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THE LONG COMMITTEE In early 1965, the United States Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, headed by Senator Edward V. Long of Missouri and popularly known as the Long Committee, began inquiries into Federal encroachments on citizens privacy. The Committee's early inquiries | centered largely on the use of electronic surveillances by the Internal Revenue Service and that agency received ("Invasion Privacy considerable adverse publicity as a result of these hearing {Soy LoBPREVECHTERE BED cacllP8T 86a betgee ot Tne SHALE YPSORSEA ES eRe dmi pis Fe Session, Part I, nning in early 1966, and with the ‘Director's #1965, p.1) approval, Assistant to the Director DeLoach and Assistant Director Gale conferred with Senator Long and with the Committee's Chief Counsel Bernard Fensterwald, Jr., to present to them a factual account of the Bureau's strictly limited use of electronic surveillances under tightly | controlled administrative procedures. (Exhibit 95) Following these conferences, the Director sent Senator Long a letter dated January 20, 1966. (Exhibit 96) In this letter, the Director expressed his appreciation for the opportunity to work with the Senator and his Committee etafi and for the opportunity to subwit to them for their close scrutiny the FBI's policies and procedures regarding