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ig, - ee a Memorandum to Mr. Leavitt Re: Surreptitious Entries ae Sea ee ee ee nee ee ee a ee 66-8160 Attached is material received from Office of Con- gressional Affairs, Legal Counsel Division, External Affairs Division, and IS-2 Section, INTD, relating to the subject of the AG's 4/29/76 request. A review of this material indicates no need for retraction or clarification of state- ments before congressional committees about entries in general, or about the SWP matter. Review of material furnished the Department's Civil Rights Division by IS-3 Section, INTD, shows no material which had not been promptly clarified or corrected, where necessary, by subsequent memoranda to that Division. With respect to the Director's comments in a 7/14/75 news conference, that there were no entries against domestic targets subsequent to 1966, an analysis of material available to INTD shows that at the time of the Director's responses INTD was not in possession of information suggesting entries did occur after 1966. The Director's comments were based on then current information - information based on recol- lections of INTD personnel-and the July, 1966, Sullivan to DeLoach memorandum regarding black bag jobs. Subsequent to the Director's conference statements, our inquiries of field offices surfaced information indicating entries did occur after Mr. Hoover's instructions. The Civil Rights Division has been kept fully apprised, and it is believed there is no need to retract or clarify statements at this time. + In view of recent statements to the press clarifying certain information furnished to them earlier, it is believed there is no need at this time to further clarify remarks made by Bureau officials. Entry information located by us in mid-March, 1074 oon Furnished to ¢ re Fad 1976, was not furnished to Senate and House Select Committees inasmuch as (1) the House Committee's inquiry had ended, and (2) the Senate Committee's report on entries was in preparation. Further, since certain of the newly discovered entries were within the Statute of Limitations, the Department initiated an investigation and it did not appear appropriate to disseminate such information at that time to the Senate Committee. ae wees ee nee a ne pe ee Se ee ee oe pe a