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chairman, with- + milable, .# 3tatement stands ee geply. that statement 4 wt a. might be an \herrations can atement that it st a moment, I with regard to the statements nade during the of non-Burean ‘The Bureau's y could not be ing it and the he appendixes. ] I would lke to | whether or not o the testimony pmey and Fam ® for 30 vears on in the future. I as started, how ging that just got pring whether it do not have any Mepn. memed it. It started ‘ar practice and ‘minal Division r that if there is ill be called to discontinue, we Department of 1079 Mr. Jounxson. I suppose there is an Assistant Attorney General involved ? . Mr. Wanwane. There is an Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division, Mr. Jonson. Is that an appointed office? Is that one of those offices where people serve for a while and then they go out and another person is appointed and he goes out ? It looks to me as though this is probably what happened—that they started the investigation 30 years ago and nobody ever challenged it or stopped it. Mr. Waxnann. It is an appomted office, but I'm sure the reports are not personally reviewed by him. They are probably reviewed by some- one under him, who would certainly have some degree of continuity in his position. . ; Mr. Jouxson. What kind of oversight in the Congress do we have to check these things? Mr. Wanxatt. Oversight by Congress? Mr. Jounsox, Yes. Has anybody in the Congress ever said, “Why are you doing this and why have you continued for 30 years when you have not found there is any danger?” Mr. Waxnatr. I don't know whether it would be termed oversight as such, but I think during the entire period of time the Director of the FBI testified in connection. with the appropriations of the FBI. Mr. Jouxson, We have had testimony about what that kind of testimony involved, If that is what it was, it is understandable how it went on so long. . Chairman Pixs. Mr. Dellums. Mr. Deticms. Before getting into questions, I would like to say I appreciate your going into statistics with respect to minorities em- Moyed hy the FRI Ret in enprepriete terms, your emnleyment of blacks is 1.2 percent, and in a Nation where 51.2 percent of the popula- tion is women, you have 0.4 percent women agents. . Now, with respect to your statement about the Fourth International, as I understand it, the Socialist Workers Party was affiliated with the Fourth International back in the late 1930's. That. was not illegal. As a result of the passage of the Voorhis Act; the Socialist Workers Party discontinued any affiliation from that day to the Fourth Inter- national which in my opinion flies in the face of your justification for 30 years of mtimidation, burglarizing, warrantless wiretaps, and other programs you have used to justifymeder the absurd nomenclature of counterintelligence program. With respect to the Socialist Workers Party specifically, as I understand it this morning, you testified that the FBI has not engaged in surreptitious entry or burglary since 1965. ° In the fall of 1971, the office of the Michigan Socialist Party was burglarized, and file materials were taken. In April 1973. the Civil - Service Commission confronted a former SWP member with a copy of a letter of resignation from SWP. The letter had been in the burglarized file. My questions are twofold. Has the FBI burglarized SWP offices in general, and specifically have you burglarized Michigan offices of the SWP? . 63-165—76—10 r i f Re ee geen a ry EE ey pte ee er er |