</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's assassination on November 22, 1963, led to investigations into his death and potential connections to government agencies. The FBI's domestic security intelligence program was mentioned in relation to the assassination.

The President's directives on June 9, 1962, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy's directive on March 5, 1964, authorized warrantless FBI electronic surveillance. Congressional oversight and reporting requirements were also established.

A separate Security Intelligence agency within the Justice Department was considered to deal with foreign intelligence and counterintelligence. This would involve conducting investigations of a wider scope and using different techniques than regular criminal investigations, including electronic surveillance without a warrant or with a special type of warrant.

The statute should address the FBI's current practice of maintaining an Administrative Index (ADEX) of prime subjects of current domestic intelligence investigations. The past history of the FBI's Security Index and other target lists suggests the need to enact legislation banning the compiling of lists of persons by the FBI, unless such persons have been arrested or convicted for specific crimes.

The document also discusses setting standards for domestic intelligence investigations. The FBI should be authorized by statute to conduct domestic intelligence investigations only if Congress finds that regular criminal investigations would not provide information to anticipate or prevent the use of violence in violations of federal law.

Attorney General Levi's draft guidelines for FBI domestic intelligence investigations provided a basis for considering a domestic intelligence authorization. They did not cover the investigation of foreign-related activities which may be directed by, subsidized by, or otherwise conducted in active collaboration with a foreign government, a foreign organization, or their agents.

The document mentions that the Attorney General requested FBI manual sections on domestic intelligence investigations and a listing identifying all individuals and organizations now the subjects of FBI domestic intelligence investigations. This request was made on December 5, 1975.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s involvement in the Washington Spring Project and Sanitation Workers Strike in Memphis, Tennessee, was discussed. The document includes information about the events leading up to the strike, including a mass march led by King in support of sanitation workers.

The FBI's handling of information related to violence against civil rights workers was investigated. The document mentions testimony from James B. Adams and W. Raymond Wannall before the Senate Select Committee.

A request for information on various matters related to intelligence activities was made by Senators Mondale and Baker to the FBI. This included access to materials in investigative files, information refuting the suggestion that cases involving predicted violence represent less than 2.8% of all FBI domestic intelligence investigations, and specific examples of cases where the FBI has taken action in the past similar to that which would be authorized by Section IV of the Department of Justice's guidelines on "domestic security investigations."

The document also discusses an investigation into the typing of an anonymous letter attributed to former Assistant Director William C. Sullivan, and the search for the typewriter used to produce the letter.

The FBI reviewed its files and found only one reference to a Navy drug project, which involved developing a speech-inducing drug to obtain intelligence from espionage suspects. The Navy had maintained liaison with other government agencies, including the FBI, concerning this project. A press release was issued by the Navy stating that liaison was maintained with the FBI regarding the drug research on human subjects for the period 1947-1954.

Three bills were introduced in the House of Representatives to change the name of the J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building. A request from the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practices and Procedures for information concerning Navy projects involving drug experimentation was also made.

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