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Department undertake a survey of equipment being used and a legal study of this matter. Mr. Miller had asked, in his letter of transmittal, that the FSI comment on this proposal. The Director's memorandum to Mr. Miller stated that such a study was not believed desirable principally because it would disclose confidential investigative techniques. The Director's memorandum ’ also stated: “,..as the Department knows, this Bureau does utilize, on a very restricted basis, electronic investigative aids in the investigation of important matters affecting the security of the country and in the collection of important crininal intelligence information relating to organized crime, as well as similar investiga- tive matters involving the safety and weli- being of a victim such as in kidnapping cases. “In such matters, the Department is aware that these electronic investigative aids have proven to be useful in the past and continue to be very helpful at present." (Exhibit 75) Since criminal intelligence information relating to organized crime was not one of the categories for which the Attorney General could approve a technical surveillance (wire tap), the reference to “electronic investigative . ! a es interpreted by the Department to © HeEant microphone surveillances insofar as criminal intelligence matters were concerned,