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INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS/ STATE ' '

/ OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO ADVISED THAT HIS DEPARTMENT HANDLED

AN ACCIDENT INVOLVING ONE SIRHAN B. SIRKAN OF SIX NINESIX EAST

HOWARD STREET, WEST PASADENA, IN WHICH SIRHAN WHILE EMPLOYED BY .

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'""*.' AND SUFFERED HEAD INJURIES. AS A RESULT OF ACCIDENT SIRHAN ON

; •.; - MARCH TWENTYSEVEN.SIXTyEIGHT, WAS PAID TWO THOUSAND .;;;;:'.;v^ ., - ;*

:v^ DOLLARS BY THE ARGONAUT INSURANCE COMPANY OF MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA,

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BY ARGONAUT INSURANCE COMPANY, MENLO PARK, CALIFOBNIA. ^ • J-^;i\

ARGONAUT INSURANCE

7 COMPANY, WENLO PARl/ ADVISED THIS DATE THAT CLAIM FILE FOR ABOVE

CLAIM IS AT ARGONAUT INSURANCE"COMPANY, FOUR FOUR THREE SHATTO

PLACE, LOS ANGELES, POLICY NUMBER TWO NAUGHT DASH TWO ONE NAUGHT•:£

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DASH NAUGHT FIVE SIX THREE SEVEN NAUGHT, AND. CLAIM NUMBER NAUGHT

TWO DASH TWO NAUGHT THREE FOUR FOUR FIVE, SHE STATED CLAIM FILE

HAS BEEN MADE AVAILABLE TO FBI, LOS ANGELES," CLAIM S E T T L E D \ \v -,

WFOR ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED A W FIVE DOLLARS IN APRIL, SIXTYEIGHT,• : :

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SHE MADE AVAILABLE COPY OF CANCELLED CHECK IN SETTLEMENT OF ABOVE ::•

•.'.•; CLAIM AND FOLLOWING INFORMATION OBTAINED T H E R E F R O M . ^ ^ f ^ ^ V -i-.^'p

-v.-vT'-vV. :•;""•• "CHECK 10. TWO SIX TWO NAUGHT ONE THREE, DATED APRIL FIVE, - ^

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CALIFORNIA. POLICY NUMBER AND CLAIM NUMBER ARE AS LISTED ABOVE/ .

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DATE SHOWS AS SEPTEMBER SIXTYSIX. CLAIMANT SHOWN,AS

ALTPILLISCH CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. CHECK I S ENDORSED VITH NAME '

SIRHAN SIRHAN, SIX NINE SIX EAST HOWARD STREET, PASADENA,

C A L I F . , UNDER WHICH^IS WRITTEN CDL NO. M TWO THREE EIGHT ^

EIGHT FOUR SEVEN. CHECK WAS CASHED APRIL EIGHT, SIXTYEIGHT, -

AT, PASADENA MAIN OFFICE, CROCKER-CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK, PASADENA,

BEARS TELLER'S STAMP S ONE NAUGHT ONE P ON FRONT OF CHECK. , - -

CHECK DRAWN ON CROCKER-CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK, ONE MONTGOMERY S T . ,

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DALLAS, TEXAS, ADVISED THAT HE IS EMPLOYED AS

PILOT FOR BRANIFF INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES, AND WHILE IN THE HOUSTON

AIRPORT ON THE EVENING OF JUNE FOUR, LAST, AT APPROXIMATELY

NINE FIFTEEN PM, CENTRAL DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME, HE WAS TALKING WITH

AN EMPLOYEE OF THE DUTY FREE LIQUOR STORE AT THE HOUSTON TERMINAL,

WHEN A MALE WHITE, THIRTY-TWO TO THIRTY-FIVE YEARS, FIVE FEET FOUR

INCHES TO FIVE FEET FIVE INCHES, DRESSED IN 3EIGE SUIT, WHITE

SHIRT AND NO T I E , APPROACHED AND ASKED FOR DIRECTIONS TO NATIONAL

AIRLINES, THIS INDIVIDUAL STATED THAT HE HAD A TICKET ON NATIONAL

AIRLINES FOR LOS ANGELES* H H U M B H B 1 ^ INDIVIDUAL SWELLED

OF ALCOHOL AND HAD A SLIGHT ACCENT, OF POSSIBLE LATIN AMERICAN

EXTRACTION. I H H I H S U B J E C T HAD NO LUGGAGE*

[HE RETURNED TO HIS HOME JUNE FIVE, INSTANT,

AND WHILE WATCHING TELEVISION, OBSERVED A PICTURE OF THE SUSPECT

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BEING HELD IN CONNECTION VITH THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF

SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY ^ ^ ^ A D V I S E D THAT THIS PICTURE WAS

VERY SIMILAR TO THE INDIVIDUAL HE HAD GIVEN DIRECTIONS TO AT THE

HOUSTON AIRPORT THE NIGHT BEFORE. j ^ ^ O V I S E D THAT THE PICTURE

ON TELEVISION WAS OF A MUCH YOUNGER PERSON THAN THE PERSON AT

HOOUSTON AIRPORT.

HOUSTON, LOCATE AND INTERVIEW EMPLOYEE OF DUTY FREE LIQUOR.

STORE* HOUSTON AIRPORT. RE HIS KNOWLEDGE OF PERSON ASKING DIRECTIONS

TO, NATIONAL AIRLINES.

CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION AT NATIONAL AIRLINES RE

SUSPECT INCLUDING ALL NATIONAL AIRLINES FLIGHTS TO LOS ANGELES

ARRIVING PRIOR TO THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT

F. KENNEDY.

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^/UNITED STATES^.INDICATED HAD RESIDED IH UNITED^STATES, WHERE POSSIBLY

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;; AND DID NOT AROUSE HER SUSPICIONS." STATED,HER ;FEEL ING HE INTENDED TO .

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SIXTYFOUR CLASSIFIED MENTAL 'CONDITION AS RESTORED» • • ' - ' ; -

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ACT OF NI NETEEfi SIXTYFI V E , : #

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ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO/

INSTITUTION FOR THE PEMTALLY ILL.

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ADVISING THAT HE_ WAS IN JAIL' IN LOS ANGELES AND EXPECTED TO BE.;

RELEASED IN NOVEMBER, HOWEVER, HE" BELIEVED HE COULD GET OUT

EARLIER WITH GOOD BEHAVIOR; ^ ^ ^ ^ H D E S C R I B E D ^ • ^ B i S WHITE MALE.

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SHIRHAN, FORMER EXERCISE BOY SANTA A / l T A RACE TRACK, CALIFORNIA,

IDENTIFIED AS SENATOR KENNEDY'S ASSAILANT. SIRKAR DESCRIBED ".

AS FOLLOWS: DATE OF BIRTH THREE NINETEEN F O R T Y - F O U R / > ^ > : . 7 , v '

JERUSALEM, JORDAN, WHITE, KALE, FIVE FEET TWO INCHES TALL,'-'r.'••>r

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ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT F . KENNEDY* LOS ANGELES*

CALIFORNIA* JUNE FIVE* NINETEEN SIXTY-EIGHT.

>AREN PHONETIC END PAREN* SUSPECT.

RE3UTEL THIS DATE.

ADVISES THAT

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OF MC CHORD AF3* HAS ADVISED AFTER

VIEWING PHOTOGRAPH OF ASSASSIN APPEARING ON TELEVISION HE IS OF OPINION

THAT HE MAY POSSIBLY BE IDENTICAL tflTHjm^WIFE'S EX HUSBAND,

YEARS* DARK BROtfN* CURLY HAIR* FIVE FT.

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SCHOOL IN FLORIDA* POSSIBLY ON A BURGLARY CHARGE-

FEELS THAT POSSIBLY HE IS IDENTICAL

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FOR MORE SPECIFICS* LA HAS BEEN ADVISED. BUREAU AND LA WILL BE KEPT

INFORMED*f

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ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY*

LOS ANGELES* CALIFORNIA* JUNE FIVE INSTANT

DETROIT OFFICE RECEIPT OF TELEPHONE CALL FROMJ

WHO IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS ASSOCIATED WITH

DETROIT* ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ T A T E D HE JUST RECEIVED ANONYMOUS

TELEPHONE CALL FROM INDIVIDUAL WHO SPOKE AS THOUGH HE WAS

RATHER VELL EDUCATED AND VHO CLAIMED HE HAD OBSERVED A

PHOTO ON TELEVISION OF THE INDIVIDUAL WHO ALLEGEDLY ATTEMPTED

TO ASSASSINATE SENATOR KENNEDY AND CLAIMED THAT THIS

INDIVIDUAL IS FAMILIAR TO HIM AS AN INDIVIDUAL WITH WHOM

HE ASSOCIATED AT THE LEWISBUKG. PENNSYLVANIA* PENITENTIARY

IN NINETEEN FIFTY. HE IDENTIFIED THE INDIVIDAUL ASj

WHO ORIGINALLY CAME FROM AN ISLAND

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OFF THE COAST OF PU£RTQ RICO. •";.;

NO RECORD SUBJECT DETROIT INDICES.

PHILADELPHIA CHECK INDICES* CONTACT LEWISBURG PENITENTIARY*

CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION AND HANDLE INVESTIGATION PER

BUREAU INSTRUCTIONS.

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N AM A LONE WHITE MALE CAME INTO HIS RESTAURANT,. HAD A

BOWL PF SOUP, AND WHILE DISCUSSING OTHER MATTERS STATED, QUOTE

*' MY LIFE ISN'T* WORTH TWO CENTS AND I ' M GOING TO THE CAMPAIGN y. \ " .. •

'" NEETIKGS I N CALIFORNIA AKD STRAIGHTEN THOSE SENATORS OUT. I'M. ; v . /

, GOING TO TURN CALIFORNIA UPSIDE DOWN UNQUOTE, THIS PERSON, WHO/

"•"IDENTIFIED HiMSELFÂS JOHN'? WAS' DESCRIBED BY LUKE AS WMA,..(.. >*• _r

APPROXIMATELY FIVE' FEET FIVE INCHES, .ONE THIRTY POUNDS, TWENTY ;' : '

>t/T-. !-.v .£*?$ T? TWENTYÊIGHTV DARK COMPLEXIOSV-DARK EYES, SLIM ".FACE, % -y. "t?i-A-fe3?.?" POINTEEI C H I N / HAD LARGE "SUKBER. OF"WRINKLES AROUND MOUTH, SMALL>{-vT ; '•--

^ ^ ' " ^ S C A R V bVcHE!EKs' AND' FOREHEAD^WORV'A DARK ' S U I T / GOLD WATCH, AND'»?£'•'':'V'

ÎSPOKE III A'LOW "VOICE;" HE WAS BELIEVED DRIVING A "LATE*BODEL TAN* Tî:'

£ti*

«K#R^-V1

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•icMj:k.'^ft'. 1-

%*%.*':

^ ^ t

:!rS* '. WEN HE DEPARTEtt THE STEW HOUSE HE DBOVE EAST ON HIGHWAY •*'

MNETY. HE'CLAIMED TO BE A FOOD SALESMAN. " " '^f/:J^T " -"' ' -

J v . " W . LUKE STATED HE DID NOT THINK ANYTHING ABOUT THIS V —

UNTIL HE HEARD ABOUT THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON SENATOR ' .

KERNEDt. . HE HAD NEVER SEE*i THE MAN BEFORE AND NO OTHER PERSONS.> : * ( • - -

WERE IN THE STEW HOUSE AT THAT TIME.

SECRET SERVICE, HOUSTON, ADVISED FIVE PM '

TODAY AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES ALSO ADVISED.

LHM -FOLLOWS. ^ | . - v o ' M > - K ' - ••. •'•"'C*C--^ ".

E N D ' . " 1 ' ? • . - ' • * \ •:•'••'• ^ v : ' : ' " i - i } . ' , . **;\ •-.•• '.' - '•"

* ' • - • ' • • ' / , " • ; . • ' / . - . - - • ' • . • ' . • • ' • • \ ; . ' -

S M S . : . • ' ; • . " .-;'•: \ ; ; . " ' ' < '•"••. • . . ' . ' ' • - ' • • ; : ' - ' ' / [

F B I L O S A U G . " 1 - ^ v ; " ; ' ' . T -:•

i ^ . ^ . ^ v ' - ' • • • : • • *•••• • s \ v ' • - • • • • ;

,;>;•. TO DIRECTOR, LOS ANGELES, AND SAN FRANCISCO ?/ PLAINTEXT

V' " f ; LOS ANGELES AND SAN FRANCISCO VIA WASHINGTON

• / : > . T F R O M N E W A R K .'••.': \ ;- •'''•. '-':\:\ •• ' ."'• ' •• -\. " - . . "

; ;

K ^ E N S A L T • / :•••-••.-'•••••• - • ; • ,..: . . . " . ^ • • - V ' . . ;''. . v •

• / • < - - • . : . ' • - . " ; • . • • . • ; - * . ' - - . - • . - . • ' ; • • * - • - - - . ' . V * • * • • • • ' • - • ' '

• / < - . " • • - : ' • ' " . - • • • " • • • " ' . " " • " • . ; V . ' • - • - • . • . . . ' - • . ' • • • ' . ' " • . - ' ' v -

' • ' • • • • • : • • ' : - ^ - " • - • • • * • . " . • : \ • ; • : . • . • ^ " . • - . . - : ' . . - - \ - ' : - - . v • • : , ' • . ; , . • . . . , ,

RE BUTEL TpDAY, AND NEW YORK TEL CALL TO NEWARK TODAY,

TELEPHONE

BEACH,

»J, TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED THE NEW YORK OFFICE TODAY,• • , • " * • . - « • • - .

HE ADVISED HE WAS FORMER "POLICE REPORTED," HAD SEEN PICTURE

OF SUSPECT AND BELIEVED SUSPECT IDENTICAL WITH PERSON

INVOLVED IN SHOOTING DURING SUMMER NINETEEN SIXTY TWO IN

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, a.J.flHHB"^ " NEW YORKCITY ATTIME OF CALL, STATED HE HAD NEWSPAPER ARTICLES SOMEWHERE '

AT HIS

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP P#D« ADVISED

;IDENCE;S^^--^'^^ V:'^-^KS: : :;: : : ;V r j "~k ~i Plf^'lM^:-;. K. :-'TflM T A U U C U T D D T\ AIMItCCTt ^ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • B " • "- •-''•[_' ' ' .

FBI NUMBER AND!

FBI NUMBER

INVOLVED IB ABOVE DESCRIBED SHOOTING. BOTH RELEASED

HAS BEEN INSUFFICIENT. .

TO DETERMINE RELIABILITY, ON JUNE FIVE INSTANT, TELEPHONICALLY

ADVISED THAT THE SAN FRANCISCO EXPRESS TIMES, DESCRIBED BY ;

• H A S AN UNDERGROUND NEWSPAPER, IN ITS MAY TWENTY THREE, .

NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT ISSUE ON PAGE-THREE, CARRIED AN ARTICLE

WHICH IN THE OPINION O F J J P ^ R E D I C T E D THE EARLY ASSASSINATION

OF SENATOR ROBERT F . KENNEDY. H ^ U R t H E R ADVISED THAT THE

ARTICLE INTIMATED THAT A MEXICAN-AMERICAN WOULD BE INVOLVED**

BY NEWARK AIRTEL AP.RIL SEVENTEEN, SIXTY EIGHT, CAPTIONED :

,INFO. CONCERNING, THE BUREAU WAS ADVISED 01

CONTACTS WITH THIS OFFICE. ^ : : ^ - ' 'J .''".- * >

, lEAD - SAN FRANCISCO WILL DETERMINE IF ARTICLE '

EXISTED AND IF WARRANTED DETERMINE SOURCE OF INFORMATIOK

IN ARTICLE IN AN EFFORT TO DETERMINE IF IT HAS ANY " :

BEARING ON INSTANT MATTER.; ' i • • v .

BAIL COPY TO NEW Y D B i t . ' - - . - ^ ; ^ - . ^ ^ - > . - r i

FBI LOS ANG

FBI ALBANY - ' ' '

I I 1 5 6 AM URGENT 6 / 5 / 6 8 PXB '

TO DIRECTOR* LOS ANGELES ft MIAMI

FROM ALBANY ft 7 5 - 1 1 ) IP

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT F , KENNEDY.

LOS ANGELES* CALIFORNIA* JUNE FIVE* SIXTYEIGHT.

REBUTEL JUNE FIVEy INSTANT*

ipY, H^HHIHilHfli iHSHiHii^^BI& SCHENSCTADY*NEtf YORK,* ADVISED TODAY SHE OBSERVED TELECAST SHOWING ALLEGED

ASSAILANT OF KENNEDY AND RECOGNIZED HIM AS A YOUNG MALE CU3AN

WHO WORKED IN NINETEEN F1FTYNINE OR SIXTY F O R |

MIAMI* FLORIDA.

STATED THIS CU3AN WORKED ON THE SECOND FLOOR AND FOREMAN WAS

EITHER 9 H m H ^ H H H R r L W J > * STATED THIS CUBAN HAD

HORRIBLE TEMPER* THREATENEDJJ^J^ND WAS FIRED* ADDED

CUBAN HAD BEAUTIFUL SINGING VOICE.

MIAMI IMMEDIATELY ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY A80VE DESCRIBED

CUBAN.

1*00 PM URGENT 6 - 5 - 6 8

TO.DIRECTOR AND LOS ANGELES

FROM CHARLOTTE

- % * " • * • • . " : - , • . . "•• * ' - i v -1 • .'-' " . - • • ' T - ' .• r ' .*v* -»-- ' i- J " . * - • , • r . «•- " - * ^ . . . . - ^ "^ • t , -• . - ff • . J t_. , • , * • ' - . - •*• . - r _ ' "

/ : ? ; r* ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT F . KENNEDY' ^ ; - s ; : V / . -. "

: ; ' ; l ibs ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, JUNE FIVE, NINETEEN SIXTY£IGHT,> •/.;.;.. . , !

1 ( • • • .

BUREAU TELETYPE TODAY. :.:'M •;•.">. ,: ' :;-V.-- ^;f .

THE FOLVOVIHG INFORMATION FURNISHED THIS OFFICE BY

PSYCIATRY DEPARTMENT,

DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, DURHAM, N . C , AND IS BEING

BROUGHT TO ATTENTION OF LOS ANGELES OFFICE FOR ASSISTANCE -• • • • • . • • • • • • - ' • . s 1 • ' • - - . . ' . : i ' . \ - * • ' • " . - • < " " • • . • ' . • » - • ' • ; - • - • • . • - , • - . - - . - . . * . r ' .

IN INSTANT INVESTIGATION AND FOR. POSSIBLE DISSEMINATION \

/ / / ; " TO LOS ANGELES'POLICE J)£PARTMEMT#^/.(.'^>Vr/-sS.^-\i.";>-L ^ " :

' l r £ ; ^ ~ J H I | B ( B B | ^ B ^ A D V I S E D HE HAD OPPORTUNITY TO OBSERVE

v t / . SUSPECT ON LIVE TELEVISION/HE HAp SUSPICION S U S P E C T X K !>

-•"?/: HAD SOME PHYSICAL SYPTOMS OF BEING ON AMPHETAMINES OR

t

xMfcJpTHER .TYPE pR06,r IF ^ I » l ANALYSIS \iTOT PERFORMED TODAY OB ^ ^ ^ f

^^*-''"TOMORROW, WOULD PROBABLY «OT BE MEDICALLY POSSIBLE TO TELL * ^

1

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;i^^^.'^••^v^^=•^^^v^^y.^ • : * - . J > - f ' - v > i ^ ' : \ - - . - - - - v - , - . - • • • • * , •

fcW^^J'SHMBBBBBBSTATECi HE >AS KERELY Fiffil ISHIBG THIS ^ v :,?:

W:( P S 7 A T E - D

TH E -

i l l VIEV o f WGNITUM OFTHIS

^ i :ALS0i 'VPOINTED OUT HE OBSERVED LARGE IUWBER OF IBDIVIDUALS ::

•• >

c •

. /

U 0 7 PM URGENT 6 / 5 / 6 8 PXB

TO DIRECTOR, LOS ANGELES

ALBANY U 7 5 - H )• . " - • : •

: - • - . - - > - • * • • . 7 * ' : • . • • " • • - • ' T - - - - : i ' . " • ' , • ' . • ; " .

; • • ' . ' " . • • • • - . •

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT F . KENNEDY,. • • - • • - • ' . • • • " , • • • • " , . ; - , . ' . ' . . ' - / , . . - • • . ' - . / . . - • - • . ; • • - .

:-> LOS ANGELES, CALIFORUIA, JUKE FIVE INSTANT. INFORMATION

CONCERNING. '.

?

THIS DATE,

, ROUTE ELEVEN, KIRKWOof!, H.Y., WITH WHOM INSUFFICIENT CONTACT

HAS BEEN^ WADE TO ESTABLISH RELIABILITY, ADVISED THAT TODAY SHE .

VIEWED PROFILE OF THE SUSPECT IN CAPTIONED ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION

ON HER COLOR TV. SHE STATED SUSPECT LOOKED IDENTICAL TO PERSON :

WHO ENTERED HER SHOP IN SEPTEMBER ",S IXTYSEVEN, WHO SHE-.. , /

DESCRIBED AS MALE, TWENTYTWO r TWENTYTKREE YEARS OLD, FIVE FEET_ , : • * • . y \ - * • • • : ; • - • • • • . • : - - : • - • • • • - • • • • - • • - - : • > : ' • • • . • • . . • . • : • • • . • - • • . "

FOUR-FIVE I N C H E S , THIN B U I L D , BROWN EYES, BLUISH BLACK HAIR, DARK

SMOOTH BROWN COMPLEXION, SMALL EARS, NOSTRILS CURVED TOWARD MOUTH

AND NICE-LOOKING, r HE CLAIMED TO BE ENGINEERING STUDENT^ ' V ; . \ •',._

FROM INDIA WHO WAS J U S T PASSING THROUGH. HE WORE GOLD

^W^.*-*WORE LlGHT COLORED SFORl'SHIRT,' GRAY SLACKS.'*hi&iWjf$'^" • - '

>IISK."!!?,HAT QR R I H G s . ; J H H W K £ WAS IH HER STORE APPROXI--;MATELY THIRTY MINUTES ARD LEFT WITHOUT IWKIfiG PURCHASE. SHE ' '

DID MOT SEE HIS CAR. HAS HOT SEES H I * SINCE^ AND WAS UNABLE TO -

tSH ANY ADDITIONAL lUFoitAriQtiJ.^/:'^;^

ABOVE FURNISHED FORj INFORMATION AND" POSSIBLE INVESTIGATIVE

FBI LOS ANG,

•^£ : ; / ;<£^^^

*&3:^ FBI LOS ANG.'

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' * • . • ; . • • • • • . • • « • • • ' . . ' • • . t ' • • - • . ' • • : - . - , " . ^ - • • - . - . - . ' * . " - . ' • ' . • • - : . . - , - ' - " - . • • - • . V

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:f;•••*•-.• T O L O S A N G E L E S - ; > •.••: ' . - ^ ' • : \ / "' ?. ;: ^ - - - "' , ^V i - . . • . - . - v • , - . •' : • ' • - • , - ' ' ' - ^ : - . ; ^ v - • •"•- : - : : . - * • - W . v : ^ : : - . - - ; • ' - - * . • - . -

'••/•••'"., FROM. S A C R A M E N T O C 6 2 - 7 6 ) 3 P : : • " - ' " . < : . ' ; ^ '

' *,'. '"

^ / >

JUNE FIVE LAST,RE LA TELCAL TO

AS INTERVIEWED DURING^ —

LATE EVENING HOURS 6N JUNE FIVE LAST AT ^ " ™• ' ' • ' , « * . - • " . . • .

CALIFORNIA, LOCATED APPROXIMATLY TEN MILES

CALIFORNIA BY SAS

DVISED AS FOLLOWS:.V'-v&'•>"<'-;<.-'<•• .-' - -

-': LAST VEEK HE WAS APPROCH ED TELEPHONIC ALLY BY USE OF HIS CODE .

^ ; KAWE TO DO QUOTE A HIGH-LEVEL CONTRACT .UNQUOTE NOT FURTHER IDENTIFIED,

i f T V- 'THREt MEN, CAUCASIAN/AGES THIRTY TO FORTYFIVE MET HIM BY PREARRANGE-

£ U H E N I AT THE BAR AT .THE HOSINDA MOTEL, FRESHO, CALIFORNIA.. AT ';''/••"

EIGHT FORTY pM'OI m Y TWENTYNIiiE LAST;"HE^REFUSED W E CONTRACT.' A

DC DASH THREE AIRPLANE WAS STANDING*BY AT A " L V A I G E L E S AIRPORT

FOR A GET AWAY FOLLOW IMG THE CONTRAC]

i&k..

