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Page 3 17. Finally, a high level official on the Special Task Force was quoted in the New York Times last July as saying, “The FBI wanted to solve the case themselves.” "'They wanted all the credit, but instead they have made it more difficult to resolve the guilt or innocence of the suspect." What can we do and what can you do to minimize the rivalries, which can disrupt investigations, if the Federal Government is going to get involved more heavily in crimes, which in the past have been left to state and local authorities? 18. You recently responded to an inquiry I made last summer concerning certain allegations surrounding FBI agency misconduct on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. While your response was very forthcoming concerning the details of the allegations, the overall response seems to draw no conclusion from the pattern of activities which were occurring with respect to Indian matters during the mid-1970's. While it is plausible to believe that Special-Agent-In-Charge Trimbach, did forget about the wiretap application, and didn't know that Mr. Hurd had agreed to a2 poly- graph of Mr. Moves Camp, and perhaps Mr. Hurd did forget to turn over to defense lawyers Jencks material provided to him by the FBI, I was still left with the feeling that things were out of control during those days. Was the FBI exerting sufficient Management control over its agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation during those events? 19. In response to another issue, you stated in your report to me that with respect to the investigations of the deaths of Special Agents Coler and Williams, the Department had received various allegations but had not "received any specific information or allegations which had indicated that the FBI conducted any + * . * tr . unlawful searches or conducted the investigation as a reprisal or vendetta." Your August 1979 letter to Civil Rights Commission Chairman Flemming also refers to various general charges of agency misconduct at the Pine Ridge Reservation but to no specific allegations. In light of those statements, I wish again to ask you a question posed in my letter, but not directly answered by your response. Have you, since becoming Director of the FBI, taken any steps to ensure that the constitutional rights and liberties of persons living on Indian Reservations are protected?