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Meno to Mr. Callahan Re: Surreptitious Entries DETAILS: Information was recently received from our New York Office indicating that there had been some surreptitious entries by Bureau personnel in 1972 and 1973. This information was not previously known to the Bureau. The Depari- ment was .ppropriately informed, and Mr. William L. Gardner, Departmental Attorney, proceeded to New York during the last week in April and reviewed some of the pertinent material. The Bureau, at the request of the Department, held in abeyance any inquiry of our own pending completion of the Department's. They did agree that following their review of the material, they interposed no objection to a similar review by the Bureau. The Department, through Mr. Gardner, did convey the specific request, however, that no interviews be conducted by the FBI in connection with our review of this material. Upon the instructions of Deputy Associate Director J. B. Adams, with the concurrence of the Director, I proceeded to New York on Tuesday, 5/4/76, accompanied by Inspectors C. E. Price and J. E. Otto. The following constitutes the results of this inquiry, which terminated 5/7/76, 9:15 AM, at New York, SAC Folders | ~ The SAC Folders of the New York Office are maintained in the top drawer of a four-drawer locked file cabinet located i the Personnel Files Unit situated on the 10th floor outside of the office of theAssistant Director in Charge (ADIC). The label on the outside of the 7) draw er states "SAC Personnel Folders Sec, 1-.'" According to the secretary t to the ADIC, the SAC Folders have been maintained in this cabinet Ls ocation since September, 1959. “he The SAC Folders document surreptitious rié g by the New York Office. The Folders individually cover. the followingwerig Volume — 1 2