' 'CONTACT 1 8 H I A B l / F L O R D I A WAS TO BE QUOTE • ^ f a t t Q U O T E AN ATTORNEY .

' - % * • - ' ' • . \

AT MIAMI TELEPHONE NUMBER

CONTACT AT SUNSET ISLAND OFF FLORIDA MIARLAND WAS TO BE QUOTE)

TELEPHONE KUM3ERJ

A MAN NAMED Q U O T E ^ J U j N Q U O T E WHO RESIDES ON

[WAS TO JiAVE HAD SOME COHECTION WITH THE GET

AWAY FOLLOWING THE CONTRACT. A COONTACT IN THE LOS ANGELES BASIN

AND »QUOTE

A ¥ 1 F £

HE HAD NEVER SEEN ANY OF THE THREE' MEN WHO CONTACTED HIM AT

(CEPTED FOR ONE N A H E ^ J m ^ H O I S A MEMBER OF SYNDICATED

CRIME IH LAS VEGAS, KEVADA. > - , ; ' • -; " "" : ;'r v * '"'

IN FRONT OF HOTEL WERE SENATOR ROBERT F . KENNEDY

WAS SHOT WAS A PLANT. THE POLICE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR A

PANEL TRUCK IN THE REAR OF THE HOTEL. A MAN NAMED QUOTE) ?

UNQUOTE WAS SUPPOSED TO MAKE THE QUOTE HIT UNQUOTE ON SENATOR KENNEDY.. , t.

OF THE LAPD• \

i-.ljil... HE FURNISHED ALL THE INFORMATION TO

^ -ON THE AFTERNOON OF JUNE FIVE L A S T ^ j K i

J - ? ; ^ ; . FOR INFORMATION OF L A B B B B F B I IDENTIFICATION RECORD REFLECTS ;"'% ARREST • S FR " ^

RECORD REFLECTS AN ARREST ONTHEIR

• I . . 1 fiUM3ER

FOR OBSERVATION.

I'OULD NOT BE PINNED DOWN TO PACIFICS DURING INTERVIEW AND

IT I S THE OPINION OF INTERVIEWING AGENT T H A ^ H | l 5 MENTALLY !r "

OF CONECTIONS WITH QUOTE THE LEFT WING

UNQUOTE, SYNDICATED CRIME, INTERNATIONAL SMUGGLERS AND SO ON AND

HE APPIRED^ TO FABRICATE TAILS AS HE WENT. ALONG. '.-. ..,.-•//;

U S DESCRIBED AS DOB

POB ^ ^ I H f l l HEIGHT^^^^^^^^^^^^B WEIGHT]

CHATACTERISTICSs -

CORR I B THE QUOTE LEFT VIBG XHE WORD ELEMENT SHOULD BE INSERTED

12-37 PR URGENT 6-6-68 BID :. , ' . • v • . • . _ • • >

TO DIRECTOR, LOS ANGELES I SACRAMENTO

FROM DENVER 62-2416 3 P V , / • i

XENSALT

w e - - • . • • • :

- 1

tWYO.t. , Dfi THIS DATE OFFICER

ADVISED AS FOLLOWS: y{':- <•/;-

AT ABOUT 4 :30 P . M . , JUNE FIVE LAST tl_

_ _ ^ _ _ _ ^ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ 0 , CALIF. , STOPPED,

BY THE'LARAMIE PD, STATING HE WAS EN ROUTE FROM FRESNO, TO '

BELLPORT, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK, VIA PERSONALLY OWNED CAR; \

ELATED FOLLOWING INFORMATION AND SUGGESTED INFOR- ,

WATION BE FORWARDED TO APPROPRIATE AGENCY FOR WHATEVER VALUE

I T M A Y ' H A V E I • • V . ' ' : ; -.' i':"' • : ' - '_•• - •>"*^- ' • - • : : ' i™£-' - ' '"- . ' . '-^ ' ::"."^'::'-:<i::';-:\ '• •-

FRESNO

^ ^ ^ _ S T A T E COLLEGE, FRESNO,^CALIFj^'HE^HEARD, OVER£HIS CAR RADIO. :?..\-*

S S & f c i ^ . SHOOTING Of. SENATOR ROBERT F . KENNEpY. AND ABOUT REPORT OF

; ^ | § l | ^ 0 m N I A N IMMIGRANT BEIBG HELD FOR THIS SHOOTlBCU^fer 1 ;. ::'-:

•-"-•i-a-

SEARCHED.8EWUZED.

^ r JUN 61961

^^.f i f ^-^jS-i'tf^f'-î^ •••I^-ÎJL*rifrij-^î'-- •*

MS PRESENT AT OPEN DISCUSSION SPONSORED BY•ml i SPEECH DEPARTMENT; FRESSO STATE COLLEGE, WHERE HR, KENNEDY

PERSONALLY APPEARED WITHIN PAST, MONTH, DATE UNRECALLED. BY

ATTENDING DISCUSSION WERE SOME FOREIGN EXCHANGE •. - - • : • - • • - V - - . - „ • • . - : - ; • - ; - • • •. - : . - • • - ' •••

STUDENTS, SOME BEING ARAB AND PARTICULARLY SOME WERE JORDANIAN.. . . ; • ' • • - . 1 " - - . • • • • • = . • . . • . . • > • • • • • • • • , : • • . - • , . -

THESE STUDENTS ASKEp MR. KENNEDY WHAT HIS POLICY WOULD BE. ' • • • . . ' . . . ^ . < • . • . , ' • • . ' - .

TOWARD THEIR COUNTRIES, I F HE WERE ELECTED PRESIDENT. THESE

STUDENTS BECAME VERY CONCERNED AND APPEARED Q V I T E SOLEMN AT

MR, K E K N E D Y - S R E P L Y . ; . ^ ' V - M ; . ^ " ; V " r , "'..',:••- \^'"^\ " \ "'•; - ••• ' - •"-

iELIEVES THESE STUDENTS WERE REPRESENTING SOME *

TYPE OF ORGANIZATION AND THOUGHT IT POSSIBLE THE JORDANIAN

BEING HELD* FOR THE ASSAULT OB MR. KENNEDY COULD BE CONNECTED •>.

WITH .THIS ORGANIZATION. . , \ ; ;." ' J

THE DISCUSSION WAS TAPE-RECORDED AND THIS RECORDING ^OULD- ' • - - • • - • « • • • • • • • • • • • • . ; • • • - . - . • • • • . / • • • - • • - - . - . • . , • • . • •

BE AVAILABLE TO ANY AUTHORIZED LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY THROUGH ==

CONTACT WITH,THE SPEECH DEPARTMENT AT FRESNO STATE COLLEGE.• * • • • : . ' • - • • • ' • - \ * " ' • > ' : . - • " ' • • • . • , - •

AN BE CONTACTED FOR NEXT THREE MONTHS IN CARE ' .

i

•i.

I"ISFORMATION FURNISHED TO BUREAU AND INTERESTED

OFFICES IN ACCORDANCE WITH BUREAU INSTRUCTIONS, * i ^ ; i :- » * • • • - 1 - - . . „ • " * • • ' • * • * '

. * . - . • * " ' - " _ , - • • " , ' . ' • * - >

V tOS ANGELES ADVISE SACRAKEHTO IF ANY INVESTIGATION

D E S I R E D . - "•-•'.'/,-;..•' . ' V ' " . = ' • ' • - * ; " i ' ' . : : V ; - ; . • ' - • • ; ' • • - • = : •'. • -'.':""" ;

AIRMAIL COPY SEST REW YORK.- - / ^ ,• - • • • • . . • • • - • • ; \ • • ' „ • . * . ' . - • • " • • • • • • • • / ' - • • • • • . • • . • • • . .

E N D • _ . . _ . . . . . - . : - . / : - - • • • • ' . . ' • • • ' • : • ; • • : . . - • • • / - - \ . V - ' • ' * . . • ; • • • " < : - • : . - • .

. S M S ' • ' • - • / , ' ; • • • ' • • • • " ' • ' • . ^ • . V ' ' ' - " " : " . " ' * • • ' ' " • ' . ' • ' " ' ; " ' ' • • " ' . • • . l ' : ' - : ' ' . . : \ . '

f B i L O S A « G . > ' - • . - , ; : • . - • " • • - . . . „ " • . ' • ' • • • ; ' • • • ' ':"•'- • ? ' ' • ' • • • • ' " • . . - - . .• • • > •

• . " . ' • ' • ' »

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FBI SAN FRAIT ."•' . . .; - -

I24PM URGENT 6 / 6 / 6 B RJM t

TO DIRECTOR AND LOS ANGELES ,*-., ;

FROM'SAS FRANCISCO €62-348 .1> ZV W

KENSALT • 1,.. ' ..• ;••'". '':.;• y ' \(_J \}C

i •' - ;

. ON INSTANT DATE, TERRENCE

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, MEMBER, U. S .

:, ,PRES1DIO OF SAN FRANCISCO, ADVISED THAT H |

HAS KNOWN SIRHAN SIRHAN SINCE FIFTY SEVEN, WHEN HE, SIRHAN WITH HIS '- ' . - • > • - ' • . • ' • • ' . - • _ • • • • • ' * , .

FAMILY, FIRST CAME TO THIS COUNTRY, FELL ATTENDED LONGFELLOW

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN PASADENA, WITH SIRHAN AND .MAINTAINED OCCASIONAL "

CONTACT WITHHIM THROUGH'A MUTUAL F R I E N D ^ D A V O R ^ ^ E C . . FELL SAID

PEVEC HAD, WCH CLOSER CONTACT WITH SIRHAN ASy^HEY BOTH WERE FROM ..

OTHER COUNTRIES. .HE SAID* THAT PEVEC WAS A CROATIAN. PEVEC IS~A ' ,

STUDENT'AT THE UNIVERSITY QF CALIFORNIA IN SANTA BARBARA AND HIS HOME

. PASApENA• ; PEVEC . j A L S O : ^ , i

tWORKS FOR THE MARKET BASXET, ONE TWO ONE SIX NORTH LAKE STREET,, ; '

•*>&££: PASADENA. FELL SAID KE DO£S NOT KNOW THE RESIDENCE ADDRESS OF PEVEC /

i:

5 , FELL SAID WE LAST SAW SIRHAN IN EITHER SIXTY''FOUR OR SIXTY FIVE

WHEN THEY BOTH WERE ATTENDING PASADENA CITY COLLEGE. THEY DID NOT

HAVE CLASSES TOGETHER BUT HE BELIEVES THE OCCASION HE SAW SIRHAN WAS~

WHEN THE SHAH OF IRAN WAS VISITING THIS COUNTRY. HE WAS MOT AWARE

OF ANY POLITICAL INCLINATIONS OF SIRHAN EXCEPTTHAT HE WAS VERY' PSUCH

INTERESTED IN THE CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE AHAB AND ISRAEL NATIONS. ~

HE WAS; VERY PRP-ARABIC AND OFTEN SPOKE OF GOING BACK 10 HIS HOMELAND

<AND HELPING OUT THE WAR. FELL SAID IN HIS,MIND HE BELIEVES SIRHAN '.

HAD THIS ATTITUDE BECAUSE HE HAD SEEN A CLOSE MEMBER OF HIS FAMILY,*-*• - '

KILLED IN JORDAN. HE VAS NOT AWARE OF ANY VIOLENT NATURE OF.• - \

SIRHAN BUT SAID THAT HE DID. HAVE A QUOTE NORMAL ARAB TEMPER UNQUOTE.

•'.'• LOS ANGELES, AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA, OR. .

PASADENA, CONTACT DAVOR PEVEC FOR ANY INFORMATION HE «AY HAVE

CONCERNING SIRHAN.: • • ' • • : • • • - . • . ; • . • > - .

END • ? - - • • • .

<\

L?XTH

\ . " • ' . •R OFFICE ADVISED

T T

LOS ANGELES ( 5 6 - J 5 6 ) PLAINTEXT

FBOH DIRECTOR 2P RECEIVED BY CODED TELETYPE,

• : • > • * ' . *

REURAIRTEL JUNE FIVE

AVAILABLE KKOWN HANDWRITING OF SIRKAN BISHARA* • • ' * • ; •

SIRHAN CONSISTS OF FINGERPRINT CARD SIGNATURE ONLY. THISÎS

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SUITABLE COMPARISON MAY BE CONDUCTED. MANY OF THE WRITINGS

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TO H I S BOTHER IN WHICH^HE SENDS HER TEN DOLLARS

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WRITIEN IN ENGLISH AFTER THIS NOTATION. VARIOUS PAGES

ALSO SHOW NAMES AND ADO^ESSES: MISS PEGGyOSTERKAMP.'» " • • - • • - " • * * * * — ^

^NE THREE TWO NINE ZERO ARCHIBALD AVENUEV CORONA,

CALIFORNIA EIGHT ZERO ONE ONE THREE. HER ADDRESS ALSO

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' ^ r OUT NAME OF, SIRAHAN <PH). AS NAME OF" PERSON IN CUSTODY FOR ATTEMPTED •

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IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE,

MOBILE, A L A . , AVAILABLE LETTER CONTAINED IN ENVELOPE

vf:;->. A ? D ? F S S E D T 0 - * ? E P A R T E M E M , 1 °7 IMIGRATION MOBILE ALABAMA-7POSTMARKED "LOS ANGELES, CALIF. MAY THlRTYONl: NINETEEN

S I X T Y E I G H T * . THE .LETTER I S A RAMBLING LETTER REFERRING TO h , • \ '•- i^ - ^ : - ; - ' - ' • : ' x ' • ' • > ^ . - , ' , - - • • " • - , . . - ' . . ' - r ^ r - ' - x * ; . . - . . - ' - • . • ; . ' • ; • • * • . - ' . • • ' • - • ' - ; - - _ ' . . ' ; - - . •

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P U S H 1 N N S , AND JEW " B L U E CARD* MEXICAN CATHOLIC DRAGNET I N T O : - . • * . .

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STATEMENTS OF GOD ' R E F E R R I B G ' T O THE POOR MAS, AHD^ OTHER ; =:

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QUOTATIONS, AND THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THE LETTER ENDS WITH:' • " . • - • • > ' • • • - . : : ; / - • • • • V i v * - : : • . • • " : • • - • : . - • , , . ' . • . - . • „ • • • . - • , . . . : . . 1 • . } • • , , . - • •

"SUGGEST THIS BIBLEGRAM SENT TO RFK, WAY USE «Y SAME., (WATT.

TEN: FORTYTtfO)".ITniS SIGNED IN TYPEtfRITINi

t : THE SECOND PARAGRAPH OF LETTER CONTAINS VARYING STATEMENTS ,

CONTRIBUTED TO SOD AND IS NOT PERTINENTV IT IS SIGNED IN' • * " • • • • - • • • • ' : . ' • • ^ • ' . • , - : - • ; * - - r . > : • . , ^ : .

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.-HANDWRITINGU* S* S E C R E T S E R V I C E , MOBILE, ALA* VAS ADVISED

AT TEN A . M . , CENTRAL DAYLIGHT T I M E , JUNE FIVE S I X T Y E I G H T , AND

HE I S BEING PROVIDED TWO COPIES OF LETTER, : V > . ; . - .^ ";'"* .* ~

. LETTER I S GEING FORVIARDED TO FBI LABORATORY AIR MAIL TODAY,

WITH COPIES TO LOS ANGELES, P . . ^ a ; , .; .-- 'l'/ ^ ' ^

-.'V/ 1 ***ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT F . KENNEDY,

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, JUNE FIVE, SIXTY El

: 'V'U - V RE CI TEL CALL TO LOS ANGELES INSTANT PATE. ; : ^ ^

:,.:- PR08ATI0* OFFICER,^ DAYTON, OHIO,' TELEPHONIC ALLY CONTACTED' - : % : . - • ' : . . - , : • • • . * • - • • • • • ( . " • • . - • ' • • • • - • > • • • • . • . i \ • : • -

DAYTON, OHIO RESIDENT AGENCY AND ADVISED HE VIEWED PICTURE OF

SUSPECT IN KENNEDY SHOOTING ON TV THIS DATE' . - • - ' ' - • • , • • - • ' • : • • • • ; - , • • > • - • • • • - ' '

THAT ~ "

ID B E L I E V E S "•• •

E INDIVIDUAL HE SAW ON TV I S f l H B H H ^ B j H t t

HE STATD. T H A l J H ^ k ' H E V I O U S L Y WAS ON PROBATION

E DAYTON, OHIO AREA AND HIS PROBATIION HAS BEEN COMPLETED

OHIO >D 1 0 .

RECEIVED TREATKENT AT DAYTON STATE HOSPITAL.

FBI Los

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LOS ANGELES f3 1*37 PH LRC

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TO DIRECTOR AND LOS ANGELES. * PLAINTEXT

* r LOS ANGELES VIA WASHINGTON ,

FROB NEWARK - - : • ':

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ATTEMPTED ASSASINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY, LOS ANGELES

CALIFORNIA, JUNE FIVE.SIXTY EIGHT. .

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NEWARK TELCALL TO BUREAU INSTANT. . c

•THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION WAS FURNISHED TELEPHONICALLY

NJ, AT TWELVE F/FTEEN P.W. INSTANT. : * . .

ELIEVED BASED ON TELEVISED PHOTOS OF SUSPECT

IN CAPTIONED CASE THAJSUSPECTaS FORMER ARMY BUDDY. (

DESCRIBED BUDDY A S l ^ ^ ^ H H ^ B A K A ^ I B A G E ABOUT TWENTY

Three. ?!**€/

FIVE, FIVE TWO TO KIOWEIVE/ONE TWENTY TO ONE FIFTY POUNDS, OF

MEXICAN DESCENT, ARTICULATEf AND K«OWLEDGEABLE|J( THEY WET AT

FORT EUSTIS, VIRGINIA, IN ABOUT OCTOBER, SIXTY FIVE, WHERE

TTENDED

I: :i*'&\SPECIALIST. THEY PARTED AS GOOD FRIENDS IN DECEMBER, SIXTY FIVE,

VHEN^^HlMADE A VISIT TO HIS HOME IN AN UNIDENTIFIED SMALL <;...

TOWN IN CALIFORNIA. THERE A FT.

WHILE ASSIGNED IN VIET

WHO WAS IN EUROPE. ON ONE OCCASION, HE S E N T ^ H ^ H H I S PHOTO

WAS SENT TO VIET SAB. ^

RRESPONDED WITH""• : i . - ;*

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END

[HAVE HAD NO PERSONAL MEETING

I, SIXTY FIVE/AND 80 C O f i R £ S P ^ f ^ E V I N C E SUMMER'

OF SIXTY

•RESUMES THAT

MAKING PHbTo 'oF

LOCATE ADDITIONAL IDENTIFYING- : * . • - .

IN LINE VITM TELCALL,% -

DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMY* ;

DISCHARGE PRECEEDED HIS OVR •"'-*'• • > . • • • • . - . • ' • - >

VAILABLE ASD WILL ATTEMPT TO

* •, • ^ r * - *J . w . ; j • - . . • • : ; . . .

DIVISION SEARCH '-' '•

' - . ' - . • • • ; • : • * . ' " • ' " . " " - . * • • • " > ' • • • . • - . • • . • ! " • • • • . - ' ' • -

PHOTO BEING FORWARDED TO BtfREAU AIR WAIL SPECIAL DELIVERY- - ' • • • •

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FBI PORTLAND

1121 AM URGENT 6/5/68 DMP


FROM PORTLAND (62-NEW) 3P

KffNSAULT.

RE PORTLAND TELCALLS LOS ANGELES AND BUREAU INSTANT*

RONALD R. HILLS80R0J

OREGONf WHO IS A >KAN IN HIS EARLY TWENTIES AND WHO WAS A VOLUNTEER

WORKER FOR SENATOR KENNEDY WHILE KENNEDY WAS CAMPAIGNING IN STATE OF

OREGON, INTERVIEWED INSTANT DATE AND FURNISHED FOLLOWING INFORMATION*

LATE EVENING OF MAY TWENTYEIGHT LAST AT A3OUT ELEVEN FORTY P.M.,

FOLLOWING KENNEDY'S APPEARANCE IN BALLROOM OF THE BENSON HOTEL, PORTLAND

OREGON, KENNEDY MADE SHORT STATEMENT CONCEDING TO SENATOR MC CARTHY AN

ELECTION VICTORY IN STATE OF OREGON. HUNTLEY WAS IN COMPANY OF KENNEDY

AT THIS TIME. AS KENNEDY, HUNTLEY AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS LEFT THE PLAT"

FORM IN THE BENSON BALLROOM, HUNTLEY WAS PROCEEDING IN FRONT OF KENNEDY

ATTEMPTING TO CLEAR PASSAGEWAY FOR KENNEDY FROM PLATFORM TO KITCHEN OF

BEWSON HOTEL WHERE KENNEDY WOULD MAKE EXIT. DISTANCE FROM THE PLATFt

END OF PAGE ONE

6 o

iPAGE TWO .

TO THE KITCHEN DOOR WAS ABOUT FIFTEEN F£ET»

AS GROUP PROCEEDED TO KITCHEN AND WHILE STILL IN BALLROOM, HUNTLEY

SAW TWO INDIVIDUALS STANDING BETWEEN KENNEDY PARTY AND KITCHEN DOOR.

THEY APPEARED TO SPEAK TO EACH OTHER AND INSTEAD OF STEPPING ASIDE THEY

WALKED THROUGH THE KITCHEN DOOR. HE SAID AS HE CAME THROUGH THE KITCHE?

DOOR HE PUSHED THE SHORTER OF THE TWO MEN FROM BEHIND AGAINST THE WALL

AND TOLD HIM TO STAND S T I L L UNTIL THE PARTY GOT THROUGH. AS HE PLACED

HIS HANDS AGAINST THE MAN'S BACK* HE FELT WHAT HE THINGS COULD POSSIBLY

HAVE BEEN A WEAPON OS A WIDE THICK BELT. BY THIS TIME SENATOR KENNEDY

HAD PASSED AND THEN HE TURNED AWAY TO A I D REPRESENTATIVE EDITH GSEEN,

WHO WAS IN THE PARTY* TO KEEP HER FROM BEING PUSHED BY THE CROWD. HE

BELIEVED THE MAN WHO WAS WITH THE MAN HE PUSHED HAD STEPPED OFF TO THE

OTHER S I D E , AND HE DID NOT SEE HIM AGAIN.

THE REASON HUNTLY CONTACTED THE FBI WAS THAT HE HAD HEARD A NEWS

BROADCAST GIVING A DESCRIPTION OF THE UNSU3 IN THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATf

0KT LOS ANGELES AND THE NEWS BROADCASTER'S DESCRIPTION APPROXIMATES TH1

OF ONE OF THE UNKNOWN SUBJECT HUNTLEY SAtf I N THE BENSON HOTEL AT PORTLAB

HUNTLEY DESCRIBES THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS THAT HE OBSERVED IN PORTLAB

END OF PAGE TWO

4_

PAGE THREE

AS FOLLOWS*

; NO. ONE, THE INDIVIDUAL HE PUSHED, VMA, TWENTYTHREE YEARS OF

; AGE* FIVE FEET FOUR, VERY HEAVY BUILD* ONE HUNDRED NINETY LBS.* MEDIUM

BROWN HAIR PARTED ON RIGHT SIDE AND FAIRLY LONG* VERY NEATLY TRIMMED,

ROUND FULL FACE* CLEAR FAIR COMPLEXION* WELL DRESSED IN A BUSINESS SUIT*

WEARING A RING WITH A MAROON STONE ON HIS LEFT HAND.

NO. TWO* WHO APPEARED TO POSSIBLY BE IN COMPANY WITH THE MAN

HUNTLEY PUSHED* WMA* POSSIBLY OF POLYNESIAN DESCENT AND APPEARANCE*

BUjSHY WIRY BLACK HAIR, CUT SHORT AND C0M3ED STRAIGHT BACK, MEDIUM SLENDK

BUILD, ONE HUNDRED FIFTY POUNDS, NARROW FACE* WEARING A TWEED SPORT COAT

HUNTLEY BELIEVES THAT HE WOULD BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE THE INDIVID-

UAL DESCRIBED HEREINBEFORE AS NO. ONE SHOULD BE SEE HIM AGAIN.

