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ee am ee mH ee | CONFIDENTIAL ~ NY 100-161445 “what you have to do to get yourself a letter and authorization from Kleindienst (phonetic)? I'm declared, I think, a Nationaleceece , : "Jack Anderson: ) ° "It's a very rare privilege. ‘ "Abbie Hoffman: . "I'm declared a national security hazard which is kind of a faulty electrical connection.... “Jack Anderson: : "It's a very rare privilege but not as rare as the FBI would like you to believe. The way it worsxs...they get court orders oh less than a hundred themselves, srobably less than 50 if I remember my figures correctly and when J. Edgar Hoover appears before Congress and says that he's got taps only on less than 50 vhones....bugs in less than a hundred places, he's telling the truth, But the way tney work it, they get local law enforcement agencies to do the bugging for them. So, if they want...uh...if they want a room bugged or a telephone tapred so that it won't be counted — against them and have as a blacx on them, they'll get the local FSI supervisors usually on good terms with some local law enforcement agency, and they'll get them to do the bugging or the tanning and turn the information over’ to thel."BI, So Hoover can really honestly boast that there are relatively few taps by the FBI. "Abbie Hoffman: "He does....it's kind of interesting to visit their place. I was taxen on a tour adout a month ago and...I had noticed a change in the character in fact..... "Jack Anderson: "Was this a voluntary tour? ~ 20 «/ ‘CONFIDENTIAL