During one of Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban’s visits to the United States several years ago the FBI wanted to put a wiretap on him, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark disclosed today. But Clark told Senate investigators that he denied the request because Eban’s activities did not threaten the country’s military activities. Clark, who was Attorney General in the Johnson Administration, made this disclosure before a joint hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Surveillance and the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. He offered no further immediate information on the wiretap incident.
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