TELEPHONIC CONTACT HAS BEEN MADE WITH THE LOS ANGELES DIVISION

WHICH IS FORWARDING PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE SUSPECT IN THIS MATTER TO PORT-

LAND. THE PHOTOGRAPHS WILL BE EXHIBITED TO HLJNTLEY AS SOON AS RECEIVED

AND BUREAU AND LOS ANGELES ADVISED.

END*

ACK FOR TWO MESSAGES

~^i . NEED CORRECTION

2ND MSG PG S LONXXX LINE 4 FROM BOTTOM LAST WD LOOKS LIK

ASSASSINATION BUT OVER LAPS AND 1ST VD OF NEXT LINE GA

: . ASSASSINATION -• •'..•.< :-.

"! ";' AT LOS ANGELES TU . . . r

8 R SMS

FBI LOS ANG

TUP

LOUISVLE . ' - ; : r > -1 1 : 3 5 A.M. JUNE S I X , SIXTY EIGHT URGENT PA&

TO/ DIRECTOR, SEATTLE, MINNEAPOLIS*' LOS ANGELES

FROM/ LOUISVILLE / 8 9 - 7 B / - :'•*>.--; * . '-'• -

KENSALT

INFO RECEIVED THIS.DATE FROMJ

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, /MPLOYED

TO THE EFFECT THAT WHILE HE WAS LIVING IN WALL,

SOUTH DAKOTA, FROK APRIL, OF SIXTY THREE THROUGH AUGUST OF SIXTY

THREE, HE KNEW AN INDIVIDUAL BY THE SAME OF SIRHAN SIRHAN.

•J: J ( B B S T A T E D THIS INDIVIDUAL HAD "SIRKAN SIRHAN" PRINTED ON

CONSTRUCTION H a M E T . ' ' 7\- - ^ : " : ' •

. SIRHAN SIRHAN DESCRIBED AT TIKE B Y ^ ^ S IN MID-TVENTIES;

FIVE FOOT SEVEN TO EIGHT JNCHESj ONE THIRTY FIVE TO ONE, FIFTY LBS; ';~ SMALL BUILD; HAIR A»D EYES UNKNOWN; OF FOREIGN EXTRACTION. SIRHAN

SIRHAN"WAS*A ^EMBER OF INSTALLATION TEAM EMPLOYED BY BOEING AIRCRAFT. ' . - ^ : . * • • " • . - : • - • • . - - . . - - • • • • • • • - . : • " • • = - : - . ' . + . ^ - • - - . . • . . • • • - • ' . - , .

OUT OF SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, CONSTRUCTING MISSILE BASE FOR U . S . ' A . F .

CONSTRUCTION WORKERS RESIDED AT WALL AND OTHERS. AT RJiPID CITY,

[TATES WORKERS AT TIME WERE FINGERPRINTED AND GIVEN

"GREEN OR YELLOW CLEARANCE FOR SECRET OR CONFIDENTIAL EMPLOYMENT. ' - , - - - - * • • - r • • -

;- • • " - • : , , ; • ' ' • - - • • • < : ' . . . . . . • • • , . - • : • • • : . . • . " ' .

I N CONNECTION WITH J O B . V• •.,•%.: ;; V. . -- •

• . S E A T T L E CONDUCT APPROPRIATE INVESTIGATION AT BOEIBG AIRCRAFT ;

AND DETERMINE I F RECORD AVAILABLE OF SIRHAN SIRHAN AND IF IDENTICAL• > • • • : . . ' . * : • : •• ' • - . • • . • • • • ' ; • ' • • • • • • • • . ; • • • • •

WITH SUBJECT, ALSO, REVIEW PERSONNEL RECORDS FOR ANY BACKGROUND •- ' ^ - - • . „ • . - , . : ' . . • > . „ • . , . , . - v - • - . • • » . * • • . - • . : , • - . : • ' • * - . • . • - • • • - • •

INFO OF ASSISTANCE IN ESTABLISHING FORMER ASSOCIATES ARD CONTACTS.

P E N D ' / - . . • • ' • • » : ' / ' . : " . ' • ' ' • • ' • , o " •"-- -.."- • , " •*- .--•; ' :-."'" ' ^ • I w ' " " " " ! ' " ; ' " •"' . •

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F B I L O S A N G . •' ••'•'. '"'! " . ," . •*." :'.>-'-'* " - -• • - . ' ^ • . ; • • • • " * . • - ' . " • ' " . * " ' • • - • • • • ; • • • . " • ; . ' " , ' - ' I * •

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FBI INDAPOLS .'/-.•.. •

1031AM URGENT 6 / 6 / 6 8 OJS* • • •

]"! ' L O S ANGELES -.; •" ;•."'•- -'

FROM I K D I A N A P O L I S ( 6 2 - N E W )

XENSALT.

REBUTEL JUNE FIVE LAST,

S FROM LAFAYETTE AND REQUESTANGELES. AT MONEY BE

SENT TO HIM C/0 KENNEDY POLITICAL HDQRS. ANGELES, FOR HIS RETURN

FLIGHT TO LAFAYETTE.*

i s wn.[OCCUPATION . V , - *

. . ' • ~i • ' j

DESCRIBED AS ARDENT ROBERT F . KENNEDY SUPPORTER'• • • • • • * • * ' . ^ » - . " > : * " ~ + r - * r . * * - ' * . • • " • * - ' * • / ' * * ' . * ' . " " * * ' ' ' . * . " ^ " > , ' - - ' T - - • * v * - ^ - * i . • v

WHO MftY BE MENTALLY DISTURBED AND POTENTIALLY"CAPABLE OF INFLICTING" ^• " - • • . / - • ' .

> ' " •

v ^*^^- ,BODILY HARM TO ANYONE ACTING ADVERSELY REGARDING KENNEDY.

NOT KNOWN TO BE ARMED.FLEW TO LOS.ANGELES JUNE FIVE

I S WHEREABOUTS IN LOS ANGELES. UNKNOWN.^ ,, WHEN t A S T SEEN WAS WEARING ?i

BLACK TROUSERS, WHITE TURTLE NEpK SHIRT, AND'BUCiC VEST. ADVISE

•?••' ' ' • ' !•??'

FBI LOS

B I SEATTLE *."•"-.:f:

5>23 AM URGENT 6 / 6 / 6 8

70 DIRECTOR AND LOS ANGELES

FROM SEATTLE ( 8 9 - 6 2 ) ' I P * ; -';.-.

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KENSALT.

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RE LOUISVILLE jTEL TO BUREAU JUNE SIX INSTANT, ";".:.

ON JUNE FIVE LAST BOEING RECORDS, SEATTLE, FOi

SOCIAL SECURITY MUWBER

EMPLOYED BYl

REVEALED THIS PERSOU

ON JUNE FIVE LAST SAC J . E. MILNES, SEATTLE, IN TELEPHONE

CONVERSATION WITH S A ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ I D DIVISION BUREAU, ASCERTAINED

THAT COMPARISON OF FINGERPRINTS O F ^ ^ i ^ i ^ i ^ i ^ i ^ i ^ i S W I T H THOSE

v OF SUBJECT IN CUSTODY DEJERP1INED THESE :TWO PERSOKS MOT IDENTICAL,

l.* '"-". INFORMATION COPIES AIR MAIL TO MINNEAPOLIS AND .LOUISVILLE. -•( j . .

FBI LOS ANG. - : •> '••<,-

URGENT 6 - 6 - 68 -,.fc"MI '.£.•* ;v>^'v'"1'-:

'TO LOS ANGELES " * <PLAINTEXT> V\

FROH DIRECTOR •:'- 1 > ' V.-: %;•/.< •-,*, --»

PERSONAL ATTENTION.RECOVED BY CODED TELETYPE

. > • : • • • " •

KENSALT** • " -

•*•. - •-

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THIS WILL CONFIRM FOLLOWING INSTRUCTION* ISSUED TO ASAC ROGGE

r

TODAY. COMPREHENSIVE REPORT MUST BE PREPA/ED AND RECEIVED AT' • - • ' • . • - • • ' \ , ~ - > * . • • • ' - . ' • ' . : • • • • ' . • , -

THE BUREAU BY NINf^A. H.t EDT, JUNE TEN NEXT, SUBMIT TWENTYCOPIES AND INSURE THERE IS AN INDEX. - .-:•' . ' \ '

. • . • • - . • • • • • • . . . • • • • . • • • - - • " ' , • " * •

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES MUST BE INSTITUTED TO INSURE THAT ;

THERE IS APPROPRIATE .INDEXING OF ALL PERTINENT NAMES RESULTING FROM *

[YOUR INVESTIGATION,' . . ,-. " • * ."•,./.- . :

THE MATERIAL OBTAINED FROM SUBJECT'S ROOM CONTAINS NUMEROUS

INVESTIGATIVE LEADS WHICH SHOULD BE RUN OUT IMMEDIATELY,. !" :

HANDWRITING EXEMPLARS OF SUBJECT SHOULD BEDOBTAINED TODAY AND SUBMITTED

'TO LABORATORY SO APPROPRIATE EXAMINATION CAN BE MADE OF HANDWRITING

APPEARING ON MATERIAL OBTAINED FROM SUBJECT'S ROOM. THIS

MATERIAL' CONTAINS NUMEROUS ARABIC NOTATIONS WHICH ARE BEING'- -' >

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TRANSLATED AT THE BUREAU AMD YOU WILL BE ADVISED.

h* 15k > YOUR INVESTIGATINNEBTNCERN1NG KENSALT SHOULD BE CONDUCTED IN

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"ESTABLISttlNa WHETHER SUBJECT ACTED _IN CONCERT WITH OTHERS.

m SHOULD IMMEDIATELYRUN OUT ALL FACETS OF SUBJECT*S BACKGROUND

^HICLUDING RESIDENCE/ NEIGHBORHOOD, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, RELATIVES,

" ASSOCIATES, AND"ASSOCIATION WITH SUBVERSIVE, ETHNIC .OR RACIAL GROUPS.

J- " INTERVIEW REPORT FORMS SHOULD fiVUSED FOR INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED

AND AUXILIARY OFFICES SHOULD SUBMIT INTERVIEW REPORT FORMS OR ' "

'. INSERTS TOi YOU FOR INCLUSION IN A REPORT.'..;*".-V,•: . _,.-\\-J; • ._,

• ALL LEADS SHOULD BE SET OUT BY EITHER TELEPHONE OR TELETYPE

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RE SF TEL TO DIRECTOR SIX FIVE SIXTY EIGHT. > > *' ' -

REPEATED ATTEMPTS HAVE BEEN WADE TO LOCATE THOMAC DANIEL GOOD,

SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, THIS DATE BUT THUS FAR HE. NOT RETURNED

HIS ROOMING H O U S E . H ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H H ^ ^ B H A S ADVISED

GOOD IS EXPECTED TO RETURN TO HIS RESIDENCE DURING NIGHT OF SIX FIVE

SIXTY-EIGHT AND ARRANGEMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR SAN JOSE RESIDENT AGEN

TO;BE ADVISED. GOOD WILL BE INTERVIEWED EARLY AM SIX SIX SIXTY-EIGHT

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ATTEMPTED INTERVIEW OF THOMAS

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FOLLOWING NOTATION: "I CAR BE REACHED IN CARE OF A. GROSSMAN,

THREt ZERO> CURRENT.SF TELEPHONE DIRECTORY LISTS SUBSCRIBERLIS

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MIAMI, (PROTECT IDENTITY)— » , « _ • . . , • •

ADVISED ONE OF*HISf SUBORDINATES OBSERVED PICTURE OF ASSASSIN ONI * : / - 2 : • • . . . - > • / * • • v . . • . . •

FT ' TELEVISION THIS MORNING AND BELIEVED HE RESEMBLED A.FORMER

REFUGEE FROM CUBA, THIS REFUGEE SPONSORED BY CATHOLIC WELFARE,

ARRIVED IN MIAMI', F L A . , ON OR BEFORE OCTOBER, SIXTYTWO, AND WAS• ' " . % • ' . . . • . • , - • - * ••>-'.'••.••• ^ • - • • ' . • - - . - • • • . . • »

^DISCHARGED IN APRIL, SIXTYSIX. ' HE WAS A POOR, STUDENT AND

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RE KANSAS CITY TELEPHONE CALL TO LOS ANGELES TODAY.

USSOURl STATE HIGHWAY PATROL* JEFFERSON

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SENATOR KENNEDY TOWARD RECOVERY. HE REQUEST ED J H H V 0

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TELEPHONICALLY TO VOLUNTEER HIS SERVICES.

CURRENTLY STAYING AT FOSTER TOWER,! LEAVING FOR SAN FRANCISCO

JUNE SEVEN, NEXT AND RETURNING TO HONOLULU IN SEVEN DAYS AND

RETURNING TO JAPAN JUNE FIFTEEN, NEXT.. : - ~ ' ;1 - > :

NTENDS TO CALL GOOD SAflARITAN HOSPITAL, LOS

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AREl OWE, ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. V . 1 ^ ^ r V i ^ > : :^ :

1 ;• TWO. t O U C A T I O I , RESIDENCE AND EMPLOYNENT. . ^

BACKGROUND OR RELATIVES AND A S S O C I A T E S . ' - ,

SECURITY AND RACIAL HATTERS, EXTREMISTS CROUPS,

KATIOKM.UT ORGANIZATIONS. ^ * " ;V -

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' :;iV •OTIFICATION OF PERTINENT MVEtOpriNTS AS THEY OCCTO. >: ^ " •• > :

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JAMES MC EVOY»i FHD, DEPT. OF SOCIOLOGY* UNIV. OF CALIF.*

HSTDAVIS* ADVISED INSTANT DATE THAT WHEN SENATOR HO3ERT KENNEDY SPOKE

ft DAVIS CAMPUS* HE HAD HAD TO REQUEST THE POLICE DEPT. TO ORDER A

YOUNG MAN* AGE IN EARLY TWENTIES* DARK SKIN WITH ACNE, BLACK WAVY

HAIR* FIVE FEET SIX TO SEVEN* AWAY FROM THE HALL NEAR STAGE WHERE

KENNEDY WAS TO SPEAK- MC EVOY. STATED INDIVIDUAL APPEARED TO BE OF

MIDDLE EASTERN EXTRACTION AND SPOKE IN A SOFT VOICE. INDIVIDUAL

TOLD MC EVOY HE COULD NOT STAND CROWDS AND WOULD GO TO AUDITORIUM

WHEN KENNEDY APPEARED. INDIVIDUAL ORDERED OUT OF HALLWAY BY

UNIVERSITY POLICE O F F I C E R f | H H | H | H H H | INCIDENT OBSERVED

BY ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ m £ EVOY STATES PHOTO IN LOS ANGELES TIMES

CLOSELY RESEM3LES iNDIAflDUAL CONCERNED* BUT WOULD HAVE TO SEE OTHER• * • /

PHOTOS FOR POSITIVE"IDENTIFICATION. . .

UNAVAILABLE INSTANT DATE.

LOS ANGELES REQUESTED TO EXPEDITIOUS-Y FORWARD PHOTOS TO

SACRAMENTO.

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TO RONALD R . H U N T / E Y . ' HUNTLEY STATES PHOTOS CLOSELY RfiSEtfBLE THE

INDIVIDUAL DESCRIBED IN RET EL AS NO. TWO MAN WHOP! HUNTLEY SAW IN

• ;• , PORTLAND LATE EVENING OF'MAY TWENTYEIGHT LAST. - ' ' ' -' •'> : - • • . • • - . • • . - • • ' . y ~ : . •: * . ' ' • . " . . .

- IT I S TO BE NOTED, HOWEVER, THAT DESCRIPTION PREVIOUSLY .

' FURNISHED BY HUNTLEY CONCERNING SO, TWO KAN WAS THAT NO. TWO MAN .

APPEARED TO BE BETWEEN FIVE FEET FIVE £ND FIVE FEET SEVEN AND T 0 \

.,;. . ' WEIGH ONE HUNDRED FIFTY POUNDS. DESCRIPTION AS FURNISHED BY. HUNTLEY,

^:;,,/ . OF COURSE, VARIES CONSIDERABLY FROM THAT OF SIRHAR WHO I S DESCRIBED

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\ P A G E TWO **/ ;• ; " ; ; - ; 7 ;-•;; : ; v - ' ^ • 7 " ~ - ' - - ; ' - ' . S - , ' j \ '', ' .•. ' '

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I F AVAILABLE, LOS ANGELES IS REQUESTED TO FURNISH ADDITIONAL »WG , -

SHOTS OF SIRHAN FOR DISPLAY TO HUKTLEY, IHCLUDIHG IF POSSIBLE PICTURES. ^ - - , • • • • . - , - • - • - , v - . - . ' > , - i . - • • - . - . . _ . : . . .

SHOVING RIGHT PROFILE INASMUCH AS HUNTLEY STATES HE ONLY SAW RIGHT-

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APPROXIMATELY SIX WEEKS AGO VAS IK THE a K S CLUB IN DELANO,

CALIFORNIA. *AT THAT ^ ^ ^ | f l H f t W A 5 QUITE INTOXICATED

AND WAS BRAGGING THAT HE HAD PLEDGED TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS

TOWARD A TOTAL OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND TO SEVEH HUNDREDFIFTY.THOUSAND DOLLARS WHICH WAS"TO,BE UTILIZED TO PAY OFF

A CONTRACT TO KILL SENATOR KENNEDY IN THE EVENT THAT IT

APPEARED THAT HE COULD RECEIVE THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION

FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. H H ^ N F E R R E D THAT

LCN WAS .BEHI«D THE LET11NG OF THE. COfl£RACT. IN ADDITION

OVERHEARING T H I S ,

)VERHEARD THESE COMKENTS.^ AT T H \ T I M E TH_EY MERELY

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ADVISED, HOWEVER, T H A T l ^ ^ ^ B S IN FACT A GAMBLER WITH

SUPPOSED CONNECTIONS IN LAS IDOES NOT HAVEN

^ILL BE INTERVIEWED THIS DATE IF AVAILABLE.

:> •'•• '• LAS VEGAS REQUESTED TO SEARCH" INDICES AS

AND CONTACT LOGICAL SOURCES AND INFORMANTS AS TO ANY• . ' • ; • . • • • • ' • " ' - ' • . - ' • . ' • . > ' • • . . . • . . . - . . - . , • - - ,

CONNECTIONS IN LAS VEGAS, - r •'";..'; . :. . ' ' : -•. . BUREAU \ I S REQUESTED TO SEARCH THEIR FILES FOR Al

IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION T O ^ ^ ^ B ^ N D LCN.

UACB, KO FURTHER INVESTIGATION OTHER THAN THE ABOVE

SHOULD BE CONDUCTED AU THIS TIME UNTIL IT I S ESTABLISHED

JOES IN FACT HAVE LCN CONNECTIONS,' "• ™ ^ . - ' . . . - , ' - , . • > • • • • . ' ' . • • •

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KEWSALIt CIVIL RIGHTS; OOt LOSANGELES

RESIDENCE

NEV YORK_ ^ APARTMENT

CITY, ADVISED THIS DATE\THAT

LAST KNOWN ADDRESS,

NORTH HOLLYWOOD," CLAIFORNIA, IS A MEMBER OF

A "CULT" FOUHDED BY bR, ( FIRSTvMBUJNKNOWN > ARMSTRONG

•"•;(•"[ ¥H0 IS CONNECTED iSlTH THE AMBASSASWR COLLEGE, PASADENA^- " .

' " " "CALFORNIA. SHE STATED THAT ONE OF T fE MAIN BELIEFS ;

OF THE CUlt, NAME OF<CULT UNKNOWN, IS THAT THE END OF THE

WORLD IS IMMINENT WITHING FIVE YEARS. ONE OF THE PURPOSES -r

OF THE CULT IS TO RID THE WORLD OF SOME OF ITS THIEVERY AND

OTHER BAD FACTORS WITHINfe THIS.PERIOD OF TIME. "s : " '"

[STATED SHE OVERHEARD STATEMENTS MADE BY

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OF THE COLT, APPROXIMATELY ONE YEAR AGO, REGARDMG

JTHEIR PLANS TO ASSASSINATE flARTIS LUTHER KING, J R . , AID

TO "BLOW U P ! THE UNITED NATIONS/ SHE STATED HAT'

1 0 DATES WERE RECALLED BY HER REGARDING THESE PROPOSED ^ V

ACTIVITIES, HOWEVER, NAMED CULT MEMBERS, KNOWLEDGEABLE.". ' - <

OR CONNECTED WITH THESE P L A J J S , > S

HILLS, CAJ/fFORNIA, TELEPfiONE j t i»BE

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CALIFORNIA^TLEPHONE NUMBER i[4MB . . - . . • •

' • ' • • - • < • - . . " • • " _ -

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£ i • • • THAT SHE RETURNED TO NEW YORK FROM

THE LOS ANGELES AREA AROUND MAY, NINETEEN SIXTY SEVEN. -.;/

SHE STATED PRIOR TO LEAVING CALIFORNIA SHE ACTUALLY ' Js\'.'•]}.'

SAW NUMEROUS GUNS, HAND GRENADES AND DYNAMITE.AS STORED

SHE STATED

HOWEVER.

« • . : • - , - ; .

HOLLYWOOD ADDRESS*

SHE FURTHER STATED THAT DR. ARMSTRONG HAS ASON WHO ; ; .

". I S A WELL..inOVH TBBO AD CASTER" IM THE LOS ANGELES AREA. - i .

"SHE I D E N T I F I E D ^ d H i t A S A WHITE HALE, BORH•*,.'' / . ;vV

A P P R O X I M A T E L Y l ^ m ^ m m ^ m ^ N PENNSYLVANIA, ;.

FIVE FEET ELEVEB INCHES, ONE HUNDRED ElGHfl POUNDS, HAIR'

HE I S SOW BELIEVED TO HAVE MOVED FROM T H E ^ c l '

DDRESS TO AN UNKNOWN ADDRESS I d THE SAME ':l- -

f V ; ^ SANDY AND EYES BLUE. HE I S EMPLOYED

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't .A R E A . " - . ' • • > • • . • • « . ^ - ^ i - :

B H B V A ^ INTERVIEWED AFTER SHE CONTACTED THE

NEW YORK OFFICE REQUESTING AN AGENT TO CONTACT HER"

CONCERNING ABOVE INDICATED M A T T E R S ^ S H E WAS INTERVIEWED

IN PRESENCE OF A F R I E N D , ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ K ^ J O RESIDES WITH HER

^BODYGUARD. THE ONLY

REASOM GIVEN WHY SHE HAD HOT PREVIOUSLY BROUGHT THIS-

.AND WHOM SHE IDENTIFIED AS

INFORMATION TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF IHVESTIGATIOB'S

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SHE FURTHER STATED THAT SHE WAS PROMPTED TO CONTACT THE FBI

DUE, IN PART, TO THE ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY,

EVEN THOUGH*SHE HAS NO KNOWLEDGE THAT THE "CULT* IS INVOLVED^

INH ME KENNEDY MATTER SHE CONSIDERS THIS NOT TO BE BEYOND THEIR

CAPACITY DUE TO THE BACKGROUNDS OF THE MEMBERS IN THE "CULT.*: *

ALL ABOVE NAMES, NEGATIVE PER NYO INDICES. ' APPRO^::;,: •

, »YC, APPRIZED THIS DATE OF ' .. - V

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LOS ANGELES LOCATE AND INTERVIEW ABOVE INDICATED /

PERSONS CONNECTED WITH THE "CULT" REGARDING THE ALLEGATIONS "

THAT THEY PLANNED TO ASSASSINATE KING AND FURTHER PLAN TO

BLOW UP THE UNITED NATIONS. ALSO DETERMINE IF COMNCECTED WITH

THE ROBERT F, KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. DETERMINE IF SUBJECT^

JAMES EARL RAY, MURKIN; OR SIRHAN BISHARA SIRHAN, KENSALT,

IS KNOWN TO OR CONNECTED WITH THE "CULT." • , - • " '

/_ SUBJECT RAY IS CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. . ABOVE.

