Of this total, 2,370,

less than three fourths, were approved.

I repeat, the vast majority of those 3,247 proposals were

being devised, considered, and many were rejected, in an era

when the FBI was handling an

average of 700,000 investigative

matters per year.

Nonetheless, the criticism which has been expressed

regarding the Counterintelligence Programs is most legitimate

and understandable.

The question might well be asked what I had in mind when

I stated last year that for the FBI to have done less than it

did under the circumstances then existing would have been an

abdication of its responsibilities to the American people..

What I said then, in 1974, and what I believe today, is

that the FBI employees involved in these programs did what they

felt was expected of them by the President, the Attorney General,

the Congress, and the people of the United States.

Bomb explosions rocked public and private offices and

buildings; rioters led by revolutionary extremists laid seige

to military, industrial, and educational facilities; and,

killings, maimings, and other atrocities accompanied such

acts of violence from New England to California.

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The victims of these acts were human beings, men, women,

and children. As is the case in time of peril, whether real or

perceived, they looked to their Government, their elected and

appointed leadership, and to the FBI and other law enforcement

agencies to protect their lives, their property, and their

rights.

There were many calls for action from Members of Congress

and others, but few guidelines were furnished. The FBI and other

law enforcement agencies were besieged by demands, impatient

demands, for immediate action.

FBI employees recognized the danger; felt they had a

responsibility to respond; and in good faith initiated actions

designed to counter conspiratorial efforts of self-proclaimed

revolutionary groups, and to neutralize violent activities.

In the development and execution of these programs,

mistakes of judgment admittedly were made.

Our concern over whatever abuses occurred in the Counter-

intelligence Programs, and there were some substantial ones,

should not obscure the underlying purpose of those programs.

We must recognize that situations have occurred in the

past and will arise in the future where the Government may well

be expected to depart from its traditional role, in the FBI's

case, as an investigative

and intelligence-gathering

agency, and take affirmative steps which are needed to meet

an imminent threat to human life or property.

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In short, if we learn a murder or bombing is to be carried

out now, can we truly meet our responsibilities by investigating

only after the crime has occurred, or should we have the

ability to prevent? I refer to those instances where there is

a strong sense of urgency because of an imminent threat to

human life.

Where there exists the potential to penetrate and disrupt,

the Congress must consider the question of whether or not such

preventive action should be available to the FBI.

These matters are currently being addressed by a task

force in the Justice Department, including the FBI,

and I am confident that Departmental guidelines and controls can

be developed in cooperation with pertinent Committees of Congress

to insure that such measures are used in an entirely responsible

manner.

Probably the most important. question here today is what

assurances I can give that the errors and abuses which arose

under the Counterintelligence Programs will not occur again?

First, let me assure the Committee that some very sub-

stantial changes have been made in key areas of the FBI's

methods of operations since I took the oath of office as

Director on July 9, 1973.

Today we place a high premium on openness, openness

both within and without the service.

I have instituted a program of open, frank discussion

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in the decision-making process which insures that no future

program or major policy decision will ever be adopted without a

full and critical review of its proprièty.

Participatory management has become a fact in the FBI.

I have made it known throughout our Headquarters and

Field Divisions that I welcome all employees, regardless of

position or degree of experience, to contribute their thoughts

and suggestions, and to voice whatever criticisms or

reservations they may have concerning any area of our operations.

The ultimate decisions

in the Bureau are mine, and I take

full responsibility for them. My goal is to achieve maximum

critical analysis among our personnel without in any manner

weakening or undermining our basic command structure.

The results of this program have been most beneficial, to

me personally, to the FBI's disciplined performance, and to

the morale of our employees.

In addition, since

some of the mistakes of the past

were occasioned by direct orders from higher authorities outside

the FBI, we have welcomed Attorney General Edward Levi!s

guidance, counsel, and his continuous availability, in his

own words, "as a 'lightning rod' to deflect improper requests."

Within days after taking office, Attorney General Levi

instructed that I immediately report to him any requests

or practices which, in my judgment, were improper or which,

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the appearances of impropriety.

I am pleased to report to this Committee as I have to the

Attorney General that during my nearly two and one half years as

Director under two Presidents and three Attorneys General, no

one has approached me or made overtures, directly or otherwise,

to use the FBI for partisan political or other improper

purposes.

I can assure you that I would not for a moment consider

honoring any such request.

I can assure you, too, in my administration of the FBI

I routinely bring to the attention of the Attorney General and

the Deputy Attorney General major policy questions, including

those which arise in my continuing review of our operations and

practices. These are discussed openly and candidly in order

that the Attorney General can exercise his responsibilities

over the FBI.

I am convinced that the basic structure of the. FBI today

is sound. But it would be a mistake to think that integrity

can be assured only through institutional means..

Integrity is a human quality. It depends upon the

character of the person who occupies the office of the

Director and every member of the FBI under him.

I am proud of the 19,000 men and women with whom it is

my honor to serve today. Their dedication, their professionalism,

their standards, and the self-discipline which they personally

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demand of themselves and expect of their associates are the

nation's ultimate assurance of proper and responsible conduct

at all times by the FBI.

The Congress and the members of this Committee in

particular have gained a great insight into the problems

confronting the FBI in the security and intelligence fields,

problems which all too often we have left to resolve without

sufficient guidance from the Executive Branch or the Congress

itself.

As in all human endeavors, errors of judgment have been

made. But no one who is looking for the cause of our

failures should confine his search solely to the FBI, or even

to the Executive Branch.

The Congress itself has long possessed the mechanism for

FBI oversight; yet, seldom has it been exercised.

An initial step was taken in the Senate in 1973 when the

Committee on the Judiciary established a Subcommittee on FBI

oversight. Hearings had been commenced, and we were fully

committed to maximum participation with the members of that

Subcommittee.

I laud their efforts. However, those efforts are of very

recent origin in terms of the FBI's history.

One of the greatest benefits of the study this Committee

has made is the expert knowledge you have gained of the complex

problems confronting the FBI. But I respectfully submit that

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those benefits are wasted if they do not lead to the next step,

a step that I believe is absolutely essential, a legislative

charter, expressing Congressional determination of intelligence,

jurisdiction for the FBI.

Action to resolve the problems confronting us in the

security and intelligence fields is urgently needed; and it

must be undertaken in a forthright manner. Neither the Congress

nor the public can afford to look the other way, leaving it to

the FBI to do what must be done, as too often has occurred in

the past.

This means too that Congress must assume a continuing role

not in the initial decision-making process but in the review of

our performance.

I would caution against a too-ready reliance upon the

courts to do our tough thinking for us. Some proposals that

have been advanced during these hearings would extend the role

of the courts into the early stages of the investigative

process and, thereby, would take over what historically have

been Executive Branch decisions.

I frankly feel that such a trend, if unchecked, would

seriously undermine the independence of the Judiciary and cast

them in a role not contemplated by the authors of our

Constitution. Judicial review cannot be a substitute for Con-

gressional oversight or Executive decision.

The FBI urgently needs a clear and workable determination

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of our jurisdiction in the intelligence field, a jurisdictional

statement that the Congress finds

to be responsive to both

the will and the needs of the American people.

Senators, first and foremost, I am a police officer, a

career police officer. In my police experience, the must

frustrating of all problems that I have discovered facing

law enforcement in this country, Federal, state, and local, is

when demands are made of them to perform their traditional

role as protector of life and property without clear and

understandable legal bases to do so.

I recognize that the formulation of such a legislative

charter will be a most precise and demanding

task.

It must be sufficiently flexible that it does not stifle

the FBI's effectiveness in combating the growing incidence

of crime and violence across the United States. That charter

must clearly address the demonstrated problems of the past;

yet, it must amply recognize the fact that times change and

so also do the nature and thrust of our criminal and subversive

challenges.

The fact that the Department of Justice has commenced

the formulation of operational guidelines governing our

intelligence activities does not in any manner diminish the need

for legislation. The responsibility for conferring juris-

diction resides with the Congress.

In this regard, I am troubled by some proposals which

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question the need for intelligence gathering, suggesting that

information needed for the prevention of violence can be

acquired in the normal course of criminal investigations.

As a practical matter, the line between intelligence

work and regular criminal investigations is often difficult

to describe. What begins

as an intelligence investigation may

well end in arrest and prosecution of the subject. But there

are some fundamental differences between these investigations

that should be recognized, differences in scope, in objective

and in the time of initiation. In the usual criminal case, a

crime has occurred and it remains only for the Government to

identify the perpetrator and to collect sufficient evidence

for prosecution. Since the investigation normally follows

the elements of the crime, the scope of the inquiry is

limited and fairly well defined.

