PROBE OF 3 ASSASSINATIONS CONTINUES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100080008-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: November 28, 1969
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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i Spends Time, Money lnvesugaung Assassmnauuu
asernard Fensterwald Jr., wealthy former Senate committee counsel, studies details of Kennedys, King killingsi
;ONE-MAN INVESTIGATION
Probe of 3 Assassinations Continues
Now Bud Fensterwald's pale
eyes narrow slightly when he
a Senate subcommittee investi-
gating the abuses of govern-
ment invasions of privacy he
asd Bobby Kennedy lashed out
sou y
g
corps. Back in 1965, when Fen-1
sterwald was general counsel of
ington, when ha was quo a an
ht b an admiring press `
the hot center of power in Wash-'
td d
have been periods when Bernard.
Fensterwald Jr. has stood near
By Sill-1,111Y COI' FEY III
WASHINGTON (WP) -- Thcre1
says "I know what I'm doing'
Is unpopular." What he Is do-
leg.. -aside from ..privrte-jaw;
pract.lce, is pursuing a past-
time that has sometimes come
to be associated with a legion
of fools and opportunists: He Is
of Robert and John Kennedy and
of Martin Luther King Jr. I
ary conspiracy-seeker, looking
to turn a fast review of flaws
instant paperback and cheap)
publicity.
Pores Over Documents
These days, he tries to arrive:
at his offices at about "7 In the'
morning when things are quiet":
to pore over documents ad-!
dressed to his own CIA - the
Committee to InvexpTr, 'asa
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erntion of people who have writ.,
ten or worked 'on the various
conspiracy theories.
At his own expense Fenster-
wald took an "8,000-mile junket"
last May, traveling to Los An-
geles, Dallas, New Orleans, At-
lanta and Memphis among other
locations. He talked with James
Earl Ray's lawyers, examined
no Implication at all In the ti-~
tie," says Fensterwald with a
bit of a wry grin), the exccu-
Live director declared that funds1
were "generally non-existent!I'll
and that the venture needed an
gels but none had materialized.
As the report mentions the as-.
sortment of famous and obscure,
people Fensterwald had talked'
slides of John Kennedy's assas-'with, an optimism emerges -1
sination, visited with the con- .there were a number of "fasc-
troversial Jim Garrison, and mating leads" to be chased
dozens of others, either fascinat after and explored. and not
ed or. peripherally (or not so, enough time to do it all in. But
peripherally) connected with the there is always a chance "next
three major political murders trip."
the 80s. ? To friends and acquaintances+
In a recent brunt brcczll ? who find Fensterwald's recent'
styled. "Progress Report" to We activities strange, he replies
Ce *Ws Clknk mberaW:w;' "vIth. b? intlr.ot a man whoi