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SENSITIVE covsnass PLACED Original impounded byAT REQUEST or THE WHITE HOUSE court orde1"- See m mofin as-16062--13 [MFollowing departure of former Assistant to the DirectorWilliam C. Sullivan, it was discovered that all records he had
maintained in hisoffice concerning special highly sensitivecoverage the Bureau maintained at request of the White Housewere missing. Due to the extremely sensitive nature of these
records, Sullivan maintained the only copy of all recordsconcerning this coverage. It was subsequently establishedbeyond a reasonable doubt that prior to his departure, Sullivanturned all of these records over to Robert C. Mardian, Assistant
Attorney General,
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matter, an effortInternal Security Division of the Department.
destroyed these records.
the Bureau has some record of this delicate 9d% has been made to reconstruct as many factsas possible concerning this coverage, particularly the identity ofindividuals on whom the coverage was maintained. It must be. borne in mind, however, that a very limited number of persons
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Based on all available information, this coverage was first_ instituted at the specific request of Dr. Henry Kissinger, who' contacted the Director in the early spring of 1969 followingsome type of leak of information involving the National SecurityCouncil. It is believed that the first individuals covered were:
Dr. Horton Halperin, who was with the National SecurityCouncil at that time, but later went to Brookings Institution.The coverage stayed on him even after.he went to Brookings
Institution.
1 Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who was with National Security Council.
Tony'Lake, who was also with National Security Council.
, John Patrick Sears. Sears had formerly been in the Nixon-Mitchell Law Firm in New York and had actively worked on the_ Nixon campaign. After the election he had some sort of job atthe Executive Office Building, but apparently became disenchantedwith_the Nixon administration. He wanted a job with Office ofEconomic Opportunity.
Later additional requests were made, but at some point therequests came from H.R. Haldeman rather than Dr. Kissinger. Thefollowing is a list of those individuals on whom it is reasonablybelieved coverage was maintained for the White House. The datesof such coverage cannot be established without reference to recordswhich is not believed desirable:
Henry Brandon, Correspondent, London Sunday TimesWilliam Safire, National Security CouncilWinston Lloyd, National Security CouncilMarvin Kalb, RadioTV Correspondent and news serviceWilliam Beecher, New York Times _Hedrick Smith, New York Times __ - - .Ambassador Richard P. Pedersen, State DepartmentAmbassador William Sullivan, State DepartmentDaniel Davidson, National Security CouncilGeneral Robert Pursley, now military aide to Vice President,but at time was a Colonel on staff of Secretary LairdJames W. McLain, who at time was with Health, Education andWelfare, but was in process of following Robert Pinch toWhite House as Finch's aide.Richard Moose, National Security Council' _
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The largest number of these in ope tion at one time isbelieved to be eight. The last one placed was on McLain andit was placed on l2/14/70, while the Director was out of town.This one had a great sense of urgency when the request was made
and required special installation by Washington Field Office.
Although it is not believed that this coverage was everplaced on Joe Kraft, Washington Post Correspondent, on an addressin the U.S., Sullivan was actively trying to determine exactlywhere Kraft was located in Europe. Kraft made a trip to Francejust prior to Nixon's visit to Rumania and his exact address F3;was learned and Sullivan is reported to have traveled to Paris7§§in an effort to had French authorities place coverage on Kraft
1 Those on whom the coverage remained longestwere Ha1pe.1n,
Brandon, Hedrick Smith, Kalb and possibly Lloyd. All of this
coverage was discontinued around the end of May or first partof June, l97l. '
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Sometime after the early part of June, 1971, followingdiscontinuance of the coverage, it was deemed advisable thatall copies of memcranda to the White House reporting on resultsof the coverage should be retrieved and kept in a secure place
at the Bureau. After some difficulty all known copies of the
material were returned to the Bureau and placed in Sullivan's
possession, since it was not thought that the material shouldgo to files, even our special file room. Evidently Sullivan
disposed of the material sometime between the last of July and
the time he departed on leave prior to his retirement.
.It goes without saying that knowledge of this coverage
represents a potential source of tremendous embarrassment to
the Bureau and political disaster for the Nixon administrationsCopies of the material itself could be used for political
blackmail and the ruination of Nixon, Mitchell and others of
the administration.
ACTION '' For information and record.
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placed between 1969 and 1971 at the request of the White House. These
records had been improperly removed from custody of the FBI by formerAssistant to the Director William C . Sullivan and turned over to Robert C.
Mardian, then Assistant Attorney General, Internal Security Division of
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The records in question had never been integrated into regularFBI les. Neither had any file number been assigned, nor serializing or _indexing done. There were no entries made into the special electronic I / surveillance indices .
Since recovery of the records has been accompanied by wide-
spread publicity and revelations have been made in Federal Court as to the
existence of the electronic surveillances, we can expect a clamor for elsur
indices checks for possible overhearings which could be the basis for
suppression of evidence or reversal proceedings . Likewise; due to thepolitical hysteria growing out of the Watergate incident, we can well expect_:attempts to connect the 1969-Tl White Houserequested elsurs with the '
._/Watergate matter or the Pentagon Papers matter, which has also been linkedto Watergate because of the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg-s psychiatrist by
principals of the Watergate bre-akin.
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-'question be isolated and maintained intact for evidentiary purposes. However, fit is also essential that we open a case file on the matter; serialize all of
the documents; and index them where pertinent. Recognizing that the mosturgent matter was to begin a set of special elsur indices to service anticipatedrequests from the Department, we immegtely began a review of the elsur
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Memorandum to Mr. E. S . Miller
Re: Sensitive Coverage Placed at the .
Request of the White House1
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logs to prepare elsur index cards. Before any appreciable progress wasmade-, however, a- Departmental -request was -receivedwand-beginning on5/18/73 a crash project was begun with ll Agent Supervisors , 2 TechnicalPublications Writers , and a Secretary. These employees worked around-theclock until the project was completed and we now have more than 5 ,000elsur indices cards which enables us to make elsur indices checks relatingto these particular elsurs. ' '
' The index cards are not complete, however, since we as yethave no file number, nor do we have the elsur logs properly serialized. . C. L. S- 75 055"
Arrangements have been made with Files and CommunicationsDivision to supply a trained employee to work with a designated employeeof the INTD to serialize and index these records . lhis.wor.k will takeplace in INTD space where continuity of the records for evidentiary pur-poses will be maintained at all times. Up to this point I am the only FBIemployee who has had custody and control of the records since they werereleased to the Acting Director and myself on 5/12/73 by the White House .
A decision has been made by the}-lctlng Director that theserecords will be kept in the office of the Associate Director when they have
been processed and that index cards relating itothem will Zsl;Q_y92g_:'f;_l_11',5v_a1_s__192[§;ll ..as t1_1§_hs.tJch.at _ ae.ee.$§l<>_ Iliemc 11111 sf; p be aQpr_qve.d:bic1hel A<;tiag;> Director,Associate Director, or Assistant Director, INTD only. Decision was alsomade that in the interest of security, no abstracts are to be made relatingto these records, inasmuch as abstracts could identify the elsurs placedwhich information if disclosed outside the Bureau wittingly or unwittingly
could result in lawsuits being filed against the FBI. '
As soon as the special elsur index cards are completed withfile number and serial numbers, these will be turned over to Special. Investigative Division for integration in the elsur inriices. Meanwhile,
requests for check of these 5 ,D00 index cards will be processed by the
Special Records and Related Research Unit, IS-3 Section INTD.r -§- -5- E0-'a.s-» - =.-
It is believed that this matter should be considered _a singleFBI case, since it was a single investigation for the White .1-louse to identify leaks of classified data. A single case file should therefore be opened and
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Memorandum to Mr. E. S. Miller
Re: Sensitive Coverage Placed at the
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it is suggested that the code name "SPECOV" be used to identify theease. Bureau inclices are negative on this code word. The case will-thenbe referred to as "SPECCW *Espiona'ge."
Further, since 17 separate individuals were covered by elsurs,although none were separately investigated, it is suggested that each beindexed as a subject of the "SPECOV" case , E' t " . ' I"- Material prepared by the Inspection Division and LegalCounsel's Office relating to this overall matter should be filed with theother SPECOV material since it reveals details which sl?ould be protected. _é ~ VF», g§1:.-5 T5RECOMMENDATIONS: - ' .-Q35 ._ _"""----~~- 5,-, 1 b
I. That a case file be opened on this memorandum and thathenceforth the code name "SPECOV" be used to identify this case. '
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4. That when all records have been fully processed they be _ tiplaced in a safetype cabinet in the Associate Director's office with -Aaccess limited as described herein. - i
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It has been called to my attention by the press, andconrmed by the personnel file of William C. Sullivan, retired,which your office has shown me, that at one time for national security
reasons there were wiretaps placed on certain newspapermen whose
identities are presently not known to this office. I under-stand that the
District Court is concerned that such wiretaps may have somehow1W£2. Felt. .._L£
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1. The identities of the ofcial in the Department of Justice
and in the FBI responsible for carrying out the wiretap program.
_ 2. The names of the newspapermen whose phones were tappeand the names of the newspapers for which they worked._ , v1:
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The documentation which was involved including but not
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Re: Wiretaps on Newspapermene
7. It documentation is not now available, as I understand to bethe case, then it will be necessary to pursue the inquiry through my officein the Department of Justice or elsewhere which had or should have had
knowledge of the wiretaps or of the documentation. I wish to receiveany documentation which exists and if the normal documentation has
been destroyed, which appears to be the case, I wish to be informedwho destroyed it, when it was destroyed and the reason for the destruction.
8. If, as appears to be the case, documentation may not beavailable to establish the results of the wiretaps, I wish the Agents to
be interviewed and statements secured as to their recollection of theinformation received through the wiretaps.
Please -treat this as an urgent matter.
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F ' of that point in that he desires the investigation to proceed forward
:; with any logical interview conducted without delay. He stated there
' need not be cleared through him or his office the conduct of any
interview but that if we are interviewing current personnel within
w the Department and/or other highly placed former officials, we
should simply let his office know about it in order that he may -
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being conducted by the Inspection Division in response to memorandumfrom Acting Director Ruckelshaus to Mr. Felt dated 5/4/73 i thecaptioned matter. DEG!-ASSIF BY 71: 4f»r'11./2% wwgazf on iv J4 / , .
' During the briefing held in your office on the afternoon ofMay 6, 1973, Mr, John A. Minta, Office of Legal Counsel, was presentand inquiry was made of him concerning possible prosecutable violationsof law as well as the necessity of advising people to be interviewed
concerning their constitutional rights. As you will recall, the followingis-=the opinion of Mr, Mintz in substance;
' Mr. Mintz, Leg92al Counsel, advised that there is a remotepossibility the activity which is the subject of the present inquiry, couldinvolve prosecutable violations of law such as Title 18, United States Code,Sections 2511 wiretapping!; 641 unauthorized conversion or dispositionof Government records!; 2071 unlawful concealment, removal, ordestruction of Government records!; 2155 destruction of national defense
material!. However, the element of criminal intent would be difficult
to prove in face of the anticipated claims from all of those involved thatall actions taken were believed to be in the scope of duty,
Q Mr. Mintz advised that, under the law, the interviews to be ' , p'- conducted in this matter need not be prefaced by an advice oi constitutionalrights and a waiver of rights as long as the interviewee is not in custody
or restrained, Further, Bureau rules require no advice of rights and waiver_ unless the interviewee is so strongly suspected of a crime that he is to bequestioned for admissions or confessions of guilt in acriminal investigation. If the interviews are directed at producing details of events and arrangements
controlling FBI activity during a specified period concerning which theinterviewees have knowledge, such administrative inquiry may proceed withoutthe interviewing limitations of a criminal investigation. However. all inter -Mr. Cleveland __
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' . There follows a smnmary of pertinent information developedto date from individuals interviewed who had personal knowledge or reasonto know of information relating to this inquiry:¥
if. SPECIAL AGENT THOMAS J, SMITH, SECTION CHIEF, INTELLIGENCEDIVISION
While he had no personal or first-hand knowledge of wiretapson newsmen or White House officials, he became aware he believes sometime in1969 that there might be such wiretaps. This was occasioned by overbearingconversations on a Saturday while working in the office, A situationdeveloped wherein the White House desired information urgently and fromthe hits and pieces of conversation he overheard he believed the White Housewanted to know something about coverage being maintained by the FBI inconnection with high -level leaks. He vaguely recalls that former InspectorJ%hA. Sizoo may have been in the office at the time and that he or some0 er ranking official of the Intelligence Division then the Domestic Intelligence_ Division! may have tried to contact former istant Director W. C.Sullivan or former Special Agent ooncerning the White House
inquiry.
