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file reviews has show, portions of summaries of the transcripts were widely disseminated among goverrmental officials. These disseminations included a rather comprehensive six volume transmittal by the Bureau in Jaume, 1968. This was at the apparent request of the President through Special Counsel Larry Temple for all information concerning Dr. King, including the instructions and approval of former Attorney General Kennedy regarding the electronic surveillance of King (Mem R. W. Smith to “William Sullivan, Jume 2, 1968, referring to mem DeLoach to Tolson, May 24, 1968, setting forth the President's “yequest). Included with the transcripts were several summaries, previously disseminated, and several hundred pages of Bureau commmications to the White House from 1962 to 1968 regarding King and his associates. The purpose of the White House request was not stated, but it was the mst complete accumulation of transmitted informa- tion on the electronic survelllance of King which we encountered during our review of Bureau files. The task force noted the timing of the alleged White House request and subsequent transmittal particularly in light of