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FEDERAL COVERINE

Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division

Attention: Mr. Robert L. Keuch

Director, FBI

September 28, 1978

1 - Legal Counsel Div.

(Attn: , Mr. Heller)

1 - Mr. Ryan

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE OIT ASSASSINATIONS

1 - Mr. Foster

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

Reference is made to the letter to the Attorney

General Iron G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director, HSCA,

dated September 21, 1978, which requested, in connection with

the HSCA's investigation into the assassination of Dr. Hartin

Luther King, Jr., that delivery be made of certain serials

from the Atlanta HURKIN file; certain material pertaining to

Russell George Beyers; and several serials in the files of the

Enclosed are an original and one copy of a memorandum

in response to above-referenced letter.

It is requested that

delivery of one copy of the memorandum

be made to the HSCA."

Enclosures (2)

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NOTE: Access to the Atlanta MURKIN file (AT 44-2386); the

material regarding the misfiling of information concerning

Russell George Beyers; and the Atlanta UKA file (157-370-2),

has been previously provided in response to HSCA requests of

7-28-78, 8-9-78, and 11-3-77, respectively.

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm..

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs..

Crim: Inv.

Ident..

Intell. -

Laboratory

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Plan. & Insp.

Rec. Mgnt.

Tech. Servs.

Training

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1 - Legal Counsel Division

(Attn: Mr. Heller)

1. - Mr. nyan

1 - Mr. Foster

September 28, 1978

HOUSE SELECE COMMITTEE ON ASSASSIIATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OI REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

General from G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director, HSCA,

dated September 21, 1978, which requested, in connection with

the HSCA's investigation into the assassination of dr. Martil

that delivery be made of certain serials

Luther King, IS-'HUnKIN file: certain material pertaining to

Russell George Beyers; and several serials in the files of the

Atlanta United Klans of America (UKA) files-

This is to advise that the above-requested material

was delivered to HSCA Staff Member Phoebe Orr on September 25,

1978.

Where information 1s not provided, it is because It

is either not retrievable or it is subject to the Memorandun

of Understanding.

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ORIGINAL AND ONE SENT TO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL,

CRIMINAL DIVISION, ATTENTION: MR. ROBERT L. KEUCH.

NOTE: See Director, FBI, letter to Assistant Attorney General,

Criminal Division

Attention: Mr. Robert L. Keuch, datec

September 28, 1978, captioned as above.

2.10.54

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Dep. AD Adm. -

Dep. AD Inv. -

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs.-

Crim. Inv..

Ident..

Intell.

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F'D-36 (Rev. 7-27-76)

FBI

TRANSMIT VIA:

• Teletype

• Facsimile

[Airtel

PRECEDENCE:

• Immediate

• Priority

• Routine

CLASSIFICATION:

• TOP SECRET

• SECRET

• CONFIDENTIAL

DEFTO

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Date

9/26/78

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-117290)

ATT:

CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT,

RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION

FROM:

SAC, JACKSON (62-544) (RUÇ).

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE

ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

I...

in barvin

2410.10

Re FBIHQ teletype, dated 9/19/78, captioned

as above.

Enclosed, under separate cover, are two Xerox

coples of documents from indicated Jackson files:

JN 157-316 (CITIZENS COUNGIL OF AMERICA) (Bufile 105-46604) /

(1) 45 serials numbered 314-357.

It is noted that

two serials are numbered 338.

(2) 21 exhibits numbered 1A-37 (two separate pamphlets);

1A-43 - 1A-61

JN 157-59 (GREATER LOS ANGELES CITIZENS COUNCIL)

(Bufile 105-34237)

3 serials numbered 24-26

JN 157-527 (ASSOCIATION, OF CITIZENS COUNCILS OF MISSISSIPPI)

(Bufile 105-34237-33) /ST-120 REC-1062-12290-12057

8 serials numbered 526-533

JN 157-1799

16 SEP 29 1978

One serial numbered 23

Bureau (RM)

1 - Package Copy (Enc. 268)

1 - Jackson

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JN 62-544

JN 157-1909

(1)

7 serials numbered 26-32

(2)

1A-1

JN 157-9577

12 serials numbered 1-12

IN 157-1801

8 serials numbered 158-165

JN 157-6614

16 serials numbered 8-24 (serial 15 skipped)

JN 157-9335

2 serials numbered 1 and 2

JN 157-6711

One serial numbered 10

IN 157-1742

2 serials numbered 6 and 7

JN 157-1806

(1) One serial numbered 11

(2) 1A-1

JN 157-1796

(1) 3 serials numbered 34, 56, 57

(2) 2 exhibits numbered 1A-1, 1A-2

It should be noted that above Jackson file numbers

not immediately followed by title of case represent individual

groups by county within the

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Assoc. Dir..

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Crim: Inv. -

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Plan. & Insp.

Rec. Mgnt.

Tech. Servs..

Training

Public Affs. Off. -

Telephone Rm.

airtel

October 2, 1978

TO: SAC, Jackson (62-544)

From: Director, FBI (62-117290)

ROUSE SELACE COMMITE ON ASSASSIMATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

Re Jackson airtel, 9/26/78.

Enclosed for Jackson is one copy of "The Citizen"

dated November, 1968, which

was included with Xerox copies

of other documents.

Enclosure

(3)

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ILLINOIS JUDICIAL QUIRY BOARD

205 West Wacker DRIve

SUITE 1615

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60606

3121793-5554

1039 WABASH AVENUE

SUITE 205

SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS 62704

2171782-3330

September 8, 1978

TO:

FROM:

RE:

EMMETT A. SCHMITT •

ART WOODS

LOCAL & STATE

Questioning in Regard to KING Assassination

• Husse Selech Committee on Assasanations

RON HELLER, Legal Counsel, Bureau Headquarters, contacted me

on July 20, 1978.

He requested that, upon completion of the interview

between me

and the attorney for the House of Representatives concerning

the assassination of MARTIN LUTHER KING, information be furnished to the

Bureau as to the type of questions and the answers to same.

Attached is an account of the conversation, which is the best

verbatim account I could make, due to my ability in taking notes.

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Telephone conversation with MICHAEL EBERHART, Attorney for the House of Representatives

Select Committee on Assassinations, at 10 AM on Friday, September 1, 1978.

Mr. EBERHART stated they were interested in the escape of JAMES EARL RAY and the

investigation conducted by the Bureau under the UFAC statute in his escape from

the Missouri State Prison prior to the assassination of MARTIN LUTHER KING. He

said that they have some records and some of the records had been destroyed. He

is trying to gather information and piece it together with what records they have

available.

EBERHART asked me if I recalled having done any investigation concerning the Bureau's

UFAC investigation. I answered, "Not really. Well, I tell you the only thing I

recall and I don't know whether it was at that time or the time of the assassination.

It seems to me some rumor or some information came to my attention that he (RAY). was or

had relatives from the Quincy, Illinois area or some place in that area that would

be covered by ithe Resident Agency in Quincy."

EBERHART then asked if it could have been the Alton area rather than the Quincy

area. I answered, "The Alton area does not ring a bell with me."

He said that BOB HAINES was in the Alton Resident Agency. I answered, "That's true."

EBERHART then stated that in handling investigation, he presumed that all information

came into the Springfield Office first, was that right? I answered, "All leads came

into the Springfield Office and would have been disseminated to the proper Resident

Agency which would have taken care of them."

EBERHART made the statement he had recently talked with BOB HAINES, formerly of

the Alton Resident Agency, Alton, Illinois, who recalled having done some work

concerning RAY's escape. He said, "Let me ask you a general question, which you

may have already answered. Do you recall any investigation pertaining to RaY pre-

assassination or pro-assassination by the Alton Resident Agency." My answer was,

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"No. Let me clarify one thing. When you talk about Alton, I would have been

160 some odd miles north and east of it. And Quincy, I would have been approxi-

mately 150 miles almost more east than north of there. Quite a distance in between.

The only contact I would have had with them (the Agents in those areas) was when

we were all in the Springfield Office as we all worked on our own."

EBERHART asked me if I recalled any investigation conducted by the Alton Resident

Agency concerning JAMES EARL RAY. I answered, "I wouldn't know what the others

were doing on the investigation unless I had a specific lead to handle myself.

I don't recall any, to tell you the truth."

EBERHART asked me if I had any knowledge of anyone in the Bureau having been in

contact with JAMES EARL RAY before the assassination. I said, "I can't help you

there. I don"t know of any investigation that was conducted by any of the other

parties involved or any of them coming in contact with anyone connected therewith.

Just at a complete loss when it comes to that, I'm sorry."

EBERHART asked me if I came into contact with or had done any investigation

concerning the bank robbery of the Bank of Alton, Alton, Illinois, in July of

1967. I repeated, "The bank robbery of the Bank of Alton in July of 1967? No

sir, I don't recall anything about it. I don't even recall the robbery. It was

way south of me. I may have handled some leads on it, but I don't recall it."

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RECEIVED

FEDERAL BUREAU SA

OF IRVESTIGATION

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

Assoc. Dir.

Dap. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv.

Asst, Dir.:

Adm. Serv.

Crim. Inv.

Ident.

Intell.

Laboratory

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Plan, & Insp.

Training

Public Affs. Off.

Telephone Rm.

Director's Sec'y

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ATTENIION: CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT, RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIV.

HOUSE SELECI COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA) ; BUDED: SEPT. 26,

1978.

. і

REBUTEL, SEPT. 19, 1978.

NEW ORLEANS FILE 157-15 157 RELATING TO THE CITIZENS COUNCIL

OF AMERICA, DOES NOT CONIAIN ANY INFORMATION FOR THE YEARS 1967 -

1968.

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FD-36 (Rev. 3-24-77)

"TRANSMIT VIA:

• Teletype

Facsimile

Airtel

PRECEDENCE:

• Immediate

• Priority

[ Routine

FBI

+58-04-70

CLASSIFICATION:

• TOP SECRET

• SECRET

• CONFIDENTIAL

DEFTO

O CLEAR

Date

9/19/78

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-117290)

(ATTN :

CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT,

RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION)

FROM: /

< SAC, ST. LOUIS

(62-5097)

SUBJECT:

PHOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE

ON ASSASSINATIONS

BUDED: 9/21/78

Re Bureau teletype dated 9/14/78 and Bureau

telephone call on 9/18/78.

(tota]".: Enclosed herewith are xerox copies of all serials

of 7) in St. Louis file captioned "INTERFERENCE BY

ACTION WITH VEILED PROPHET PARADE, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI,

10/2/65; RACIAL MATTERS, SL file 157-1513"•

It is noted that

Serial 2 of this file is an LHM dated 10/4/65 which refers to

a release on page 2 of the LHM. That release is not completely

legible and, accordingly, there is

of that release.

45-118-20-1215

Also enclosed are xerox copies (total of 12) 0fall

serials in file captioned "DEMONSTRATION BY ACTION AT VEILED

St. Louis indices contain no information concerning

The only such references are to the

Veiled Prophet Ball, (SL 157-1513) 'and the Veiled Prophet

Bureau

(Enc - 24)

(EnG - 24) ENCLOSUA

- St. Louis

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SL 62-5097

St. Louis files contain no rosters of Agents

assigned to the office for the years 1967, 1968, and 1974

nor support personnel for the year 1974.

At the request

of the Bureau, a compilation of such information from data

available to the St. Louis Office has been made and, noting

that this compilation may not be all inclusive, there is

enclosed 4 lists, titled as follows!

Assigned to the St. Louis Field Office During the Calendar

Year 1967", "Special Agents Assigned

Office During the Calendar Year 1968", "Special Agents

Assigned to the St. Louis Field Office

During the Calendar

Year 1974", and "Support Personnel Assigned to the St. Louis

Field

Office During the Calendar Year 1974".

2

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F'D-36 (Rev. 3-24-T7)

TRANSMIT VIA:

• Teletype

Facsimile

I Airtel

FBI

PRECEDENCE:

• Immediate

• Priority

• Routine

• CLASSIFICATION:

• TOP SECRET

SECRET

CONFDDENTIAL

EFT O

I CLEAR

Date 9/20/78

TO:

FROM

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI

(Attn: Congressional Inquiry Unit, Records

Management Division)

SAC, LOS ANGELES (62-7841) (RUC) (1)

HOUSE SELRCT COMMITTEE ON

ASSASSINATIONS

(HSCA)

Re Bureau teletype to Los Angeles dated 9/19/78.

of 18 documents concerning the Gitizens Council of America

for the years 1967 and 1968. It should be noted that

several of the documents concern information obtained from

confidential sources and the identity of these confidential

sources should be protected. The information which

originated from confidential

labeled as such by Los Angeles in order to assist FBI

Headquarters.

saw lit

ENG. BEID FILE

886-26 2-117210-1216

5 SEP D7 1978

Bureau (Enc.

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AT0559 2681621

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RECEIVED

FEDERAL BUREAU

OF IRYESTIGATION

COMMUNICÁTIONS SECTION

FM ATLANTA (66-2242) (RUC)

S° TO DIRECTOR (62-117290) PRIORITY

C BI

UNCLAS i

ATTENTION CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT, RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION.

HOUSE SELECI COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA) • BUDED

•SEPTEMBER 26, 1978.

RE BUREAU TELETYPE TO BIRMINGHAM ET AL, SEPTEMBER 19,

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm

D'ep. A lis.

Asst. Di:.:

Adm.: erv.

Crim. Inv.

Ident,

Intell.

Labo-atory

Legal Coun.

Plan. * Insp.

Rec. Mant. fo

Public Af.s. Off.

1978.

REFERENCED TELETYPE ADVISED THAT HSCA REQUESTED ACCESS

TO ALL BUREAU FILE MATERIAL AS WELL AS MATERIAL FROM THE

FIELD OFFICES OF BIRMINGHAM, JACKSON, ATLANTA, NEW ORLEANS &

LOS ANGELES, ON THE CITIZENS INCIDE NERVE FOR

19170

- 12/8

THE YEARS 1967 - 1968. IT WAS NOTED THAT CCA WAS SEPARATE

FROM THE WHITE CITIZENS COUNCIL• RECIPIENT OFFICES WERED SEP 2Y 1978

TO FURNISH TWO COPIES OF ANY COMMUNICATIONS MEETING THIS GRATERIA

ATLANTA INDICES LOCATED ONE MAIN FILE ON CCA COMPRISED OF

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PAGE TWO AT (66-2242) UNCLAS

ONE VOLUME, ATLANTA FILE 105-518, BUFILE 185-46684.

THERE ARE NO COMMUNICATIONS CONTAINED IN THE FILE FOR

THE PER IOD 1967 - 1968.

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26 SEF 78 00

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RECEIYED

FEDERAL BUREAU

OF INYE STIGATION

COMMUNICATIONS SECTIO

Assoc. Dir.

Dap. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv.

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Serv.

Crim. Inv.

Ident. -

Intell.

Laboratory

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Plan, & Insp.

Rec. Mgnt..HB

Tech. Servs

Training

Public Affs. Off.

Telephone Rm.

Directon's Sec'y

ME. 0008 2696015Z

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DE ME

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CAM MEMPHIS (66-2197) (P)

TO DIRECTOR (62 - 117290) ROUTINE

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UNCLAS E FT O

ATT N: CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

BUDED SEPT. 26, 1978

RE BUREAU TELET YPE TO MEMPHIS DATED SEPT. 19, 1978.

A SEARCH OF RETRIEVABLE INFORMATION AT THE MEMPHIS OFFICE

AND INQUIRIES MADE WITH PERSONNEL WHO ARE NOW ASSIGNED TO THE

MEMPHIS OFFICE AND WERE SO ASSIGNED DURING MARCH-APRIL, 1968,

FAILED TO IDENIIFY ANY FBI PERSONNEL NOT ASSIGNED TO THE MEMPHIS

OFFICE WHO WERE IN SHELBY COUNTY, TENN.,

DURING

-X-120

BEC-NG PERIOD MARCH 16, /2/9

1968, THROUGH APRIL 4, 1968. THI

SEARCH ALSO

FAILED TO REVEAL

ANY MATERIALS OR COMMUNICATIONS GENERATED BY FBI PERSONNEL NOG

SEP 2 1978

ASSIGNED TO THE MEMPHIS OFFICE DURING THIS PERIOD.

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SHUSRAL COMINANAT

Assistant Attorney General FEDERAL GOVERM

Criminal Division

Attention: Mr. Robert L. Keuch

Director, FBI

September 28, 1978

1 - Mr. Mintz

Attn: Mr. Heller

I - Mr. Bassett

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

1 - Mr. Foster

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

Reference Is made to the letter to the Attorney

King,

Jr., requested delivery of certain material from Chicago

Enclosed are an original and one copy of a memo-

randum responding to referenced letter. It is requested that

you furnish a copy of the enclosed memorandum to the HSCA.

Enclosures (2)

! c:

NOTE: HSCA request of September 22, 1978, requested delivery

of material which had previously been prepared for access per

HSCA request dated July 28, 1977.

ANCIENTE

:.. 2110184

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv.

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs..

Crim. Inv..

Ident. -

Intell.

Laboratory

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Plan. & Insp.

Rec. Mgnt.

Tech. Servs.

Training

Public Affs. Off.

Telephone Rm.

MAILED 7.

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1 - Mr. Mintz

Attn: • Mr: Heller

1 - Mr. Bassett

1 - Mr. Foster

Septenber 28, 1978

HOUSE SELECI COMMITTEE ON ASSASSIUATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESEINATIVES (ASCA)

Reference is nade to the letter to the Attorney

Iuther King, Jr., requested delivery of certain material

from Chicago Fleld Office file 44-1114.

