UNKNOWN SUBJECT: B. R. FOX - EXTORTION AND ARTICLE FROM PENTHOUSE MAGAZINE ON THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00426280
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2025
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2025
• Publication Date: August 12, 1976

104-10112-10328 12 August 1976 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Unknown Subject: B. R. Fox - Extortion One of the individuals recently interviewed by the FBI relative to Subject matter noted that he once saw information concerning B. R. Fox company in an article by Tad SZULC in the Penthouse magazine, July 1975. Attached to instant memorandum is a copy of that article captioned, "The Spy Among Us." The portion pertaining to B. R. Box is set out in brackets. It is noted that the article mentions the address of B. R. Fox Company, as well as Lucien CONEIN and Michael MORRISSEY. Att: - As stated JGB:hjd Jerry G. Brown Deputy Chief Security Analysis Group APPROVED FOR 1993 CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM ' E2IMPDET CL BY 063994 Z -7173 3 ����.� I ' r--r: � . �������i . - � � � . �i_ I To � r, �Th I Ic", C � - ri r � ! � r r-. Av. -J-��� ..tr� ctrao CIA employees- in interrogation; part, until early 1975 In 0:h'r ViOr-05- the chine to unseal and reseal envc!opes cf ehniques. Poiice ciepartment; in that' hoover files were a secret frorn dozens oi. ory conceivabie �ei u d3t,If f shington al ea have also provided CIA, attorneys general over the years. (The ores- During 1974 the U.S. Postal service sur- f:t-iaiS with focal police credentials to fa-i ent FBI director. Clarence M. Ke.tley 'ever; veined and-recorded the origins of all mail iii=t0 domestic undercover work. told Levi's predecessor. former aa.orneyi received by nearly 4.500 Americans Tile. Former CIA director James Schlesinger general William B. Sax be. about the---. ) : CIA was no longer requesting sLich ,spected the CIA may have been engag- g in illegal activities shortly after he re- aced Richard M. Helms. now US_ ambas- 1973. Among COINTELPRO s targe:e were the Socialist Workers' Party. the Your:; So- cialist Alliance. the "Na;: Left." American Communists, "black extremists." and' white lion and VJelfale Department: the Agricul- ture Department: the iRS: the FBI: the Postal Inspection Service: the Drug Enforcement Administration: the Secret Service: the Coast hate groups." COINTELPRO was oricnally . Guard: the Interior Department the Labor aimed at foreign intelligence agents in the Department: the Justice Department: the United States. a proper FBI functice. but, Immigration and Naturalization 'Service:: Hoover:without clearance from successive Customs: the Royal Canadian Mounted Po-. attorneys general. applied it to dorrtestic lice: and a vast number of local police de- groups as well, partments and tax offices. In 1969. for example. the FBI sent a fake The Internal Revenue Service, through its. threatening letter. to a black Baptist minister. .special service staff, was also involved in" Donald W. Jackson. to force him to abandon domestic espionage. A congressional in- vestigation established that the IRS had 11.458 files on individuals and organiza- tions (including 706 persons from Nixon's "enemies list-) for reasons that clearly had . 'nothing to do with tax collection In Miami. ; the IRS cranked up its "Operation Lep- rechaun" designed to assemble data or, the sex and drinking habits of prominent resi- dents, including the state's attorney. The National Security Acency. a superse- to put the Vietnam Veterans Against :-.e War cret outfit dealing with code breaking and out of business in Florida electronic intelligence. ;s currently continu- One of the FBI's most astonishinc unau- ing to monitor all overseas telephone calls thorized efforts was against the sma.l So- and cables. During the Nixon period, the cialist Workers' Party and its affilia-.e. the NSA -was an enthusiastic supporter of Nix- Young Socialist Alliance. The party had not on's domestic intelligence program. par- 12r1 turning evidence over to the Justice been prosecuted since 1945. but the FBI ticularly when it came to breaking into. Poartment for investigation and possible files on the disruption program runt to an foreign embassies. Admiral Noel Gayler, ecsocution. However, for reasons that re- amazing 573 pages. The bureau's harass- then the NSA director, has been rewarded unclear. Colby apparently failed to inent of the party reached the point with the post of commander-in-chief of all - !otify the president of his move. Ford be- last December, a federal judge in New York U.S. forces in the Pacific (CINCPAC). aware of it only after the domestic ordered the FBI to desist from cond...;r...:Zing There could be an endless list of the intru- -pying scandal broke out late in 1974. surveillance on a national convention of