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GGD-76-79 1 (1976-03-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaabmr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: (j99L/0< COMPrROL LR CIJNE.AL OF THE UNITICO STATES WASHJINCTON. D.C. ?~a I B-179296 4 ThE Honorable Don Edwards Chaiima;,, Subcomittee on Civil and Constitution.l Right< Cormittee on the Judiciar \ House of Representatives kMAR 2 9 1976 Dear Mr. Chairman: I In response to your Subcormittee's reauest, we are furrishing you herewith our comments on the draft guidelines for ccLtrojling the FBI's domestic :nteiligence operations which were released on Karch 10, 1976, by the Attorney General. In chapter 11 of our February 24, 1976, report on the F ; domestic intelligence orzrations, to the Chairman, House Committee on the Judiciary, and in testimony before your Subcorimittee on the same day, we discussed the various sections of the lanaary 1976 draft of the Attorney General's guidelines. Our comments on what we consider to be major changes in each section of the March 1976 draft ouidelines follow. INITIATING AND CONTI.UING :N, ESTIGATIO:NS Prior to March 0, 1976, tne Domestic Security Investigatic-s draft guidelines contained references tc antiriot law violations and FBI report- ing on civi, disorcs and demonstrations. The 'arch draft completely revised this approach with the issuance of a separate set of guidelines entitled, Reporting on Civil Disorders and Demonstraticns Involving a Federal interest. Basically, these guidelines were designed to separate domescic security investigations frcm otner F2I functions of gathering information to (1) assist the President in deermininq whether Federal troops are requirei at civil disorders, (2) provide limited information to thle Department of oustice retating to demonstration activities, _.nd (3) pro- videa information for t-.e -Jrpose cf assisting ti.e Secret Service in its BEST DOCUMENT AVAILABLE GD-76-79 I7-G~9~J i~?.er/O~ oqqqo0 LM099402 /

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