After January, 1970, when SA:was assigned to work forSA Smith in the Research Section ,* Smith received enough information fromqto very definitely lead to the conclusion that the FBI did , in fact, b6main in wiretaps on behalf of the White House relative to high -level
. . . goperation asmuch %|;|actmlly worked for Smith after January, l970, lt compelle to tell him he was reviewing the logs of all ,<1_ wiretaps being maintained and that he had to go to Sullivan's office to do' so. This was necessary to account for periods of SA|:| absencein the Section from time to time. Inasmuch as SA Smith was aware of .the need-to -know basis for the wiretaps no effort was made on Smith'spart to pry into the nature of the coverage or the identity of the persons
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y FB ad to go to Mr Sullivanoffice "one last time" to put in order the various documents relating tothe special coverage for t e White House. Sometime after the first partof September, l97l,jrevealed to him that former Assistant AttorneyGeneral Robert Mardian had shown him the documents which Mr. Sullivan
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had kept in his office relating to the spec ' taps the FBI had. maintained for the White House and aske to take char e thsedocuments and afford them the greatest possible security. eldSA Smith he was shocked to see these hi hl sensitive do ents inS Y, Mardian's possession since they were FBI propert told Smith that Mr. Sullivan had previously indicated to im t he mightturn the documents over to Mardian but|:I|had strongly advised Mr,Sullivan not to take such action since no one outside the FBI should haveaccess to such information. |;|conversation with Smith was recordedin a memorandum to Assistan irector E. S. Miller on October 1, 1971,which led to the discovery that the sensitive records were no longer in b / FBI'custody_ ' ' O
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Full background material regarding the above -named individualsis being compiled and will be furnished. '
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He was ASAC in WFO prior to and until April, 1969, when hetransferred as SAC of the Alexandria Office. During this time McDermott »had no knowledge about and wiretaps on members of the White House staffb fth d H t da SAC fWFO Oth 24, or mem ers o e news me 1a, e re nrne s o on c o erA 1972._ About two mont in a conference on another matter withSupervisor 1e learned for the first time that|:|hadreceived ins ructions from a Domestic Intelligence Division representative Vto institute wiretaps, According to McDermott|:| instructions were ,received by im phone and|:|was told in the strictest terms there wouldbe no official record made of this request in the WFO, McDermott stated
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the personnel wit ' ho would have com lete knowled e o ' '_ p g f this operaticwould be now retired!, and two Special Clerks whohandled e a ' 'c mo coverage on these special taps according to|:l_ Mcbermott advised as far as he knows there is no documentation or recordI,_ of any kind on this matter in WHO files.
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During the Spring or Summer of 1969 WFO was orally requestedto institute a discreet investigation of John Sears, a White House employeewho was formerly an attorney in Mr. Nixon's law firm in New York City.|:|could not recall whether the telephone call came to him or to then ;SAC Joseph Purvis and later transferred to him. However, he believes ;the call came directly to him from former Inspector Joseph Sizoo, whowas then Number One Man to Assistant Director Sullivan. Investigationin this matter included a request for both a physical and telephoneSurveillance and:was specifically told by Sizoo that the telephonecoverage was to be handled most discreetly with only one copy of the transcriptionlog made which was then to be hand carried to Assistant Director Sullivan'sOffice. |;|was advised by Sizoo that there would be no paper on thiscoverage 0 WFO. The transcription logs in the Sears matter as well asall subsequent telephone surveillance requests were picked up by?from the WFO monitoring station each morning, sealed and then an carriedby selected Agents, names not recalled, to Sullivan's office. |:|recalled the telephone surveillance on Sears lasted for approximately twoto three months, In the Sears case, as in all others, a telephone call wasreceived from a representative of the Domestic Intelligence Divisioninstructing that the coverage be discontinued, Subsequently, during theperiod 1969 through 1971, representatives of the Domestic lntelli enceDivision DID! including Inspector Sizoo, former Special Agent|:l, and possibly SA Tom Smith it is noted above that SA Smith disclairned ~any personal knowledge of any wiretaps! orally instructed that other telephonesurveillances be placed on other White House employees and certain representa-tives of _the news media, |:|stated that the names that immediately came itto mind are Morton Halperin, which coverage lasted for 8 to 10 months; %Helmut Sonnenieldt, 6 to 8 months; and William Safire, 3 to 4 months;other requests concerned Henry Brandon, London Sunday Times, 6 to 8months coverage, and a first name unlmown Smith, New York Times treporter which lasted several months. :stated he assumed that allrequests of the DI.D._.concerning special coverage were approved by former - .Director Hoover, When the initial request was made WFO was advisedat that time whether the requests for telephone surveillance coveragewere actually approved by the then Attorney General John Mitchell or that they ". ib7C
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would be approved prior to implementation. On several requests, specificsnot recalled, one phone call from DID would request background informationfor contemplated telephone coverage and a later telephone call would instructthat coverage be implemented since there was Attorney Generalapproval.; F. In other instances there would only be one call to WFO instructing thati telephone surveillance coverage be implemented as Attorney Generali authorization had already been obtained.
tated' that upon receipt of the oral request he would advise| I now retired r supervisor of the WFO Monitoringstallation and who had liaison with the telephonecompany. o arrange fo th t r e elephone surveillance coverage b 6on the indivi ua 111 question, |:|smtes no written request was madeof the tele h ' ' 'p one company during any of these specialized inst ions 137 Cnor was any billing made to the FBI by the phone company fo ml1aons,I |:|stated he cannot comment on the productivity of any of the telephoneI surveillances as his essential function was to obtain the log transcriptionsand have these pa ers hand carried to the DID. He did not, therefore,review the logs. idenmied 6 Special Clerks or Special Employees p- who monitored the special telephone surveillance coverage. Theseindividuals are currently being interviewed.
We are currently seeking out for interview all ' d d1Il 1v1 ualsI assigned to-WFO who had personal knowledge of the wiretaps or their= recollections a ts o on whom, for what period of time and the resi lts.A t . . .s se forth above in the opinion of Inspector Mintz all interview resultsare being reduced to an Fl! -302.
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I I lfprme; Specialgigent ret_ire_d!, E120 '6 -Qlrecallsfsometime in the Spring of 19 69, Supervisor| |came 0 1m and advised he had received ureent re s 1 . D ue t from W, . ulli ran thatWhite House concerned about leaks and Sullivan tolg|:|that some te clinicalsurveillances wiretaps! would be initiated by WFO on names to be furnished by b6Sullivan. | is Iwas advised by| |n0t to kee an written records of these 3075wire ps w a oever | |subsequent1y gave some telephone nu bersand addresses and he in turn furnished this information tol iivho handledliaison with the C&P telephone company. ghee advise a every iing ofany length or substance was to be recorde on pe. The individuals monitoringthe wiretaps would subsequently transcribe into a written log only one copy oiwhich was to be made; and the tapes were subsequently erased, usually during a
period of two to four weeks.
' he individuals upon whom§reca1ls that were to he the subjects ofwireta s are a ollows together w1 gength oirgiine the wiretap was ineffect? orto alperin - 12 to 16 month , I-Ielmu onnenfeldt - 2 months-
surrounding this request olonel Robert ursley - 6 8 months; William /%i;_e - 4 months; Richer oose - 4 mcgzhs; Marvin alb - I to 2 mont -.Henry5@Brandm - 8 to 12 months; Wi1liam_ eecher - 2 to 3 months; Jame Mcllain -1 week. 3 92- - .Q V. .-92 -- {'3 ,- /oonrnvusn ovséaj - 73 3 M él -l..i °.-J J15
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|:|advised that to the best of his recollection-approximately 12 to15 such wiretap requests were handled by him.
_. |:|in addition furnished a list of names of WFO employees specialemployees and special clerks! whom, to the best of his recollection, he recalledas having a part in the monitoring concerning the above wiretaps.
stated that none of the individuals on whom wiretaps were placed
were ever e s1_1b'ect of leased lin r sts t th C&P t l 3 e eque o e e ephone company b6as these wiretaps had all been removed prior to the institution of t leased ,7line procedure. :stated that his supervisor usually b C
i k d t p c e u hese logs on a daily basis from the WF monitoring station, afterwhichwould make a Xerox copy of the transcribed logs that would befurnished that day to Domestic I telligence Division DID!. The urpose formaking the Xerox copy astmderstood it was to enable|lL|to specically
answer any requests that might emanate from the logs that have been sent to theDID concerning individuals mentioned therein. These Xerox copies were usuallydestroyed within two to three days after they were made. _
. 1nr@rmed|:| shortly after the initial Wiretaps hadbeen p ace 1n o operation that to the best of his knowledge|:| these
wireta s had been approved by the then Attorney General, John Mitchell. Bothgland: then surmised that these wiretaps must have been approvedy he then Director Hoover prior to-transmittal to the Attorney General.
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monitoring installation now retire certain telephonic surveillances wiretaps! would from time to time be laced on certain phones in an attempt touncover leaks at the White House. |:n&|when he received oral instructionsto initiate these wiretaps, in turn ora y requested a C&P repres entative to effectthe requested wiretap. Sometime after July, 1971, officials of telephone companyvisited Bureau headquarters and requested that in the future the FBI pay forleased lines it had in operation or would request in future. Telephone companylegal department also requested at this time that leased line letters requestingtelephone company assistance for placing of wiretaps be used b FBI to requestsuch assistance rather than orally as was previous method.|t|recalledsometime in August, 1971, based on new procedures agreed upon b FBI andtelephone company, he began to receive from time to time fromsealed
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leased line letters which requested telephone company to install wiretapson telephone numbers and addresses of unnamed individuals. tatedleased line letters do not identify individual by name. coul not now b 5specifically recall the names of any individuals on whom ese wiretaps were b7Cplaced, or if the leased line letters entioned above, pertained to wiretapsrelating to White House leaks. ld also be adviSec orally todiscontinue wireta s and u on re e1 'p p c p o these instructions wou d orallyadvise telephone company cont-act to dis continue, N o written request was madefor discontinuance,
Mo_nitoring Employees of the WEQ - Summary of Injéormation Fug-nished
The following six clerical employees of the WFO who monitored these_ wiretaps either entirel or artially' dmipg_l969 -1970 and earl 1971 wereas follows: | | b 6
One a itional b7@clerkéwho is now a Special Agent, will be interviewed, He is the only otheremployee who conducted monitoring duty on this project,
' e 1 .1: t d T mp oyees were ins ruc e by either Supe rvisor or, since retired, to handle this project on a very confidential basis,ma ting only one copy of logs containing information monitored from the wiretaps.They did no dictation to stenographers, reused the tapes that recorded the
conversations furnishing no tapes to any Bureau supervisors or officials.They also were instructed not to place their initials on any of the logs. Theirbasic instructions were to be alert for and record information which could -beconstrued as possible lea sensitive information from the White House through these wiretaps. of opinion project instituted by Assistant DirectorWilliam Sulliyan and 1 s furnished to Gema],_Haig,_ |:|and on two separate occasionsleachéczarried one mg? to AssistantDirec or u1livan's office. ' ,
The aforementioned employees could recall no information received fromthese wiretaps wmh they construed as a leak of information from the White House nor did they overhear any information which they considered a breach of national Esecurity, They were only able to furnish nonspecic information concerning ,5these wiretaps but also recalled recording conversations of Averell Harriman, ,General Alexander Haig, Daniel Ellsbere and Henry Kissinger, With the ;~exception of Ellsberg, the majority of information discussed by these people llinvolved the war in Vietnam, but even these were only vague recollections. Ellsberg in late 1969 and early 1970 conversed with Dr, Morton Halperin and ,was a house guest of Halperin. No significant data recalled regarding Ellsbergs S
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Department 2/13/73 that Ellsberg had never been overheard in nor been thesubject of an electronic telephone! surveillance. ! President Nixon heardtalking with William Safire in late l969 or early l970 regarding a speechSafire preparing for President on welfare matters, In the interest of clarity andbrevity the discussions overheard regarding the aforementioned prominent personsrecorded on individual FD -302s but are not set out herein,
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Moore who was #2 Man of the then DID during 1969 - 1971! advised hewas enerall awa e of er s c al d f ta g y r v y pe i program supervise b ormer ssis ntDirector William C. Sullivan and Bureau Super-visor Moore neverwas specifically briefed or present at any conference concerning alleged wiretaps.He cannot now recall exactly how he learned of wiretap, Moore understood thepurpose of the wiretaps was to determine existence of leaks dealing with _national security information. Moore had no direct dealing with special programnordid he handle any logs or paper work with exception of one occasion, whichoccurred in 1970, when Sullivan and Sizoo the #1 Man of DID! were both awayfrom headquarters. Period of time involved three days, Moore advisedAssistant Director William Sullivan prior to leaving headquarters gave instructionsto Moore that if anything "startling" resulted from program Moore was to callMiss Gandy immediately and relay information. Under no circumstances wasMoore to advise Assistant to the Director Cartha D, DeLoach, No instructionswere left concerning dissemination of logs or any other Bureau communication.Moore advised that several logs came to his attention -~ no "startling"information -- Miss Gandy not contacted, Information came to him in a sealedenvelope and after Moore perused logs, rescaled envelope and left them forMr. Sullivan's attention upon his return, Moore believed Sullivan kept logs b7 Cand other correspondence erta ' ' program in his locked 1-1,Moore recalled that| Iandl iweredesignated by Mr, n to type communications resulting from special prcgram. l
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for wean employee and secretary to Donald E,Moore i assigned to Baltimore!, the thenNumbe .l n in DID, advised from February or March, 1970, undercircumstances which s not recall, she began taking dictation and typingletters _ Supervisor, DID, on information from logsconcerning wire ps, She recalled ah dictation included two separate letters,one directed to the President, Mr, Nixon, and the other to the Attorney General,b6
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Mr. Mitchell. Letters were an original and one yellow copy each, usually 'of one page with one, two or three short paragraphs and contained summa. ryof information from logs, Letters were prefaced with statement, "Thefollowing information was obtained from a reliable and/or sensitive sourceand may be of interest to you, " At some later date, exact time unrecalled,letters which were formeii y addressed to Mr. Nixon were then addressed toMr. Haldeman in the White House and the other continued to be sent to theAttorney General, Mr. Mitchell, She could not recall any significant or dynamic-rigs ,...' _.,_.__;_:,,;.-,;r_.;,' ,1-.,_= _.|i_____., .. _____ '_ -- ' 51-IR»- Y '1 '-A-V iliiiébd-I-'4-numiiimniwulnn-ifli-¢d2¬JA£1IIlq;VnllIQ7~. _
