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GGD-75-93 1 (1975-05-29)

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                COMPTROLLER~ GENERAL OF -QHE UN!-,ED STATESC
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   3-i71019                           May 29, 1975

   The Honorable Ral;)h E. Metcalfe,/--         '
   House of Representatives             t


'  Dear Mr. Metcalfe:                                      1a094997

        Your March 25, 1975, letter requested that we review
   certain issues related to the Chicago Police Department's
7  domestic intelligence activities;. Specifically, you re-
   quested that we determine (1) the extent to which any Fed-
   eral funds or resources have been applied to such operations
   and (2) the type of operations conducted by the Chicago Po-
   lice using Federal funds. You also requested our advice
   regardinq how the Federal Government could exercise more
   effective oversight over the funding of State and local law
   enforcement agency intelligence activities. We received
   similar requests from Senator Henry fl. Jackson, as Chairman
   of the Permanent Subcor'ittee on Investigations, Senate Con-
   mittee on Government Operations, and from Senator Charles H. AQ
   Percy.

        We discussed these issues with your office and agreed
    to furnish information on Federal funds provided the Chicago
    Police Department. Also, we said that efforts to obtain aa-
    ditional information were complicated because the Cook County
    grand jury was lookinc, into the Chicago Police Department's
    domestic intelligence onerations. Disclosing inforiiation
    provided to the grand jury could prejudice any suosequent
    legal action taken as a result of its investigation.

        Subsecuently, we agreed to obtain information on cer-
    tain allegations reported in Chicago newspapers that the
    U.S. Army's 113th Military Intelligence Group had supplied
    eouipmont and funds to a Chicago citizens' group known as
    the Legion of Justice.

        Our wo-k showd that:        BEST DOCUMENT AVAILABLE-

        --About $134.6 million in general revenue sharing funds
          were designated as being used between December 1972
          and October 1974 by Chicago to pay police salaries.
          These funds reu)resented about 73 percent of all rev-
          enue sharing moneys provided Chicago.

        --About $539,000 in revenue sharing funds were desig-
          nated as beipng used betleean December 1972 and October


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