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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.

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CRISHAH left the Printer, Oregon area and spent several months in New Orleans. He appears to have been very friendly with several political figures and used the city of New Orleans a headquarters for several small disruption areas not more later taken over by the EASY notice of the GEA through a different sponsor out of agente. It is odd to note that CRISHAH has so quite friendly with Poron family at Porta La Haoho, La. He was also known by Jason Garrison and in later remembers by Garrison. Garrison did not know at this time that CRISHA in a GEA agent or that he was in any federal employee.

in a CSA agent or that he was in any way a federal employee CRISHAN returned to Oregon and outored into the employment of the Salom school system, where he started a new information drive on top Level state employees. A mont many reports on the Federal Aid to Education programs was filed by CRISHAN this time. Here, at this place in the file in the only copy of a direct dis- pt order. He was assigned to prevent the appointment of a man, John Drake, to in Federal Aid Program. Drake was a district puporintendent, and an such was a in directly in line with the work that CRISHAN was doing.

in directly in land with the work that Christian was doing Unfortunately, Drake was a man that did not respond to that series of unfortu nite events that seem to befall those that are the targets of the Disruption ag rets. The complete staff, under the leadership of CHISHAU noballed against Drake id still. Drake did not leave the system or make those moves that would place his ability in doubt with the Federal Aid to Education officer of the Department of with, Education and Welfare of the Federal government.

Finally the main building, where all Aid to Education records were kept burned and the records were destroyed. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was informed of certain arrears of money disoropanoy and all of this was filed with the school board and the NEW department and Drake was finally disorodited on an oblo porc that was to be used in a high federal education position. The long range recorder for the attack on Drak was not listed, only reports that listed the refusal the man to buckle to pressure.

At the same time that the attack upon John Drake was being pursued, a similar attack was being made upon the local county school superintendent. This ran was it hard to discourage and he soon left his position and it was filled by direct appointment. No attack or reports on his successor are listed. At this same time CRISHAN left this area and returned to New Orleans where he worked very hard in legislative campaigns and elected two city councilmen to the New Orleans city council. Again he was known to the local District Attorney, Jim Garrison, andurrison attempted to have his record choked out. Senator Russell Long was able to confirm that CRISHAN was a government agent but, assumed that he was an FBI information agent. Garrison was so informed and CRISHAN was listed as such in the New Orleans records.

CRISKAN returned to Tacoma, Washington and entered into a series of moves that had to do with certain bills in the Washington state legislature. He formed a small research company and entered into a series of quiet lobby moves, mostly by a man by the name of Wesley Keene. He also put together a series of rapid non-profit organizations that were fronts for some operation that was later taken over by another CIA agent from the mid-west Thomas E. Bookham. There are no reports in this file on the purpose for these organizations. It is presumed that he properly organized these as fronts for an operation that was taken over by another agent. There is a report on a John 0°Connoll, the Attorney-General of the state Washington. Those front organizations came to his notice and in turn CRISKAN enquoted permission to run a full investigation on John 0°Connoll. He reported that Mr. 0°Connoll was to run for governor of the state of Washington and he did not feel that he should be governor of that state. There is a note attached to a report that shows that CRISKAN's judgement was booked by another agent and it allowed to be a project that proceeded with the blessing of ISCO Section of the CIA. There were two more regular CIA agents assigned to this project in 1960. It seems a full fledged project in September of 1960 when CRISKAN reported that a finite platform of help was needed to doent John 0°Connoll.

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