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Brg ea a Mg : a ee ae Sere a : 104 The Bureau cannot authorise the treating of fruit to be shipped to Jersey City because of lack of control over the treated fruit in transit. However, Newark's telegram regarding food collected for the Revolutionary People's Cou- stitutional Convention has merit. ' How did you ever get to a point like that? Mr. Apaws. I don’t know. What was the response from Newark and then the final answer taken ! Senator Monpaxz. It was turned down because they couldn't control franait, but they thought it was a good idea. Do you think that’s a good 1dea . . Mr. Apamws, No; I don't. I think that-——— _ Senator Monpaxe. How did we ever get to the point that this kind of insane su ion was considered, a suggestion which violated every. one’s civil liberties and was based on Government-sponsored fraud! ‘How does anyone ever consider something like that? Mr. Abas. I don’t know. Senator Monpaze. One final point. When we interviewed one of your former employees, he refe to something I never heard of before called a no-contact list. He did it jokingly, use he said, when the Pope egreed to see Martin Luther King, he was sure he would be put on the no-contact list thereafter. Can you tell me what this list is! Mr. Anamus. Not in any specific xetail I know that at one time there was a, there would be a list that if an agent interviewed an individual and this individuel created a storm or 8 ruckus and we didn’t want some other agent stumbling out there and interviewing the same per- son, that we would make sure that they were aware of the fact that further contacts of this individual would result in a problem. Senator Monpare. All right. Now in a memo to Clyde Tolson, it refers to a conference on August 26, 1971, with certain—it looks like about 10 members of the FBI. And this is what it says: [Exhibit 32.1] Pursvant to your instruction, members of the conference were briefed concern- ing recent attempts by various newspapers and reporters to obtain information about or from FBI personnel. Members were specifically advised that there would be absolutely no conversations with or answers from any of the representatives of the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CBS and NBC, The only acceptable anawer to such inquiries is no comment. Now Senator Huddleston earlier asked about efforts to influence hewspapers and media outlet. Does a decision not to answer questions from certain selected media outlets trouble you? Mr. Apazs, It is not the policy today. I think this has been aired in the past. There was a period of time wherein Mr. Hoover, in reacting to criticism from some of these newspaper men, where he felt he hadn’t been given a fair shake, or for some other reason, that he felt that they should be told no comment, and he instructed they be told no comment. The motivations I am not in a position to discuss, but I can tell you that there has been no such policy in the last several years that Tknpw of. Senator Monpars. If you could submit the no-contact list for us, if you can find it, I would appreciate it. - I have some other questions I will submit for the record, Mr. Chairman. The Cuarmman. Very well. I just have one final follow-up question on Senator Mondale’s interrogation. I continue to be somewhat fas- 1 Bee p. 443.