MEMO: 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): 16505691
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: June 6, 2025
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2025
• Publication Date: January 13, 1969

104-10515-10039 MOVED FOR RELEASE 1994 CM HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM Ot't1 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director Federal Bureau of Investigatioa Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich SUBJECT : GARRISON and the Kennedy Assassination: Bernard FENSTERVeALD et al I. A Washington UPI dispatch of 3 Jattoary 1969 reads as follows: Washington � New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison Ii one of seven board rneznbers of a new national committee to inveetigate assassinations which is being formed here. Bernard Fensterwald. 47, of Arlington, Vs.. another board member. said the coi:unittee's purpose is "To embarrass or force the government to make investigations they have been putting off since Nov. 22, 1963." That was the date of 'President Kertneees assassination 1n_Dailas. 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 co4nrnittees. "The committee will concentrate on the three best known assassinations -- President Kennedy. Senator Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King -- but will leave it, options open on acne other rather mysterious deaths." he said. 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 nauch about what we on in Los Angeles (where Senator Kennedy was bath) but we intend to look." SEUET Ile said the cofittee hoped to find �;ri.att fine.ndal support to hire a proles:eternal *tali to: its investigations. Other board thebers. said /etude meld, include Bill Turner of an Francisco1 a former Ffil agent. Richard Sprague oi Hartsdale. N. Y.. a computer ex?ert: Fred J. Cook. Englewood. N. J . author; Lloyd Topling. associated with the Sierra Club here, and Paris Fla;---,h,onde. a New York writer vho will have a hook out next VIOOK. on assassinations. Eight more board member* will be named later. Feasterviald said. 2. William Turner and Fred J. Cook are well known to you. Paris flarntnande appears in the January 1969 issue to; E --ergreen as the author of an article entitled "Why President Kennedy v, as Killed'. His book The Kennedy Cous-iiracy has been published by Meredith Press. Now York. The dust cover of the boolt states that Fla.-r:hlonde was ter theny years the producer of the Long John Nebel radio ehow. We have no record of him. 3. Reference ie made to your reernorand=n. New York office, 24 August I 9h6. subject: Blanche .Feesterwaid, also keened as: Mrs. Bernard Fenstergrald. Vre shotdd be grateful if you can determine whether the Barnard Feneterwald who appeare in this report is identical with the 47 year old Bernard Fensterweld cited in the-UPI dispatch. so. any additional information is also requested. 4. Our records show that Richard Sprague, a a...vs:Age:4:r nt consultant and ph,.flographic researcher. appeared in a New York Tilnee article of 24 Alay 1%3 in which he deled ttet within an hour of the aseassitiation of President Kennedy three &nee r:.:ay have been pulled off frel,iht cars in a railroad yard near Dealy PLara. 1.e have no farther ideraiiiable record of Ld. Vie also have no record of Lloyd Tulin,. We should be grateful for nay further infer-nation about !,prastte, Tupliraz, or Fia:-r.:nonde. FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR ;"LAN.S: JALIDS A NGLE YON CSCI-346/00103-69 DC/Cl/K&A:DEPratt:411us 13 January 1969 Distribution: Orig lc 1 � FBI 1 - C/CI 1 Office of General Counsel 1 - Cl/LSN 1 - CSCI file CrifttcA chrono 1 - DP Garrison Ole 1 -IUD-- Z01-12.6596 r ;# A 1 �LI-^ Ari , - t , , MEMORANDUM FOR: Director, Domestic Contact Service � SUBJECT : Garrison and the Kennedy Assaasination W Lilian. Marone WOOD Jr., alias William BOXLEY. Z01.83427 REFERENCE : Cl/RE4A 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 calls you stated that you had information which. you wish to communicate. If this is still the ease. we. are -prepared to listen. Or if you prefer, You may of courise go to the FBI." 2. 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 DeeerrIber 1966 said that "BOXLEY" was contacted by that newspaper in Austin, Texas. A DCS report of 26 April 1968 (11OU-30-68), subject: "Bill Wood, Agent for - 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 Clarens. �� 4. It is re.cognited that Subject's Wish to establish. contact with -CIA 1.4.1y result from personal animosity toward the Agency (see � paragraph 4 of reference). 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 comniunicate. Donovan E. Pratt DC/Cl/RS:A Orig& 1 - Director. DCS 1 - OGC 1 - DC/CI 1 - Cl/RILA/chrono r - DP for WOOD at. .2 3L.