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ot ag eOmm OO 48 he — , rm: Mr: "Belmont\/y~ pare: July 7, 1961 FROM: C. A. Evans ’ — . OR sunjEGT: .—-ORGANIZED CRIME AND vsrrep stares co SQ Memoran..© | ~ | — RACKETEERING SECTION ar te or] OF THE DEPARTMENT In line with the Director's approval, the Attorney General was amt tar Swen eee Fae oe ales fT bine ae eee be contacted this mor ning, July 7, 1961, rélative to his observation as to the possibility of utilizing "electronic devices" in or ganized crime investigations. it was S pointed out to ) the Attorney - General that we had taken action the y rescesented. an expensive inv estigative step, we were nevertheless utilize them in all instances where this was tecir.i cally feasible = 22a where valuable information might be expected. The strong objections to the utilization of telephone taps as contrasted to micropnowe surveillances was'stressed, The Attorney General ctated he recognized the reasons why telephone taps should be restricted to national-defense-type cases and he was pleased we had been using microphone surveillances where these objections do not apply wherever wmrAeoathia in Aare eee el tee a bh ee pOssioie acid BAIL Le Maticrs, The Attorney General noted that he had asproved several technical surveillances in connection with security -type investigations since he took Gifice, but that he had not kept any record and didn't really imow what he had approved 2nd what surveillances were currently in operation. He said that for is own information he would like to see a list of the technical surveillances now in operation. He added that this could be br ought over to hix: personally anc that he would look it over and immediately return it because he realized the importance of having these records maintained under the special security conditions which only the FBI had. rt the Sirec trw AMAT A erm wrt have tha Tiet af tazrhkninant! ab di WA OL Lor appr VV¥Gee, We Wasi d VG bic L. We LOVMILos 3 surveillances prenared, delivered personally to the Attorney Generaland - then returned to the Bureau's file. a : - os . ff. Saatk ls [steele nelveceat ants Lett wot ue a 7 re tnd