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1 ; oo Tied Memorandum C. D. Brennan to Mr. W. c. Sullivan ES are RE: “ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCES / oe ote 66-8160 - rts oa sath ae ONC a Pon eT Ryn Stee CN ee I Oat Rae yy A memorandum on FBI stationery, classified “Top Secret, bad dated August 17, 1961, enclosed a pro the elephone company in New York City requesti as (3) delivered to Mr. Kennedy on August , 1961, by Assistant Director Courtney Evans. This memor neral requested his approval for the use o an adjunct S to the Bureau's microphone surveillances in security and | major eriminal cases in New York City. Loos ms th i On March 30, 1962, Mr. Kennedy summoned ur. ‘Evans ‘to his office and told him that Joseph Volpe, formerly Chief Counsel for the Atomic Energy Commission, had informed the Attorney General that he had learned on the “highest authority" that Volpe's office had been covered with a microphone surveillance during 1953 and 1954. Mr. Kennedy asked Mr. Evans if this had been an FBI i microphone surveillance, Mr. Evans later reported to the Attorney General that this was not an FBI microphone surveillance. ; On March 19, 1963, Mr. Kennedy was ‘briefed on organized crime investigations in the FBI's Chicago Office. This briefing . was attended by other Departmental officials, including William _ Hundley, Chief of the Organized Crime and Racketeering Section. Aftet Special Agents of the FEI told them about the corruption of Jocal law enforcement officers by Chicago hoodlums, a tape recording from an FBI microphone surveillance was played for then. . On another occasion, Mr. Kennedy visited the New York Office of the FBI for a briefing on organized crime. Participants in this conference, held November 4, 1963, were Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Ed Guthman of Mr. Kennedy's staff, Assistant Directors =. Courtney Evans and John F. Malone, and approximately 25 FBI Special Agents assigned to the New York Office. At this conference, a tape ‘recording taken from an FBI microphone surveillance was played for Mr, Kennedy Subsequently, on May 24, 1966, United States Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall filed a memorandum before the Supreme Court advising the Court that there was an electronic surveillance of Fred Black, a Washington lobbyist, and that conversations between Black and his attorneys had been intercepted. wo On July 13, 1966, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall advised the U. 8. Suprepe Court that under Departmental practice, in effect for a period/years prior to 1963 and continuing into - 1965, the Director of the FBI was given authority to approve the installation of microphones for intelligence purposes when required in the interest of internal security or national safety including