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Surreptitious Entries Black Bag Jobs — Part 23
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The 3/23/78
Attorney General
letter to
Assistant
Attorney General
Civiletti is
a perfunctory
post facto
clearance
of a Federal
grand jury
which has
been in
session for
months.
It
does
not
respond to
former Director
Kelley's 10/77 letter
citing instances
where national
security information
was com-
promised before
this grand
jury and
requesting corrective
action
While the
Attorney Generals
letter meets
the requirement
of
28 CFR
17.64, that
classified information
shall not
be dissemi-
nated
outside
the Executive
Branch except
as authorized
by the
Attorney General,
apparently no
effort has
been made
to assure
its protection,
and the
authorization
does
not
meet the
require-
ment of
28 CFR l?.5?, that
access shall
not be
given to
any
person unless
a determination
of
trustworthiness
has been
made.
Late 3/30/78,
the
Department
Security Office
stated
it was
endeavoring, at
the reques
'
inal
Division, to
expeditiously afford
my
attorne clearance so
he
could
represent
me
in
connection with
my resc
eduled appearance
before the
grand jury
at 1:30
p.m., 3/31/78.
While it
appears some
in the
Department are
continuing
to ignore
or bend
for their
own purposes
regulations relating
to
the safeguarding
of national
security material,
in view
of
the
letter of
the Attorney
General and
the current
efforts
of
the
Department to
afford
my
attorney clearance,
the FBI
could be
accused of
resorting to
technicalities if
I am not released
from
my
employment
agreement to
furnish both
official
and
classified
information to
the grand
jury. The
continued violations
and
circumvention by
the Department
of
regulations
relating to
protection
of
national
security information
in this
investigation
unfortunately destroy
the
integrity
of
the
Executive BranchTs
system of
protecting such
information and
material, the
integrity
of
such
material obtained
by us
from intelligence
sources and
methods, and
will deter
our acquisition
of
vital
national secu-
rity material
in
the
future.
I have
not indicated
with this
Federal
grand
jury.
sibility to
ensure regulations
an unwillingness
to cooperate
In my
position, it
is my
respon-
relating to
the protection
of
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