933–5

Conversation No. 933-5

Date: June 6, 1973
Time: 10:05 am - 10:35 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Clarence M. Kelley. Oliver F. (“Ollie”) Atkins was present at the
beginning of the meeting.
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Arrangements for photo
-Oval Office
-Media coverage
-Photographs for Kelley
-Atkins

Mrs. Kelley’s health
-Bone cancer
-Cancer research efforts
-Mrs. Kelley’s health habits

Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] Director
-Number of candidates considered
-Kelley
-Qualifications and background

-Experience with FBI

-Law degree

-Progressive law enforcement record

-W. Ramsey Clark
-Skillful administrator
Watergate
-Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI]
-J. Edgar Hoover
-Clyde A. Tolson
-Wiretaps
-John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson years
-William C. Sullivan
-Statement concerning blackmail
-Removal of files
-Relationship with President
-Alger Hiss case
-Louis Patrick Gray, III
-Relationship with President

Kelley’s appointment
-Problems in FBI
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-Power struggle

-Hoover’s actions

-Leaks

-President’s dismay

Watergate
-FBI
-Requirements
-Young Hoover
-Possible personnel actions

-Possible transfers

-Kelley’s possible conversation with Henry E. Petersen

-Hoover’s legacy

-Confirmation hearings

-Questioning

-Gray

-Access to raw files

-Access to raw files

-Bella S. Abzug

- John L. McClellan

-Confirmation hearings


Kelley’s appointment
-Character of agents
-FBI cooperation with local officials
-President’s interaction with training classes

-Requirements

-Reestablish order and pride in FBI


Watergate
-FBI
-Use by President
-Compared to John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy,
Dwight D. Eisenhower
-Requirements

Kelley’s appointment
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-Duration of appointment

-Significance

-Requirements

-Kelley’s gratitude


Watergate

-FBI Director

-Local officials, other federal agencies

-Hoover and Richard M. Helms

-Watergate
-Relationship
-White House involvement

Kelley’s appointment
-Popular desire for crime reduction
-Law Enforcement Assistance Administration [LEAA]
-Central Intelligence Agency [CIA]
-Cooperation between agencies


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An unknown person entered at an unknown time after 10:35 am.
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Refreshments

-Coffee

-Kelley’s drinking habits


An unknown person left at an unknown time before 11:35 am.

Kelley’s appointment

-Kelley’s relations with federal officials

-United States Secret Service [USSS]

-Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs

-Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms [ATF]

-Internal Revenue Service [IRS]

-Certificate of cooperation
-Crime reduction
-Kansas City, Missouri Police Department
-Programs adaptable to FBI
-Discipline
-Inter-agency cooperation
-IRS, ATF, drug agencies, CIA, Customs, Justice
-Hoover and USSS
-John F. Kennedy assassination
-USSS
-Presidential protection
-Cooperation with FBI and local law enforcement
-Requirements

-Law enforcement

-Local cooperation

-Missoula, MT
-Biloxi, MS
-Work with other government agencies
-Announcement
-Confirmation hearings
-Kelley’s relations with policy chiefs

-Frank L. Rizzo

-Advantages

-Cooperation with federal agencies

-Kelley’s relations with W[illiam] Stuart Symington and Thomas F. Eagleton
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-Symington’s assistant, Stanley R. Fike
-Kelley’s relationships with Christopher S. (“Kit”) Bond and John
(“Jack”) Danforth
-President’s relations with Danforth

-Symington

-President’s visit

-Explosion

-Law enforcement officers

-Cooperation by President


Watergate
-FBI
-Confirmation hearings
-Watergate questions

-Statement

-Wiretaps

-National security

-Judicial approval


National security
-Wiretaps

-Judicial approval

-Attorney General’s approval

-Judicial review of wiretaps

-President and Kelley’s viewpoint

-1970

-Black Panthers, Weathermen

-Danger to American society

-Requirements of law enforcement strategy

-Disregard by civilian groups

-Investigatory techniques

-Wiretaps

-Surreptitious entry

-Handling of evidence

-Surveillance

-Popular opinion

-Reaction to crisis

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-National security leak

-Daniel Ellsberg

-Imprisonment


FBI Director
-Requirements
-Relationships
-President
-Attorney General
-Elliot L. Richardson
-Meetings with President
-Compared to President and chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
-Secretary of Defense
-Hoover
-Relationship with President

-Timing of announcement

-Kelley’s possible statement

-Contacts with media

-Confirmation hearings

-Interviews

-Media reaction

-Background

-Law enforcement

-Confirmation hearings

-Television coverage

-Official policy

-Role in administration

-Gray

-Hoover

-Senility

-Meeting with President

-Official policy

-Confirmation hearings


Presentation of gifts by President
-Pin
-Cufflinks
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Kelley left at 10:35 am.