CABLE- AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE ADVISES THAT MAJ BERNARD F REHKOPE, USAF ASSIGNED TO MACTHAI, HAS BEEN IN TOUCH.
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Document date: 08/29/1968
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1o AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE ADVISES THAT MAJ. BERNARO FÜ

REHKOPF, USAF ASSIGNED TO MACTHAI, HAS BEEN IN TOUCH

ASKING ASSISTANCE IN CONTACTING AN LNERGO

OFFICIAL.

REHXOPE CLAIMS THAT HIS DAUGHTER RITA, WHO FORMERLY

WORKED IN BANGKOK FOR LAW FIRM AND IS NOW BASED IN

NEW ORLEANS WITH DELTA AIRLINES, HAS TELEPHONED HIM FROM •

NEW ORLEANS APPROX EIGHT TIMES IN LAST SEVERAL NIGHTS. SHE

STATES SHE IS IN THE HANDS OF LNERGO. SHE CLAIMS THAT SHE

KNEW JAMES EARL RAY AND SAYS SHE KNOWS HE WENT TO LONDON.

SHE FURTHER CLAIMS THAT LNERGO IS PAYING FOR HER PHONE CALLS,

AT THE SAME TIME IMPLYING, AT LEAST AS FAR AS REHKOPF IS

CONCERNED, THAT SHE IS UNDER A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DURESS.

20 REHKOPF IS VERY DISTRAUGHT AND CONCERNED FOR

DAUGHTER'S WELFARE. AIR FORCE ADVISED HIM THAT THEY WOULD TRY

TO PUT LNERGO IN TOUCH WITH MIM.

THEY HAVE ASKED HIM NOT TO

DO ANYTHING DRASTIC, SUCH AS SURFACING MATTER TO THE PRESS,

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AND THEY ARE REASONABLY SURE THAT HE WILL COMPLY, AT LEAST

FOR THE PRESENT.. HOWEVER, HE WANTS ASSURANCES FROM

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LNERGO THAT DAUGHTER IS BEING WELL TREATED AND IS IN ON

DANGER.

3. RECOMMEND MAS ADVISE LNERGO HAS FOR ACTION AS

APPROPRIATE. SUGGEST MANILA ALSO PASS GIST OF ABOVE TO LEGAL

ATTACHE. THERE IS OF COURSS, POSSIBILITY THAT RITA MERELY HAS

AN ACTIVE IMAGINATION. HER REPUTATION WHILE HERE WAS

THAT OF FLIGHTY AND IMMATURE PERSONALITY.

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