Documents / FOIA release
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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## Dear Enclosed you will find the information you requested. I was not able to do an complete a job as you asked, due to the difficult time we had getting to the files. To ask for a report from the file of a CIA agent is asking for a lot of attention and asking for a report of 4250ece agent is almost an impossible task. It took over six months to get the information contained herein. We do feel that 4250ece agents are dangerous to the democratic way of life and they should be halted. These men bear no love for the USA they serve the CIA and what is more they serve only a part of the CIA for they would kill a fellow agent as fast as they would arrange your death. The 4250ece Section is a part of a long range planning commission of some type and it does not reveal in any report what their master plan may be, but it is certain that they operate within a very dangerous patTERN. I have felt for a long time that it should be made public and the CIA agents should be made to reveal under oath what they mean by their Internal Security Section and Disruption Agents such as Fred Crisnan should be retired from government service. I would urge you to send copies of this report to friends on the Coast and allow them to make Crisman's role as an agent public. No one believed Jim Garrison when he stated that Crisman was a CIA agent. It might do no good to make any statements out there after all he is liable to be able to seek out how this information was acquired. God help us her if it is ever linked to our section. You realize that we never heard of you! Hold this report until after Sept 30 and then we do not care what you do with it but once you use it you can never get another. Good luck!
FOIA release, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 13 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.