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——e D:Lozch to Mr. Tolson memo Re: Senator Edward V. Long a ~ point that we could not understand----why Bobby and Guthman would be attempting to. embarrass the FBI with the full knowledge that such activities could lead right back - to Bobby and his sponsorship and sanction of widespread usage of microphones <=. - throughout all investigative agencies of the Government. The Attorney General stated that Guthman was not responsible. I told him that I did not share that opinion. ~* : The Attorney General stated that he was aware of the fact that we did not like Guthman, I told him it was not a matter of not liking someone but rather the matter of someone pulling dirty tricks on the FBI The Attorney General made no comment, The Attorney General indicated that he would see Senator ‘Long at 11:00 a.m. this morning. He indicated that from his act of approving the Director's letter to Senator Long last week he felt that we had already seen the Senator. I told him this was correct. He stated that obviously our approach had been very successful. He mentioned that he would like to know what was said to Senator Long so that he could use the same approach this morning. I told the Attorney General that no specific "approach" had been used but that we had merely justified FBI actions in an honest, fair way. The Attorney General stated he would do the same. He said he had received the Director’s memorandum concerning San Francisco activities and that he felt that facts contained therein would be of service to him, He asked me what I thought about leaving the Director's blind memorandum concerning leased line micro- phones on criminal activities in San Francisco with Senator Long. I told him I thought this would be a very bad idea. He stated that he would have trouble rememberiny ali the facts. He thought, therefore, that he would just hand the memorandum to Sei-tor | Long and let him read it.’ He was told that there would appear to be no objection to ‘this as long as he did not let Senator Long retain this memorandum, He stated «.e di {not plan to leave it in Senator Long's hands, I did not tell the Attorney General wit we had thoroughly gone over the same matter with Senator Long with respect to Sar, Francisco. a he ‘ Vogel bay oo TF my ‘y Ye The Attorney General indicated that he was going to try to sidetrack ' Senator Long into working on new legislation covering organized crime rather than — _ continuing hearings regarding the invasion of privacy. I told the Attorney General , that while this may scem logical it would appear that Senator McClellan rather con- | trolled this field and Senator Long might feel he was being deprived of publicity -. important to himself. The Attorney General agreed and stated that regardless of what success he might have with Senator Long, the Kraslow story would probably kill, - | eve ylhing anyhow.s I stated that certain people should think of these things prior to iniliwing smear actions. This was the end of the conversation. .