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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…
Dear Mrs. Banfiola

After you have read the enclosed material, perhaps you will not fool quite so much and nolf-antified. This man; Crisman, is a man that is dangerous to the future of America.

We do not know how many agents that the U.S. has in his category, but it must be plain to you, that if you do love this nation we cannot have CIA people such as him in terforcing with local government.

A very large amount of time and effort has been taken to trace his record and his work. Some people have ricked their jobs, future and even their lives to obtain the information in this file.

We had hoped to obtain more documents and copies of proper documents, but our source of information has been cut off by the introduction of non security concuron. We do ask you to be fair and be aware that Critman in a federal agent of the worst possible stripe. A Disruption Agent. is not a friend to our form of government. No represents no one but a section of the C.I.A.

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