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===Executive Conference===

===Executive Conference===

An Executive Conference was formed consisting of the prosecutors from the Department of justice Criminal Division and FBI filed investigators to discuss the Silvermaster subjects and how to proceed with prosecution.  The United Press began running stories on the case with information coming directly out of the Conference meeting.  In a hand written note in the margin of a memo from January 23, 1947, Hoover writes, "in view of all the 'gabbing' done by the Dept to the Press there is little which can be expected from <u>any</u> action now." <ref>FBI Silvermaster file, Tamm to the Director, January 23, 1947, [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster093.pdf Vol. 93, pgs. 20 -22] pdf.</ref>  The conference concluded with a request of the Attorney General that the FBI recommend which of several possible courses of action be taken. Hoover, in a somber tone, responds, "I am of the opinion...it will be impossible to continue the investigation on an intelligence basis....the subjects...are now all very security conscious...as a result of this premature and ill-advised publicity, the Bureau's key informant ...refuses to continue to cooperate with the Bureau. It is needless to point out that without the cooperation of this informant a real coverage of this case is impossible....any attempt to interrogate them, either by Bureau agents or before a grand jury, would produce nothing. Obviously, this situation leaves only the third alternative; that is, that the Department furnish to the employing departments the basic data concerning the activities of the individual subjects as a possible means of concluding the case. It is assumed, of course, that the employing departments will take administrative action against the subjects who are employed in these departments." <ref>FBI Silvermanster file, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memorandum_for_the_Attorney_General%2C_January_27%2C_1947 Memorandum for the Attorney General, January 27, 1947].</ref>

An Executive Conference was formed consisting of the prosecutors from the Department of Justice Criminal Division and FBI filed investigators to discuss the Silvermaster subjects and how to proceed with prosecution.  The United Press began running stories on the case with information coming directly out of the Conference meeting.  In a hand written note in the margin of a memo from January 23, 1947, Hoover writes, "in view of all the 'gabbing' done by the Dept to the Press there is little which can be expected from <u>any</u> action now." <ref>FBI Silvermaster file, Tamm to the Director, January 23, 1947, [http://education-research.org/PDFs/Silvermaster093.pdf Vol. 93, pgs. 20 -22] pdf.</ref>  The conference concluded with a request of the Attorney General that the FBI recommend which of several possible courses of action be taken. Hoover, in a somber tone, responds, "I am of the opinion...it will be impossible to continue the investigation on an intelligence basis....the subjects...are now all very security conscious...as a result of this premature and ill-advised publicity, the Bureau's key informant ...refuses to continue to cooperate with the Bureau. It is needless to point out that without the cooperation of this informant a real coverage of this case is impossible....any attempt to interrogate them, either by Bureau agents or before a grand jury, would produce nothing. Obviously, this situation leaves only the third alternative; that is, that the Department furnish to the employing departments the basic data concerning the activities of the individual subjects as a possible means of concluding the case. It is assumed, of course, that the employing departments will take administrative action against the subjects who are employed in these departments." <ref>FBI Silvermanster file, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Memorandum_for_the_Attorney_General%2C_January_27%2C_1947 Memorandum for the Attorney General, January 27, 1947].</ref>

===Morgan memorandum===

===Morgan memorandum===