the sions of our government into our private Subsequently. David glee. deputy direcYoung Socialist Alliance. Another instance lives. Let us conclude with three of the more jr of the CIA's Directorate of Operations of unauthorized FBI activity came to light striking examples: in 1969 Henry Kissinger i Clandestine Services). advised CIA em- when it was learned that the security chief at recommended names of his closest aides :oyees by memorandum that they should the American Indian M',mit d,ire th- and several newsmen to be bugged by the ! --2n private, course: in the event of legal jWouncld Knee takeover in1973 'e -en a FBI for -natienal security" reasons: the CIA eeceedings against them in connectionpaid FBI informer, Evident;y.neit'nr Hocee(s investigated the personal life of a Nixon 'etn the Justice Department's investigation. death nor Watergate has taught the FBI any- I campaign 2.dvise1 in 1958: and a deputy But the CIA is not alone when it comes to thing about the need to observe the, co.nsti-! attorney general proposed in 1975 that -ecie! domestic political operations aimed; tutional rights of Americans. -internal passports" be issued to aliens in t ,=.merican citizens. The FBI. as we now are It seems as if every government =.7,Pricy: the United States. a step that could have :eninning to discover, was among the. has been involved in some form of spyng on led to a national identification system on the Vorits. The new attorney general. Edward' Americans. Thus the CIA. �,..Th tha cceaera-: Soviet mode!. However Attorney General !. Levi. told a congressional subcommittee tion of postal officials has been iea--cept- Levi vetoed the scheme. �eeier this year that J. Edgar Hoover had ing. reading, and copying since 1053 un- : Spyina and covert activity is now an offi- .-nassed at least 16E.. files containing fold-! counted thousands of first-c:ass letter,- writ- cial government pastime in the United States. rs viith interrnatioa. some of it derogatory. ten by Americans to aciiti-esse-s in the Soviet: Can the president or Congress arrest this "presidents, executive branch employ-. Union. Former CIA dir.cznr Richard 1-i.lms; trend toward an American police state? The. I es. and seventeen individuals who were:refused to stop the interception in 1059. �-V-: answer is vital in determining the kind of embers of Congress. ' The files were Colby testified that the aaPricv su ended society in which we will live. 01 Under a secret program known as COIN-, covers last year. but the Postal Service was TELPRO. initiated by Hcover in 1956 the, acting on the behalf of the Naval Inte.ti- FBI ran for years a counterintelligence op- ge.nce Service: the Army Intelligence Corn-- idor to Iran. In an internal memorandum to eration aimed at domestic dissente-s Al-. mood: the Air Force Special Command: the. 111 CIA employees" sent out on May 9. though the program was formally termiaated. Air Force Special Investigations Office: the _73: Schlesinger said: . in April 1971. these activities. includieg the Interstate Commerce Commission: the "I shall do everything in my power to con- harassment of radicals. went on at teas: until Ccrnmeice De ..-----rtment: the-HealtheEdu^a-. no CIA activities to those which fall within a -net interpretation of its legislative charter. =ko this position because I am determined a: the law shall be respected and because is the test way to foster the legitimate nd necessary contributions we in the CIA -n make to the national security of the .initod States. I am taking several actions to nol=mort this objective: I have ordered all ie senior operating officials of this Agency ) report to me immediately on any activities ow going on. or that have gone on in the ast which might be construed to be out- :id= the legislative charter of this Agency. I ,his civil rights work at Toegaloo Col' -ege in �=r=by direct every person presently em-Mississippi. The letter was sent in the name iloyed by CIA to report to me on any such of a nonexistent "Tougalco College De'ense �-tivitisof.which.he has knoi,yledge. I invite Committee," whose members ':.'ere said to itt ex-employees to do the same. Anyone be armed. And in 1972. a Florida resident has such information should call my was recruited by the Fa to infiltra-.e and ecretary (extension 6333) and say that he disrupt radical groups in. the United States ishes to talk to me about 'activities outside and Canada. The informant. Joseph A Bur- :IA's charter: . . . Any CIA employee who ton, told newspaper interviewers that as late -elieves that he has received instructions as 1974 he was told by the FBI of its efforts %-nion in any way appear inconsistent with n- CIA legislative charter shall inform the )eector. immediately." Schlesinger evidently received substan- rosponse to his request because Colby; ',hen he succeeded him later in 1973, be-