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30 Nos. 77-1698, 77-1210 & 77-1870 apartment. Conspicuously absent was information on the floorplan and Mitchell’s December 12 memorandum con- cerning the presence of illegal weapons in the apartment prior to the raid. O’Neal was never made available to testify before the grand jury nor to be interviewed by the prosecutors in charge of the grand jury despite Bureau instructions issued in September 1969 that ef- - forts should be made to convince informants to testify ane information they had furnished concerning: the During the first weeks of February 1970, Zimmers conducted exhaustive tests of the ballistics evidence and weapons involved in the raid. Zimmers concluded that the spent shells identified in the Sadunas report as hav- ing been fired from Brenda Harris’ gun actually had been fired from Officer Ciszewski’s weapon. Sadunas was informed of this discrepancy in mid-February. Upon receiving the evidence and weapons from the FBI, Sadunas retested the shotshells and test-fired Ciszewski’s gun for the first time. His findings confirmed Zimmers’. Several weeks later Sadunas appeared before the federal grand jury and testified to his previous error. Hanrahan, who was in charge of the state prosecution, learned of Sadunas’ error in March. He discussed the corrected findings with the raiders and asked if they wanted to make further statements. Hanrahan and the raiders decided that the raiders should testify before the federal grand jury to relate their accounts of the inci- dent. At the same time Hanrahan was considering dis- missal of the state indictments. According to Leonard, Hanrahan, the raiders, and other police officers eventually became “targets” of the federal grand jury investigation. Hanrahan was warned of this several weeks before he was requested to testify. Subsequently Leonard discussed the potential in- dictments with Johnson and informed him that “an arrangement” had been made between Hanrahan and him, whereby the raiders’ testimony would be given to Hanrahan after they testified and that Hanrahan would ‘drop the indictments against the survivors within thirty days. Leonard hoped that the survivors would then testify before the federal grand jury. Shortly after this