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an ae: 9 @ GSA From L41 CPR) EOT-11.8 ' UNITED STATES GwVERNMENT ~ Assoc. Dlr. Dep. AD Adm, _ Memorandum : eae Adm, Serv. Ext. Affairs The Director DATE: 12-9-76 Fin. a Pere. — ia al ident. — (/ tng pection FROM! Legal counshi im = agal C at t-79 rea ~ f } : Rec. Haat SUBJECT: SURREPTITIOUS ENTRIES =” —— Rec, Mant — Spec, Inv. eames’ Training Telephone Ra. — purpose. Xi f LAL Diep WV Siathedl foe arr a - fa Co OEE TOFS Lf 0 To record a conference with the Attorney General concerning “caption matter. Ww SYNOPSIS AND DETAILS: At approximately 9:30 a.m. on December 9, 1976, Doug Marvin, counsel to the Attorney General, called me and said the Attorney General requested me to meet with him personally at once. I met with the Attorney General in his office at approximately 9:35 a.m. We were joined by Doug Marvin, Jack Fuller and the ; Deputy Attorney General, all of whom attended at the Attorney General's specific request. The Attorney General told me that he was concerned that there appeared to be some lack of agreement between the FBI and the Civil Rights Divbion regardi the authority of the Director to undertake an investigation for purposes of admin- istrative action. He said that when the issue has been discussed there seems to have been some difficulty on the part of both the FBI and the Civil Rights Division in agreeing upon the correct state of affairs. He said that you had indicated to him that you had conferred with me concerning these matters and that he desired to discuss them with me. He said that in his discussions with Assistant Attorney “~ General Pottinger as recently as the evening of December 8, 1976, it was Mr. Pottinger's position that the Director was not constrained from undertaking an investigation for purposes of administrative action at the present time and that it has never been his position that the Director was ever constrained in that regarc Further, Mr. Pottinger took the position that the Director had available to him sufficient information on which he could take administrative action which infor mati was contained in a "Bassett memorandum." ThesAttorney Gengra} then asked m me Enclosure — sr +3 i gumeiey VSATRL 4 6 10X/ 1 - Mr. wintipe Af pal”, S- 03-79 —_ foick HEREA ig OSSD ee 7 1 AAS 3583 — Sver-——BYS2uzem /c eng 79 Buy US. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan L N14