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EO OEE ee ee a determine if the Government had microphone coverage. In addition, the monitoring occurred approximately one year before the trial and involved an attorney who did not appear as an attorney of record. Finally, the disclosure would trigger unwarranted criticism of the FBI and the Department and could come at an inappropriate time in view of the pending case against Bobby Baker and the civil suit in Las Vegas. Despite these cogent. arguments, the Department filed the memorandum so it would have "clean hands." (Exhibit 93) The Department alse wanted to have "clean hands" on the matter of authorization for microphone surveillances, Attorney General Katzenbach had, in a conference on May 23, 1966, attended by Assistant footnote stating "there was general Departmental authorization of longstanding for the use of these devices." On the following day, the Attorney General had this footnote deleted from the memorandum. (Exhibit 94) As of July 11, 1966, this matter was still