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- W. R. Gilbert to Mr. Monroe Memorandum Re: ATKID most of the target bridges. As a result, 18 of the Agents assigned to the ATKID special are occupied in this surveillance leaving the twelve additional Agents to handle the remaining proactive investi- gations being conducted such as the school survey and the processing of several hundred known sex offenders and mental cases that have been compiled by various means. It must be kept in mind that each time a body is recovered, the entire 30 Agents plus many additional Agents from the Atlanta Office then become directly involved in the crime scene usually for two or three days. SAC, Atlanta, is in the process of requesting 14 additional Agents from surrounding offices to assist in the bridge detail for a period of 14 days commencing 5/10/81. This request is being handled separately. Additional personnel have been designated to Atlanta to increase the data base in ISIS for this case. Approximately 1/3 of the investigations have been computerized to date. The coordinators assigned to the special advised that FBIHQ should be made aware of the fact that media representatives will always be directly on top of every recovered body and missing person report due to the tremendous interest in this case. It will, therefore, not be unusual for the media to be publishing the recovery of another body nationally prior to most of the law enforcement officers reaching the scene. Supervisor Mathews provided an example of Jimmy Ray Payne's body being recovered in the Chattahoochee on 4/27/Bl when it was spotted by local fishermen. When the first Agents arrived at the scene, a media helicopter was hovering so close above the body which was snagged on a branch in the river that the resulting disturbance of the water from the helicopter blades threatened to jar the body loose and the body may have been lost at that point. These comments were made by the Agents in an effort to give Headquarters personnel a little of the flavor of the unusual problems that present themselves at each body recovery site. SAC Glover indicated that ongoing problems with the Georgia State Crime Laboratory GSCL! should be resolved in the near future. He anticipates that FBI Laboratory examiners will be allowed full access to all evidence in this case probably on site at GSCL. Recent conclusions of GSCL relative to fiber examinations in cases unrelated to ATKID have raised major questions relative to the importance of the fibers allegedly found on several ATKID victims. Examinations by the FBI Laboratory should do much to resolve this issue and cause refocusing in areas of investigations if necessary. -4- CONTINUED - OVER 92' ..rY"T&