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Eun . RELLEY: |_— oo ere 9 on eee a Oe. On EP Ae ee ER ey ee = shee re 9 8 OS Ey ah tee + — sie eam crm a week requesting certain investigations, and tagged at the end is the statement that if any other leads are developed you should feel free to go ahead. We are not conducting investigations independently. If, on occasion, we have something reported to us regarding this investigation, we do immediately flip over to the Committee for two reasons. themselves conduct some investigation independently One being that they on occasion, very little, but they do, and it might be duplicative. Secondly, we have reached an agrec- ment with them that we will do this in order that they might govern the scope of the investigation. Over, much over half of the investigation ‘they conducted a in this area are conducted by the FBI. Mr. Kelley, the White House established what we've come to know as the Plumbers' Orqanization. Would you, as the Director of the FI, permit the FBI to do that * type of thing if asked to do so, and secondly, do you favor that type of an operation asthe Plumbers? Organization has been identified as? I ado not favor an organization such as that, and I would eo ea . not permit our people to engaye in a sinilar operation. . 4 , e ' ~ 21 -