LAWYER DEFENDS FBI BREAK-INS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000400450009-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 9, 2004
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 19, 1976
• Content Type: NSPR

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:19 AUGUST 1976
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financed and supported by "foreign a:
hostile governments,";according to a:
.:number of burglaries.. conducted by-
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ew York-:FB1 agents'r~g
N ainst"radical
organizations cTuring, the.. past 'five I
years:'. a
'Radical groups allegedly burgialar
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tion.'by _the "Justice:Departntent for ::
lawyer representing approximately 201i `bBa agents nave been notified. by the d
FBI ~agents..wvho~ are under rivestiga-.k:
Justice Department that they.are-un
For example, tie said>'thecourts _r' h
der investigation"for participating in-.
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.the burglaries
The break-ins, conducted without`
Bola, N.Y., said his clients were "very:.' earch. warrants, are -being invests
disappointed that the-Justice Depart gated.-under. -federal . civil :rights : stat
nment did not. take the.trouble.to fi,tlly rites protecting tad efs_;ivith ut for
investigate this matter before leaking; ei~n intelligence connections, accord-.
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allegations tci' the media and empanel- in to Justice sources.
ing a grand jury." In addition to the? Justice Depart-
ment probe, the- Socialist Workers.
Solerwitz said that a full. Justice De--. ? 'arty, a Marxist gro tip, has filed a $37'
partment investigation.: "would have million civil, dama, e suit against the ,
discovered that the investigations that 11131, the CIA,and,other government
were- conducted by the FBI agents agencies,' chargin-, that.; the n
and. which are now the subject of the govern
Justice probe, involved foreign hostile me.nt illegally burglarized and hat
governments that appeared to. be sup- Solerwitz ;:indicated he learned of
porting, financing and backing the or the connections between the domestic':'
aanizations:' . ; organizations investigated by..the. ew
Solerwitz noted that the courts have.. York FBI 'and'-- the foreign glovern-
interpreted the Constitution: as per ments from,.classi#ied ore documents.;
mitting considerably -eer govern: provided to him for the preparation of
ment investi-aation of nrf frntns with fnr_ ? .1__ -- . - _
Jack B. Solerwitz, Iawyer ia_iYIin--
The Justice Departments . Civil ';j
does nave to obtain. a warrant for wit--
etaps on-persons-without-foreign ties:'.
tile governirients.'.But-the -government`.
slave not. denied;{ahe government's;
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