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Mr. Belmont 10. No one office has furnished an excessive amount of personnel which could unduly affect the work of the office from which they have reported. One office, namely Little Rock, has furnished as many as five. This includes the SAC. The balance range from one to four in number, This is not an excessive drain of agent personnel from the contributing offices. li. The entire investigation is being directed toward bringing as much pressure as possible on all prime suspects developed and being developed. This is accomplished through interviews and reinterviews; through constant harassment tactics; through the use of technical equipment wherever possible; through surveillances; through examination by the use of the polygraph; through information developed as a result of contacts with sources of information in a position to furnish information which may be pertinent to any facet of the investigation; and through saturation and redirection techniques. 12. Concurrent with the above action, extensive liaison is maintained with persons and organizations who are in a position to furnish information. 13. <All paper work in the pre maintained in a current status 14. Circumstantial evidence and possible witnesses are being lined up in the event it becomes desirable to present any phase of this investi- gation for possible grand jury action. 15. There is a total of 34 Special Agents and 8 clerical employees presently on special assignment. The overtime for the agents on special assignment at Birmingham ranges from an average low of 6 hours and 38 minutes per day, to a high of 9 hours per day. RECOMMENDATION : On the basis of the enthusiasm, pressure, and attitude of the personnel on this assignment, I recommend there be no reduction or addition in manpower at this time; that present pressure points and procedures which have been discussed with SACs Moore and Faisst be continued for the time being, to be re~evaluated in ten days, at which time a recommendation should be submitted to the Director concerning the manpower situation and direction of the investigation. This will depend upon developments during the interim. f Vv. N