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eee ee Seen cence siegiepai sel asa Aaa mee a Mr. Callahan : - Mr. Wannall ~- Mr. Fulton oo" July 25, 1975 - Su NE _— Ae SURREPTITIOUS ENTRY ape thoy es 2 — 4 aH Between the years 1942 to 1967, the Federal Bureau of £ tt}; Investigation (FEI) utilized surreptitious entry in cases bearing on the security of the Nation. When a Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of a field office considered the technique necessary to the conduct of en investigation, he would make his recuest to the appropriate Assistant Director, justifying need for a surreptitious entry and assuring it could be safely accomplished with full security. In accordance with Director's Hoover's instructions, a menorandur outlining the facts of the request was then prepared for approval of Mr. Tolson, the Associate Director, or Director Hoover. Subsequently, the menorandum q was filed in the Assistant Director's office under a "Do Not & File" procedure, and thereafter destroyed. In the field office, @ the SAC maintained a record of approval, as a control device, ~ in his office safe. At the next yearly field office inspection, o Cs pees whe at aka “SS I#ETH1O NMOHS Mca IdcwtoYsA cz a as ood? + oo & review would be nade of these records by the Inapector to insure that the SAC was not acting without prior Headquarters approval in conducting surreptitious entries. Upon completion of this review, these records were then destroyec. Accordingly, in attempting to now reconstruct those instances of surreptitious entry, FEI Headquarters necesserily had to rely upon search of our indices and the recollection of Special Agents who might thave knowledge of such activity. AOTAD Eat. Aoir SE fetes fe i SEE NOTE PAGE THREE . ident. ; x mht egOr e and wt inspection ———— te Indefinite ran ae ded So bet, ORIGINAL AND ONE COPY FUR Src. tev. ONE COPY FURNISHED THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL f wa Training Lege! Coun. —__ Telephone Rm. __ Dnteiecy «© MAILROOM] TELETYPE UNIT CENcLOsURE Ors " 7 17° ian nee NN eR me CM) 954-544 —— - LR Rep ee PE RS —ERE