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a QUESTION: ‘+ ANSWER: a oe QUESTION: | ANSWER: QUESTION: ANSWER: ' QUESTION: { why can't you tell us the number?, sional groups and to the Department of Justice and, frankly, I can't tell you the number myself. We don't have any.... _ They did not entirely stop in 19667 ‘There were { some that did gete you. say, a small number after 1966? | . ~ [see may have been some after 1966 which were, {css we're going to make reports to our Congres- of course, in the field of foreign counterintelli- gence, and such that it would make a grave impact on OUT. eee Before that, they were not with the field of foreign counterintelligence? {Oh, yes, there were some in that field also. | There were others that were not in the field of foreign counterintelligence before 1966? wane Td ah wat A dae bh mem hee AE bh in Zoe You Teocaas that zi S4iqG iff Che CoNtEAT Gi tne Line, it may well have been that prior to that time national security or counterintelligence or whatever terminology you might want to use could have included other areas. But, then you began to compartmentize various types of activities and then it became evident that the area of foreign counterintelligence national security certainly should be differentiated from domestic security. - But, Mr. Kelley, what policy have you followed in | the time that you have heen Director? Is this type of activity, has it been permitted? Is it policy now to conduct this kind of activity? I have not had a single request to conduct such activity since I have been made Director. If ever anything» of this type comes up, and IT can't foresee this need, but," if it ever did come up and it became a matter of grave concern, a matter which is to be solved only through such activity, I would present it to the Attorney General and would be guided by his opinion as to such activity. Frankly, I have \ "not had any such request since I have come aboard. -12- ,