PERSONS CONNECTED WITH THE "CULT* SHOULD ALSO BE CONSIDERED•-•-'• -..•.•-•••-V-.-' ••••-•••s.-r' *'j.:-:;\- -•-•*\-r---W*K^--r.~: - .-.^•i.-:.-\v-V1-.'?. • ^ • ^ • ^

ARMED AND DANGEROUS DUE TO THE STATEMENT A LARGE NUMBER OF-,

PRIATE SOURCES, UNITED NATIONS, NYC, APPRIZEDE THIS DATE OF

?>?i*£.:m L O S A i » ^ ^ ^ v " - ' - - - r t ^ > ' ' - J " ! - ' ^ - ' : ^ ' ' ' - • ? - • • - • • • -

OL AM URGENT 6 / 6 / 6 6 PML

TO DIRECTOR, LOS ANGELES AND OKLAHOMA CITY

FROM ATLANTA ••' - -" '" ip . :-. "v : ' ' ''* -

KENSALT

._..,,. ^

RE OKLAHOMA CITY T E L E T Y P ^ i o BUREAU JUNE FIVE SIXTYEIGHT.

€LTA AIRLINES,

ADVISED THIS DATE THAT TICKETS F O \ D E L T A AIRLINES FLIGHT

EIGHT EIGHT FIVE, ATLANTA TO LOS A N G L E S , DEPARTING ATLANTA

TEN THIRTY A.M. EDT, ARE AVAILABLE. REVIEW OF TICKETS ONLY

REVEALS FIRST INITIAL AND LAST NAME OF PASSENGER^

INDICATES CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBERS OR ADDRESSES CAN BE

OBTAINED FROM 1>ELTA COMPUTERS, NO EARLIER THAN A.M. OF JUNE SEVEN

S I X J Y Z I G H U ; - I :'-':.::'••.:,.• V 5 t . " ; V - i y ; ::••'•"'• >''.• "'•'':• • >: '• '• •

. . ATLANTA AT ATLANTA WILL AT 6REEN8RIAR DELTA COMPUTER CENTER

OBTAIN. CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBERS OR ADDRESSES OF INDIVIDUALS : •/,

ABOVE INSTANT FLIGHT AND SET FORTH APPROPRIATE LEADS TO INTERVIEW.

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FBI

LOS ANG

LASVEGAS

3t45 PM URGENT

TO LOS ANGELES

FROM LAS VEGAS

- v

6-6-68 LMB

(63-610)

KSNSAtT

TODAY ADVISED THAT MINI

"JOE"* BROTHER OF* ASSASSIN, WAS

JULY SIXTYSEVEN. HE WAS SO EMPLOYED WHE

SIRHAN, AKA

TOCKMAN ABOUT

NASH DEPARTMENT STORE, PASADENA* CALIFORNIA. l-iT}

SHE DESCRI3ED MINIUR SIRHAN AS WONDERFUL PERSON WHO WAS

PLEASANT* VERY GOOD WORKER* VERY POLITE* HAD NO VIOLENT

REACTIONS* AND APPEARED VERY SANE. . .

SIRHAN WAS,SINGLE AND LIVED

ALONE AT SIX NINE SIX EAST HOWARD STREET* PASADENA*

NEVER KNEW OR SAW ANY OF MINIUR SIRHAN'S RELATIVES* DID NOT

KNOtf K£ HAD BROTHERS* BUT RECALLED HE HAD SISTER WHO WAS VERY

ILL* P0SSI3LY WITH CANCER*

END PAGE 0

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JUN 61968'

PAGE TWO

MINIUR SIRHAM HAD PREVKOUSLY BEEN EMPLOYED BY NASH*' i

LEFT FOR TWO OR THREE YEARS AND RETURNED. WHEN HE FIRSTi

LEFT HE STORED HIS CLOTHES AT ST03E. SHE HAD IMPRESSION HE4

WAS INVOLVED IN SOME KIND OF TROUBLE WHEN HE FIRST LEFT BUT

TH2RE WAS NO TROUBLE WITH STORE. SIRHAN WAS.VERY POPULAR

WITH NASH EMPLOYEES.

ABOVE SUBMITTED FOR INFO LOS ANGELES.

END.

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FBI LOS ANG

P

FB LOS ANG0

FBI AT LA NTT A

540PM URGENT 6/7/68 PML

TO LOS ANGELES, CHARLOTTE, C0LUM3IA AND OKLAHOMA CITY

FROM ATLANTA (44-2412) 2P

KENS ALT

We-RE AT TEL TO BUREAU, JUNE SIX LAST,

REVIEW OF DELTA TICKETS REVEALS THIRTYFIVE FIR5TCLASS PASSENGERS

ABOARD *E1,TA FLIGHT EIGHT EIGHT FIVE, ATLANTA TO LOS ANGELES,

JJNE FOUR LAST. RECORDS R E F L E C T f l i ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B WITH SON

AND INFANT, ABOARD INSTANT FLIGHT. RSVIEV OF COMPUTER RECORDS

RSVEALED FOUR UNACCOMPANIED WOMEN ABOARD FLIGHT AS FIRST CLASS

PASSENGERS AND NUM3ER OF WOMEN IN THE COMPANY FAMILV GROUP.

NAMES OF FOUR UNACCOMPANIED WOMEN ARE*

CONTACT TELEPHONE H;JM3ERj

ATLANTA; _ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ A C O N T A C T TELEPHONE1

COLUMBIA, S.

CONTACT TELEPHOh

COLUMBIA, 5* C*I H ^ ^ ^ H m ^ BUSINESS PHONE

fOME PHOt

CHARLOTTE, V . C

FOR INFO OF CHARLOTTE AND COLUMBIA, PASSENGER ABOARD ABOVE FLIGHT

REPORTEDLY OVERHEARD WHITE FEMALE, FIVE FEET S I X INCHES, DARK HAIR,

SLENDER BUILD, LATE TWENTIES, COMMENT TO ANOTHER WOMAN

SHE WAS GOING TO LOS ANGELES QUJ

FLY ABOUT KENNEDY UN3U0TE.

END PAGE ONE

TO BE THERE WHEN JHE

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ATLANTA WITHHOLDING AND MAINTAINING ALL OTHER NAMES OF FIRST

CLASS PASSENGERS AND TOURIST PASSENGERS ABOARD A30VE FLIGHT,

UAC, LOS ANGELES. .

CHARLOTTE* COLUMBIA AND ATLA^A WILL INTERVIEW ABOVE APPROPRIATE

INDIVIDUALS. P . ' . - . . -

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FBI LOS ANG

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• y , g . ^ . tO pIRECTOR INDIANAPOLIS AND LOS ANGELES (56 -156) . .

^ T r . , - ; ' * FROK.SAN FRANCISCO ( 6 2 - 5 4 8 i ) ( P ) ; .1P V;,'V;.'.',,"; > "

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V SFPD TODAY ADVISED THAT AT APPROXIMATELY EIGHT TWENTY > » V ...

PDST, JUNE SIX LAST, SFPD SWITCH30ARD OPERATOR RECEIVED CALL'FROM

AN UNXNOVN KALE WHO ADVISED HE WAS CALLING FROM MUNCIE, INDIANA. -.

CALLER ASKED IF THE ASSASSIN OF K-ENKEDY BEING HELD IN SAN FRANCISCO

AND VAS ADVISED THAT HE WAS NOT. THE CALLER THEN S A I D , QUOTE I T ' S

A GOOD THING HE ISN"T AND,1N FACT WHOEVER HAS* HIPI SHOULD GUARD 'HIM.

CLOSELY.AS I INTEND TO KILL HIM UB&UOTE. THE OPERATOR TRANSFERRED '

THE CALL TO AN SFPD INSPECTOR WHO TALKED TO THE MAN ONLY FOR A FEW

SECONDS BEFORE HE HUNG UP. '. HE ALSO MADE THE SAME THREAT TO THE V

INSPECTOR. .AH ATTEMPT MADE By THE PD 10 TRACE THE CALL THROUGH

• 1

, ; £ £ . :r,v,.THE PIUNCIE, INDIANA,^ OPERATOR AND. WAS: UNSUCCESSFUL ^SINCE THE CALLER "i>ih\

^*'V'HAD HUNG UP, tiw THEN IT WAS DETERMINED THAT WHEN PLACING THE - w ^ : - V . \: • * ' • • •

CALL HE HAD GIVEN A NONEXISTENT NUMBER AS THE NUMBER HE WAS CALLING FROff. > .

INDIANAPOLIS. CONTACT TELEPHONE COMPANY IN EFFORT TO IDENTIFY

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LOS ANGELES - M 7 - - l f l l l P t t EXR

9 - 0 7 PM URGENT ^ - 6 - 6 8 WPK

TO DIRECTOR AND LOS ANGEL

LOS ANGELES VIA VASHI

ATTENTION DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE DIVISION

FRON NEW YORK 2P

W.E.B . DU BOIS CLUBS OF AWERICA

F

RECEIVED BY CODED TELEHTE

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1FBI LOS ANGELES

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FBI LOS ANG

FBI OKLA CITY

235PM URGENT 6-5-66 RJS

TO DIRECTOR, ATLANTA, AND LOS ANGELES

FROM OKLAHOMA CITY 89-NEW 2P RUC

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT F . KENNEDY, LOS ANGELES,

CALIFORNIA, JUNE F I V E , SIXTYEIGHT.

REBUTEL JUNE F I V E INSTANT.

IN OKLAHOMA C I t V , ADVISED HE WAS

IN ATLANTA GEORGIA AIRPORT ^TJNE FOUR LAST WHlSE HIS WIFE,

AND TWO CHILDREN WERE DEPARTING FOR LOS ANGELES.

1EARD WOMAN DESCRIBED AS WFA, FIVE FEET S 3 X , DARK HAIR,

SLENDER B U I L D , LATE TWENTIES WHO WAS WAITING TO BOARD SAME

PLANE COMMENT TO ANOTHER WOMAN THAT SHE WAS GOING TO LOS ANGELES

"TO BE THERE WHEN THE BULLETS FLY ABOUT KENNEDY." FLIGHT WAS

$ £ L T A EIGHT EIGHT FIVE SCHEDULED TO DEPART ATLANTA TEN THIRTY

A.M. E D T ^ m ^ L A T E R SAW SAME WOMAN SEATED IN FIRST CLASS

SECTION OF PLANE. .

STAYING AT RESIDENCE OF

OLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA,

TELEPHONE

LOS ANGELES INTERVIE

END PAGE ONE

NY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

AS TO IDENTITY UNKNOWN WOMAN AND TO CORROBORATE HUSBANDS

STATEMENT.

ATLANTA OBTAIN MANIFEST FOR JJELTA FLIQKT EIGHT EIGHT FIVE

AMD SET OUT APPROPRIATE LEADS TO LOCATE AND IDENTIFY UNKNOWN

WOMAN.

END

LCS

FBI LOS ANG

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_ -\ • '- VLOS ANGELES iR 2 4/33PM URGENT 6-5-68 HS

TO DIRECTOR AHD LOS ANGELES* ? • • •

£fc, FROM SAN FRANCISCO (62-5481) 4P PLAINTEXT,

;.-:•-• .*.

? - ' - -• / A -

C O y H j BY CODED TOITYPE

RE SF TELCALLS TO B ^ E A U AND IA THIS DATE.,

DAVID OVERHOLT

AJ/TO, C A L I F . , APPEARED AT PALO ALTO RESIDENT

AGENCY THIS DATE «ND FURNISHED FOLLOWING INFORMATION CONCERNING

SIRHAN SIRHAN, WHO ALLEGEDLY ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF

SENATOR ROBERT F . KENNEDY. '• \'\\ • -v--\:.' r ";.'• .. j / . .

: ^ STEVENS STATED WAS CASUALLY ACQUAINTED WITH SIRHAN AT JOHN

HUIR HIGH SCHOOL, PASADENA, C A L I F . , DURING SCHOOL YEAR,

SIXTYTtfO-SIXTYTHREE, WHEN STEVENS WAS JUNIOR AND SIRHAN A SENIOR.

DESCRIBED SIRHAH AS A PALESTINIAN ARAB BELIEVED TO HAVE.

BEEN BORN IN PASESTINE OR SOME OTHER ARAB STATE. RECALLED^

THAT SIRHAN AT THAT TIME BITTERLY OPPOSEDTO AND HATED JEWS, .

PARTICULARLY ZIONISTS . ACCORDING TO STEVENS, SIRHAN LISTE/IED. : 'k

TO RADIO HAVANA, AND STEVENS BELIEVED HIM TO BE PRO-CASTRO AT ,.;•

THAT TIME. STEVENS NOT AWARE OF ANY ORGANIZATION AFFILIATIONS.

END PAGE OK'.•£

OF SIRHAN AND HO INDICATION SIRKAN WAS COMMUNIST. STEVENS HAS NOTm ^ , • - : - - - - > . - V - . • • •• . - . • • • V - v : • - • • • / • • • . , . - ; • : • , . • . - : , • • • . ' • ; V . .

SIRHAN SINCE SIXTYTHREE AND NOT ACQUAINTED WITH MEMBERS OF HIS

• i ; - - . - •••-<- • •

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SEAKCNED m-LOSAHGQO1

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VAS CLOSE FRIEND OF SIRHAN IN HIGH SCjffiOL AND HAY BE ABLE TO,FURNISH

??••""" iUFORMATlOU CONCERNING SIRHAN'S POLITICAL VIEWS OF POSSIBLE .\• • ; • : ' . - - . , - . . . . - • . ? i . . • - . . - • . I . . - - . . - - . - • • - . • - • • • • . _ - ' . . - • • ; . . . - . - " • • . ' - : . .

"•'-; WOTIVE FOR ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR KENNEDY. STEVENS ;.

; RECALLED .THAT GOOD RESIDED IN |

EAST 0 ^ LAKE AVENUE, AND JUST OFF HILL AVENUE, PASADENA,

HE HAD UNLISTED TELEPHONE DUMBER.; FURTHER ADVISED GOODREPORTEDLY GRADUATED FROM SAN JOSE STATE COLLEGE, SAN J O S E , CA1

IN SIXTYSEVEN. ^fifiOD APPARENTLY IDENTICAL* TO IFHOMAS^DAjji'EL gg<R);

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IN ARTICLE FROM SPARTAN DAILY, SAN JOSE

STATE COLLEGE NEWSPAPER, OH NOVEMBER THIRTY, SIXTYSEVEi, '

HEADLINE "NINETEEN TO FACE TRIAL JAMUARY TWO.,* FOLLOWING IS NOTED.

-THOMAS GOOD9.TVENTYTV0, BON STUDENT, CHARGED WITH UNLAWFUL ...'

ASSEMBLY." HE IS A MEMBER OF THE STUDENT FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY v. '

CSDS) STEERING COMMITTEE.-- • . • • ' • » : • - r . ; • • • *

ARTICLE FROM SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWSPAPER

riV : OF MARCH TtfENTYNINE, SIXTYEIGHT, ENTITLED "PROTESTOR GET LIGHT ,

END PAGE THREE

IFINES, JAIL TERMS." FOLLWOING APPEARS. "THOMAS DANIEL 600D, ,:

TWENTYTWO, OF TWENTYTWO S. ELEVENTH ST., ONE YEAR PROBATION AND

ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS FINE FOn'RESlSIING ARREST AT THE.DOW -f:';

-^'•/^DEMONSTRATlONi-^/^viJv.-V;1;;'''-' -:;'.V fc-^,>;:-.-—/ -V*"- ''. '•' '-

V?;:.\.;%-\ UACB, GOOD WILL BE INTERVIEWED CONCERNING HIS KNOWLEDGE OF

" B A C K G R O U N D AND POLITICAL VIEWS 6FSIRHAN AND ANY MOTIVE FOR 'V

/"••'•" ' ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. '>-^'J.~\; J:->/" - ;." / _:'_, ..;•• r -:',.' -\ \':'j

7'-*-*':i-jJ ' -BUREAU ADVISED^-I-'/^/C'i^VuVC'^--- ;-V-' -'-'" - -; ' •••''' ' ' /.'•:-: - V

FBI LOS ANGELES X

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STATE DEPARTMENT NAME CHECKS ON SIRHAN SIRHAS AND KNOWN

BROTHERS ESSENTIALLY NEGATIVE EXCEPT FOR FOLLOWING*Vv : ^ *•

ISSUED VISAS. AMERICAN EPiBASSO, V *. - ^ . . . . - - . ' - • ' - < " • • - : ' • • • - » • " • • - . > • • • - * . : " . " = • • • . .

..AMMAN, JORDAN, DECEMBER TWENTYONE FIFTYNINE UNDER PROVISIONS jl

"Of*.PUBLIC. LAV EIGHTYFIVE DASH THREE ONE SIX. FILES QFJ

- : 7

1

HAD OCCUPATION OF.

THEY STATED LOST HOME AND BELONGINGS IN PALESTINE IN FORTYEIGHT

J•%'v

iATURE OF PERSECUTION WHICH CAUSED HIB TO FLEE FROH FORMER

HOME WAS ARMED JEWISH OCCUPATION ASD NATURE OF.NATURAL ;'

CALAMITY OR MILITARY OPERATIONS WHICH CAUSED HIM TO LEAVE

FORMER HOWE WAS^ ARMED JEWISH EXPANSION AND OCCUPAtlOH./;:j

• ', * COPIES OF VISA FILES WITH BACKGROUliD INFO FOLLOW BY?

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LOCATED AND INTERVIEWED TO DETERMINE I F HE HAS ANY INFORMATION

PERTAINING TO THIS 0 A S E . : ; ' ; ^ ^

END

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I*' 0FBI LOS ANG.

FBI CHICAGO . _ " . • • .

65IPM URGENT 6 / 6 / 6 8 GGE

TO DIRECTOR ( 6 2 - 5 8 7 ) AND LOS ANGELES

ROM CHICAGO ( 8 9 - 6 1 ) (P) JP

XENSALT.

RE DIRECTOR TEL LOS AH6ELES AND CHICAGO INSTANT.

HEVIOUtLY EMPLOYED

CHICAGO.

HE WAS PERSONALLY AC3UANTED WITH ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ M A D V I S E D

NDUCTED U . S . ARMY A30UT T,WO\ MONTHS AG

RESENT LOCATIOf

MILITARY RECORDS FIFTH ARMY UNAVAILABLE UNTIL

AM JUNE SEVEN NEXT AT WHICH TIME EFFORTS WILL BE HADE TO VERIFY

^INDUCTION AND PRESENT MILITARY ASSIGNMENT.

END

DPK

FBI LOS ANG.

FBI LOS AMG

FBI CINCINTI

111OPM URGENT 6 - 6 - 6 8 HLH

TO DIRECTOR AMD LOS ANGELES

FROM CINCINNATI C 1 7 5 - 6 ) P

KENSAULT

RRXST RECORD SO

HE WAS CONTACTED BY

OHIO WITH REQUEST FOr

WASHINGTON1* D . C . TO JOIN POOS PEOPLE'S MARCH

AS MENTALLY UNSTABLE AND A RADICAL. LATES

ADVISED

CHILLICOTHS.

O'JLD GO TO

DESCRIBED!

CONTACTEI

AND REQUESTED HE BE CONTACTED 3Y F3I AGENT .

^CHILLICOTHE, OHIO RA WITH A COLORED SLIDE OF

ONE <F>o'j)BBBBBBB:-nCH HE SAID WAS TAKEN AT A PARTY

HOME ON JULY FOUR* NINETEEN SIXTYFIVE. fl|j^^^|H|^B^T THAT TIME

MEMBER OF W.E'.B. DU30IS CLU3, NUM3ER SEVEN DUDLEY

ST./ VENICE, CALIFORNIA. HE WITHDREW WHEN HE LEARNED CLUM

PARTY WAS BEING HELD A T ^ H | P ^ H O K i ; FOR MEM3&RS OF CLUB.

STATED MANY PERSONS IN ATTENDANCE AT PARTY MERE "CARD CARRYING

COMMUNISTS". HE DESCRIBED P H H AS A "VERY SERIOUS DEDICATED

COMMUNIST" WITH A PRO-CHINESE PHILOSOPHY OF COMMUNISM.

EXPRESSED PHILOSOPHY AGAINST ISRAEL AND VIETNAM WAJBBBBBBB| HAD

END PAGE ONE

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PAGE TWO

MUCH COMMUNIST LITERATURE IN HIS HOKE. flHUHBV07 KN0W A D M E S S

OF J H ^ J ^ ^ ^ H O M E BUT IT WAS ON OUTSKIRTS OF PASADENA, CALIFORNIA IN

A WELL-TO-DO RESIDENTIAL SECTION.

R08ABLY IS RELATED TO OS IDENTICAL TO

PERSON WHO SHOT ROBERT KENNEDY. ^^^^^^^^^^^^MHE HAS ABOUT

TWENTY OTHER COLORED SLIDES TAKEN AT PARTY ON JULY FOUR, NINETEEN

SIXTY-FIVE, HOWEVER, HE HAS BEEN UNA3LE TO LOCATE THEM. HE WILL

AfTEMPT TO LOCATE SAME AND FURNISH TO FBI WITH IDENTITIES OF AS MANY

INDIVIDUALS AS POSSIBLE.

HE IS LEAVING JUNE SEVEN NEXT WASHINGTON, D . C . TO

GO TO K£WJEDYfS FUNERAL AND TO JOIN POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH,

HE WOULD CONTACT FBI IF H£ DETERMINES ANY INFORMATION OF VALUE IN

WASHINGTON.

^^ >ESCRf^ED AS FOLLOWS:

NAME, " M M

POUNDS, ^^^^^^^HHflHHUHH^HHHfc: YES, ooa;|SSI

ADDRESS

PAGE TWO

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PAGE THAEE

A30VE INFOMATIOV SHOULD BE CONSIDERED AS OF QUESTIONABLE RELIA-

BILITY DUE T o J j m ^ E N T A L INSTABILITY.

CINCINNATI WILL FORWARD COLORED SLIDE OF PARTY ATI

HOME TO LOS ANGELES BY SEPARATE COKWJN1CATION AND WILL ATTEMPT TO

03TAIN PHOTO O F M f l ^ A M D FOA'JARD SAVE TO WFO. A30JE INFORMATION FOR

' A T I V E INTEREST OF LOS ANGELES AND VFO.

CIMCIKMATI INDICES NEGATIVE

AM COPIES WFO.

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TO LOS ANGELES (PLAINTEXT)

FROM DIRECTOR IP

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nURKIN; CIVIL RIGHTS; KEKSALT; CIVIL RIGHTS.

RENYTEL TO BUREAU AND LOS ANGELES JUNE S I X , LAST.

LOS AKGELES IMWEDIftTELY ADVISE LOC\L AUTHORITIES,JAL i

)F A!MILITARY, AND SECRET SERVICE OF CACHE OF ARKS WHICH WAS

REPORTEDLY STORED BY THE "CULT" A T ^ U H H H H M B

JORTH HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA* INDIVIDUALS

NAF1ED IN REFERENCED TELETYPE ARE NOT IDENTIFIABLE IN

BUREAU INDICES. AIR MAIL COPIES TO NEW YORK.

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FBI LOS ANG.

FBI CLEVELAND .

10:15 Pi* URGENT .6 -7 -68 SLO

TO DIRECTOR, VASHINGTON FIELD AND LOS ANGELES.

FROM CLEVELAND C175-16)

• • &

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LISTED FC3 ABOVE Ifjri VICUALS EXCEPT

KINS ALT; CR.

ALi- HE SPRINGFIELD TELETYPE TO DIRECTOR THIS DATE.

AKSOB, OHIO, CITY DIRECTORY BINEJEEN SlXtyTWO-SIXTYTHKEE EDITION

LIST ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ P ' I FE|

A D D H Z S S ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B "0 OCCUPATIONS

OVE I»riVIC(JALS EXCEPT ^ ^ ^ ^ B WHO WAS LISTED AS

[0 OTHER BEF"EKENCES ON A3CVE FROM NINETEEN FIFTY-EIGHT

THROUGH. CURRENT EDITION OF CITY DIRECTORY.

CLEVELAND WILL COKDUCT CREDIT CHECK S'lX EIGHT KEXT RE CURRENT

WHEREABOUTS. OF

AIR MAIL COPIES MAILED TO CHICAGO,. SPRINGFIELD, AKD ST.

LOUIS.' ' .x.

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TO: DIRECTOR, R l A f i C SAC, LOS ANGELES

FROii: 'SAC, DETROIT ( 6 2 - 4 1 7 7 )

KENSALT -

AT THREE THIRTY Pii, INSTAJJT,|

TELEPHOi;]

TELEPHOKICALLY ACVIgED SAW OK LOCAL

• TELEVISION PfiOGRAtt THAT

CALIFCSRIA AUTHORITIES IK CONNECTION VITH CA/TIOf'ED MATTER.

