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has ruled that such intercept is also in violation of CIA's
statutory responsibilities.

2. We are carrying out at present one intercept activity
which falls within this technical limitation--i.e., of having
one terminal in the U.S. [REDACTED]

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Since the [REDACTED] link being monitored carries
a large number of totally unrelated conversations, the oper-
ators do intercept other traffic, frequently involving U.S.
citizens--for example, BNDD staffers talking to their agents.
I have described this situation to the General Counsel, and
his informal judgment was that, as long as the primary pur-
pose of the coverage is a foreign target, this is acceptable.
He suggests, however, that it might be desirable to inform
the Attorney General of the occasional incidental intercept
of the conversations of U.S. citizens, and thus legalize this
activity. We will pursue this with Mr. Houston.

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4. An incident which was entirely innocent but is cer-
tainly subject to misinterpretation has to do with an equip-
ment test run by CIA [REDACTED] technicians in Miami in August
1971. At that time we were working jointly to develop short-
range agent DF equipment for use against a Soviet agent in
South Vietnam, [REDACTED] and
a field test was agreed upon. The Miami area was chosen, and
a team consisting of Division D, Commo, [REDACTED] personnel went
to Miami during the second week of August. Contact was made
with a Detective Sergeant [REDACTED] of the Miami Beach Police
Department, and tests were made from four different hotels, one
a block away from the Miami Beach Auditorium and Convention
Hall. A desk clerk in this hotel volunteered the comment that
the team was part of the official security checking process of
all hotels prior to the convention. (The Secret Service had
already been checking for possible sniper sites.) As the team's
report notes, "The cover for the use of the hotel is a natural."

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