2 EX-FBI AIDES SAY SPYING RULES TOO RESTRICTIVE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2010
• Sequence Number: 45
• Publication Date: June 26, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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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.
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