information in these letters, She considered this function above and beyond her norm:duties and wou1dnt have minded it if she felt contents were extremely important,but recalls they appeared to contain nothing of a stimulating interest, Lettersdid not have an abstract and yellow copy was never returned to her for filing.She recalls filing logs in this program in Mr. Sullivans safe type cabinet inhis office. She remembers that after Mr. Sullivan approved and initialed theyellow copy the letters were then hand carried to the Director 's Office, AfterMr, Sullivan moved to the Justice Building about July, 1970, she went with himas his personal secretary, Then after she prepared the letters for|:|she would personally hand carry them to Miss Helen Gandy in the Director'sOffice. - '
. advised she recalled that in connection with this very specialprojec s e yped two or three authorization requests to the Attorney General,Mr, Mitchell, for technical surveillance and/or microphone surveillance.She described these as being prepared on blue letterhead stationery, an originalone thin copy and one yellow copy. These were then handled in precisely samemanner as letters heretofore mentioned,7
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could not specifically recall identity of names mentioned inthe summary e ers, stating she has a poor memory for names but could quitepossibly recall names mentioned in these communica ' if she heard themmentioned, Several names were furnished to and she recognizedthe names mention d in summary letters or sai the names sounded familiar.Names she id d as being mentioned in the summaryletters are: HenryBrandon, Ton _ake, Dan lDavidson, Winston Lord, Colonel Robert Pursley,William Beecher, Richar _ edersen, Richard Moose, and Helmut Sonnenfeldt,She could not recall th ames on the wiretap requests,
She had no first hand knowledge of White House personnel who receivedinformation from this program but recalls Gene ' the White l-lousevisiting Mr. Sullivan and further reca1ls calhng Mr. Sullivan
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id that about June or July, 1971, she prepared logs forat his request to carry to the D]D_ She placed them in five largeoverument messenger envelopes and he departed with them. In August, 1971,after she returned from her vacation she noticed the logs had not been
hen inquiring with W. Sullivan as to their location, he repliednd Mr, Brennan are working on them. " She asserted she neversaw these logs again, b5
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s Mr. Donald E. Moore's secretary, DID. AboutSumm r 0 , s e was personally called in by Mr. Sullivan who ad ed herof a sensitive program which she wm to take dictation from Shewas chosen, according to Sullivan, because of her loyalty an ex reme compt ency,Sullivan "impressed her this should be closely guarded. Thereafter she took lettersfrom former SA|:|that she knew to be from wiretaps. She claims the firstletter was three pages long, length specifically recalled, but contents not recalled.Thereafter during the first several months letters were prepared about every day,Thereafter it tapered off to about one per week. She specifically recalls letterto White House comprised of one white original and one yellow. Thereafterapproved by Sullivan by initial, then returned to; She never saw itagain, She knows it did not go to Reading Room ecause dictation not up toReading Room par and would have been returned' therefore, assumes wentdirectly to Director s Gffice, She cannot recall|-:|dictating from logs.He sat across from her -J dictated from research material which she describedas pink in color like pink teletype copies. She filed no yellows and filed no logs,She did not file anything in Suliivans lower drawer of two -drawer safe -typecabinet, Associates na es of Morton Halperin, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, and possiblyMarvin Kalb withdicmon. These names recalled only after a lengthy listof names read to ier, not from her own recall. She advised Ins ector Donald -Moore was unaware of nature and content of her typing for|:f E06
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In reviewing contents of safes and cabinets SA|:|noticed nothing pertainingto White House taps of any kind with exception of wiretap information onMartin Luther King contained in three or four brown sealed envelo es thatformerly belonged to Assistant Director Sullivan. According t MissGandy maintained two 3 x 5 card boxes of index cards on items COHIELIHE inthese cabinets and safes, These index card boxes were left in Mr. Felt's office,
QC TQB'ER,,,_19'lj. ,__ AT TEivlfPT RE C,OIjS T-RIIC T, FlAC,'I,S*OF_,S PE
' Following departure of former Assistant to the Director Sullivan whenhe retired it was discovered that all records he had maintained in his office
concerning special highly sensitive coverage maintained at the request of theWhite House were missing, Due to the extremely sensitive nature of theserecords Sullivan maintained the only copy of all records concerning this coverageAssistant Director E. S. Miller undertook a project to reconstruct as manyfacts as possible concerning this coverage particularly the identity of theindividuals on whom the coverage was maintained. The results of that inquirywere substantially the same as to the 16 individuals listed in my memorandumof 5/7/73,
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We have learned just today that a telephonic request was receivedSpecial Agent James Wagoner, Intelligence Division, fromof the Department, 5/7/73, in regard to the current trial of Daniel Ellsberg,et al. That request was for an update certification through the Department
concerning any electronic surveillance coverage of the defendants in that case,their attorneys, and the consultants for the defendants attorneys.
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being conducted by the inspection Division in response to the memorandumfrom Acting Director Ruckelshaus to Mr. Felt dated 5/4/73 in the captionedmatter, ' -
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~wnnam c. Sullivan, Director, Office of National Narcotics Intelligence,U S Department of Justice after ha b e d ' d . . , ving e n a vise of the nat - the inquiryin this matter by Inspector N. F. Stames and Special Agent tmay,_ requested that all questions concerning this matter be directed to him inwriting,He stated he would then to the best of his ability answer each question presented,The interview of Mr. William C. Sullivan was concluded at that time,
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_ I I former FBI employee and supervisor in Domestic HIntelligence Ivision DID!, currently employed as an attorney adviser, Criminal 3Division, Department of Justice, advised that in the Summer of I969, exact date =unrecalled, Mr. Sullivan, the Assistant Director of DID, apprised him of awiretap operation concerning the White House and instructed him he was to ii_ carry out the operations. Sullivan advised him this was a sensitiv e project g' and was authorized by the Director. He is certain this operation had been on-going for some time, believed to be three or four weeks, and material relatingto project was initially maintained in the Director's office. |:|absolutelysure because when he started working on the project logs were a ready in existence, 92 i. 1.. _ ,- "ILciinwmj ~ ¬~5t"' I; 51 P fie" ¢*~>"'- 7
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These logs had been maintained in Mr. Hoover's office,|:|advised hegained-distinct impression from W. Sullivan that at inception of program onlyMr. Sullivan, Mr. Hoover and Miss Gandy had knowledge. However, thenumber of logs increased to the oint they needed assistance and Mrsuniveh delegated this toFL Isaid he ' " b 6him b Mr ullivan and en dictated_to I b'?Cand later Mter e FFI, he dictated all toHe advised he 1c e irectly from logs; the resulting summarye er going only to the President of the United States, Mr. Nixon, and laterto Mr, Haldeman, White I-louse staff. This letter was comprised of an originaland one yellow copy, He advised that routinely he did not dictate a copy for theAttorney General. At a date unrecalleclprobahl-y in 1970, he was instructed byMr. Sullivan, who relayed information to him that Mr. Hoover anted a summary 'to be sent to the Attorney General, Mr. Mitchell. As best|:|could recall *he dictated at least three of these summaries during 1970 an early 1971. Herecalls that this was letterhead memorandlnn. He advised that at the inceptionof the program when he first e involved all logs were returned to W.Sullivan. Later, when took the dictation he left the logs eh herdesk and she filed them. e a vised that from time to time he dictated lettersrequesting authorization concerning this program to the Attorney General, Mr.Mitchell. He advised he could not recall the dates at all, particularly in view' of the fact that the wiretaps on any one individual might be dis continued and .continued again at a later date. He specifically recalled writing letters requestingauthorization on the following individuals: William Safire, Colonel RobertPursley, and Helmut S onnenfeldt. He advised the following individuals werepeople on whom the wiretaps were placed at their home residence: Henry Brandon,Morton Halperin, Tony Lake, Daniel Davidson, Winsto Lord, Marvin Kalb,_ _Wi1liam_ Beecher, seen-ie$mith, Ambassador Willia ullivan, and RichardMoose, -
a§advised that when he was rst taken into the confidence of AssistantDireo or ullivan he was advised that the wiretaps were authorized by the Attorney' Genera 1 and Mr. Hoove r had insisted upon authorization, Later, when he becamemore involved, he was sure of this fact because he dictated letters requestingauthorization and said that he saw them returned with Mr. -Mitchell's signature,|:|could not recall when or where he saw them and did not know where theywere filed, He advised the logs were filed in Mr. Sullivan's office in a two- bedrawer, safe -type cabinet A ' b";/Q
|:|said with regard to the letters requesting authorization there was gonly one original and one yellow copy -- no tissue. This again was on instructions
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said he knew they were filed outside Mr. Sul1ivans office in asa e- ype cabinet in the reception area when Mr. Sullivan was in 9th and D.When he rrnved to the Justice Building the yellows were filed beneath the nailrack located just outside Mr. Sullivan's office along the left wall. Beneaththis mail rack was a series of two-drawer, safe -type cabinets. One of themiddle cabinets was used to store the yellows. They were in a file which:called "Outside Correspondence, " N othing else was in the file but the previousyellows bound together by an Acco fastener and file back. He frequently referredto these yellows when dictating new summary letters, Therefore, knows theywere returned and filed as set forth above. He did not know who filed them, b6' - lo 7 Cgsaid he could not now recall any specic conversations. He saidhe cou generalize to the extent that in all wiretaps both the individual involved~ and his wife talked extremely loosely about the projects they were concernedwith at the White House to both their friends and in some instances to membersof the news media. He felt the tap was useful because it indicated how looseland carelessly information of a highly critical nature was bandied about, :said he specifically recalled one instance in which the name Ellsberg appearedin the logs, He could not recall which log was involved; however, his bestrecollection was Morton Halperin. In this instance Halperin spoke to someunknown party of attending a party either with or for Ellsberg, Ellsberg wasnot a party to the conversation. He said in fact that in early June of 1971 asbest he could recall on Mr, Sullivan's instructions he reviewed all the logsof Hpver as relayed to him by Mr. Sullivan. With regard to all yellows -'
and determined Ellsberg was not a party to any telephone conversation, Heneither made a call nor received one, ~ -
|;|reca1led that the last time he saw any of the material involvingthis wire p operation was approximately a month before he retiredfrom Bweau service, He retired July 30, 1971. He said that Mr. Sullivan -' 5instructed him to discontinue the program. l:|advised that any correspondence pihe dictated was always over Mr. Sullivan's initials. He received this b 6'! instruction from Mr. Sullivan. p 10,? C
|:|was specifically asked if he ever saw any material pertainingto this sensi ive program, any digest of material, or any correspondence ifwhatever relating to this material in Mr. Mardian's hands at any time, Hereplied emphatically, "No. " This question rm repeated three times, Theanswer in each instance was "No. " He was asked if sometime in September or "
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October, 1971, he had any reason to feel apprehensive over the fact thatwritten Bureau communications concerning this program had found their wayoutside the FBI. He said "No. He said the only time he knew or wasinformed in any way that someone outside the Buue an may be in possessionof this material was a telephone call he received from Mr. Edward Miller,Assistant Director DID ab t a e k d , , ou w e an ahalf after Mr Sn ivan retired,In this conversation which was tele honic and whe |j| cr , p , n was no longeran FBI employee, Mr. Miller requested him to call Mr. Mardian to ask him,Mardian if he had any material relating to this special project, Mr. Millertold that he had information to the effect that Mr. Mardianmay ave some of this information, Mr. Miller also supplied the telephonenumber in San Clemente, California, where Mr, Mardian could be reached,
advised he reached'Mr, Mardian almost immediately,relaye e message, and Mr, Mardian advised he would have to conta tthe Attorney General and the President before he could answer; |j|said he received a phone call a short time later and he was advised thatMr, Mitchell had told Mr. Mardian not to answer this question. Mardianaskeao so advise Mr. Miller and that Mr. Mardian would call Mr,Miller dir.e.ctly at a later time. |:|said he com ied with Mar.dian'srequest and that's the last he heard of the incident, |i|was emphatic thathe never saw any of the material after he dictated the last summary letter,He never saw it again either in the Bureau or since he left the Bureau. i
It will be recalled that sometime during September, 19715told Section Chief Thomas Smith that Robert Mardian had showna large number of extremely sensitive documents involved in this matter.and asked that;|take charge of these cuments in order to affordthem the grea es possible security, e now denying this.
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' Joseph A. Siaoo, Former {fl 1}/Ian,_gDomestic Intelligence Div_ision_1: On May 9, 1973, Joseph A. Sizoo, former Number One Man, DomesticIntelligence Division DID!, now retired, was interviewed regarding any knowledgein his possession concerning possible wiretaps on newsmen and/or Governmentofficials in connection with high-level leaks of national security information. Hestated he supervised DID in the absence of former Assistant Director William C.Sullivan and was aware of a wiretap operation of this type which began approxi-mately one year after President Nixon's inauguration and lasted for a "coupleH of months. " Mr. Sizoo stated he has no personal knowledge of this operationand at no time was he ever briefed as to its details. He was aware h w r,. " that the operation took place and was handled directly by SA' per instructions of Sullivan. The only other person at FBI ea quarters whomhe believes had personal knowledge was Miss Gandy and possibly Mr. Hoover.He does not know the identity of the persons in the Department of Justice orWhite House who may have issued instructions COnCe1ning this coverage butduring this period Mr. Sullivan was visited regularly by General Haig who at 'that time was assigned to the White House. Although Sizoo had no personalknowledge there were occasions when he was in communication with
have passed on instructions to install wiretaps but he does not recall any detailsor names. In return he may have been called by|:| in Sullivan's absence,i concerning information in connection with the wiretaps, however, he does notrecall the substance of any such conversations. He merely passed the infor~mation on to Sullivan. Sizoo does not recall ever issuing any specific instructionsto WFO concerning whether or not that office should maintain. or not maintain 'records concerning these wiretaps.
