Part 96, page 142

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probably too much information had already been released but this was a most unusual case. I also suggested that per- haps "60 Minutes" could do a positive story about all of the other hijacking cases which we had solved rather than a negative story about one which is still being investi- gated. I pointed out that this is an on-going investigation which has gone into the background of almost 950 suspects with approximately 910 of them being cleared and that this information is contained in almost 100 volumes of files.

He implied that we had fully cooperated with other news media representatives in this matter to which I replied that insofar as I was concerned, we had given all of the representatives about the same information. I also brought to his attention the fact that the last time the FBI had cooperated with "60 Minutes", one of the narrators had in- sisted on an interview with CLARENCE M. KELLEY, the then Director of the FBI, immediately after he had suffered a great personal tragedy. I commented that this interview was supposed to summarize Mr. KELLEY's thoughts on the Bureau, the changes which he had instituted, morale, etc., and that after granting the interview, which covered a period of about 2½ hours (actual time believed to be closer to 4½ hours), not one second of the interview was contained in the show. I told GORIN that in my opinion, his program lost a lot of credibility among Bureau personnel because of such action. At that point, he jokingly held his hands up as if in surrender and indicated that he had nothing to do with that particular program.

I further pointed out to GORIN that no matter how much "60 minutes" wished to theorize, take things out of context, "voice over-ride" my statements or any other Bureau representative, it was in their power to either make us look good or bad on this investigation and that we had no recourse or platform to publicly rebutt any misquotes, incorrect in- ferences, etc. I noted, however, that the bottom line, inso- far as this or any other investigation in which the Bureau is involved, is to be able to prove or disprove either a suspect is or is not identical with the Unsub and that if we release all of our "Identifiers" to the general public through the news media, it becomes virtually impossible to prove the case in a court of law.

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