APPEALS REVIEW FORM

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00366794
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2025
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2025
• Publication Date: January 13, 1969

CIA HISTORICAL RD/JEW PROGRAM RELEASE IN FULL A 01-13-99 46 UNLLASSIFIL1). ....4.0.1.411 A Si I I OEUKCI Li Jur APPEALS REVIEW FORM Tab ( ) ( ) ( ) ab-� contains Previously denied in toto dated 13 zr, / 24 under exemption(s) Segregable portions previously under of released; excised portions exempted of Located during the DDO appeals Referred to DDO for review by review. Further description, identification, comments, and/or tte-- 9.23T- I RECOMMEND: ( ) Sustain initial denial ( ADD exemption(s) ( ) DROP exemption(s) ( ) in toto under exemption(s) referrals, etc. . � Sustain initial release of sanitized version with excised portions exempted under of ( ) ADD exemption(s) ( ) DROP exemption(s) ( ) Release additional information with excised portions exempted under of ( ) Deny document in toto under exemption(s) of Release a sanitized version with excised portions exempted under of Fe, 1/47 . S. The exemptions cited above are being claimed to protect the following: Information from a foreign liaison service information pertaining to a foreign liaison relationship information which would/could identify the source Information pertaining to a source Information pertaining to intelligence methods Location of CIA overseas installation Location of Unacknowledged domestic installation Name $ of C[A,employeeff File number Pseudonym Cryptonym Internal organizational data Name of FBI agent FBI. file number Privacy of other individual$ OTHER . COMMENTS d/or SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS. a. /V� .2441 ,4e0A-1- j� � c MET � During the DDO classification as ) maintained c.!a,,.sified to ) dcc:lassified 1 1 (,(f.iert.qi.ti7od -,f-figraded to review, was: this document which was marked ,E2 IMPDET � CL BY 012170 !'5:,th.c..ELJT17.717. SECRET. 1-1 TOP SECRET � -.ENTRAL INTELLIC.Ei\:C7' AC-r:Nt WASHINGTON, D.C. 20'...zo5 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director Fedeeal Bureau of Investigation Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich SUBJECT : GARRISON and the Kennedy Assassination: Bernard FE.NS'rERWA.LD et al- " 1. A WaShingtOn UPI dispatch of 3 January 1969 reads as follows: � Washington -- Nest' Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison r--. �. is one of seven board ''members of a new-national committee :to investigate assasSinations which is being former; 1-,r-re Bernard Fensterwald, 47, of Arlington, Va., another board member, said the 'committee's purpose is "To embarrass or force the government to make investigations they 'nave been putting off since Nov. 22, 1963." That was the date of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. 'Fensterwald, who said he was setting up an office which would open in a week, left the venate earlier this week after 12 -years:as counsel for several committees: "The committee will concentrate on the three best known assassinations -- President Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and Dr. .Martin Luther King -- but v.rill leave its options open on some other rather mysterious deaths," he "Our position is there was a conspiracy in Dallas, there ,- were strong footprints of a conspiracy in Memphis where � Dr. King was Shot and nobody really knows much about 'what went on in Los .Angeles (where Senator-Kenne, was slai-\�g but we intend to look.' APPROVED FOR RELEASE fs' tudz, n.; NOT RECORDED 46 JAN 29 1969 Ase.ihese.414 He said the committee hoped to find private financial support to hire a professional Staff for its investigations. Other board members, said Fensterwald, include Bill __� Turner of zare-isco, a former FBI agent; Richard 7S-Pra.sue :Hartsdale, N. Y. , a computer expert; Fred J. Cook-, Englewood, N.J. , author; Lloyd Tupling, associated with the Sierra Club here, and PaTii.s.Flammonde, a New York writer who will have a 'r.rook out next week on assassinations. Eight more board members will be named later, Fensterwald said. 2. Paris Flarnmon e�rs in the January 1969 issue of Evergreen as the author of an article entitled "Why President Kennedy Was Killed". His book The Kennedy Cons:piracy has been published by Mereaith, Press, New York. The dust cover of the book states that Fl.;--.1mmonde was for, many years the producer of the Long John Nebel radio show. We have no record of him. -117- � We shouia be gi tetui if you can determine whether the Bernard Fensterwald who apnezirs in this report is identical with the 47 year.. old Bernard Fensterwald cited in the UPI dispatch. If so, any additional information is also requested. - �� � � � 4. Our records show that Richard Sprague, a management consultant and photographic researcher, appearea in a New York Times article of 24 May 1968 in which he clairried that within an hour of the assassination of PresidentKennedy.three men may have been pulled off freight ears in a railroad yard neT.r.Dealy Plaza. We have no further identifiable record of him.. We also have no record of Lloyd Tupling. We shouldrbe grateful for any further information about Sprague, Tupling, or Flarnrnonde. FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR PLANS: CSCI-316/00108-69 Pg.