</s>File #: 62-HQ-116395 Serial Scope: IS Nr 1208X, 1204K, 1st NR 1204x, 1206-1210X, 1212,1214X,12145,1215.1215X Released under the John F. Kennedy, Assassination Records Collection Act of 992 (USC) 2107 Note; Case#NV 8514 Date: 03/18/2023 NW-888414 Bocid: 22896062 Page1

John F. Kennedy was a President who issued directives in 1962 and 1964 authorizing the Interdepartmental Intelligence Conference to coordinate investigations of domestic espionage, counter-espionage, sabotage, subversion, and other related intelligence matters affecting internal security.

The FBI's authority to engage in "domestic security intelligence investigations" was extended by Presidential directives from 1936 until the 1960s. The Attorney General codified these directives in a Justice Department regulation.

The Supreme Court's opinion in the Keith case (1972) acknowledged the importance of national security in its domestic implications and recognized that the President has a "fundamental duty" under the Constitution to protect the government against those who would subvert or overthrow it by unlawful means.

Congress has the ultimate authority to substitute statutory authorization in place of Presidential directives. Legislation ratifying existing authority granted to the FBI could provide a basis for Congressional oversight, reinforce the Attorney General's role as supervisor of FBI Intelligence activities, and authorize investigations of domestic espionage, counter-espionage, sabotage, subversive activities, civil disturbances, and other related intelligence matters affecting internal security.

The statute would require the Attorney General to report annually to Congress on the volume and type of investigations and reports, investigative techniques used, and policies and procedures adopted by the Justice Department and the FBI.

A separate Security Intelligence agency within the Justice Department was proposed to deal with foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. This agency would be authorized to conduct investigations of a wider scope than regular criminal investigations, using different techniques such as electronic surveillance without a warrant.

The document mentions Martin Luther King Jr., President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and his involvement in the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee.

The FBI was not involved in any way in a Navy drug research project from 1947-1954. A review of FBI files disclosed only one document relating to this Navy research: a short internal memorandum dated August 4, 1950.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities (SSC) requested detailed information to be made available during the last week of December 1975 and the first week of January 1976. The request was ambiguous, and the Bureau could not logically respond without obtaining clarifications and alternatives.

The FBI has never participated in research with drugs designed to modify human behavior or funded such research. The Bureau's files contain a single reference to the Navy drug project: a memorandum dated August 4, 1950, which recorded that a Navy official had invited FBI representatives to discuss the usage of truth serum in intelligence circles.

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, led by Chairman Frank Church, requested information from the FBI regarding various matters related to intelligence activities. The committee asked for access to materials in the investigative files for a six-month period preceding acts of violence prevented by the FBI.

Specifically, the committee requested:

1. Examples of effective prevention of violence, including:
	* Legal and facial predicate for each investigation
	* First investigative report disseminated outside the FBI
	* List of recipients of that report
	* Total number of individuals referred to the FBI's general name index
	* Total number of individuals about whom information was obtained through informants, confidential sources, physical surveillance, electronic surveillance, and other sensitive techniques

2. Annual reports from the office of origin for each such investigation to the FBI headquarters for the last five years during which the case in question was open.

3. Information refuting the suggestion made on page 34 of the General Accounting Office report that cases in which violence can be predicted probably represent less than 28% of all FBI domestic intelligence investigations.

4. All memoranda or analyses prepared for the Justice Department, Director Kelley, or Assistant Director Wannall on the findings of the General Accounting Office as presented to the House Judiciary Committee on September 24.

5. Annual reports from the office of origin to FBI headquarters for the investigation of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1963 through 1968 and for the investigation of the Women's Liberation Movement for the years that organization was under investigation.

6. Specific examples of cases where the FBI has taken action in the past similar to that which would be authorized by Section IV on "preventive action" of the draft Department of Justice's guidelines on "domestic security investigations."

7. Access to all FBI materials pertaining to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and the Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis, Tennessee, from January 1 through April 4, 1968.

8. All materials pertaining to "Project Overshoe."

JFK Declassified Files

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