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of the Bureau's intelligence and comterintelligence activities with respect to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The scheme of citation hereinafter used will be to minimize footnotes, place the source citation in the body of the writing, and designate headquarters files by "HQ" and mumber and serial and Field Office files by city and mmber and serial, e.g.: (Memphis 44-1987- 153). Exceptions to this scheme will be explained when made. The more voluminous of the pertinent files in addition to the FBI headquarters files and the Washington Field Office files were located in Memphis, Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Birminghan, New Orleans, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha, Chicago, Springfield (I11.), Milwaukee and New York. These were examined in place by visits by task force persomel. The remaining files were xeroxed and forwarded for review in Washington. Pertinent newspaper clipping files maintained by the Department and by the Burean and its field offices were scarned. | In terms of papers examined, more than 200,000 entries, many with mmerous pages concerning both the murder investigation and the security investigation were covered. The five attorneys sitting together originally