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Fd a {™ Pye ye geet, ee . ae - > . : = Memorandum C. D. Brennan to Mr. W. C. Sullivan. . a, 3S RE: “ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCES Coa Xe 66-8160 a ON La ee of ‘May 21, 1940, and traced the development of policy through ; 1960. Included in this outline was the following: | “Under our present policy we request specific - authorization in writing and in advance from the =“): Attorney General before any technical surveillance «= - — is utilized. This is the policy followed by the -- Federal Bureau of Investigation under the direction .. of each Attorney General for over twenty years, since - . . President Roosevelt's memorandum of May 21, 1940. ae had passed it on to President John Kennedy who had commented on its great value to him. Because ‘of this, the Attorney General wanted to be certain that any information of this type which might be of interest to the President would be given to him to bring to the attention of the } President. The Director, by memorandum dated January 8, 1962, +2 ia on + 7 "] assured Hr. Kennedy that this had been the practice in the past and that it would be the practice in the future. On Ja a: response a5 ar ferences a a e rector advised him by memorandum dated January 26, 1962, of CMmarnrrrr entity ccezeny conrat trosved these propeene, ntelligence, If the Attorney General approved these proposals, the Director stated, the FBI would obtain clearance from the ; Department of State, Geonarsa) Fam neo oh By memorandum dated January 31, 1962, the Department | informed , the Director that the Attorney General had approved the ease With regard to Martin Luther King, leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Mr, Kennedy stated SET _ CONTINUED - OVER