This 1s to confirm that dellvery of 44-1114,

sub G, Serial 2, and 44-1114, Sub H, Serials 3 and 17, was

made to HSCA Staff Ilember Phoebe Orr on September 22, 1978.

PFM

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ORIGINAL, AND ONE SENT TO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL,

CRIMINAI, DIVISION, ATTENTION: MR. ROBERT I. KEUCH.

NOTE: See Director, FBI, letter to Assistant Attorney

General, Criminal Division, Attention: Mr. Robert L. Keuch,

dated September 28, 1978, captioned as above.

giê

2/10784

Spimachie

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm..

Dep. AD Inv..

Asst. Dir::

Adm. Servs.

Crim: Inv..

Ident. -

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Laboratory

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Plan. & Insp. -

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LOUTS STONES, OHIO, CH

SCHARRYAN PRIYIA, ML

¡ALTERE, FAUNTISY, D.C

TVOHNESERATHWAITI DUNKI, CALIFO

CHRISTOPHIR J. DOOD, COMM.

MATOLO I, FORD, TENN.

FLOND J. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBEAT W. TOGAR, PA.

LAMUEL L. DIVINE, ОНЮ

STIMART &, MCKINNIY, COAM

CHARLIS THONI, HEBR

•MATOLD R, BANYIA, MICH.

(202) 225-1826

Select Committee on Assassinations

C.S. House of Representatibes

8391 HOUSE OFFICI BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D. C. 20515

September 22, 1978

Ree Cri

9/22/78

Busching.

acte

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D.C. 20530

ATTENTION:

Mr. Robert I. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

circumstances surrounding the death of DI. Martin

Luther King, JI., the Select Committee requests the

assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation with

•the pederal

regard to the following matter:

Prepare for delivery the following serials:

Chicago Field Office File 44-1114:

Sub G, Serial 2

Sub H, Section 1, Serial

Sub H, Section 1, Serial 17

Your prompt attention to this matter is, greatly

appreciated.

Sincerely,

I. Robert platly

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and

I Director

GRB: poh

xc: Mr. Ron Heller

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REBUTEL TO ST. LOUIS AND SPRINGFIELD DATED AUGUST 4, 19787

ENTITLED "JERRY RAY: POSSIBLE O0U."

ALSO REBUTEL TO ST. LOUIS, SPRINGFIELD AND KANSAS CITY

DATED AUGUST 4, 1978 ENTITLED "JERRY RAY; NELSON STONEY AKAS

UNSUB, AKA: BANK ROBBERY SUSPECTS."

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ON SEPTEMBER 27, 19787 THE DIRECTOR RECEIVED A LETTER FROM

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G. ROBERT BLAKEY, CHIEF COUNSEL AND DIRECTOR OF CAPTIONED

2 COMMITTEE ALLEGING THAT THE BUREAU IN HANDLING INFORMATION FUR-

NISHED BY THE COMMITTEE ENDANGERED THE SOURCE WHO FURNISHED THIS

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CEPAPTMENT OF JUSTICE

ENERAL BUTENU OF INVESTIGATION

COMIMUNCATON MESSAOBFO.N

PAGE TWO DE HQ UNUS UNCLAS

SEEI

INFORMATION TO THE COMMITTEE.

THE NECESSARY BACKGROUND INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS MATTER

• WILL BE FOUND IN THE REFERENCED TELETYPES.

SACS ST. LOUIS, SPRINGFIELD AND KANSAS CITY ARE REQUESTED

•LTO INTERVIEW ANY SPECIAL AGENTS WHO HAD ACCESS TO THE INFOR-

_MATION FURNISHED IN REFERENCED TELETYPES AS TO ANY MEDIA

_CONTACTS REGARDING THIS INFORMATION. ANY EMPLOYEE HAVING SUCH

_CONTACT WITH THE MEDIA CONCERNING THIS INFORMATION IS TO FURNISH

iCAN AFFIDAVIT AS TO THE DETAILS OF THE CONTACT.

SACS ST. LOUIS AND SPRINGFIELD ARE REQUESTED TO HAVE

" AFFIDAVITS SUBMITTED BY THE SPECIAL AGENTS WHO CONTACTED OLIVER

PATTERSON AND CLARENCE HAYNES REGARDING ANY CONTACT WITH MEDIA

_REPRESENTATIVES. THESE AFFIDAVITS SHOULD ALSO COVER WHETHER

DURING THE INTERVIEW WITH PATTERSON AND HAYNES THE COMMITTEE WAS!

_IDENTIFIED AS THE SOURCE OF THIS INFORMATION. THE INTERVIEWING

_AGENTS ARE ALSO REQUESTED TO COMMENT ON WHETHER PATTERSON'S NAME!

-WAS MENTIONED AS ALSO BEING IN DANGER DURING THE INTERVIEW WITH

-HAYNES AND DURING THE INTERVIEW OF PATTERSON WHETHER HAYNES'

NAME WAS MENTIONED. IF SO, REASON FOR DOING SHOULD BE FURNISHED:

IT IS TO BE NOTED THAT THE COMMITTEE ADVISED PATTERSON THAT'

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL DUREAU CE INVESTIGATION

COMMUCHE " TEN MESER DE FORMA

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COMINUNTION SENTI

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THE BUREAU WOULD CONTACT HIMAPRIOR TO HIS CONTACT BY THE

INTERVIEWING SPECIAL AGENTS. THESE INTERVIEWS ARE TO BE GIVEN

EXPEDITIOUS HANDLING.

ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS MATTER ARE TO BE HANDLED

TELEPHONICALLY WITH SA GEORGE KEENAN, CRIMINAL INVESTIGA-

TIVE DIVISION, EXTENSION 4195.

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NOTE: THIS INQUIRY HAS BEEN COORDINATED WITH ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR ADAMS

THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION AND THE RECORDS MANAGEMENT

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USURAL COVERNMENT

Assistant Attorney

General

Criminal Division

Attention: Ir. Robert I. Keuch

Directors

FBI

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HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESEITATIVES (HSCA)

October 2, 1978

1 - Mr. Mintz

Attn: Mr. Heller

1 - Mr. Foster

1 - Mr. Busching

Reference is made to letter to the Attorney General

Iron G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director, fsCA,

lated Septonber 8, 1978, which, in connection with the HSCA's

investigation into the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.,

requested certain information in FBI files.

Inclosed are an original and one copy of a menorandum

responding to the above request.

It is requested that you

furnish a copy of the enclosed memorandum to the HSCA.

Enclosures (2)

RCB PAM

(6

NOTE:

Request regarding original Piedmont Laundry Slip was

coordinated with Ronald Heller, Legal Liaison Unit, who

advised that the HSCA requested that aforesaid Slip be available

during the King public hearings in November in the event

that a question

arises over the authenticity of said document.

MAILED

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FBI

REC-80

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1978

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Dep. AD Adm. _

Dep. AD Inv. i

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs.

ENCLOSURE

Crim. Inv.

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1 - Mr. Mintz

Attn:

Mr.

1 - Mr. Foster

1 - Mr. Busching

Heller

October 2, 1978

HOUSE SELECI COMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

Reference is made to letter to the Attorney General

thief counsel and Director, AstA,

investigation into the assassination of Martin Luther king, dr,

requested certain information In FBI files.

With respect to Item 1, material regarding Charles

Parris, date of birth narch la 1931, and Charles farris,

late of birth lay 7, 1940, 1s available for review at ibi

headquarters (FBIH&).

With respect to Item 2, FBIHQ files and St. Louis

Fleld Office fIles contain no Information regarding a St. Louis

organization named the Veiled Prophet, However, references con-

cerning a Veiled Frophet Ball and/or Parade In Bureau files and

St. Louis

• Fleld Office files are avallable for review at FBIHQ.

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv. -

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs._

Crim. Inv. -

Ident. -

Intell.

Laboratory

Legal Coun.

Plan. & Insp.

Rec. Mgnt.

Tech, Servs.

Training.

Public Affs. Off. _

Telephone Rm.

Director's Sec'y _

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with respect to Item 3, the original Fledmont

Laundry SIlp has been forwarded

to IBIns from Atlanta Field

Office and is being retained in the Congressional Inguiry

Unit therein until arrangements for its possible utilization

naterialize.

With respect to Item 4, on September 18, 1978, HSCA

representative Gerald Hamilton advised that with respect to

said item, it should be modiiled to include non-agent personne.

(support)

with It. Louis Field OffICe for the year 1974.

St. Louis Fleld Office files contain no rosters of Agents

assigned to the office for the years 1967, 1968 and 1974, nor

support personnel for. the year 1974. A compilation of such

Information fron data available to the st. Louis Fleld Office

has been made and, noting that this compilation may not be

all inclusive, the following 4 Ilsts are being made available:

-RCB:pfm

ORIGINAL AND ONE SENT TO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL,

(6)

CRIMINAL DIVISION, ATTENTION: MR. ROBERT I. KEUCH.

NOTE :

See

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Direct, Attentiont bert eutor da general,

_October 2, 1978, captioned as above.

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SPECIAL AGENTS ASSIGNED TO THE ST. LOUIS

FIELD OFFICE DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1967

THOMAS J. GEARTY (Special Agent in Charge)

EDWARD J. KRUPINSKY (Assistant Special Agent in Charge)

EDMUND C. WELTON

GEORGE M. PEET

CLETIS B. BIDEWELL

WILLIAM K. BOCK (retired, effective 8/25/67)

PATRICK W. BRADLEY

EARL E. BROWN

JOHN J. BUCKLEY

LOUIS F. CAPUTO

HAROLD R. DOBSON

KENNETH N. DELANOY

JAMES A. DUFFEY

JACK J. FISHER

KELLY E. GIBBONS

WILLIAM G. HARRY (resigned, effective 11/9/67)

WALTER A. HILGENDORE

RICHARD T. HRADSKY

S. T. JOHNSON

WALTER C. JOHNSON

HARRY C. JUNG

HOWARD C. KENNEDY

JAMES E. LINDSAY

J. ROBERT MEIGS

EDWARD M. MORELAND

DONALD R. NORIE

AUBREY D. PARK

SPURGEON J. PETERSON

DOUGLAS ROSENBERGER

ALBERT J. RUSHING

CLARK S. SMITH (departed 6/13/67, transferred to Seattle)

BAILEY M. STANFIELD (resigned, effective 12/29/67)

ROBERT S. STEWART

JAMES A.

TALLEY (retired, effective 6/16/67)

FRANKLIN J. WALLS (departed 6/17/67, transferred to San Diego)

ROBERT J. WILKISON

KENNETH A. WILLIAMS

WILLIAM R. BURTON

JACK A. FRENCH

ROBERT A. HESS

THOMAS JOHN DONOHUE (departed 6/7/67, transferred to Columbia)

RALPH J. ESPOSITO (departed 8/19/67,

transferred to WFO)

A. JAMES FISHER (departed 9/2/67, transferred to Dallas)

JEROME S. MURPHY (departed 5/8/67, transferred to Indianapolis)

JAMES M. PAIGE (departed 11/17/67,

transferred to Detroit)

PHIL K. WALTER (departed 12/20/67, transferred to Sacramento)

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SPECIAL AGENTS ASSIGNED TO THE ST. LOUIS

FIELD OFFICE DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1967

(CONTINUED)

JOHN K. ROSS (departed 1/4/67, transferred to Boston)

PAUL D. GIAMANCO (resigned, ellective 3/18/67)

BERNARD W. CASHDOLLAR (retired, effective 3/24/67)

ALLEN H. SMITH (retired, effective 3/24/67)

GERALD J. WOLTEMATE (departed 3/31/67, transferred to Memphis)

TOM E. CHAPOTON, JR. (departed 4/6/67, transferred to San Antonio)

MELVIN E. DE GRAW (arrived 4/24/67, transfer-in)

NILLIAM R. DUNCAN (arrived 5/15/67, transter-in

HOWARD G. SLACK (arrived 5/24/67, transfer-in

WILLIAM H. WARFIELD (arrived 5/24/67, transfer-in)

THOMAS L. BUCKLEY (arrival date unknown, transfer-in

WALDEN L. GREEN (departed 7/3/67, transferred to Dallas)

MARVIN R. DORAN (arrived 6/19/67

MARTIN JOHN WEBER (arrived 7/24/67, transfer-in)

JAMES T. DEARBORN

(arrived 10/5/67, transfer-in)

LAWRENCE B. CURTIN (arrived 10/19/67, transfer-in)

PETER J. STANKOSKI (arrived 10/30/67, transfer-in)

ALAN E. MC ELWAIN (arrived 12/1/67, transfer-in)

JOHN O. TRETHEWEY, JR. (arrived 12/9/67, transfer-in)

JOSEPH A. DUBYAK (arrived 12/27/67, transter-in,

MICHAEL M. WILLIAMSON (arrived 12/27/67, transfer-in

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SPECIAL AGENTS ASSIGNED TO THE ST. LOUIS

FIELD OFFICE DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1968

JOSEPH H. GAMBLE (Special Agent in Charge: arrived 8/19/68,

transfer-in)

THOMAS J. GEARTY (Special Agent in Charge: retired,

effective 8/26/68)

EDWARD J. KRUPINSKY (Assistant Special Agent in Charge)

EDMUND C. WELTON

GEORGE M. PEET

ROBERT L. BENDER

CHETIS B. BIDEWELL

PATRICK W. BRADLEY

EARL. E. BROWN (resigned, effective 7/12/68)

JOHN J. BUCKLEY

LOUIS F. CAPUTO

KENNETH N. DELANOY

HAROLD R. DOBSON

MARVIN R. DORAN

WILLIAM R. DUNCAN

JAMES A. DUFFEY

JACK J.

FISHER (resigned, effective 6/28/68)

KELLY E. GIBBONS

RICHARD T. HRADSKY

S. T. JOHNSON

WALTER C. JOHNSON

JAMES E. LINDSAY

J. ROBERT MEIGS

EDWARD M. MORELAND

DONALD R. NORIE

AUBREY D. PARK

SPURGEON J. PETERSON

DOUGLAS ROSENBERGER

ALBERT J. RUSHING (resigned, effective 7/5/68)

RICHARD BOYD SMITH

ROBERT S. STEWART

ROBERT J. WILKISON

KENNETH A. WILLIAMS

THOMAS I. BUCKLEY

WILLIAM R. BURTON

DONALD S. DE FONCE

MELVIN E. DE GRAW

JACK A. FRENCH

ROBERT A. HESS

LAWRENCE B. CURTIN

JAMES T. DEARBORN

JOSEPH A. DUBYAK

CHARLES S. DUKE

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SPECIAL AGENTS ASSIGNED TO THE ST. LOUIS

FIELD OFFICE DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1968

(CONTINUED)

ALAN E. MC ELWAIN

HOWARD G. SLACK

JOHN O. TRETHEWEY, JR.

WILLIAM H. WARFIELD (departed 7/10/68, transferred to Los Angeles)

PEMBROKE WASHINGTON

MARTIN JOHN WEBER

F. JACK WILLIAMS

MICHAEL M. WILLIAMSON

PETER J. STANKOSKI (resigned, effective 1/24/68,

DEAN R. SHUMWAY (reappointed, effective 3/6/68)

JOHN M. DUNAY (arrivea 7/3/68, transfer-in)

LEO T. CONNOLLY (arrived 8/6/68, transfer-in)

LEO R. MORRIS (arrived 8/2/68, transfer-in)

ROBERT L. COLEMAN (arrived 11/25/68, transfer-in)

JOHN S. WILLIS (arrived 11/26/68, transfer-in)

HARRY C. JUNG

HOWARD C. KENNEDY

THOMAS I. BUCKLEY

WALTER A. HILGENDORF (retired, effective 2/28/68)

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SPECIAL AGENTS ASSIGNED TO THE ST. LOUIS

FIELD OFFICE DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1974

WESLEY T. WHALEY (Special Agent in Charge)

ROBERT J. MC CARTHY (Assistant Special Agent in Charge)

ROBERT L. BENDER

LOUIS E. CAPUTO

JACK A. FRENCH

WILLIAM R. BURTON

C. JAMES CHRISTY

LEONARD V. DAHL

DONALD S. DE FONCE

MELVIN E. DE GRAW

MARVIN R. DORAN

WILLIAM R. DUNCAN

DOUGLAS A. DUNNAM

JOSEPH T. FOX, JR.

JOHN R. HAWKEN

ROBERT. A. HESS

RICHARD T. HRADSKY

WALTER C. JOHNSON

DONALD E. JONES

HOWARD C. KENNEDY

EDWARD M. MORELAND

AUBREY D. PARK

MARVIN R. PENNINGTON

DOUGLAS ROSENBERGER

JAMES E. SNIEGOCKI (departed 11/21/74, transferred to Louisville)

ROBERT S. STEWART

ROBERT J. WILKISON

DAVID F. CUNNINGHAM

JOHN M. DUNAY

JAMES T. HAGGERTY

JOSIAH L. HUGHES

JAMES R. LUMMUS

DEAN R. SHUMWAY (departed 11/8/74, transferred to Milwaukee)

MARTIN JOHN WEBER

F. JACK WILLIAMS

WILLIAM J. AHLER, JR.

LARRY B. BEAN

BENJAMIN L. CAGLE

JOHN N. CAMPBELL

MICHAEL S. CLAPP

MICHAEL E. CROWLEY

WILLIAM A. DEAL

MARSHALL P. GORHAM

JOHN C. HALL

RICHARD W. HERMAN

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SPECIAL AGENTS ASSIGNED TO THE ST. LOUIS

FIELD OFFICE DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1974

(CONTINUED)

KEVIN R. ILLIA

BARRY A. JONES

REGINALD J. JOSEPH

STEPHEN D. KETTNER

THOMAS T. KUBIC

JAN A. LINDSEY

GEORGE A. MILLER

JEFFREY D. MOSS

MICHAEL N. MURPHY

HERMAN S. NICHOLS

RUSSEL JAY NIELSEN

RONALD W. PARKER

THOMAS R. PARKER

JAMES J. REINAGEL (died 8/6/74)

PAUL E. RITZ

ALLAN J. ROGERS

CARL A. SCHULTZ

JOHN W. STRICKLAND, JR.

