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7 58 Or uowaL nen 39 Mtd-1664 *' Oba GEM. GEG, MG. UF ee . ‘ » UNITED STATES GU vERNMENT Asset. g.4 Memorandum save omp. Syst. — : : MR. JENKINS pATE:March 5, 1974 Files B Com, 7 Gen. Inv. Ident, tmapection ~~ Intyth. ‘FROM: E. W. saw! . Lobarotory —_— gx! ars Plan. & Eval. : DIRECTOR'S BUDGET MATERIAL yr wv Seuiey Lew, . Legol Coun. on Tatephone Ren. - Director Soc’y — FISCAL YEAR 1975 vo Bill Van Stavoren, Director, Budget and Finance Staff, Department of Justice, telephoned. He stated that during the Attorney General's testimony before the House Appropriations Committee today several items came up which would be of interest to us prior to Mr. Kelley's appearance tomorrow. . i. The Attorney General was asked as to the status of the FBI's investigation of the bombing of the Capitol. The Attorney General. replied to the effect that _ Chief Kelley would be prepared to answer that question (response attached). 2. There was an extensive discussion of wiretapping. The Attorney General: - responded in rather general terms to the effect that wiretaps are not as prevalent.-.- as generally thought. He said major abuses of wirevapping are by agencies outside” of the Department of Justice, such as Secret Servicc. When asked for statistics the Attorney General answered that he had no specific information but off the top of his head he thought-that last year there were about 800 state authorized wiretaps and 200 Federally authorized wiretaps. The Attorney General is probably referring to statistics reported yearly by the Administrative Office of the U. &. Courts on Title [iI surveillances. We are not aware of what these figures are but as far as th FBI is concerned, we operated Title If installations. under 98 court orders in the calendar year 1973. On page 28 of the suggested statement by the Director we have set out information pertaining to electronic surveillinces in organized crime cases indicating that at the present time we have 9 telephcne surveillances based on authority contained in 3 court orders. Details concerning electronic surveillances in security matters are set out in Exhibit #50 for Bessible off -the xr corey e./ 3. There was some general questioning about the Hearst kidnaping case, to which the Attorney General responded again in general terms to the effect that te FEI had 2 lot of information but was holding back out of consideration for the safety of the victim. The Attorney General was asked whether the Bursau was in a positic i to move in on the kidnapers right now if the circumstances were right and the Attorney General responded that he was not right up to date on current development but he wos sure that Mr.,Kelicy wouic be abie to brief them further on this. aA 73 _ general statement-on 1 the Hearst case appears in Exhibit 58, which may be used cn 1 the zocora. /” y NOT RECORDED | ed EMAR 27 Qt 136.22 20 1974 Ee , a ‘ Hn ALT ACTIPYS , A449 7 WV , : 7 Y