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Wir/WASHINGTON (AP) — The the bill that legalized wiretaps In each case, he said, Atty. Justice Department reports it! contended it would permit Gen. John N. Mitchell has per-has used wiretaps or electronic “promiscuous snooping and theIsonally approved the application surveillance in 133 cases in the invasion of privacy of American before authorizing its filing.“just a few of these court approved wiretaps” include: tlf]past IS months—and 419 persons j citizens without any correspond have been arrested as a result, ing gain to law enforcement.Sen. John L. McClellan. “These fears and predictions .Ark., said the accounting vindi- have in no way materialized,” cated the judgment of the Sen- he said. McClellan said there ate inEighty-two of the cases involved gambling violations, 28—Seizure of 124 pounds of heroin worth $8 million.st'sinvolvedsaid.narcotics, Petersen—Breakup of two numbers racket rings operating in 60 lo-Ications in the Midwest.He said 121 of the wiretaps approving wiretappingj have been no reports of abuse I were productive, producing 419with court permission. 'or misuse of wiretapping pow- j arrests and 325 indictments.“Fortunately, the present ad-jers. Only five people have been con-—Recovery of $500,000 in stolen bonds.ydtvicted, he said, but that is be-ministration is making forceful Henry E. Petersen, deputy as-and effective use of it,” Me- sistant attorney general, said'cause none of the cases involvedClellan said in placing the wire- the Justice Department has ap- has yet come to trial. The fivetapping report in the Congres- j plied to the courts for 137 wire-sional Record.| tapping orders, obtained all butMcClellan said opponents of | one, and used aU but three.convictions were produced byguilty pleas.—Prevention of a murder and i recovery of the loot in a bank robbery, both of which agents overhead being planned.McClellan said members oftwif1McClellan said the results ofCosa Nostra or other organized crime groups were involved in each of the cases he cited.
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Big Spring Daily Herald
Big Spring, Texas, US
Mon, Aug 03, 1970
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