PETER B. SYMONDS

T. RICHARD O. VAN MATRE

WARREN B. WYMAN

LEON J. CANTIN (departed 8/27/74, transferred to Minneapolis)

PHILIP GRIVAS

STEPHEN M. LARGENT

ROBERT J. LA VERE (departed 10/12/74, transferred to New York Office)

JEFFREY A. MEYER

DOUGLAS B. MOKE (departed 7/1/74, transferred to New York Office)

MICHAEL E. NEZ

RICHARD W. RITTER

IVIAN C. SMITH

MICHAEL E. STAPLETON

MARSHALL C. WELDY

THOMAS F. WESTBERG

S. T. JOHNSON

KENNETH A. WILLIAMS

JOSEPH E. GERBER (arrived 1/9/74, transfer-in)

GEORGE E. BLOUNT (departed 1/14/74, transferred to San Francisco)

LARRY D. CORDELL (departed 1/19/74, transferred to Detroit)

JOSEPH T. WOODALL (departed 1/2/74, transferred to Washington Field

CLAUDE H. HILDRETH (departed 1/30/74, transferred to Los Angeles) Office)

DONAID H. TAYLOR (arrived 3/11/74, transfer-in)

MICHAEL J. IRWIN (resigned, éffective 2/8/74)

JOANNE E. PIERCE (departed 2/22/74, transferred to Pittsburgh)

LEON RAY FUTRELL, JR. (departed 3/4/74, transferred to Chicago)

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SPECIAL AGENTS ASSIGNED TO THE ST. LOUIS

FIELD OFFICE DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1974

(CONTINUED)

JOSEPH G. A. GLOVER (departed 2/28/14, transferred to Chicago)

FLOYD W. RATLIFF, JR. (arrived 4/22/74, transfer-in)

HERBERT NORTHCUTT, JR. (arrived 7/15/74, transfer-in)

DONNA LYN PRICE (arrived 10/21/74, transfer-in)

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SUPPORT PERSONNEL ASSIGNED TO THE ST. LOUIS

FIELD OFFICE DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1974

KEITH D. CONWAY

RICHARD P. BUTTON

JOSEPH N. HURST

SHIRLEY E. GEISLER

MARK C. NIPPER

WILLIAM J. EBERT

JOSEPH O. ELDER, JR.

GLORIA M. FRIGO

ROBERT IVAN HARSH

GEORGE T. JENKINS

NORMA L. NELSON

LENORE H. CAMPBELL

MICHAEL L. HOLT

ANTHONY E. MEADOWS (reinstated March 25, 1974)

JOHN L. SINGLETON

DAVID R. SKELTON

KAREN L. BUB

JOAN I. CLAUS

TERRY LEE COFF

WILLIAM R. FARHAT

JEAN ANN GOEBEL

ROSEMARY C. GRUBB

BRUCE G. HORSFALL

VIRGIL JOHNSON, JR.

BEVERLY A. KAIMAN

PEGGY R. KERNER

ANN THERESE LA VERE (departed October 12, 1974, transferred to

New York Office)

MARY JEAN LENTZ

SHARON M. SEDOVIC

• VICKI L. SIMPSON

WANDA B. SUKOVSKY

PAMELA DIANNE PIERCE

JANET E. TUCKER

SHIRLEY F. WAGNER

CHRISTINE A. WANGLER

CAROL S. KLEMME (departed July 5, 1974, transferred to Belleville,

Illinois, Resident Agency)

GREGORY J. DIFANI

KATHERINE M. FRIGO

JANICE M. GODEFROID

LOIS ANN

JOHNSON

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SUPPORT PERSONNEL ASSIGNED TO THE ST. LOUIS

FIELD OFFICE DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR 1974

CONTINUED

MARGARET E. LUEPKER

KATHLEEN C. MC VEY

PATRICIA J. MEADOWS

ETHEL LEE MIX

DIANE M. NEWBY

TERRY JOHN OLLIGES

JOYCE L. RUDD

CHARLES F. SCHALLER

GLORIA A. SHIDLER (entered on duty, January 7, 1974)

DIXIE I. SLAZINIK (departed October 5, 1974, transferred to Springfield)

KATHLEEN M. THOMAS

DEBORAH LYNN VOELKER (entered on duty, March 25, 1974)

MARSHA K. BARGE

BOBBIE JEAN BLÜM

LYNDA J. BUCHER (entered on duty September 30, 1974)

PAMELA C. BAKER (entered on duty September 30, 1974)

CONSTANCE M. ANTOFF (entered on duty October 21, 1974)

ROBERT J. FARHAT (entered on duty June 23, 1974)

JOHN M. HOCHSTATTER

CYNTHIA A. KRIER (resigned March 29, 1974; reinstated July 1, 1974)

LINDA L. SCHWARTZ (entered on duty, March 18, 1974)

MARY ANN TUCKER

VIRGIL D. WOOLLEY, JR. (entered on duty March 4, 1974)

M. SUSAN MURABITO

MARY CLAIRE KORTE

JUDITH M. STEWART (resigned February 1, 1974)

MARSHA K. HATLEMANN (entered on duty March 18, 1974)

KATHLEEN A. MC HUGH (entered on duty November 25, 1974)

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HOUSE SELECI COMMITTEE OIL ASSASSINAFIONS

U. B. HOUSE OF REPELSCIATIVES (HSCA)

Where information lo not provided with respect to

above itons, it is either not retrievable or 1s not being

furnished pursuant to the lenoranäun of Understanding.

of Septemberg meter complates response to the ISCA lotter

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WASTER I

FAUNTHOT, IC

CNRISTOTHER d. DODO, COMP.

MATOLD I FORT, TINA

CHAMIAN

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Spelect Committes on assassinations

1.25. House of sepresentatibes

8I31 MONBE OFFICI DUILDING, AMMEX &

WASHIMOTON, D.C, 20818

septenber 8, 1978 MA Busching

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

washington, D.C.

20530

Attention: Mr. Robert I. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear MI. Attorney General:

In connection with the investigation by this Committee

into the circumstances surrounding the death of dI. Martin

Luther King, ur. the assistance of the rederal Bureau of

Investigation is requested in regard to the following matters:

1) Prepare for delivery Identification Division Records

and all BUFILE material on:

a) Charles Parris, dob 3/07/31 serval 91a banj

FBI Number 46-45-6A

percense

b) Charles Parris, dob 5/07/48

doe

Jefferson County Louisiana Police Department 426333

2) Prepare for access all available references and files,

BUFILE and Field Office, on a St. Louis Organization

named the Veiled Prophet. Treat

+744-2386-1A21

3)

Make delivery (on a loan basis) the original Piedmoni

Laundry Slip,which is believed to be in the possession

of the Atlanta Field Office. Tant

4) Make access available to any rosters of agents for the

St. Louis Field Office for the years 1967, 1968 and 1974.

TT ant

As time 1s of the utmost importance your prompt attention

to this matter is greatly appiggiated.

Yours very, truly,

G. Robert:Blakey

GRB: ghh

Chief

Ron Heller

ENCLOSiRE Counsel and Director

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MODERAL GOVERNKENT

Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division

Attention: Mr. Robert I. Keuch

Director,

FBI

October 11, 1978

1 - Legal Counsel Div.

(Attn: Mr. Heller)

1 - Mr. Ryan

1 - Mr. Foster

HOUSE SELECT COLMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

Reference is made to the letter to the Attorney

items pertaining to the HSCA's Investigation Into the assassi-

nation of DI. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Enclosed are an original and one copy of a memorandum

in response to above-reforenced letter. It is requested that

dellvery of one copy of the memorandum be made to the HSCA.

Enclosures (2)

Siting in

NOTE: In Item 2 of above-referenced letter, the ASCA requested

the Jackson file regarding Burgess Audie Wilson and his

allegations pertaining to the MURKIN case.

The HSCA amended

the request to ask for

access only to the FBI Headquarters

(FBIHQ) file regarding this matter. As the investigation into

Wilson's allegations is being filed in FBIHQ MURKIN file to

which access is provided as new material is filed, the Committee

Is being advised that the Wilson material is not being

separated from the other MURKIN serials.

Assoc. Dir..

Dep. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv.

Asst. Dir.:

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Crim: Inv.

Ident..

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1 - Legal Counsel Div.

(Attn: Mr. Heller)

1 - Mr. Ryan

1 - Mr. Foster

October I1, 1978

HOUSE SILECE CONIIIIEE OU ASSASSINATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPREZENTANIVES (ISCA)

Goncral from &. Robert Blaloy, Chief Counsel and Director, HSCi,

lared hugust 25. 191o, and tho nonoranaum, in partial responso

choreto, dated September 14, 1978, which dealt with five (5)

Itons pertaining to the HSCA's investiration into the assassi-

This nerorandun 1s to advise that the naterial

concerning Eurgess ludic Wilson 15 being filed in the TBI

Headquarters (FBIHQ) HUnKIll 1ilc to which the Committee 1s

already being provided access as new natcrial becones available.

To avoid dupllelty, no effort will be made to cull this

infornation from the FBIH@ HUnKIN file.

This menorandun completes the response to the HSCA

letter of August 23, 1978.

WB: 6th 1

(6)

ORIGINAL AND ONE SENT TO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL,

CRIMINAL DIVISION, ATTENTION: MR. ROBERT L. KEUCH.

October 11, 1978,

captioned as above.

Assoc, Dir. _

Dep. AD Adm..

Dep. AD Inv.

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Serrs..

Crim. Inv..

Ident.

Intell..

Laboratory

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Rec. Mgnt. _

Tech. Servs. -

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

HAROLD N. BASSETT

TO

:

Assistant Director

Administrative Services Division

FROM : Legal Counsel

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

DATE: 10/4/78

SUBJECT:

HOUSE SELECT.-COMMITTER.

ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this memorandum is to advise of the request

made by captioned Committee that former supervisors Theron D.

Rushing and Joseph G. Deegan and Unit Chief Thomas J. Deakin

(Press Office, FBIHQ) be released from their employment agreement

in order to be interviewed by captioned Committee in connection with

the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

DETAILS:

By letter dated 9/22/78 (copy attached), G. Robert Blakey,

Chief Counsel and Director of captioned Committee, requested that

Theron D. Rushing (former supervisor, FBIHQ - listed by the

Committee as Ted Rushing), Joseph G. Deegan (former Section

Chief, FBIHQ) and Unit Chief Thomas J. Deakin (Press Office,

FBIHQ) be made available for staff interview concerning their

investigation into the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The above present and former employees, prior to being

interviewed by the Committee staff, will be contacted by a representative

of the Legal Counsel Division who will advise them that they have been

released from their employment agreement and will provide them with

a briefing as to the scope and limitations of the interview.

Enclosure

CLOSURE

1 - Mr. Bassett

EX-224

RE 6062-117 298-1227

1 - Mr. Foster

1 - Personnel file of Theron D. Rushing

20 OCT 16 1978

1 - Personnel file of Joseph G. Deegan

1 - Personnel file of Thomas. J. Deakin

1 - Mr. Mintz

2 - Mr. Coulson

MIT-

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Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs

Crim. Inv

Ident..

Intell.

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Plon. & Insp.

Rec. Mgnt.

Tech. Servs

Training

Public Alfs. Off. _

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Memorandum to the Assistant Director

Administrative Services Division

Re: House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)

The remaining request set out in captioned Committee's

letter of 9/22/78, will be responded to by the Congressional

Inquiry Unit, Records Management Division, FBIHQ.

RECOMMENDATION:

None. For information.

APPROVED:

Director

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Armi:-

Dep. AD Inv.

Crim. liv.

Ident.

Intell.

Laboratory

egal doun. Aut

Réc Mgnt.

Tech. Servs.

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RICHARTSON PREYER, N.C.

LIALTER E, FAUISTROY, D.C

YVONNE BRATHIVAITE DURKE, CALIFO

CHHISTOPHER 1. DODD, CONN.

HAHOLD E, FORD, TENN.

FLOTO J, FITHIAN, INO,

RODERT N. EDGAN, PA.

LOUIS STOKES, OMIO, CHAIRMAN

Manur

STCIYAI

EVINE, OHIO

KINNEY, CONN.

CHARLESS ONE, NEBA.

FIATOLD S. SAYYYER, MICH.

(202) 225-4624

Select Committce on Assassinations

2.5. House of Sepresentatives

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

•WASHINGTON, D.C, 20515

September 22, 1978

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The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the

United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D. C. 20430

Attention: Mr. Robert L. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General.

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the ongoing investigation by the

Committee into the circumstances surrounding the death of

DI. Martin Luther King, Jr., the assistance of the Federal

Bureau of Investigation is requested in regard to the

following matters:

1) Make available for staff interview the

following Special Agents:

a. Ted Rushing

...

b. Joseph.G. Deegan

c. Thomas J. Deakin

2) Prepare for access any and all BUFILE

and Field Office material on an individual named

Leander Perez, St., who resided in Plaquemines

Parrish, Louisiana.

By memorandum to the HSCA dated February 13, 1978; the FBI

responded. and

advised that their records indicated that

Frank Raval Legis, neither served nor is presently serving as

a Special Agent.

In continuance of that request, January 24,

1978, the. Committee would appreciate the FBI conducting the

the appropriate records check to determine whether Frank R.

Legis;

Frank Raul Legis; Frank Lee Legis; or Frank Raoul

Legis is presently serving or has served the Bureau as a

Special Agent.

Origuish deter

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As always your continued cooperation is greatly

appreciated.

Very truly yours,

4. Rolex Blackg

G. Robert Blakey

• Chief Counsel and Director

GRB: ghb

ixc: Mr. Ron Heller

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TO

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

HAROLD N, BASSETT

:

Assistant Director

Administrative Services Division

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

DATE: 10/6/78

"Assoc. Dif

Dep. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv.

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs.

Crim. Inv.

Ident. -

Intell.

Laboratory

Legal Coun

Plan. & Insp.

Rec. Mgnt.

Tech. Servs.

Public Affs. Off.

Directore Sey -

SUBJEGT:

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE

ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this memorandum is to advise of the request

made by captioned Committee that former Agent William John Quinn

and former ASAC Clifton O. Halter be released from their employment

agreement to be interviewed by captioned Committee in connection

with the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

DETAILS:

By letter dated 9/25/78 (copy attached), G. Robert Blakey,

Chief Counsel and Director of captioned Committee, requested that

William John Quinn (identified as George Quinn deceased) and

Clifton O. Halter (former ASAC Memphis FBI Office) be made

available for staff interview concerning their investigation into the

death of Dr. Martin Luther King, JI.

Halter prior to being interviewed by the Committee staff will

be contacted by a representative of the Legal Counsel Division who

will advise him that he has been released from his employment

agreement and will also provide him with a briefing as to the scope

and limitations of the interview.

RECOMMENDATION:

Enclosure

None.

For information.

ENCLOSU

CK

APPROVED:

Adm. Serv.

-egal Coun

Crim. Inv.

Plan, & Inst

Director

Assoc. Dir.

Ident.

Rec Mgnt.

Tech. Servs.

Dep. AD Adm.

Intell.

Training

Dop. AD Inv.

Laboratory

1 - Mr. Foster

1 - Personnel file of George Quinn

REC-60 62. 112516

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1 - Personnel file of Clifton O. Halter

1 - Mr. Mintz

23 CCT 16 1978

2 - Mr. Coulson

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LOUTS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIR

Піду pAd*сА. N.с.

SAMUEL

VINE, OHIO

MAL IS E., FAUNTIOY, D.C.

TVONNE SRATHMAITE BUFFiX, CALIFOr

STEWAK.

MCKINNEY. COMA.

CHARLIS THONE, NIER.

CHRISTOFHER d. JODD, CONN.

НАПОГо В. БЛНУЕР, МКН.

MIAOLO E. FORO, TINN.

FEBYO 1. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBIAT W. LOGAR, PA.

(202) 225-4824

Select Committee on Essassinations

E.E. House of Lepresentatibes

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

September 25, 1978

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The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the

United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D.C. 20530

Attention: Mr. Robert I. Keuch

• Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the investigation by this Committee

into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Martin

Luther King, JI., the assistance of the Federal Bureau of

Investigation is requested in regard to the following matters:

1)

Prepare for delivery the folowing Chicago Field

Office file serials: 44-1114-4043 through 4069.

• 2) • Make available for staff interview, Special Agent

Cliff Halter assigned to the Memphis Field Office

in 1968.

3)

Prepare for delivery on a priority basis the MURKIN

serials 6177 through 6224, appearing in Section 91

of the BUFILE, identified respectively:

a)

1/19/77 memo (12 pages)

J.S. Peelman to Gallagher

Subject:

Report of the DOJ Task Force to

Review the FBI-MLK Security and

Assassination INvestigations.

b) 1/21/77 memo (10 pages)

Director FBI to Attorney General

subject: Same

c)

2/2/77 memo (8 pages)

J.S. Peelman to Gallagher

subject: Same

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The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Page Two

• 4

đ)

2/18/77 memo

Peelman

to Gallagher

Subject:

Same

4)

Make available for staff interview Special Agent

William J. Quinn formerly assigned to Division 6

land temporarily assigned to Division 5 at Headquarters

in 1968.

