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: C. — particulacly in security cases, they contain not only background data on the individual but detaile of hie private life which bear upon the investigation. In these files also are the identities of our confidential sources of information and full details of investigative techniques. In short, they consiat of a running aecount of all that tranepires, A file is maintained in each case because the FBI has receiv information, allegations, or a complaint which if proven comes within the sphere of our responsibility, in pursuance of either Congressional or Executive Directives, After the inveatigation is completed, when indicated by Department procedure or judgment, a summary of the facts developed ie furnished to the Department of Justice or United States Attorneys. In other types of invesati- gations, the reports of Special Agenta are submitted to the intereated agency of the government. Details and information dealing with administrative operations and confidential sources’of information remain in our files. The contents of these files were never intended to be disclosed and, mless we drastically change and circumscribe our procedures, they should not be disclosed. epvernment is not a new one. When confronted with the question of divulging the filea of an Executive Department of the Government fin 1909, the late President Theodore Roosevelt eaid: "Some of these facts.....were given to the Government under the seal of secrecy and cannot be divulged and I will see to it that the word of this Government to the individual is kept sacred.”