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OSA Theat 41 CHa TOtH Hie . UNITED STATES FERN MENT | Assoc. Die. Dep. AD Adm, — ° Memorandum _ 1 -£. eel oo ES . Comp. Syst. TO ple Kagher.. DATES 4/15/76 - Fis ag eh . . . _ Coat : . ;., Lebsrotory a s oe : 7 7 5 te, ory ob - Mr. “F Lega! Coun. 2 _ “64 ; if it * oy id Mr. £ Pon, & Eval. — \ ening HEARNAP 2/7. 4, 1 Mr. Seen. em —— ws ae 7 l= Mr. “21 Telephone Rm. a Director See'y — “PURPOSE: To set out present status of investigation initiated” i to‘determine if an alleged leak of FBI documents. recat 7 . captioned ‘ case. was in fact” foundeds Bee BA gt ee Pla. “ SYNOPSIS: San- ‘Francisco officeAsk6) advised 4/14/16, that “to date Attorney F. Lee Bailey has not agreed to submitting ‘Indianapolis Attorney James A. Neel, {a Qne-time investigative .. assistant in captioned case for Bailey) “for polygraph examination. : Neel's girlfriend, who accompanied Neel.to’the SF area while... »; - his investigation was being conducted, has refused to be - oad : interviewed by Indianapolis FBI Agents on two occasions. (47 i yen: iBailey, on 4/14/76, stated that he would consider granting wth “polygraph examination*of Neel. after all. interviews of Patricia a : . Hearst have been completed: , Bee, : me uo . "RECOMMENDATION: « "For information.“ iy! “APPROVED: ¥ Comp. Syst... Laboratory._._ ~ Assoc. Dir 4 Ext. Affairs... Legal Coun..__;_ - Dep. AD Adm...._Q® Gen. Inv.GyRYN Plan. & Eval. a , GosDep, Ad Inv. Ident........... pen. _ Rec. Mgmt... : - Asst. Dir.: . « Ingreciion... —— *Srae. LAV eens Admin... pele [ict Training... DETAILS :: niéorgiation furnished on 3/18/76, ‘by “er indicated that he had learned from an indivi uaisidentified as James A. Neel, Indianapolis Attorney, that Neel had:.been “hired by Patricia Hearst's Defense Attorney _F. Lee Bailey, “as’a case investigator for $15,000. Neel “supposedly made the statement that he paid $5,000 of this sum to a “young FBI clerk” for information from the Hearnap a we files. Subsequent investigation conducted. determined that 9°=-..- J&® Neel did conduct some investigation for Bailey in the SF area’ ~*: ‘\ and’ was accompanied by his girlfriend, identified as Christine A. Atompet: 8 Neel has been interviewed at Indianapolis and ee SMa BGS ee J Piha oe . ‘CONT: NUED -. OVER | Sr Se ee NS re de FOF oe, t — eri 9as cane" _gempes. oO, eremee ale 8e