By contrast, intelligence work involves the gathering of

information, not necessarily evidence. The purpose may well be

not to prosecute, but to thwart crime or to insure that the

Government has enough information to meet any future crisis

or emergency. The inquiry is necessarily broad because it

must tell us not only the nature of the threat, but also whether

the threat is imminent, the persons involved, and the

means by which the threat will be carried out. The ability

of the Government to prevent criminal acts is dependent on

our anticipation of those criminal acts. Anticipation,

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in turn, is dependent on advance information, that is, intelli-

gence.

Certainly, reasonable people can differ on these issues.

Given the opportunity, I am confident that the continuing need

for intelligence work can be documented to the full satisfaction

of the Congress. We recognize that what is at stake here is not

the interests of the FBI, but rather the interests of every

citizen of this country. We recognize also that the resolution

of these matters will demand extensive and thoughtful

deliberation by the Congress. To this end, I pledge the

complete cooperation of the Bureau with this Committee of

its successors in this important task.

In any event, you have my unqualified assurance as

Director that we will carry out both the letter and the spirit

of such legislation as the Congress may enact.

That is the substance of my prepared statement.

I would also like to say extemporaneously that I note

that on this panel are some gentlemen who were on the Judiciary

Committee which heard my testimony at the time I was presented

to them for candidacy as Director of the FBI. At that time

I took very seriously the charge which may possibly result

in the deliberation of this Committee and of the full Senate.

I have been well aware of the problems of the FBI since that

time. I have also been well aware of the capabilities of

the FBI to discharge those responsibilities. I don't take

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them lightly. I am of sufficient experience and age that I

have pledged myself to do what is good and proper. I say this

not as a self-serving statement but in order that we might

place in context my position within the FBI. I could seek

sanctuary and perhaps a safe sanctuary by saying during the

period these things occurred I was with the local police

department in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to that time,

however, I was in the FBI.

During the time I was with the FBI, during the time I

was with the police department, I continued throughout that

period a close acquaintance with and a strong affection for

the FBI.

I only want to point out that based on those years, based

on those observations, we have here a very fine and very

sensitive and a very capable organization. I feel that there

is much that can still be done. I know that we are not without

fault. I know that from those experiences I have had. We

will not be completely without fault in the future. But I

assure you that we look upon this inquiry, we look upon any

mandate which you may feel you have, that you should look at -

this is good and proper, and we do not intend - I only want

to place in your thinking the fact that you have here a

matchless organization, one which I continue to say was

not motivated in some of these instances, and in most of

them, and I cannot justify some, that the motivation was of the

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best. I am not pleading, as does a defense attorney. I am

only putting in your thinking my objective observations as

a citizen who is somewhat concerned about the future of this

organization. It is too precious for us to have it in

a condition of jeopardy.

Thank you very much.

The Chairman. Thank you, Director Kelley.

I want to turn first to Senator Hart who won't be able

to remain through the whole morning. I think he has one

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Senator Hart of Michigan. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Senator Mathias and I have Judiciary Committee hearings at 10:30.

Iahve several questions, and I'm sure they'll be

covered by others, but the ones that I have is a result of

reading your testimony and listening to it this morning, and

it relates to your comment at the foot of page 10 and at the

top of 11.

There you are indicating that you caution us about

extending the court's role in the early stages of investigations

suggesting that this might take us beyound the role comtemplated

for the courts under the Constutution.

Now as you have said, aside from the so-called national

security wiretap problem, the main focus of our discussions

and concern has been on the possibility requiring court

approval for the use of informants, informants directed to

penetrate and report on some group.

And one of the witnesses yesterday, Professor Dorsen,

pointed our that really those informants are the most pervasive

type of an eavesdropping device. It is a human device. It's

really, an informant is really more intrusive on my privacy

than a bug or a tap because he can follow me anywhere. He

can ask me questions to get information the government would

like to have.

Now we certainly involve the courts in approval of the

wiretaps for physical searches with the intent of the drafters

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of the Constitution to have a neutral third party magistrate

screen use of certain investigative techniques. And the

informant is such a technique. He functions sort of like a

general warrant, and I don't see why requiring court approval

would violate the role envisaged for the courts.

And as I leave, I would like to get your reactions to

my feelings.

Mr. Kelley. I do not feel that there is any use of the

informant in intrusion, which is to this extent objectionable.

It has of course been approved, the concept of the informant,

by numerous court decisions.

Let us go down not to the moral connotation of the use

of the informant.

I think, as in many cases, that is a matter of balance.

You have only very few ways of solving crimes. You have

basically in the use of the informant, I think, the protection

of the right of the victim to be victimized. You have within

the Constitution certain grants that are under ordinary

circumstances abrogation of rights. The right of search and

seizure, which, of course, can't be unreasonable, but none-

theless, you have the right.

I think that were we to lose the right of the informant,

we would lose to a great measure our capability of doing our

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unusual procedure. I'm not even going to say that it is not

an intrusion, because it is. But it has to be one. I think

that is by virtue of the benefits must be counted.

We don't like to use it. We don't like the problems that

are attendant. We take great care.

Now you say about the court having possibility taking

jurisdiction over them and guiding. I think that possibly we

could present the matter to the court but what are they going

to do insofar as monitoring their effort? Are they going to

have to follow it all the way through?

Also, there is; of course, urgency in the other contacts.

Must the court be contacted for each and approval of the court

given for each contact?

There are a great many problems insofar as administration

of it.

• I frankly feel, and again, all I can do is give you my

idea -- I frankly feel that there is a satisfactory control over

the informants as we now exercise it today. Yes, there are

going to be some who will get beyond our control, but this

is going to happen no matter what you do.

Senator Hart of Michigan.

Well, I appreciate your

reaction.

I was not suggesting that there is consideration here to

prohibit informants. I was reflecting a view that I felt and

hold that the use of an informant does require some balance, as

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you yourself said, and I would be more comfortable with a

third party making a judgment as to whether the intrusion is

warranted by the particular circumstance. But I do understand

your position.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The Chairman. Thank you, Senator Hart.

(Senator Hart leaves the hearing room.)

The Chairman. Senator Baker, do you have questions?

Senator Baker. Mr. Chairman, thank you very much.

Mr. Kelley, I have a great respect. for you and your

organization and I personally regret that the organization is

in political distress, but we've both got to recognize that

it is, along with other agencies and departments of the

government.

I think you probably would agree with me that even though

that is extraordinarily unpleasant and in many respects

unfortunate, that it also has a plus side. That is, it gives

us an indication of our future direction and the opportunity,

at least, to improve the level of competency and service of

the government itself.

With that hopeful note, would you be agreeable then to

volunteering for me any suggestions you have on how to improve

the responsiveness of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or

indeed, for any other law enforcement agencies of the government,

to the Congress, to the

Attorney General, to the President, and

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beyond that, would you give me any suggestions you have on

how you would provide the methods! the access, the documents,

the records, the authority, for the Congress to perform its

essential, I believe,

essential oversight responsibility to

see that these functions, these delicate functions are being

undertaken properly?

And before you answer, let me tell you two or three things

I am concerned about.

It hasn't been long ago that the FBI Director was not

even confirmed by the Senate of the United States. I believe

you are the first one to be confirmed by the Senate of the

United States. I think that is a movement in the right

direction. I think the FBI has taken on a stature that, an

additional importance that requires it to have closer supervision

and scrutiny by us.

At the same time

I rather doubt that we can become

involved in the daily relationship between you and the Attorney

General.

Therefore, I tend to believe that the Attorney General

needs to be more directly involved in the operations of the

I would appreciate any comments on that.

Second, I rather believe that major decisions of the

intelligence community and the FBI ought to be in writing, so

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look at these decisions and the process by which they were

made to decide that you are of you are not performing your

services diligently.

I don't think you can have oversight unless you have

access to records, and in many cases records don't exist

and in some cases the people who made those decisions are now

departed and in other cases you have conflicts.

How would you suggest then that you improve the quality

of service of your agency? How would you propose that you

increase the opportunity for oversight of the Congress of the

United States? What other suggestions do you have for improving

the level of law enforcement in the essential activity that

is required?

Mx. Kelley. I would possibly be repetitious in answering

this Senator, but I get a great deal of pleasure from telling

what I think is necessary and what I hope that I have followed,

one which is beyond my control, but which I think is very

important is that the position of Director, the one to which

great attention should be paid in choosing the man who will

properly acquit himself.