DETROIT OFFICE KCT AWARE O F H ^ m ^ ^ ^ P O / S I B L E

;TATES HE IS THE

t:3CH.» AHB THAT

HE WCvKED AT H_H^HHH_IIHHhH-H_____-____. LAPSING,__

, , FOR SEVERAL rcOf.'TK PERIOD IN KINETEEN SIXTY SEVEN. STATESi | ^ ^ H | H ^ K RESIDING AT

3AF.T0N, FLA., P . O . H ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H ^ B AND THAT

kPP.ESUr,ABLY CLOSE H__^_i______H STATES FURTHER THATRELIEVED TO HAVE WIFE ANC TWO CHILDRENJ

FATHER CFKU) 'RESIDING SOME PLACE IN CHICAGO

AKD S3THER, SOME PLACE IN ALABAMA, EXACT LOCATIONS UNKNOWN.

: S C R I B E [ > m m ^ S "CAR HUSTLER** AND STATES

T£KD PAGE ONE.

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PAGE TWO

BELIEVES IN.THE PAST HAS TRAVELLED AROUND VITH ALABAMA CAR

DEALER-PLATES AKD COULD CONCEIVABLY BE DRIVING STOLEN CAR

VITH ALABAMA DEALER PLATES THEREON, . ,

ELIEVED T H A T I ^ H I H B ^ S HOSPITALIZED'AT

SPARROW HOSPITAL, LANSING, EARLY NINETEEN SIXTY SEVEN FOR OVER-

WHITE,)

;, LOOKS OLDER,J

DETROIT TAKING NO FURTHER ACTION AND FURNISHING IN EVENT

LOCAL AUTHORITIES LOCKING FOR

END.

BCDFBI LOS AUG.

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6AL0S ANGELES 18 :56PK JDR

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TO LOS ANGELES ( P L A I N T E X T )

FROM DIRECTOR ( 6 2 - 5 8 7 ) I P

KENSALT

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• J•'• REURTEL SIX FIVE LAST*

RE: INTERVIEW OF SUBJECT

THE DESIRABILITY OF ATTEMPTING TO INTERVIEW THE

SUBJECT I S BEING DISCUSSED WITH THE D^PAJ?TMENT,

YOU VILL BE ADVISED WHEN A DECISION IS REACHED,

END -

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JUN 7 1?

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FBI LOS ANG.

FBI MIAMI - .

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FROM KIAKI U 4 - 1 8 8 0 ) -

KEK5ALT,

LftUDERDALE, FLORIDA,\ADVISED SHE 03SERVED FOLLOWING AT APPROXIMATE

MOMENT ASSAULT OH KENNEDY OK NBC TELEVISION:

CAMERA WAS FOCUSED ON It'HITE FEMALE VOf-JAR REPORTER, AGE

TWENTY-FIVE TO THIRTY, HEAVY 3UILD, DARK HAIR, VKO VJAS GIVING

KFOr.KATION OS CALIFORNIA RETURNS WHO WAS IN OR NEAR PHONE

BOOTH. REPORTER SUDDENLY STATED SOKETHINB HAS HAPPENED AND

STARTED TOWARD NEARBY STAIRCASE. AT THE SAME TIME WHITE MALE

AND. VWITi FERALE OBSERVED TO. ENTER CAMERA RANGE RUNNING DOWN

STAIRCASE. WHITE FEMALE VAS OVERHEARD TO SHOUT SCATHING LIKE "

"WE GOT HIM" AND IMMEDIATELY INSTANT COUPLE DISAPPEARED FROM

CAfiEF.A ANGLE. WHITE FEMALE DESCRIBED ONLY AS APPROXlMATaY

EIGHTEEN TO TWEKTYYEAKS OLD NOT OK SCREEN MORE THAR FEW SECONDS.

NSC REPRESENTATIVE, MIAMI; ADVISED TELEVISION BROADCAST SEEN If.' FT*

'tAODERDALE DURING PERTINENT PERIOD WAS TAPED AND TAPES LOCATED LOS

ANGELES.. •' . ' " ' - , ' . - / , ' ' . ;„•

MAMI FURNISHING ABOVE IK EVENT TAPES BEING REVIEWED BY LOS

ANGaES AND DATA MIGHT ASSIST IK IDENTIFICATION FEMALE UKSUB@REPORTEDLY•" A "*

BEING SOUGHT. i - - • • '*> i t

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K . E N S A L T ; CR . . . •

RE ST. LOUIS TELETYPE JUKE SIX LAST

BOSTON INDICES NEGATIVE. • ; . '

' REGISTRAR'S OFFICE, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL; HARVARD UNIVERSITY

ALUMNI RECORDS OFFICE, AND OFFICIAL .HAKVARD UNIVERSITY

DIRECTORY, ALL CAMBRIDGE, M S S ; , REVEAL NO RECORD OF A CURRENT

OR PAST STUDENT OH FACULTY MEK3ER HAVING LAST NAME Of

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JJNE SEVEN, SIXTYEIC5HT, REQJESTIN3 WHE3EA3OLJTS ON tJJNE FIVE, LAST

OF V | ^ | ^ H H H B ^ 1 2 _ H^D ALLEGEDLY EXPRESSED A DESIRE IN JAN.

SIXTYSEVEN TO ASSASSINATE SENATOR »*O:3SftT F . KENNEDY- ACCORDING

•JAS AT FT* LEONARD "rfOOD, MO., OV

JJNS FOJ^ AN!D FI7E ALTHOUGH HE HAD 3EEN AJOL O>3 THE tfEEK-END OF

EEN //MAY THIRTYONE TO J;J\'E TH^EE, a£T:JRNIN5 JJNE TH^SS, AND HAS 3

AT FT* LEONARD WOOD CONTINJOJSLY SINCE HIS

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FROM CHICAGO < B 9 - 6 1 ) IP . . .

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REFERENCED CHICAGO COKMUtil CAT IONS. lKUCkf/fl^^^T FT.

LECKARD WOOD, "ISSCU^I, HAVING,5EEK INDUCTED U . S . ARMY APRIL SEVENTEEN

LAST.' " -

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KANSAS CITY IMMEDIATELY ASCERTAIN I ^ H | l FT. LEONARD

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RE ST. LOUIS TELETYPE DATED JJXE.

FOR THE INFORMATION OF CLEVELAND,

•?HO ftE3JESTED HIS IDENrjTY 3E PROTECTED,

THIS DATE ADi/ISED APPROXIMATELY OMc YEAS AÔ INOIJIDJAL KN'O-W

AS FN;J flS^H^ AK^_^^^^^^^^^F?/£Q ;JEMTEO THE CLJ3 STATIN!

HE JA3 STJDENT AT S T . LOJIS UMIV. WEDICAL SCHOOL liJHEÊ STJDYIM1

I>Jr.iODJCED TO

3ELLE7ILLE* ILL.

NAME -AS SEAL "NAME I S SXr-lEtfELY LON3

AMD DIFFICULT TO PiONOJNCE.

AFTS^ ABSENCE OF APPROXIMATELY ONE YEAR

AT CLUB IN S T . LOJIS ON EVENING 0 ? JJNE THÊE LAST AND STATED

HE I S NOtf ATTENDING HA.WA3D LAW SCHOOL AND HAD D:JAING LAST

YEAH SEEN TO JORDAN WITH FATHEA WHOM HE STATED WAS CONNECTED

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oPAGE TWO

WITH A CONSULATE OS EM3ASSY IN THE UNITED STATES- HE ALSO

COMMENTED THAT HE SPEHT THREE WEEKS IN JAIL WHILE IN JORDAN.

DETAILS NO T REPEALED. | H H H B B I ; v 0 J L D 3 E I N ST* L 0 U I S

SHORT TIKE AND WAS LEADING NIGHT OF JJNE THREE NEXT FOR

CHICAGO AND THEN TO CALIF. , EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN.

PROVIDED NO REASON FOR TRIP* HOWEVER, STATES "SOMETHING BIG IS

GOING Til HAPPEN WITHIN THE NEXT THREE DAYS",

THREE YEARS OF AGE, DOES NOT RECALL AMY ANU-AMSRICAN OR ANTI-

KEMNEDY REMARKS ON PART OF ^ ^ ^ H p - J R T H E R DESCRI3EDJ

AS BSIN'G PRO"ICIEMT IN FIVE OR SIX LAN5JAGES.

HD WHITHER OR V f ) T J ^ m H ^ i ^ y DESIRING TO PJRCHASS

A LIVCOLV CONTINENTAL MARK TKXZE AJTOK03ILE, WHICH HE STATED

HE 'WOULD SELL CHEAP AT EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS.

THERE IS NO JORDANIAN CONSULATE IN SLMO* THE NEAREST

HONORARY CONSULATE B

CHICAGO, I L L . , TELEPHONE!

THE ST. LOUIS UNIV. STUDENT DIRECTOR FOR SIXTY SEVEN

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PAGE THUES

REFLECTS ONE1

AS BEING A FHESHtfAN IN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY.

LISTED IN CURRENT S T . LOUIS UNIV. DIRECTORY.

AUDIA, ARABIA,

IN

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INS RECORDS, SLWD, CONTAIN NO FILES IN N

SIXTY THREE ONE f R H ) H l H H l l f e N t D IN SI>rrY SlX

APPLIED F O a \ l S A S FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH LAST\

IVIN3 IN JORDAN, ISRAEL, AND PALESTINE. NO

IDENTIFYING INFORMATION AVAILA3LE. NOTHING TO INDICATE

ANY OF THESE INDIVIDUALS CAKE TO UNITED STATES. NORMALLY INS

WOULD HAVE FILE ON FOREIGH STUDENTS LIVING IN SLKO BUT NONE

COULD 3£ LOCATED ^ H H H H H I NATURALIZATION

SLMO, NEGATIVE ON ^ ^ ^ B f e

ON JJ\*E SEVEN IMSTAMT^Hmi^VISED A3OJT TrfO AMD ONE

HALF YEARS AGO HE MET A YOUNG ARA3 AT THE STEEPLE CHASE ROOK.

CHASE PARK PLAZA HOTEL* S T . L O U l S , MISSOURI, AND AFTER CONVER-

SATION' MENTIONED THAT HE WAS GOING TO THE PLAYBOY CLU3* S T .

LOUIS* AMD THE YOUNG KAN ASKED TO GO ALONS.

OVER THE NEXT YEAR HE SAW T H I S YOUNG KAN FAIRLY FREQUENTLY

AT THE PLAY30Y CLUB WHERE HE WAS NOT' ADMITTED AS A KEM3ER

WAS ALLOWED TO USE THE F A C I L I T I E S ON A CASH 9 A S I S . HE STATED

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HE KNEW THE MAN ONLY AS "SAMMIE" 3UT DISPLAYED A

CARD GIVEN TO HIM BY THE MAN, WHICH BORE THE NAME

. LOUIS UNIVERSITY*)

S T . L O U I S , MISSOURI, SIX THREE ONE ZERO EIGHT.

HE STATED HE ENJOYED CONVERSATIONS WITH THIS YOUN3 MAN

WHO STATED THAT HIS FATEHR WAS CONSUL GENERAL OR AMBASSADOR

FROM HIS COUNTRY TO THE UNITED STATES AND INDICATED THAT THE

FAMILY LIVED IN WASHINGTON D » C . AND THAT HE HAD A SISTER

^D^THERE ALSO. flHHHBrHAT THE MAN WAS A "UTTL£

AND HE LOOKED UP THE NAME OF THE REAL AM3ASSAD0R FROM THE

COUNTRY, NO SPECIFICALLY RECALLED, AND 3ELIEVSD THE REAL

AMBASSADOR'S N

HS STATED THAT THE YOUNG MAN QUIT COMING TO THE PLAY30Y

CLUB A30UT ONE AND ONE HALF YEARS AGO, AND H5 HAS NOT SEEN

HIM S I N C E . THE KAN GAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT HE V\S IN THE

ARVTY RESERVE OR SOWS SIMILAR ORGANIZATION IN HIS OWN COUNTRY

AND MIGHT HAVE TO SSR\/Z IN THE ARM£D FORCES, AND HE ASSJMED

HE HAD RETURNED TO THIS COUNTRY DURING THE ARA3-ISRALI CONFLICT.

END PAGE FOUR

PAGE F I V E

THE YOUNG MAN HAD NO AUT0M03ILE AND WAS DESCRIBED AS

WHITE MALE* TWENTY ONE OR TWENTY TWO, F l V i FEET EIGHT INCHES,

SLENDER BUILD, OLIVE COMPLEXION, BLACK HAIR* AND CLEAN SHAVEN.

I E SPOKE FAST AND SPOKE FAIRLY GOOD ENGLISH 9UT WITH AN ACCENT.

HE ALSO INDICATED HE WAS ENGAGED TO A GIRL BELIEVED ALSO

FROM THE MIDDLE E A S T , P 0 S S I 3 L Y RESIDING IN WASHING, D . C . #

AND COMMENTED THAT HE HAD MADE ONE OR MORE TRIPS TO JORDAN

OR ARA3IAL DURINGmmiPcaUAlNTANCE WITH HIK. HE WS

ALWAYS WELL DRESSED AND CLAIMED THAT HIS FATHER OWNED SOME

SUPERMARKETS IN OHIO, PR03A9LY AKRON.

T H E M A M A RTDE T0 H I S °ORMITORY

ON TWO OCCASIONS, AND HE GOT OUT AT THE ST. LOUIS JNII/SR.SLTY

DORMITORY ON THE SOJTH SIDE OF THE STREET ONE BLOCK SOJTH OF

LIMDSLL AND HALFWAY 3ETTFS£M SPRING AND GRAND AVENUE AND

CLAIMED TO BE A STUDENT AT ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY 3UT DID NOT

MENTION WHAT COURSE H£ WAS TAKING.

[DID NOT DISCUSS POLITICS TO ANY

DEGREE BUT OCCASIONALLY EXPRESSED A DISTASTE FOR NASSER 3UT

WAS GENERALLY COMPLIMENTARY TOWARD AMERICAN OFFICIALS AND

END PAGE FIVE

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PASE SIX

CLAIMED HE HAD MET A LOT OF PAOMI>JENT PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON,

D. C DUE TO HIS FATHER'S POSITION,

CLEVELAMD DIVISION AT AK30N ATTEMPT TO VERIFY

CLAIW OF FATHER'S BUSINESS INTEREST IN AKSON, OHIO IN AN

EFFORT TO LOCATEj

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TO: DIRECTOR LOS ANGELES AND LAS VEGAS

FHOCi: SACRAMENTO (62-7tS) 2P -.

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KENSALT. , •

RE SACRAMENTO TELETYPE JUNE S I X , LAST.

CALIFORNIA

INTERVIEWED 3Y BUAGtt;TS TODAY.

MAD READILY ADMITTED HAVING MADE STATEMENTS REGARDING CONTRIBUTING- \ •

TO A FUND TO HAVE KENNEDY ASSASSINATED WHIILE IK AN INTOXICATED COKDIT1

AT THE R K ' S CLUB, DELANO, CALIFORNIA, APPROXIMATELY S I X WEEKS AGO.

STATED EMPHATICALLY THAT THERE WAS NO FACTUAL BASIS FOR HIS

STATEMENT, AND THAT HE WAS EXTREMELY SORRY THAT HE HAD UTTERED I T .

HE DESCHI3ED KENNEDY AS A BRILLIANT YOUNG KAN, AND THAT, THOUGH HE

DISAGREED WITH HIS POLICY IK THE DELAKO AREA GROWERS VE3US PZXICAN

FARM LABORERS DISPUTE, AND HIS REPEATED ENDORSEMENT OF CESAR CHAVEZ,

HEAD OF THE MEXICAN FARM WORKERS ORGANIZATION, HE CERTAINLY

DESIRE THAT KENNEDY BE HARMED.

OH THE SAME DATE, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ EARLIMAR1,

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CALIFORNIA, DESCRI3EP^^(^S A ^ H B H H H I B OPERATING

APPROXIMATELY M H H B H H H B H£ HAS RESIDED IN THE EARLIKARTAREA FOR MORE THAN FORTY YEARS. HE I S HARRIED

HE IS A MEMBER OF THE LIONS CLUB, ELKS CLUB, AND fiASONIC LODGE. HE

I S A WELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED MEM3ER OF* THE COMMUNITY.

FILES OF THE TULARE COUNTY CHERIFF'S OFFICE, VISALIA, CONTAIN

NO KECOHD CF AF.KEST F O R 0 H | B | E S C R 1 B E D AS WHITE KALE ANERICAM, DATE

OF BiRTnflHIHHHHHHHHHH^^^^^^^^^^^^B WEIGHT

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F7L0MJ INDIANAPOLIS 62-NEW

RE LOS ANGELES TELETYPE, JJNE SIX LAST.

ON JUNE SIX LAST,

ADVISED SU3JECT REFERRED TO IN THEIR TELETYPE TO LOS ANGELES IS

ON JUNE 5E7EN INSTANT, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

[NDIANAPOLIS. INTERVIEWED AMD AD7ISED rfHILE IN

SMALL GaOCSSY ST03E AT REDDDINGTON, I N D . , SELLING ME*CHAND

MADE FALSE STATEMENT STATING H£ K EW SI.HHAN AND HIS FAMILY

V5NT TO SCHOOL WITH HIM. j/U/^yAVE FALSE STATEMENT BECAUSE HE

FELT SO?t*Y FOR SISHAN D'JE TO HIS YOUNG A35 AND IS NO* SOX-iY HE MADE

SJCH A STATEMENT. H I B ^ 4 D ^ ' S £ D HZ N S ^ s ; i MADS STATEMENT THAT

WAS JUSTIFIED IN SHOOTING KENNEDY. flH^^ISITED MOTHEA,

^ _ _ _ JOADAN IN JANJAr^Y, NINETEEN S I X T / S I X ,

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COULD GST imO TSOJBLE TOWARD HIS CITIZENSHIP, AND THE GJN if AS NOT

V03TH PURCHASE PSICE* HIS FATHER, WHO IS SALESMAN FOR

PURCHASED GJN TO PROTECT HIMSELF WHILE

T.^ftVELIMG ON THS ilOAD,

R DEPART IN5 FRO* ftEDDINGTON, im., WAS STOPPED

3Y INDIAMA STATS POLICE, WHO 06TAINJSD . ErJITHATION INr 03WAT1 ON?.

FOLLOW IM3 IS DSSC-11PT1ON OF

WHITE MALE*

3LACK HAI*, daOWN EYES, ONE NINETY POUNDS, SIX FEET ONE INCH TALL,

SSN

CITIZENSHIP - AKEAICAM. BECAME AMERICAN C1T1!

INOIAMAPOLIS. EMPLOYMENT -

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NEW YOFtK* NEW YORK. ADMITTED TO U . S . ON

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • m N0T AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.a.SOTHERS* B J ^ B B B B B B B B ^ BESIDES FALLS CHUSCH,

VA.# EMPLOYED

NEW YORK;I

FALLS CHJRCH* V A . l

CHURCH* V A . , EMPLOY

WASHINGTON, D . C ,

V A . , EXPLOYE

Sil LAST PAGE 6TH LIN£ 5TH WOSD SH HEAD

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TO DIRECTOR AND LOS AW3ELES

FROM OKLAHOMA CITY 8 9 - 6 4 - P -

KSNSALT

iINDIVIDIJAL GIVING NAME OF

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ • | ^ ^ ^ ^ B | C A L L E ; D TOLSA RA AND SAID

CUSTOMER N A K £ D | T F H H B A AN EMPLOYEE OFJ

COMPANY* LSFT CAR THAT AGENCY FOR REPAIR.

CLAIMED

RETURNED FROM CALIFORNIA, THAT HZ KNi'rf SHOOTING WAS

GOING TO HAPPEN* THAT ONE SIRHAN BROTHER WAS SUPPOSED

TO "GET" KENNEDY AND TKS OTHER SUPPOSED TO "GST"

MC CARTHY.

AVD RELATED SAME INFO* GIVING THAT OFFICE

ADDRESS ASJ

LOKLAHOMf

CHECK AT fll^^BDISCLOSES NO SUCH ADDRESS-

END PAGE ONE

PAGE TWO

WHO DOES NOT F I T DISCRIPTION AND ON INTERVIEW SAID DOES

NOT HAVE RAW3LER AND KNOVS NOTHING OF REPORTED CONVERSATION-

CHECK 0" RECORDS,MB^Bfc

™ " ^ — ^ ^ ' JLSA, LSFT

CAR THi^E JiJNS SIX LAST FOR AIRCONDIT ION REPAIR.

AND

SUBSTANTIAL APPSAftJNS INDIVIDUAL. ON INTERVIEW SAID

LEFT CAR A ^ m m ^ H A D C0N7£RSAT!0M AS REPAIRS AND WAS PERTJ33ED

OVER HAVINS CAR THERE THREE PREVIOUS OCCASIONS BUT SAID HE

HAD NO CONVERSATION RE ASSASSINATION.

H H FROM

MONDAY T0-19INS THIRTY AM THURSDAY WHZN LEFT SAYING HE

HAD TO SEE LAWYER RE FAMILY PROBLEMS AND HAS NOT RETJRNSD

S I N C E .

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Ic CORRECT

>MD THESE WOJLD 3 £ NO RELIABILITY

TO ANYTHING ^ ^ ^ H ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ K HE 15 AM ALCOHOLIC AND MAS

BEEN IN OKLA. STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL* VIMITA, OKLA. ON

TWO OCCS1ONS LAST TWO YEARS FOR ALCOHOLISK. LftST SAW

HIM YESTERDAY WHEN DFIINKING EXCSSSIVSLY.

SINCE INFO DETERMINED TO BE Fi?OM aN:lELIASLE

AND COMPLETELY FALSE, NO FIHTHSR INVESTIGATION BEING

Iff)I CONDUCTED BY OKLA. CITY. H H H f c 0 E S N0T

AS OF LATE JJNE SEVEN INSTANT* HE

HAD NOT 3ETtHNED TO

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RE SL TEL JUKE SIX AKD SI TEL JUKE SEVEN LAST.

ONLY PARTIAL INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO DATE AT S T . LOUIS UNIVERSIT

W/flBlHH^^B^^H^^^^BcPROTECT) STATEDflHBHBM• • • H M [ T E » D E D THE UNIVERSITY FIRST TIP1E IN NINETEEN 5IXTYSIX

AKD DROPPED OUT. HE ATTENDED THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AKD RE-

TURNED TO S T . LOUIS UNIVERSITY IN SIXTYSEVEN AKD COMPLETED THE YEAR. H!

ATTENDED ENGINEERING SCHOOL. HE LIVED AT

L ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B l E S T A B L I S K E D SOU

STATED KD STUDENT THERE LAST

ATTENDED NINETEEN SIXTYEIGHT NIGHT SCHOOL. ONLY AVAILA3LE

SHOWS

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SOCIAL SECURITY NUf]3E:MOST RECEN'T ADDRESS

; INS ST. LOUIS HAS FILE OK

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CURRENT ADDRESS!JP

lATTEKDED|

S I X , TRANSFERRED TO1

I S KOW A PERBAJJEBT RESIDENT. HARRIED

:B S T . LOUIS, SHE I S U. S . CITIZEN, BORN

• HE IS EKPLOYEI

ILL. IN SIXTY

DROPPED OUT SIXTY SIX. HE

AT.

SL VILL 'DETERBINE IF THESE TWO NAMES ARE USED BY SAME INDIVIDUAL,

IF ONE AKD THE SAME, BUREAU AUTHORITY REQUESTED FOR ST. LOUIS TO

LOCATE AND INTERVIEW IK ORDER TO RESOLVE ALLEGATIONS MADE B)

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QXLA. TODAY MADE AVAILABLE THE FOLLOWING LETTER ADDRESSED TO

F B I , TULSA, OKLAHOMA.