As always your assistance is sincerely appreciated.

Very truly yours,

X. Rotent Bisten

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

GRB : ghh

XC:

Mr. Ron Heller

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMA

ÓN PREYER, N.C.

VONNE EATINATE DEKE, CALIF. -

SAMUEL L

MINE, OHIO

STEWART B. MC KINNEY, CONN.

CHARLES THONE, NEBR.

CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN.

HAROLD 5. SAWYER, MICH.

HAROLD E. FORD, TENN.

FLOYD 3. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

(202) 225-4624

Itouse

Select Committee on Assassinationg

H.S. House of Representatives

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

September 26, 1978

Assoc. Dir._

Dep. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv

Asst. Dir.

Adm. Serv._

Crim. Inv.

Laboratory

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Rec. Mgnt.

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Training

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Director's Sec

51301

FERD

Honorable Griffin B. Bell

U. S. Attorney General

Department of Justice

10th and Pennsylvania

Avenue, NW.

Washington, D.C.

20535

Attention: Judge William H. Webster

Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Room 7162

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

On August 2, 1978, I as Chief Counsel for the Committee

along with Michael Eberharat, Assistant Deputy Chief Counsel,

met with Special Agents Ron Heller and James D. Carey in order

to apprise the FBI of a matter of extreme sensitivity which

involved possible physical endangerment to two Committee

witnesses, Oliver B. Patterson a

anREG yence Haynes

During the meeting of hug ft 2, 1918, the a vas 22X

that a Committee source closeto both Mark Lane, the current

attorney for James Earl Ray,

and Jerry Ray, brother of James

Earl Ray, had learned that both Lane and Jerry Ray were aware

of a confidential relationship between Oliver Patterson and the

Committee.

The same source also learned that Clarence Haynes

was regarded by at least Jerry Ray to be in the same posture.

The FBI was further told that the Committee information indicat-

ed possible physical harm to Patterson and Haynes by Jerry Ray,

and because of such information the Committee felt an obligation

to have each of them warned of the danger.*

The FBI was advised

however that in view of the fact that the information had come

from a confidential source for the Committee that it was abso

lutely necessary that neither Patterson nor Haynes learn that

EAS OCT 28 1978

*/ Also related to the FBI from the same Committee

source was

information that Jerry Ray and others were planning a bank

robbery

• in the St. Louis area.

The treatment and handlin

f this information is not the subject of this letter however

тоб.

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Honorable Griffin B. Bell

September 26, 1978

¡¡the Committee had originally provided this information. As a

result of the discussion on this subject amongst those present

at the August 2nd meeting, it was understood that the FBI would

make arrangements to have

agents advise Patterson and Haynes of

the possible endangerment to them without any indication that

the Committee was the ultimate source of the information.

We

are advised by Mr. Heller that indeed the FBI directive to the

field on this matter expressly stated that the Committee should

not under any circumstances be divulged as the source of these

threats.

The Committee has received information however that the

FBI did not act responsibly in the treatment or dissemination of

this matter and that as a result the identity of a Committee

source may have been compromised.

Specifically, Mr. Patterson,

who has independently exposed his relationship with the Committee

recently and has aligned himself with Jerry Ray, alleges that

during the course of the warning provided to him by FBI agents

St. Louis he was advised that Clarence Haynes had a similar pos-

sible security problem and that the Committee was the source of

the information which suggested possible harm to him.

The con

veyance of the information that Haynes was

also endangered not

only unnecessarily provided Patterson with information for which

he had no need but it also potentially identified the Committee

source in question since the information about possible harm to

both Patterson and Haynes

was unique to a single conversation

attended by only the Committee source and one other person.

How-

ever, the gravity of this problem has been magnified substantially

If,

as Patterson alleges, he was in fact also told that the infor-

mation conveyed to him had come from the Committee.

While given

the circumstances I might normally consider Patterson's claims to

¡be indicative of an attempt on his part to identify other Committee

sources on behalf of Jerry Ray instead of a truthful account of his

FBI interview, such is not the apparent case. I have been inde-

pendently advised by trusted acquaintances in the media that the

FBI in Washington, D.C. has leaked similar information indicating

that the Committee was

the initial source of the information that

Patterson's life might be in jeopardy.

I have also been told that

the FBI regarded this information as frivolous.

If any of the allegations received via Patterson or the media

are in fact true then I would strongly suggest that serious errors

in professional judgment have occurred - so serious as to warrant

disciplinary actions against any individual responsible for what

so this committen in te cement.

would appear to be a fundamental disregard for not only the

security of a Committee source but also of the very trust placed

by this Committee in the FBI when this information was imparted

to it. Ironically, this Committee has operated reluctantly under

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Honorable Griffin B. Bell

September 26, 1978

less than satisfactory arrangements in order to get access to FBI

Informant information without disclosure of informant identity.

Despite the respect by this Committee for FBI protection of its

sources, it would appear that the allegations contained in this

letter, if true, indicate a less than mutual respect by the FBI.

It is therefore requested that the FBI conduct an investiga-

tion to ascertain if Patterson was advised that the Committee was

the source of the information related to him and that Haynes was

also endangered. It is requested that the FBI provide the Commit-

tee with copies of all documents, directives and interview reports

which bear on the determination of this matter. Similarly, it is

requested that the appropriate FBI personnel in Washington be

interviewed to ascertain if information concerning Patterson was

Improperly related to members of the media and that all documents,

directives, and interview reports on this matter also be provided

¡to the Committee.

In view of the seriousness of this matter it is suggested

that it be handled on an expedited basis. Futhermore, in light of

the sensitivity of the matters contained herein, this document

should be classified and handled in a manner to preclude future

Mother med the public through the Freedom of Information Act of any

Sincerely,

B. Robert Bealey

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

CC:

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Ron Heller

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HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS IHSCAT

BUREAU DEADLINE OCTOBER 13, 1978.

CAPTIONED COMMITTEE IS CURRENTLY CONDUCTING INVESTIGATION

INTO THE ASSASSINATIONS OF JOHN F. KENNEDY AND MARTIN LUTHER

KING, JR.

IN CONNECTION WITH THE KING INVESTIGATION, BY LETTER

DATED SEPTEMBER 22, 1978, THE HSCA REQUESTED ACCESS TO ALL

• MATERIAL AT FBI HEADQUARTERS IFBIHQY AND IN THE FIELD, REGARDING

LEANDER PEREZ, SR., WHO RESIDED IN PLAQUEMINES PARRISH •

•LOUISIANA. ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1978,. AN HSCA REPRESENTATIVE

MODIFIED. THIS REQUEST, STATING THAT ONLY INFORMATION FROM

JANUARY IO 1965, TO PRESENT IS NEEDED REGARDING PEREZ•

FBIHQ INDICES DISCLOSED NUMEROUS REFERENCES TO PEREZ.

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDEZAL DUREAU OF IVESTIGATION

COMMUNICATION MESS 03102N

PAGE TWO DE HQ 0111 E*UNCLAS E F T O

WITHIN THE TIME FRAME SPECIFIED BY THE HSCAT PEREZ WAS SUBJECT

OF BUFILE 44-38670, NEW ORLEANS FILE 44-2737 £19653. AT THAT

TIME HE WAS DESCRIBED AS A WHITE MALE, AGE LO LAPPROXIMATELY}

AND A NOTED SEGREGATIONIST AND POLITICAL LEADER IN PLAQUEMINES

I PARRISH LOUISIANA.

NEW ORLEANS CONDUCT SEARCH FOR ALL RETRIEVABLE INFORMATION

1-*4

CONCERNING PEREZ FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY 1I 1965, TO PRESENT.

REPRODUCE ONE LEGIBLE COPY OF EACH MAIN FILE AND REFERENCE.

FORWARD MATERIAL TO FBIHQ, ATTENTION: CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY

UNIT, RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION, BY OCTOBER 13, 1978.

BT

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TELETYPE

FM DIRECTOR FBI (62-117290)

TO FBI NEW ORLEANS PRIORTY

NOTE: HSCA representative who modified request was Mark Speiser.

Deadline is necessary to expedite processing of information

in response to this

request.

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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

та..

1

• J. McDermott

1

A. Mintz

1

N. Bassett

1- Mr. G. J. Foster

(Attn: J.

Aldhizer)

1 - Mr. D. Ryan

Room 5425

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Washington, D. C.

20535

September 28, 1978

Griffin B. Bell

Actorney General

U. S. Department of Justice

Washington, D. C.

20530

Deai Concral Bell:

I have been advised today that in thc imediate

future I will be asked to appear before the stafi of the

House Select Committee on Apsassinationg (ESCA) to be

deposeu relating to my kno ledge of fui counterintelli-

gence programs and the security investigation of the late

arcin luther king, ve. harlier this year I vas intac

viewed excensively by staft mombers ot this Committec

and i found them prone to discuss areas of estrono

national cecurity sensitivity.

I request you afford me legal counsel in connec-

tion with this appearance to depose and any additional

appearancec, including testimony before tho Committee.

I believe I

need legal counsel to ensure that all my

porconal rights are protected and so he nay negotiate

relative to the natter and scope of my

Road, Mineola, Long Islanü, New

FOrk 11501, (516) 742-

4300, has previously represented me in logal natters

arising out of my employment with the Federal Dureau of

Investigation.

Mr. Alan Wolin,

Esquire, of Mr. Solervita's

firm, has been specilically assignod to ascist me in & vil lu are

connection with prior testimony relating to my employment.

Assoc. Dir.

It is ny underctanding both lix. Solorwita and lic. Nolin

Dep. AD Adm. -

_have been afforded clearance for access up to

"hop Secret"

Dep. AD Inv. -

-by the Departmont because of choir representation of other

Adm. Sers. Agents, as voll as mysell, in segard to matters involving

i Dane somel Ester, BA David Ryan

Delvessed to talm

Serbent

18/3/18

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Plan, & Insp.-

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Tech. Servs. -

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D.

RYANI

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the Attorney

General

national security.

I desire that both tic. Solervitz and

Mr. Wolin be atforded the same clearance in rogard to

theis ropresentation of me in this matter. I would appre-

ciate your reimbursing me for the cost of their legal

services.

Sincerely,

David Ryan

1 - Mr. Jack B. Solerwitz

170 Old Country Road

Mineola, Long Island, NY 11501

APPROVED:

Dirocior

Dep: AD Adi.

Dep. AD Inv.

Arin. Serv.

Crim. Inv

Ident.

Intell.

Laboratory

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Flan. " Insp.

Rec, ""ant.

Tech. uers._

Trainin

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

Mr. Bassett jMb/p

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

1 - Mr. J. J. McDermott

1 - Mr. J. A. Mintz

DATE: 9/28/78

1 - Mr. H. N. Bassett

1 - Mr. G. J. Foster

(Attn: J. Aldhizer)

1 - Mr. D. Ryan

Asso

Dep. A2.

Dep. AD Inv.

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs.

Crim. Inv.

Ident. -

Intell.

Laboratory

Legal Coun

Plan. & Insp

Rec. Mgnt.

Tech. Servs.

Training.

Public Affs. Off.

Telephone Rm.

Director's Sec'y

FROM

: D. Ryan

SUBJECT: HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE

ON ASSASSINATIONS

PURPOSE: To request Legal Counsel Division furnish to the

Department the attached letter requesting legal

counsel be provided by the Department of Justice to me in

connection with my future appearance before the staff of the

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) to depose,

and as relates to any future testimony or appearances before

this Committee.

DETAILS: On 9/28/78, I was advised that Mr. Kenneth McHargh

of the staff of the HSCA had advised a representa-

tive of this Bureau that in the next two to three weeks I

would be requested to depose before the committee relating

to my knowledge of the Martin Luther King, Jr., security ( /i.

investigation and FBI Cointelpros.

I have prepared a letter

to the Attorney General (copy attached) requesting I be fur-

nished legal counsel in connection with any appearances or

testimony before this Committee by the Department of Justice.

As I have an attorney, Mr. Jack B. solerwitz, already repre-

senting me in other matters relating to my FBI employment,

it is my desire this attorney and his assistant, Alan Wolin,

be approved to represent meand be recompensated for their

services by the Department y

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Mr. Solerwitz and Mr . Wolin have

• 'been afforded

"Top Secret" clearances by the Department in connection with

their representation of other FBI Agents and myself, respec-

tively. I request that they also be cleared to represent me

in this matter, as in an interview with the

StaII OI

_this

Committee earlier this year, national security matters of

extreme sensitivity were raised.

23

NOV 8 *278

RECOMMENDATION: That this memorandum with the enclosed

original letter for the Attorney General

be routed to Legal Counsel Division so the letter may

be

referred to the Department.

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Adm. Serv.

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Assoc. Dir.

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_ HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS EHSCAI

HSCA, BY LETTER DATED OCTOBER 20, 1778, HAS REQUESTED THAT

I ST• LOUIS AND HEADQUARTERS INFORMANT FILES FOR RUSSELL GEORGE

BYERS BE PROVIDED. REASON FOR HSCA INTEREST LIES IN RECENT

_DISCOVERY BY ST. LOUIS OFFICE OF MEMORANDUM IN FILE OF

SL 3167-C WHICH REPORTED MEETING BETWEEN INFORMANT AND BYERS

_DURING WHICH BYERS TOLD INFORMANT OF OFFER MADE TO HIM TO KILL

_DR. MARTIN LUTHER KINGS JR. HSCA ALLEGEDLY HAS INTERVIEWED

BYERS ON OCTOBER LET 1978, CONCERNING THIS MATTER AND REFERENCED

_LETTER STATES BYERS "ADVISED THAT HE HAD PREVIOUSLY PROVIDED

_ INFORMATION. TO THE FBI ON A CONFIDENTIAL, BASIS", HOWEVER, HE

_WOULD NOT PROVIDE COMMITTEE WITH WAIVER FOR RELEASE OF HIS

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CEPARTMENT CE JUSTICE

FERA DUTEAU OFEST DATION

COMMUNICAMEN NESS ÷359011

PAGE TWO DE HO 0045 UNCLAS E E I O

HSCA ALLEGES FURTHER THAT DESPITE ABSENCE OF BYERS'

AUTHORIZATION, THAT HIS ADMISSION OF HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE

FBI ELIMINATES NEED TO PROTECT THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THE

INFORMATION FURNISHED. ADDITIONALLY, HSCA STATES BYERS'

INFORMANT STATUS "RAISES SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE

INVOLVEMENT OF AT LEAST AN FBI INFORMANT IN A CONSPIRACY TO

KILL DR. KING."

FBI HEADQUARTERS EFBIHQY IS IN POSSESSION OF A COPY OF

BYERS' ST. LOUIS INFORMANT FILE {SL 137-165413 WHICH REFLECTS

BYERS BEING OPENED OCTOBER 3, 1975, AND CLOSED BY LETTER

TO FBIHQ, NOVEMBER, 22, 19767 HAVING FURNISHED INFORMATION ONLY

ON GENERAL CRIMINAL MATTERS. AS SUCH, HSCA'S REQUEST FOR THIS

FILE IS CONSIDERED OUTSIDE SCOPE OF THEIR INQUIRY; HOWEVER.

THIS POSITION CANNOT BE PROMULGATED UNTIL ST. LOUIS OFFICE

PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING BYERS AND HIS

LRELATIONSHIP WITH THE FBI.

ST. LOUIS OFFICE IS REQUESTED TO CONTACT RUSSELL GEORGE

BYERS AND ASCERTAIN FROM HIM THE FOLLOWING:

ELF HAS HE BEEN INTERVIEWED BY THE HSCA?

{23 DID HE REVEAL HIS PAST CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP

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FOSPALOUREAU OF I VESTIGATION

CONMUNGIATION IRESSAGE FORM

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WITH THE FBI?

{3} IF HE DID REVEAL HIS CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP

SPECIFICALLY WHAT INFORMATION DID HE TELL HSCA HE FURNISHED THE

FBI?

£4} THE REASONS FOR REFUSING AUTHORIZATION FOR ASCA TO

REVIEW HIS INFORMANT FILES.

{5} PLACES HE HAS RESIDED DURING PERIOD OF 1967 TO THE

_ PRESENT•

BYERS SHOULD NOT BE APPRISED OF COMMITTEE'S REQUEST TO

REVIEW HIS INFORMANT FILES, NOR SHOULD HE BE ASKED ANY OTHER

QUESTIONS THAN THOSE LISTED ABOVE.

IN ORDER TO FURTHER REBUT HSCA ALLEGATION, ST. LOUIS IS

REQUESTED TO ASCERTAIN THROUGH APPROPRIATE INDICES SEARCH, FILE

REVIEW, AND OTHER APPROPRIATE MEANS, WHETHER BYERS, PRIOR

TO BEING FORMALLY OPENED AS SL 3567-PC- FURNISHED ANY INFOR-

I MATION TO THE FBI. SUTEL RESULTS OF CONTACT WITH BYERS AND

•L ST. LOUIS FILE REVIEW TO FBIHQ, ATTENTION: CONGRESSIONAL

- INQUIRY UNIT, RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION.

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HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

NOTE: In referenced letter, HSCA refers to individual who

had told St. Louis informant of offer made to him to kill

Dr. King.

This individual is Russell George Byers. All

information concerning this matter, including the excised

St. Louis and FBIHQ files on the informant; all informatior

Russell George Byers excluding Byers' informant file;

and all Information regarding the misfiling of that

information in the St. Louis Office, has been previously

furnished the HSCA by

6/9/78, 8/7/78, 8/23/78, and 9/28/78.