T operation, was anxious to have these wiretaps discontinued and may have askedSizoo to attempt to persuade Sullivan to do so. He believes he might have told|:|that this was something that;|shomd discuss with Sullivan. Sizooalso recalls that he may have writ en one letter to the Attorney Generalrequesting authority for a wiretap in this program on an unrecalled individualbut he isn't sure and he does not recall the name of this person. If he did, hewould have used Sullivan's typed initials at the bottom of the yellow since thisi was Sullivan 's project. '
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received sealed envelopes from WFO when|:|was not available. liponreceipt and upon opening it to determine its contents and realizing these were 306logs from wiretaps, he held them for;|or furnished them to Sullivan. 107 CHe may have perused them briefly bu he does not recall the names or contentsthereon. This occurred approximately once every Week and a half or two. weeks. -
' Sizoo has no knowled_ge concerning any individuals wh o were possiblyinvolved in these wiretaps. With regard to retention of this material, hebelieves it was held in Miss Gandy's custody during the first part of the operationbut later transferred to Sullivan 's office where it was maintained in secure safe" or cabinet. He has no knowledge of documentation, or files or material relatingto this program. " -
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' SAC Brennan advised 5/9/73 that in Fall of 1969 or early 1970 ona Sunday morning after church around noon he received a tB16ph0ll8 call" from Assistant Director Sullivan who wanted to know the mechanics forplacing wiretaps, Sullivan would not discuss matter on phone sinceSullivan said it involved ultra -sensitive situation. Brennan went to Sullivan'soffice immediately where Sullivan advised him that President Nixon wasconcerned about leaks from the White House and wiretaps were requestedon members of White House staff and some members of press. Sullivandisclosed no names of person s! requesting coverage or on whom coverageto be placed. Sullivan stated he had called Director Hoover at home andreceived Hoover s okay, but Hoover was adamant about getting the Attorney 'General s approval first. Hoover was emphatic that Sullivan must gothrough usual channels with the Attorney General for written approval. Brennantold Sullivan Mike Rosamus, now retired, was the mechanic for such matters. - and Brennan then called Rosamus into office immediately to handle for Sullivan. -i Brennan believes he left office before arrival of Rosamus but believes he later' that evenin tele h ned R a 'th R e h d d i To 6 g p o os mus W1 osamus 3.SSU.I'li'1U im he ha handlethe work for Sullivan. Brennan knew Sullivan fter project started 197had given log review responsibilities t who prepared summary »~lletters imder Sullivan s initials or later un er Brennanls initials when Sullivan .. was out of town for transmittal to the White House, Brennan disclaimed everseeing any requests for wiretaps, logs, or smnmary letters to the White House.Brennan never knew anything about termination of wiretaps and believed theywere still in effect under Mr, Gray, Biéllllll knew the names of no one on -
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whom wiretaps placed but does seem to recall names of Henry Brandon,Winston Lord, and Helmut Sonnenfeldt ' g up in short discussionswith|;|about results of wiretaps. told him on occasions thatprojec' was fruitless as majority of material was social gossip.
Brennan recalls receiving visit in about August, 1971, at his9th and D office from Sullivan who said he had a heavily loaded briefcase for Robert Mardian containing highly sensitive material which theAttorney General was interested in reviewing, According to W. C. SullivanMardian unavailable at that moment and Sullivan instructed Brennan to deliverbrief case for him. Brennan, after Sullivan left, called Mardian's office,determining Mardian would be back in about thirty minutes, at which time- Brennan then delivered brief case to Mardian which Mardian was ewectingfrom Sullivan. Brennan claims he did not open brief case and cannot _specifically recall whether or not it was even locked. Brennan, therefore,could not say whether or not brief case contained any material regarding thesewiretaps, Brennan said he made no record or phone call to Sullivan oranyone else about delivery of brief case,
Brennan last saw Sullivan 5/8/":3 at funeral, but claims u he didnot then or since Sullivan left Bureau discuss this matter with him.
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UW recalls that on one occasion he saw entry on someone else'slog t Daniel Ellsberg sta cl t hye a. ome of Morton Halperin over a weekendwhich he believes was prior to the Summer of 1970. Ellsber made call fromHalperin's residence to now unrecalled individua1| I|_' _|can recall no other details of these conversations.Recalls incident only because this was unusual since it involved Dr. I-Ialperin,a member of the White House staff. At the time -the name Daniel Ellsbergmeant nothing to him Also recalls Hal. perin talked with Leslie Gelb but cannot recall details nor dat f 'e o call. Gelb 1s involved Ill the Ellsberg - Russo be;Pentagon, Papers Matter. . b 7 C
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Shortly after assuming office es Acting Director of the FBI myettentien was called to the newepeper allegation that FBI eereonnel liedbeen wt.-e tapping unidentified newemen.. I was also informed that a searchof the FBI records had not disclosed the existence of any such wire taps.Nevertheless, on May *3, 1973, I initiated ea; inveetigeiion to interviewpresent and retired FBI personnel for the purpose of determining, ifpossible, wliether there had been any such tape. A preliminary report- which I received last night inzlioeiee that an FBI employee reeelle thatin late 159% and early l9'i0 Mr. Elleberg bed been overheard tallrlng fromen electronic surveillance of Dr. Morton I-Kelp-erin'e residence. It is thisemp1o3Iee'e recollection that the surveillance was of Dr. Halperin and thatMr. liillelierg was then a guest of Dr. Haiperin.
I have no information concerning the substance of the conversationnor has the investigation to date been able to find any reeorcl of such aconversation. The investigation, of course, is not complete ami furtherfacts bearing upon the wire taps may be uncovered. Nevertheless, in viewof the ¬1ozirte 8Xp3.¬ESS8d desire for prompt informaon relating to thismatter, I em at tlzis icime giving you this preliminary report which maybe relevant to the trial now in progress.
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For your information and for the record I want to call yourattention to the letter Mr. Eardley prepared for the Acting Director tosend to the Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division oi the Depart-. ment, dated 5/9/73, forwarding abrief memorandum yellow file copiesattached! concerning the ongoing investigation of the - lgatn 0 pssiblewiretaps on newsmen and others. £591-"~55TF§ED Bi --1'-1v1===II-is-=r==".-'1';-=" -7
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"Shortly after assuming office as Acting Director of the FBI my attentionwas called to lIh8ii¬WSpB.peI allegation that FBI personnel had. been wire-
tapping unidentified newspapermen. I was also informed that a searchof the FBIs records had not disclosed the substance of any such wiretaps.
Nevertheless, on May 4, 1973, I initiated an investigation to interviewpresent and retired FBI personnel for the purpose of determining, ii
possible, whether there had been any such taps. "
" G -',-* .5? I would like to respectfully point out that although the foregoingstatement is generally correct, in my opinion it contains some inaccuracies
which portrays the situation in a bad light. My own recollection oi the. developments surrounding the Acting Directors being informed concerningthe allegation relating to wiretaps on newsman is that at the time he wasinformed concerning the allegation on May 4', 1973, he was also informed' that a previous inquiry in 1971 revealed that wiretaps had in fact been placedon newsmen and White House staff members from 1969 to 1971, and that' the records relating to these wiretaps had been removed from custody ofthe FBI by former Assistant to the Director W. C. Sullivan and deliveredto former Assistant Attorney General Robert C. Mardian, shortly beforeSullivan"s retirement in 19'<§.92y 6 17¢, R 9 _. ¢ __ g _:,_/ ---Enclosures§,}a¢_l~.t}l. ; % mew CONTINUED __ OVERmpson ._....
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carried a feature story in the 5/3/ 73 issue, alleging that wiretaps hadbeen placed on phones of two reporters in 1971 in connection with leaks
of the Pentagon Papers to the press. The story indicated that thesewiretaps had been supervised by G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Huntwho were then working for the White House. The article also indicated
that the team of wiretappers were not employed by the FBI.
Then, on 5/4/73, the Washington Post carried a storyreporting that U. S. District Judge Matt Byrne, presiding over theEllsberg case in Los Angeles, had ordered the Government to prove tohim that the case against Ellsberg and Russo had not been tainted through
secret investigations and wiretaps. Part of Byrnes ire, according tothe article in the Post, was based on the stories appearing in the pressalleging that newsmen had been wiretapped.
With the publicity and attendant developments relating tothe alleged wiretaps of newsmen, I felt that it was imperative to informthe Acting Director of facts we had previously developed to indicate that
the newspaper stories concerning possible wiretaps on newsmen wereat least in part true. I discussed this with Mr. Walters and in alater
discussion with the Acting Director on the morning of 5/ 4/ 73 Mr. Waltersconveyed to him that further information concerning the allegations inthe papers was in the possession of the Intelligence Division since all
national security electronic surveillances are handled by that Division.
Accordingly, Mr. Walters, Section Chief T. J. Smith, andI met with the Acting Director in his office on the morning of 5/ 4/73 fora discussion concerning the newspaper allegations. We explained to himthat from early 1969 to about the first part of June, 1971, national security
wiretaps had been placed at the specific request of the White House andwith the approval of the Attorney General on certain newsmen and White
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national security information. We explained that due to the prevalenceof the aforementioned leaks and the absolute necessity to maintain the
tightest possible security, knowledge of these wiretaps and the producttherefrom was restricted to only those FBI p6ISOIll'IE!1 essential to the
operation and that all records concerning them were maintained in the
possession of former Assistant to the Director W. C. Sullivan.
i~ We explained that in early October, 1971, following a bitterdispute between Sullivan and Mr. J. Edgar Hoover, which led to the ~retirement of Mr. Sullivan, it was discovered that the records relating
to the special wiretaps which had been maintained by Mr. Sullivan haddisappeared, but that information was developed that Sullivan had turnedthese records over to former Assistant Attorney General Robert C.Mardian. We related the allegation that had also appeared in print thatHoover had supposedly threatened to expose the wiretaps on newsmenand White House staff members if efforts were made to force him to stepdown from his position as Director of the FBI, and that the turning overof these records to Mardian might have been aimed at preventing exposureof the wiretaps by Hoover. I recall that the Acting Director inquired as tothe possibilities of prosecuting responsible individuals and we voiced theopinion that it would probably not be possible to prosecute for several. reasons, not the least of which was the absence of a corpus delecti.
<_ Mr. Smith, who had previously identied sixteen individuals who were subject to wiretap during the pertinent period, was able to recalla few of them for the Acting Director and he specifically named HenryBrandon of the London Sunday Times; Dr. Morton Halperin, formerlyof the National Security Council and who has figured prominently in theEllsberg case; William Safire, formerly National Security Council member,and he recalled that two New York Times writers were included, although
he did not remember their names at the time. Mr. Smith said that he couldundoubtedly reconstruct the identities of all those he had uncovered before,and that work would start on this immediately and information would befurnished to him as soon as we could get it together.
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' The Ac ting Director agreed that we should try-' to reconstructthe records as best we could and -as soon as we c'ou'1d, and he asked forcopies of all pertinent newspaper and magazine articles relating to theallegations concerning wiretaps on newsmen. He also asked for copiesof transcripts -of L. Patrick Grays testimony before the Senate JudiciaryCommittee concerning the same issue. The articles and transcripts were"furnished to the Acting Director later the same day.
I realize this may appear to be a rebuttal of the statementfurnished, to the Department, but I have not intended it to -be such. RatherI feel that the statement prepared for the Acting Director by Mr. Eardleyportrays the FBI -in a bad light since it implies ! that the newspaperallegations were called to the Acting Director's attention without any back-ground being offered by officials of the FBI and further implies that wiretapsby the FBI on newsmen had continued up to the present time; !. that hewas merely informed that a search of FBI records had not disclosed suchwiretaps, without the-important qualifications relating to the facts; and! that since FBI personnel could not or would .not furnish him any infoi_-mation on the allegations, he initiated an investigation.
. -I feel that this is not a precise statement of the facts and thatunder the circumstances of presenting the statement to the Department togive to the Court and subsequent appearance of theaatement in the media,
such precision is indicated. -
We have not withheld any information from the Acting Directorand we have been making every effort to cooperate and furnish him withall-the facts and information which we feel will be of assistance to him.I have discussed this matter with Mr. Walters and he agrees.