I feel that the Judiciary Committee, at least in going

over me, did a pretty good job. I feel that it is most

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that he be willing to, for example, go through oversight with

no reticence, and that I think that he should be chosen very

carefully.

I think further that he should be responsible for those

matters which indicate impropriety or illegality.

Senator Baker. Could you stop for just a second? who

does he work for? Does the Director, in your view, work for

the President of the United States, for the Attorney General,

for the Justice Department, for the Executive Branch?

Who does the executive. of the FBI, the Director of the

FBI, be responsible to, who should he be responsible to?

Mr. Kelley. Jurisdictionally, to the Attorney General,

but I think this is such an important field of influence that

it is not at all unlikely that we can expand it to the

judiciary, the legislative, and of course, we are under the

Attorney General.

Senator Baker. Do you have any problems with the idea

of the President of the United States calling the Director of

the FBI and asking for performance of a particular task?

Does that give you any difficulty? Or do you think that

the relationship between the FBI Director and the President

is such that that is desirable, or should it be conduited

through the Ittorney General?

Mr. Kelley. I think it should be in the great majority

of the cases conduited through the Attorney General. There

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has been traditionally some acceptance of the fact that if

the President wants to see and talk with the Director, he

may do so, call him directly.

It has been my practice in such an event to thereafter

report to the Attorney General, whoever it might be, that I

have been called over and I discussed and was told. And this

was revealed in full to them.

Senator Baker. I suppose we could pass a statute that

says the President has to go

through the Attorney General,

although I rather suspect it vould be a little presumptuous.

But to go the next step, do you think it is necessary

for the pursuit of effective oversight on the part of the

Congress, to have some sort of document written, or at least

some sort of account of a Presidential order or an order of

the Attorney General given to a Director of the FBI?

Do you think that these things need to be handled in

a more formal way?

Mr. Kelley. Personally, it would be my practice in

the event I receive such an order, to request that it be

documented. This is a protection as well as a clarification

as to whether or not it should be placed as part of legislation.

I frankly would like to reserve that for some more considera-

tion.

I don't know whether it would be, but I think that it

can be worked very easily.

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Senator Baker. Mr. Kelley, Attorney General Levi, I

believe, has already established some sort of agency or

function within the Department that is serving as the equivalent,

I suppose, of an Inspector General of the Justice Department,

including the FBI.

Are you familiar with the steps that Mr. Levi has

taken in that respect? I think he calls it the Office of

Professional Responsibility.

Mr. Kelley. Yes, sir, I'm familiar with it.

Senator Baker. Do you have any comment on that? Will

you give us any observations as to whether you think that

will be useful, helpful, or whether it will not be useful or

helpful, how it affects the FBI, how you visualize your

relationship to it in the future?

Mr. Kelley. I don't object to this, which is to some

extent an oversight within the Department of Justice under the

Attorney General.

Frankly, it just came out. I have not considered it

completely, but to the general concept, yes, I very definitely

subscribe.

Senator Baker. How would you feel about extending that

concept of government-wide operation, a national Inspector

General who is involved with an oversight of all of the

agencies of government as they interface with the Constitutionally

protected rights of the individual citizen? Would you care

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Mr. Kelley. I would like to reserve that one.

Senator Baker. I'm not surprised. Would you think about

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Mr. Kelley. I will..

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The Chairman. Senator Huddleston.

, Senator Huddleston. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Mr. Kelley, you describe on page 4 the conditions that

existed when much of the abuse that we have talked about during

this inquiry occurred, indicating that the people within the

Bureau felt like they were doing what was expected of them

by the President, by the Attorney General, the Congress and

the people of the United States.

Does not this suggest that there has been a reaction

there to prevailing attitudes that might have existed in the

country because of certain circumstances rather than any

clear and specific direct instructions that might have been

received from proper authorities? And if that is the case,

is it possible in developing this charter, this guideline,

to provide for that kind of specific instruction?

Mr. Kelley. I think so, yes. I think that they can

logically be incorporated and that --

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danger if any agency is ldft to simply react to whatever the

attitudes may be.at a specific time in this country because ..

Mr. Kelley. Senator, I don't contemplate it might be

a continuing danger, but it certainly would be. a very acceptable

guidepost whereby we can, in the event such a need seems

to arise, know what we can do.

Senator Huddleston. Well, in pursuing the area which

Senator Hart was discussing, that is whether of not we can

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ally in protecting individual's rights, can't we also

provide the restrictions and guidelines and the various

techniques that might be used?

For instance, supposing we do establish the fact, as

has already been done, that informants are necessary and

desirable. How do we keep that informant operating within the

proper limits so that he in fact is not violating individual

rights?

Mr. Kelley. Well, of course, much of the reliance must

be placed on the agent and the supervision of the FBI to assure

that there is no infringement of rights.

Senator Huddleston. But this is an aware we've gotten

into some difficulty in the past. We have assumed that the

particular action was necessary, that there was a present

threat that some intelligence programs should be initiated, but

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in many cases it has gone beyond what would appear to have been

necessary to have addressed the original threat.

How do we keep within the proper balance there?

Mr. Kelley. Well, actually, it's just about like any

other offense. It is an invasion of the other individual's

right and it is by an officer and an FBI agent is an officer.

There's the possibility of criminal prosecution against him.

This is one which I think might flow if he counsels

the informant.

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I don't suppose that would warrant prosecution, but there is

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basis.

Senator Huddleston. It brings up an interesting point

as to whether or not a law enforcenent agency ought to be

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Mr. Kelley. Well, I don't know what you're referring

to but I would think your statement is proper.

Senator Huddleston. Well, we certainly have evidence

of unlavful activity taking place in various projects that

have been undertaken, which certainly were not brought to

light willingly by the FBI or by other law enforcement agencies!

The question that I'n really concerned about is as

we attempt to draw a guideline and charters that would give

the Agency the best flexibility that they may need, a wide

range of threats, how do we control what happens within each

of those actions to keep them from going beyond what

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Mr. Kelley. You're still speaking of informants.

Senator Huddleston. Not only informants but the agents

themselves as they go into surveillance, wiretaps, or whatever

intelligence gathering techniques.

The original thrust of my question was, even though we

may be able to provide guidelines of a broad nature, how do

we control the techniques that might be used, that int themselves

might be used, that in themselves might be a serious violation

of the rights.

Mr. Kelley. Well, first, I don't know whether it's

germane to your question but I do feel that it should be pointed

out that the association to, the relationship between the

informant and his agent handler is a very confidential one,

and I doubt very seriously whether we could have any guide-

lines, where there might be an extension of any monitors here

because thereby you do have a destruction of that relationship.

Insofar as the activities of agents, informants of others

which may_be illegal, we have on many occasions learned of

violations of the law on the part of informants, and either

prosecuted ourselves, through the reporting of it to the

United States Attorney, or turned it over to the local authority.

We have done this on many a time, many occasions. Insofar

as our own personnel, we have an internal organization, the

Inspection Division, which reviews this type of activity, and

if there be any violation, yes, no question about it, we would

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Senator Huddleston. But it could be helped by periodic

review.

Mr. Kelley. We do, on an annual basis, review the

activities of our 59 offices through that same Inspection

Division, and they have a clear charge to go over this as well

as other matters.

Senator Huddleston. Mr. Kelley, you pointed. out the

difference in the approaches when gathering intelligence, in

gathering evidence after a crime has been committed.

Would there be any advantage, or would it be feasible to

attempt to separate these functions within the Agency, in the

departments, for instance, with not having a nixing of

gathering intelligence and gathering evidence? Are the techniques

definable and different?:

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see no objection to the way that they are now being handled

on a management basis. I think, as a matter of fatt, it is

a very fine association whereby the intelligence, stemming as

it does from a substantive violation, is a natural complement.

Senator Huddleston. Now, another area, the FBI furnishes

information to numerous government agencies.

Is this properly restricted and controlled at the present

time in your judgment as to just who can ask the FBI for

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who might also be inclined to call the Director and ask him

to do specific things?

Could there be some clearcut understanding as to whether

or not the Director would be obligated to undertake any such

project, that just anybody at the White House might suggest?

Mr. Kelley. It's very clear to me that any request must

come. from Mr. Buchen's office, and that it be, in any case,

wherein it is a request for action, that it be followed with

a letter so requesting.

