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IAS, GF pee aera ha m, ate ot Tas egit wie dorsi, y ee eS ee ep ie et Er en Mr. Apaus. Yes, sir. : ; Senator Huppirston. Are most informers psid on the basis of : regular fee or regular salary, or are they paid on the basis of the in formation the ? Mr. Apaxs. Even those who are paid on what you could say a salary that salary is determined on a COD basis as to the value of the in formation furnished. In other words, in a criminal case for instance could have a person come in and give you the identity of thre individuals who just robbed « bank. You might pay him a lum sum amount, and never go back to him. In the security field when informants do finally manage to work into a revolutionary typ organization, their continued activities on our behalf do set up mor of a program for payment. ' Senator Huvpcesron. If information that may be supplied to yo happens to be of a sensational nature or of a surprising nature, d you ever question the informer on how he obtained it! . Mr. Apams. I am sure this takes place. In any handling of an in formant over a sustained period of time, you do have a rapport whicl they don’t just come in and say Joe Blow said this, Joe Blow did that There is a conversation that goes through, which I feel certain would if it looked like he had something that came from some imprope source, I think the agent would say, “Where did you get this!” Senator Hupoirston. If you found it had been taken improperl or if some improper action had been taken, would it be put in th es _ Mr. Apams. If he violated the law, we would have an open investigs tion if it were within our jurisdiction. emntan Pawns nome Naw the Runeen diccaminates this in wenator FAVDDLESTON. Now the Dureau disseminates (nis mior matic on individuals that is collected in various ways. How many othe agencies can request, for instance, an individual check that woul result in your supplying to it information from these personal intel: gence files Mr. Apaua. Every agent in the Federal Government under the en ployee security program has an obligation to check with the FBI oing name check search of our files to see if there is any subversiv derogatory information which might militate against appointing th: individual to a Federal position. Senator Huppteston. Do you take any precautions as to how the will use that information once it is supplied to them by your agents Mr. Apams. All we do is indicate to them on the report that it is tt property of the FBI and is not to be disseminated outside their agenc Senator Huppizstow. You have no way of knowing whether < not indeed it is? Mr. Apame. No, sir, we do not. . Senator Huporeston. What internal precautions do you have again the Bureat itself misusing information that it gains from oth ncies r. Apams. Strong prohibitions. First, we don’t allow access - files except on a need-to-know basis. Any employee of the FBI knox that if he improperly divulges information or leaks information o of the files, he will be subject to administrative action. We had case where an agent obtained an identification record and made it o