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I I Office of the Acting Director, FBI, advisedthat so me wring former Assistant Director W. C. Sullivan,Domestic Intelligence Division DID!, telephonically contacted Director Hoover _advising him of possible leaks at White House and that White House requestedFBI lace '1 etaps on specific individuals whose names she could not recall
believe r t | s eques s originated from Colonel Haig of Dr. Kissinger'ss a e White House. Mr. Hoover advised Sullivan at that time that whateverwiretaps were placed would be done only with prior written authorization by the thenAttorney General, John Mitchell, When original request for wiretap authorizationconcerning these s ecia wiretaps was prepared for the Attorney Generalsapproval, would file the yellow file copy in the Official ConfidentialFiles" main ne in the Director's office. She stated this correspondence aswell as all other documents so aintained! was to be eventually made part ofregular FBI les lt certain the re. questsfor Attorney Generalauthorization for these wiretaps were prepared at DID, and consisted of anoriginal thin white and ellow Th ' , , y copy. e Attorney General s oifice would keepthe thin white and return to the e original containing the Attorney Generaliswritten authorization. resmnes the original white was returnedto DID inasmuch as she i no see the final authorization come back from the
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She stated it was obvious to her these wiretaps were "special" sincethis was the first time to her recollection that yellow copies of Attorney General- authorization requests for wiretaps were kept in the Director's office. Allyellow copies of "special" wiretaps were maintained in one folder, Also, to thebest of her recollection, she fil-ed yellow copies of summaries containing wiretapresults in this same folder but could not say that each justification letter was alsofollowed by a summar . d t - " y c0ul no recall to whom siunmary letterswere forwarded nor did s e ow who prepared them. She believed there wereapproximately 6 to 8 individuals who were subjects of these wiretaps. ,.. ._. _ , . ow ="' " Original irfipounded by __ F "4 ,;,,_- . LL],QTJ;w;I'11;§urt_ 0ld§I,'- See memo. -./-"D * /3 5 5 Q l,....{A!. _ -in eliv-leoei-IEXH CONTINUED - OVE-B._ --...... ' I
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While W. C. Sullivan was still Assistant Director of DID, a decisionwas made by Mr, Hoover that all correspondence regarding "special"wiretaps which were maintained in the Director's office be transferred toSullivan's custody at DID. She assumed that special coverage ceased followingtransmittal of this material since she could not recall filing any additional Ocopies of Attorne Genera thorization letters or stunmaries subse uen t ' ' q t othis transfer. tated very emphatically that during her 16-yeartenure in the Dirac or s office, she specifically recalled Mr, Hoover statingadamantly on many occasions during this period and up until his death, in herpresence, that as long as he was Director of the FBI he would never personallyauthorize wiretap coverage on anyone without prior written Attorney Generalapproval; Mr. Hoover explained that the basis for his decision was that asystem of "checks and balances" had to be maintained at all times,
Assistant Director E, S, Miller, Intelligence Division, was interviewed on5/10/73, and advised that on 9/ 30/'71 after it was realized sensitive materialand documents in this matter were missing he was instructed to conduct athorough search of DID space, which he did with negative results, He wasalso instructed to attempt to reconstruct as many facts as possible concerningall facets of this coverage Alth sh h hD , oug e as no personal knowledge of thismatter, his inquiry established that the only individuals at BIHQ who were involvedwere Assistant to the Director Sullivan, SA and the DirectorSullivan apparently without the Director s ow e ge, assigned SA|:| lto analyze the results of the coverage which Were furnished to him in a sealedenvelope from Washington Field Office WFO . Details concerning the brjcadministrative handling of these matters byvere furnished by Miller.In addition, Miller provided the names of the 16 persons who were reportedto be subject to these wiretaps, He stated the coverage was discontinuedaround the end of May or first part of June, 1971. Following the discontinuance itwas learned through Miller s inquiry that all known copies of material wereplaced in Sullivans possession because of its sensitivity. It was later realizedthat Sullivan apparently disposed of the material sometime between the lastof July, 1971, and the time he departed on leave prior to his retire ent_ Inattempting to reconstruct this matter Miller learned that SA;|Told SATom Smith, presently of the Intelligence Division, that Mar ian had the sensitivematerial 3 weeks prior to 10/2/71. On 0 2 T1 Miller contacted|;_|in anattempt to learn of its whereabouts. S unable to assist in his matterbut contacted Mardian and reportedly was told by Mardian that "This matterdoesn't concern you at all. Tell Miller that Iill take care of it, Have himget in touch with me. Tell Miller not to worry, Sullivan won't get them. " Thiswas reportedly furnished to the Director by Mr. W. Mark Felt, The Directorthen reportedly contacted Attorney General Mitchell, who advised that Mr, Mardianhad assured him Mitchell! the sensitive material had been destroyed, and the Attornej
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General reportedly told the Director that Mardian said the Director approvedof his Q Mardian's, taking possession of the files. In previous intra -Bureaucorrespondence the Director noted to this latter comment "This is a l . " On, ie 10/ 3/Tl Miller tried contacting Mardian by phone to set up an interview b M . . . _ r, Felt, When Mardian was finally reached he stated, "I 1l1StILlCt8dnot to discuss this matter and I can it discuss it on the Attorney Genera sorders, The Director will have to discuss it with the Attorne General. "
Y He also said, "I want to assure you there is no problem. " Miller advised h. . . . .is inquiry also established that on 10/ 5/7 l Mr. Sullivan was interviewedtelephonically concerning this matter by Mr, Felt, Mr. Sullivan said he sentthe material back to DID and suggested that attempts be made to locate it there,
It should be noted on afternoon of 10/5/71 Sullivan personally admittedto Mr, Felt he sent the special filesabout 3 months before to the DID buildingto be made available to Mardian F ' ' '. ormer Assistant Director Brennan confirmed t . . . .his, and gave brief case of material to Mardian.! -
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ea ure articles 2/2 6/73 issues concerning a Time magazine story in the issue coming tou 2/26/'73 accused the FBI of having tapped 6 or 7 reporters telephones3 years previously and a number of White House aides in connection with leaksfrom Administration aides, The article which E83. arentl bl dpp y gar e ! related that Acting Director L, Patrick Gray, III, continued the taps for one and a halfmonths before U. S, Supreme Court overruled the wiretap policy in June, 1972,As a result of these articles Miller furnished Mr. Felt background detailsconcerning FBI invest igatiou involving wiretaps of newsmen and certain White House aides betwe I969en and I971 prior to Mr, Grays designation as ActingDirector! who were subject of electronic surveillances as well as wiretapsplaced at request of President Nixon and the Attorney General on individualsbetween December, 1971, and June, 1972, who were not newsnien but personssuspected in conne t t ' c ion wi h leaks from Joint Chiefs of Staff to Jack Anders on.Mr. Felt reportedly advised Mr. Gray of above,
Miss Helen Gandy, who was Mr, Hoover's personal secretary, isbeing interviewed this afternoon. Also, former Assistant Attorney GeneralRobert Mardian is being interviewed at Phoenix, Arizona. Results of theseinterviews will be promptly furnished when obtained,
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As you know, in early 1969 the FBI was requested to initiate sensitivecoverage wiretaps! of certain White House staff menibers and others in orderto uncover possible leaks at the White House affecting the national security.The-' purpose of this interrogatory is to fully resolve tietaiis of that coverage.You are requested to respond to the following:
1. The identity of the White House official or officials who requestedthat the FBI initiate this sensitive tviretep coverage and identity of any follow-up calls for similar coverage on others. _
2. By what method were these requests tor wiretap coverage transmittedto the FBI ? - . .
3. To what FBI official s! were these requests made?
4. Was written authorization received at the FBI from then AttorneyGeneral Mitcheil, as was the procedure in other national security matters ofthis natme? was a written authorization secured from the Attomev General,§{;ron each? Ii not, why? If so, where might such written authorization now be*;JI~;wd~tecated ? /W"un:du: Q$S'£92:I if '92:- :;'.<» !- '§§.ZT.I 5. Were there records of these wiretaps kept by the FBI at any time ? u.r:iha|I__ '=""" 92i|!<!l'.E.S._ , """=I-an In-uh m=II:m-In::';:iT; =-~- t W T» t N"
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7 d. If so, on whose order were they so maintained?
e. Who had access to these records while in your custody?
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'1'. Identify the officials in the United States epartment of Justice andthe FBI responsible for carrying out the wiretap pref.-gram. Specify the deitiesand responsibilities of each.
8. To the beet of your recollection, meme we individuals on whom
wheeteps were gzleced. ' "
. 9. To the best of your recollection, state the approximate timesduring which each wiretap was in operation.
10. To the best of your recollection, describe the results achievedfrom each wiretap.
11. Identify ell FBI personnel who had any connection with the installe-tioo, review, analysis, recording and dissemination of the zcesuite of the wireiepinformation in question.
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, 12. To whom and in what manner was such iniormation disseminated?
13. From whom and in what manner were instructions issued to dis-continue the wiretaps ?
14. To whom in the F131 were these instructions issued? When did allsuch activity cease on wireta.ps, the records of which were maintained in yourcuetocly ? i . ,
15. On October 5, 19'?J., you advised Mr. W. Moria Felt that you gavefharleo D. Brennan now SAC at FBI Crifice in Alexandria! 2. brief case containingthe sensitive material obtained as a result of the above wiretaps with instructionsto Brennan to give the brief case to then Assistant Attorney General RobertMardiao. Describe in detail the contents of this brief case. Specically coverwhether it contained the authorizations from the Attorney General applicableto these wiretaps. When was this done? Woe it done before or after youepplied for retirement?
e 16. Who in the FBI made the -siecision to turn over internal FBI recordsdirectly to Mr. Marciiae ? What conversations did you have with others regardingthis ? With whom ?
- 17. On whose authority was this decision made?
18. Why was this material turned over to Mr. Marciian?
19. What disposition was made of this material and by whom? Wasthe Attorney General aware of the disposition?
20. Were any copies made by you or anyone else to your knowledge ofthis sensitive material before or after its traosmittai to Mr. Ivieroion? If so,what. happened to them ?
21. As this wiretap project was on-going, to whom in the White House itor any other piece were reports made concerning results obtained?
22. How were these reports conveyed written or oral!, and with whatfrequency were they made ?
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. 24. Do you have any 1~:nowlec2ge, or reason to believe that Mr. Mardianor anyone else turned over any m:;zi:e1"E:zi in this matter to Gordon Lidaly, HowardHunt James McC ci ' ", J or , John Ilean, I}: anyone eizee at the White House or else-where? If so, provide deeile.
25. There have been leaks of FBI data concerning this matter to Timemagazine and possibly other perieziieele. Are you aware of the source of anysuch leeks? If so, provide details. '
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'in as-1eoe2~1s%#'~o* Please refer to your memorandum to me of May 10, 1973. In answeringyour questions I will follow the format of your memorandum extending fromquestion l through 25. V, .
1. I_n regard to the White House, I think it would be mostappropriate if this question was addressed to Mr. Haldeman.
4 -2. By both conversations and written communications.
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6. The records were maintained, as indicated, in my office and k>6not by personnel other than myself. KYYC
A art f7. p etaries, persons handlin t ' ap programwere who handled liaison, who handled the ana ys s and dictation, an rmyself an ling administration.8. To the best of my recolle on, the indiv;g§{;?on whom wiretapswere placed included: Ir _evidson, Marti - ~lperin, Henry Brandon,Mr. Lord, Mr. Lake, Mr. Smith and Helmut Sonnenfeldt. There wereothers but I do not remember them at this time around 16-18!.
9. I do not remember the approximate times but the general time- period was from 1969 ~ 1971. _
. 10. The records were considered to be very helpful in some cases1 and in others they were of little or no value. I do not recallthe specific elements involved. "
ll. It is suggested that the identity of FBI personnel who wereconnected with the installations be secured from.the WashingtonField Dffice. I do not know who made the installations. I havealready set forth those handling the materials at the Seat ofGovernment.
12. The material was disseminated by letter over Mr. J. Edgar Hoover'ssignature to the White House. For some time the letters wereaddressed to and sent to the President and Dr. Kissinger. Laterthey were sent only to Mr. Haldeman.* A few sumaries wereprepared for the Attorney General in memorandum form.
13.As I recall, instructions to discontinue came from the WhiteHouse and were relayed to Mr. Hoover.
I4. In the main, these instructions were issued to me. However,Mr. Hoover did have some conversations with Mr. Ehrlichman, 'Mr. Haldeman, and Dr. Kissinger. As I recall,the wiretapactivity ceased during the first part of 1971.
15. The contents of the case included logs and letters relatedto the special wiretaps project. As I recall, they didinclude the authorizations of the Attorney General. Aspreviously indicated, on instructions this material wasfurnished to Mr. Mardian before my retirement.
I turned over the materials of this special project on Minstruction to Mr. Mardian. I had no conversation about it. Twith others. It was my decision. l
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~ 2 . _ -*In May 1970 there was a meeting at the White House of the President,Mr. Haldeman and Mr. Hoover. They decided the letters would go toMr. Haldeman.
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6As previously stated, on instruction I turned over the material,following a discussion in depth with Mr. Mardian relative tosecurity and possible abuses of the material.
As previously stated, this material was turned over toMr. Mardian in resnonse to Presidential and Attorney General
request.
The material was to.be given maximum security. Where andby whom I do not know. I do not know whether the AttorneyGeneral was aware of the disposition.
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They were written reports, handcarried. I do not recallthe exact frequency but they were sent over whenever anythingappeared on the logs which were relevant.
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-...__.,,,,|-we!6 Robert C. Mardian interviewed Phoenix, Arizona, advised first timehe heard of White House wire taps subject of this inquiry was during last twoweeks of July, 1971. ll/Iardian at that time contacted by W. C. Sullivan, whoadvised in substance he had highly sensitive wiretap material which was"out of channel" at the FBI, Sullivan felt he was in trouble with Mr. Hoover
and possibility existed he would be red. W. C. Sullivan wanted Mardianto convey to President of United States that this material was in existenceSullivan's reason for doing so was to preclude Mr. Hoovers using thisinformation to blackmail President Nixon. This was strictly W. C. Sullivans
opinion. Mardian contacted John Mitchell, Attorney General, relayed Mr.S1111ivans request. Mr. Mitchell said he would handle, Short time later - .Mardian contacted by Western White House, San Clemente, California, byindividual whose name he would not divulge, and instructed to fly immediatelyto San Clemente to see the President, Mardian obeyed instructions. Metwith Ieresident of the United States and received two instructions: one pick up
material from Sullivan and deliver to White House, Washington, D. C, ; secondto insure Sullivan's material matched with summaries on hand at White House,
Mardian returned to Washington and contacted Sullivan, requested all materialto which Sullivan referred, This material delivered by Assistant Director, FBI,Charles Brennan, It was delivered in old "beat up" satchel, olive drab in color,with initials of W. C. Sullivan thereon. Shortly thereafter Mardian delivered
satchel to Dr. Henry Kissinger and General Alexander Haig at White House. In Kissingers and Haig's presence, White House correspondence checked againstchronological check list which listed all material sent to White House by date,White House summaries in possession of Dr. Kissinger checked, found intact, As best Mai-dian recalls he then gave Qeck list to Ivi1¬'rI-1.7 aft? ¬tIalc{égman,- who as t
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best Mardian recalls, checked summaries in his possession against checklist,
Two summaries found missing, After check was made Mardian said he took thesatchel, which he believes contained summaries, the check list and telephone
surveillance logs, and delivered them to the Oval Room in White House,
Mardian declined to identify recipient,
It is to be noted that an FD -302 prepared in detail has - been separately
furnished -to M-r. »R»uc-kelshaus on this -interview, -
John, . Mitchell, former United States ,értto1'neyGenera1
Jenn G. Mitchell on 5/11/73 advised to the best of his recollection
sometime during the Spring or Summer of 1969 former FBI Director Hoover metwith him and advised him that the FBI at that time had some wiretap coverage on
instituted to uncover possible leaks emanating from the White House specifically
from the National Security Council BBC !. Mitchell stated that up until this
Assistant Director W. C. Sullivan. Mitchell stated he never saw nor approved a
was because he, Hoover, was greatly concerned that such wiretaps were in effect
and wanted Mitchell to informally intercede with the White House in an effort to
thereafter, discuss these wiretaps with either Colonel Haig or Dr. Kissinger at
the White House and they Mitchell, I-laig and/ or Kissinger! agreed that these
game we were playing, " Mitchell stated, however, that to the best of his
recollection, nothing was done as a result of his discussions met ioned above,
authorization for the placement of these wiretaps but he was also unaware of .
any summaries that may have been prepared setting forth the results of these
wiretaps.
hearing of this matter was during the period when former Assistant Director
Sullivan was "on the skids" with Director Hoover and the FBI, The closest he
could place this time was approximately early Fall of 1971. He vaguely recalls
Security Division, U. S, Department of Justice, contacted him, Mitchell, and at
I this meeting told Mitchell that he had just recently learned from W. C. Sullivan
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meeting with Director Hoover he had no knowledge that any such special wiretaps
requested by the White House were in effect, He stated to the best of his recollection
the request was made directly from the White House to either Mr. Hoover or former
nvsuch requests for wiretap coverage from the FBI, stating none were submitted to
him by the FBI. Mitchell stated the reason Mr. Hoover came to him at that time
discontinue these wiretaps, To the best of Mitchell's recollection he did, sometime
wiretaps could become "explosive" and that this whole operation was a "dangerous
Mitchell stated that he not only never saw any written request for Attorney General
Mitchell stated to the best of his recollection the next time that he recalls
that Robert Ivlardian, the then Assistant Attorney Geneial in charge of the Internal I.
