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4. The routine FBIS monitoring of foreign radio broadcasts often
involves statements or speeches made by U.S. citizens using those radio
facilities. Examples are statements made or allegedly made by American
POW's in Hanoi, by Jane Fonda in Hanoi and by Ramsey Clark in Vietnam.
At the request of FBI and the Department of Justice, and with the
approval of the CIA Office of General Counsel, we have on occasion sub-
mitted transcripts of such broadcasts to the Department of Justice as
part of that Department's consideration of a possible trial. In such
cases, we have been required to submit names of FBIS monitors involved,
presumably because of the possibility they might be required as witnesses.
(One case in 1971, on FBIS staff employee was directed to appear as
an expert witness in a court-martial of a Marine enlisted man charged
with aiding the enemy in a broadcast from Hanoi.) FBIS views all this
with misgivings. Monitoring of such broadcasts is incidental and we rue
attribution of their news to FBIS, and we should not be considered
policemen maintaining surveillance of traveling Americans.

E. H. KNUCHE
Director
Foreign Broadcast Information Service

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