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JFK Assassination System
Date:
5/27/201
AGENCY:
FBI
RECORD NUMBER:
124-10296-10130
RECORD SERIES:
HQ
AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 163-1504-7
ORIGINATOR:
FROM:
FBI
DIRECTOR, FBI
TO:
DIRECTOR, CIA
TITLE:
DATE:
PAGES:
03/23/1970
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Identification Form
Agency Information
Document Information
SUBJECTS:
DOCUMENT TYPE:
CLASSIFICATION:
RESTRICTIONS:
CURRENT STATUS:
DATE OF LAST REVIEW:
OPENING CRITERIA:
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Date:
To:
From:
March 23, 1970
Director
Central Intelligence Agency
Attention:
Mr. Michela
CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO
DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR,
RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION
IN THIS DOCUMENT. EXCEPT FOR
BRACKET'S ON pg.
KP 10-10-97
Deputy Director for Plans
John Edgar Hoover, Director
Subject: GEORGE HOOVER PRATT
INTERNAL SECURITY LAOS
NFORMATION CONTRABIAL MATTERS
70 CLASSIFIED
WISE
WHERE SHOWN
BY COURIER SVC.
9 MAR 23
COMM-FBI
Tolson
DeLoach.
Walters
Mohr
Bishop
Casper
Callahan
Conrad
Felt
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Rosen
Sullivan
Tavel
Soyars
Tele. Room
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Gandy
1-17-98
CLASSIFIED BY 5668 SLD /Kse
JFK)
DECLASSIFY ON: 25X
Reference is made to your request dated March 10,
1970, and to my letter dated November 21, 1969, concerning
captioned individual, your file B-956.
There is enclosed one copy each of the fingerprint
cards of captioned individual and James Warren Smedley, who
may be identical with the James Warren Smedley mentioned in
your request of March 10, 1970.
It is goted that you were furnished two copies of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation Identification Record
concerning George Hoover Pratt, by my letter dated
November 219 1969 A review of the files of this Bureau
disclosed no dentification Record identifiable with
James Warren Smedley or William Herman Jackson, also
known as Jack Karl lawborn, who were also mentioned in
your request of March 10, 1970.
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While no Identification Record concerning
James Warren Smedley was located, the enclosed fingerprint
cards concerning Smedley and Pratt may be of assistance to
you in making record checks through official Thai sources.
The enclosed fingerprint cards and the copies of the
Identification Record which were furnished to you by my
letter dated November 21, 1969, may be utilized by you
in checking official Thai] sources concerning the (⑤
individuals mentioned above. In making such checks, you
must insure that the Thai officials] clearly understand
that it is your Agency which is making the record checks
and that such checks are not in any way being made for
this Bureau.
Enclosures
2
NOTE:
:
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) previously
checked the names of Pratt, Jackson, and Smedley through
Bureau files. CIA has advised that Pratt had reportedly
attempted to get people out of Vietnam into Laos where
these people could be trained and shipped to the United States
to assist in the "Black Movement." By memorandum dated
3/10/70, CIA furnished additional identifying information
concerning Jackson and Smedley and requested copies of
fingerprint records. CIA requested to be advised if those
records could be provided to official Thai] sources in (S)
order to facilitate checking certain Thai records which
would otherwise be unavailable.
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B-956
10 MAR 1970
SUBJECT:
Reference:
George Hoover PRATT
A.
CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO
DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR, B.
RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION
IN THIS DOCUMENT. Except.
let to leading chart
3-77-1
For
BRACKETS
Our memorandum of 11 February 1970,
Subject as above.
Your letter dated 21 November 1969,
Subject: George Hoover PRATT,
Internal Security
Matters.'
KP 10-10-97 SLD/KSR 1-17-98 (JFK).
Laos, Racial
⑤)
1. Tour
Our 
representative in Vientiane, Laos] has
provided the following additional information con-
cerning Herman JACKSON. and King SMEDLEY mentioned in
paragraph 1A of reference A:
a. Herman JACKSON is believed to be identi-
cal with William Herman JACKSON, also known as Jack Karl
IAWHORN, who was born on 24 November 1926 in Dothan,
Alabama.. JACKSON is a retired United States Army Master
Sergeant who now owns Jack's American Star Bar in Bang-
kok, Thailand. He carries United States passport number
2539419.
b.
King SMEDLEY is believed to be identical
with James Warren SMEDLEY, negro male born on 3 October
1922 at Roanoke, Virginia. SMEDLEY served in the United
States Air Force. He carries United States passport
2424089.
2. Please provide us with copies of the finger-
print records of Subject and William Herman JACKSON.
Please advise us if we may provide these records to
S official Thai] sources in order to facilitate checking
certain Thai records that would otherwise not be avail-
able.
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