Agency: FBI
Originator: BRITISH GOVERNMENT
From: PATTERSON, GEORGE T. D.
To: LEG, LO
Document date: 11/26/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John E Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Hote) .

DATE: 11-14-2017

IDENTIRICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD_NUMBER:

124-10005-10492

RECORD SERIES: LO

AGENCY FILE_NUMBER: 62-358-16

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: BRITISH GOVERNMENT

FROM:

TO:

LEG, LO

TITLE:

DATE: 11/26/1963

PAGES: 2

SUBJECT: JFK, LTR, CONDOLENCE

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Confidential

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

03/25/1997

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

11/03/2000

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Hote) .

DATE: 11-14-2017

-UNITAL MIND LUNFIDENTIAI

Correspondence to this address must be under double cover.

The outer envelope should be addressed to :—

THE SECRETARY, BOX 500, PARLIAMENT STREET B.O., LONDON, S.W.1.

and not to any individual.

Telephone Nos.

REGENT 6050

WHITEHALL 6789

BOX No. 500,

PARLIAMENT STREET B.O.,

LONDON, S.W.1.

Our Ref.:

Your Ref.:

C. 2/GIDP

26th November 1963

ALL. MFONMATIOR CONTRIORO

PES: 0 ENCLASSIFIED

WHERE SHOWN

ONlY BRACKETS ARE CLASSIFIED

Dear Charles,

DECLASGIFY C

2-28-97

(JFK)

Having had such a long and close

association with the Bureau and being lucky enough

to have many friends in your countil feel about

I think I am

able to understand how you must all

President Kennedy's death.

That this terrible

thing should have happened to the President

United States is a tragedy for the whole free world

and all your many friends over here feel it deeply

and are suffering from a sense of

My fourteen year old

son, who is at

boarding school in the wilds of Scotland, has

written to say

that when the news was announced on

Friday "the whole school was silent and numb".

This must be a very sad and difficult.

time for your Director and your colleagues in the

Bureau and I send you all my deep and

most sincere

sympathy.

Yours sincerely,

berter

G.I.D. Patterson

(C)

Mr. Charles W. Bates,

American

Embassy,

I Grosvenor Square,

LONDON W.1.

/SAF

PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL

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