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um. TOLSON . CS _ ut tad : a. do it and handle the investigation and did not need Department attorneys — looking over its shoulder. I told him this was correct. He said thats the AP dispatch was not complete and did not cover other things that the . 4G said. I told him that, regardless of what was said, the public and. | papers like the Times would go on what was released in the AP dispatch, and certainly this gave another opportunity for such papers to attack | the Bureau on the inference that the FBI was not doing its job, had to.be forced into the job, and was prone’ ta jealousy. I told Mr. Hundley that I wanted to make it clear that the Director and the Bureau were outraged by this situation and felt that we were being knifed in the back, despite the continuous and strenuous campaign we had been conducting in the fieid of organized crime. I told him the Director had been in touch with the AG concerning this this morning, to express his feelings on the matter, j During the discussion, when we were referring to any diminution. in reports to the Organized Crime Section and I was pressing Mr. Hundley, he stated that there had been a cutdown in the intimate details of our investigation in out investigative reports sent to the Department, but | tthis had nothing to do with the assassination of President Kennedy, [rox the volume of reports or prosecutable information contained in the reports that hac been sent ima over. I told him this was true and he knew why, namely that because of the leak from our report in the Las Vegas skimming operations we had. stopped sending such intimate details to the Department (results of our nicrophone coverage). I told Mr. Hundley we had so advised the Attorney General some time ago. Mr. Hundley was aware of this and stated he had merely raised it because some of the attorneys in the Organized Crime Section would have recognized this change in reports and wondered tot an a rea go eee Te RS UND egg etn ten & ong OAS yy ee bos aes § eo epee re \ ain ath Ly Epes 7 )'tabout it. We made it clear that he does not discuss matters of this *{ with the attorneys in his, sectio dine Ky ; woe - read Lime Dew ae aah 3 Vet i oe I told ilr. HundRey that we \jare going ahead with (ou: ustaided campaign against La Cosa Nostra and other elements of organized crime, although I did not know whether the Long Committee hearings would blunt the weapons we have been able to uSe in this drive. Mr. Hundley said that ; [he had his fingers c:;ossed concerning these hearings. : Condy Sas aye GA, dew ay A LA Yor iniormation. During\t discussibn I did not receive any impression that Mr. Hundiey w re nsible fdr any slanted thinking: ~ . against the Bure u, or that he was,other than cooperative with the Bureau. ee * reece ' a4 . PO pet wd AY an war AA fw \_.... _ i ] . ee TR be OT