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about the existence of wiretap coverage placed at die request of the White HOIB eon certain individuals. Mardian indicated to Mitchell that Sullivan was furiousover the way he was being treated by the Director and that he furnished theinformation concerning the wiretaps to Mardian.
During approximately this same period of time Mr. Hoover contacted Mitchell and advised him of the problems he was having with Sullivan and in factshowed Mtchell a "lengthy letter he, Hoover, received from Sullivan in which Sullivan accused Hoover of running contrary to the President's wishes in manyinstances. Mitchell recalls telling Mr. Hoover that he had no choice but to get rid of Mr. Sullivan. At this point Mitchell described Mr. Sullivan as being"a little nuts, " Mitchell stated he recalls that after Mardian came to theDepartment of Justice as Assistant Attorney General in Charge of the IntenalSecurity Division, Mr. Hoover became quite concerned over the fact that in many instances both Sullivan and Brennan were going directly to Mardianconcerning cases being handled by the Domestic Intelligence Division and theInternal Security Division of the Department, which um an attempt, Mr. Hoover felt, to cut him off from access to these discussions. To the best of hisrecollection Mitchell recalls that Mardian informed him, Mitchell, that hesubsequently turned over the wiretap information that he has received from Sullivan to Mr. John Erlichman . According to Mitchell, Mardian felt this was in the best interests of the White House. Mitchell adamantly stated, however,that he had never seen any of these papers that Mardian said he had receivedfrom Sullivan and in turn turned over to the White House. Mitchell could notrecall any details concerning this exchange, For example, whether thesepapers were turned over to Mardian by Sullivan voluntarily or perhaps whetherMardian requested that Sullivan turn over. the papers to him.
Mitchell was specifically asked if on or about October 2, 1971, Hoovercontacted him concerning the iact that Mardian had in his possession sensitivematerial relating to the wiretap coverage, and the fact that Mitchell assinedthe Director that Mardian had destroyed this material. Mitchell stated this could not have been true inasmuch as Mardian had turned over the material in questionto Mr. Erlichman at the White House. He stated to the best of his recollectionsuch a conversation did not take place between him and the Director and thathe received no correspondence from the Director confirming such a conversation.Mitchell suggested that if it has not already been done that the FBI considerreviewing all correspondence relating to wiretap coverage in all national security cases which he would have been aware of during his tenure as Attorney bic General and which would now be located presumably in the vault in his formeroffice Mitchell stated that while he was Attorney General and during the peril neat d t 9perio ' in ques ion l 69 to 1971! his secretary was , vfhom he believes clwrently resides in Orlando, Florida Mitchell was specifically asked if he l , had any information orr rmng the recent disclosures and obvious..
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leaks recently appearing in recent periodicals specificallyXT aQge_
Mitchell stated that Mark Felt of the FBI was responsible for these leaks. When
asked to explain further, Mitchell stated he could not under any circumstances
divulge his sources concerning this but he felt they the sources! were totally
reliable. Mitchell further stated that he feels sure that W. C. Sullivan also
has been responsible for some of these leaks to the newslmedia.
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On 5/ 10/73 former Domes tic Intelligence Division DID! SupervisorRozamus. recalls being called into office by then Section Chief Charles Brennanon a Sunday, believed to be in March, 1970. At office llozamus told by
Assistant Director William C. Sullivan White House was concerned aboutleaks from the White House and Buréau was r ested to place wiretaps on,to his recollection, about 6 members of pres , three names of whom he only
vaguely recalls, namely Colonel Pursley, John Sears, and Helrnut Sonnenfeldt.
Rozainus received impression from Sullivan reduest made of Director Hoover
personally by Dr. Henry Kissinger. Sullivan told Rozamus this was super-
sensitive matter, that no record be maintained of these wiretaps, and that
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Rozamus reviewed s ra 'les Sullivan had on his desk, called in his -secretar since resigned, dictated usual wiretap requestforms un _ u ivan s 1111 1a s and gave all copies to Sullivan for approval on
following Monday morning. Roaamus had to wait for Sullivan's approval that
morning since he had a visitor whom Sullivan's secretary said was Dr. Henry
Kissinger. Kissinger was not seen by Rozamus. Thereafter upon approval
- Sullivan instructed Rozamus to hand carry all copies of request in double sealed
Q envelope marked for personal attention of Director Hoover only. Rozamus per-
. sonally delivered envelope to Miss Helen Gandy, Shortly thereafter Rozamus
- believes Sullivan advised him Director had approved request and Sullivan instruc
Rozam st la ' t t R bl h alldWsh' t u o p ce projec in 0 era 1011. ozamus e ieves e c e a ing on FielOffice WFO! supervisor to do this and orally advised Sullivan
of this but made no written record. Several weeks later in late afternoon
Rozamus was instructed by Sulliva t o As i ' t irector DeLoach' ' where Rozamus dictated to eithe o ne and
possibly two additional wiretap reques s w e Mr. oover wai e after 6:00
, PM to sign for approval. All copies taken from typewriter personally by DeLoach
and hand carried by DeLoach to Director and Attorney General Mitchell while
Rozamus instructed to wait. About 15 to 20 minutes later DeLoach returned saying
the Director and Attorney General had approved. This occurred about two weeks
before Rozamus ceased active duty on or about May 24, 1970, and about same
time Rozamus was breaking in Supervisor Ed Grigalus to take over his work.
Rozamus had made one extra copy of one request for a guide which he claims he
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n destroyed. Rozamus never revie * ' etap logs or prepared log summarieswhich Rozanius sa'd ' '1 was responsibility. He recalls on onlyo casion he asked i anything good was coming from the wiretaps andsaid Nothing bu crap. " Rozamus never discussed project with Bre
, nnan or anyone else but believes Sullivan's N b Onum er e Man, Joe Sizoo probably 1376 knew something about project in view of Sullivan's frequent absences fromoffice, Rozamus in charge of maintaining daily upto -date count of numberof wiretaps the Bureau had throughout the country but Sullivan instructed himnot to include these wiretaps in that count R0 a. z mus recalls no wiretaps on Ellsberv nor did he ever hea th t E ' 'r a llsberg was monitored on any of these wiretaps.
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I former FBI employee and Supervisor in Domestic Intelli ision, currently employed as an Attorney Adviser, CriminalDivision, Department of Justice, was reinterviewed on 5/10/'7 3 regardinginformation developed during this inquiry to the effect that in late S ' v 197prm l original summaries from wiretap logs were retrieved from the White Hziiuse and invent ' d 'orie 1n the office 0 the then Assistant to the Director William C S . . . . . .ullivan. It is noteliiwas interviewed on 5/ 9/'7 3 concerning his overallknowledge of this ma er and failed to mention this at that time, When askedwhy he failed t b o ring this to the attention of the interviewing Agent, he statedhe did not recall being asked and besides the thought didn't occur to hiretrospect, he now recalls that in May or early Jtuie, 1971, SAcurrently assigned FBIHQ as White House liaison, hand delive rom eWhite House the original summaries from wiretap material which had previouslybeen furnished by the FBI to the White House. Although Sullivan was not presentdui-in this in enter he, Sullivan, furnished an inventory list which was checkedby S anc1t|against each original letter from the White House andthe or inal letter was then matched to the FBIyellow copy. To the best of 137C ecol1ection the material checked against the master list It was|:| un ersta cln ing from Sullivan that the reason the White House originals werereturned to the FBI thion s occasion was because the White Hguse was concernedabout sensitive material ing ke t ther After the material was inventoriedand matched by S nd amt was left in Sullivan Ts office and hehas no knowledge as o 1 s ultimate disposition. |:|was asked again if hehad ever seen FBI wiretap material in the possession of Mr. Robert C. Mardian,former Assistant Attorney General, or if he ever told an FBI off ' lh dicia e ha seen FBI wiretap material in the possession of Mr. Mardian, to which he replied h had ' e not in both instances.
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SASupervisor, Intelligence Division, who has beenWhite House since 1969 and up to present timehandling lison unc ions with ' ' , b6was interviewed on 5/l1/'73. b7c2'-_. v. _ '
SA has the impression that sometime beginning in 1969 AssistantDirector livan received requested from White e for installation of wiretaps 01newsmen and certain White House aides, S s reasonably certain aon one occasion General Alexander Haig, Whi e ouse, telephoned him Iito re ue " stallati wiretap on an individual, identity not now recalled by ~S SA merely orally passed this request on to Sullivan and hasno ur er informa ion regarding it. - -
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SA ad knowledge that forme Sletters to r was preparin White House regarding results of this coverage and believes lbevan de ' ering these letters in September, 1969. In handling these lett rsSA would get telephone call from Miss Gandy, Director's Office, that ' hs e a letter for the White House. SA ould then go to Miss Gandy'soffice, note on the yellow tile copy "De ivere y Liaison," and note the dateand his initials. Letter was then sealed and personally delivered to the officeof the addressee on the envelope, At first letters were addressed to Dr.Kissineer somet' d ' ' g , imes a ual letter to Dr. Kissinger and the President but b6ultimately the letters were addressed to H. R. Haldeman. _ i 39753
As a practical matter letters to the President and/or Dr. Kissin erwere enerally delivered to General Haig or Genera ig's secretary, n regard to the Haldeman letters, S was required tver ese personally to either Haldeman or o Haldeman'sAs a ractica a o|:| p . 1 m tter most of these letters were delivEered toi
Sometime after Sullivan was desi nated Assistant to the Director and moved
g ometime subsequently he believes he was told by Sullivan thatAssistant Attorney General Mardian had made arrangements for the otherletters to the President or Dr. Kissinger to be returned and he was sentto pick them up. He went to General Haig who made avai a le fromhis of icefile certain letters, General Haig then referred SAI ito| |Assistant to John Erlichman, who made available certain letters. All oi the-
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letters were returned by SA|:|to Sullivan s office,
At Sullivans office, SA|:|assisted former SA inmatching the original letters agains i the yellow file copies in ullivan's office.Th_ere were also available at the time lists of names typed on plain bond aper,. After checking letters against yellow file copies and the lists ]believes some -letters might have been missing and does not know a his timeif all letters were completely accounted for. -
The last time he saw these letters to the Wh't1 e House was in Sullivan's 106office in the Justice Building, a month or so before Sullivan's retirement. b 7 C SA as no information as to location of these records thereafter.
_ SA;|has no knowledge regarding correspondence with AttorneyGeneral regar ing authorizations of these wiretaps but assumes such approvaltwas ob ained. He has no knowledge of any communications to the Attorney -General regarding results of these wiretaps Although he had op ortunity to 1. - Pperuse letters to White House when he made notation on file copies, he said hedeliberately avoided doing so because of sensitivity attached to them and ash _ . . . .e merely wanted to perform his gob of delivering the letters,
S has no knowledge as to duration of wiretaps under thisprogram ny o the circumstances under which they were discontinued,
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Director had requested memoranda concerning each of the fivematters listed on the attached page.
