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_FROM SUBJECT: ya wt which enables us to depose that the defendant has not been i Prides, 10m wo. 1B mre-iee ar tas pothGe . ~ ya ‘Sree, Tha Gin. era. 00. 37 Nn - . UNITED STATES GC RNMENT © . 2... ae Ae Lie, M i- Mr. W. leveland AER ice iu l-Mr. J. A. Mintz ~~. Asft. Dir.: emoran m 3} - Mr. W. R. Wannall lone on - 1 - Mr. A. B. Fulton Eur atau, i f 1 - Mr. P. T. Blake ren. tore = rib Ly Pad : B B. Fulton fa nie al a ¥ Leborotory Pion. & Eval. Spec. Inv, SAMPLE AFFIDAVIT REFLECTING Yeoining —. NEGATIVE SPECIAL INDICES SEARCH Lege Cocn, .- Telephone Rm. . Pirector Sec’y. . ABE The purpose of this memorandum is to consider whether the court's suggestion concerning. captioned matter as reported by 6/28/74 San Francisco “HEARNAP" \teletype (a copy of which is attached) should be adopted. The teletype notes that United States Attorney James L. Browning, Jr., San Francisco, California, pointed out that the Bureau may be interested in a footnote to a court™ jaca sion involving the Patricia Hearst case, which footnote concerned the testimony of a Departmental attorney to the effect that he had made inquiries of responsible officials of the various Government agencies and had learned that the appellants in this case had not been the subject of any electronic surveillances. The footnote reads, “Because {the Departmertal attorney) was not intimately familiar with the (>. record keepine and practices of other agencies, his testimony in these respects was of a hearsay nature. As this court noted at oral argument and emphasizes here, much time, effort, and expense of parties, attorneys and courts might have been . spared if the Department of Justice and other investigating a’ agencies had worked out in affidavit form a certificate disclosing the several agencies’ method of record keeping in surveillance matters, the method of examination of those records and that, based upon that examination, the affiant's statements were made." woman mers eS The above-suggested procedure would be at vGridkbe2e3 1974 with our current one in that we now furnish an affidavit stating simply that the records of the FBI do not contin any indication that the defendant has been party to a coversation : electronically monitored by the FBI. We do not furnish information regardiry the method of record keeping or examination . + went ce overheard. Jee 1. yyy i! Enclosure NNT OO ¢ 170 JUL 24 4974 _ RHH: rik CONTINUED ~ CVER nel (6) . —— _ . oe . 7 84 Jy 260% 7 | | * :