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a an ee les wr. Boardman spoke to Mr. Olney and other Departmental attorneys on March 30, 1954. (Exhibit 36 ) Mr, Olney referred to the case of Irvine vy. California, and discussed it in some detail. He expressed the opinion et et t the fact that the police had installed the microphone in the subject's bedroom and thereby exposed the private domestic life of the occupants. The fact that the police acted under the color of authority provided by the district attorney's knowledge that they had used a micropkone surveillance did not, Olney pointed out, soften the Court's violent reaction, Olney added that this decision made it even more difficult for the Department to forecast the reaction of the courts where trespass was involved. to the following: (1) that microphone coverage was necessary in security cases in the national interest (2) that any cases going to prosecution must be carefully evaluated if a microphone had been used (3) that the Department would modify its interpretation of what constituted trespass in the installation of microphones pane t ce me ee ee Se ee me ae --