5 0 O n 60 3/23/18, 372018,7

HSCA alleges in their letter that during inter-

view of Byers, he admitted his informant status; however,

he would not authorize the release of his informant files to

the HSCA. HSCA alleges also that his informant status raises

questions regarding involvement of an FBI informant in a

conspiracy to kill King•

In discussion between members of

Congressional Inquiry Unit, Records Management Division;

SA's Ron Heller and D. 0. Coulson, Legal Counsel Division;

and Mr. Bob Keuch, Special Counsel to the Attorney General,

it was

decided that this request 1s outside the scope of

HSCA's inquiry as Byers was not opened as Informant until

seven years after King's assassination; however, St. Louis

is being requested

' to ascertain whether Byers had any prior

contact with the FBI, as well as whether he admitted his

relationship with the Bureau and his reasons for refusing to

authorize the release of his file to the HSCA.

This is being

requested to provide basis for discussion with HSCA regarding

ultimate disposition of referenced request.

On 10/30/70, SAC Roy B. Klager, J1., St. Louis,

was telephonically advised of the contents of this teletype.

SAC Klager advised that he wished to go on record that he

did not want to place his Agents in a position of checking

up on the HSCA or influencing a Committee witness. He was

advised that contacting an informant and verifying oral

written waivers is done solely to protect the informant and

the information he confidentially furnished, and not to

influence a Committee witness.

had any additional questions upon receipt of Bureau teletype,

he would contact FBIHQ.

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LOUIS sTOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

ZICHARDSON PREYER, N.C

AMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIC

YALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C

XVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF.

CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN.

CHARLES THONE, NEBR.

HAROLD S. SAWYER, MICH.

HAROLO E. FORD, TENN.

FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

(202) 225-4624

FEDERATI GOVERNKENT

Select Committee on Assassinations

U.S. House of Sepresentatioes

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX. 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 11, 1978

TO BE HAND DELIVERED

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D.C. 20530

Attention: Mr. Robert L. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

il:a

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the investigation by this Committee into

the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Martin Luther King,

JI., the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is

requested to prepared for delivery the following matterials:

1) • Memorandum, Rosen to Deloach; 5/9/68, caption "MURKIN" •

(Referenced at bottom of Headquarters MURKIN File Serial

44-38861-3509.

2)

Memorandum, Director to Attorney General, 6/11/68;

caption: Electronic Surveillang

REC-2062-117240-1232

3)

Memorandum, Brennant to Sullivan, 6/10/68; caption:

Electronic Surveillance (Referenced at bottom of Item

"2" above).

This request is limited to that portion of

the memo dealing with the MURKIN investigation.

4)

Memorandum, Casper to Mohr, 5/10/68: (Legal analysis

of proposed electronic surveillance on propertieslof

Albert and Carol Pepper.)

DECREEN BEATS

As time is of the utmost importance your prompt attention

to this matter is greatly appreciated.

62-117290

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Yours very truly,

G. Robert Blakey

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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division

Attention: Mn. Robert L. Keuch

Director, FBI

October 12, 1978

1 - Legal Counsel Division

Attn: Mr. Heller

1 - Mr. Ryan

1 - Mr. Foster

HOUSE SELECT COMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

Reference is made to the letter to the Attorney General

Iron t. Robert Blakey.

Chief Counsel and Director, HSCA, dated

September 25, 1978, which requested, in connection with the

HSCA's investigation into the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther

King, Jr., that delivery be made of certain Chicago Field Office

and FBI Headquarters HurkiN serials, and that two FBi special

Agents be made available for interview.

Enclosed

are an original and one copy of a memorandum

In response to above-referenced letter. It is requested that a

copy of the memorandum be delivered to the HSCA.

Enclosures (2)

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NOTE: Gerald Hamilton, Staff Member, HSCA, advised that in

Item 1 of above-referenced letter, that as

there are only 826

serials in that Chicago file, a mistake had been made in re-

questing serials 4043-4069 and, therefore, this request should

Hamilton stated, on 10/11/78, that the four serials

be picked up on this date and they

OCT

Assoc. Dir.

employment agreement.

SA Halter had been previously advised

Dep. AD Adm. on 10/6/78, of the Committee's interest in his being made

Asst. Dir::

available for interview.

The HSCA has been provided with SA

Adm. Servs._

Halter's telephone number of (203) 453-5054. 1

00115 " In Item 4, the HSCA requested SA William J. Guinn be

Laboratory

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Iraitting

made available for

interview.

This name was determined tobe

incorrect. It was determined that the Committee meant SA

George M. Quinn.

SA Quinn died of a heart attack on 10/8/73.

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Attn: Mr. Heller

1 - Mr. Ryan

1 - Mr. Foster

October 12, 1978

HOUSE SCLECT CONTIIITEE ON ASSASSIUATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRECENTATIVES (ESCA)

Reference is made to the letter to the Attorney

Прісти.

Assoc. Dir..

Dep. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv..

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nation of Dr Martin Luther lind,

HUnkIN scrials, and that tro FBI Special Agents be made

available for intorvler.

This nerorandum is to confirm a conversation

between Gerald lanilion, lised, and Special Agent Iron ".

Ereltie, Congreasional Inquiry

unit (Clu), concerning the

above-mentioned items requestod by the HISCA.

fer the instructions of lix. lanilton, no further

attempt is beinr, node to locate the Chicago Field Office

MURAI filo serials (Item I).

fix. Fonilton was advised that former Special Agent

Clifton 0. Halter has been cloarod from his employnent agree-

ment and 1s availablo for interviou by the Cormittee (Item 2).

Arranenents for this interviey can be nade by contacting

reprocontatives of the CIU and Loral Llaison and Congressional

Affairo Unit, FBIHO.

is requested by fir. tanilton, the four selected

FBIHO TURKII serials (Item 3) are not being included with this

nemorandun but are available to be picled up by a represen

tative of the HSCA.

Vich respoct to Iten 4, Hir. Hamilton was advised

that the Special Agent that they

wanted to intervier was

Georre il. Quinn not Willian J, Quinn, as indicated; however,

-Special Agent George l. Cuinn dicd of a heart attaci: on

October 8, 1973.

This memorandum completes the response to

_above-refcrenced ISCA lottor.

ORIGINAL AND ONE SENT TO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL,

CRIMINAL DIVISION, ATTENTION: MR. ROBERT L. KEUCH.

SEE NOTE PAGE TWO. . .

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HOUSE SELECI COLMITTCE ON ASSACSIITATIONS

U. I. HOUSE OF REPRECEITATIVIS (HECA)

NONE: Soe Director, FBi letter to Assistant Attorney General,

criminal Diviaion, Attention: Ir. Robort I. Icuch, dated

October 12, 1978, captloned as abovo.

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NO E. FORD, TENN.

DJ. FITHIEN, IND.

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

SAMUEL!

LINE, OHIC

STEWART

A KINNEY, CONN

CHARLES THUNE, NEBR.

HAROLO 5, SAWYER, MICH.

(202) 225-4624

FADMRAL GULERNMENR

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Select Committee on Essassinations

10-13-75

U.S. House ot representatines

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 6, 1978

Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D. C.

Attention:

Mx. Robert Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the investigation being conducted by this

Committee into the circumstances surrounding the death of

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the assistance of the Federal

Bureau

of Investigation is requested in regard to the

following:

Prepare for delivery, the two letters

referenced in paragraph one of the attached

Headquarters memoranda.

As time is extremely crucial, your prompt attention is

soliciated.

cx.124

very truly yours,

12 Dolix Blong

Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

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Memorandum to Mir. Bassatt

RE: HOUSE SELECI CONMILTER ON ASSASSINATIONS (FSCA)

YBIAQ, adviaed that last sana was "Bayers", howevez,

baen deteruinad that the corract spalllag la "Byaro.

No activa FBI invastigation into the Information located

by the st. Louls Orilca ragazding Byars and bla possible

connaction with tha MURKIN cass has been undertaken pursuant

to the policy sat jorth in Diractor, iBi, Latter to the

Attorasy General, dated 1/28/71, and confirmed by Lactar

from Robart I. Kouch, Special Counsel to the Attorney General.

to. Diractor, FBI, datad 8/3/77. As get forth thereln,

without a apecific raquast tron the Department, the IBI 10

not to further Invastigate any ailagations sagarding the

King ox John i. Ramady assassinations.

GO RaqUEBE DBI

baan cacalvad iron toa Dapartmant ragarding this marta:.

Tha 8t. Loula 01f1ca, Dy Paletypa dared 3/23/78,.

detaile of

The department

had been pravioualy advivad that he had rurnished information

of valua to this Buronu in our latter of 3/24/78.

A copy

of the pastout antiones contact memorandwa had been

wAL

see howaver, thara

Deucation that be tai aver quancroned concerning

tato laformation,

The EsCA raquastad, by latter datod 6/5/78, all

£1las pertaining so Ruasell Caorga Reyars.

A saazeh

conducted at FBINQ locatad only one IISI zaference,

which tha Committea das advined by manorandun of 6/9/73.

Subsequently

a sagich conducted wing the lant rane re

Thus search ano repurce in to

LALGIAICES

curtaining to Byare.

By lotzer datod 714/78, tha HSCA requeated ghat

the Bureau contact the Bt. Louls

Informant

who anitially turnished the intornation sagarding byecu

to dateraina 11 (1) he would agraa to subnit to intaryles

by tos Asce, and (2) Whathar as boudd @acute & waites

allowing lon solaase of his informant silo to tna Committao:.

Tha 8t, Louln Office talaphonically advload that this

Entarment

glosad In May, 1975, and ha has since noved to

By Buraau calotypa datad 7/25/78,

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMA

RICHARDSON PREYER, N.C.

SAMUEL L. LEVINE, OHIO

WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C.

STEWART B. MCKINNEY, CONN.

YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF.

CHARLES THONE, NEBR.

CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN.

HAROLD S, SAWYER, MICH.

HAROLD E. FORD, TENN.

FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT V. EDGAR, PA.

(202) 225-4624

ABI.

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10-23-28

STORIAL SUSERAMENTI

Select Committee on Assassinations

U.5. Hause of Hepresentatites

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 6, 1978

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D. C. 20350

Attention:

Mr. Robert Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the investigation by this Committee

into the circumstances surrounding

the death of Dr. Martin

Iuther King, Jx., the assistance of the Federal Bureau of

Investigation is requested in regard to the following

matters:

1)

Make available for Staff interview Special

Agents John C. Menton and Thomas Kitchen.

Additionally, it would be appreciated if the FBI would

prepare a written statement as to the policies and procedures

applicable for the years 1962 through 1968 pertaining to death

threats reported to the Bureau concerning a citizens, in

reported pertaining specifically to D..

Further, the Committee would like to have furnished, copies

of any paperwork or communication supporting the Bureau's posi-

tion, policy, etc. pertaining to death threats for the years

enumerated above.

REC39 62-11 7290-1235

As always, your prompt attention is greatly appreciated.

Very truly yours, za CUT 10 373

1. Nolisslol

G. Robert Blakey

• Chief Counsel and Director

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

RICHARDSON PREYER, N.C.

SAMUEL L. DEVINE, OHIO

WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C.

STEWART B. MC KINNEY, CONN.

YVONINE DRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF.

CHARLES,THONE, NEBR.

CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN.

HAROLD S SAWYER, MICH.

HAROLO E. FORD, TENN.

FLOYD J., FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

Roc Giü

10-17-76

FBI

(202) 225-4524

PEDERAL, GOVERNMENT

Select Committee on Assassinations

U.S. House of Representatives

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 12, 1978

: 1

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D.C.

20530

Attention: Mr. Robert I. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

By this letter our request of February 3, 1978 is

modified to include the photographs of all of the agents

assigned to the Atlanta Field Office, and those assigned

to the security squad.

The Committee understands that in

addition to the requested photographs, the Federal Bureau

of Investigation will include a number of photographs of

Bureau or Department personnel who were not assigned to

the Atlanta Field Office and that these photographs wil

be used as part of the Committee's photo array.

The photo-

graphs the Committee receives will be identified only by

a letter or other symbol, and the Committee will have an

chart which corrolates the letter to the actual names.

photograph will be published unless that agent had been

identified. If an agent or former agent is identified, the

Committee would also be free to reveal his identity.

unidentified photographs would be returned to the Federal

Bureau of Investigation.

Your prompt attention to this matter will be greatly

appreciated.

01-124

REC-79

Sincerelyi

62-111 290-1238

2. Nobut Bleds -

Robert Blakey

Chief Cousel and DirectorOlT 10 id

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FEDPRAI GOVERNMENT

Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division

Attention: Tir. Robert I. Keuch

Director,

FBI

October 16, 1978

1 - Mr. Mintz

Attn: Mr. Heller

1 - Mr. Foster

1 - Mr. Busching

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

Reference is made to letter to the Attorney General

requested dellvery of certain materials fron FBI files.

Enclosed are an original and one copy of a memorandum

responding to the above request.

It is requested that you

furnish a copy

the enclosed memorandum to the HSCA.

Enclosures

; (2):

COSMET

RCB :pfm

(6)

NOTE: HSCA representative Gerald Hamilton advised that

limitations to the years 1967-1968 applles to Item 1 only.

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U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

NOTE: See Director, FBI lctter to Assistant Attorney General,

Crininal Division, Attention: Mr. Robert I, Keuch, dated

October 16, 1978, coptioned as above.

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1 - Mr. Mintz

Attn: Mr. Heller

1 - Mr. Foster

1 - Mr. Busching

2.10.84

October 16, 1978

HOUSE SELECI COMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

Reference is nade to letter to the Attorney Gencral

Iron G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director, HSCA, dated

Septonber 12, 1978, which, in connection with the HSCA's

investigation into the assassination of fartin luther king, Jr.,

requested delivery of certain materials iron bbi files.

With rospect to Iten 1, Burcau file naterials as

vell as naterials fron the Birmingham, Jackson and Los Angelos

Field Offices for the years 1967-1968

on the Citizen's Council

of America aro available for review at IBI Icadquarters

(ГВІНС) •

Hew Orleans and Atlanta Field Officcs negative with

respect to material concerning Citizen's Council of America

for the years 1967-1963.

With respect to Item 2, Information regarding

nichoel thomas ventins, date of birth July 13, 1950, and

Arman Kallyan, Ir., date' of birth September 24, 1943, was

nate of barte

147" dolivered to HsCA ropresentative Barbara lobinson on Octobor 12,

With respect to Item 3, a search of the indices at

the remphis field oftice and inquiries made with personnel,

who are now assigned to the lemphis lilice and were so assigned

during narch-April, 1968, falled to identify any IBI personnel

lest

not assigned to the llemphis office, who were in shelby County,

Tonnessee, during the period Harch 16, 1968, through April 4,

1968.

This search also failed to reveal any naterials or

communications generated by FBI personnel not assigned to the

Hemphis Office during this period. A sinilar search at FBIHO

vas also nerative,

With respect to Iton 4, Infornation regarding

Assoc. Dir.

Goorge Frusca, Jr., date of birth December 28, 1926, 35

Dep. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv..

- available for revier at FBIld.

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs..

Where Information vas not provided, it was either

Crim. Inv. -

Ident. -

-not retriovable fron Headquarters or field office files or

Intell.

not

provided pursuant to the Memorandun of Understanding.

Laboratory

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Rec. Mgnt..

(6)

CRIMINAL DIVISION, ATTENTION: MR. ROBERT I. KEUCH.

Tech. Servs. -

Training

Public Affs. Off. _

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MALTIR I, FAUNTROY.

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Sclest Committee on Assassinations

U.D. House of Representatibes

2131 HOUSE OFFICI BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINOTON, D.C. 20515

September 12, 1978

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The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D.C. 20530

Attention: MI. Robert L. Reuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the investigation by this

Committee into the circumstances surrounding the

death of Dr. Martin Luther King, JI., the assistance

of the federal Bureau of Investigation is requested in

regard to the following matters for the years

1967-1968:

1)

Prepare for access on a priority basis all

BUFILE/ material as well as material/from the

reports t

*New Orleans)and Los Angeles on the Citizen's

Field Offices of Birminghant Jacksón, Atlanta' lofter

Council of America., 1967-1968

/ aeSWHITE CITIZENS CONNEL

2)

Prepare for delivery BUFILE and Identification

Division Records on the following individuals:

a. Michael Thomas Jenkins - dob 7/13/50

b. Arman Kaliyan, Jr. - dob 9/24/43

3)

a.

Provide the names of all FBI personnel, who

may have been present (that is, all persons

not assigned to the Memphis Field Office) in

al 120 Shelby County during the period covering March

18, 1968 through April 4, 1968.

Bureate

b.

Prepare for delivery any and all materials

11018 as discussed above.

or communication/generated by any such persons

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4) Prepare for access any and all BUFILE and

subfile material:

George Brusca, JI. - dob 12/28/28

As always your prompt attention is greatly appreciated.

very truly yours,

1. Nolux Blolay

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FEDERAL GOVERNUENT

Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division

Attention: Mr. Robert I. Keuch

Director, FBI

October 20, 1978

1 - Legal Counsel Division

Attn: Mr. Heller

1 - Mr. Bailey

1 - Mr. Foster

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

U. S. FOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

Reference is nade to letter to the Attorney General

September 22, 1978, which, in connection with the

investication

into

the assassination of lartin Luther Kinr, Jr.,

requested (a) three named Agents be nade available for HSCA

interview and (b) certain information from files of the FBI.

Enclosed are an original and one copy of a menorandum

in response to referenced lctter.

It is requested that

furnish a copy of the enclosed momorandum to the HSCA.

yoU

Enclosures (2)

!

(6)

NOTE: Agents were cleared for interview by HSCA through

Legal Counsel memorandum to the Assistant Director, Admin-

istrative Services Division, dated 10/4/78.

conducted

James Brazier

review of personnel records of Legis on 9/28/78.

