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Lot 2/36 GENERAL INVESTIGA (eB DIVISION "Attached advises of contact with United States Attorney (USA) Beall, Baltimore, regarding the investigation being conducted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) involving prominent political figures in the Baltimore area and in which Vice-President Spiro T. Agnew has been mentioned. USA Beall advised investigation is basically an IRS matter, however, other possible Federal viola- tions have been developed including the Bribery statute. USA Beall does not believe it to be logical at this time for the FBI to become involved and pointed out that the investigation is still basically a tax matter. Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Keeney of the Department advised 8/8/73, he conferred with Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen, Criminal Division, and stated this is strictly an IRS matter, the IRS has been investigating this for months and the bribery evolving from this should be handled by IRS. Petersen suggested liaison should be established with USA |Beall and this has been done. Keeney advised that Petersen stated he is not requesting any FBI investigation in this matter. Baltimore is maintaining liaison wit