BUD FENSTERWALD: HE RUNS THE TOWN'S OTHER CIA

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CIA-RDP90-01208R000100080010-4
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December 22, 2016
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February 22, 2011
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November 22, 1969
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ni -STAT e Town's: thV4,0.1. C STAT There have been periods when Bernard 1 that the venture. needed'angeu wald Jr has stood near the hot ' cen- . had materialized. t F . er ens when he was As the report mentions the assortment o r in Washington f , powe ter o , `quoted and sought by an admiring press famous and obscure Vensterwald had when Fensterwald was.'talked with, an optimism emerges-there k in 1966 B ac corps. , general counsel of a Senate subcommittee, were a number of "fascinating leads" to be~ ett of government: chased after and explored and not enough( b th i us e a ng investigat invasions of privacy he-and Bobby Kenne time to do it all in. But-there is always a) dy lashed out at .each other in public and' chance "next trip." To friends and acquaintances who find in private. Now Bud Fensterwald's pale eyes narrow: Fensterwald's recent activities strange, he ? ? replies with the certainty, of a man who isl slightly when he says 1 know what I m i utterly convinced of not only the correct.; doing is unpopular." What he ii doing, but the need for his work. I ' i ma' pu I id f private law pract ce is aserom, He feels there may be more political as-' ing ?ei pastime that has sometimes come to saidnations if the earlier ones are not sol-i r be associated with a legion of fools and i ved: He resents the statement of former O portunists: he is investigating the.assas-; of Robert and John Kennedy and, Chief Justice Earl Warren that there wily JoInatione be things that we will not know about the . King. death of John Kennedy until 2039. "My. ~of 1.1 a Fenst But Bu s fast' people don't go in with any preconceived, g ~to turn `spirac .seekerr,stlookin review of flaws in.the Warren Report into!. notions," sayd Fensterwald, "We just look an instant paperback and cheap publicity.' for the inaccuracies." To document them'; These days, he tries to arrive at his of. he traveled to London early in November k i to look into the stay of James Earl Ray in l ' " oc 7 o c eet at about rtes on 15th str the morning when things are quiet" to pore that city. Fensterwald's wife (his second, over documents addressed to his own CIA! he was divorced in 1964 from the mother of s travels with him hildren) alwa ! hit f i y our c .--the Committee to Investigate Assanai- CIA is a loose confederation of! on these junkets, not so much because she) nations . he is interested in the assassination, but be-1 r worked on t itt h h l ' en o ave wr e w o F various conspiracy theories. cause "as soon as you say do'you want to goi At his own expense Fensterwald took an?i ? ? ? my wife is already packing." "8,000 mile junket" last May, traveling to i He does not feel that'there is any imme Los Angeles, Dallas, New Orleans, Atlanta, diets physical danger in his consuming his among other locations. He avocation; but he has set aside a sum ofi d Mem p an talked with James Earl Ray's lawyers,,.. money for the investigation into his death l examined slides of John Kennedy's assas? `should he vanish someday. He an alaoj rd r tant su - t.sination. visited with the controversial Jim placed copies of his most impo `Gerrison, and dozens of others, either fas? ence in "places that would be very difficult cinated or peripherally (or not so peripher- to get to." ally) connected with the three major politi- This kind of talk upsets some people, cal murders of the Sixites. particularly those who' know of Fenster II In a recent brief, breezily-styled "prog- we background-an impeccable blend l ress report" to his fellow CIA members; of a proper Southern Jewish family, trips j ("There is no implication at all in the ti-30 Europe as a child, Harvard., Harvard tle," says Fensterwald with a bit of a wry! Law, a god World War U record as a,' 1.'grin), the Executive Director declared thattNavai Lieutenant and the malting Of. a 1 funds were "Generally non-existent!!" ands Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/02/22 : CIA-RDP90-01208R000100080010-4 22 Iio v. absr V ud Fens*erw~kt ooutinued -~------ Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/02/22: CIA-RDP90-01208R000100080010-4 ..~.~~..~.~...`.