Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: DIRECTOR, FBI
To: WATSON, MARVIN
Document date: 11/8/66
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10276-10398

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE_NUMBER: 62-116395-1081

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

DIRECTOR, FBI

WATSON, MARVIN

DATE: 11/08/1966

PAGES: 23

SUBJECT:

WC, CRITICS, FBI DOSSIERS

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

Secret

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

09/03/1996

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE: 02/14/2001

COMMENTS:

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(B)

EBF, INC 8 LHM, ADMIN PAGE, 65 OF 88 PAGES NAR

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL. BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

MAGHINGTON,. IG. 20535

February 3, 1975

INFORMATION CONCERNING WASHINGTON STAR NEWS

ARTICLE, JANUARY 3I, 1975, REGARDING HALE BOGGS!

SON CLAIMING POSSESSION OF FILES ON WARREN

COMMISSION CRITICS

The Washington Star News, a Washington, D. C., daily news-

paper, carried an article in the January 3L, 1975, edition, page A-4,

under an Associated Press release captioned "Boggs' Son Tells of files

on Warren PaneL_" The article quotes Tom H. Boggs, Jr., son of the

late Representative Hale Boggs, as claiming that in 1970 his father gave

bim dossiers which the FBI compiled on critics of the Warren Commission

in an attempt to discredit them. According to the article, Boggs son

stated "they weren't basically sex files. They had some of that element

Eat most of the material dealt with left ying organizations these people

belonged to."

Tom H, Boggs, Jr., declined to identify all seven of the critical

authors but stated that writer Edward Jay Epstein and lawyer Mark Lane

were among the individuals on whon he had information. Boggs, Jr.,

reportedly stated that the information given him by his father included a

photograph of one of the seven engaging in an unnatural sex act with two

women.

In a reviet of Bureau files no evidence was found that any

information of this nature was ever disseminated directly to Hale Boggs..

fror the FBL

However, the Bureau file review indicates that on Noveer 8,

1966, memoranda were furnished to Marvin Watson, Speciai Assistant to

President Johnson, at the White House, at his request, setting forth pertinent

information contained in Bureau files regarding background on seven individuals

who wrote unfavorable articles concerning the Warren Commission findings.

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DATE: 11-14-2017

SECRET

November 8, 1966

TNPORMATLON CONTALADA

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"TH& COWAID AFFAIR"'

BY

LEO SAUVAGE

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Lee Sauvege was born on February 23, 1913, at

Nancy, France.

In 1964 he was reported as a correspondent and

chief of the New York Bureau of "'Le Populaire," a French socialist

newspaper. He also has been reported as a correspondent for the

French publication "Le Figaro."

IFIED BY S608:

CLASSI

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X:

In 1951 it was reported that Sauvage was a member of

a small group of individuals close to Louis Dolivet who was refused

reentry to the United States due to his suspected communist and

Comintern background.

In October, 1953, information was received that I.eo

Sauvage, 'Le Figaro," 50 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, re-

sponded to an invitation extended by the Folish Consulate, New Yorl:

City, to attend a showing of the Polish tilms, 'Peace Will Win,' to be e

shown on November J0, 1951, at the Museum of Modern Art, New YOri" Ul

City. (S)

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According to a statement filed with the Department of

Justice, Foreign Agents Registration Section, the French Press Agency

(FPA) In donuary, 1954, listed Leo Sauvage, 272 West End Avenue,

New York City,

as an employse of that agency. In May, 195%, while

Sauvase was still employed by the FPA, it was reported that the chief

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of the Washington Bureau of the soviet Tass News Agency utilized

fersonnel of the FPA to secure intelligence information.

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In September, 1956, it was alleged that one Leon Sauvage,

Que Marcel Royer, Genevilliers, France, was one of a namber of

dividuals employed by the French Communist Party Headquarters, Faris,

race. It is not known if this individual is identical with captioned author

The March, 10 State Mom 5(t Jd 8-80 de 53/15 PL

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magazine published by the American Jewish Committee, contained an

article by Sauvage entitled "The Oswald Aifair." This article attacke the

findings of the warren Commission concerning the assassination of former

President John I. Kennedy and suggests that Oswald was unjustiy presumed

to be guilty of the assassination due to prejudiced press and television

coverage.

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