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; - 4 OMVQmaL Hest ND 1 for 5010+ 108 - - * °° UNTTED STATES GOVERNMENT | : , bases. Bite one " Dez AD AcH. .. Bes. AD dav, | Memorandum | ee : Admin, zo rm ; a , fas, AGlsies . . , Ment. : O F : . ins pe chien FROM 5 ¢, Le MeGowan J l - Mr. Gebhardt Ero “a i 1 - Mr. Bates Plon. & Evol. .. t v4 oe Ll o- Mr. HeGowan Spec. Inv. : “ SUBIECT: “HEARNAP le. Ir. Mintz oes ese ve. ' 00: SF man hi - Mr. Gardner ; ; . Talephone Km. — . ° ; : Director Sec’y —. On April 4, 1974, Mr, Frank’ ‘Allen, Deputy Chief, Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, U. S. Department of Justice, was contacted to discuss the feasibility of ae obtaining a warrant for a. viclation of Title 18, Section 241, U. S. Code, for those individuals wno collaborated in the issuance of a death threat against three individuals contacted during the course of our investigation of this case and. who are now apparently thought to be working with or for the FBI by those persons responsible for the kidnaping of Patricia Hearst. The latest tape recording received from the perpetrators contains a threat on the lives of the three individuals; Specifically, " . . . they should be shot on Sight by any of the people's forces when found." fhe . apparent violation of Section 241 involves a conspiracy on og the part of those persons making the threat to interfere : with the rights of those persons against whom the threat was ae directed to furnish informaton to a Federal investigator, or - to furnish information in connection with a Federal ‘a investigation, - Apparently none of the three targeted — we . individuals are informants of this Bureau and when contacted _ by us in connection with the Hearst kidnaping furnished | little or no information. Mr. Allen advised that based upon the above facts sufficient grounds would appear to exist to authorize a filing of a complaint charging those persons involved in ‘making the threats with a violation of Section 241. The authority to authorize a complaint under this section would ° have to come from Deputy Assistant Attorney General K. Willian O'Connor who would authorizé:the local v. Ss. Attorney to proceed with the mechanics of obtaining a warrant. Mr. Allen ‘was of the opinion that in this case if such a procedure were followed the Bureau would have to he prepared to subsequently ‘disclose that information obtained from each of the three persons who received the threat and it would have been necessary for the three persons to have been contacted during the course of an investigation of a violation of law: i.e., _- the Hearst kidnaping. Mr. Allen voiced the opinion that ei a & TMG:sab (6) | CONTINUED - OVER gah wn aan, ates poe 3. 7A ok.