BUD FENSTERWALD: HE RUNS THE TOWN'S OTHER CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-01208R000100080010-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 22, 2011
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 22, 1969
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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STAT There have been periods when Bernard 1 that the venture. needed'angeu
wald Jr has stood near the hot ' cen- . had materialized.
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, `quoted and sought by an admiring press famous and obscure Vensterwald had
when Fensterwald was.'talked with, an optimism emerges-there
k in 1966
B
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corps.
, general counsel of a Senate subcommittee, were a number of "fascinating leads" to be~
ett of government: chased after and explored and not enough(
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investigat
invasions of privacy he-and Bobby Kenne time to do it all in. But-there is always a)
dy lashed out at .each other in public and' chance "next trip."
To friends and acquaintances who find
in private.
Now Bud Fensterwald's pale eyes narrow: Fensterwald's recent activities strange, he ?
? replies with the certainty, of a man who isl
slightly when he says 1 know what I m i utterly convinced of not only the correct.;
doing is unpopular." What he ii doing, but the need for his work.
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id f private law pract
ce is
aserom, He feels there may be more political as-'
ing ?ei pastime that has sometimes come to saidnations if the earlier ones are not sol-i
r be associated with a legion of fools and
i ved: He resents the statement of former
O portunists: he is investigating the.assas-;
of Robert and John Kennedy and, Chief Justice Earl Warren that there wily
JoInatione be things that we will not know about the
.
King. death of John Kennedy until 2039. "My.
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But Bu
s fast' people don't go in with any preconceived,
g ~to turn
`spirac .seekerr,stlookin
review of flaws in.the Warren Report into!. notions," sayd Fensterwald, "We just look
an instant paperback and cheap publicity.' for the inaccuracies." To document them';
These days, he tries to arrive at his of. he traveled to London early in November
k i to look into the stay of James Earl Ray in
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eet at about
rtes on 15th str the morning when things are quiet" to pore that city. Fensterwald's wife (his second,
over documents addressed to his own CIA! he was divorced in 1964 from the mother of
s travels with him
hildren) alwa
! hit f
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our c
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CIA is a loose confederation of! on these junkets, not so much because she)
nations
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he is interested in the assassination, but be-1
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F various conspiracy theories. cause "as soon as you say do'you want to goi
At his own expense Fensterwald took an?i ? ? ? my wife is already packing."
"8,000 mile junket" last May, traveling to i He does not feel that'there is any imme
Los Angeles, Dallas, New Orleans, Atlanta, diets physical danger in his consuming
his among other locations. He avocation; but he has set aside a sum ofi
d Mem
p
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talked with James Earl Ray's lawyers,,.. money for the investigation into his death l
examined slides of John Kennedy's assas? `should he vanish someday. He an alaoj
rd
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tant su
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t.sination. visited with the controversial Jim placed copies of his most impo
`Gerrison, and dozens of others, either fas? ence in "places that would be very difficult
cinated or peripherally (or not so peripher- to get to."
ally) connected with the three major politi- This kind of talk upsets some people,
cal murders of the Sixites. particularly those who' know of Fenster
II In a recent brief, breezily-styled "prog- we background-an impeccable blend l
ress report" to his fellow CIA members; of a proper Southern Jewish family, trips j
("There is no implication at all in the ti-30 Europe as a child, Harvard., Harvard
tle," says Fensterwald with a bit of a wry! Law, a god World War U record as a,'
1.'grin), the Executive Director declared thattNavai Lieutenant and the malting Of. a 1
funds were "Generally non-existent!!" ands
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