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FBI response, 11 May 2017

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This is a letter the FBI sent Michael Best on May 11, 2017, answering FOIA request 1347908-000 about Fred Lee Crisman. It releases 9 pages after consulting the CIA. The release includes a March 10, 1970 Seattle FBI memo calling Crisman a scoundrel and doubting that he had any CIA tie. It also includes an anonymous file claiming Crisman was a CIA "Disruption Agent" and a March 1970 FBI transmittal passing that material to the CIA.

  • p. 1 …1347908-000 CIA No: F-2017-00367 Subject: CRISMAN, FRED LEE Dear Mr. Best: You were…
  • p. 5 …that CRISMAN has some connection with the CIA, it appears to me that this possibility is…
  • p. 7 …do love this nation we cannot have CIA people such as him in terforcing with local…
  • p. 8 …To ask for a report from the file of a CIA agent is asking for a…
  • p. 9 …File Number OSS/CIA 4250050 contain an incomplete record, an copy of the material has not…
  • p. 10 …In 1960 the later problems that were to develop in the CIA with their contacts with…
  • p. 11 …There were two more regular CIA agents assigned to this project in 1960. It seems a…
  • p. 12 …The Coon Nootra cooperate and they stay the way of all CIA agents. The CIA does…
  • p. 13 …LHM prepared at Seat of Government to transmit information to CIA concerning subject who is alleged…
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See additional information which follows.

Sincerely,

David M. Hardy

Section Chief,

Record/Information

Dissemination Section

Records Management Division

Enclosures (2)

The enclosed documents represent the second interim release of information responsive to your FOIA request.

This material is being provided to you at no charge.

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FOIA release, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 13 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.