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Ce er nn a eee ade ee eee es pene ee a i by electronic surveillance with a view to determining which of such mterials should be and could be legally destroyed. The Assistant Attorney General felt that the FBI should assess the culpability of its agents involved in the wrongdoing by the principals named in the report. His memorandum to the Attorney General concluded that probably criminal redress was time- barred, that civil remedies might be available to the King family but might also be more exbarrassing than helpful, and hence that consideration be given to a direct payment by the settlement process or by a private bill to compensate the King survivors, or with the survivors’ concurrence, the King Fondation; if this last issue were left to the task force or an Advisory Commission, it should consider the pros and cons and recommend as it sees fit. The Attorney General forwarded the Civil Rights Division memoranda (and comments thereon from the Deputy Attorney General, the Solicitor General, and from staff members and the Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division) to the Counsel, Office of Professimal Respon- sibility. The Attorney General charged the Office of Professioal Responsibility with the work of completing the review begun by the Civil Rights Division, His mem- randum states: