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ee ee _ pre a ee em a th eet yv (« Assistant Attorney General Civil Rights Division and thereafter destroyed. In the field office, the SAC maintained a record of approval, as a control device, in hie office safe, and at the next yearly field office inspection, an Inspector would review approvals to conduct surreptitious entries. Upon completion of review, these records were then destroyed. , In addition to surreptitous entries conducted in matters concerning the security of the Nation, entries have been conducted by the PBI for installation of electronic @evices for interception of oral communications under authority of a court order, and in accordance with Title III of the _ Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968. Since January 1, 1966, a total of 97 such entries has been conducted by the F3I, all following passage of the Act. If you desire, a separate listing of surreptitious entries meeting the above criteria will be furnished your office. Pursuant to your request, attached is a copy of a memorandum from W. C. Sullivan to Mr, C. D. DeLoach, dated . July 19, 1966, entitled "Black Bag’ Jobs"; memorandum of > January 6, 1967, prepared by Director Hoover; and memorandum from the Attorney General to Director, FBI, dated May 20, 1954. : As information being furnished, in some instances, concerns sensitive, on-going operations in the foreign counterintelligence field, compromise of which would severely affect our coverage of hostile intelligence services, it is requested that the information be handled on a strict need~ to~know basis, . Enclosures - § NOTE: Classified " e “ since unauthorized disclosure eearcia tasers rAaiesn eanesi¢t-tiva mathnAage and srneratiane Re lattar WOULG JEUPGLELES GEHL AVS Mes EE rE ee he ey 2 ea dated 8/19/75, AAG J. Stanley Pottinger requested a list of surreptitious entries conducted by the Bureau. Mr. Pottinger requested a list dating from 1/1/66; however, since this involves extensive file review at Headquarters and at the field level in NOTE CONTINUED PAGE THREE TOP T ; -2-