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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

Agency Information

5/27/201

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

FBI

124-10296-10130

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 163÷1504-7

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

FBI

DIRECTOR, FBI

DIRECTOR, CIA

DATE: 03/23/1970

PAGES:

3

SUBJECTS :

WHJ, ASSOC, RCK, IDENT, BKG, AKA, MIL SERV, EMP

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 05/18/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS : INC MEMO

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REC-35

(RI) 163-1504

SECRET

1 - Mr. Michela

Date:

March 20, 1970

To:

Director

Central Intelligence Agency

Attention: Deputy Director for Plans

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENT. EXCEpT FOR

Barchas oNpq.

KP 1010-97

From:

Subject:

John Edgar Hoover, Director

GEORGE HOOVER PRATT

INTERNAL SECURITY - LAOS

RAL INEORMADDA CONTARABIAL MATTERS

TO ENELASSIFIED

WHERE SHOWN

SETICHWISE

1-17-98

CLASSIFIED BY 5768 SID INSO

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X.

JFK)

Reference is made to your request dated March 10,

1970, and to my letter dated November 21, 1969, concerning

captioned individual, your file B-956.

There is enclosed one copy each of the fingerprint

AY COURIER SVC

cards of captioned individual and James Warren Smedley, who

may be identical with the James Warren Swedley mentioned in

your request of March 10, 1970.

It is foted that you were furnished two coples of

the Federal Bureab of Investigation Identification Record

concernings George Hoover Pratt,

my. letter dated

November 218: 1969.

ireview of the files of this Bureau

disclosed no? ahtif cation Record Identifiable with

ile

ames warren medley og William Herman Jackson, als

nown as Jack Karl lawtorn, who were also mentioned 1

Tolson

DeLoach.

your request of March 10, 1970

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Callahan

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Rosen

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Taveli

405 So 10 00 dr alb

Soyors

Tele. Room

Holmes

mero

SEE NOTE PAGE TWO

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Director

Central Intelligence Agency

SECRET

While no Identification Record concerning

James Warren Smedley was located, the enclosed fingerprint

cards concerning smedley and Pratt may be of assigtance to

you in making record checks throughlofficial Thal sources:

The enclosed fingerprint cards and the copies of the

Identification Record which were furnished to you by my

letter dated November 21, 1969, may be utilized by you

in checking official Thai sources concerning the S

individuals mentioned above.

In

must insure that the Thai official] clearly understand (5)

that it is your Agency which is making the record checks

and that such checks are not in any way being made for

this Bureau.

Enclosures - 2

NOTE:

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) previously

checked the names of Pratt, Jackson, and Smedley through

Bureau files. CIA has advised that Pratt had reportedly

attempted to get people out of Vietnam into Laos where

these people could be trained and

shipped to the United States

to assist in the "Black Movement." By memorandum dated...

3/10/70, CIA furnished additional identifying information

concerning Jack'son and Smedley and requested copies of

Iingerprint records. ClA requested to be advised if those

records could be provided to official Thaijsources ins

order to facilitate checking*

certain Thai records which

would otherwise be unavailable.

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NO

SECREN

REICN DISSEM/NO DISSEM ABROAD

B-956 R°

10 MAR 1970

SUBJECT:

Reference:

George Hoover PRATT

A.

Our memorandum of 11 February 1970,

Subject as above.

CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFICATIONI AND/OR,

B.

Your letter dated 21 November 1969,

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

subject: George Hoover PRAIt,

IN THIS DOCUMENT. ExCEPT FOR

Internal Security - Laos, Racial

Matters:

BRACIUTS

KP 10-10-97 520/45R 1-17-98 (JFK)

cerning Herman JACKSON. and King MEDLEY mentioned ir

paragraph 1A of reference A:

Herman JACKSON IS believed to be identi

*

cal with William Herman JACKSON, also known as Jack Kari

IAWHORN, who was

born on 24 November 1926 in Dothar,

Alabama. JACKSON IS a retired United States Army Master

Sergeant who now owns Jack's American Star Bar in Bang-

kok,

Thailand. He carries United States passport number

2539419

b.

King SMEDLEY 1s believed to be identical

with James warren smelled, negro male born on ctober

1922 at Roanoke, reinia.

SMEDLEY served in the United

States Air Force. He carries United States passport

2424089.

FOREIEN

2.

Please provide us with copies of the linger-

print records of Subject and William Herman JACKSON.

Please advise us if we may provide these records to

sofficial Thay sources in order to tacilitate checking

ertain Thai records that would otherwise not be avail-

able.

EX. - 106

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PLEASE TRANSIT PLY VIA LAOI, IP. S. d. PA804 1'4 3- 1504- 7

MAR 24 1970

• NO FORZIGN DISSEMIN

SECRET

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