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eS Honorable William Webster Director, FBI JEH Building 9th & Pennsylvania Avenue Ww Washington, D.C, 20535 California iy ebruary 21, 1980 ° le Tecbl ble enge Re The Honorable Ro Robert T. Matsot ris Congressman, Third Listrict { ~ a 7 Cannon Building, Room 502 Washington, PD, C. 20515 “ ybsen er Dear Congressman Matsui, Lhe. I have been in law enforcement for 19 years, the last 10 of fhi idncluding traveling around the country training officers in ‘special area of vice that has been very successful in corrup government officials, Turing these manyyears in law enforcement? jtravel, ane consulting with other agencies, it was found that peo. ple inlaw enforcement had a very low opinion of the Federal. porest lof Investigation. These opinions came from officers who had dealt fwith the FBI at local, state, and federal levels, It was generall jhele that the FBI woulé co little or nothing in regard to corrupt jofficials, or any complicated criminal case, even when it fell lwithin their jurisdiction; yet all agreed that time ané agzim the 'PBI would fall all over themselves to take credit for en arrest ‘gor some minor bank robbery or car theft. The new FBI Director's promised attack on orgenizedé crime md: white collar crime was looked st with a jaundiced eye by these in y law enforcement who had long ego disbelieve prese 175 b| By. the FBI. : y 2 = Sb[— bp he recent revelations of the undercover sting dpel (1 “the </ [fst have proved all of us skeptics completely wrong. Those of us in law enforcement who have criticized the FBI for those years: af jincompetence should step forward and give them our wholehearted. ».: {support and urge them to continue with this type of investigaticas. : Hl | jas a private citizen, is that because some members of Congress.” Iheve become suspects ‘in these cases that pressure could be brought Nagainst the FBI to change its aggressive. Policy, | or to attack: the. . iMy concern as a person. in law enforcement, and nore importantly {