This has come up before during the Watergate hearings, as

I think it has been placed very vividly in our minds, in

take care that you just don't follow the request of some .

underling who does not truly reflect the desire of the President.

Senator Huddleston. Just one more question about

techniques, aside from the guidelines of authority on broad

projects undertaken.

Would it be feasible from time to time in a Congressional

oversight committee, would be able to discuss with the Department,

with the Bureau various techniques so that they could have

some input as to whether or not these actions are consistent

with the overall guidelines, to start with, and consistent

with the very protections?

Mr. Kelley. Senator, I have already said.to.the

oversight committee of the Senate that so far as I can now

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on the use of that information once it has been supplied by

the FBI?

Mr. Kelley. I think so, Senator.

Senator Huddleston. You think there are proper restrictions

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in all cases whether or not there is good and sufficient reason

for an Agency to inquiry. I think that there should be a

very close delineation by the agencies as to what they're

going to ask for, but I think that we do have sufficient rules

that at least to us we are satisfied.

Senator Huddleston. You're confident that the information

your agency supplies is not being misused, to the detriment

of the rights of any individuals.

Mr. Kelley. Senator, I'm only confident in what I

do myself. I would say that I am satisfied.

Senator Huddleston. I was wondering whether some

inclusion ought to be made in whatever charter is made as to

who specifically can request, what limits ought to be placed

on what the request, and what they can do with it after they

get it.

Mr. Kelley. Yes.

Senator Huddleston. I have some concern about the fact

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individual that is useless as far as the intent of the intelli-

gence gathering is concerned, but might be in some way embarras-

sing or harmful to the individual, whether or not there's any

effort to separate this kind of information out of a person's

file that is really initiated for a purpose, for a specific

purpose unrelated to this information.

Is there any effort, or could any direction be given to

doing that?

Mr. Kelley. We would be very happy to work under the

guidelines or rules or anything else to purge material which

is extraneous, irrelevant, or for any other reason objection-

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informants. We'll discuss techniques, we'll discuss our

present activities. I think this is the only way that we can

exchange our opinions and get accomplished what you want to

accomplish and what I want to accomplish.

Senator Huddleston. I feel that is an important aspect

of it because even though you have a charter which gives broad

direction for all the guidelines and to the types of projects

that enter into it, if we don't get down to specifics, such

things as how intelligence is to be collected, how evidence

is to be collected, what is done after it is collected, this

type of thing, it seems to me we are leaving a wide gap

again for the Bureau to assume that it has total instruction

and total permission to move in a certain direction and go

beyond what is intended or what was authorized.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Mr. Director.

The Chairman. Senator Goldwater?

Senator Goldwater. Mr. Kelley, as part of the FBI

electronic surveillance of DI. King, several tapes of

specific conversations, and later a composite King tape were

produced.

Are these tapes still in the possession of the FBI?

Mr. Kelley. Yes, sir.

Senator Goldwater. Have they been reviewed by you?

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Mr. Kelley. Senator, I think that they have been reviewed.

I know that at least some have reviewed it within the area of

this particular section. There has been no review of them

since I came to the FBI, I can tell you that.

Senator Goldwater. Would these tapes be available to

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MI. Kelley. This, Senator Goldwater, is a matter which is

of, as I said before, some delicacy, and there would have to

be a discussion of this in an executive session.

The Chairman. I might say in that connection that the

Committee staff gave some consideration to this matter and •

decided that it would compound the original error for the

staff to review the tapes, because that would be a still

further invasion of privacy, and so the staff refrained from

insisting on obtaining the tapes, believing that it was

unnecessary, and quite possibly improper, in order to get at

what we needed to know about the King case.

So the staff did refrain, and for that reason the issue

never came to a head. I just wanted to lay that information

before the Senator.

Senator Goldwater. I realize that's a prerogative of

the staff, but it's also the prerogative of the Committee if,

and I'm not advocating it, if we wanted to hear them to

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or whether there was, in effect, some reason. Again, I am

not advocating it, I am merely asking a question. They would

be available if the Committee took a vote to hear them and

decided on it.

Mr. Kelley. I don't think it would be within my juris-

diction to respond to this, Senator. It would have to be the

Attorney General.

Senator Goldwater. I see.

Now, are these tapes and other products of surveillance

routinely retained even äfter an individual ceased to be a

target of inquiry?

Mr. Kelley. They are retained usually for ten years.

Senator Goldwater. Ten years.

Mr. Kelley. Yes, sir.

Senator Goldwater. What is the future value, if any,

to the Bureau of retaining such information?

Mr. Kelley. If there be guidelines that set out a

destruction or erasure, we will abide by it. We will, on those

occasions where we think that matters might come up within

that period of time which may need the retention of them, we

will express our opinion at that time, but other than that

we would be guided by guidelines.

Senator Goldwater. Is it your view that legitimate

law enforcement needs should outweigh privacy considerations

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the clear guidelines on the destruction of these materials

when the investigation purposes for which they were collected

have been served?

Mr. Kelley. We feel that there should be a good close

look at the retention of material, and we would of course like

to have an input. But we welcome consideration of this.

Senator Goldwater. That is all I have, Mr. Chairman.

you very much.

The Chairman. Thank you, Senator.

Senator Mondale?

Senator Mondale. Mr. Director, it seems to me that the

most crucial question before the Congress is to accept the

invitation of the FBI to draw Congressionally imposed lines,

limits of authority so the FBI will know clearly what you can

and cannot do, so you will not be subject to later judgments,

and the question is, where should that line be drawn?

As you know, in 1924 when the FBI was created, and

Mr. Stone later became the Chief Justice, he drew the line at

criminal law enforcement. He said that never again will we

go beyond the authority imposed upon us to get into political

ideas. We will stay in the area of law enforcement.

Would you not think it makes a good deal of sense to

draw the guidelines in a way that your activities are

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crime, investigations of conspiracies to commit crime rather

than to leave this very difficult to define and control area

of political ideas?

Mr. Kelley. I don't know whether I understand your last

statement of involving the area of political ideas. I say that

I feel that certainly we should be vested and should continue

in the field of criminal investigations as an investigatory

objective. These are conclusions, of course, which are based

on statutes in the so-called security field, national or

foreign.

These are criminal violations. I feel that they should

be in tandem. I feel, having worked many years in this

atmosphere, that you have more ears and eyes and you have

more personnel working together, covering the same fields..

I do not think there should be a separation of the intelligence

matters, because it is a concomitant. It naturally flows

from the investigation of the security matters and the

criminal.

Senator Mondale. Mr: Kelley, what Mr: Stone said was

this, that the Bureau of investigation is not concerned

with political or other opinions of individuals. It is

concerned only with such conduct as is forbidden by the laws

of the United States. When the police system goes beyond

these limits, it is dangerous to proper administration of

justice and human liberty.

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Mr. Kelley. I think that life has become much more

sophisticated and we have added to the so-called policeman's

area of concern some matters which were probably not as important

at that time. I think that the fact that the FBI has been in

touch with the security investigations and the gathering of

intelligence is something which has proved to be at times

troublesome and given us great concern, but it is a viable,

productive procedure.

I don't know what Mr. Stone was thinking of entirely

of this course, but I can tell you about the procedure today:

Senator Mondale. You see, I think you recognize, if

that further step is taken, as you're recommending here, that

at that point it becomes so difficult to guarantee, and in

fact, in my opinion, impossible to guarantee that we won't

see a recurrence of some of the abuses that we've seen in

the past, and I don't know how you establish any kind of

meaningful oversight on a function as nebulous as the one

you've just defined.

If the FBI possesses the authority to investigate

ideas that they consider to be threats to this nation's

security, particularly in the light of the record that we have

seen how that definition can be stretched to include practi-

cally everybody, including moderate civil rights leaders,

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that would provide any basis for oversight?

How can you, from among other things, be protected from

criticism later on that you exceeded your authority of didn't

do something that some politician tried to pressure you into

doing?

Mr. Kelley. It might well be, Senator, that ten years

from now a Director of the FBI will be seated here and will be

criticized for doing that which today is construed as very

acceptable.

Senator Mondale. Correct. And I have great sympathy

for the predicament the FBI finds itself in.

Mr. Kelley. And the Director.

Senator Mondale. And the Director especially, and that is

why I think it's in the interest of the FBI to get these lines

as sharply defined as possible, so that when you are pressured

to do things, or when, after the fact, people with good 20/20

hindsight can criticize you or the Bureau, that you can say

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ally say this, and that is your answer. We have to live by

the law. If we don't define it specifically, it seems to me

that these excesses could reoccur, because I don't think it's

possible to define then, and the FBI is inevitably going to

be kicked back and forth, depending on personal notions of what

you should have done.

