2 EX-FBI AIDES SAY SPYING RULES TOO RESTRICTIVE

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June 26, 1982
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/31 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000404030045-3 ARTICLE AFFELRED OIJ PAGE THE WASHINGTON POST 26 June 1982 2 Ex FBI Aides Say Spying Rules Too Restrictive Unlted Prast 1nternWUMW Two former FBI officials convicted in 1980 of autho- rizing break-ins at the homes of friends and relatives of radical group members told Congress yesterday that re- strictions on FBI spying are too severe. Mark Felt and Edward Miller testified at Senate hearings on the proposed easing of rules laid down in 1976 by then-Attorney Gen- eral Edward Levi. . Felt, once acting associate director of the FBI, said the "cumbersome restrictions' of I the Levi guidelines prevent the FBI from keeping track .,of terrorist groups. "It is because of these re- . strictions that the FBI can- not now investigate violence- prone groups such as the Na- tional Socialist Party . of America, with which ' John W. Hinckley Jr. was associ- ated for a time,' Felt testi- fied. Miller, who once headed the FBI's intelligence divi- sion, said the guidelines were a "a hole' in the FBI's au- thority to gather intelligence needed for security reasons. "We want to loosen the guidelines . . ," he said. Felt and Miller were con- victed and fined in 1980 for violating constitutional guar- antees- against unreasonable search and seizures by autho- rizing break-ins into the homes of relatives and friends of Weather Under- ground members. President Reagan pardoned them last year. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/31 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000404030045-3