-DEAR S I R . I HAVE JUST HEARD OF THE ATTEMPT ON !-R. ROBERT

KENNEDY'S L I F E . T K A V E KYSELF AT OK£ TIME BEEN SUSPICIONED

OF SUCH DIRE HAPPENING. YOU CAM FIND MY NAME IN SECRET SERVICE

FILES. 1 UCULB LIKE STRONGLY TO SUGGEST IK THE COURSE OF YOUR

INVESTIGATION YOU QUESTION ONE1

WOODLAND HILLS, CALIFORNIA, AKDj

AM UNAWARE OF HIS ADDRESS, ALTHOUGH IT I S Hi THE

SANTA \ : A HILLS SECTION OF ORANGE COUNTY. I HAVE DEFINITE

REASONS ftT BELIEF OF KNOWLEDGE BY THE PEOPLE OF THE EVENTS OF

THE PAfiT THEKTYFOUR HOURS. SIGNED,' KOST SINCERELY,

LON THIS DATE/HE STATED HINTERVIEW WITH I

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\ BECAME ASSOCIATED UITH flHHHHHII^<HILE A STUDEKT AT

CHARGE HIGH SCHOOL, ORANGE, C A L I F . , .IN NINETEEN S1XTYTW0.

p H H I ^ V ^ S U A D E D m i B ' O HAND OUT NAZI PROPAGANDA.,

STATES T H A ? V H H I H B R ASSOCIATED VITH IKDIVITUAL, AT

'ORANGE, CALIF. WHO APPEARS TO BE IDENTICAL WITH PHOTO IN

NEWSPAPERS OF SIRHAN BESHAHA SIRHAN, THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS NOT

'A STUDENT AT GRANGE HIGH SCHOOL, BUT ATTENDED SCHOOL FUNCTIOHS

THERE AND HAD GIRL F f > I £ K D , ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ A A STUDEKT AT SANTA

ARA, CALIF. HIGH SCHOOL

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AS 'HOT SEE1

SINCE KINETEEH SIXTYTHKEE UHEK HE HOVED FROM CALIFOHKIA. HE

DID NOT RECALL THE HAKE OF THE INDIVIDUAL WHO APPEARED TO BE

IDENTICAL WTH SIRHAK. . '

HINKS T H A l ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ W E R E ARRESTED DURING

RIOTS IK LOS ANGELES IK NINETEEN IXTYTWO.) HE DESCRIBED!— • — - — : — ' . •

AS WMA, EARLY TWENTIES, FIVE SEVEN, ONE NINETY L B S . , HEAVY

BUILD, SANDY BROWN HAIR, KEDIUM COMPLEXION AND AN ONLY

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EARLY TWENTIES, BLACK HAIR, DASK EYES, DARK COMPLEXION, MEDIUM

BUILD, TVO OLDER BROTHERS. .. . - l .

LVAS RECEIVED

HE IS DESCRIEED AS

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FBI _ _ _ ^ — « « •

. DURINGINTERVrEj(MB^MITTED THAT WHILE HE WAS AH •

IKNATE A S H H I B H H H I I ^ A ^ SIXTYFOUR, HE WROTE TVO

LETTERS THREATENING TO M L L PRESIDENT JOHNSON. HE WAS THEN

TRANSFERRED OR DECEMBER SEVENTEEN SIXTYFOUR TO THE MEDICAL CENTER

FOR FEDERAL PRISONERS, SPRINGFIELD* MISSOURI. HE WAS DISCHARGED'

OCTOBER ELEVEN SIXTYSIX. ON OCT. TWELVE

ARflESTED BY SECRET SERVICE, TULSA, OKLA. AND CHARGED WITH ORALm

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THREAT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT. ON OCT. TWENTY SIXTYSIX HE WAS

ADMITTED AS A PATIENT, EASTERN STATE HOSPITAL, V.INITA, OKLA.

HE CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN RELEASED NOV. THIRTEEN SIXTYSIX. ON

KOV. SIXTEEN SIXTYSIX HE WAS ARRESTED BY SO, OKLAHOMA CITY, FOR

UNAUTHORIZED USE OF'KOTOS VEHICLE AND CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN *

INCARCERATED SINCE THAT TIME. m J ^ A D NO INFORMATION TO

T I E ^ m i H H H B ^ 1 0 KENNEDY'S DEATH.' SUBJECT CF

EUREU MAY LOCATE ALSUQIJEKQUEE REPORT OF SA]

pATED WTC NINETEEN SIXTYFOUR FOR ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND.-

IS REFERENCED IK DENVER LET TO OC DATED SIX, TWEKTYTHREE

SIXTYFOUR, CC FILE !JO COPY TO LA.

THIS E£FERS TO ATTEMPT 0 1 ^ ^ 1 0 POISON A FELLOW INMATE AT

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AKD COULD EASILY BECOME FAKATIC. . ." COPY OF LETTER BEING SEKT

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SEVEN1 SIXTYEIGHT.

LOS ANGELES COBEJCT LOGICAL INVESTIGATION.

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TO DIRECTOR, LOS AKGELES, AND WASHINGTON FIELD

FROM CLEVELAND (175-IS) 2P

KEN SALT; CR. •

HE SPhlKGFIELD TELETYPE, DATED JUNE SEVEN LAST, AND

CLEVELAND TELETYPE TO BUREAU AMD WASHINGTON FIELD, DATED

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£IXTYTK?iEE EDITION, L I S T S ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B WIFE,

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FBI VASH DC

RELAY MESSAGE PLAN TURN ON TAPE PERFORATOR

1O56AM URGENT 6 / 5 / 6 6 ELR .

TO ALL SACS

FROM DIRECTOR IP

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT F , KENNEDY,

LOS ANGaES, CALIFORNIA, JUNE FIVE, SIXTYEIGHT*

AN ASSAILANT, AS YET UNIDENTIFIED BUT WHO IS IN •

CUSTODY OF LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT, ATTEMPTED THE

ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR ROBERT F, KENNEDY AT TWELVE

FIFTEEN A.M., TODAY, IN THE BALLROOM OF THE AMBASSADOR

HOTEL, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. THE FBI IS RENDERING ALL

POSSIBLE INVESTIGATIVE ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES,~ '

INCLUDING THE SERVICES OF THE FBI LABORATORY AND '- • - .

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. IF YOU RECEIVE ANY INFORMATION

CONCERNING THIS MATTER, THE BUREAU AND LOS ANGELES SHOULD

BE EXPEDITIOUSLY ADVISED AND ALL NECESSARY INVESTIGATION

IMMEDIATELY INITIATED. NO COMMENT SHOULD BE MADE tO THE

PRESS VITH RESPECT TO THE QUESTION OF FBI JURISDICTION

EXCEPT THAT THE FBI IS RENDERING ASSISTANCE AS INDICATED ABOVE.

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TO DIRECTOR LOS ANGELES (PLAINTEXT)

FROM WASHINGTON FIELD 173-135 2P

KENSALT

SECENB) BY CODED TELETYFt

' REWFOTEL CALL TO BUREAU AND LOS ANGELES INSTANT. INVESTIGATION

I N S , VDC, REVEALED THAT INS FILE OF SIRHAN SIRHAN, DOB MARCH NINETEEN

NINETEEN FORTY-FOUR, ALIEN REGISTRATION NUMBER A ONE ZERO SEVEN

ONE ONE EIGHT EIGHT,ONE I S PRESENTLY LOCATED AT I N S , LOS ANGELES.

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION, ADVISED JUSTICE

DEPARTMENT THAT O N E J H H I H H ! H K D0B

HAS VETERANS ADMINISTRATION NUMBER

HAVING PREVIOUSLY SERVED UNITED

STATES ARMY. FILE BEING PULLED AND AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW JUNE SIX.

VFO WILL ADVISE ALL BACKGROUND SINCE THIS PERSON MAY BE RELATIVE.

•TELEVISION STATION WTOP, VDC,'ADVISED CALL RECEIVED FROM A

HO SAID PICTURE OF SUBJECT

TREETS,(PHONMIC) A.PUERTO RICAH WHO LIVED

LOS ANGELES. ON INTERVIEW

WOODBRIDGE, VIRGINIA, ADVISED SHESOBSERVED PHOTO

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ON LOCAL TELEVISION STATION WHICH WAS EXCELLENT LIKENESS OF A

PERSON SHE BET AT APARTMENT BUILDING ON THE CORNER OF FIRST STREET

AND OLIVE, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, IN NINETEEN FIFTY-FIVE TO

FIFTY-SI?VEN. SHE WAS AT THE R E S I D E N C E ^ A FRIEND,

TWO WEEKS* HE FIRST G&VE HIS NAME AS

'HEN f^^^^^^^^^^^m. AGE SIXTEEN. Hj

SEEK^G EMPLOYMENT IN LOS ANGELAS, HIS FAMILY WAS IN PASADENA,

CALIFORNIA; WAS FROM PUERTO frfCO AND HAD BEEN IN U . S . A SHORT TIME.

HE ASSOCIATED WITH A GANG 0 / YOUNG HOODS WHO WERE DOPE ADDICTS.

AN ASSOCIATE O F ^ H H I H H H f c ( P H O m i C ) WAS KILLED

IN KNIFING B Y B H I A ^ A N G . l H B ^ S C H " A I N LOS ANGELES POLICEINVESTIGATED THIS MATTER. . "

LOS ANGELES I N T E R V I E M f l H H H | ^ H H | H 0 ^ R E ABOVE

AND ENDEAVOR TO DEVELOPE ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND RE ASSASSIN.

REVIEW INS FILE R ? S l l f c * T INS' L0S ANGELES*END ' -

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/HEN]RESIDENT OF>PHENIX CITY, ALA,» ADVISED

WHILE IN DRUNKEN CONDITION THAI

LOS ANGELES, CALIF., IS

CAPABLE OF HAVING ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR KENNEDY.

li THE PAST HAS STRONGLY EXPRESSED HATRED OF

KENNEDYS AND ALL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS.

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MC GUIRE AIR FORCE 8ASE# NEW JERSEY JANUARY

SEVEN NINEtfSEN SIXTYSEVEN.HSIMBM^INTERVIEWED AT HER

APARTMENT,A.

SE /EN FIFTYFIVE PM JJNE F W E , NINETEEN SIXTYEIGHT.

SHE WAS EMPLOYED P m m m ^ O S P ITAL

OF THE GOOD SEWA5UTAN MEDICAL CENTER, ONE TWO ONE TWO SHATTO STREET,

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA FOR ABOUT ONE YE*R ENDING APRIL TWENTYSIX

LAST WHEN SHE RESIGNED BECAUSE OF CLAIMED ^CONSPIRACY" AGAINST HSR.

SHE FURNISHED NAXES OF HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES ALL OF WHOM SHE INDICATED

SHE STRONGLY DISLIKES AS BEING IN THIS CONSPIRACY AGAINST HER.

NAVES ARE SET OUT PHONETICALLY BECAUSE OF HER DIFFICULTY WITH

ENGLISH LANS'JAGj

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ADMINISTRATION;

ADMINISTRATION

WHO WORKED IN]

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THE GROUP.

SHE INDICATES SHE QUIT BECAUSE THE ABOVE GROUP CLAIMED SHE

WAS NOT WORKING* WOULD NOT FOLLOW ORDERS AND BECAUSE

SEXUALLY ASSAULTED1

iUPPORTED BY ALL OF THE ABOVE NAMED PERSONS STATED

THAT I F SENATOR ROBERY F . KENNEDY CAKE TO LOS ANGELES IT WAS

PLANNED THAT HE WO'JLD BE SHOT IN THE HSAD AND IF HE DID NOT DIE

HE WOULD 3E TAKEN TO GOOD SStfARITAN HOSPITAL WHERE HE WO'JLD BE

KILLED BY A PHYSICIAN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AFTER ARRIVAL.

>PR£VIOJSL.Y P - J R M I S H C D THIS SAKE STORY TO OFFICER

KODSSTO POLICE DEPARTMENT.

SPECIAL A G E N T ^ m m m ^ f ^ S E C R E T SERVICE, SACRAMENTO*

ADVISED OF FOREGOING AT NINE THIRTY P . M . BY NIGHT CLERK

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RATHER THN PREPARING LEN01H*-BAILY SUMMARY TELETYPES

IT IS DESIRED THAT CATEGORICAL SUMMARIES BE FURNISHED DAILY TO

REACH THE BUREAU BY TEN P. M., EDT. CATEGORIES TO BE UTILIZED

ARE! ONE, ALLEGED CONSPIRACY.

TWO*. EDUCATION, RESIDENCE AND EMPLOYMENT.

THREE, BACKGROUND ON RELATIVES AND ASSOCIATES.

FOUR. SECURITY AND RACIAL MATTERS, EXTREMISTS GROUPS, '

0R(NATIONALIST ORGANIZATIONS.

FIVE. OTHER; • ' '. .", .

SUBHEADINGS SHOULD BE. UTILIZED WHERE PRACTICAL. THESE

INSTRUCTIONS SHOULD NOT BE INTERPRETED AS RELIEVING YOUR OFFICE

OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF SUBMITTING PROMPT TELEPHONE OR TELETYPE

NOTIFICATION OF PERTINENT 8BEL0£IJEIHS AS THEY OCCUR*

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FROM DIRECTOR 62-5B7 IPRECEIVED BY

DETROIT IMMEDIATELY INTERVIEW!

t". :*•£?.AND DETERMINE WHETHER HE IS ACQUAINTED WITH THE SIRKAN SIRHAN WHO

THE SUBJECT OF THIS CASE. IF 50, DEVELOP ALL DETAILS AND

ADVISE BUREAU AND LOS ANGELES*

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FROM DETROIT ( € 2 - 4 1 7 7 ) "

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KEKSALT. .

REBUTEL, JUNE SIX LAST,

INVESTIGATION, JACKSOK, -MICH., FAILED TO LOCATE AIJYOHE BY

THE KAFiE O F ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B OKEl

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LOCATED AS A STUCEKf AT JACKSCJ! COKKUBITY COLLEGE

SINCE SEPTEMBER SEVEN, NINETEEN SIXTYSEVEK. HE ALSO'IS1 ATTENDING

SlWiE?; SCHOOL AND PLANS CK ATTENDING FALL SEMESTER OF KIKETEEK

SIXTYEIGHT AT JACKSCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE. HE IS STUDYING

/ADVISED HE ENTERED THE U.S..DECEMBER THIRTY, NIKETEEK SIXTYSIX,

WENT DIKECTLY TO ANN ARBOR UHEHE Hfe ATTENDED THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF KICK., THEN COKING TO JACKSOK, KICH.,

SEPTEMBER SEVEN, NINETEEN SIXTYSEVEN, WHERE HE HAS RESIDED .• * •

SINCE. HE DENIED KNOWING OKE SIRHAN SIRHAN.. STATED HE HAD

REVER KNOWN ANYONE BY THAT NAME, MET ANYONE BY THAT NAME, OR

TOLD ANYONE THAT HE HAD KNOWN OR WET SUCH A PERSOW^^ -/,£•£»-V? _

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HIS IDENTITY 3E PrtOTSCTED^VTHIS DATE ADVISED APPROXIMATELY

ONE YEAR AGO INDIVIDUAL KNOtfM AS FNJ

FREQUENTED THE CLU3 STATING HE WftS STUDENT AT ST. LOUIS'UNIV.

KEDICAL SCHOOL WHERE STUDYING TO BE EYE SJRGEON.

DJCED T( : .

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AS REAL N^ME IS EXTREMELY LONG AND DIFFICULT TO PRONOUNCE-

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AT CUJB IN S T . LOUIS ON EVENING OF JJNE THREE LAST AND STATED

HS I S NOW ATTENDING HARVARD LAW SCHOOL AND HAD DURING LAST

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YEAR BEEN TO JORDAN WITH FATHER WHOM HE STATED WAS CONNECTED

WITH A CONSULATE OR EMBASSY IN THE UNITED STATES. HE ALSO

I * £ COMMENTED THAT HE SPENT THREE WEEKS IN JAIL WHILE IN JORDAN.

DETAILS NOT REVEALED. H H ^ | H B ^ 0 J L U S E I N S T # L 0 J I S

SHORT TIME AND WAS LEAVING NIGHT OF JJNE THREE NEXT FOR CHICAGO

AND THEN TO C A L I F . * EXACT LOCATION UNKNOWN.

MO REASON FOft T R I P , HOWEVER, STATED "SOMETHING BIG IS GOINGt

TO HAPPEN WITHIN THE NEXT THREE DAYS".

APPROXIMATELY TWENTYTWO OR TWENTYTHREE

YEARS OF A3E> DOES NOT RECALL ANY ANTI-AKERICAN OR ANTI-KENNEDY

REMARKS ON PART ° r J H H ^ r J ^ r H E 3 DZSCRl^tl^//^^iS B£!N(3

PROFICIENT IM FIVE OR SIX

WHETHER OR M O T B H I H H B ^ ^ O N E DESIRIN3 TO PJRuHASE A

LINCOLN COMTIMENTAL MARK THREE AJT0X03ILE WHICH HE STATED

HE WOULD SELL CHEAP AT EIGHTTHOJSAND DOLLARS.

THERE IS NO JORDANIAN CONSULATE IN SLMO> THE NEAREST

HOMORART CONSULATE BEING

CHICAGO, I L L . * TELEPHONE]

THE S T . LO'JIS UNIV. STUDENT DIRECTORY FOR SIXTYSEVEN

END PAGE TWO

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REFLECTS 0\<E

AS BEING A FRESH?* AN IN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

LISTED IN CURRENT ST. LOJ1S UNIV. DIRECTORY-

INS RECORDS* SLMO> CONTAIN NO

IN SIXTHTHREE ONE I H H H | H | H f t ^ D IN SIXTYSIX ON

^APPLIED FOS VISAS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH LAST NAME

IVINS IN JORDAN, ISRAEL. AND PALESTINE. NO FATHER

IDENTIFYING INFOSMATIOV Ai/AILA3LE. NOTHING TO INDICATE ANY

OF THESE INDIVIDUALS CAME TO UNITED STATES. NORMALLY INS

WOULD HAVE FILE ON FOREIGN STUDENTS LIVING IN SLMO SJT NONE

COJLD 3£ LOCATED F O ^ m m p i H H A NATURALIZA-

TION! RECORDS, SL^O* NEGATIVE ON NAME

SPRINGFIELD AT 3ELLSVILLE LOCATE

BELLEVILLE* I L L . , AND INTERVIEW AS ACQUAINTANCE

NAMED | H B W ^ d T A I N ALL 3 A C K S 0 j N 0 A M D POSSIBLE CONNECTION

WITH THIS CASE.

BOSTON AT HARVARD UVIV- DETERMINE IF STJDENT NAMED

ENROLLED IN LAW SCHOOL AND O3TAIN ALL 3ACKROJND.

CHICAGO, UACB, GIVE CONSIDERATION TO CONTACTING CONSULATE

END PAGE THREE

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INFO CONCERNING

WFO AFTER 9EIMG FURNISHED tflTH CORRECT FIRST NAME OF

DEPARTMENT OF STATE FOR INFO CONCERNING ENTRANCE

AND DEPARTURES FROM UNITED STATES.

ST. LOJIS ATTEMPT TO LOCATE AND REVIEW RECORDS OF|

AT ST. LOJIS UNIV.

THIS TT ALSO SEMT TO LOS ANGELES IN EVENT INVESTIGATION

REQUESTED 3Y THAT OFFICE.

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HIS PERSONALLY-OWNED AUTOM0BILE3? ^ S HE THE REGISTERED OWNER

OF THIS CAR AND ARE THERE ANY L1EN?OUTSTTANDING?

TWO. WHAT HAVE SUBJECT'S ACTIVITIES BEEN DURING

PAST SEVERAL WEEKS AND I S THERE AMY INDICATION HE HAS-BEEN

OUTSIDE OF LOS ANGELES AREA, SPECIFICALLY IN OREGON?

TKREE\. FURNISH RESULTS OF INTERVIEW WIT

/FOUR. FURNISH COMPLETE CHRONOLOGY AND CIRCUMSTANCES

SURROUNDING SUBJECT'S POSSESSION OF MURDER W&ftPON. -

IN PREPARING YOUR INITIAL REPORT BE CERTAIN TO INCLUDE

A VERBATIM TRANSCRIPT OF SUBJECT'S INTERVIEW BY POLICE OFFICERS

AND A COPY OR SUMMARY OF THE MEDICAL REPORT FOR SUBJECT AT THE

TIME OF HIS ARREST* ' -. ' . ' • :

£ 1 0 ••".., . •-•• • V - : - : ' - ' - -'••- '• • * ••'. -' .. v -

CORRECTION FOURTH PARAGRAPH SHOULD BE THREE. INSTEAD OF THREEM.

AND ARTICLE FOUR LINE TWO WORD ONE SHOULD BE SOXXX SURROUNDING

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LAND SERVED IN 13. S. ARMY FROM

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FINGERPRINTED BY Pl/TSBURGH PD FOR SOLICITORS PERMITS. ON

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ITALY, BROWNELL TOUR NUMBER SIXTEEN (HOLY LAND PORTION) FOR FIVE

FOURTEEN DASH TWENTY SIXTYEIGHT, TOURING THE HOLY LAND.

ON EITHER F i v j SIXTEEN OH FIVE SEVENTEEN SIXTYEIGHT, A LICENSED

GUIDE, H B H B B ADDRESSlTEL AVIV ISRAEL, TELEPHONE NUMBER

AT THE TIME THE TOUR DEPARTED IN THE MORNING ANNOUNCED, THAT ROBERT

KENNEDY HAD BEEN SHOT. AT THIS TIME THE GUIDE WAS UNABLE TO FUnlvISH

ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND INASMUCH AS SHE DID NOT OBSERVE ANY

ENGLISH TRANSLATION NEWSPAPER, SHE WAS NOT AWARE THAT SENATOR KENNEDY

HAD NOT SEEN SHOT UNTIL SHE ARRIVED BACK IN THE UNITED STATES.

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STATEMENT BY THE GUIDE AND ON SUBSEQUENT MORNIKG WHEN QUESTIONED BY

THE BEM3ERS OF THE TOUfi CONCERNING HIS STATEMENT, ADVISED HE HAD NO

ADDITIONAL INFOHKATION CONCERNING THE ALLEGEED SHOOTING*OF ROBERT

KENNEDY.

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larTERVIEWED ON THAT STATION/ WELCH INTERVIEWED BY BUAGENTS, SIX

SIX INSTANT. HE FIRST MET SIRHAN APPROXIMATELY THREE YEARS AGO

WHEN BOTH WERE EXERCISE BOYS AT GRANJA VISTA DEL RIO TH0R0UGH3RED

HORSE FARM AT CORONA, CALIFORNIA* OWNED SY 3J3T .ftLTft/lSH CPHONE

A CONSTRUCTIOM CO.VTRACTOR. Hi LAST SAW AND RAD CONTACT WITH

SIRHAN IN MAY* NINETEEN SIXTY SZVEX* IN AUTUMN OF NINETEEN SIXTY

SIX SIRHAN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN FALL FROM HORSE AND SPENT SEVERAL

WEEKS IN HOSPITAL AT CORONA IN CRITICAL CONDITION WITH HEAD AND

BACK INJURIES. AS RESULT HE IS PARTIALLY BLIND IN LEFT EYE AND

SUFFERS FROM SEVERE HEADACHES. PRIOR TO ACCIDENT SI3HAN WAS GOOD

NATURED AND POPULAR WITH EVERYONE WHO KNSW HIM. WELCH DESCRIBED

HIM AS FINEST PERSON HE EVER KNEW* EXTREMELY INTELLIGENT, NEAT*

CLEAN, GENTLEMANLY AND AMBITIOUS. HE WAS AN AVID READER ESPECIALLY

INTERESTED IN LAW. AFTER THE ACCIDENT SIRHAN UNDERWENT COMPLETE

PERSONALITY CHANGE BECOMING QUIET AND ALOOF, UNPREDICTABLE .AND.

LONER. HE STARTED SHOWINS RESENTMENT

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SIRHAN ALSO

KNOWN AS SOL BY RACE TRACK ACQiJA I N T A K E S . WELCH STATEDf

j SIRHAN WAS ANTI-COMMUNIST AND DID NOT APPEAR TO BE PREJUDICED AGAINST

AVY RACE OR NATIONALITY. WELCH NEVER MET ANY OF SIRHAN'S RELATIVES

AND DOES NOT KNOW ANY OF THEIR NAMES. HE RECALLED SIRHAN SAID HIS

MOTHER'S NAME WAS MARY AND THAT HIS FATHER DID NOT COME TO THE

UNITED STATES WITH THE FAMILY. HIS MOTHER LIVED IN PASADENA*

CALIFORNIA.' WELCH STATED PERSONS KNOWING SIRHAN A S :

ONE^ BUST ALTAF1SH (PHONETIC).

TWO. FRANK DOyORAKA, ALSO AT GRANJA VISTA DEL R I O .

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OW^ER AND TRAINER AT SANTA ANITA RACE TRACK.

LL, PASTOR, CIRCLE CITY 3APTIST CHUXOH,

NINTH AND SHERIDAN, CO:U)UA, CALIFORNIA.

