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Memorandum C. D. Brennan to Mr. . C. Sullivan RE:ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCES 66-8160 organized crime, kidnapping, and matters wherein' human lif might be at stake. On July 16, l964, the Director, in a telephone conversa. tion with the President, discussed the FBl's investigation of events surrounding the murder of Negro educator Lemuel Penn on a Georgia highway. .During this teephone conversation, the Director told the President that the FBi had installed a microphone in a building next to the garage where Klansmen gathered in Athens, Georgia. Policy Under Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Attorney General Katzenbach, in a conversation with the Director on March 30, l965, stated that he would like to. set up a procedure, similar to that in effect concerning technical surveillances, whereby he would be advised by the Bureau of microphone surveillance installations. On the same day, the Director sent a memorandum to the Attorney General which contained the following:. "In line with your suggestion this morning, I. have already set up the procedure similar to requesting of authority for phone taps to be. utilized in requesting authority for the placement of microphones." The Attorney General, on July 12, l965, informed the Director that he would like to have all microphone surveillances. suspended at that time, because of the pressure being brought to bear, particularly on the Internal Revenue Service, by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure headed by Senator Long of Missouri. The Attorney General said that he wanted to be in a position to state that the FBI had no Hicrophone surveillance coverage.:: In response to several requests from the Bureau for guide lines in the use of special investigative techniques, Attorney General Katzenbach, by memorandum dated September 27, 1965,: advised that microphone surveillances should be restricted to the. internal security field. After the Attorney General again granted the FBI authority to use microphone surveillances to gather intelligence in national security matters, the Bureau, following the procedure established by Mr. Katzenbach to obtain his authorization, reactivated sicrophone suryeillance in selected cases.. CONTINUED - OVER