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/ / Assistant Attorney General Civil Rights Division | wi | : Requests for authority to conduct entries were made by field offices and approved or disapproved at FBI Headquarters on an individual case basis. At the field office level, the authority making the request was the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) or some other individual designated by the SAC to handle such matters. Requests and approvals between the field and Headquarters were handled telephonically; however, as a control device, @ <« memorandum was prepared at both levels. In the field office, the SAC maintained this memorandum in his office safe until the next annual office inspection. Following review of these memoranda by the Inspector ~ to insure the field office was acting with Bureau authority in conducting entries - thea momnrands ware destroaved. — a a a oe a Requests to conduct entries were received at FBI Headquarters on the Deputy Assistant Director (Inspector) level of the Intelligence Division. The field office making a@ request was required to completely justify the need for an entry, and assure the action could be conducted with full security. Usually, on receipt of a request to conduct an entry, the Deputy Assistant Director would advise the field office that unless instructions were recaived to the contrary, the requested entry could be effected. Although we have located no policy memoranda dealing with actions to be taken at PBI Headquarters with reapect to approvals to conduct entries, it is the present understanding that on receipt of a request fron the field, a memorandum was prepared outlining the facts of the request for approval of the Director, or Associate Director, FBI.