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv..

Asst. Dir.:

Ädm. Servs..

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1 - Legal Counsel Division

Attn:

Mr. Heller

1 - Mr. Bailey

- Mr. Foster

October 20, 1973

HOUSECELECT COITITE ONE ASSASSINATIONS

U. 5. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

General fron G. Robert Blaltey, Chief Counsel and Director,

the FBI.

This lotter 1s to confirm, in response to Item 1 of

refercriced letter, that formor Agents Theron D. Rushing,

Joscph G. Deegan and Thomas J, Deakin have been cleared

from

their employment agrecnents and arc available for interview

by the HSCA.

Arrangements for interview can be made through

the Concressional Inguiry Unit, Records Management Division,

IBI. Headquarters (FBIH@).

Regarding Item 2, on September 29, 1978, HSCA

representative Nark Spelser advised that only information

from January 1, 1965, to present concerning Leander Perez, Sr.,

need be processed for

HSCA accese,

Information from files

of TBIHQ in response to this request has boch processed and

15 available for HSCA access.

There information is not

provided, it is either not retrievable or is not being

furnished pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding.

lich respect to field office files concerning ferez,

the New Orleans Office of the FBI advised on October 10, 1978,

that its files contain no retrievable information concerning

Perez and that previous files on Ferez have been destroyed

in accordance with routine file destruction procedures.

Personnel records of FEIHQ disclosed no record of

Assoc. Dir.

anyone with the last nane Legis presently or in the past .

Dep. AD Adm..

Dep. AD Inv..

serving as a Special Arent of the FDI.

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs.-

ORIGINAL AND ONE' SENT TO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAI,

Crim. Inv. -

Ident. .

(6)

CRIMINAL DIVISION, ATTENTION: MR. ROBERT L. KEUCH.

Intell.

Laboratory

NOTE:

See Director",

ctor: MI' letter to Assistant Attorney General,

Legal Coun.

Criminal Division, Attention: Mr. Robert I. Keuch, dated

Plan. & Ins. October 20, 1978, captioned as above.

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMANY

RICHAROSONPRENIAH.E

MUSE : DEVINE, OH

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FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

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(202) 225-4824

Select Committee on Assassinations

21.5. Iouse of Bepresentatites

8931 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

September 22, 1978

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D. C. 20430

Attention:

Mr. Robert L. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the ongoing investigation by the

Committee into the circumstances surrounding the death of

DI. Martin Luther King, JI., the assistance of the Federal

Bureau of Investigation

is requested in regard to the

following matters:

1)

Make available for staff interview the

following Special Agents:

a. Ted Rushing

b..

Joseph G. Deegan

c.

Thomas J. Deakin

2) Prepare for access any and all BUFILE

and Field Office material on an individual named

Leander Perez, SI., who resided in Plaguemines

Parrish, Louisiana.

By memorandum to the HSCA dated February 13, 1978, the FBI

responded and advised that their records indicated that

Frank Raval Legis, neither served nor is presently serving as

a Special Agent.

In continuance of that request, January 24,

1978, the Committee would appreciate the FBI conducting the

the

appropriate records check to determine whether Frank R.

Frank Raul Legis; Frank Lee Legis; or Frank Raoul

Legis is presently serving or has served the Bureau as a

Special Agent.

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REFERENCED TELETYPE ADVISED THAT KANSAS CITY FILE

1137-4907 RELATING TO ALEXANDER GEORGE BEN EDMONDSON WAS

DESTROYED DURING ROUTINE FILE DESTRUCTION JANUARY 7. 1978- AND-

INDICES PURGED.

BY LETTER TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL DATED OCTOBER 17, 1978

ITHE HSCA REQUESTED TO BE PROVIDED WITH "A STATEMENT OF ALL THE

FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES, INCLUDING THE IDENTITIES OF THE AGENTS

I INVOLVED, SURROUNDING THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INFORMANT FIELD

¡OFFICE FILE IN KANSAS CITY ON JANUARY 7, 1978."

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HSCA REQUEST AND SUBMIT RESULTS BY TELETYPE, ATTENTION:

CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT, RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION, FBI

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TO: FBI KAUSAS CITY ROUTINE

VOTE: HSCA request 6/20/78 listed Inown and possible

associates of James Earl Ray and asked that we determine

those who may have been FBI Informants and learn 1f they

would acree to interview by the HSCA. It vas also requested

that the files of any informant named on this list be

prepared for HSCA access.

Our latest Infornation indicated

Edmondson, who was on the list, was in Europe,

and therefore

out of contact.

His FBI Headquarters file, with identity

excised, was made available to the HSCA; however, his file

at Kansas City was destroyed.

The HSCA was advised of this

destruction in our response to the 6/20/78 request.

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

"RICHARDSON PREYER, N.C.

WILTER E. FAUNTROY, D.G.

SAMUEL

ANE, OHIO

STEWARI

iCKINNEY, CONN.

YVONNE BRATHMAITE BURKE, CALIF.

CHARLES

_NE, NEBR.

HRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN.

HAROLD S. SAWYER, MICH.

HAROLD E. FORD, TENN.

FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT W. IDGAR, PA.

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(202) 225-4624

FEDERAL GOVERNMANT

Rec Clu

10-17-78

Select Committee on Assassinations

.S. House of Representatines

3369 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 17, 1978

Hand De linered

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D. C. 20305

Attention: Mr. Robert L. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with this Committee's investigation into

the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I write to request

that you make the name of a former Security informant available

to the Committee so that the person might be interviewed in

order that serious allegations involving the Federal Bureau of

Investigation and the death of Dr. King may be resolved.

The

Committee has had access to the relevant Bureau personnel and

the Headquarters and Field Office files of the informant, duly

excised to protect the informant's identity; and it also con-

ducted extensive interviews among others who are also the subject

of this aspect of the Committee's investigation.

What the Com-

mittee now desires is to determine

if the oral testimony of the

witnesses support or refute the written record as well as

information obtained during previous Tonterviews ^ 290-1248

Tennessee during 1968, who were apparently involved in the

violence that occurred in Memphis one week prior to Dr. King's

death. He was an older person, and he had

apparently been a

Bureau source since 1958.

As a recognized community leader, he

was able to move about freely within the Black community.

Committee knows independently that in the early months of 1968,

the Invaders were attempting to obtain influence in that same

community, and they initially attempted to do so, in part, by

approaching established organizations.

They even went so far

as to invite special agents of the Memphis office to meet with! 1378

them early in 1968, at which time they delineated their goals

and objectives.

If the Bureau sought to shape the actions of

these individuals in ways detrimental to DI. King in connection

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ffin B. Bell

with the counterintelligence program being waged against him,

it would appear that this particular informant would have been

a logical vehicle for that effort.

As you know, with respect to the king investigation, the

Committee is, in effect, performing for the death of Dr. King

the same function that the Warren Commission performed for the

death of President Kennedy•

One of the most frequent criti-

cisms of the Warren Commission is that in attempting to resolve

the issue of whether or not Lee Harvey Oswald was an

FBI in-

formant, the Commission accepted sworn affadavits from the

Bureau.

The Committee feels, therefore, that it would be

derelict to rely on anything

less than an opportunity to examine

and cross-examine relevant witnesses on this crucial issue.

The Committee is not unmindful of the sensitive nature of

its request.

Throughout the effort to resolve this issue, the

Committee has attempted to move with restraint. It was not

until our field interviews with former members of the Invaders

and people present in Memphis at the time of the March 28, 1968

march revealed, (1) that the Invaders were in fact a proximate

cause of the violence, and (2) that it is universally believed

that the Invader followers who caused the violence were paid

FBI operatives, that the Committee requested access to any

informant files.

By that time, the Committee had reviewed the Sanitation

Strike, Invaders, King and SCIC substantive files.

It had also

reviewed the Memphis Police Department files, and it had inter-

viewed its undercover operative within the Invader organization.

The Committee had initially hoped that the answers it

sought could be resolved by reviewing the informants Headquarters

and Field Office files. Subsequent interviews with current and

former agents revealed, additionally, (1) that the Memphis Field

Office had prior knowledge of the impending violence (a fact

memoralized in FBI documents) and (2) members of the Invaders

were observed by agents of the FBI exhorting the crowd and

readying

weapons from signposts (a fact testified to under oath

by these agents.)

Further, while the Committee has insisted that the files

of all five of the informants said by the Department of Justice

to be involved with the Invaders should have been made available

to its staff pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding, it

made a good faith effort to work out a compromise proposal that

permitted my exclusive review of the excised files. The

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iffin B. Bell

Committee has now reached a point, however, where the balance

between maintaining the integrity of the Bureau's informant

program and the resolution of this critical issue must be struck

in favor of the Committee's receiving the identity of that one

informant. A request is not being made for all five, and absent

new developments, this request should resolve the outstanding

issues.

The burden of the Committee's mandate is largely a

reflection of the desire of the American public to learn the

true facts concerning the death of Dr. King. That burden is

perhaps never more apparent than in connection with the issues

that the Committee is now attempting to address here.

The claim

that an FBI/Invader connection

resulted in the violence on April

28 and contributed to DI. King's death has now received nation-

wide attention.

It is recounted in existing literature and was

broadcast nationally in a dramatic account of Dr. King's life.

The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, close friend and successor of Dr. King,

testified in public under oath and before Members of the Com-

mittee and the national news media, that he recalled members of

the Invaders acknowledging that they had caused the violence

on March 28, in return for compensation from the FBI. Indeed,

an individual who was a recognized leader of the 1968 Sanitation

Strike and made the invitation to DI. King to come to Memphis,

is a leading exponent of the theory that the FBI, through its

informants, had a direct role in DI. King's assassination.

Finally, the Committee's investigation has revealed that

the Bureau recommended that informants be used with or without

their knowledge to implement counterintelligence proposals

directed against Dr. King, in 1968.

clear that the Committee has no choice but to satisfy itself

concerning the events which took place in Memphis.

The public

interest in the death of Dr. King cannot be met by less than a

full investigation.

to the fair resolution of these most serious questions.

Talk these most

Talking with this individual is essential

I would hope that it might be possible to secure the

identity of this informant, either through his consent or para-

graph I. B. (1) of the Memorandum of Understanding between the

Department and the Committee. Nevertheless, I am authorized

to inform you that the Committee is

prepared to seek this

information through formal process

• if all other avenues are of

no avail.

Finally, I would note that this issue must be resolved

well before the resumption of the Committee's public hearings

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in the King investigation, now scheduled to begin on November

9, 1978.

Sincerely,

1. Robes Beistres

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

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FEDERAL GOVERVHENT

Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division

Attention: Mr. Robert I. Keuch

Director, FBI

ROUSE SELECT COITTEE ON ASSASSINAIIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

October 19, 1978

1 - Legal Counsel Divisior

'Attn: Mr. Heller

1 - Mr. Ryan

1 - Mr. Foster

Reference is made to the letter to the Attorney

teneral from G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director,

SCA, dated October 6, 1978, which requested, in connectior

with

the HSCA's Investigation into the assassination of

Dr. Martin Luther king, Jr., that delivery be made of two docu-

ments that were referred to in a document previously dolivered

to the committee:

Enclosed are an original and one copy of a memorandum

In response to above-referenced letter.

It is requested that

delivery of one copy of this memorandum be made to the HSCA.

Enclosures (2)

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NOTE: Referenced HSCA letter requested that two documents

referred to on page 4 of Ryan to Bassett memorandum, dated

7/27/78, be furnished to the HSCA. These documents

were

Director, FBI, letter to the Attorney General, dated 4/28/77,

and letter from Robert L. Keuch, Special Counsel to the

Attorney General, to Director, FBl, dated 8/3/17, which con-

cerned

the procedure for handling newly obtained

pertaining to the King and Kennedy assassinations.

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and are hon canad anton 90-

On 10/17/78, Mr. Keuch advised that he had no

objection to the Congressional Inquiry Unit releasing a copy

of

above-referenced letter of 8/3/77 to the HSCA.

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm. -and 8/3/77 was delivered to HSCA

Dep. AD Inv..

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(Attn: Mr. Heller)

1 - Mr. Ryan

1 - Mr.

Foster

October 19, 1978

HOUSE SELECT COMMITIEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENIATIVES (HSCA)

Reference is made to the letter to the Attorney

General from G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director,

ESCA, dated October 6, 1978, which requested, in connection

the lISCA's investigation into the assassination of

Dr. Hartin Luther King, Jr., that dellvery be nade of two

documents that were referred to in a document previously

delivered to the Committee.

This is to advise that the two documents referenced

above, dated April 20, 1911, and August 3, 1911, respectively.

were picked up by HSCA

Staff lember Gerald Hanilton at FB]

Headquarters on October 17, 1978.

ORIGINAL AND ONE SENT TO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL,

CRIMINAL DIVISION, ATTENTION: MR. ROBERT L. KEUCH.

NOTE: See Director, FBI, letter to Assistant Attorney

General, Criminal Division, Attention: Mr. Robert L. Keuch,

dated October 19, 1978, captioned as above.

3/5/840

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMA

RÍCHARDSON PREYER, N.G.

SAMUEL L. M-JINE, OHIO

WALTER'E. FAUNTROY, D.C.

STEWART B. MCKINNEY, CONN.

VGr. NE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF

CHARLES THONE, NEBR.

CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN

HAROLD S. SAWYER, MICH.

HAROLD E. FORD, TENN.

FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

(202) 225-4624

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10-24-718

11:19AM

FEDERAL GOVERNIENI

Select Committee on Assassinations

U.5. House oi Representatities

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 19, 1978

Co

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D.C.

20530

Attention:

Mr. Robert L. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the investigation of the House

Select Committee on Assassinations into the death of

DI. Martin Luther King, JI., I write to request that

you make the name of the former Security informant

available to the Committee

so that the person might

be interviewed by the Committee in order that serious

allegations involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation

and the death of Dr. King may be resolved. The Committee

has had access to the relevant Bureau files concerning

this informant, but the files were duly excised to pro-

tect the informant's identity.

The Committee now desires

to interview this informant to determine if his oral

testimony would support or refute the written record.

In addition, the Committee would expect to obtain other

information from the informant to corroborate or refute

information the Committee has obtained from its other

sources.

RE 7062-117298-1250

The Committee 'is extremely sensitive to your

concerns about preserving the confidentiality of your mi li

informants.

In addition, the Committee can certainly

appreciate

the desire of most Security informants to OCT 25 1978

remain unidentified. Should the Committee learn the

identity of this informant, it will be used at the cut

rent time solely to have counsel on the staff interview

and perhaps depose the informant. This would be done in

the Committee's offices

in Washington, D.C. and without

the knowledge of any member of the public. Indeed, not

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even every member of the Committee staff will become aware

of the informant's identity.

The Committee is primarily

interested in the information the'informant may provide

the Committee. The Committee has no desire to have the

informant's identity needlessly publicly exposed. Absent

extraordinary circumstances, the Committee would not divulge

in its hearings or its final report the name of the informant.

As you are aware, the Committee has extensively pur-

sued its investigations into the Invaders. The claim that

an FBI/Invader connection contributed to Dr. King's assassi-

nation

has received nationwide attention.

We have held

field interviews with many members of the Invaders and re-

viewed numerous files on them.

In addition, the Comnittee

has interviewed current and former agents of the Department

and Bureau on this issue.

Our Committee has been mandated

to conduct a "full and complete" investigation into the

assassination of Dr. King.

Talking with this informant is

essential to enable us to fulfill our legislative mandate,

and our responsibilities to the American people. As I indi

cated to you, I hope it will be possible for us to secure

the identity of the informant through his consent, or pur-

suant to Paragraph I, B. of our Memorandum of Understanding.

Nevertheless, I must

inform you that the Committee is prepared

to seek the information through formal process if all other

avenues fail. This latter alternative, in the event litigation

ensued and the Committee won, might publically disclose the

identity of the informant.

Indeed, litigation would only

attract undue attention to this issue, and the participants

involved.

I believe if you adequately express to the infor-

publicity, he will consent to his identity being disclosed

and an interview with the staff.

Sincerely,

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

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RICHARDS PREYER. N.C

FAUNTROY, D.C

CHRISTOPHEM J. DODD. CONN

AWAITE BURKE, CALIF..

HAROLD E. FORD, TENN.

FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT I. EDGAR, PA.

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMA

SAMUEL L

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STEIYART DEKINNEY, CONN.

CHARLES THONE, NEBR.

HAROLD S. SAWYER, MICH.

(202) 225-4624

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Select Committee on Assassinations

U.5. House Di Representatines

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 20, 1978

Res. Cio

10-24-78

11:53pM

FEDERAL GOVERNKENT

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D.C.

20530

Attention: Mr. Robert I. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the investigation by this Committee

into the assassination of DI. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

the rai has previously provided, by communication eatéa ("/

March 13, 1978, confidential source information which in-

dicates the identity of a person to whom an offer to kill

DI. King had been made. By FBI communication dated March

20, 1978, the identity, date of birth and FBI number of

the person receiving this offer was provided to the Select

Committee.

By letter dated June 5, 1978, the Committee

routinely requested all files pertaining to this individual.

By communication dated August 7, 1978, the FBI completec

its response to this request which did not originally anti-

cipate the production of any informant files for this in-

dividual.

REC20 62-117290 1251

On October 16, 1978, however, the Select Committee

re-interviewed the individual who had received the afore-

mentioned offer to kill Dr. King and was advised that he

had previously provided information to the FBI on a con-

fidential basis. This individual has indicated that he

would not provide an authorization to allow the Committee

access to his FBI informant file unless the Committee

assured him that he would not have to testify in the

about his receipt of an offer to kill Dr. King. * The

Committee has indicated that no such assurance will

Despite the absence of a specific authorization, it is

reguested that the E Headourters and Field Offi

informant files of this individual be made available to

the Committee.

