2 LAWYERS DECRY SNOOPING BY U.S.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP77M00144R000800110055-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2001
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• Publication Date: January 1, 1975
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YORK TIMES
For Release 2001/08/3
Eavesdroppi.ng'is ,Describ'e.d
ot`a Judiciary,.Heaing: as,
'Almost' Beyond' Control'
By JAMES M. NAUGHTON
WASHINGTON, Feb 6-Rep-
resentatives-Lof- theAmerican
Civil 7 Liberties 'Upion told ;
House -subcommittee~today tha
Goverpment- eavesdropping" o
-citizens under the_, guise_of'na
, tionah--security-had--gorge- "al
m ost beyond conttoL'?'
Joh.n:H.=P.Shattuck,nations
staff !eounse{tor;tfiei*A.E L.U.,
man pt fe
and .Leon=Fred. as s
sor-oflawrat Hofstra_Univer
sity urged. he?-ducli+alary-Gm-
mittee's -Sut con~niittee on- ii
Liberties.-to=a-pprav~ ? legs sl ation
that.would prohibit.-surveillap~e
o AmeFicans-without -a- scu ct
Prdeevthae-w. asxbasecl-on-?probe
16.e- au40r @r-cnme*mtght be
committed.u. !
High Court Ruling
wiretaps could not be installed
withouut court warrants, but.the
ruling did= not prohibit .electro-
nic..?:--surveillance' :=to -obtain
"foreign.intelligence."
? . -. Mr.. Shatiuck and Mr.,.Fried-
man contended today that-Fe-
deral agencies had continued to
conduct surveillance of . civi-
lians under the guise of foreign
intelligence purposes that could
not be' ,justified in, lawsuits
'joined by the A.C.L.U.
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Referring to' the wiretap that] r
went on for 25 years, Mr. -Fried-I decide when surveillance. was
man said,!. `"People grew up and i warranted.
died and had_:babies. and ahis.. Asked whether he would sup-
wiretap continued all this
port the bill,"Mr. Friedman said
time
ti maak..
The' testimony: was given, at)it was .,not the whole answer?
the ftrst~of. the subcommittee'slbut,..that' '"anything is better
hearings .on measures, intended than the anarchy now."
to curtail Government surveil-
lance.,.-
subcommittee s chair-
The
man, Representative. Robert';W.
Kastenmeier, Democrat of . Wis-
consin "said in an opening
:
,
statement that, wiretapping
without.:"court.order'-'."could
,form-the cornerstone, of a.'fu
;.,ture,police -state.:' He ,also said
'tlfat 13 measures would be era
;mined':=..b 7theL.paneI'-to seek
o to legislative-i!emedy.agaiinst
Une + measure; proh`
surveillance- of,-icitizew for any
reason- without-', court -order,
citing documentsf~am civil
liberties lawsuits in which-they-
had,, begn_,involved;. the two,
lawyers contended that existing
law; offeredlittle or 'no ;protec-
ian,: iUgaanst;' suchsurvelllance
activities as the following
n 9The wiretapping, ' without
prior?'court'"approval of~:;an
unidentified person and 'group
from'1942'to 1967 ly.the'Feder-
al=Bureau of,Investiation i
1 ~ ~ 9Thes.~i~itierception ^ e{e-
phone,, conversations between
lawyers and.their,clientv by the
F.B.I. and Army agent. overseas.
9A plan: outlined- in F.B.I.
files, but apparently never car-
ried out, to "disrupt and- con-
fuse" the Black Panther party
in San Francisco by feeding. it
false information.
The activities were do-
cumented in 17 sets of court
papers that Mr. Shattuck ^ and
Mr.- Friedman submitted to the
committee.-Nearly-all of the in-
formation had been disclosed
previously, but 'Mr. Shattuck
contended that it was a ''very
small tip of the iceberg" of Fe-
deral surveillance activities not
p 5~~ w or
Dort r`il.0,onve6 1'6 elea
.was outlined to. the subcommit,
tee:'by,.Senator---Char-les'M.C.
Mathias~Jr,-Re'publicarrof Ohio:
4ey.4satd it-wopld-elgse loop
?hs~ea- that -norwpmret `agencies
toy-openmarl;enterprtvate
kromes ";'lnstail eavesdropping
nevi ces,~and Tolata to telePhon e,
eredit:an&other~ priwa te..:rebdrds
without>arsitowing of. possible
? Several , subeommittee? mem'=`
rb.ers a expressed misgiyings
about the propos a1..Representa
tivve Robert- F.Drinan, Demo=
etdt of` Massachusetts,"said' lie.
was concerned that "the fact of
the ;mattes'` is :-Federal,, judges;
,.virtually never deny -,requests"
for wiretap: authority .:,,
Representative ,. Charles E.
Wiggins,' Republican of Califor-
riia, ' said., the,. measure might
take -a-way judicial flexibility-.to
} =1n.-a. related..development, the
new--Senate^ -Select Committee
on. -.,Intelligence..?...-Operations
adopted-:.rules-' requiring-strict
confidential ity-:for -.its-..iaqui ry
into the., conduct,-ofFederal in-
telligence-.agencies ,
,Senator-Frank ~.Church, De
mocrat:of-Idaho ~who'.is'?cbair-
man-of-the-committee;- said-that
any- staff -members. who, dis-
elosed.confidentiaiinformation
acquired to the ihquiry,40uld
lie--dismissed x