Don't you fear that?

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great lesson by virtue of Watergate, the revelations that have

come up as a result of this Committee's inquiries, the fact

that I think that we have a different type of spirit today

in the Bureau, the fact that, as I said before, you came in,

that I think the Bureau is a matchless organization, and they

are eager to do that which is vital and proper, and the fact

that we are getting a number of very fine young people in the

organization, people of the other ethnic backgrounds than we •

had years ago. I think there is a greater understanding in

the Bureau today of what is the proper type of conduct.

We may not be able to project this on all occasions,

because we must equate this with the need and with our

experience, but if the precise guidelines be the goal, you're

going to have trouble. If, on the other hand, there be a

flexibility, I think that we can work very well within those

guidelines.

Senator Mondale. I think, as you know, I don't think

there is a better trained or higher professionally qualified

law enforcement organization in the world than the FBI. I

think we all agree it is superb. But the problem has been,

from time to time, that when you go beyond the area of

enforcing the law into the area of political ideas, that you

are subject to and in fact you leave the criminal field, you

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and where you are almost inevitably

going to be subjected to fierce criticism in the future, no

matter how you do it. Once you get into politics, you get

into trouble.

Mr. Kelley. I agree to that, and I point out that in almost

every branch of the government and in every part, as a matter

of fact, every segment of our society, there are some who deviate

from the normal course. I feel that within the Bureau there is

less likelihood of this to happen, and I think that working

with you we can at least make some achievements that will be

significant.

Now, whether it be lasting, I don't think so, but I

think we've made a good start.

Senator Mondale. In your speech in Montreal on August

9th, you said we must be willing to surrender a small measure

of our liberties to preserve the great bulk of them.

Which liberties did you have in mind?

Mr. Kelley. Well, of course, this speech has been mis-

understood many, many times.

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of the approach which the courts historically have used in

resolving most issues of Constitutional importance, and its

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Amendment, for example, which protects the right of privacy, it

does not prohibit searches and seizures. I mention, it only

refers to those that are unreasonable.

I came from the police fiedd. What is more restrictive

to more people than traffic regulation? But what would be

more chaotic is of you did not have traffic regulation. We

do have to , in order to love in the complexities and

intricacies of today's life, have to give up some of our

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is os, I wish to say that I only was pointing out that there

has to be a balance.

Senator Mondale. So that when you say we have to give

up some liberties, or as you just said, some rights, what you

mean -- let me ask. Let me scratch. that and ask again, you

have to give up some tights. Which rights would you have us

give up?

Mr. Kelly. Well, under the Fourth Amendment you would

have the right for search and seizure.

Senator Mondale. "You wouldn't give up the Fourth Amend-

ment right.

Mr. Kelley. Oh, no not the right.

Senator Mondale. What right do you have in mind?

Mr. Kelley. The right to be free from search and seizure.

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Mr. Kelley. No, no. I do not mean that we should ever

go beyond a Constitutional right guarantee.

Senator Mondale. Well, would you say, Mr. Kelley, that

that sentence might have been inartful in your speech?

Mr. Kelley. I said that if it was misunderstood, I

made a mistake, because I should never make a statement which --

yes, it was inartful.

Senator Mondale. I think I know about your record in

law enforcement well enough to tell you that I think you were

saying something different, that it was taken to mean something

different than I think you intended:

What you are saying is that in the exercise of your law

enforcement powers, the rights of individuals is determined

by the laws and the courts, but the courts, in the handling

of those issues, have to balance rights and other values.

That's what you're essentially saying, is that correct?

Mr. Kelley. Senator, I ought to have you write my

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I have to admit that maybe I made a mistake.

Senator Mondale. What you are saying in effect is that

in effect, the rights: of the American people can be determined

not by the Director of the FBI but by the courts and by the

law.

You meant that.

Mr. Kelley. Indeed, yes, sir.

Senator Mondale.

All right.

Thank you.

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The Chairman.

Senator Hart.

Senator of Colorado. Mr. Kelley, in response to

a question by Senaotr Mondale, one. of his first questions about

laying down guidelines, it seems to me what you were saying was

we could work together:

That is to say the Bureau and the

Congress, lay down guidelines that would not unreasonably

hamper you from investigations of crime control in the

country.

But I think implicit in his question was also an area

that you didn't respond to, and that is how do you, what kind

of guidelines do you lay down to protect you and the Bureau

from political pressure, the misuse of the Bureau by political

figures, particularly in the White House?

And we've had indications that at least two of your

predecessors, if not more, obviously were corrupted and Mr.

Gray was under great pressure from the White House to use

the facilities of the Bureau and their capabilities to accomplish

some plititcal end.

Well, it seems to me you were arguing in favor of fewer

restrictions so you could get on with your job, but that is

not what Senator Mondale and the rest of us are interested in.

What kindof restrictions can we lay down to protect you

from political pressures? I'd be interested in that sign of the

coin, if you would.

Mr. Kelley. I would welcome any guidelines which would

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protect me or any successor from this type of thing. I think

that would be splendid. I have not reviewed the guidelines

as prepared to the present date by the Department. It might

be that they are well defined in there. But I welcome any

consideration of such directives.

Senator Hart of Colorado. Do you think this is a problem?

Mr. Kelley. No, sir, not with me.

Senator Hart of Colorado. Do you think that it has been

a problem for the people that preceded you?

Mr. Kelley. I think so.

Senator Hart of Colorado. And that's a problem the

Congress ought to address?

Mr. Kelley. I think so.

Senator Hart of Colorado. The Committee received a

letter from the Department of Justice a couple of days, the

Assistant Attorney General asking our cooperation in carrying

out the investigation or their efforts to review the investi

gation conducted by the FBI into the death of Martin Luther

King, JI., in order to determine whether that investigation

should be re-opened. They asked our cooperation, they asked

for oux transcripts, the testimony before the Committee, all

material provided to the Committee by the FBI which relates

to DI. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

I guess my question is this: Why is the Justice Depart-

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I think they're asking for what testimony was given by

witnesses whose testimony has not been given up. I don't know.

Senator Hart of Colorado. I'll quote it. "And all

material provided to the Committee by the FBI which relates

to DI. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference."

I repeat the question. Why is the Justice Department

asking this Committee for material provided to us by the

FBI?

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Mr. Kelley. Frankly, I don't know. Do you mind if I

just ask -

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Mr. Kelley. I am informed, and I knew this one.

Everything that was sent to you was sent through them. Did

they have a copy also?

Yes, they had a retained copy. I

don't know why.

Senator Hart of Colorado.

So there's nothing you

provided us that's not available to the Justice Department?

Mr. Kelley. That's right.

Senator Hart of Colorado. And you can't account for why

an official of the Justice Department would ask this Committee

for your records?

Mr. Kelley. No, sir.

Senator llart of Colorado. You released a statement on

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program and you said you made a detailed study of COINTELPRO

activities and reached the following conclusions, and I quote:

"The purpose of these counter-intelligence programs was

to prevent dangerously and potentially deadly acts against

individuals, organizations

and institutions both public

and private across the United States."

Now we had an FBI informant in the other day before this

Committee and he stated he told the FBI on a number of

occasions he planned violent acts against black people in

groups. And yet, he said few, if any, instances in which the

FBI actually prevented violence from taking place.

How does his testimony square with your statement that

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Mr. Kelley. It doesn't, and I don't know if any of

his statements contrary to what we have said is the truth.

We don't subscribe to what he said. We have checked into it

and we know of no instances where, for example, 15 minutes

and that type of thing has been substantiated.

Senator Hart of Colorado. You're saying the testimony

he gave us under oath was not accurate?

Mr. Kelley. Right.

Senator Hart of Colorado. You also said in that statement,

and I quote: "I want to assure you that Director Hoover did

not conceal from superior authorities the fact that the FBI

was engaged in neutralizing and disruptive tactics against

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revolutionary and violence-prone groups.

Now the Committee has received testimony that the New

Left COINTELPRO programs was not in fact told to higher

authorities, the Attorney Gereral and Congress.

Do you have any information in this regard?

I know in that statement you cite onw or two instances,

but in terms of the bulk of COINTEL programs, the record

seems to date at least to be clear that there was not systematic

information flowing upward through the chain of command to

Director Hoover's superiors:

Mr. Kelley: May I ask that I be given the opportunity

to substantiate that with documentation?