Attached hereto are memoranda on items 1, 2, 4, and. 5. .With respect to item 3; at approximately 3 p.m., 5/12/73,Section Chief T. J. Smith brought to the Intelligence Division
the material necessary-to prepare a memorandum. This material1S being reviewed and a memorandum will be submitted as soon. as the review is completed. -
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zo rincipally Washington Field Office WFO! Supervisor 197:3vho would initiate the actual installations. When hegal; receive instructions tr ureau Headquarters,:wonld contact
Special Agen who headed the WFO Monitoring Station.would furnish. names, agdresses and tele hone numbers | |infurnish this information to Special Agent l who had liaison withthe telephone company which would thereafter result in the physical completion -of the; viretap operation, _ tit,-P __' _ - ,3»; ,1./_;- r__'!E<;i,_»_;Y_§.'3>:-,3£é| Q5? .; -f_ 1 lei-%§7j' '1L1. Baker _._.._.._
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_ _ _ in 63-16062-_1:5There follows a summary of findings in our current inquiry
regarding this matter conducted pursuant to memorandum from we-Hogan
Acting Director Ruckelshaus to Mr. Felt dated 5/4/73iEl.p'Li0I18Cl ffntviretaps on Newspapermen. I. :1? W63 AL ,1 ,,, . ,,,_ mm W
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Froni approximately Spring, 1969, to early Summer, 1971, the FBI
at the request of the White House, provided highly sensitive wiretap coverageM: may _....._.__
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in the interests of national security, The exact times of the coverage will '
he provided by the intelligence Division separately in their review of the
ecovered material.! The White House requests were based upon an extreme
concern over "leaks" arising out of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks {SALT},
especially irom the National Secuity Council NSC! to the news media. The
original requests were from either Dr. Henry Kissinger or §§_§l_§_@_1 Alexan_gl_eri
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Bureau instructions to Snpervisor|:| WFO, were to the effect thatthis was a highly sensitive project and that only one copy of the monitoring logwas to be prepared, uninitialed and hand carried to the Domestic Intelligence
Division from WFO. There is no information concerning this special project
anywhere in the files of WF The logs were picked up each morning anddelivered to snpervieeri who would cause them to be hand delivered
by a Special Agent to Mr. Sullivan's office.
Approximately a month after .this pro'ect e ' and analysis
of the logs were assigned exclusively to SAI | After .
review and analysis, he would dictate a summary in the form oi a letter tothe President of the United States and to Dr, Kissinger, Later, in approximately
May, 1970, the letters containing the summaries were addressed to H. R.Haldeman. These letters when completed for signature, were hand carried bgto the Directors office and given to Miss Helen Gand for the Directorsapproval, After approval by the Director S ou1d mark the yellow b7 C
copy Bureau file copy! "Delivered by Liaison" an noted the date and initials. The letters were then sealed and personally delivered by SA
to the"Office of the addressee at the White House. T
' For some months at the beginning of the project the ellow fi e '
were maintained in the Director's office and filed byl I
She is unable to re'call specifically the date, but an instruction was receive
that all of the yellow file copies were to be taken to Assistant DirectorSullivan's office for safekeeping, ,_ . .. '@._i¢':.1,;t .B;-.,,-,,,. -=__5 Q; pi ,1 P
During the latter part of July, I971, Robert C.Mardian, former 7Assistant Attorney General, was advised by W. C. Sullivan for the first time X
that the FBI had highly sensitive wiretap material which was "out of channel" 1at the FBI. The wiretap project had been completed and discontinued prior _N
to June 24., 1971, the date on which Mr. Hoover appeared before the Senate "
Appropriations Committee.! Sullivan told Mardian he was in trouble with +Mr. Hoover and the possibility existed he would be fired. Sullivan wanted 1
Mardian to convey to the President of_ the United States that this material was
in existence, Sullivans reason for doing this was to preclude Mr. Hoover's
using the information to blackmail President Nixon, according to Mardian, '
Mardian contacted John Mitchell and relayed Mr. Sullivan's request. Mr.Mitchell said he would handle, Short time later Mardian contacted by Western
White House, San Clemente, California, by individual whose name he would notdivulge, and instructed to fly immediately to San Clemente to see the President, -
Mardian obeyed instructions. Met with President of the United States and
received two instructions; one pick up material from Sullivan and deliver toWhite House, Washington, D. C. ; second to insure Sullivan's material matched -j
. with summaries on hand at White House, Mardian returned to Washington and
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contacted Sullivan, requested all material to which Sullivan referred, This
material dd ivered by Assistant Director, FBI, Charles Brennan. It was
delivered in old "beat up" satchel, olive drab in color, with initials of W. C.Sullivan thereon. Shortly thereafter Mardian delivered satchel to Dr. HenryKissinger and General Alexander Haig at White House, In Kissingers and
Haig's presence, White House correspondence checked against chronological
check list which listed all material sent to White House by date. White House
summaries in possession of Dr. Kissinger checked, found intact, As bestMardian recalls he then gave check list to Mr. H. R. Haldeman, who as
best Mardian recalls, checked summaries in his possession against check list.
Two summaries found'-nri-mug. After check was made Mardian said he took thesatchel, which he believes contained summaries, the check list and telephone
surveillance logs, and delivered them to the Oval Room in White House,
Mardian declined to identify recipient, .
It should be noted here that on or about September 30,1971, Mr. Hoover
became aware that the sensitive material was no longer in the possession oi
the FBI. After having determined through interview of then Assistant Director
Charles D, Brennan that he had turned the material over to Mardian Mr. Hoove
telephoned Attorney General Mitchell on 10/2/'71, at which time Mitchell informedthe Director that sensitive files had been destroyed. Mitchell also told the
Director that Mardian had the Director's approval for this destruction, Hoover
quoted on an officia-l Bureau document, "Th-is is a lie, " No further search
for the sensitive files was thereafter conducted from 1971 since Mr. Hoover
had been assured by the Attorney General they were destroyed,
As a result of the on -going inquiry ordered by Mr. Ruckelshaus it was
determined that the sensitive material had not, in fact, been destroyed but had
been delivered by Mr. Mardian to the White House as described above, It
remained in the possession of Mr. John Ehrlichman - '
April 30, 1973, when the material became part of the "Presidential Papers"
where the material remained until 5/ 12/ 73 , when it was turned over to ActiaeDirector Ruckelshaus and Section Chief Thomas Smith. R
There follows a summary of each pertinent witness involved in this
inquiry, The summary contains the vital points of which each person can testify and is documented by an attachment behind this summary whichis appropriately tabbed and the tab number set forth along with each interviewee H
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Re: Sensitive Coverage Placed at Request of "White House
requested FBI place wiretaps. Hoover advised Sullivan that whatever wiretapswere placed be done only with prior written authorization by the AttorneyGeneral. iled yellow file copy of wiretap authorizations in the"Official onfi ential Files" maintained in Director's office. She also filed
yellow file copy of summaries in same place. While W. C. Sullivan stillAssistant Director oi DID, decision was made by Mr. Hoover that all I bk/5
correspondence regarding "special wiretaps" which were maintaned ' theDirector's office be transferred to Sullivan's custody at DID. ecalls b7cspecifically Mr. Hoover stating, in her presence, many times a as ongas he was the Director he would never personally authorize wiretap coverageon anyonie without prior written Aftorney General approval. Interview ReportForm on see tab l !
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Sometime during 1969 Sullivan advised Hoover of possible leaks withinthe National Security Council and that the White House requested the FBI place
wiretaps on certain individuals. She believes requests originated with ColonelHaig. "She remembers that Henry Brandon and William Safire were subjectsof this coverage. Miss Gandy recalls Mr. Hoover advising Sullivan taps
would be placed only after written authorization from Attorney General. She
recalls summaries were hand carried to her from DID for Director's approval.
After Director's approval, she removed yellow file copy and delivered original
to Special Agent courier for delivery to White House, Yellow copy given to
Mrs. Metcalf for filing, Recalls that while Mr._ Sullivan still Assistant Directorof D11! Mr. Hoover instructed all correspondence relating to this special
be transferred to Sullivan's custody. Interview Report Form on Miss Helen W.
Gandy, see tab 2,! L
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in the "Official Confidential Files. " She only recalls name of one individual
mentioned in these wireta s and that was the name of Satire. Interview ReportFm mi e» 3-» H
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Sunday believed in March, 1970. Told by Sulliran White House was concerned
' about leaks and Bureau was requested to place wiretaps on, to his recollection,
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about 6 individuals, three names of whom he only vaguely recalls, namely
Colonel Pursley, John Sears, and Helmut Sonnenfeldt. Sullivan told Rozamus
this was a super -sensitive matter and no record to be maintained on these
wiretaps and that Director Hoover insisted wiretaps be approved by Attorney
General beforehand, Rozamus called in his secretary, dictated usual
wiretap request forms over Sullivan's initials, and gave all copies to Sullivan
for approval on following Monday morning. After Sullivan's approval, he
instructed Rozamus to hand carry all copies of authorization requests in
double sealed envelope marked for personal attention of Director Hoover.
Rozamus perscnally delivered to Miss Gnndy, Shortly thereafter Sullivan
instructed Rozamus to place project into operation since approval received,R a bel'e 11 alldWFOS " |:|t a 111' <1 1 oz mus 1 ves e c e upervis or o o 11s an ora 1y
conrmed to Sullivan that he had done o, Rozamus later dictated additionalwiretap requests to either! |or| I Rozamus neverrevie ed <1 r prepare og sumnrr ies. IS was responsibility of SA, Rozamus was in charge of maintaining daily up -to-date counto number of national security wiretaps FBI had throughout country, but
Sullivan instructed him not to include these special wiretaps in that count, 196
Interview Report Form on SA Rozamus, see tab 4. ! 1375, .
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Currently emplo yed as an Attorney Adviser , Criminal Division,Department of Justice, Advised that in the Summer of 1969 Sullivan apprised
him of wiretap operation conc erniug the White House and instructed him to
review l relating to project which was initially maintained in Di rector s
office. eviewed ' ' n and then dictated _to] Wm l- ~er|ih_|1e died aIl'to| I He dictated directly from ogs wi
the resulting summary le er going only to the President of the United Statesand later to Mr, Haldeman, White House staff, Summary letters we re comprised
of an original and one yellow copy, He was later instructed by Mr, Sullivan
to prepare summary letters sent to the Attorney General, Mr. Mitchell. When
yellow file copies were retlwned from Dire t s Office to Mr. Sulliva1'sy, he left logs for filing wit after dictation, and she filed them. 1o prepared letters reques mg wire p authorization from AttorneyGeneral specifically" recalling such letters on William Safire, Colonel Robert
Porsley and Helmut Sonnenfeldt, He advised the following individuals were i
people on whom wiretaps were placed in addition to the above: Henry Brandon,
Morton Halperin, Tony Lake, Daniel Davidson, Winston Lord, Marvin Kalb, be lWilliam Beecher, Hedrick Smith, Ambassador William Sullivan, and Richard @075;
Moose, .
aid he could not now recall any specific,conversations, He said
he could generalize to the extent that in all wiretaps both the individual involved
and his wife talked extremely loosely about the projects they were concerned
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with at the White House to both their friends and in some instances to members
of the news media, He felt the tap was useful because it indicated how looseand carelessly information of a highly critical nature was bandied about, |_L:|said he specifically recalled one instance in which the name Ellsberg appearedin the logs. He could not recall which log was involved; however, his bestrecollection was Morton Halperin, _ In this instance Halperin spoke to someunknown party of attending a party either with or for Ellsberg. Ellsberg wasnot a party to the conversation. He said in fact that in early June of 1971 as-best he cou*1d"reca'l1 on Mr. Sullivan's instructions he reviewed all the logs 135and determined Ellsberg was not a party to any telephone conversation. He 7 brycneither made a call nor received one.
|;|recal1ed that the last time he saw any of the material involvingthis wire p operation was approximately a month before he retired
from Bureau service. He retired July 30, 197 e said that Mr. Sullivaninstructed him to discontinue the program. ldvised that any correspondencehe dictated was always over Mr. Sulliv-ans initials. He received this '
instruction from BM, Sullivan. .
. as specically asked if he ever saw any material pertainingto this sensi ive program, any digest of material, or any correspondencewhatever relating to this material in Mr. Mardians hands at any time. He
replied emphatically, "No. " This question was repeated three times. Theanswer in each instance was "No. " He was asked if sometime in September or
October, 1971, he had any reason to feel apprehensive over the fact thatwritten Bureau communications concerning this program had found their wayoutside the FBI. He said "No. " He said the only time he knew or was
informed in any way that someone outside the Bureau may be in possessionof this material was a telephone call he received from Mr. Edward Miller,
Assistant Director, DID, about a week and a half after r ivan retired.In this conversation, which was telephonic and when was no longeran FBI employee, Mr. Miller requested him to call Mr. Mardian to ask him,
Mardian if he had any material "relating to this special project. Mr. Millertold that he had information to the effect that 1vn~. Mardian mayhave some o is information, Mr, Miller also supplied the telephone number
in San Clemente, California, where Mr. Mardian could be reached, b6
lo7Cadvised he reached Mr. Mardian almost immediately, relayedthe message, an Mr. Mardian advised he would h e t - ontact the AttorneyGeneral and the President before he could ans92ver. said he received aphone call a short time later and he was advised tha . ll had told ,Mr. Mardian not to answer this question. Mardian aske to so adviseMr. Miller and that Mr, Mardian would call Mr. Miller irectly at a later time.
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the incident, |;|was emphatic that he never saw any of the material afterhe dictated the as summary letter. He never saw it again either in the Bureauor since he left the Bureau, . i
' rview 5/10/Naadmitted that in May or early June, 1971,S White House 13.13011, hand de ered from White House 106origma summaries from wiretap ate ' ined inventory list bj/Qfrom Sullivan which was checked b an against each originalletter fro tm he White House and ma c e agains BI yellow file copy, Tobest of recollection the material checked against the na ster list. Thereafterall material returned to Sullivan's office. Interview Report Forms on SA|:|see tabs 5, 6, 7, and 8.!
