JFK Assassination System Date: 6/4/2015 Identification Form Agency information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: _124-90116-10039 RECORD SERIES: NO AGENCY FILENUMBER: = 62-3395-144 . Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: LA TO: HQ TITLE: DATE: 03/09/1965 PAGES: 4 ' SUBJECTS : MINUTEMEN RICHARD B COTTEN DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: —_ Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 4 CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 08/10/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : AT rr v9.1 NW 45880 DocId:32334333 Page 1
rt my Po 5 CONFIBDENTTA L MAR 3 1966 AIRTEL AIR MAIL TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (62-107261) FROM: SAC, LOS ANGELES (62-5101) COTTA ce eee ay 56 a su0lese on. 42-47... ot Aeevesna RE: RICHARD BE, TTRN, aka. Richara B. to r . RM f\ “f : ge "MINUTEMEN" INFORMATION CONCERNING (INTERNAL SECURITY) Re Los Angeles teletypes to the Bureau, dated 3/6 and 8/55. Miami teletype to the Bureau, dated 3/5/65. Enclosed for the Bureau are eight copies of a letterhead memorandum concerning captioned matters. Enclosed for the liiami Office are two xerox copies of Los Angeles airtels to the Bureau dated 3/2/65 and 2/26/65 captioned "“UNSUE, THEFT OF DYNAMITE, BUREAU OF WATER AND POWER, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, 4:00 A.M, - 2/25/65, POSSIBLE BOMBING MATTER; KIETH DWAYNE GILBERT, aka. INFORMATION CONCERNING' and "UNKNOWN SUBJECT; THEFT OF DYNAMITE, BUREAU OF WATER AND POWER, Los Angeles, California, 4:00 A.M. - 2/25/65, POSSIBLE BOMBING MATTER" respectively and two letterhead memoranda concerning these matters. This information is being furnished Miami for information purposes. 3 - Bureau (Encls.-8 Ru) 2 - Atlanta {Encls.- 2 - Chicago (Encls.-2)(RM 2 - Jackson (Encls,-~- RM 2 - Miami (Encls,-§) J @S- New Orleans .(Encls.-2)(RM - San Antoni Encls.-2)( RM 1 - San Diego (Info. )(RM) SEARCHED ovo WOLKE gm 2 - Los Angs ise SERI LED LE TINVED eanenen Hanrent op: bie” io’ Dead) (RICHARD COTTEN) MAR Lu tae sSas } (18) ° \" gi — NEW ORLEANS (gran wenn ws Mel NW 45880 DocId:32334333 Page 2
LA 62-5101 A copy of this letterhead memorandum is being furnisned to ATTU, Los Angeles, FIO, Los Angeles, OSI, Maywood, Region II, Pasadena and Secret Service, Los Angeles, as it appears that all of these Government Agencies have an interest in captioned matter. A copy is being furnished San Diego for information inasmuch as information is set forth in the next paragraph which may be of interest to the San Diego Office. San Diego by letter to 9/56 with copies to Los Angeles captioned » POTENTIAL OTHER 4 SECURITY INFORMANT” requested reci search indices concerming relatives of this individual who was under development by the San Diego Office. _RICHARD B, COTTEN, 1821 ~ 18th Street, Bakersfield, California, was shown as a son. Los Angeles has no information as to the results of this inquiry by the San Diego Office. This letterhead memorandum is classified confidential as it contains information from LA 4486-R, the unauthorized disclosure of which could reasonably result in the identifica- tion of a confidential informant of continuing value and compromise future effectiveness thereof. Mr, DAVID MARLIN, Bakersfield, California, furnished information to SA KENNETH W. BROWN, SA CONRAD N, SHAW caused a search to be made of the records of the Credit Bureau of Bakersfield, Bakersfield Police Department and the Kern County Sheriff's Office. Mr. KEITH D, THOMPSON, Post Office, Inspector's Office, Bakersfield, furnished information to SA WAYNE J. MORRISON, SA HARRY L. GRIFFIN caused a search to be made of the arrest records of ‘the Los Angeles Police Department. First Source is LA 4486-R (134-1038-4) -2.- NW 45880 DocId:32334333 Page 3
LA 62-5101 econd source is HARVEY B, SCHECHTER Anti-Deramation League, B'nai B'rith 590 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, California (Requested) dC) Third Source is KEITH ’ ersonnel Office Postal Inspectors Office Bakersfield, California Deemed advisable Location instant Fourth source is CSLA 3184-S (Location instant) Files of the Los Angeles Office disclose no other pertinent identifiable information than that contained in this letterhead memorandum concerning the following: EDNA BUSTER —_rrea— Committee of Christian Laymen of Kern County, California Conservative Viewpoint MADELYN M, COTTEN RICHARD B,.COPTEN, aka. Richard B. Cotton RICHARD HOSKINS ANNE LEREICK (DEREICK) (illegible) EVELYN SCHROEDER _ - 3 - NW 45880 DocId:32334333 Page 4