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: Gendy suyect: INTERVIEW WITH FORMER | . i - UNITED STATES corlbpanen w) ipa & Be Memorandum — = . ’ ‘ Fen \: MR, TOLSON pate: 7/8/66 MEE - lliven y " : & 1 yr" cc Mr, DeLoach voce =o FROM : GC. D. aeons P. bf. Mr. Gale Tele, tom ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM P. ROGERS, 7/7/66, in New York City, - REGARDING AUTHORIZATION OF MICROPHONE “j ame COVERAGE BY VARIOUS ATTORNEYS GENERAL ve Pursuaat to instructions, I saw Former Attorney Géneral William P. Rogers in his office, 2000 Park Avenue (The Pan American Building), at 3 p.m., 7/7/66. Assistant Director Malone accompanied At the outset I told Mr. Rogers that I wanted to be perfectly frank and honest with him----just as in the days when the FBI had / . enjoyed such pleasant relations while he was Attorney General. He | was reminded of our two previous telephonic conversations, of 7/5 and 7/6/66, and was told that the FBI more or less had its back f\ S against the wall because the Department, headed by the two Attorneys * hN. General who came after him, refused to admit the truth regarding ~ authorization of placement of microphones, and commission of trespass > 3° in such placement. He was then briefed thoroughly regarding each Pg phase of the Black case, including the placement of the microphone ra on 2/7/G3for approximately two months; the frequent admitted briefing Nee of Bobby Kennedy by Evans; notification and review of logs by the po RES Criminal Division of the Department; and the subsequent exposure of ON Be the microphone, without logical explanation, by Solicitor General NES Marshali----at the behest of Katzenbach and the Tax Division. N97 J & Mr. Rogers was next shown the proposed brief submitted to 1 the FBI by the Department-~---which was supposed to answer the questions. raised by the Supreme Court. I then showed him our analysis of the 7 brief and the underlined counterproposals which made it clear the FBI ~™>-. had operated under specific authority. Mir. Rogers was told that it was not the FBI's idea to express in the original brief the intimation that microphone authority was initiated a decade ago by the Republicans. He was advised that this ORIGLAL FILED JV TEIWEEY ey sfeeocfuceadseomr aoe was Katzenbach's idea and that the reasons were perfectly obvious, : i.c., to blame somecne other,- ‘than Bobby” Kennedy for usage of micro=.. phones. ti, . ~ [BG Ee: = Pp est ——_—n CDD:CSH. (3) . Ife “NOT iSKoED . 128 JUL 341966 nyX\ —_—— JUL 13 1966 BZ JUL 28 1966 RE = SEES Sy Se head 9 at Mg