* -- 4 3.3 January i9-59 � -" 40;:;40:44.405. WAsHiNGTaN, D.C. 20Z-03 .r� s � � : T.7 1-0 I 1, � - ' MEMORANDUM FOR: Director � .0w' Esede.eal Bureau of Investigation Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich �*. SUBJECT : GARRISON and the Kennedy Assassination: Bernard FE.NSTERWALD et a.1- " 1. A Washington UPI dispatch of 3 January 1969 reads as follows: � - '1" v�9 ' f � :1 1- , !I � Washington -- New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison - is one of seven board members of a neNvational committee .. � to investig.ate assassinations which is being formed here.. � ��������������� Bernard .1.-:'ensterwald, 47, of Arlington, Va., another bordcmber, said .the committee's purpose is "To embarrass or force the government to make investigations they hztve been putting off since Nov. 22, 1963." That was the date of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. Pensterwald., who said he was setting up an office which � would open in a week, left the iienate earlic.-.r this week after 12 years_ as counsel for several committees. "The committee will concentrate on the three best known . as.sassinations -- President Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy- and Dr-. Martin Luther King -- but will leave its options open � on some other rather mysterious deaths," he � r�-� -r> r.v '3:70 "Our position is there was a conspiracy in.Dallas,- were strong footprints ef a conspiracy in Memphis where Dr. King was Shot and nobody really knows much about What. went on in Los Angeles (where Senator-Kennedy was slain) but we intend to . c- 2 1/ -, � � .s.tw S541 CP-L1- � NOT RECORDED /7 7 , 46 JAN 29 1969 .� - Artrairwout.4 f�, X S�, '1Pr'7r)� ".4 t He said the committee hoped to find private financial support: to hire a professional staff for its investigations. Other board members, said Fensterwald, include Bill Turner of an LI"ra.ncisco, a former FBI agent; Richard .7-SP-r*ague of Hartsdale., N. Y.. , a computer expert; Fred J. Cook, En'glewood, N.J., author; Lloyd Tupling, associated with the Sierra Club here, and Pari.s. �Fla.r.n. Monde., a New York � . writer who will have a b.00k out next week on a.ssa.ssinations. Eight more board members will be named later, Fensterwald said. 2. William Turner and Fred J. Cook are well known to you. Paris Plammonde appears in the January 1969 issue of Evergreen � as the author of an article entitled "Why President Kennedy Was Killed". His book The Kennedy Conspiracy has been published by Mereaith: Press, New York. The dust cover of the book states that Fla:or:non/2.c:: was for many years. the producer of the Long John Nebel radio show. We have no record of him. �4 . 3. Reference is made to your memorandum, New York office, 24 August 1956, subjeCt: Blanche Fensterwald, also known as: Mrs. \ Bernard Fensterwald. We should be. grateful if you can determine i I whether the Bernard Fensterwald who appears in this report is identical 1 with the 47 year, old Bernard Fensterwald cited in the UPI dispatch. If so, any additional information is also requested. .� -.,..--...... /.?..../ ::._11 ,,v,.... /........,,A...; ,,,...,.....,.� - 4. Our records show that Richard Sprague, a management consultant and photographic researcher, appeared in a New York � Times article of 24 May 1968 in which he clainied that within an hour of the assassination of President Kennedy three men may have t been pulled off freight cars in a railroad yard near Dea.ly Plaza,. We have no further identifiable record of�hirn. We also have no record. ;- of Lloyd Tupling. We sho-ularbe .grateful for an-r further information Ii about Sprague, Tupling, or Flamn-londe. FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR PLANS: CSCI-316/00108-69 nfl I � I, t/ /..'"NA� � ....gAMES ANGLETON A... � 1.v..,,Awr-t*Irse174^,' � uti oz.1: 3. 3 ja quary� t - FBI I - Office of :::if.111e.:r al Counsel 1 - Cl/1-511 ���� I C117N1.8ZA - 1.-%P Ga,-7..-.1a on file .1 - 201-1'�;":396 irsZ;f VA