ARN22* E3SON AND ROBERTSON ALL TV PERSONALITIES* KEPT HORSES

AT GRAMJA VISTA DEL RIO. SIRHAN GAVE WELCH THS NAME Or REVERSED

HILL AT A TIME WHEN WELCH WAS HAVING PERSONAL PR03LEMS.

WELCH DOES NOT BELIEVE SIRHAN WOULD HAVE SHOT SENATOR KENNEDY FOR

MONEY, NOR WOULD HE RAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN A CONSPIRACY. _TO HIS

KNOWLEDGE SIRHAN DID NOT BELONG TO ANY ORGANIZATION NOR DID HE

SEEM PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN POLITICS.

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SIRHAN TOLD WELCH HE HAD ONCE BEEN EXPELLED FROM A COLLEGE

IN LOS ANGELES OVER TROUBLE WITH A GIRL. ALSO THAT HE HAD ONCE

WORKED AT A GUN OR SKEET CLUB IN THE LOS ANGELES AREA.

BURT ALTAFISH CAN FURNISH WORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS. WELCH

RELIEVES THE PERSONALITY CHANGE SIRHAN EXPERIENCED AFTER HIS FALL

«UST HAVE GOTTEN WORSE IN THE LAST YEAR AND THAT THIS LED TO HIS

SHOOTING OF SENATOR KENNEDY.

REPORT FOLLOWS.

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AGO, AN ARAB" GROUP TRIED TO START AN ORGANIZATION INTERESTED IB'

POLITICS,'BUT THE ATTEKPT WAS UNSUCCESSFUL. HE IDENTIFIED THE ONLY

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TURLOCK. JUNE S^X, INSTANT FURNISHED

I N F O R M A T I O N A S F O L L O W S : •;,,.. i - - ' - - - ' - - •-.'/ 7 : ' ! ; - : • ' ^ - • - ' . : • • ' . - , v ; ;

V - v ON DATE XENNEDY ELECTION SPEC I At TRAIN ARRIVED. AT SOUTHERN

PACIFIC RAILROAD STATION, TURLOCK, RECALLED BY

SUNDAY, DATE ,UMtHOWN\SHE WENT TO STATION 4 1 1 T H ^ ^ ^ (j

HIS WIFE ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ M H H I H ^ A BURBANK,

CALIFORNIA. IT I S NOTED THAT TRAIN ACTUALLY WAS IN TURLOCK"ON"

MEMORIAL DAY, MAY THIRTY, LAST, THEY ARRIVED AT STATION PRIOR TO\

PUBLICIZED TII^E OF ARRIVAL, AT'ABOUT TWO THIRTY P.M.

OBTAINED SEAT IN PATIO AREA AWAY FROM STATION PLATFORM A

;ENT TO CONCRETE PLATFORM "AREA BETWEEN STATION AND

•>V*^RAILROAD TRACKS. THERE WERE* ONE OR. TWO SMALL CHILDREN PLAYING OB ,

''^ TRACKS AND LIO'.ADULTS IN. THE PLATFOR-M AREA. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, TWO

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HER WHO APPEARED TO BE TOGETHER APPEARED ON PLATFORH.

DESCRIBED THEM AS FOLLOWS: CONE) MALE ADULT, NATIONALITY UNKNOWN,

ONE OR TWO INCHES SHORTER THAN MRS. ESHOO, WHO I S FIVE FEET T\REE.

INCHES, "WEIGHT ONE TWO ZERO TO ONE TWO FIVE POUNDS, WITH SMALL BUILD,

AGE TWENTY TO TWENTYONE, HAIR "PITCH" BLACK AND Hrf WAVY, VERY HEAVY ANI

SHINY XWITH OIL WITH LOOSE LOCKS OF HAIR HANGING OVER PART OF FOREHEAD.

EYEBROWS AND EYELASHES PROMINENT AND VERY BLACK. NOTICEABLE PIMPLES

QN FACE WHICH APPEARED DISCLOSED OR WITH MULTIPLE COLORED PATCHES

WHICH GAVE A SCARED APPEARANCE, AS FROM ACNE OR BAD FACIAL CONDITION.

EYES DARK OR BLACK WITH"NOTICEABLE PUFFINESS OR CIRCLES UNDER THEM. .

NOSE BROAD AND FLAT. FACE ROUBD. THIS PERSON WAS WEARING "ALL DARK ,

CLOTHES," EXACT COLOR UNKNOWN, AND CANVASS "GYM SHOES," COLOR UNKNOWN.

HE WORE HEAVY DARK JACKET WITH BUTTON, APPARENTLY OF WOOL, SIMILAR- • " ' ' • ¥ ' * • ' • *

TO TYPE WORN IN NAVY. SHE DOES NOT KNOW I F THER WERE ONE OR TWO • ,

ROWS OF BUTTONS ON JACKET, AS THE FRONT S I D E OF THE JACKET WAS

LAPPED OVER t H E OTHER. H I S HANDS WERE IN HIS.POCKETSWZOW[ER POCKETS

KAISED THE FRONT OF THE COAT SLIGHTLY, BUT THE COAT CAKE TO ABOUT

MID-THIGH. SHE CANNOT DESCRIBE THE TROUSERS EXCEPT THAT THEY WERE . ;DARK. HE WORE HO GLASSES OR'HAT.

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; . r ; ((TWO) WHITE W L E ADULT, AT LEAST S I X FEET ONE INCH IN HEIGHT .

(ONE FOOT TALLER THAN KUMBER O N E V AGE TWENTY. TO TWENTYONE, WEIGHT •

ONE FOUR ZERO TO ONE FOUR F I V E , SLENDER BUILD, HAIR "THE COLOR OF A

BROWK PAPER BAG," COMPLEXION LIGHT OR FAIR, WEARING A WHITE LONG

SLEEVED SHIRT OPEN AT THE NECK, SUNTAN PANTS, SHOES UNKNOWN, KO

GLASSES OR HAT, AND NOJEWELRY SEEN. THIS MAN ALSO KEPT HIS HANDS

IN H I S POCKETS, v :> ; ^ ^ ^ V ^ " S : ; , ; • \ ^ ' - \ v ' " ' : '•:"'T '•'"''' ''-':''.;.. -'SAID T ^ S H H A T H A T THE mu BEARING THE COAT

""LOOKS AWFULLY S U S P I C I O U S , " ANP M H H B R E P L I E D THAT HE CERTAINLY

DID SINCE HE WAS WEARING SUCH A HEAVY COAT IN VERY HOT' WEATHER. '

DEPARTED JO S I T WITH HER HUSBAND.

TAYED ON THE PLATFORM WITHIN FIVE OR S I X FEET OF THE TWO MEN.

...THEREAFTER, A GIRL APPEARED ON THE PLATFORM. 0 P ^ £ 5 C R I B E D .

HER AS FOLLOWS:' WHITE FEMALE ADULT, YOUNG, AGE UNKNOWN, FIVE FEET

. SIX INCHES, ONE SEVEN ZERO OUNDS, HEAVY BUILD, BUSHY CURLY HAIR, '

UNKEMPT CUT SHORT AT NAPE OF NECKi BIG HEAD AND FACE, LIGHT ' ": ;

COKPLEXION, WEARING WHITE BLOUSE WITH LONG SLEEVES, STRAIGHT BLUE ';.'•

/ ; . . . S K I R T AND GYM SHOES, COLOR UIKNOWN.; SHE WAS CARRYING BROWN LEATHER

HANDBAG WITH OVERLAPPING COVER WHICH WAS FRINGED OR CUT ALONG- ; . . .

EDGES AND WHICH SHE DESCRIBED AS THE "COWBOY T Y P E . * SHE HAD SOME

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~"^8 |2 ' - D I A W E I E R WICH SHE WAS SELLING, FOR FIFTY CENTS TACH. SHE THINKS

. : % £ £ THE GIR1 HAD FOUR OF THESE I S HER HADBAG. , V ;

TALKING TO THE TALL BLOND KAN IN

I U N D E S T A N D S BUT DOESA LANGUAGE SHE.DID HOT RECOGfJEZE.

NOT SPEAK PORTUGUESE AND ARABIC, AND SPEAKS_TURKISH, RUSSIAN, AND

ASSYRIAN, HER NATIVE TONGUE. I T WAS HONE OF THESE LANGUAGES.; THE

(SIRL HAD COME FROM irsSIDE TRAIN STATION AND WAS OVERHEARD TO'COMMENT

TO OTHERS IN THE CROWD THAT HAD GATHERED THAT THE TRAIN WOULD BE

LATE. ' LATER, AT ABOUT THREE, THIRTY PW, BECAME

"SUSPICIOUS" OF THIS GIRL BECAUSE SHE WAS TALKING TO THE TWO KEN

FOLLOWED HER IK AND OUT OF THE TRAIH STATION. THE GIRL ASKED AN •

OLDER KAN BEHIND THE.COUOTER IN STATION WHEN TRAIN WOULD ARRIVE AND

.HE ADVISED HER I T WOULD -BE, AN OTHER HOUR AND FORTY MINUTES.

m ^ O L L O W E D THE GIRL OUTSIDE AND THE GIRL AGAIN SPOKE TO THE :

TALL_BLOND WAN,' ADVISING HIM IN ENGLISH OF THIS FACT. THE SHORT DARK

WAN THEN SHUFFLED HIS RIGHT FOOT BACK AND FORTY ON THE GROUND' AND

SAID IN ENGL.ISH "LET'S GO," AND THE TWO WEN WALKED AWAY, TO THE NORTH.

SHE DID NOT SEE THEM AGAIN, ALTHOUGH SHE LATER LOOKED FOR THEM IN THE

CROWD^THAT HAD GATHERED. SHE, OBSERVED THE GIRL TALKING TO A SMALL

DARX GIRL THEREAFTER. SHE CANNOT FURTHER DESCRIBE THIS 6IRL, B U T .

J?T\ BELIEVED THEY VERE ALSO TALKING I I THE LANGUAGE SHE DID ROT RECOGNIZE.

THE TWO MEN WERE AT THE STATION FROM ABOUT TWO 7QRTYFIVEJ».fl TO.

T H R E E T H I R T Y P M . - ' ^ ' ; . • • : • * ••-;"_: •;.•.•••-;_ '. : / - • • •_• . : " ' : ' . . ' . . :- ': ' : : - . ' - .'-':^'-'

PREVIOUSLY, ABOUT THREE TWENTY P » ( SHE HAD HEARD TALLER BLOND

MAN SAY "HERE I T COMES" WHEN A FREIGHT TRAIN * WENT THROUGH THE STATION.

AFTER KENNEDY TRAIN ARRIVED, ABOUT FOUR FIFTY PM OR THEREAFTER,

AND I H I H H I RETURNED

"'* > • • ' i B H ^ ^ ^ M AGAIN STATED THE SHORT DARX MAN LOOKED> AWFULLY

•OK, HOBEY, YOU ARE F B I . * ~

OBSERVED THE^TELEVISION PICTURES O F J H E : ' V

SHOOTING, SHE SAW A FULL FACE PICTURE OF THE ARRESTED SUSPECT. SHE

IMMEDIATELY YELLED TO HER CHILDREN THAT THIS BAN HAD B E E ^ AT THE

TURLOCK RAILROAD STATION. PHOTOGRAPHS

WERE INDIVIDUALLY EXHIBITED TQ HER. SHE'

EMPHATICALLY STATED THAT NONE'OF, THESE INDIVIDUALS WERE THE PERSON / \

SHE SAV. XEROX COPY OF CALIF.' DRIVER'S LICENSE ISSUED NINETEEN

SIXIYFOUR TO SIRHAN BISHARA SIRHAN VAS EXHIBITED TO HER WITH ONLY THE

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FACZ OF THE DRIVER SHOWS. SHE IMMEDIATELY POSTIVELY IDEHTIFIED THIS• ' • - •

^.PERSON AS THE PERSOtJ SHE SAW. SHE STATED EMPHATICALLY THAT THERE

> ? :1 BE NO QUESTIOH; THAT THIS I S THE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE PERSON .

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OBSERVED BY HER. SHE STATED SHE I S CONFIDENT HE WOULD RECOGNIZE- • . • • - • . , - • - • . . • • • • > . - , - . ' • • ' .

HER ALSO SINCE THEY FREQUENTLY WERE FACE TO FACE, GITHIN FIVE OR .

SIX FEET OF EACH OTHER, DURINQ THE PERIOD OF TIME SHE WAS AT THE STATIC

VHO SPEAKS RAPID BUT BROKEN ENGLISH, ADVISED SHW '

ENTERED UNITED STATES AS AN IMMIGRANT

EARLY THIRTIES, AND I S A NATURALIZED CITIZEN, * '••' T ,

LOS ANGELES, AT BURBANK, IMMEDIATELY LOCATE AND THOROUGHLY

I N T E R V I E V ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ J ^ H i m ^ m f k s UNEMPLOYED AND SHOULDBE HOME. H | ^ ^ | ^ P " ' O R K S AT UNKNOWN FACTORY I N LOS ANGELES,^

MAKING SLIP COVERS. . •' , . v . -

' ADVISE SACRAMENTO OF ANY POSSIBLE ASSOCIATES OF SIRHAN MEETING

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AND KANSAS CITY, ADVISED THATj

STJDZNT, ,SAN FRANCISCO* PHONE-

IS A MSM3ER OF ARAB STUDENT ORGANIZATION.

AND EXTREMELY ANTI-SEMETIC. ( H H B ^ S NEVER MET HER BUT SPOKE TO

HSR ON PHONE IN SAN FRANCISCO SEPT. SIXTY-SEVEN. JU/^dORKS AT

SAN F R A N C I S C O ^ | B B B H A S N 0 REASON TO BELIEVE . %

INVOLVED IN INSTANT CASE BUT HEARD OF "MYSTERY WOMAN"

ASSOCIATE OF SERHAN SERHAN THROUGH NEWS MEDIA AND FURNISt

NAME FOR ANY POSSIBLE INTEREST. . .

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LOS ANGELES TEL | O DETROIT, JUKE SIX IRSTANT, >i ",v-"' •- ' :

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[..'.HOME ADDRESS

^DETROIT, SAID NOT RELATED •••*

OR ACQUAINTED .'IriTH SIRHAN BISHARA SIRHAN. '..HE DENIED' -

KAKIKG STATEMENT TO ANY PERSON THAT HE HAD RELATIVES IN

CALIF. WHOM HE WANTED TO VISIT. SAID ALL RELATIVES :

. - ' , • . - . - - . • ' ' : • • . • ' = . • , > • v : . - > . - - : ' • • > / - . • - . > , . . . - . < . - * . • ' - • - • - • • • - . . » • - • • . • , . - * •

RESIDE DETROIT AREA EXCEPT FIRST COUSIN WHO RESIDES GOSHEN,INDIANA. RELATIVES FURNISHED AS FOLLOWS:

- ' • - • - " • • ' • ' • - • - ^ > - • * " * • • ' • • - ' • * • " " • • * • I

FATHER- ^' " ^ ^ ^ ^ r ^ - - -•-----'- . .. ......

ADDRESS"AS FATHER;

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DETROIT; SISTER-

FIRST COUSIJts'-

PARENT/ OF FIRST COUSINS RESIDE.JORDAN,

HE HAS NO OTHER RELATIVES IN U.S.

— . . - • • ; DETR'OIT,

IN U .S , SINCE NINETEEN TWENTY, SAID HE-SAW PICTURE OF, SIRHAN

BISKARA S I R H A ' N ' S FATHER* ON TV AND HE APPEARS TO BE'lDEBTICAL

TO ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H ^ ^ ^ ^ B (PHN) WHO I S FROM SAME VILLAGE IN

I S FROM. HE LAST SAW HIM

JORDAN, TAYBEH, FOUR YEARS AGO, HE ' . . . , ;

V I S I T E D V . S . HE

JORDAFJ, TAYBEH, THAT H

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LAST NAME HE DID NOT KNO FAMILY AND DOES

HOT KNOW THEIR WHEREABOUTS. HE DENIED MOWING SIRHAU :

BISHARA

U . S . SINCE NINETEEN FORTY BINE, DENIES KNOWING

SIRHAH BISHARA SIRHAN OR HAVING ANY RELATIVES IN CALIF. -

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^^IMMEDIATELY SUTEL RESULTS OF INTERVIEW WITH NBC REPORTER

SftNDER vlNOCUR AND SUMMARY OF INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED TO LOCAT

THE VOM/N WHO ALLEGEDLY SAW. SIRHAN AT THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL.

ALSO SUTEL RESULTS OF ANY BALLISTIC TESTS MADE ON THE; . - • - . - : - v : " • •• • ' • - - • • • • V - - ~ - . v v - - - - •• • - . \ - . - • • • . ; • .

REVOLVER AND ANY BULLETS TAKEN FROM SENATOR KENNEDY'S BODY OR

OTHER VICTIMS. ALSO ADVISE IF EXAMINATION MADE OF "SPENT .gfULLEFOUND I« SUBJECT'S CAR WITH THE; MURDER WEAPOR. IMMEDIATELY

CLARIFY IF BULLETS ARE ACTUALLY CARTRIDGE CASES.

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N'S FINGERPRINTS FOUNDIN ADDITION SUTON MURDER VEAPOB.

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^ : - v ' - • ' LOS ANGELES. TELS OF J U N E ' S I X AND SEVEN, SIXTYEIGHT, DO NOT

SUFFICIENTLY PIN DOWN, FROM AN EVIDENTIARY STANDPOINT, HOW . '

••;.".'" SIRHAN OBTAINED POSSESSION OF WEAPON. \ u T E L DETAILS RELATIVE •

. . TO ERHARDT'S IDENTIFICATION OF MUNIR SIRHAB AS THE INDIVIDUAL

••:,. TO WHOM HE SOLD GUN. ADVISE HOW MUMR RECONCILES THE FACT HE' r : •• • • • • : • • - • • • • ' • - • • • • . • •

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. ^INTERVIEWED RE^ MUNIR.*S POSSESS I ON OP^UN?. -.EXPEDITE. V. " v

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1JRGE!1T 6 - 7 - 6 8 EFH

TO LOS ANGELES 5 6 - 1 5 6 (CODE) ?'<• ' f f . c - • • • v • ' • . . * i • • • - . ' . : ,

FROM DIRECTOR

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, ' RELATEL JIJNE SIX LAST SETTING FORTH RESULTS OF INTERVIEW' . - . • • • . * • • ; . . • - • • - • . • • ' • i . • ' • • -

ELES WILL IMMEDIATELY EXHAUSTIVELY

REINTERVIEW C^OWE SPECIFICALLY CONCERNING INFORMATION THAT HE

ATTEMPTED,TO RECRUIT SIRHAN B. SIRHAN INTO CP AND ADVISED SIRHAN

AS TO HIS ACTIVITIES AND MEMBERSHIP CP. INTERVIEW SHOULD BE

AGGRESSIVE AND IMPLICATION CAN BE GIVEN THAT BUREAU IS IN '-' •

POSSESSION OF THIS INFORMATION FROM SUBJECT SIRHAU HIMSELF. ;

• • • • " - • ' • - - • • • . . • • _ • • . . ' , . ' • 'r • • - • • •• ' -

;* \ . ^ ' - • • , • • . • • • • " • - • - ' . • ' • • ) • ' . ' • • ' : • ' •

EXPEDITE AND SUTEL RESULTS. .

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URGENT 6-7-68

TO "LOS ANGELES PLAINTEXT• * '• ~. J- . . • •

FROM DIRECTOR*' IP S E I V E D BY CODED TELETYPE

REBUPHONECALL TODAY CONCERNING PREPARATION OF : .-'-'"•

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS IN-THIS CASE. ; ->-f • ".'•>'I ''r'-•' \ -;\'::';

- ' IN ADDITION TO OTHER APPROPRIATE SUBHEADINGS, REPORTS

PREPARED IN THIS CASE SHOULD HAVE A SUBSECTION CAPTIONED

^ALLEGATIONS CONCERNING MEMBERSHIP^IN ORGANIZATIONS." ALL

INFORMATION DEVELOPED DURING YOUR INVESTIGATION CONCERNING

ANY SECURITY ASPECTS, SUCH AS COMMUNISM, MEMBERSHIP IN FRONT.

GROUPS, MEMBERSHIP IN.RACIAL, NATIONALISTIC OR EXTREMISTfA^

pRiSANlZATIONS, SHOULD BE SET FORTH UNDER ABOVE CAPTIO»/ DO

BOT USE SUBHEADINGS FOR THESE SPECIFIC'SUBJECT HATTERS, ALL'

SET" FORTH fi THIS SUBSECTION SHOULD BE SO VORDED' f HAT*

REPORTSV ARE DISSEMINATED, OUR SOURCES OR INFORMANTS;,• -\-r '•- '-.•'•'•:?

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KENSALT

NOV.

. RE LAS VEGAS TEL TO DETROIT AND LOS ANGELES AND KANSAS

CITY TEL TO LOS ANGELES* DETROIT* ST. LOUIS* JUNE FIVE, LAST.

AIL TO SHOW ARREST OF1

ND SUBSEQUENT TURN-OVER TO DETROIT

PD IN MAY* NINETEEN, FIFTYEIGHT. RECORDS DO SHOW ARREST

V. NINE* NINETEEN FIFTY FOR "INVESTIGATION

CASE DISMISSED NOV. TEN* NINETEEN

FIFTY. RESIDENCE SHOWN AS fl^HHHHHI^A DETROIT.

HE WAS ALSO ARRESTED JAN. ^

RELEASED. NO PROSECUTION.

NO RECORD DETROIT PD REGARDING SIRHAN BISHARA SIRHAN* AKA.

INVESTIGATION DETROIT DISCLOSES

~~ DETROIT. THEY HAVE

RESIDENCE

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V I F E l H ^ ^ H f e E S I D E N C £ t f l M l M DETROIT. INVESTIGATION FAILS TO

DISCLOSE THESE PERSONS ARC RELATED TO SIRHAN BISHARA SIRHAN.

,15 NEPHEW 01

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__ AND EMPLOYED"

JICH. WIFEfli^^HlrJTERVTRwr^n AND .SAID SIRHAN BISHARA

SIRRAN, COMPLETELY UNFAMILIAR TO HER AND HER HUSBAND. SIRHAN

SIRHAN WILL BE INTERVIEWED JUNE SEVEN* INSTANT AND COMPLETE FAMILY

TREE OBTAINED. LOS ANGELES WILL BE ADVISED.

END.

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DIRECTOR, LOS ANGELES AND UEWARKr. '/LOS ANGELES VIA WASHINGTON , *

FROM PHILADELPHIA (62-NEW) IP " •

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RECEIVED BY CODED IHETTCE

ON SIX SIX SIXTYEIGHT

^LEVITlfiW.H.EA., PHONE

.FURNISHED FOLLOWING INFO,

STATED TO HIM THA

TO A NEW YORK HOSPITAL TO VISIT H

AS VISITING WITH HER BROTHER, HE HAD

ERT KENNED* HAD. BEEN SHOT. VHEN

REPLIED HOf HE THEN SAID'VHAT HE WILL ?BE BYTHE FIFTY OF

ASXED HER IF SENATOR ROBERT KENNED* HAD. BEEN SHOT. VHEN SHE

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NEWARK AT TRENTON- WILL INTERVIEW

i •:*%•?•&: j&?^ SECURITY AND RACIAL HATTERS, EXTREMIST GROUPS, OR ' ^ ' . V^-' *

NATIONALIST ORGANIZATIONS-ALLEGED AFFILIATION WITH ORGTANIZATION OF•;*£"••- • : ' ; " • '

ARAB STUDENTS

REURTEL JUNE SIX LAST AT SEVEN FOUR ONE P . H . - •#-'

INFORMATION APPEARING IN PRESS AND FURNISHED DURING

INTERVIEW OF VALTE

VHILE ATTENDING CO

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.LEGE IN PASADENA. TODAY'S PRESS CARRIES

3A AND CANADA THAT SIRHAN WAS EVER A MEMBER

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DENIAL BY OAS

OF ORGANIZATION.

i" /* CHECK ALL LOGICAL SOURCES AND DURING YOUR INVESTIGATION

OF RELATIVES AND. ACQUAINTANCES^OF S J RHA N/RE SOLVE o WHETHER O B i ^ ^ U ^ ^ M

NOT HE WAS MEMBER OF*OAS. JF T H I ^ ' C A N N O T ' BE RESOLVED T H R O U G H ' ^ - ^ S - '•*

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VONAB IK POLKA-DOT DRESS WITH LARGE NOSE AND flALE COMPANION WHO

ALLEGEDLY LEFT AMBASSADOR HOTEL FOLLOWING SHOOTING HAY 8 E MEMBERS: • • • • ; : • " . . • : . ' • • - . • ' • - • - . • ' • • • • • • • : , . . • - . • • . - . • ' . - > - ' ' • " • * • / * - S —

OF CAS OR SIMILAR ARAB GROUP. REFER 7CTY0UR FILE ONE ZERO FIVE' - _j .; £J O JU 3 .-. - • .,-. - . ^ '•---: *•';•> •'•".' . ; - - . iV .

