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PH 58-641 « polygraph examination of JEROME BENJAMIN WOLFF and LESTER MATZ - e On the evening of 8/10/73, in the office of U.S. Attorn conference was held with SA PEARCE and SA Present at this conference was the be USA_and his assistants, RONALD S, LIEBMAN,(D sd BIC and BARNET D. SKOLNIK., The USA and his staff advised that they did not want to disséminate any information to any agents other than SA PEARCE, They indicated that the thrust of the polygraph examination so far as they were concerned was to ascertain if WOLFF and MATZ had furnished false information to date, queAT —edvised that the USA's Office did not want © any additional Information; that both defendants had been "thoroughly debriefed", There was a discussion as to how the FBI was going to handle reporting the results of thelr examina- tion. It was specifically stated that the USA's Office did not | Gesire any FD-302. SA PEARCE asked if there was some type of memorandum available that he could review to get the necessary background to conduct the polygraph examination. This was not provided, It was indicated that neither MATZ nor WOLFF at that time had appeared before a Federal Grand Jury and informa- tion they had provided was not a typed memorandum, but was contained in notes of the USA's Staff. In a private meeting with the USA and his Assistant, LIEBMAN, SA PEARCE was advised of the highly sensitive nature of the inquiry. He was advised that there were "only a few people" who knew of all the detalls. He was advised that he had been specifically requested to conduct the polygraph examina- tions of MATZ and WOLEFon the specific request of HENRY PETERSON, Head of the Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice, SA PEARCE was advised that the overall investigation of this corruption had been started as a result of Internal Revenue tax inquiries into figures in the Baltimore area, but that the IRS even knew "precious little" about the revelations learned by the USA's staff to date. Arrangements were made to have one or poth of the defendants available for interview by SA PEARCE itn the office of the FBI in Baltimore on the morning of 8/11/73.