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¢ tee ge Mey. s : roa . . w?re fae. ors ‘i QUESTION: / ANSWER: QUESTION: ANSWER: . i permission. QUESTION: There is some dictum.to indicate, at But, I ‘know of no authorization which can be obtained per se present, that this may be brought up later. for a surreptitious entry. And, at this point, of course, the feeling is that these confined as they are to foreign counterintelligence it flows from presidential authority as it applies aiso to the warrantless wiretaps. | Weren't the civil rights groups, Mr. Kelley, among some of the organizations who were buralarized? I'm not going to say anything about where they were, or against which organizations they were directed, only to say that they were, Mr. Nelson, and I hope that will satisfy you, and I hope that if there is any revelation to be made later that they can be 438 complete as possible because, again, we feel that the intent was a very good one and there was no And the imnact of it wae to et illegality concerned. protect the country. Sir, how can you say that there was no illegality i concerned if the Constitution says that you have to Nave a search warrant to make an entry and without, as I understand it, even checking this with the Attorney General, these Agents burglarized private premises? The resolution of the problem which you now present is up to the Department and the courts, and I, of course, will not engage in anything except to say that in the defense of the men who authorized .and ‘participated, that they had this intent and within every criminal violation there is a necessity that there be the ingredient of intent and there was none here as far as I can determine. Mr. Kelley, would you say, sir, that most of these requests for surreptitious entry flowed from presi- dential authority? Is that what you said, sir? No, I did not say that. I did not give a complete outline as to what the authorization was. And, this again will be a matter which will be discussed in the reviews of the Department and the various Congres- sional committees. -~14- hl lin Beaune nome on ena meneame amie ters : eo ot Piel bain in ena