His divulgence of a confidential relationship

with the FBI not only eliminates the responsibility of the

FBI

toprotect his identity but it also raises some serious

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The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

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It is requested that these materials be produced on

an expedited basis.

Sincerely,

1. Bobst Bles

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICS

FEESPAL DUCEAN OF MRVESTISATEEN

COMINUMIEATION MESSAGE FORE

PAGE TO DE HQ OLDO UNCLAS E E I O

PENITENTIARY. HE FURNISHED INFORMATION REGARDING VARIOUS MEANS

THAT ONE COULD UTILIZE IN GAINING ENTRY INTO CANADA, PROCURING

PASSPORTS AND METHODS OF GOING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE

UNITED STATES AND CANADA WHEN IN A FUGITIVE STATUS.

IN CONNECTION WITH ITS INVESTIGATION INTO THE ASSASSINATION

OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. THE HSCA HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN THE

ACTIVITIES OF EDMONDSON, WHO WAS A FELLOW INMATE OF JAMES EARL

RAY PRIOR TO RAY'S ESCAPE IN 1967. THE HSCA RECENTLY LOCATED

AND INTERVIEWED EDMONDSON AT ROUTE 21. WALLA WALLA, WASHINGTON.

EDMONDSON FURNISHED THE COMMITTEE A SIGNED WAIVER AUTHORIZING

HSCA ACCESS TO ALL MATERIAL UNDER CONTROL OF THE

FBI CONCERNING

HIM, INCLUDING INFORMANT OR CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE FILES.

CURRENTLY, BUREAU POLICY INVOLVING A SIGNED HSCA WAIVER OF

THIS TYPE IS TO OBTAIN OUR OWN WAIVER IN ORDER TO PROTECT

AGAINST CIVIL SUITS- SEATTLE SHOULD PROMPTLY INTERVIEW

EDMONDSON ENOW USING THE NAME ALEX BORMANNI, INFORM HIM OF

RECEIPT OF THE HSCA WAIVER AND OBTAIN ANOTHER SIGNED WAIVER.

THIS WAIVER SHOULD BE WORDED TO AUTHORIZE THE FBI TO RELEASE ALL

INFORMATION IN ITS POSSESSION CONCERNING HIM INCLUDING THOSE

RECORDS PERTAINING TO HIS CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP: THIS

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WAIVER SHOULD ALSO STATE THAT EDMONDSON UNDERSTANDS THESE FILES

WILL DISCLOSE TO THE HSCA ANY CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP HE MAY

HAVE HAD WITH THE FBI. SEATTLE SUBMIT TELETYPE REGARDING

RESULTS OF CONTACT WITH EDMONDSON AND FORWARD WAIVER. IF

OBTAINED, TO FBI HEADQUARTERS EFBIHQF BY COVER AIRTEL.

ALL RECIPIENTS CONDUCT FILE REVIEW FOR ALL RETRIEVABLE

INFORMATION CONCERNING EDMONDSON FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY I

1957, TO PRESENT. FURNISH FBIHQ ONE LEGIBLE COPY OF EACH FILE

AND SERIAL RETRIEVED. FORWARD MATERIAL BY COVER AIRTEL TO

FBIHQ. ATTENTION: CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT. RECORDS MANAGE-

MENT DIVISION. IF YOUR REVIEW DETERMINES FILES CONCERNING

EDMONDSON HAVE BEEN DESTROYED, FURNISH THE DATE AND BASIS OF

DESTRUCTION. IN VIEW OF HSCA PUBLIC HEARINGS WHICH ARE

SCHEDULED FOR EARLY NOVEMBER, 1978, THIS MATERIAL SHOULD REACH

FBIHQ BY OCTOBER 31, 1978.

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HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

NOTE: By letter dated 10/18/78, the HSCA submitted walver

of Edmondson and requested all information concerning him.

On 10/23/78, HSCA modified this request, furnishing address

of Edmondson, limiting a period from 1957 to present and

specifying field offices to be checked.

Through previous

request, the HSCA was granted access to Edmondson's FBI Head-

quarters (FBIBQ) informant file, but his identity was excised.

Edmondson's identity was set forth in the MURKIN file when

he was interviewed as a prison inmate.

Our policy concerning

informants involving the HSCA was approved in Mr. Ryan to

Mr. Bassett memorandum dated 6/5/78 captioned " House Select

Committee on Assassinations, U. S. House of Representatives

(HSCA) . "

This matter has been coordinated with J. J. Jamar

Division.

instructions furnishe

to Supervisor Dick Fleming of the Seattle Office on 10/23/78.

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FOR INFO OF BUREAU, THE ALCORN COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT,

CORINTH, MS., IS IN RECEIPT OF A LETTER DATED OCTOBER iD, 1978,

FROM JAMES EARL RAY, IN WHICH RAY STATES THẠI UNTIL "JUST RECENTLY"

HE ASSUMED THAT AUTHORITIES KNEW THAT HE HAD REGISTERED IN A MOTEL

IN CORINTH, MS., ON APRIL 1, 1968. IN THE LETTER, RAY REQUESTS

THE ASSISIANCE OF THE ALCORN COUNEX-PUERIFF'S DEPARTMENT AND ANY

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ATTACHED TO HIS LETTER A SKETCH OF HIS RECOLLECTION AS TO THE

LOCATION OF THE MOTEL IN WHICH HE REPORTEDLY STAYED APRIL 1, 1968.

INVESTIGATION CONCERNING THE ABOVE DESCRIBED MUSTANG AUTO AND

RAY AND HIS KNOWN ALIASES WAS CONDUCTED IN ALCORN COUNTY, MS., AT

LOCAL MOTELS DURING THE COURSE OF INVESTIGATION IN CONNECIION WIIH

THE KILLING OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. REFERENCED AIRTEL DISCLOSED

THAT CONTACI WAS MADE WITH ALL MOTELS LOCATED IN CORINTH, MS., AND

VICINITY AND NO RECORD WAS LOCATED UNDER SUBJECT'S TRUE NAME, KNOWN

ALIASES AND ALABAMA LICENSE IN CONNECTION WITH CAR DRIVEN BY

SUBJECI.

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

ISHARDSET PREYER, N.C.

SAMUES

EVINE, OHIO

WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C.

STEWAR

MCKINNEY, CONN.

YVONNE BRATHWAiTE BURKE, CALIF.

CHARLES MONE, NEBR.

HRISTOPHER I. DODE CONN

HAROLD S. SAIYYER, MICH.

HAROLd E. FOrto, TENN

FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

• ROBERT W. EOGAR, PA.

(202) 225-4624

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Select Committee on Assassinations

H.S. House of Representatites

КОЛОСЬКТВА

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 18, 1978

10-18-78

FEDERAL GOVERAMCSN

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the

United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D. C. 20530

Attention:

Mr. Robert I. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

The Subcommittee investigating the circumstances surrounding

the death of DI. Martin Luther King, JI., has obtained authori-

zation to examine any and all materials under the control

of the Federal Bureau of Investigation pertaining to Ben

Edmondson (Alex Bormann) •

Therefore, in accordance with the

release excuted by Mr. Edmondson (Alex Bormann), it is

requested that the Bureau make available all BUFILES, Subfiles,

and Field Office files of any nature pertaining to this

individual.

Your prompt attention is greatly appreciated.

sincerely,

1. Nots 8001

G.

Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

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AUTHORIZATION

I hereby authorize the House Select Committee

on Assassinations

to examine any and all Headquarters

and Field Office files, including informant or confi-

dential source files, maintained by the FBI as a result

of information provided by me during the course of

regular FBI interviews or on a confidential basis.

Ge

eDEdude

DATE: 15-00T

George Ben

Edmondson,

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Known as Alex Bormann

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Date

10/24/78

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI

(62-117290)

(ATTN:

CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT,

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Seattle, and St. Louis dated 10/23/78.

St. Louis indices contain two references concerning

GEORGE BEN EDMONDSON, aka ALEX BORMANN.

The first reference is on page 5 of Memphis

teletype to Bureau and other offices dated 6/11/77 in case

captioned "JAMES EARL RAY, aka Eric Stavro Galt, John Willard,

Harvey Lowneyear, Harvey Lownyer - FUGITIVE; CONSPIRACY TO

COMMIT UFAC - ESCAPE", 00: Knoxville, SL file 88-10663. One

copy of that teletype is enclosed herewith.

The second reference in St. Louis indices is an

index card in the name of ALEXANDER GEORGE BEN EDMONDSON,

SL 137-4674, one copy of which is also enclosed herewith.

A review of that indices card by experienced support personnel

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SL 62-5097

At the time EDMONDSON became an IO fugitive in

May, 1966, an "88" indices card was prepared indicating •

that ALEXANDER GEORGE BEN EDMONDSON was an alias of

GEORGE BEN EDMONDSON whose date of birth was 8/3/37,

Springfield, Missouri, and who was assigned FBI #990 987 B

and who was the subject of IO #4011 and wanted flyer #398.

At the time of filing this indices card, a prior reference

to EDMONDSON (SL 137-4674) was consolidated thereon.

is assumed that sometime during the period that EDMONDSON

was an informant for the Kansas City Division, the St.

Iouis Division received a lead to check the National

Personnel Records Center concerning EDMONDSON and, this

being prior to the current method of not opening up full

cases for record checks, a "137" case was opened for the

purpose of checking those records.

At the time the "137"

reference was added to the

"88" indices card, the date of

the "137" being opened should have been added also but this

was not done.

Following normal destruction procedures, when

EDMONDSON's "88" file was destroyed, that number was inked

out on the indices card leaving only the reference to

137-4674. Under the old file destruction program (approximately

five years ago), Sy file 137-4674 was destroyed and the

indices card should have been purged; however, the indices

card was inadvertently not destroyed.

The above described indices card has been purged

from the St. Louis indices and is being maintained as an

exhibit in captioned file.

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JUIS STOKIE, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

RACHATODON PRIYER, N.C.

SAMUIL L. DIVINI, OHIO

MILTER E, FAUNTAOY, D.C.

STIMATT B, MCKINNEY, CONH.

YVONNE IRATHWAITI BURKE, CALIT.

CHAHLES THONE, NEER.

CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN

MADOLD &, LAWYIR, MICH.

HAROLO E. FORD, TINA.

FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

КОВЕНТ Н. ГОСЛЯ, РЛ.

(202) 225-4524

Re ClU.

10-17-78

Select Committee on Assassinations

1.5. House of Representatines

3358 HOUSE OFFICEBUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 17, 1978

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D. C. 20305

Attention: Mr. Robert L. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with this Committee's investigation into

the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, JI., I write to request

that you make the name of a former Security informant available

to the Committee so that the person might be interviewed in '

order that serious allegations involving the Federal Bureau of

Investigation and the death of Dr. King may be resolved.

Committee has had access to the relevant Bureau personnel and

the Headquarters and Field Office files of the informant, duly

excised to protect the informant's identity; and it also con-

ducted extensive interviews among others who are also the subject

of this aspect of the Committee's investigation.

What the Com-

mittee now desires is to determine if the oral testimony of the

witnesses support or refute the written record as well as

information obtained during previous interviews.

The person, whose identity the Committee seeks, was asso-

ciated with the Invaders, a Black militant group in Memphis,

Tennessee during 1968, who were apparently involved in the

violence that occurred in Memphis one week prior to Dr. King's

death. He was an older person, and he had apparently been a

Bureau source since 1958. As a recognized community leader, he

was able to move about freely within the Black community.

Committee knows independently that in the early months of 1968,

the Invaders were attempting to obtain influence in that same

community, and they initially attempted to do so, in part, by

approaching established organizations.

They even went so far

as to invite special agents of the Memphis office to meet with

them early in 1968, at which time they delineated their goals

and objectives.

If the Bureau sought to shape the actions of

these individuals in ways detrimental to Di. King in connection

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• the Honorable Griffin B. Bell

October 17, 1978

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with the counterintelligence program being waged against him,

It would appear that this particular informant would have been

a logical vehicle for that effort.

As you know, with respect to the King investigation, the

Comnittee is, in effect, performing for the death of DI. King

the same function that the Warren Commission performed for the

death of President Kennedy•

One of the most frequent criti-

cisms of the Warren Commission is that in attempting to resolve

the issue of whether or not Lee Harvey Oswald was an FBI in-

formant, the Commission accepted sworn affadavits from the

Bureau.

The Committee feels,

derelict to rely on anything less than an opportunity to examine

and cross-examine relevant witnesses on this crucial issue.

The Committee is not unmindful of the sensitive nature of

its request.

Throughout the effort to resolve this issue, the

Committee has attempted to move with restraint.

It was not

until our field interviews with former members

of the Invaders

and people present in Memphis at the time of the March 28, 1968

march revealed, (1) that the Invaders were in fact a proximate

cause of the violence, and (2) that it is universally believed

that the Invader followers who caused the violence were paid

FBI operatives, that the Committee requested access to any

informant files.

By that time, the Committee had reviewed the Sanitation

Strike, Invaders, King and SCLC substantive files.

It had also.

reviewed the Memphis Police Department files, and

it had inter-

viewed its undercover operative within the Invader organization.

The Committee had initially hoped that the answers it

sought could be resolved by reviewing the informants Headquarters

and Field Office files. Subsequent interviews with current and

former agents revealed, additionally, (1) that the Memphis Field

office had prior knowledge of the impending violence (a fact

memoralized in FBI documents) and (2) members of, the Invaders

were observed by agents of the fBI exhorting the

crowd and

readying weapons from signposts (a fact testified to under oath

by these agents.)

Further, while the Committee has insisted that the files

of all five of the informants said by the Department of Justice

to be involved with the Invaders should have been made available

to its staff pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding, it

made a good faith effort to work out a compromise proposal that

permitted my exclusive review of the excised files.

The

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The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

October 17, 1978

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Committee has now reached a point, however, where the balance

between maintaining the integrity of the Bureau's informant

program and the resolution of this critical issue must be struck

in favor of the Committee's receiving the identity of that one

informant.

A request is not being made for all five, and absent

new developments,

this request should resolve the outstanding

issues.

The burden of the Committee's mandate is largely a

reflection of the desire of the American public to learn the

true facts concerning the death of Dr. King. That burden is

perhaps never more apparent than in connection with the issues

that the Committee is now attempting to address here.

The claim

that an FBI/Invader connection resulted in the violence on April

28 and contributed to DI. King's death has now received nation-

wide attention.

It is recounted in existing literature and was

broadcast nationally in a dramatic account of DI. King's life.

The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, close friend and successor of DI. King,

testified in public under oath and before Members of the Com-

mittee and the national news media, that he recalled members of

the Invaders acknowledging that they had caused the violence

on March 28, in return for compensation from the FBI. Indeed,

an individual who was a recognized leader of the 1968 Sanitation

Strike and made the invitation to DI. King to come to Memphis,

is a leading exponent of the theory that the fBI, through its

informants, had a direct role in Dr. King's assassination.

Finally, the Committee's investigation has revealed that

the Bureau recommended that informants be used with or without

their knowledge to implement counterintelligence proposals

directed against Dr. King, in 1968.

With this backdrop, it is

clear that the Committee has no choice but to satisfy itself

concerning the events which took place in Memphis.

The public

interest in the death of Dr. King

cannot be met by less than a

full investigation.

Talking with this individual is essential

to the fair resolution of these most serious questions.

I would hope that it might be possible to secure the

identity of this informant, either through his consent or para-

graph I. B. (1) of the Memorandum of Understanding between the

Department and the Committee.

Nevertheless, 1 an authorized

to inform you that the Committee is prepared to seek this

information through formal process if all other avenues are of

no avail.

Finally, I would note that this issue must be resolved

well before the resumption of the Committee's public hearings

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in the king investigation, now scheduled to begin on November

9, 1978.

Sincerely,

I Robin Siste

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAISHAY

RICHAROSÓN PRETER, N.C.

SAMUEL L DIVINK, OHIO

WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.E.

STEWART B, MCKINNEY, CONM.

YVONSE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF.

CHARLES THONE, NEMA.

CHRISTOPHER J. DODD. CONY.

MAROLD B. SAYIA, MICH.

HAROLO E. FORD, JENN.

FLOYD S. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT 1Y, EDGAR, FA,

(202) 225-4828

Ree. 610.

10-24-78

11:19Am

Select Committee on Assassinations

E.D. House of Representatives

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 19, 1978

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D.C. 20530

Attention:

Mr. Robert I. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the investigation of the House

Select Committee on Assassinations into the death of

DI. Martin Luther King, JI., I write to request that

you make the name of the former Security informant

available to the Committee so that the person might

be interviewed by the Committee in order that serious

allegations involving the Federal Bureau of Investigation

and the death of DI. King may be resolved. The Committee

has had access to the relevant Bureau files concerning

this informant, but the files were duly excised to pro-

tect the informant's identity. The Committee now desires

to interview this informant to determine if his oral

testimony would support or refute the written record.

In addition, the Committee would expect to obtain other

information from the informant to corroborate or refute

information the Committee has obtained from its other

sources.

The Committee is extremely sensitive to your

concerns about preserving the confidentiality of your

informants.

In addition, the Committee can certainly

appreciate the desire of most Security informants to

remain unidentified. Should the Committee learn the

identity of this informant, it will be used at the cur-

rent time solely to have counsel on the staff interview

and perhaps depose the informant. This would be done in

the Committee's offices in Washington, D.C. and without

the knowledge of any member of the public.

