◆ SpookStack

« . : _- at EGTSTEZ A, _ . - 450 Golden Gate Avenue : . Box 36015 . zoe San Francisco, California 941 02 7 7~ May 3, 1978 sas Mr. J. Albert Johnson Fight Whittier Place Charles River Park, _ Boston, Massachusetts (02114 Dear Mr. Johnson: fr - Re UNITED/STATES av Reference. is made to Se tear of of April 24, 1978. In regard to your concer “Over possible release of statements made by your client, Patricia Mearst, to Agents of the Federal Pureau of Investigation (FBI), you are edvised that the testimony sof Agents to whom such statements were mace, as well as written, records made of such statements, would be available in a civil, aétion such as the one you deseribed in —-. -. ‘your letter only through “subpoena. a U.S. Justice Debartment Regulations setting forth proce dures to be followed when a Departrent employee is served with a subnoena ordering records or testimony are. found in - 28 Code of Federal Regulations Section 16.21 et. seq. In accordance, with these rerulations, any subpoena or cemand of court received by this office ordering records or Agents’ testinony rerarding Miss Hearst would be referred, along with all relevant facts and considerations, by this office to the U.S. Attortiey' s 6ffice in San Francisco, which office would in turn request anstruétions from the Justice Department ‘regarding | the.-résponse to said subpoena. Stes “Applicable California State Law reparding the recorpnition of any privilere which might. be asserted by. the Pepartment in resisting a subpoena for Department records or emplovee testirony can be found, among other laces, in California Cvidence Code Section 1040 and the * Galifornia Supreme Court Case People v. Parhan, 60 C.2d ~ 78 (1963). we 4 a1 - Addressee. _ - : _ ‘ -..5an Francisco (7- -855)