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Memorandum C. D. Brennan to Mr. RE: - ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCES 66-8160 A memorandum on FBI stationery, classified "Top Secret," dated August 17, l96l, enclosed a pronosed letter to the telephone company in New York City requesting was (S) delivered to Mr. Kennedy on August 17, l96l, by Assistant Director Courtney Evans. This memorandum for the Attorney General requested. his approval for the use of as an adjunct to the Bureau's microphone surveillances in security and sajor criminal cases in New York City. On March 30, 1962. Kr. Kennedy summoned Mr. Evans to his. office and told him that Joseph Volpe, formerly Chief Counsel for the Atomic Energy Commission, had informed the Attorney General had been covered with a microphone surveillance during l953 and 1954. Mr. Kennedy asked Mr. Evans if this had been an FBI microphone surveillance. Mr. Evans later reported to the Attorney General that this was not an FBI sicrophone surveillance.. On March 19, l963, Mr. Kennedy was briefed on organized crime investigations in the FBi's Chicago Office. This briefing.. was attended by other Departmental officials, including William :.. Hundley, Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. After Special Agents of the FBl told them about the corruption of local law enforcement officers by Chicago hoodlums, a tape recording from an FBI microphone surveillance was played for them.. On another occasion, Mr. Kennedy visited the New York Office of the FBi for a briefing on organized crime. Participants in this conference, held November 4, l963, were Mr. Kennedy,. Mr. Ed Guthman of Mr. Kennedy's staff, Assistant Directors. Courtney Evans and John F. Malone, and approximately 25 FBI Special. Agents assigned to the New York Office. At this conference, a tape recording taken from an FBI microphone surveillance was played for Mr. Kennedy Subsequently, on May 24; l966, United States Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall filed a memorandum before the Supreme Court advising the Court that there was an electronic surveillance of Fred Black, a Washington lobbyist, and that conversations. between Black and his attorneys had been intercepted. On July 13, l966, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall advised the U. S. Suprepe Court that under Departmental practice,. in effect for a period/years prior to l963 and continuing into in the interest of internal security or national safety including CONTINUED - OVER