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Manl-ID: LHBSAP1 LEGAL HANDBOOK FOR SPECIAL AGENTS PART 1 a future allegations that the subject did not know what |he/she|was signing. Each separate page of the statement should be initialed by the subject. x*EFEDte: 07/26/1999 MCRT#: 915 Div: D9 Cav: SecCls: 7-12.6 Changes If the subject desires the statement changed in any part, he should be requested to make such changes in his own handwriting or to place his initials opposite each correction. These instructions apply only to the period during which the statement is being prepared. Once the person has signed the statement, or in, any other manner adopted it as his own, being final and correct, it must not thereafter be changed in the least particular. Any change desired must be made the subject of a separate signed statement which refers back to the first. , **EEEDte: 04/28/1978 MCRT#: 0 Div: D9 Cav: . SecCls: 7-12.7 Adoption and Signature A person signing a statement adopts it as his own even though he personally did not type or write it. Subjects making signed statements should include in their own handwriting just above the . signature a declaration as follows: "T have read the foregoing statement and declare that the same is entirely true." Similar phraseology which expresses this thought is acceptable. **EFEDte: 04/28/1978 MCRT#: 0 Div: D9 Cav: SecCls: 7-12.8 Refusal to Sign If the subject will not sign the statement, the fact that he read it or that it was read to him by the Agent and he acknowledged it or admitted the truth of it shall be written on the statement by the Agent and attested to by the Agent's signature and that of another witness. **EFEDte: 04/28/1978 MCRT#: 0 Div: D9 Cav: SecCls: 7-12.9 Witnesses The statement should be signed in the presence of the interrogating Agents, or if only one Agent is present, then it should I TT Printed: 05/05/2004 13:08:54 Page 15