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of injecting basic fairness into the proceedings and of | assuring a convincing case when the investigation is conclud- ed. Failure of an investigator to follow any particular . guideline or any combination of guidelines, however, does not authorize a court to invalidate a conviction. Mere weak spots in the government's case are properly the subject of evidence and argument before the jury, as they were ; in these cases, and they may increase the chances of acquit- tal. But they neither guarantee nor warrant dismissal by the court. ee Defendants also point to the failure by FBI agents to make the usual "302 reports" of some of the events which occurred in the course of the Abscam investigation. Amorose made few, if any. His explanation was that he was working undercover and that the truly significant events in which he participated were fully recorded on tape, video and audio. For him, completing 302 reports that summarized conversations already fully recorded electronically would have been useless paperwork. While 302s are desirable, perhaps indispensable for the FBI to effectively function in its overall operations, their absence does not raise constitutional issues in these cases. Lack of documentation | of the government's investigation raises issues of credibili- ty, but not of constitutionality.