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2. As a corollary of our espousal of tighter _ Department authority over the FBI, we recommend that the Bureau's public relations activities and press relations be controlled by the Attorney General's Office of Public Information. Clear directives to prevent the development of personality cults around particular Breau Directors and officials should be drawn. Bureau press releases should be cleared through the Office of Public Information. 3. The task force recoumends that in sensitive cases no criminal action be instituted by the Bureau without the closest coordination and consultation with the supervising Division of the Department. This supervision by the Depart- ment should be as tight as the control and consultation the Bureau had with its Field Offices as exhibited in our review of the assassination investigation. 4. It was observed that almost no blacks were in the FRI special agent's corps in the 1960's and none in the Bureau's hierarchy. This undoubtedly had the effect of limiting not only the outlook and understanding of the problems of race relations, but also must have hindered the ability of investigators to commmicate fully with blacks during the murder investigation. By way of illustration had there been black agents in the Memphis Field Office participating fully in the investigation of Dr. King's r mrder, it is wlikely that the interviews with -144-