GARRISON AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: BERNARD FENSTERWALD ET AL.

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00429300
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2025
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2025
• Publication Date: January 14, 1969

104-10104-10433 UNCLASSIFIED El "IT NI. � E LY El CON "1 IAL ...�---- ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET 1 , SUBJECT: (Optional) 4 li t/o/ FROM: Donovan E. Pratt DC/Cl/R&A EXTENSION 1991 NO. DATE 13 January 1969 TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building) DATE OFFICER'S INITIALS COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.) RECEIVED FORWARDED 1. Office of General Counsel 7D01 1/41/1/ OGC SUBJECT: ASSASSINATION KENNEDY _ GARRISON , '- - . 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 8. AS liel 14.1:1, 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 1 5 . / FORM 3-6 2 61O usIDME.',21's CONFIDENTIAL El IUNSTEERNAL OY El UNCLASSIFIED ez: � tettOiati.0 tv1/4000.10800 j 6 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich SUBJECT : GARRISON and the Kennedy Assassination: Bernard FENSTERWALD et al 1. A Washington UPI dispatch of 3 January 1969 reads as follows: Washington � New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison is one of seven board members of a new national committee to investigate assassinations which is being formed here. 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 have been putting off since Nov. ZZ. 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 senate earlier this week after iZ years as counsel for several committees. 'lilt committee will concentrate on the three best known assassinations -- ?resident Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King -- but will leave its options open on some other rather mysterious deaths, he said. ''Our position is there was a conspiracy in Dallas, there were strong footprints of a conspiracy in :'\-1.emiehie 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 look." 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 San Francisco, a former FBI agent; Richard Sprague of Hartsdale, N. Y., a computer expert; Fred J. Cook, Englewood, N.3. author; Lloyd Tupling, associated with the Sierra Club here. and Paris Flarnmonde. a New York writer who will have a book out next week on assassinations. Eight more board members will be named later, Fensterwald said. Z. William Turner and Fred J. Cook are well known to you. , Paris Flamm.onde 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 Meredith Press, New York. The dust cover of the book states that Flamtrionde was for many years the producer of the Long John Nebel radio show. We have no record of him. 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 whether the Bernard Fensterwald who appears 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, appeared in a New York Times article of 24 May 1968 in which he claimed that within an hour of the assassination. of President Kennedy three men may have been pulled off freight cars in a railroad yard near Dealy We have no further identifiable record of him. We also have no record of Lloyd Tupling. We should be grateful for any further information about Sprague. Tupling. or Flammende. FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR PLANS: 5iaed: .Tres Fit wi JAMES ANGLETON CSCI-316/00108-69 2 DC/Cl/R&A:DEPratt:d1rn. 13 January 1969 Distribution: Orig & 1-FBI 1 - C/CI 1 - Office of General Counsel 1 - Cl/145N 1 - CSCI file 1 - Cl/R&A chrono 1 - DP Garrison file 1 - RID -- 201-126596 3