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‘a ~ , - o wae *. . “) Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : Mr. A. H. Belmont . DATE: September 28, 1959 PROM : Mr. W. C. Sul ao / 7 / _A Negele / INDIANA UNIVERSITYQKINSEY INSTITUTE) Trotter —— ; — Tele. Room —_ LN Phome niin Tota tele — Sf. WW. Xoutmay paca? that ay be. _ oe _{epme to the | IN iN, Centra Research Section on June 17, 1959, and was interviewed b¥-+" De J : Supervisor _ _jadvised that her firm was han lling legal problems for captioned Institute, and at that time, discussed a devious plan for obtaining pornographic material from the State of New York through the FBI. N was advised that the divulging of information from FBI files was = under Department of Justice regulation and her proposal involved many problems. e _ ‘Stated that she didn't want to consider this visit an Official request, and that she would recontact the Bureau before any action to involve the Bureau in a request of this nature. (See memorandum of this interview attached. ) i On September 25, 1959, _ wrote the attached letter to the ; supervisor who had previously interviewed her relative to this matter, indicating \.. ; that she and one of the founders of the captioned Institute, Dr. Wardell B. Pomeroy {would recontact the Bureau in the next month to six weeks. During the original interview, _ _lindicated that she would recontact the writer before going ahead with an Official request for information from our files. Apparently they - _have in mind making an official request for pornographic material from or through the Bureau. ‘ . ’ 3 UNRECORDED COPY FIL . A check of Bufiles reveals that in June and July 1957, our Indianapolis “3 Office was in contact with officials of the captioned Institute in an attempt to - obtain information regarding the source of supply of obscene material received by them in their research. Nothing to the advantage of the Bureau was developed due to the policy of the Institute not to disclose the source of its material. This . Institute may have a storehouse of material which would be of investigative interest. pe to the Bureau in the event some semblance of cooperation can be obtained’ j oo. ee Enclosures.4(L0® | | } EX /0/ MOL 207 1 -Sectiontickler | \ 1-Mr. Rosen . i , \ 1 =Mr. DeLoach C= Mr Belmont PEST LE TA Sete emnccneas porse