AGENCY INFORMATION AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10240-10222 RECORD SERIES: NY AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  105-38431-1366, 1367 ooo DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BURNS, FRANCIS A. TO: SAC.NY TITLE: DATE: 12/05/1966 PAGES: 5 SUBJECT: JFK, ADVICE, EARWITNESS, BATES, WILFRED, GRASSY KNOLL DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL Secret NE | CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 05/12/1998 UPDATE DATE: 02/14/2001 STATUS  Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(B) COMMENTS: INC 2 MEMOS, $/S DoclId: 32184512 Page 1
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_ Released™ under the John F. Kennedy Assassination’ Records ¢dllectiogn ‘Act ioef “Noted. ad Fo ° meg be ‘DATES ‘11-14- 2017 OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10, 7+ wt y oa a Po ' yt =MAY 1082 EDITION + + m oye - GSA Fen (41 orn) jor-ine vat UNITED STATES, GOVERNMENT. Memorandum A review of" ‘NYO indices on 2/8/56, ‘indicated . : . the following information: . re \ _ - we - =! a-., ON "HE 105-59698-9 7 Be are NY memo to SAC, dated “5/2/63, captioned, > SELPRED BARTZ aka Wilfred Bates, 846 Palmer Road, | 4 DoclId: 32164512 _ English Premier WILSON's statement. aN was .in Berlin as a Colonel of the USAF when the Russians ~ ees Bronxville, NY, 914 DE 7-0065",. BAETZ phoned the NYO claiming that 2 months previous,’ , 2 Agents had requested him to let the FBI know about any - . contacts he made with Latin American countries. - BAETZ said he- intended to’call- a Mr. LOPEZ in Haiti, on. 5/2/63. 1 ° NY 3726- s*\ (pro ect) fuirnished ina memo, dated 7/6766, captioned, ("UN PERSONNEL -- USSR, 1S‘ ~ eC . that on 6/30/66, WILFRED BATES (phonétic) of Bronxville, = ‘NY, ‘contacted. the .SMUN, and asked to speak with Someone - to get an opinion on the bombings of Hanoi, -and of - came in, arid was wondering "if Russia was going to stand : behind us’or ‘are we wrong": An own Soviet male | stated it was not a: question four telephone converaacsors}O5) ( “and if BATES wanted to know the- Russian position, ‘he should(come to]t ") Mission. ‘was terminated LOS E82 Lo  amecer Page 5 . Re. FRANCIS A,. - BURNS; aR: fe memo to SAC, NY, les “gated 12/5/68. ; on ‘indicating that on 5/2/63, _ On this above , [the call °.° - yh NY 100- -92701- -8670 p.3 6) _ or 1 ; a : “BATES indicated he - - 1952 (44 Usc 2107, ~: tye _ on ce sh ay - or ~ ro, . - ett . sof een -' a ‘ . '