Indeed, not

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even every member of the Committee staff will become aware.

of the informant's identity. The Committee is primarily

interested in the information the informant may provide

the Committee.

informant's identity needlessly publicly exposed. Absent

extraordinary circumstances, the Committee would not divulge

in its hearing's or its final report the name of the informant.

As you are aware, the Committee has extensively pur-

sued its investigations into the Invaders. The claim that

an FBI/Invader connection contributed to DI.

King's assassi-

nation has received nationwide attention. We have held

field interviews with many members of the Invaders and re-

viewed numerous files on them. In addition, the Committee

has interviewed current and former agents of the Department

and Bureau on this issue.

Our Committee has been mandated

to conduct a "full and complete" investigation into the

assassination of DI. King.

Talking with this informant is

essential to enable

us to

fulfill our legislative mandate,

and our responsibilities to the American people. As I indi-

cated to you, I hope it will be possible for us to secure

the identity of the informant through his consent, or pur-

I, Formant

suant to Paragraph I, B. of our Memorandum of Understanding.

Nevertheless, I must

inform you that the Committee is prepared

to seek the information through formal process if all other

avenues fail.

This latter alternative, in the event litigation

ensued and the Committee won, might publically disclose the

identity of the informant:

Indeed, litigation would. only

attract undue attention to this issue, and the participants

involved. I believe if you adequately express to the infor-

mant our sincere desire to avoia unnecessary disclosure or •

publicity, he will consent to his identity being disclosed

Sincerely,

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

RICHARDSON FRIYIR, N.C.

SAMLY

A DEVINE, ORIO

VALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C.

YVONNE ERATHWAITE BUFKE, CALIF.

STEI

CHAR

HONE, NEBR.

CHRISTOHHER J. DODD, CONN.

HAROLO S. SAWYER, MICH.

/ ME, MARY CONN. Literate.

HAROLD E. FORD, TENN.

FLOYD J, FITHIAN, IND.

Select Committee on Assassinations

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

(202) 225-4624

H.D. House of cpresentatibes

3369 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 24, 1978

10-25-78

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Ronopeller

FEDERAL GOVERNESNE

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the

United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D. C. 20530

Attention:

Mr. Robert Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear MI. Attorney Genecal:

In connection with the investigation by this Committee

into the circumstances

surrounding the death of Dr. Martin

Iuther King, Jr., the assistance of the Federal Bureau of •

Investigation is

requested in regard to the following

matters:

1) Prepare for delivery, copies of the fingerprint

cards taken during the course of the MURKIN

Investigation for the following:

a)

James Earl Ray

Gerald William Ray

c) John Ray

2)

Photographic copies of the following identified

by the MURKIN "l" numbers:

a)

Q-405 (Indian Trails payroll check)

Q-398 (Indian Trails payroll check)

3) Make available for telephone interview:

a)

b)

S.A. John I.

Butty (Rackie 62-117240-1258

S.A. Daniel E. Brant (Milwaukee)

SORREETTA

Your prompt attention is greatly appreciated

22 OCT. 31 1978

Sincerely,

HAng BAn

Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

RICHARDSON PREYER, N.C.

SAMUEL L. DEVINE,-OHÍO.

WALTER E, FAUNTROY, D.C.

RUCKINNEY, CORN.

YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, CALIF.

CHARI

LONELNEBR.

CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN.

SAWYER MICH.

HAROLD E. FORD, TENN.

FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

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10-555

(202) 225-4624

INDERAL COVIRMENT

Select Conmittee on Assassinations

M.E. House ot Kepresentatives

3369 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 24, 1978

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D. C. 20530

Attention:

Mr. Robert Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the investigation by this Committee

into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Martin

Luther King, Jr.

information could it would be appreciated if the following

prepared for delivery on an

expedite basis.

1) Cost data for the MURKIN Investigation as

of April

31, 1968.

2)

Cost data and mileage data for the

MURKIN Investigation as of August 31, 1968.

As always your prompt attention is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

G.

Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

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- UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

Legal Counsel

FROM : Ronald Heller

Assoc. Dir..

Dep. AD Adm.-

Dep. 4) Inv.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

"Asst. Dir.:

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Adm. Servs.

Crim. Inv.

dent. -

tell.

Laboratory

DATE: 10/25/78

Legal Coun

Plan. & Insp.

Rec. Mgnt.

Tech. Servs.

Training

Public Affs. Off.

elephone Rm

Director's Sec'y -

SUBJECT: HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

PURPOSE:

The purpose of this memorandum is to advise

that former SA Joseph G. Deegan has requested authoriza-

tion by the Department of Justice for legal counsel

during his interview with captioned Committee.

DETAILS:

By letter dated 10/17/78 (copy attached) former

SA Joseph G. Deegan requested the Assistant Attorney

General, Civil Division, Department of Justice, to

authorize legal representation in his forthcoming inter-

view by captioned Committee pertaining to the FBI's

investigation of Dr. Martin Luther King, JI.

Mr. Deegan has advised that the original of the

attached letter was sent directly to the Assistant Attorney

RECOMMENDATION :

None. For information.

Enclosure

1 - Mr. Bassett (Enclosure)

Attention:

Mr. Foster

1-

Personnel File of Josep

1

- Mr. Mintz (Enclosure).

2

- Mr. Coulson (Enclosure)

1

- Mr. Heller (enclosure)

RH :d,17)

ENCLOSURE

APPROVED:

Director

Assoc. Pir.

Dep. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv.

Adm. Serv.

Crim. Inv.

Ident.

Intell.

Laboratory

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Plan. & Insp.

Rec Mgnt.

Tech. Servs.

Training

Public Affs. Off.

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October 1/, 19/6

8212 Thornton Rd.

Towson, MD 21204

Ms. Barbara Babcock

Assistant Attorney General

Civil Division

Department of Justice

Washington, D.C.

20530

Attention:

Mr. Siebert

Dear Ms. Babcock:

By way of introduction, l am a retired Special Agent of the Federal

Bureau of investigations At the time of my retirement, I was Section Chief

of the Domestic Intei ligent Section at FBl headquarters.

I have been advised by the FBI that I am listed as a witness for interview

by the House Committee on Assasinations.

I have been told that my interview

will pertain to the FBl's investigation of Martin. Luther King.

In my previous position with the FBI, I was privy to numerous memoranda

written concerning the various aspects of the Martin Luther King investigation.

The above memoranda included very sensitive areas such as informant operations

and other matters which I do not feel free to discuss at this time. I have

been given a briefing by a representative of the FBI's Legal Council Division

and I am knowledgeable concerning these areas which I may or may not discuss.

However, in view of the sensitivity of the above information and especially

in view of the possibilities of civil action, l am respectively requesting

that I be represented by legal council. I understand that the Department of

Justice will authorize payment for the hiring of legal council.. In view of this,

I request your authority and naturally your authorization to hire Mr. Joseph

Morrissey, who is a member of the Welsh & Morgan Law Firm, 900 17th Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20006.

Thanking you in advance for your cooperation.

Respectfully yours,

G. Deegan

CC:

• J. Morrissey

Special Agent Ronald Heller

68-1172811960

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LOUIS STOKES, OHIO, CHAIRMAN

RICHARDSON PREYER, N.C.

SAMUEL L.

HE, OHIO

STEWART B. L-SKINNEY, CONN.

CHARLES THONE, NEBR.

HAROLO S, SAWYER, MICH.

HAROLD E. FORD, TENN.

FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND.

ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA.

Rec..clo

10-31.795=

3:29PM

(202) 225-4624

Select Committee on Assassinations

U.5. House of Representatines

3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 30, 1978

FEDERAL GOVERNHENA

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D.C. 20530

Attention: Mr. Robert L. Keuch

Deputy-Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the investigation by the

House Select Committee on Assassinations into the

circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Martin

Luther King, Jr., I have enclosed pursuant to the

agreement between the Department of Justice and

this Committee, copies of those materials which may

be referred to, and consequently made public during

our upcoming hearings scheduled to reconvene on

November 9, 1978.

It would be appreciated therefore if the Department

of Justice would review the enclosed, and inform the

Committee at least by November 6, 1978, if there are

any objections to the release of any of the information.

Thank you for your continuing cooperation.

Sincerely,

# MoG Blotta 12-117290-1261

G. Robert Blakey'

Chief Counsel and Director

42-117290

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Assoc. Dir.

Dap. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv.

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Serv._

Crim. Inv._

Ident.

Intell.

Laboratory

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RECEIVED

FEDERAL BUREAU

OF INVESTISATION

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

P 181935Z OCT 78

Training

Public Affs. Off.

Telephone Rm.

Director's Sec'y

FM ATLANTA (66-2242) (RUCR)

TO DIRECTOR (62-117290) PRIORITY

BT

BRENKE

UNCLAS

ORIENTION CONGRESSIONAL ENQUIRY UNIS

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

REFERENCE BUREAU TELEPHONE CALL TO ATLANTA,

OCTOBER 18, 1978.

FBIHQ ADVISED IN REFERENCED TELEPHONE CALL THAI THE

HSCA HAD REQUESTED THAT THE BUREAU FURNISH THE NAMES OF ALL

THE SPECIAL AGENIS (SA'S) WHO WERE ASSIGNED TO HEADQUARTERS

OF THE ATLANTA FBI OFFICE FROM JANUARY 1, 1967, THROUGH

APRIL, 1968.

886-2: 62-117290-1262

AS A RESULT OF THE ABOVE, ATLANTA

CHECKED THE ATLANTA

PERSONNEL ADDRESS LISTS COVERCING

PERIOD JANUARY 1, 1967,

THROUGH APRIL 3D, 1968; AND THE FOLLOWING SA'S WERE NOTED AS

BEING ASSIGNED TO THE ATLANTA OFFICE DURING THAT PERIODE

9 OCT 20 1378

Just

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"SPECIAL AGENTS IN CHARGE, ASSISTANI SPECIAL AGENIS IN

CHARGE, AND SUPERVISORCS" :

FRANK V. HITT - SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE

EUGENE H. STEWARI - ASSISTANI SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE

JACK KEITH - ASSISTANI SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE

CHARLES S. HARDING (ASTERISK)

EDWARD I. KASSINGER

ANGELO M. ROBBE

"HEAD QUARTERS CITY SA"S"

HILBERT ARPS (ASTERISK)

JOSEPH PATRICK AYERS

THOMAS JO BARRETT

JACK I. BEVERSTEIN (ASTERISK)

JAMES G. BOWEN

DENNIS A. BRAIDEN

DONALD P. BURGESS (ASTERISK)

RICHARD J. CIECKA

JOSEPH A. CIMINERA

CARL E. CLAIBORNE (ASTERISK)

WILLIAM D. COCHRAN

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WILLIAM E. COLOMBELL

DALE D. CONROY

KEITH D. COY

EDWARD G. CRIM (ASTERISK)

JOHN F. CUNNINGHAM (ASTERISK)

RICHARD H. DAVIS (ASTERISK>

MARC M. DIEHL

JAMES JOSEPH DOLAN (ASTERISK)

JOHN I. DOLAN

SPENCER J. DRAYTON

CHARLES S. DUKE (ASTERISK)

SCOTT I. FENSTERMAKER

RICHARD E. FUGAIT (ASTERISK)

GERALD J. GALLAGHER

CHARLES E. GALVIN

JOHN P. GRANFIELD

JAMES L. HAGUE

STEPHEN L. HAL PIN

O. RICHARD MAMILTON (ASTERISK)

CHARLES T. HAYNES (ASTERISK)

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KENNETH R. HEINEMAN

STANLEY I. JACOBSEN

JAMES O. JANNEY

ROGER L. KAAS

STANLEY R. KEEL

WILLIAM V. KENNEDY

ROBERT J. KOLEVAR

JOHN J. LANGSFELD

DAVID R. LASH

THOMAS E. LAVIN

HARRY L. LEE

JOHN F. LEUCK

ROBERT K. LEWIS

JAMES F. LINK

LAWRENCE L. LYNCH

RONALD MADDEN

ROBERT L. MC FALL

RAYMOND J. MICHEL

ALDEN F. MILLER (ASTERISK)

PAUL LEE MILLER

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THOMAS H. MIT CHELL, JR.

C. DALLAS MOBLEY

ARTHUR L. MURTAGH (ASTERISK)

ROBERT R. NICHOLS

RONALD R. NOEL

JOHN E. OGDEN

BRIAN FRANCIS O'SHEA

JOHN M. PALFI (ASTERISK)

ROBERT GUNN PARKER

ROBERT R. PERRY

JAMES O. PONDER

JOHN P. QUINLAN

RICHARD D. RACKLEFF

THOMAS C. RENAGHAN

JOHN B. REYNOLDS

JAMES R. RIORDAN

DONALD V. RITENOUR, JR.

HUGH ROBINSON, JR.

PAUL W. RÖEMER

CHARLES F. ROESNER (ASTERISK)

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JAMES J. ROSE (ASTERISK)

ALAN H. ROTTON

TERRY M. SCOTT

ALAN G. SENT INELLA (ASTERISK)

JACK B. SIMPSON

WILLIAM JOHN SLICKS

JOSEPH E. SMITH

MICHAEL J. SOJA (ASTERISK)

FRANK R. SOUTHERLAND (ASTERISK)

RAYMOND F. SPOON

JOHN G. SULLIVAN

DONALD F. TACKITT

WILLIAM J. WAIRCY

WILLIAM B. WATTS

DONALD G. WILSON

GLENN L. YOUNG

THE WORD ASTERISK WAS USED TO INDICRATE THE NAMES OF

ATLANTA HEADQUARTERS SA'S WHO HAD BEEN ASSIGNED TO THE

ATLANTA SECURITY SQUAD (NUMBER THREE SQUAD) DURING THE

PERIOD JANUARY, 1967, TO APRIL, 1968.

SOME OF THESE

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AGENTS ON THE SECURITY SQUAD ONLY SERVED ON THIS SQUAD FOR

A PORTION OF THE ABOVE PERIOD, AND SOME OF THEM DID NOT

HANDLE SECURITY WORK, AS THIS SQUAD ALSO HANDLED OTHER

MATTERS.

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nie

HANDOURAI DOTERSI

Argistant Attorney General

Criminal Division

Attention: Mr. Robert I. Icuch

Director, FBI

HOUSE SELECT COMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

U. S. HOUSL OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

October 31, 1978

I - Mr. Mintz

Attn: Mr. Heller

1 - Administrative Services

Division

(Aton: Mr. E. H. Woodby)

1 - Mr. Bassett

1 - Mr. Foster

Reference is made to the letter to the Attorney

King, Jr., requested cortain cost data Information from

filos of FBI Hcadquartors.

Enclosed are an original and one copy of a memo-

randun in response to this letter.

It is requested that you

furnish a copy of the enclosed conorandun to the lIsCA.

Enolosures (2)

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NOTE:

Cost data information from Administrative Services

Division was furnished by Section Chief E. H. Woodby, Budget

and Accounting Section.

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(*

1 - Mr. Mintz

Attn: Mr. Heller

1 - Administrative Services Division

(Attn: Mr. E. H. Woodby)

1 - Mr. Bassett

1 - Mr. Foster

October 31, 1970

HOUSE SELECT CONNITTEE OT ASSASSINATIONS

U. E. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVED (ECCA)

Reference is nade to the letter to the Attorney

ceneral from l. Hobert Blakey, Chief Counscl and Director,

ISCA'S Investigation into the untan a con or lon un truthe

Kings Jr., (HURKIT) requested cortain cost data information

fron files of TBI lleadquarters.

Information contained in an internal adninistrative

folder of cost lizures collected durine the NURHill Investi-

ration and maintained in the Budget and Accounting Section,

Administrative Services Division, reviered October 24,

1978, disclosed the following: Cost data for the MURKIN

Investration as of April 30, as of Vis N81,403 Cost data

'or the burkin investigation

August 31, 1908, 1aI

01,278,898; and mileage data for the MURIlll investiration as

Aurust 31, 1968, vas

: 476,950 miles.

The above infornation sas orally provided HSCA

Staff Member Thomas Sacço on October 25, 1978.

(7

ORIGINAL AND ONE SENT TO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL,

CRIMINAL DIVISION, ATTENTION: MR. ROBERT L. KEUCH.

NOTE: See Director,

criminal Division, Attent letter to Assistant Attorney General,

Mr. Robert I. Keuch, dated

October 31, 1978, captioned

as above.

Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv.

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs.

Crim: Inv.

Ident..

Intell.

Laboratory

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Plan. & Insp.

Rec. Mgnt.

Tech. Servs.

Training

Public Affs. Off.

Telephone Rm.

Director's Sec'y

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LOU1S БТОК, ОНІЮ, С

MICHAADSON PREYER, N.C.

SAR

WALTER E, FAUNTROY, D.C.

MENTONST BRATHWAITI DUNKE, CALIT.

CHRISTPPHER J. DODD, CONN.

DEVINE, OHIO

B. MCKINNEY, CONN.

CHARLI: THONE, NEBR.

MAKOLD S. SAHYER, MICH.

HAROLD E. FERD, TENN.

FLOYO S. PITHIAN, IND,

POSTERT W. EDGAR, FA.

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10-35-78

(202) 225-1524

Select Committee on Assassinations

U.S. House of Representatives

$359 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING. ANNEX Z

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515

October 24, 1978

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D. C. 20530

Attention: Mr. Robert Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In connection with the investigation by this Committee

into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. Martin

Luther King; Jr., it would be appreciated if the following

information

could be prepared for delivery on an

expedite basis.

1) Cost data for the MURKIN Investigation as

of April 31, 1968.

2)

Cost data and mileage data for the

MURKIN Investigation as of August 31, 1968.

As always your prompt attention is greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

GRB: ghb

Co:

Ron Heller

62-117290-1211

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