Senator Hart of Colorado. Sure.

Mr.. Kelley: Or respond to it.

Senator Hart of Colorado. Dorector Kelley, just in

passing, do you agree with the statement made by President

Ford that those responsible for harassing and trying to destroy

DI. King should be brought to justice.

MI. Kelley. Those who directly responsible and upon whose orders

the activities were taken responsible. I don't know if he intended to say

that, but if he did not, I would say that it would be more proper. Insofar

as my own opinion is concerned, that it be centered on those who said

to do it and those who are responsible.

I took the responsibility for any such program and I

don't expect that those under me would be not acting in

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some reservation, but they do it on my orders. I accept that

responsibility.

I think that it should rest on those who instructed that

that be done.

Senator Hart of Colorado. But you agree that the people

who give the orders should be brought to justice.

Mr.. Kelley. I do.

The Chairman. Aren't they all dead?

Mr. Kelley. No.

The Chairman. Not quite?

Mr. Kelley. Not quite.

Senator Hart of Colorado.

That's all, Ir. Chairnan.

The Chairman. Thank you, Senator.

Director Kelley, in the Committee's review of the

COINTELPRO program and other political involvements of the

FBI, it seems to me that we have encountered two or three

basic questions.

Since the investigation is over insofar as the Conmittee

is concerned, we're now turning our attention to remedies for

the future, what I would think would be our constructive

legislative work, it is very important that we focus on what

we learned in that investigation.

And one thing that we have learned is that Presidents of

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obtain for them certain kinds of information by exercising the

necessary surveillance to obtain. and to have a purely

political character, that they simply wanted to have for their

own personal purposes.

I think that you would agree that that is not a proper

function of the FBI, and you agree.

Yet it's awfully difficult for anyone in the FBI,

including the Director, to turn down a President of the United

States if he receives a direct order from the President. It

is always possible, of course, to say no, and if you insist,

I will resign. But that puts a very hard burden on any man

serving in your position, particularly if the President puts

a good face on the request and makes it sound plausible or

even invents some excuse. It is always easy for him to say,

you know, I am considering Senator White for an important

position in my administration, and I need to know more about

his activities, particularly of late. I've had some cause

for concern and I want to be certain that there is nothing in

his record that would later embarrass me, and I just want you

to keep careful track of him and report to me on what he's

been doing lately.

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President, that's a very questionable activity for the FSI,

and I frankly don't believe that you've given me the real

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to your current policy is politically embarrassing to you and

you want to get something on him.:

I mean, you know, the Director can hardly talk back that

way, and I'm wondering what we cauld do in the way of protecting

your office and the FBI from political exploitation in this

basic charter that we write.

Now, I vant your suggestions, but let's begin with one

or two of mine. I would like your response.

If we were to write into the law that any order given you

either by the President or by the Attorney General should be

transmitted in writing and should clearly state the objective

and purpose of the request and that the FBI would maintain

those written orders and that furthermore they would be

available to any oversight committee of the Congress. If the

joint cormittee on intelligence is established, that committee

would have access to such a file.

So that the committee itself would be satisfied that

orders were not being given to the FBI that were improper or

unlawful.

What would you think of writing a provision of that kind

into a charter for the FBI?

Mr. Kelley. I would say writing into the law any order

issued by. the President that is a request for action by the

Attorney General should be in writing, is certainly, in my

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contemplation of this there would be some that will say yes

of some that will say no, but I think we could define an

area where you are trying to cure the abuses and we could

do that.

Now as to the availability to any oversight committee

of Congress, I would say generally that I certainly would have

no objection to this, but I again, there may be some request

for something of high confidentiality that the President might

put in writing such as some national or foreign security

matter.

I would like to have such a consideration be given a

great deal of thought and that the oversight committee review

be conditioned with that possibility. I don't think it would

present a problem.

I have said previously that I feel I can discuss every-.

thing except the identity of the informants to the oversight

committee. I welcome that.

The Chairman. Well, that has been of course the way we

proceeded with this Conmittee. It has worked pretty well,

I think.

Now Senator Goldwater brought up a question on the

Martin Luther King tapes. I would like to pursue that question.

If these tapes do not contain any evidence that needs

to be preserved for ongoing criminal investigations, and since

DI. King has long since been violently removed from the scene,

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Is there a problem that we can help through new law to enable

the FBI to remove from its files so much of this information

that is has collected that it is no longer needed or may never

have connected the person with any criminal activity? And

yet, all of that information just stays there in the files

year after year.

What can we do? How can a law be changed? If that's

not the problem, then what is? Why are these tapes still down

there at the FBI?

Mr. Kelley. Hell, of course, we do have the rule that

they are maintained ten years. Now why the rule is your

question and why right now are they maintained? Since we

do maintain everything since the inquiry has started and until

that's lifted, ve can't destroy anything.

I would say that this is a proper area for guidelines

or legislation and again, as I have said, there should be

some flexibility and I know that's a broad statement but there

might be some areas wherein that the subject of the investigation

himself may want them retained because it shows his innocence.

I think you have to deliberate this very carefully, but

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to Federal positions. As a matter of fact, the only time I

ever see an FBI agent is when he comes around and flashes his

badge and asks me a question or two about what I know of Mr.

so and so, who's being considered for an executive office.

And we have a very brief conversation in which I tell him that

as far as I know, he's a loyal and patriotic citizen, and that

is about the extent of it.

Then when this file is completed and the person involved

is either appointed or not appointed, what happens to that

file? I know it's full of all kinds of gossip because it is

in the nature of the investigation to go out to his old

neighborhoods and talk to everybody who might have known him.

What happens to the file? Is that just retained forever?

Mr. Kelley. We have some capability of destroying some

files and they are rather lengthy insofar as retention. We

have some archival rules which govern the retention of mateial

and is developed in cases involving certain members of the

Executive Branch of the government.

I see no reason why this would not be a proper area

for consideration of legislation.

The Chairman. Can you give me any idea of how much --

do you have records that would tell us how much time and money

is being spent by the FBI just in conducting these thousands

of routine investigations on possible Presidential appointments

to Federal offices?

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past associations, attitudes and expressions of belief.

I have often wondered whether we couldn't eliminate

routine Federal offices that are not particularly sensitive

in the national security sense from the reach of these FBI

checks.

And so when you respond to the series of questions, I

wish you would include the offices that are now covered by

such checks and give us an idea of how far down into the

Federal bureaucracy this extends.

Could you do that?

Mr. Kelley. Yes,

sir.

The Chairman. Fine.

Now there is a vote.

The vote always comes just at

the wrong time, but Mr. Schwarz wants to ask you some additional

questions for the record, and there may be other questions:

too that would be posed by the staff, after which I will as!:

Mr. Schwarz to adjourn the hearings. It looks like we're going

to be tied up on the floor with votes.

But before I leave I want to thank you for your testimony,

iir. Kelley, and to express my appreciation to you for the

way you have cooperated with the Committee in the course of

its investigation during the past months.

Mr. Kelley. Thank you.

The Chairman. And I hope, as you do, that as a result

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Mr. Schwarz. Mr. Kelley, I'll try to be very brief.

On page 5 of your statement --

Mr. Kelley. What?

Mr. Schwarz. On page 5 of your statement, the third

full paragraph, you said the following, and I would like then

to question about what you said.

"We must recognize that

situations have occurred in the past and will arise in the

future where the Government may well be expected to depart from

its traditional role, in the FBI's case, as an investigative

and intelligence-gathering agency, and take affirmative steps

which are needed to meet an imminent threat to human life or

property."

kind of situation?

Now, by that you mean to take what kind of steps in what

And can you give some concrete examples under your general

principles statement?

Mr. Kelley. I think that Mr. Adams addressed himself to

that the other day, where you have an extremist who is an

employee at the waterworks, and he makes a statement that he's

going to do something which is devastating to the city, and you

have no way to attack this under the ordinary procedures, and

so therefore you must take some steps to meet that imminent

threat to human life or property.

Mr. Schwarz. So let us take that case as a test of the

principle. You are saying the extremist has

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to do something to the waterworks, poison it or something, and

he is on the way down there with the poison in his car.

Is that the presumption?

Mr. Kelley. We hadn't gone that far, but all right, you

can extent it.

Mr. Schwarz. All right, now, in that case you have the

traditional law enforcement tool, which is the power of arrest.

MI. Kelley. Not under probable cause where he has not

gone down there. The hypothetical we gave was one where he had

not taken any overt acts in perpetration of this.

