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This MuckRock release pairs a 29 March 2017 CIA FOIA response letter to Michael Best with a 10 April 1970 CIA memorandum to the FBI Director about Fred Lee Crisman, an author from Tacoma, Washington. The FBI had found the memo and referred it to the CIA, which released it in full. In the memo, CIA Director of Security Howard J. Osborn says a check of Agency records turned up no connection between Crisman and the CIA or its predecessors. He adds that the only reference to Crisman was in Joachim Joesten's 1968 "Truth Letter."
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10 APR 1970 OUR HOODLUM COVERAGE MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director Federal Bureau of Investigation S E A 7 7 L C = ATTENTION : Mr. Fred J. Cassidy SUBJECT : Fred Lee Chrisman aka: Doctor F. L. Grisman, Jon Gold NO LOC Reference is made to your letterhead memorandum dated 20 March 1970, captioned as above. The attachment to the above memorandum contained allegations to the effect that Fred Lee Crisman has had a connection with this Agency and predecessor organizations. A check of Agency records has failed to disclose that Crisman is or ever has been connected with this Agency or any predecessor organization. The only information noted in Agency records concerning Crisman is contained in a copy of Joachim Joesten's "Truth Letter" dated 15 November 1968 (Vol. I, No. 5). Page 4 of the above publication contains limited information in regard to a Fred Lee Crisman alias Fred Lee alias Dr. Jon Gold, who presumably is identical to the individual of interest to your Bureau. The above information is for your use only and should not be disseminated outside your Bureau. Please transmit any correspondence on this matter to the attention of the Director of Security. REC T6 62.9-350 FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE: 1 2=25.73 754134 fina. incarcera 15 APR 16 1979 1021219 Howard J. Osborn Director of Security Director of Security SECRET ORIGINAL DOCUMENT SENT TO NATIONAL ARCHIVES (JFKARCA) DATE 8/10/94 HSCA Subj EH - FRIED LEE CRISMAN
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. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.