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. About S 969, personally assigned by Mr. Sullivan to takedictation from in sensitive wiretap program. Thereafter shetook letters fro own to be from wiretaps, States first letterwas three pages ong. Length specically recalled but contents not recalled.Thereafter during first several months letters were prepared about every day.Later tapered off to about one per week. Specically recalls letter toWhite House comprised of one white original and one yellow file copyAfter t Cr w the material again. Interview Report Form on ab 9» n
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Advised from*Februar or March, 1970, she began taking dictationand typing letters for, S n information from logs concerning wiretaps,Each dictation included two separate letters, one dected to the Presidentand the other to the Attorney General, She recalls filing logs in this programin Mr, Sullivan's safe -type cabinet in his office, After Mr. Sullivan movedto the Justice Building about Jul 1970 s e went with him and in that officecontinued to prepare letters f After approval from Mr. Sullivanshe would rsona hand carry em Miss Helen Gandy in the Director'soffice. 1so recalled typing two or three authorization requeststo the Aaorney General.
sziid that about June or J uly, 1971, she prepared logs _for s request to carry over to the DID building. She placed b7C1them in five large Government messenger envelopes and he departed with '3]them. In August, 1971, she ret urned from vacation, noticed logs not returned, ,'inquired of Mr. Sullivan who replied, '|:|and Mr, Brennan are lbe >5
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When Sullivan promoted from Assistant Director, DID, t0*ASSiSl;8.l1tto the Director and physically transferred to main Justice Building, he broughtwith him wiretap logs in connection with very special project. Subsequentto the move, additional wiretap logs received in Mr. Sullivan's office fromWFO Agents from which summaries were ed, in. Sullivan's JusticeBuilding Office by dictated -, At a -later date, underinstructions van, she reviewe some i e v '=r , marking pertinentportions fo attention, In absence she may havetyped someisummary letters, a so 1le ocuments concerningwiretap operation in Sullivan's o ICE iling logs in safe -t e ca netY behind Sullivan s desk. Interview Report Form on see tab 11-.!
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He supervised DID in absence of Sullivan and was aware of wiretap
operation, although had no personal knowledge. In Sullivan's absence thereW were occasions when he was in communication with Supervisor|:|, WFO,
and he may have passed on instructions to install w=ireI':ap;s but does not recallany details or names, It was his recollection that Sullivan instructed him toforward any logs received from WFO in a sealed envelope -tozwhich hedid. With regard to retention of wiretap material he believes it was heldin Miss Gandy's custody during first part of operation, but later transferredto Sullivan's office-, where maintained in secure safer-type cabinet, Interview IReport Form on Joseph Sizoo, see tab l2._!_ '
Supervisor _ '
During Spring or Summer, 1969,, WFO orally requested by Buirauto institute discreet investigation of J Qhn Sears, White House -employee, formexi yan attorney in Mr. N_iXOI1'S' law firm in New York City. |:|believes call<.__ came directly to him from Joseph Sizoo. Investigation in matter includedrequests for both a physical and telephone surveillance and: wasspecifically told coverage was to be handled mostldiscreetly wi h only onecopy of the transription log which was then to be hand carried to AssistantDirector Sullivan's office . Transcription logs in the Sears matter as wellas all subsequent tele hone surveillance requests in this special project ,0 6were picked up byfrom the WFO Monitoring Station each mornin b7sealed, and then hand carried by selected Agents" to Sullivan's office, Estat d e t ' e upon rec iEt of he orai fgest from a ters he wouldadvise former S and SA so that theinstallation could be made, Interview Report Form o seetab 13.! - - _
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|:I1-ecalls Spring of1969 Superv'sor|:| a ' d 11 wro , 1 a vise im
had received urgent request from W. C. Sullivan that White House concernedabout leaks. Sullivan to1d|:| that some technical Surveillances wiretaps!would be initiated by WFO on names to be furnished b Sullivan. :vas b6advised by|;| not to keep any written records. |i|subseq_uen ly gave by Q|:|telep one numbers and resses and he in urn furnished this-information -to SA ho handled -l;819ph0nB company liaison.was advise o ave prepared only one transcription of written log.
advised that to the best of his recollection approximately 12 to 15
' equests were handled by him. Interview Report Form on
see tab 14.!
Supervis or IWFO v- a
During Summer, 1969 in his capacity as liaison representative forWFO with telephone company! he received oral instructions from b 6that certain wiretaps would be placed on certain phones in an attemp to b7 C
1.1l'lCQVSI' leaks at White House, Zwhen he received oral instructionsfrom;| to institute these wiretaps would in turn-or-ally request thetélep one compan re resentative to effect the requested wiretap. InterviewReport Form on | see tab 15.] -
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Assigned to Monitoring Section, WFO, 1969 -1970, and until mid -1971.
Had occasion to monitor telephone surveillance maintained on Dr. MortonHalperin.|:|said he recails on one occasion he saw another employees
log wherein an entry had been made that Daniel Ellsberg had stayed with
Dr. Halperin over the weekend. During this visit Ellsberg made a caout of the Halperin residence to a now nnrecalled individual' | Isaid the name of Daniel lsberg meantnofng to Him at_t'he fime he observed the name on the log. InterviewReport Form on see tab 17.! T06
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1Advised he was assigned duty of monitoring telephone surveillances,WFO, and so assigned in 1969 -1970. Recalls he monitored telephone surveillance ==on Dr. Halperin, who was employed at National Security Council. : ,_
said that Dr. Halperin appeared to be close frie d a e1 Ellsberg whoonoccasion stayed at Halperin's house overnight. es not recall any
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details relating to Ellsberg's visits. Interview Report Form on|:|' |:lBe@eb16-> W -
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"' Advised that sometime beginning in mid -19 69 he was assi ned as arelief man in connection with monitoring wiretap of Dr. Halperif|:|
said the only thing he can recall is the fact that Halperin was a close associate b5
of Daniel Ellsberg and that he conversedwith Ellsbérg in late 1969 and early b7 C1970. gcould not recall any details concerning conversations between
Halperin and Ellsberg, nor could he recall the exact dates of these conversations, Interview Report Form o see tab 18,!
DELIVERY OF WIRETAP SU192/IMARIES TO WHITE HOUSE
SAI |Supervis or ,W lnteglligence Divis ion
|:|has been handling liaison functions with White House since 1969and up un il present time. Has impression that sometime beginning in 1969
Assistant Director Sullivan received requests from White House for installation
of wiretaps on newsmen and certain White House Aides, eas onably
7 certain that on one occasion General Haig telephoned him to re uest
installation of wiretap on.an individualddeniity not now recalle b
erely orally passed this request on to Sullivan
;|had knowledge that former SA as reparing letters toWhite ouse regarding results of this coverage. believes he began
delivering these letters to White House in Septem er, 69. In doin so,|;|would get call from Miss Gandy, Director's office. oulden go to Miss Gandy's office, note on yellow file copy, "De vere y '
Liaison, " and note the date and his initials, Letter was then sealed and
personally delivered by him to the office of the addressee on the envelope.
At first letters were addressed to Dr". Hssinger, sometimes a dual letterto Dr. Kissinger and the President, but ultimately the letters were addressed to EH. R. Haldeman, Fhe
etc
Sometime after Sullivan was desi ated Assistant to the Director "and moved into J nstice Building office received telephone call -1
from Lawrence Higby from the White ouse 0 come by and pick up the Iletters on the sensitive coverage, Sometime subsequently he believes
he was told by Sullivan that Assistant Attorney General Mardian had made
arrangements for the other letters to the President or Dr, Kissinger to
be returned and he was sent to pick them up. He went to General Haig, who-made
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I.avai a om his of ' file certain letters. General Haig then referredS1 Assistant to John Ehrlichman, w e available . cer am e ers. All of the letters were then returned b o Sullivan'soffice; There|;|assisted former S.A. ,l'1 mate mg original lettersagainst yellow 1 e copies in Sullivan's office, ere were also available at bethe time lists of names typed on plain bond a er. After checking letters 197$against yellow file copies and the lists, sA|'L:|be11eves some lettersmight have been missing and does not know lf all letters were completelyacco t This was last time he saw letters. Interview Report Form on
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QEMOVAL CUSTOPX OF SENSITIVE MATEEIAL
l5[ormer Assis:tant toithe l!irector_gWil1iam Sullivan
We attempted to interview Sullivan 5/ 9/7 3. He requested all questions' concern i ng this matter be directed to him in writing. This was done by
letter dated May 10,1973, Sullivan responded by letter dated 5/l1/ '73. The
essence oi his response is as follows:
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Sullivan would not identify who at the White House had made wiretap
requests, advising that such questions should be addressed to W. Haldeman,He stated such requests were received both orally and by written communications.They were received either directly of Mr. J . Edgar Hoover or indirectlythrough Sullivan. Sullivan stated written authorization was seemed from theAttorney General in each case. Sullivan stated that the records of these
wiretaps, which included logs, summaries and correspondence, were maintainedin his oifice in his personal and official custody on the orders of Mr. Hoover,Sullivan stated that all oi these records on Presidential and Attorney Generalrequests were given to Mr. Robert C. Ma dian, then Assistant Attorney Generalof the Internal Security Division of the Department. Sullivan stated that the
material was disseminated from the wiretap by letter over Mr, Hoover'ssignature to the White House- For sometime the letters were addressed toand sent to the President and Dr. Kissinger. Later they were sent only toMr. Haldeman. A few summaries were prepared for the Attorney Generalin memorandum form. Sullivan continued that instructions to discontinue
which came from the White House and received by him were relayed to Mr.Hoover, Sullivan stated that he turned over the material of this special project 3on instruction to Mr. Mardian, He had no conversation about it with others.It was his decision, Sullivan stated the material would be given maximum security,where and by whom he did not know. Sullivan also did not know whether the i
Attorney General was aware of the disposition. Interview recorded in
memorandum to Mr. William D. Ruckelshaus, Acting Director, FBI, datedMay ll, 1973. Questions sent to Mr. Sullivan dated May 10,1973, are alsoattached to that memorandum. See tab 20,! _ ._ -
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Re: Sensitive Coverage _
Former Assistant Attorney Generallliabert _,C,i,l92_{Iardian ,
- Robert C. Mardian interviewed Phoenix, Arizona, advised first time
he heard of White House wiretaps subject of this inquiry was during last two
weeks of July, 1971. Mardian at that time contacted by W. C. Sullivan, who
advised in substance he had highly sensitive wiretap material which was
"out of channel" at the FBI. Sullivan felt he was in trouble with Mr. Hoover
and possibility existed he would be fired. W. C. Sullivan wanted lviardian
to convey to President of United States that this material was in existence.
Sullivan's reason for doing so was to preclude Mr. Hoover s using this '
information to blackmail President Nixon. This was strictly W. C. Sullivan's
opinion. Mardian contacted John Mitchell, Attorney General, relayed Mr.
Sullivan's request. Mr. Mitchell said he would handle. Short time later
Mardian contacted by Western White House, San Clemente, California, byindividual whose name he would not divulge, and instructed to fly immediately
to San Clemente to see the President. Mardian obeyed instructions. Met
with President of the United States and received two instructions: one pick up
material from Sullivan and deliver to White House, Washington, D. C.; second
to insure Sullivan's material matched with summaries on hand at White House.
Mardian returned to Washington and contacted Sullivan, requested all materialto which Sullivan referred. This material delivered by Assistant Director, FBI,
Charles Brennan. It was delivered in old "beat up" satchel, olive drab in color,
with initials of W. C. Sullivan thereon. Shortly thereafter Mardian delivered
satchel to Dr. Henry Kissinger and General Alexander Haig at White House. In
Kissingers and Haig's presence, White House correspondence checked against
chronological check list which listed all material sent to White House by date.
White House summaries in possession of Dr. Kissinger checked, found intact.
At best Mardian recalls he then gave check list to Mr. H. R. Haldeman, who as
best Mardian recalls, checked summaries in his possession against check list.
Two summaries found missing. After check was made lvlardian said he took the
satchel, which he believes contained summaries, the check list and telephone
surveillance logs, and delivered them to the Oval Room in White House. Mardia
declined to identify recipient. Interview Report Form on Robert Mardian,
see-tab21.! -,__,-<4», ,.. - 92
_Jo_hn G_;>!lIitchell,__formeriiinited States Attorney General
Sometime during Spring or Summer of 1969 former Director Hoovermet with him and advised FBI at that time had some wiretap coverage on
certain individuals specifically requested by the White House. Mitchell statedit was not unusual for him not to know of this at its inception since on many
occasions Mr. Hoover would deal directly with the President or the White House
on extremely sensitive matters and circumvent the Attorney General's office.
Mitchell states he never saw nor approved any such requests for wiretap -
coverage from the FBI, stating none were submitted to him by the FBI.
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authorization letters signed with the signature of Mr. Mitchell.! Mitchell
recalls that in approximately Fall of 1971 Mardian contacted him and at this
meeting told Mitchell he had just recently learned from W. C. Sullivan about
existence of wiretap coverage. Mardian indicated to Mitchell Sui livanwas furious over the way he was being treated by the Director and for this
reason he disclosed the information concerning the wiretap to Mardian,Sometime thereafter, Sullivan turned over to Mardian all correspondence
relating to this wiretap coverage,
During approximately this same period, Mr. Hoover contacted Mitchelland advised him of the problems he was having with Sullivan and, in fact,
showed Mitchell a lengthy letter he, Hoover, received from Sullivan in whichj Sullivan accused Hoover of running contrary to the President's wishes in
-, many instances. Mitchell recalls telling Mr. Hoover that he had no choicebut to get rid of Mr. Sullivan. At this point Mitchell described Mr. Sullivan
as being fa little nuts," ' ,
Concerning W. C. Sullivan, Mitchell related it was obvious heWanted the job of FBI Director since, on numerous occasions, Sullivan
we in personal contact with various members of the White House staff and. was always "name dropping and wheeling and dealing there, " White House!- Interview Report Form on Mr. Mitchell, see tab 22.! S E
- I5 SAC Charlesiwl!. Brennan,,,Alexandria Office, ,l?BI,
!- . Brennan was formerly Assistant Director, Domestic Intelligence_. Division, located at 9th and D, Brennan recalled receiving visit in August,.- 1971,: at his office from W. C. Sullivan, who said he had a heavily loaded1; brief case for
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