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OPTIONAL FORM HO 10 3010-106 MAT 1942 EOITION SSA CEN GEG HO 37 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Memorandum aE < if ee TO Mr. DeLoach [* DATE 12/23/69 (LF: ’ Sub ee tee, Tacet cROM 1 Mr. DeLoach Severe A. Rosati sy. gy Mr. Rose fatees PERE ee 1- 1- Mr. Gundy — ae 1 e- Mr. — SUBJECT SERGEANT DANIEL GROTH AND OTHERS, 1 - Mr. bIC E OFFICERS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; 7 Aw es FRED MPTON, MARK®CLARK, ET AL ~ VICTIMS 4 R Ss r CIVIL RIGHT en a Y With respect to the comment attributed to Cook County, Illinois States' Attorney Edward V. Hanrahan relative to the killing and wounding of Black Panthers by Chicago Police Officers on 12/4/69 which appeared in the Washington Post 12/20/69, the article indicates that Hanrahan insisted that his men had offered to cooperate and U. S. Attorney Thomas Foran said that Hanrahan did make his men available. The facts are that Hanrahan, when con- ‘ tected by the SAC in Chicago on 12/13/69, advised that he would ; make the officers available for interview provided that an official from his office was present during the interviewg and that copies of the results of the interviews (either signed statement or interview report form) were made available to him or the officer interviewed, A Justice Department source is quoted in the article “as having stated that Hanrahan refused to permit his police to . be questioned unless a member of his staff was present. The i 4 conditions which he set: as well as those set by the Panthers Attorney, who would not cooperate at all, resulted in the | decision of the Department in deciding to go before a Grand Jury. }37¢ ACTION: For information. f f <a ns hay 0 (S Wh Oe int bees