Mr. Schwarz. Well, if he hasn't taken any overt acts,

are you then in what you would call in imminent threat of

human life or property?

Mr. Kelley. I think so.

Mr. Schwarz. How so? Unless he has taken an overt act:

to buy the poison or to get in the car with the poison, there

is not by definition any threat to life or property.

Mr. Kelley. Mr. Schwarz, I've been around in this business.

a long time. I've heard a number of threats which were issued,

and they thereafter materialized into actions. I don't think

take these threats as being empty ones, because so many times

they have been acted upon.

I was criticized one time when there was a threat made to

kill me, and it was said later on, it's not rhetoric, it's

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Mr. Schwarz. But I'm not disagreeing with you.

Mr. Relley. But you are disagreeing with me. You're saying

on the basis of experience that you cannot detect a possible

threat. That's the whole area of concern that we have here, where

we don't lose the capability of doing

something. We don't

say we should initiate ourselves. We say that we should go to

the Attorney General. We do not subscribe to the idea that

we should act independently because maybe we don't have the

judicial review, the capability of determining, but we do

think that we should report it and thereafter see what can

be done.

Mr. Schwarz. Well, have you changed in the course of

our discussion the standard on page 5.

On page 5 you're talking about an imminent threat..

Mr. Kelley. Yes.

Mr. Schwarz. And I hear you now as saying a possible

threat.

Mr. Kelley. An imminent possible threat.

Mr. Schwarz. An imminent possible threat. All right.

Now, would a fair standard for either action, other than

arrest, I don't know what you have in mind, but something to

prevent the person from carrying out his activities, other

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Mr. Kelley. Removing him from his position or whatever

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impossible as possible to perpetuate this thing.

Mr. Schwarz. You mean have him lose his job or --

Mr. Kelley. I don't know what it would be.

Mr. Schwarz. Isolate him in some fashion.

Mr. Kelley. In some fashion perhaps.

Mr. Schwarz. Now, for such activity and for opening

an investigation into a domestic group, could you live with

a standard which said you would have to have an immediate

threat that someone was likely to commit a serious federal

crime involving violence?

Mr. Kelley. I think that this thing could be worked out

so that there could be an adequate basis for an evaluation.

Mr. Schwarz. So those words, without trying to commit

you entirely to them, do not seem to you to depart far from

what you think would be an acceptable standard.

MI. Kelley. Well, an imminent, immediate threat might

be, by virtue of the word "immediate" that he's going to

do it the next minute. In that case it may be necessary for

you to, not with the presence of the possibility, not able

to do anything except put him under arrest or anything.

Mr. Schwarz. Of course, of course.

And nobody would at all disagree with that kind of action.

Mr. Kelley. I don't think they would either.

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Mr. Schwarz. But on the question, let's take the opening

of an investigation into a domestic group.

Is it basically consistent with practicality to make the

test immediate threat of a serious Federal crime involving

violence?

Mr. Kelley. To open a domestic security case.

Mr. Schwarz. Yes.

Mr. Kelley. It appears to me that this is a terrorist

activity, in effect. We certainly have terrorist activities

under our jurisdiction as a threat against the United States.

Mr. Schwarz. Now, are there other circumstances where

it is justifiable to open an investigation of the domestic

group where you do not have an immediate threat of serious

federal crime involving violence?

Mr. Kelley. Oh, I think there are other criteria, and

they have been well defined as to what is the possible

opening, the basis for a possible opening. We haven't been

discussing that, we have been discussing particular instances,

but there are other criteria that are used, yes.

Mr. Schwarz. What would the other criteria be?

Mr. Kelley. Well, the possible statutory violations

over which we have jurisdiction are, generally speaking, the

most used of thebasis, and then you have, of course, some

intelligence investigations which should, of course, be of

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Mr. Schwarz. So that's what you're looking for in the

intelligence investigation?

Mr. Kelley.. By intelligence investigation, yes, you

are looking to prevent.

Mr. Schwarz. And what you are looking to prevent, and

what you're looking to find is a likelihood of action combined

with an intent to take an issue?

Mr. Kelley. And the capability.

Mr. Schwarz. Ana the capability.

All right. I just have two other lines, Mr. Kelley, and

I appreciate very much your time.

Mr. Kelley. That's all right.

Mr. Schwarz. Assuming a legitimate investigation has •

been started into a domestic intelligence matter, is it legiti-

mate for the FBI, in addition to obtaining information that

relates to what we've just been talking about, the likelihood

of violent action, is it also legitimate for the FBI to

collect, A, retain, B, disseminate, C, information concerning

let's say the sex life of a person on the one hand, and the

political views of a person on the other?

Mr. Kelley. I think, Mr. Schwarz, that this is just what

many of our problems and perhaps the guidelines can define

this type of thing. I think probably you will agree that

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ordinarily it's not. And so far as political views, yes, I

think that this could be, if he is espousing some cause of

some view that advocates violence of the overthrow of the

government.

views?

Mr. Schwarz. Would those be the two limits on political

Mr. Kelley. What?

Mr. Schwarz. Would those be the only limits on political

views that you think are okay to collect, advocants of violence

or advocants of overthrow?

Mr. Kelley. Well, I don't think because he's a Democrat

or a Republican it would be anything that would be damaging,

but it might on the other hand counter the report that he's

a member of some other organization.

MI. Schwarz. Is the standard you used on collection of

sex life information, might be relevant? I suppose anything

might be relevant, but don't you think that as a function of

balance, it has to have a high degree of relevance before it's

justifiable to collect that kind of information on American

citizens who are not suspected of having committed crimes?

Mr. Kelley. Insofar as doing it presently, it has been

included in some reports as a result of the requirement that

that is what is required by our rules, that when a person

reports something to us, we do a report of the complaint. Insofar

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I think that we can certainly deliberate on this to see whether

or not this is something we should retain, and we would not

object to anything reasonable in that regard.

Mr. Schwarz. I just have one final question.

Taking the current manual and trying to understand its

applicability laid against the facts in the Martin Luther King

case, under Section 87 there is a -- permission is granted to

open investigations of the infiltration of non-subversive

groups, and the first sentence reads: "When information is

received indicating that a subversive group is seeking to

systematically infiltrate and control a non-subversive group

or organization, an investigation can be opened."

Now, I take it that is the same standard that was used

in opening the investigation of the Southern Christian Leadership

Conference in the 1960s, so that invéstigation could still be

open today under the FBI manual, the current FBI manual.

Mr. Kelley. We are interested in the infiltration of

clearly subversive groups into non-subversive groups inasmuch

as this is a ploy that is used many times, and having infil-

trated, they then get control, and they have a self-laundered

organization which they can use, and not, certainly, to the

benefit of the country.

Mr. Schwarz. But is the answer to my question yes, that

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Mr. Schwarz. All right, then, just one final question.

Do you agree that special care needs to be taken not only

of the standards for initially opening an investigation of a

group, but perhaps extra care needs to be taken when the investi-

gation goes beyond the initial target group to individuals

or people who come into contact with it?

Mx. Kelley. I don't know if I agree with that entirely.

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then investigate people in that non-subversive group, not the

infiltrators, but the non, that we conduct a lengthy investigation

of them without any basis for doing so other than that they

are in an infiltrated group, I would likely have said -- but

off the top of my head I would say probably that's not necessary.

Mr. Schwarz. Thank you very much.

Mr. Smothers. Just a couple of very brief lines of

inguiry, Mr. Kelley.

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Putting aside for one moment the counterespionage

effort, and looking strictly at what we have been calling the

Domestic Intelligence, is it your view that the retention of

this function in the Bureau is critical to the Bureau's

law enforcement position?

Mr. Kelley. My personal opinion is that the Bureau does

a splendid job in this area. I feel further that the background

of criminal investigatory activities and experiences which

all counterintelligence people have is very helpful. It is help-

ful not only in gathering knowledge and experience, it also

enters into this field, a person with a broad understanding

of the rights and privileges, and you don't have so much that

spy type, that cloak and dagger, that very, very secret type

of an operation.

I subscribe to the present system heartily.

Mr. Smothers. Would it be of assistance to your mission

if within the Bureau guidelines were established that

effectively limited access or controlled dissemination of

the intelligence product? In other words, if we had a

situation where the intelligence product is critical to assist

the law enforcement effort, I don't think there's any question

that there should be access to it.

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Mr. Kelley. There

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dissemination, because that just numerically increases-the

possibility of misuse, abuse or slander, libel, or anything

of that matter, and I think that it would be well worthwhile

to review the dissemination rules to make them subject to

close guidance in the guidelines that we're speaking of.

