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r 8 ' t ‘ Ly . Py rt ? _ Pa ‘Memorandum C. D. Brennan to Mr. w. c. Sullivan. RP gS et RE: ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCES ee 2 - Bae x organized crime, kidnapping, and matters wherein human lite might be at stake, Ves On July 16, 1964, the Director, in a telephone conversa- tion with the President, discussed the FBI's investigation of ..: events surrounding the murder of Negro educator Lemuel Penn on a Georgia highway. During this tdephone conversation, the Director told the President that the FBI had installed a microphone ina building next to the garage where Kiansmen gathered in Athens, Georgia. Policy Under Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Attorney General Katzenbach, in a conversation with ~~ the Director on March 30, 1965, stated that he would like to =. set up a procedure, similer to that in effect concerning technical surveillances, whereby he would be advised by the Bureau of ; microphone surveillance installations. On the same day, the Director sent a memorandum to the Attorney General which contained the following: Loot : "In line with your suggestion this morning, I . have already set up the procedure similar to requesting of authority for phone taps to be utilized in requesting authority tor the Placement of microphones," ‘The Attorney General, on July 22, 1965, informed the Director that he would like to have all microphone surveillances suspended at that time, because of the pressure being brought to bear, particularly on the Internal Revenue Service, by the United States Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure _headed by Senator Long of Missouri. The Attorney General said that ‘he wanted to be in a position to state that the FBI had no; microphone surveillance coverage. "-- a In response to several requests from the Bureau for guide- lines in the use of special investigative techniques, Attorney — General Katzenbach, by memorandum dated September 27, 1965, ° advised that microphone surveillances should be restricted. to the internal security field. After the Attorney General again granted the FBI authority to use microphone surveililances to gather. intelligence in national security matters, the Bureau, following the procedure established by Mr. Katzenbach to obtain bis authorization, _ reactivated microphone Speer in selected cases. | _ w= 10 - oe CONTINUED - OVER —