LETTER TO HERBERT H. LEHMAN FROM ALLEN W. DULLES

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• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 4, 2007
• Sequence Number: 89
• Publication Date: June 13, 1956
• Content Type: LETTER

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Dear Senator Lekaan:
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Thank you for your letter of 23 May 19S6. requ*sting a
the rnattsr of the disappearance of
,,g,mart by this Agency on
Central InteAi 'Ce Agency# by
As you are aware? tl snce of any functions
statute, is precluded 1"I th pe ?
security #ield. Accordingly, We have confined
in the internal Mart to obtain evidence
our participartio a in this case to an
itlaer is. or "os his disappeir
as to Wh*th* a 3~+itod Mates. To date. we have
ante has been outside
encountered so such evidence.
you be assug*d 00 this Agency is actively working t,e with the ap~-)rc--
on this matter, will ,aati~aue to c security
priate agentios who are wsrking oar the 1nt
aspects of the Case.
Sincerely.
: orr i:I l t n:
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Allen 'W . Dulles
DCI/WH/ d 7 June 1956) ):fir.Ctex
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? ? JULIUS C. C. EDELSTEIN
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3'his is in reply do your 1A t4tof April 18,
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STAT
urlift invest ation of the disappears W of
take appropriate aotion' in the event facts are developed i4 caging
The FBI advises that 1t *1.11 fbllox the inquiryclosely and 411
no evidence has been developed of the possible dQmassiof of a
federal of few* trhi t hh would aut sa a separate investigation.
that this matter Is big investigated
by the] Po34ce, Diptrtmentu which is the 'FBI
informed as progress -of the 1wpiry. Acopxdi M to the FBI
c cate ?*,th the; CIA for further inforn atl of..::
advised in the natter. Accordingly, it may be. that you will want
As to yoar `inq r relating to an i itigation,: by the
Central" Ixit~7,ligens? . Ys the FBI is keeping the CIA. currently
federal 3uriediction6
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Honorable Herbert &wsnel3,
Attorney General of the United States
Wash ton, D. C.
STAT
Dow Mr.' Attorney tienesals
TAT
there has beii,b'iought to "w attention
~' ? i doplot know
the asoxi a o.f
ha3 been ^i88i~g
been the victim of foul play. fiver! it: is strongly suggested by the
circumstances surros*Iing his disappsaranoe, as reputed i
that the motive invoi ved is political, ; based on the , goat of
acted o
pposition to the Trujillo regime in the Dos ican Rep s
about him other t ve riad in the n wepepes. "It seems to ASO
however, that this is a case into ich the Justice De srt ent should be
looking. If the FBI is not already. investigating this situation, I strongly
urge that appropriate- directions be given to the FBI. This case is one in
which our national. and international j nteresta and 'relationships may be
h ha m: watt on ones- or two o4casione .:but , know nothing
I would appreciate yaor i'..ising mr at was early date vtother the
FBI has looted into the :case, az" if Dot whether you fixed it possible to
TAT direct the FBI to investigate 3nappeat"ance. Would there
be any other security agent ' veernm+ent for whom it might
be proper to imr+estigat$ this cases under ter statutory authority, such
as the CIAO
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