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Airtel to Director, FBI from SAC, Miami (98-0) (C-3) (C) Re: GREENPEACE ~ INFORMATION CONCERNING occur in FBI investigations. Section III, page 9, of that communication provides: Agents who receive information concerning the exercise of First Amendment rights have not violated the Privacy- Act; it applies only when such information is recorded or preserved in an Agent's notes, report of information or some other medium. At that point, the FBI must be able to demonstrate that such information is “pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity." (YO) Based on the facts that there is no FBI investigation on Greenpeace and that no investigation was initiated (or could have been initiated) on the basis of LCD is of the opinion that retention is not demonstrably pertinent to or within the scope of an authoriz FBI activity. Accordingly, LCD recommends that e removed from the FBI records system and channeled back to the contributor pursuant to established RMD procedures. APPROVED: “OP hem. Servs mm iy on Pubac ALS. eure Det Dit, nem cong. At Of OoAcm. eee % ADE Inve bab atary Of EEO ec