Originator: FBI
From: LA
To: HQ
Document date: 03/09/1965
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

6/4/2015

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-90116-10162

RECORD SERIES: MM

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-4921-124

Heleased under the John F. Kennedy

issassination Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

64578 Date: 12.14-2022

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

LA

TO: HQ

TITLE:

DATE:

' PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

03/09/1965

4

MINUTEMEN

DOCUMENT TYPE:

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/10/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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AIRTEL

CONFIBENTIAt

AIR MAIL

MAR 9

1965

TO:

FROM:

RE:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-107261)

SAC, LOS ANGELES (62-5101)

RICHARD E. COTTEN, aka.

Richard B. Cotton

RM

"MINUTEMEN"

INFORMATION CONCERNING

(INTERNAL SECURITY)

Glassified by SPS BT

Declassity on: DADR 12247

121326

Re Los Angeles teletypes to the Bureau, HEREIVe

ATT IABOFAATTON CONTAINED

dated 3/6 and 8/65. Miami teletype to the Bureau, EXCErTAINE SHOWN

TaCLASGINIED

dated

3/5/65.

CHATNIST.

Enclosed for the Bureau are eight copies of a

letterhead memorandum concerning captioned matters.

Enclosed for the Miami Office are two xerox copies

of Los Angeles airtels to the Bureau dated 3/2/65 and 2/26/65

captioned

"UNSUE,

THEFT OF DYNAMITE, BUREAU OF WATER AND

POWER, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, 4:00 A.M. - 2/25/65, POSSIBLE

BOMBING MATTER; KIETH DWAYNE GILBERT, aka. INFORMATION

CONCERNING' and "UNKNOWN SUBJECT; THEFT OF DYNAMITE, BUREAU

OF WATER AND POWER, Los Angeles,

California, 4:00 A.M.

2/25/65, POSSIBLE BOMBING MATTER" respectively and two

letterhead memoranda

concerning these matters.

information is being furnished Miami for information purposes.

DECLASSINCO BY 568540 1S

4-2-97

(JFK).

105-4921-128

UNDEXED

LUb

San Diego (Info.) (RM)

Los Angeles

1 - 157-Dead (RICHARD COTTEN

00g 51-1268

CONFIDE

SEARCHED

SERIALIZED

FILED -

MAR 1 9 1965

FBI - MIAMI

DOWNING

TIAL"

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CONFIDENTIAE

LA 62-5101

A copy of this letterhead memorandum is being

interest in captioned matter.

A copy is being furnished San Diego for information

inasmuch as information is set forth in the next paragraph

which may be of interest to the San Diego Office.

San Diego by letter to

Portland dated 9/19/50 with

copies to Los Angeles captioned "RUTH WILSON COTTEN, POTENTIAI

SECURITY INFORMANT" requested recipient offices to search

indices concerning relatives of this individual who was under

development by the San Diego Office.

RICHARD B. COTTEN,

1821 - 18th Street, Bakersfield, California, was shown as

a son. Los Angeles has no information as to the results of

this

inquiry by

• the San Diego Office.

This letterhead memorandum is classified confidential

as it contains information from LA 4486-R,

the unauthorized

isclosure of which could reasonably result in the identifica-

tion of a confidential informant of continuing value and

compromise future effectiveness thereof.

Mr. DAVID MARLIN, Bakersfield, California, furnished

information to SA KENNETH W. BROWN.

SA CONRAD N. SHAW caused a search to be made of the

records of the Credit Bureau of Bakersfield, Bakersfield

Police Department and the Kern County Sheriff's Office.

Mr. KEITH D. THOMPSON, Post Office, Inspector's

Office, Bakersfield, furnished information to SA WAYNE J.

MORRISON.

SA HARRY L. GRIFFIN caused a

• search to be made of

the arrest records of the Los Angeles Police Department.

First Source is LA 4486-R (134-1038-4)

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CONFD

ANTIAL

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CONFUSIAL

TiA 62-5101

Second source is

Anti-Defamation League:

3'nai B'rith

590 North Vermont Avenue

Los Angeles, Callfornia (Requested) & (U)

Third Source is

KEITH D. THOMPSON,

Personnel Office

Postal Inspectors Office

pubeat on tatantrola

Fourth source is

CSLA 3184-S

(Location instant)

Files of the Los Angeles Office disclose no other

pertinent identifiable information than that contained in

this letterhead memorandum concerning the following:

EDNA BUSTER

•Committee of Christian Laymen of Kern County,

California

Conservative Viewpoint

MADELYN M. COTTEN

RICHARD B. COTTEN, aka.

Richard B. Cotton

RICHARD HOSKINS

• ANNE LEREICK (DEREICK) (illegible)

EVELYN SCHROEDER

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CUNTIENHAL

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