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_ oa ~ ‘ee > 8 Memorandum to Mr. Gebhardt RE: KENFOUR RECOMMENDATIONS OF SAC, CLEVELAND: (1) SAC, Cleveland, recommends that a letter be addressed over the Director's signature to J. Stanley — Pottinger, AAG, CRD, USDJ, bringing to his attention the individual efforts of 4 Departmental employees under his direction in connection with their participation in the prosecutive proceedings of this case. Throughout the re-opening of the investigation, the presentation to the FGJ and those phases preparatory and during the proceedings in USDC, CV, the bulk of the gathering of all of the evidence was under the direction of Robert A. Murphy, Chief, Criminal Section, Civil Rights Division, and his assistants, Paul Lawrence, John Hoyle, and Marjorie Jones. SAC, Cleveland, pointed out that this matter possesse an almost limitless number of witnesses, photographs, and other physical evidence. The responsibility of attempting to assess the significance and relevance of each witness, each photograph, and any and all physical evidence required degrees of competence, @iligence, anf dedication not always evident in attorneys in our criminal justice system. However, it is the measured opinion of the CV Office, based upon the almost daily contact with Robert Murphy and his colleagues since the Fall of 1973, that Murphy and each of his above- named colleagues brought to the prosecution of this case the kind of professionalism which would warrant their efforts | brought to the attention of the Director. SAC, Cleveland, feels that such a commendation letter from the Director would not suggest any implication or inference one way or another in regard to the Bureau's opinion on the decision to re-open and prosecute this matter or the outcome which has brought this matter to a close. In their continuous contact with the case Agent in tI matter, each of the above Departmental officials has expressed ' high regard for the Bur eau's work product and Rureau personnel , it is felt each would value such a letter concerning his association with one of the most important, if not the most important, cases each has been associated with. "3 { —~2- CONTINUED - OVER _@ et et yee or nee = ois, 2 eseerser es. ™ te eae ween - nl : 7 :