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ogee: RCTTE IN ENVEL § E. = . ‘UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT 1 = Mr, Tolson | . . CP ete . ata ‘ 1 é Memorandum a 7: TO : Mr, *. c. sunrivga * ~ DATE: June 23, 1969 | oA , i) 1 = Mr. Sullivan . ae boone wt FROM :C, D. Brenna - Mr. G.C. Moore Melzes ¥ Ay ma Oy scpmilae Ny 4 sumect: ELECTRONIQ_SURVEILLANCES RAN _ ALL EEPORWATTON CONTAINED ™ SYNOPSIS: ESTE PELE sTTIND ) ZLCEOTA, Sree ecco rear 5 ene C.D. Brennan Or Ab ad ee le a a - . a nis eunmarizes 7 . Pursuant to the ‘Director's instructio 5 the Bureau's policy on wiretaps and microphone. surveillances. * Concerning wiretaps, the Director, since 1924, opposed the use of wiretapping as a general practice and has openly ‘ stressed for years that wiretaps, where necessary, should be UF 7 limited and tightly restricted, In 1940 President Roosevelt authorized wiretaps when the national securitywas affected, l sinea that data. every Bureaahn ranuest for a wiretan hae haoen a aoa —— _—— —— 3 =S— = —_— a —— presented to the Attorney General in writing for approval. This licy continues to date. ; ae Ae policy aria REC 18 (.6-yiés: ae Attorneys General Kennedy, ‘Katzenbach, and Clark we clearly informed oi the Bureaus policy concerning wiretaps Se S) urthermore, 3 ging, o- Be ber Placed on Martin Luther King. In addition, he personally - oS approved request for telephone surveillance on a case involva) - racial violence, Katzenbach, while Deputy Attorney General,” Pai requested the FBI to consider placing telephone Surveisiencesy on the parents | of a Mississippi | civil rights worker, Director reluctantly agreed ¢ vo this wiretap in view of peter tial embarrassment. On 3/30/65, the Director advised Kiteenbach _, that back under the administration of Attorney General *{PdH) 25 "36 Clark, he, the Director, recommended that all Government ° agencies retrain fron wiretapping | unless _ ‘there was ‘spetittc——- = 4 approval in each instance by the Attorney ¢ General | and this 5 €< ‘3! had been repeated” to subsequent Attorneys General. The cornea = Director added he was the only head of an investigative agency who did, hate pave the authority to authorize a wiretap, On | Attorney Genera rk was informed by the Director that orders - Ne been given to reduce the number of te phon ces ing operated by the Bureau in view of tHe, PEt OSG 3 feelings concerning use of electronic de Clark's question as to the actual value of the same. oe J+ = Director pointed out that this was being brought to Ciark~ "gs atten: e received fr