Mr. Smothers. Let me just raise one final area with you.

We talked a little bit about, of a question was raised about

the investigation now being conducted by the Justice Department

regarding the improper actions on the COINTELPRO, and the

King case in particular.

As we look at allegations of impropriety by your personnel!

I think it would be helpful for our record here to have some

insight into the procedure the Bureau would normally follow.

What does the Bureau do when you get an allegation that

an agent or administrative official in the Bureau has behaved

improperly?

Is an investigation conducted internally, or is it

routinely referred to the Justice Department?

Mr. Kelley. There may be a revision in this type of

procedure as a result of the establishment of the Council for

Professional Responsibility. At present it would be in the

great majority of the cases turned over to our Investigative

Division for investigation. There might, on some unusual

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perhaps, of division heads. That is most unlikely, but it is

handled internally at present.

MI. Smothers. Would these internal determinations be

reviewed by Justice, or do you think that is a necessary

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I guess what we are searching for here is, first of all,

I think you answered that, well, to what extent does the

Bureau police itself, and then secondly, is the Department of

Justice involved in the police determinations?

For instance, what if the Attorney General disagreed with.

the assertion that only the higher up officials who ordered

the action against King should be the subject of investigation

and maybe prosecution?

How does the interplay work there between you and Justice?

Mr. Kelley. We do report to the Attorney General those

activities which we construe as improper or possibly illegal.

There is a possibility that the Department, having been advised

of the situation, might take it on their own to do their own

investigating, and this is something that we feel is a

decision to be made only rather rarely, because we feel we

have within our own organization sufficient capability to

handle that. But we do not protest it. It is handled

independently of us.

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MI. Schwarz. Thank you.

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SA FRANK W. WAIKARI, III

HOUSTUDY 75

Re Bureau teletype to WFO, 12/24/75.

On 12/26/75, contact was made with former Assistant

Director FRANK W. WAIKART, II, at his residence, 3407 Weltham

St., Washington, D.C. 20023. At this time, he was made

aware of facts in referenced teletype.

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Reference is made

• to San Francisco nitel, dated 2/23/75,

captioned SENSTUDY 75, which reported that ROBERT LEE LEWIS,

allegedly an investigator for the CHURCH Committee, had been

attampting to get: someone to tastiiy before the cormittee

on the mishandling of the HEARSt case, and Bureau nitel to

and

to set torth leads for an interview of the subject.

Xerox copies of above referenced communications are being

furnished to Wro, Wer York anu. Boston.

Pursuant to Bureau instructions, ED MONIGOMERY was

telephonically contacted at his home.

MONTGOMERY stated

that

he received a telephone call from a third party asking him to

Call ROBERT LEE LEWIS in Washington, D.C.,

as he wanted some

information about the

person answaring said that LENIS was not there.

LEWIS returned

the telephone call to MONIGOMERY, on Sunday, 2/22/76.

(Referenced

San Francisco nitel, dated 2/23/76, contains the information

furnished by MONIGOiERY.)

MONTGOMERY stated that the number

he called was 212-924-7586.

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The San Francisco Office contacted WFO, who advised that

the area code 212 was a New York area code and not Washington,

D.C.

FBI, San Francisco, telephoned the number 212-924-7586.

A male answered the phone and a request was made to speak with

ROBERT LEE LEWIS, who then came to the phone.

The San Francisco

agent identified

himself as an FBI agent to LEwIs and told him

that he was inquiring about the telephone call that had been

made by him to

ED MONTGOMERY, a reporter in san Francisco.

LEWIS admitted making the telephone call and stated that he

did not represent himself to be an investigator for the CHURCH

Committee.

He went on at some length and in a rambling manner

relating to many of his pasi investigative experiences, including

his contacts with EUNICE SHRIVER; a priest at Georgetown;

representatives of the secret service, especially Agent DON

CHACOS, and ochers.

He again denied impersonating a government

investigator;

stated that his life was an open book and that

he would have to contact representatives of the CHURCH Committee

concerning this matter.

He also stated that SA DON CHACOS 0£

Secret Service in Washington, D.C., could vouch for him.

He was told that in all probability that an agent from the New

Yor': Office would contact him for an additional interview.

He stated that would be fine and that he would request that

SA BOB TITTLE Of WEO telephonically advised that

Secret Service Agent DON CHACOS had advised him that he was aware

OE.LEWIS and his

activities and described hir-as..an.over-

zealous, aggressive reporter;

also, that he had received

letter from Senator CHURCH for some

reporting that he had done.?

New York is requested to review enclosed communications,

I in line with Bureau instructions, interview RODERI LEE

LEWIS. He should be cautioned against any further situations

which might lead someone to believe he is a government investigator.

There does not appear to be anything of value obtained by

LEWIS in this matter,

There does

not seem to be any reason to

present this case to the USA. It is believed by San Francisco

that upon completion of the interview by New York that this

case should be closed.

Information copy furnished Boston inasmuch as they

had a similar situation concerning ROBERT LEE LEWIS, 8/75.

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ATTENTION :

LEGAL COUNSEL DIVISION

SAC, SAN FRANCISCO (62-6887)

FROM:

SENSTUDY 75

ON FEBRUARY 23, 1976, A SOURCE OF THE OAKLAND RESIDENT

AGENCY REPORTED THAT ROBERT LEE LEWIS, INVESTIGATOR FOR THE

CHURCH COMMITTEE, HAD BEEN TRYING TO GET SOMEONE IO TESTIFY

BEIJRE THE COMMITTEE ON THE MISHANDLING OF THE HEARST CASE.

HE WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH ED MONTGOMERY,

A RETIRED EXAMINER REPORTER, AND POSSIBLY THE HEARSTS.

•" SAC"BATES HAS BEEN PERSONALLY• ACQUAINTED. WITH MONTGOMERY

FOR MANY YEARS. HE CALLED MONTGOMERY AND ASKED HIM CONCERNING

THE ABOVE..... MONTGOMERY SAJD THAT HE HAD RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL

FROM

THIRD PARTY ASKING HIM TO CALL LEWIS IN WASHINGTON AS

HE WANTED ADVERSE TESTIMONY ABOUT THE FBI. MONTGOMERY CALLED

AND WHEN UNABLE TO SPEAK WITH LEWIS AND AFTER BEING ADVISED OF

WHAT LEWIS WANTED, HE HUNG UP. ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1976,

*LEWIS CALLED MONTGOMERY: HÈ TOLD MONTGOMERY HE WANTED SOMEONE

TO TESTIFY AS TO HOW THE FBI HAD MESSED UP THINGS ON THE WEST

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THE HEARST CASE. MONTGOMERY TOLD LEWIS HE HAD NOTHING IN THIS

REGARD HE COULD TESTIFY TO, THAT THE FBI WAS DOING A FINE JOB,

THAT HE, MONTGOMERY, DID NOT APPROVE OF THE WAY THE CHURCH

COMMITTEE HAD HANDLED ITSELF IN THE PAST AND THAT THEY SHOULD

GET OFF OF THE BACKS OF THE CIA AND THE FBI AND LET THEM GET ON

WITH THE JOB AND THEN HUNG UP.

MONTGOMERY MADE THE COMMENT THAT HE THOUGHT THIS WAS

A TERRIBLE WAY TO ATTEMPT TO GET FACTS. SAC BATES SUGGESTED

TO HIM IF HE FELT SO STRONGLY ABOUT IT, HE SHOULD CONSIDER

WRITING AN ARTICLE FOR THE EXAMINER AS TO THE APPROACH MADE

TO FLY BY WE CONNIE, HANTEOHERY RETIRED SETERAL MORE

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NATE OF ROBERT LEE LEWIS EMPLOYED AS AN INVESTICATOR FOR THE

CHURCH COMMITTEE. IN VIEN THAT LEWIS HAS IMPERSOTRTED A

GOVERNMELT INVESTIGAIOR AND HAS ATISMPIED TO OSTAIN INFORMATION

•THROUGH THIS IMPERSONATION; YOU ARE INSIRUCIED TO IMEDIATELY

CONDUCT APPPOPRIATE IMPERSONATION INVESTIGATION, POSITIVELY

• IDENTIFY LEWIS, DOTAI: TELEPHONE HUNGER OF LEXIS FROM ED

MONTGOMERY, AND SET FORIN LEADS FOR NO TO HANDLE INTERVIEW

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