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UNITED. STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D. C. 20535 GFICE OF THE DIRECTOR Seal: November 12, 1971 MEMORANDUM FOR MR, FELT With reference to your memorandum of November 2, 197l, which I am returning withwith in order for it to.be placed in the Confiden- tial Files, in conversation with the Attorney General on November I, 197l, he.advised me that the Sensitive Files which w. 'C. Sullivan had, without my authority, turned over to Assistant Attorney. General Mardian had not been destroyed but had been' sent to at the White House to be kept there. The Attorney General stated this was done in view'of the fact that should any Congressional inquiry.be made and a b6 subpoena issued to. the Department of Justice or the FBI, we would not b7C have such'files in our custody, and the White House under Executive privilege would be in a position to refuse'availability to the files since they were.in the possession of the White House, namely, I expressed.to the Attorney General my concern about this whole matter and the way in which it had been handled rather surreptitiously between Mr. Mardian and.Mr:'Sullivan:' I stated that I hoped that the b6 b7C ]and that'not one had retained any copies, either original or Xerox.'. The Attorney General.indicated he believed this had been done This memorandum'should also'be' incorporated in. the Confidential Files which you have in.your office.. Very truly yours., .J. E. H.) (no brackets) .., JohnEdgar Hoover JEH:EDM