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CV 44-703 and relevance of each witness, each photograph, and any and all physical evidence required degrees of competence, diligence and dedication not always evident in attorneys in our criminal justice system. However, it is the measured opinion of the CV Office, based upon the almost daily contact with ROBERT HURPHY and his colleagues since the Fall of 1973, that HURPHY and each of his aboved-named colleagues brought to the prosecution of this case the kind of professionalism which would warrant their efforts being brought to the attention of the Director. Accordingly, I recommend that a letter be addressed over the Director's signature to J. STANLEY POTTINGER, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, bringing to his attention the individual efforts of his four employees in connection with their participation in the prosecutive proceedings of this case. I feel that such a conmendation letter from the Director would not suggest any implication or inference one way or another in regard to the Bureau's opinion on the decision to re-open and prosecute this matter or the outcome which has brought this matter to a close. a - é It may be noted that the re-opening ol the” ¢ investigation of this matter and the subsequent Yecision to seck presecution were accompanied by national ‘notoricty. Also, the controversy attached to this case was not unlike past such cases some of which have been characterized as being "political" in nature. In this instance although the Bureau was the prine investigating agency, the Bureau has not been subject to any adverse criticism or publicity. In their continuous contact with the case agcnt in this matter, ench of the above Departmental officials has expressed his high regard for the Bureau's work product and Bureau personnel, and it is felt each would value such a letter conccrning his association with one of the most important, if not the most important, cases each has been associated with. CV possesses no information which would preclude the preparation of such a letter,