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a pa og i aM is'aacdnke eer; ba top RAE Te eae Aedeerade ete DETAILS: SA Danny O. Coulson of the Office of Congressional Affairs, has completed a review of pertinent testimony before Senate and House Committee by Bureau officials concerning surreptitious entiae conducted by Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Statemments made by Bureau officials concerning surreptitious entires directed against the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) are not included in this memorandum. On Tuesday, November 18, 1975, Assistant to the Director, James B. Adams, former Assistant Director W. Raymond Wannall, Section Chief R. L. Shackelford, Special Agents David Ryan and Hugh Mallett, testified before'a Select Committee on Intelligence, First Session - U.S. House of Representatives, 94th Congress, This testimony dealt with "FBI domestic intelligence programs." Congressman James V. Stanton(Ohio) posed this question to former Assistant Director Wannall, "Mr. Wannali, has the FBI] ever participated in burglaries in order to obtain information for their purposes of investigations ?" Mr. Wannall responded, ‘'I think Mr. Kelley, at a news conference in July, acknowledged that the FBI had participated in surreptitious entires to obtain information." Mr. Wannall was asked by Congressman Stanton, "Could you tell me, from 1945 until the present, how many instances there were ?" Mr. Wannall responded, 'We have maden very thorough study and have