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* So // UAUUAN TN HULL a hc PBL ERG Newark Field Office Said to Have * Been Told fo ‘Do Anything’ in Weathermen Search . - . . a ae + By WICHOLAS M. HORROCK= =P o———__~ Spectal to The New York Turse, WASHINGTON, Oct. 6--Federal prose- cutors have found a written link between the headquarters of the Federal Bureau af Investigation here and iwo previously: undisciosed burglarics by agents at a priJ yvate home in New Jersey, Jaw enforce- ment sources said today. . According to these sources, the prosc- <fcutors have found an F.B.L memorandum ‘from Washington to the Newark field af- fice authorizing agents to “do anything: possible” {o apprehend Judith Flatley, who was being tought ac 2 fueitiva a WhO Was oning SOugnt as a a charge growing out of antiwar activities by ibe Weathennen crganization.. f At least two “surreptitious entries” were made at the home cf Miss Flatley’s ‘patents, Benjamin and Rosa Cohen, in Union, M1, near Newark, in January and February 1973, the sources said. This is the first instance in which such blanket wmitten authority has been found ‘in @ 16month investigation of burglary fand wiretapping by F.B.. agents, the - sources saith The document also est2b- lished, the sources Said, that bureau offi- cials in Washington were willing to give agents carte blanche to apprehend the Yieetleminen fugitives. eed The disclosure of the memorandum ; comes af a time when there is growing ” speculation that Attorney General Griffin! - B. Bell is nearing a decision on whether to seck further indictments or to abandon the investigation and impose some sort of administrative sanctions on agents in- volved who are still in the bureau. an | ” ag TE onan ‘ERE ee a ne yO) psc nds, rane " Numerous Justice Depariment sources 14 have indicated in recent days that # | tne) major cecision will be made in the next week or two, and that, as Mr. Bell has indicated, serious thought is being given to possible disciplinary actions snort of indictment. John Kearney, a former supervisor In the bureau's New York field office, was indicted - earlier this year..on .charges " growing ‘out of the investigation. The prosecutors in the case reported to Mr. Bell at that time that they had evidence” of wrongdoing by a half dozen senior F.B.I. officials as well 4 NDP, . at level supervisors. A In addition, The New York Times re- ported yesterday that similar break-ins had been committed within the last five years by agents assigned to organized crime units in New York, The purpose of those break-ins and wiretaps, iaw en- forcemsnt sources said, was to obtain ille- gay information that late? could be used aswib=_hasis for applications f ordered wiretaps. Fes... —— JUBRILIVE ony aa sources said, was obtaining information from break-ins or iegal bugs, pretecding that it had been legally obtained from live inforgiants, then using it in lheir re- s+ quesis for legal wiretaps. At the lime of the alleged burglaries at the Cohen home, J. William LaPrade was in charge of the Newark olfice. He is now an assistant director of the bureau and heads the New York field office. The prosecutors are reported to be seeking io discover whether he received the memorandum persenally and construed it as authority too rder a break-in, Thomas Bolan, Mc. LaPrade’s dawyer dechned to comment on the matter, hut sources familiar with the case have said ; that, Mr, Laprade has never been asked about the Newark incident. - A spokesman for the F.B-L had no com- ment on the case. - . According tothe law enforcement. sources, Miss Flatley’s search was part of an interse campaign in late 1972 and | early 1973 io capture members of the Weather Underground who were wanted ‘ona range of Fedcral warrants. L. Patrick Gray was direcior of the bureau and has repeatedly cenied, through his lawyer, or- dering any ilegai entmes. . - Nevertheless, the sources said, A “preenio™—a green-tabbed memorandum denoting a “special” investigation——wentl {tothe Neswark field office ordecing an increase in its efforts to apprehend Miss - Two agents, James Weaver, now at: ‘tached to the San Diego field office, and i Kenneth Staller, now believed to be on duty in New York, were questioned about 2 entry into the Conen home. ts ne heir iawyer, Jack Solerwitz of Mirea- : Ja, LL, declined to comment on the de» ‘tails of the case but said that the twe ents had done nothing wrong. * In the search for fugitives of the Weather organizations, rae feat z ries in an & - 7 made legal entries ats of the fugitives. - t 1fa05 LY pe Weer | Many of the victirgs of the entrics were ili ieqds fives. oo. “ph ary “9 197 7 Ce rights division avartread of Justice began a na- Moral ape ctigation of the practice but concentrated mainly on memoers — of j Squad 47, a unit in the New York field, office assigned to intecnal secunty and + : Weather organization cases. . One constant difficulty, sources familiar with the investigation have said, was es . tablishing Uhat the line agents carried out these illegal acts at ine the Wore ' FREI Th ++ goante »—_Ciiikiig GRC iiie SO here wa : tion of their superiors and that there *k authorization {rom F.B.1 headqyaswee™ - a wT oe ee ee