Considers S. 1086 and related S. 1221, S. 1495, and S. 1822, to revise guidelines for law enforcement agencies' wiretapping operations and to prescribe penalties for illegal private party wiretapping.

Part 2: Includes New York State Joint Legislative Committee To Study Illegal Interception of Communications reports on eavesdropping and wiretapping, Mar. 1956 (p. 267-345), and eavesdropping, wiretapping, and licensed private detectives, Mar. 1957 (p. 347-457); part 5: Continuation of hearings on problems arising from use of wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping devices. Appendix contains background material on wiretapping and the Bill of Rights, including Federal statutes, texts of selected Federal and state court cases, state legislative reports, and law articles on the subject.