‘Bugging’ Approved
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WASHINGTON, July 14. The F. 8.1. “bugged” the hotel suite of a man under the long-standing policy of the Attorney General’s office, the Supreme Court was told yesterday.
The Justice Department, in a memorandum given the court by the Solicitor General, Mr Thurgood Marshall, said “under departmental practice in effect for a period of years prior to 1963 and continuing into 1965, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was given authority, to
approve the Installation" of listening devices. The Department said such devices could be used only In cases affecting internal security or national safety. But this included organised crime. The memo answered the Supreme Court’s request for more information about the Department’s admission that the F. 8.1. bugged the suite of Mr Fred Black, jun., while Government attorneys were prosecuting him on income tax evasion charges. The Department told the court that the F.8.1.'s bug was in connexion with organised crime and was not used in the tax case against Black.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31112, 15 July 1966, Page 13
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