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DeLoach to Mr. Tolson 12/20/65 Be: Installation of Wire Taps and Microphones I told the Attorney General that he should also know that Kennedy, while in Chicago in 1963, was asked by former Assistant Director Evans, who was traveling with Kennedy at Kennedy's request, to listen to a microphone conversation which emanated from the gu I told Katzen Kenne was a tape recording from a microphone and that ne complineated the Fol wre. ite BEBULLOES of this MATUCOE e The Lape recording concerned pay offs from Cosa Nostra to Chicago policenen. information. He stated this this was somewhat hard to believe inasmuch as Kennedy had told him he did not know of such installations by the FBi. stated the above facts clearly refuted this claim. Katzenbach told me fjgese these facts did not, of course, mean that former Attorney General figpat tn had cleared microphone installations in Las Vegas, Nevada. He stated that this issues was the bons of contention at the present tims. I told him that it was inconceivable to me that a man could serve as the head of the Department and receive a continuous flow of information and not realize where such information was coming from. Katzenbach told me [ynat the Department had not received information taken from microphones Fe Las Vegas by the FBI. He stated this has always been his understanding. I told him that someone has certainly lead him down the wrong path inas- much as we had furnished the Department, and specifically the Organized Crime Section, considerable information taken from microphones and that it would be perfectly obvious, even to an inexperienced layman, how gxuch ap WWwwVew Bw eeaww veg were aw eee § aera pee = Wanrormation was being procured. I told him further that admittedly, for IE lech ie reasons, the FBI had found it necessary to cut off the flow of IE Attorney General Katzenbach seemed rather stunned over the above such information after it appeared that our sources were being jeopardized, he Attorney General made no comment in this regard. The Attorney General attempted to change the subject by stating that he thought that the current case against our personnel in Las Vegas, which had been brought on by Edward Bennett Williams, would be thrown out ef court. Ne atated that he disliked the idea of removing this case to : 7 Lok ee a DUAL eae VE Federal court inasmuch as he thought the matter could be fully handled in state court. He added that to remand this matter to Federal court wodld prevent state authorities from learning of issues they were entitled to. know about. He stated he felt the Statute of Limitations was a good basis for throwing the case out of court and furtherno. appeared that Levensen, the plaintiff, would definitely attempt to call off the case once the: Federal Government attempted to obtain an affidavit from him. The - | Attorney General added that Levensen, of course, fully realized that his association with Cosa Nostra hoodlums and the “skimming off" process should {| { (pot be revealed under any circumstances, Continued on next page@e.ce — a .-