JFK Case: MF: GARRISON AND THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: BERNARD FENSTERWALD ET AL

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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2022
• Case Number: F-2021-00214
• Publication Date: January 14, 1963

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ii5TORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM
14 JAk 19:=3
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director
Federal Bureau of Investigatioa
Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich
SUBJECT : GARRISON and the Kennedy Assassination:
Bernard FENSTERYrALD et al
I. A Washington UPI dispatch of 3 Jansary 1969 reads
as follows:
Washington -- New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison
is OW of seven board meznbers of a new national coreelittee
to inveetigate assassinations which is being formed here.
Bernard Fensterwald. 47, of Arlington. Vs.. another
board member. said the coeunittee's purpose is "To embarrass
or force the governrnent to make investigsttions they have
been putting off since Nov. 22, .1963."
That was the date of 'President Kerineees assassination
Fensterwald. who said he was setting up an office which
would open in a week, left the senate earlier this week after
12 years as counsel for -several cniornittees.
"The co:en:Wee will concentrate on the three best known
assassinations -- President Kennedy. Senator Robert Kennedy
and Dr. Martin Luther Kine -- but will leave its options open
on eon. *titer rather mysterious deaths." he said.
Our position is there was a conspiracy iu Dallas. there
were strong footprints of a conspiracy in Ma-phis where
Dr. King was shot and nobody really knows nauch about what
went on in Los Angeles (where Senator Kennedy was slain)
but we intend to look."
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Ha said tbe co:e:f.ittee hoped to find .;ri.ate floaueial
support to hire a proles:eternal *tali for its tills cstigattaos.
Other board trteeibers, said ienaterwaid. include Bill
?erne? of an Francisco1 a former FBI agent. Richard
Sprague of Hartsdale. N. Y.. a contputer ex:Jert: Fred J. Cook.
Znglewood. N.J., author; Lloyd Tupling. associated with
the Sierra Club hera. and Paris Flar.-,e:ostde. a New York
writer ','ho will have a book out next WOOK. on aase.ssinationa.
Light ntore board member* will be mauled later.
Feasterviald said.
2. WilliainTurner and Fred J. Cook are well kerek.n to yott.
Paris laentnande appears in the January 1969 issue 01 E,ergreen
as the author of an article entitled "Why President Kennedy vt as Killed'.
His book The Kennedy Cons-iiracy ha* been published by Meredith
Press. Nov: York. The dust cover of the book states that Flaonde
was for trteny years the producer of the Long John Nebel radio show.
Wo have no record of him.
3. Reference in made to your tnernorandnro. New York office,
24 August I 6. subject: Blanche .Fensterwald, *leo known as: Mrs.
Bernard Fenetterwald. Ifte shotdd be grateful if you can deter:nine
whether the Barnard Feneterwald who appeare in this report is identical
with the 47 year old Bernard Fenaterwald cited in the-UPI dispatch.
If so. any additional information is also requested.
4. Our records show that Richard Sprague, a n.anagepeent
consultant and photographic researcher. :if:peered in a New York
TI en article of 24 Afay 19Z13 in which he claitned tNet within an
hour of the assassination of President Kennedy three men r:-.;ay have
been pulled off freleht cars in a railroad yard near Dealy Plara.
1.e have no farther identiiiable record at biz-1. Vie also have rto record
of Lloyd Tupliail. We should be crateful for any further infer-nation
about Sprague, Tuplinz, or Flaen:nonde.
FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR LA NS:
JA3.4.E.S ANGLETON
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DC/CUR:SA:DEP:att.:an 13 January 1969
Distribution:
Orig lc 1 � FBI
1 - C/CI
1 Office of General Counsel
1 - C1/1.�SN
1 � CSC; file
CURtEA chrono
1 - DP Garrison flle
1 - RID -- Z01-12.6596
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Domestic Contact Service
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SUBJECT
Garrison and the Kennedy Assassination
V. 11lian Clarena WOOD Jr., alias William
BOXLEY. Z01.83427
REFERENCE Cl/R&A Memorandum, subject as above,
3 January 1969
1. It is requested that the Domestic Contact Service office at
Subject's present location tell him the following:
"We have been informed of the telephone calla
that you made on 27 and 28 December 1968. In
these calla you stated that you had information which
you wish to communicate. If this is still the case,
we.are prepared to listen. Or if you prefer, you
may of course go to the FBI."
Z. If Subject then appears at the DCS office, whatever he has
to say should bo noted without comment, and reported. Representatives
of the DCS office should take no initiative beyond stating that WOODts
information will be forwarded to the proper authorities.
3. We do not know WOOD's present location. During the
27 December call (para. 13a of reference) he said that he was in Dallas.
A New Orleans Times-Picayune article of 12 December 1966 said that
"BOXLEY" was contacted by that newspaper in Austin, Texas. A DCS
report of 26 April 1968 (IIOU-30-68), subject: "Bill Wood, Agent for
prpr::ni y
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Jim Garrison, Making-Inquiries in Dallas". noted that WOOD was
in Dallas as Of that time but had been in touch with the Houston
office in early 1967. In 1967 Subject was executive vice president
Of the Houston Tribune Publishing Company.. Subject's father.
William Clarence WOOD Sr.. is a banker in Lubbock, Texas
(Lubbock National Ban)). Subject's middle name has been reported
as both- Clarence and Clasen/.
� 4. It is recognised that Subject's wish to establish contact with
1.,ay result from personal animosity toward the Agency (see
paragraph 4 of re(erence). from attempted provocation by Garrison,,
or from both. It is considered, however, that as long as our role
remains passive and non-committal, there is no major risk involved
in determining whether he has significant security information to
communicate.
Donovan E. Pratt
DC/Cl/R&A
Orig & 1 - Director. DCS
1 - OGC
1 - DC/CI
1 - Clift&A/chrono
r - DP for WOOD ale
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