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Memorandum C. D. Brennan to Mr. HAL RE: - ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCES 66-8160 of-May 2l,.l940, and traced the development of policy through 1960. Included in this outline was the following: authorization in writing and in advance from the Attorney General before any technical surveillance is utilized. This is the policy followed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation under the direction of each Attorney General for over twenty years, since. President Roosevelt's memorandum of May 21, 1940." On January 3, l962, Attorney General Kennedy mentioned, in a conversation with Assistant Director Evans, that the Director furnished him information shich had obviously emanated from. uyor guapgsaid on uo lf passed pug ay pies pue Kennedy who had commented on its great value to him. Because of this, the Attorney General wanted to be certain that any information of this type which might be of interest to.the. tYJ President would be given to him to bring to the attention of the President. The Director, by memorandum dated January 8, 1962, assured Mr. Kennedy that this had been the practice in the past and that it would be the practice in the future. On January 20. 1962. Mr.: Kennedy exn In response to the Attorney General's reguest the Director advised him by memorandum dated January 26, l962, of the extent of the FBl's existing coverage. The Director then. proposed exnloratory to determine waich might produce useful Intelligence. If the Attorney General approved these proposals, the Director stated, the FBl would obtain clearance from the. Department of State, as sell as authorization from the Attorney Ceneral. for each new By memorandum dated January 3l, l962, the Department informed the Director that the Attorney General had aonroved. the. With regard to Martin Luther King, leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Mr. Kennedy stated CONTINUED - OVER