DASH FOUR ZERO FOUR THREE REGARD ING PRIOR,INVESTIGATIOB^OF OAS.7

BUFILES REFLECT THAT IN NINETEEN SIXTY-THREE OAS HAD SEVERAL

CHAPTERS IN LOS ANGELES AREA WITH ONE APPARENTLY COVERING PASADENA. - * ' • ' * • • •> . *

LISTED AS "YO1IWG APflB ORGANTZATTJN AT PASADEBA.* HR. HA'JED GUSfeOUS.

PRESIDENT,

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COMPLETE INTERVIEW WITH SERRANO TODAY WITHOUT FAIL, •

COMPLETE ALL ASPECTS OF THIS IMPORTANT PHASE OF INVESTIGAT

INSURE PARENTS INTERVIEWED RE ALLEGED TELEPHONE CALL MADE

TO THEM BY SERRANO. INITIATE IMMEDIATE BACKGROUND INFORMATION

RE THIS WITNESS IS ORDER TO BETTER EVALUATE HER STORY.

SUTEL RESULTS OF INTERVIEW WITH NEGRO WITNESS WHO

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APPEARED ON VANOCUR V R O G R A; - , . : - - v ' ..1 v - • >. -• • -.

SHED BY SERRANO. . EXPEDITE;%

ANTIATED INFORMATION

_ ; FBI-COLUMBIA ~ •• * _'." ; •; \ • :y; ''. : ;'

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DELTA FLIGHT HGHT EIGHT-FIVE, ATLANTA TO LOS ANGELES, JUNE

FOUR LAST, REPORTEDLY OVERHEARD WHITE FEMALE, FIVE FEET SIXINCHES, DARX HAIR,. SLENDER BUILD, LATE TWENTIES,- COMMENT TO

ANOTHER VQHAN .THAT SHE WAS COING TO LOS ANGELES TO BE THERE "

"WEN THE BULLETS FLY ABOUT KENNEDY".- ' -- r

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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE DIVISION

TELEIYPE

jr; . AS TO 1A TEL TO BUREAU AND NY JUNE SIX LAST AND BUREAU

TEL TO NY AUD LA JUNE SEVEN LAST

.PIERRE sWTHftfB AND FRANK

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ON ',JUNE SEVEN LAST SALINGEfl AND HANXIEWICZ, SECRETARIES,

WERE CONTACTED IN NYC, IN AN EFFORT TO ARRANGE AN INTERVIEW

WITH TKEM. .THEY DID NOT "RETURN" THE CALL" AND ;NO INTERVIEW

WAS,HAD. THE KENNEDY FUNERAL WILL BE LEAVING NY TODAY FOR '

WASHINGTON, DC AND THEY WILL BE WITH I T . K O FURTHER ATTEMPTS

WILL BE MADE BY NY TO INTERVIEW SALINGER AND MANKIEWICZ.

" A S TO LA TEL TO NY DATED JUNE SEVEN LAST TO INTERVIEW

CMfiVEZ. CHAVEZ WAS PAGED PRIOR TO ANYONE LEAVINGTOUTED AIBLIHES FLIGHT BIGHT WHICH ARRITED.

THE. PLA.;,.

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' KENNEDY AIRPORT AT ElGHljprf 019 JUNE^ SEVEN LAST. CHAVEZ

ALSO PAGED. INTZHE UNITED AIRLINES TERMINAL* ME DID v

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F E E T E I G H T I N C H E S , ' T H I N T O , O L I V E C O M P L E X I O N , ^ ; * J u , ^ - - v V * - \ v < l ^ , i >

FULL HEAD; OF BRIGHT BLACK HAIR WITH A LARGE BLACK WALRUS\//:~**'r- *X'.--\^y \

MUSTACHE GOT OFF FLIGHT EIGHT, HE DENIED* B E I N G t ^ / ; - ' C : " z ' : ^ ' ^ l , : '

ir\v' CHAVEZ* OTHERS FROM LA GETTING OFF FLIGHT EIGHT SAID H . J j ' ' : • • } : ' \ 1>\\•..:'-:> •]

X : 'S "MANY OTHERS LEFT LA' ON THE AMERICAN AIRLINES' FLIGHT WHICH .-X'Y'*;. K"1-^.""'"';

V f L LEFT THERE AT ELEVEN AM ON JUNE SEVEN LAST AND THAT CHAVEZ X • ' ^ : ?

•l \ . ' MAY HAVE BEES ON THAT FLIGHT. NO FURTHER EFFORTS BEING BADE <•:"*:?,-- 4: - ' ; ' " ; - : • - . ! ' - • • • . • • • : -. • • • . - , - • • • • - . - . - . . . - . - ; . - - . > • • • • • - " . . - • . . • j

BY HY TO LOCATE AND INTERVIEW CHAVEZ* • 0 . :- .-;./:>•.:•;-._

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6 2 - 3 6 5 4 . ' 2 P " v ' M r -

KENSALT ~i *

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. RE LOS ARGELES TEL JUNE SEVES LAST REQUESTING INTERVIEW OF

, SIRHAIJ SPONSORS.

S . HALDOR LILLENAS

INTERVlEWEl/THIS DATE AND ADVISED SHE AND. HER LATE";-'-

/HUSBAND WERE SPONSORS FOR B I S H A R A / S I R H A N *AKD FAWILY^ TWO OLDEST.

CHILDREN OF SIRHAN'FAKILY REMAIf^D IN JORDAN BECAUSE LILLEKAS REFUSED j

- TO SPONSOR THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE OF LEGAL AGE. : — ; • " :,.-.•'•- |

\ . .-• LILLENAS STATED SHE AND HER HUSBAND, WHO WAS AN ORDAINED MINISTER

OF THE CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE, WENT OU A EUROPEEAN VACATION IN NINETEEI

FIFTYFIVE,. /WHILE VISITING IN JORDAN, BISHARA SIRHAN CONTACTED LILLENA!

A«D IN3UIRED AS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF, COMNG TO THE U . S . ,. LILLENAS"

DECIDED TO. SPONSOR THE SIRHAN FAMILY AS THEIR INQUIRIES REFLECTED THE

•SIRHAN FAMILY TO.BE A;WORTHY CHRISTIAN FAfSILY,. J <:K: '• ^V "''-• '

C ; . - . ; m. LILLENAS, WORKING THROUGH-CHURCH WORLD SERVICE'AND THE'v"-'-'-' •

FRIENDS ORGANIZATION, BECAME THE SPONSOR OF THE SIRHAN FAMILY, AND "

" " N O V . / FIFTYSEVEN, SIRHAN CAME TO. PASADENA, C A ^ I F . , AND LIVED 1*1 7

• , J ^ THE LILLENAS HOME FOR ABOUT THREE KONTHS UNTIL Slit\ 3&J& " ' ' '

HOUSING AND,

• • iEMPLOYMENT COULD BE OBTAINED.

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BISHARA SIRHAN LEFT HIS FAMILY IN FIFIYEIGHT AND RETURNED TO ,

JORDAN BECAUSE HE FELT -LIVING IN THE U . S . DID NOT ALLOW HIM TO CONTROL

HIS FAMILY AS IN THE* PAST, . BISHARA SIRHAN-WROTE LETTERS TO HIS* WIFE

REQ UESTING HER TO RETURN TO JORDAN AND I F SHE REFUSED • V • V *\ ;.

HE WOULD O3TAIN A DIVORCE* MRS. SIRHAN REFUSED TO RETURN TO JORDAN

AND TOLD LILLENAS SINCE" SHE HAD BEEN MARRIED IN THE GREEK ORTHODOX

CHURCH, NO DIVORCE WOULD BE GRANTED TO HER HUSBAND. ';-".*•.• ' - V ' - ' '; • LILLENAS ADVISED HER HUSBAND HAD HANDLED^ ALL THE RESPONSIBILITIES*

PERTAINING TO THE SIRHAN. FAMILY AND'AFTER MS. LILLENAS DIED IN F1FTYKI!

• SHE HAS HAD OKLY ONE CONTACT WITH THE SISHAM FAMILY, IN A30UT SIXTYTHRf

WHEN AYDA SIRHAR, A DAUGHTER, D I E D . AT THIS TIKE, LILLENAS SAV.pNLY :

PKS. SISHAti AND SHE VISITED FOR'ONLY FIFTEEB KINUTES. * LILLENAS MOVED

'FROM PASADENA, C A L I F . , 0 H ^ | B K S . / ABOUT THREE YEARS AGO AND HAS <

HAD NO CONTACT WITH .THE SIRHAN FAMILY SINCE'MOVING TO MISSION, X S . '/-r•••*

- , , ; CURING THE TIME LILLENAS KNEW SIRHAN, POLITICS WERE NEVER , > : ,

ADEL STRWAN t«|AVRF IDENTICAL ADEL BISHARA S A R H A N . -

SAME BIRTH D A W . BO ARREST RECORD LOCATED IDENTIFDKATION DIVISION

F I L E S . COPY OF ALIEN REGISTRATION PRINT BEING FORWARDED AMSD THIS• '

v- - - :

: - . - • • • - . • " • • " . - • - - - \ • - • . • • ; • • • • • • ' •

: . ' • " • ' • • ' - • • ' • ' • - • r , • ' : • ' : • • • • . " - \ • ' • . . - •

DATE. SAIDALLAH BISHARA SALAMEH SIRHAJXMVE IDENTICAL SAIDALLAH

1 - . . . - V • - •

BISHARft STRHAT3. FRT NUMBER I ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H H ^ H SAME

BIRTH DATA. MUNIR BISHARA SALAMEH SIRHAN MAYBE IDENTICAL SAME

NAME, FBI miKBER^p^p^p^p^P^P^P^P^P^P^P^PB SAME BIRTH DATA.

AREEF SUJHAN AKA SHARIF MAYBE IDEHTICAL SHARIF BISHARA^IRHAN, fe

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TO LOS ANGELES C 5 5 - 1 5 S ) !

JROM CLEVELAND

RE LOS ANGELES TEL TO CLEVELAND INSTANT DATEY

KANUEL.M, AND AMPARIO SERRANO

OHIO,.PARENTS OF SANDRA SERRANO, ADVISED SHE

• ; f ;^ . IELLEPHOKiCALLY 1 CO!iTACI£D THEM'ON SIX FOUR LAST AT APPROXr " ''•';''.

; ; : . . ' IMATtLY S I X PM EDT TO CGNGEADULATE 'HER BR OTHER JlIPON* HIS^ GRADUATION

" : ; : C - . FR OK HIGH SCHOOL. f s H E C A t L E D AGAIN AT. TEN THIRTY PK E D T O ^ S A M E , •

•;. - \ DATE STATING SHE WAS AT XENNEDY'5 CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS AND THAT

KEKKEDY VAS GOING TO VIV THE CALIFORNIA PRIMARY ELECTION. . •

' >• - SANDRA TELEPHCNICALLY CONTACTED HER MOTHER! BY COLLECT CALL AT

APPROXIMATELY THREE THIRTY AM EDT ON SIX FIVE LAST AND WAS

HYSTERICAL SHE SAID SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT THAT IT COST HER THREE- :

.DOLLARS 'TO GET THE TELEPHONE. SHE STATED THA'T KENNEDY HAD BEEK SHOT

:^ANJ('\fljO HE/J. >5OTHER ' ' 'sjitiy*^{izs$ : 'xZPEAr&i\iMi STATEMENTS 2 - " .; ' ' I

'"• "iIFDRA STATED SHE'DID BSOTXNOV iF'kENNEDY WAS DEAD VAND> STATED HE HAD,-,;U%*iH6i*£fJE&. HIS ^SPEECHr SHE^ WAS, HYSTERICAL TOURING ENTIRE tfQ/0f$/;

ELEPHoiE^CONV&f ATIOE!",AfiVHER"• MOTHER WAS UNABLE: J O RECALL HER. ;Vv ; '"

;i$EKT 10HIBfG"jlfNY.TH NG AB OUT" O SERVI«G ANYONE CONNEC^^jflTH THE/V * :; P ' j

SHOOTING. TBUT~ SHE KEPT' REPEATING "WHY WOULD tHEy/^utliYTHING LIKE THIsJ

SUCH A GOOD^WftiT^'SHE ASXED TO SPEAK WITH HER FATHER BUT HE J

9.• . * . /

r DECLINED AS HE WAS TOO UPSET UPON HEARING OF THE SHOOTING \ 1H

^ . . . ^ ^ A \ APPROXIMATELY EIGHT AM EDT ON SIX FIVE LAST'SAKDRA AGAIK .

; TELLEPKOHICALLY CONTACTED HER MOTHER AND AT THIS"TIRE STATED SHE HAD

• B E E N ON THE'TERRACE AT. THE AMBASSADOR HOTEL PRIOR TO KENNEDY'S; • = * • . • • • • : • • . . • - . . . . . . , . • . / . . . • . • . ' . • - - ' , • • - . . - • ^ • » - . • • . . ' . . ' • • . ' • . y ; . \ ' - -

/ S P E E C H . AND SHE HAD SEEN TWO MEN AND A VOKAN WHOM. SHE DESCRIBED ONLY •' ' . ' • ' " • — - ' • • • * ' • • ^ • • • • • - • • • ! • - • • ' " - - - " * • • - " • • • ' - - • • . • » . » • • ' • ' - : • • r ' - . • • • • . . - . - - • • - , • • - •

. A S ™ E KEN ? E I N G MEXICAN DASH AMERICAN AND THE GIRL AS BEING W I T E .

i;

v ' S H E ™ , R T H E R STATED,AFTER THE SHOOTING SHE OBSERVED JUST ONE OF THE

.KEN AND THE SAKE GIRL RUNNING FROM THE' HOTEL AREA. SHE DID NOT • •. •

. ELABORATE FURTHER NOR DID* SHE FURTHER '^ESCRIBE THESE INDIVIDUALS.: •;

' t -. -.VRS. SERRANO ""AC VISED SHE COULD RECALL NO V U R T H E R V D E T AILS O F V H E "

^CONVERSATIONS WITH HER DAUGHTER. AND;SHE'DID NOT MAKE KOTES DURING ' •

AKY OF THE CONVERSATIONS AS SHE. DID tJOJ THIKX IT I M P O R T 1 « T AT THE T I K E /

ii-' P A * £ N * S ^ S C R I B E D SANDRA AS A GOOD GIRL, WHO DOES K p j SMOKE <\:f

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• * • ; • . » « ; * : • " * ! * » ? • : » • . . ; -

^ . WHICH SHE ,J-Sfc--. -'..•.= W * ••- . . •

Sjft VENT TO LIVE ;«T |

^.CALIFORNIAIN EITHER JAKUARY OR FEBRUARY OF, NINETEEN SIXTYSEVER.

AND TOR THE PAST YEAR'HAS BEEN EMPLOYED A T ^ B ^ H H H I ^ H ^

• " " " " " OS AB6ELES. ''"'"

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THIS DATE , K S . ,

> ADVISED BETWEEN ^JULY * D^C, LAST SHE WAS LIVING R(JOM TWEKTYFOUR-ARD , ,

WORKING AS A JBIGHT CLERK A T A MOTEL, NAME UKRECALLED, AT

VEGAS, NEV.;\ MOTEL MAKAGED BY;

FDR HER BEING IN LAS VEGAS WAS TO SECURE DIVORCE WHl/H SHE OBTAINED' . • • • • - , ; • • > • . : - . " • " : • • • . • • • - . • • . - - • • • • • • • • • •

S E P T . ONE LAST*'"'"••-•.;; \ ; . '. - - - V Y V .'-.•*>'•••

•;•/•;. DURING THE TIME IB LAS VEGAS INPIVIDUAL SHE BELIEVED TO BE: •

IDENTICAL TO SUBJECT RESIDED-IN "B SIDE" OF SAME MOTEL AND EMPLOYED

AT CASINO, NAME UHRECALLED;.THIS INDIVIDUAL CHECKED OUT OF MOTEL "

DATE UNRECALLED OWING THIRTYFIVE DOLLARS AND SHE RECALLS FILING A• . . . ; . -

• w . - "SKIP CARD" IN. SUBJECT'S NAME SUBSEQUENT. TO HIS LEAVING. THIS INDIVIDUt

SAW RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS OF SUBJECT ON TV SHE*BELIEVES INDIVIDUAL 1

DESCRIBED ABOVE IDENTICAL TO SUBJECT* UNABLE 1 0 PROVIDE ANY

| g ^ g * g p i T I O « A L BACK GROUND IRFO, ^ INDICES, , KANSAS C I T i £ jCfiATI VERE ! •.. •* / '. |

, - » .^_

I $%?'£••- j t c 6 2 - 8 6 5 1 ; " : ; - y V ' ' / ; - . . V . / ; • ' • ' • • • , '•:"'•<'•'• -•/..'' •••'•^ "'-•'...:. V ' .

V- . ' LAS.VEGAS, AT LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, WILL AT HOTEL L O C A T E H B H^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ - I _ ^ ^ M . . - - • • • • • ; . . . • • • . • . : v • —

• • ^ ^ • i ^ ^ ^ ^ B ATTEMPT TO VERIFY SUBJECT RESIDING THERE AND

CONDUCT NECESSARY INVESTIGATION TO OBTAIN ALL BACKGROUND INFO RE

END.T • V

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SSTelelype

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TO HONOLULU AND LOS ANGELES (56-156)

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1 RE COLUMBIA TEL TO RICHMOND JUNE EIGHT INSTANT."*-; . ':!/'-."• '-•-'_:'\'"'' FOR THE INFORMATION OF HONOLULU, COLUMBIA FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING

BACKGROUND INFORMATION: PASSENGER ABOARD DELTA FLIGHT EIGHT EIGHT FIVE."

ATLANTA TO LOS ANGELES, JUNE FOUR LAST, REPORTEDLY OVERHEARD WHITE

FEMALE, FIVE FEET SIX INCHES, DARK HAIR, SLENDER BUILD, LATE TlENTrES,

COMMENT TO ANOTHER WOMAN THAT SHE WAS GOING TO LOS ANGELES TO BE THERE

"WHEN THE BULLETS FLY ABOUT KENNEDY,".). >•

REVtEW OF &ELTA* COMPQTEaiECORDSL REVEAL THAT

• . „ • ' *• - . . . •

CONTACT TELEPHONE NUMBER

E

CONTACT,TELEPHONE NUMBER

OLUMB1A, S. C #, WERE ABOARD FLIGHT*

COLUMBIA,S. C., AN

INVESTIGATION AT COLUMBIA REVEALS

RESIDES

COLUMBIA, S. C. HOME ADDRESS

NNANDALE, VIRGINIA, NO

^ ^ ^ O N JUNE"EIGHT-INSTANT RICHMOND DETERMINED'

AUQUST SEVEN NINETEEN SIXTY SEVEN WITH ;"' - '• • '

FRANCISCO,FROM

FORWARDING ADDRESS

CALIFORNIA^: f-^,V .

- : BUREAU LIAISON DETERMINED ADDRESS TO BE

URRENTLY RESIDING

KAILOA, HAWAII, TELEPHONE

' : . HONOLULU, INTERVIEW PARENTS fl^0|^ONCERNlNG WHEREABOUTS OF

DAUGHTER. DETERMINE ^ ^ ^ ^ B f N O W N TO THEM/ f . •

RE RICHMOND RAD TO HONOLULU AND LOS ANGELES INSTANT/:;

DAUGHTER 0

KAILUA, HAWAII ADVISED ON SIX EIGHT*

AS FOLLOWS." X

ON SIX FOUR SIXTYEIGHT SHE AN ERE "SEATED

IH F I R S T CLASS SECTION OF DELTA FLIGHT E W H T f I V E F I V E FROM

ATLANTA TO LOS ANGELES. THEIR SEATS WERE IN THIRD OR F O U R T H , .

ROW IN FRONT OF LAVATORY AND ON LEFT FOR A PERSON FACING C O C K P I T .

yy- > f m m ^ D V I S E D SHE MADE NO STATEMENT WHICH COULD - ,'

* \ HAVE BEEN INTERPRETATED TO MEAN SHE WAS GOING TO LA TO BE THEIR :

WHEN THE BULLETS FLY AROUND KENNEDY A N ^ | ^ B " A P E N0 S U c H

r. STATEMENT IN HER PRESENTS,' SHE HEARD NO ONE MAKE ANY SUCH , '-'vi'A'

STATEMENT.

SHE ONE HOUR* AT tA~ AIRPORT TO MAKE CONNECTIONS

FOR THEIR FLIGHT TO HAWAII.

TO'THE FAR EAST TO JOIM HER PARENTS.

S PARENTS LIVE NEAR CALCUTTA,

FATHERS FIRST "ftAWE UNKNOWN

ADDRESS SHE HAS FOR

' S ,C< FROM WHICH ADDRESS BAIL WILL BE^> :

FORWARDED ~

f BOTH GIRLS WERE

INCHES, ORE ONE 'j-'C'y.V-\

\ : FIVE L B S . , H A S ' B L O H D HAIR'VND WORE ORANGE CULOTTES ON THE':'V'-> "-'--^-J-

- _.._ D E s c R j B E o J U ^ M f t S A G E y W E N T Y f F I V E FOOT THREE ^ ^ r \

>, ONE ZERO FIVE i B S . V ' BROWN HAIR AND WORE GREEN PRINT

DRESS ON FLIGHTr • D » " - ^ • - X • >- ^ - ^

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LOS ANGELES C56-156)

DETROIT ( 6 2 - 4 1 7 7 ) ' " ?

' 'V- '*?& £'•*' -^ -

RE LOS ANGELES TEL INSTANT DATE.

lELEPHDtflCALLY ADVISED SA; • » ; : , V ; > • • • - ' - • - • • • • " • • • • • - • - "

/ EIGHT THAT

•-" '.-WHO USED THE FIRST

HOUGHTOH, MICHIGAN,

ON FIVE TWENTY ONE SIXTY

HOUGHTOK, MICH.,g U I H M W M | M a B N a i ^

RECENTLY VISITED HIS OFFICE

AND IN CONVERSATION INDICATED SHE HAD SERVED IK SOME UNDERCOVER -...

CAPACITY FOR THE LOS A!IG£LES, CALIFORNIA >D RE KARCOTICS. ' HE- SAID

I OKE YEAR AGO.

TO BE

TYPE* WHO IS "AKTI , E V E R Y T H I N G " . ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ V J A S f >"OR SEVERAL YEARS,

. .FOJUflERLY EtiPLOYED AS

in LOS ANGELES.OR PASADENA. HE REPORTEDLY DID UNDERGRADUATE WORK.,.:

. .AT" THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA'ARD RECEIVED HIS DOCTORATE AT THE

? UNIVERSITY OF. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'-,

^WAS LISTED AS]

[PRIOR CALIFORNIA^ADDRESE

^SADENA, ;..: I;.... -;' ..7 U}>.:V->J

" I D ME " IS ENGAGED IN NARCOTICSyM^ 1

ACTIVITY AND IS KNOWN I d HAVE'STARTED SEVERAL QUEStlONABLE >V '.:- ..r.-\

^%i»UELICATrONS. O« THE^AWPUS "OF WICHIGAN TECHNQLtoC^t'jlKi VERSITYV '. •:

; HOUGHTDR, W C H . . , TO PAISE BOND KOKEY FOR TWO TOUHG PERSONS

^rC-yjr^-^ </ASEAflCHED. . 1 M B

PBI-U8I91968

: - " . •

HIS. OFFICE RECENTLY WROTE LETTERS T(

aHBft.ES COUNTY AND LOS AKGELEE,

3UI TP" VREQUESTING BACl^GROmJD INFORMATION O»

CATE HAS HAD S O . R E P L Y . ^ ^ : ^ - ; 0 ' H " i ^ • l i ' - : . " : ^ ' : V - : . ; ; . v ^ : \ ; ' - . ' ••- •". • : •

i i T ) ' i t i H I H H l H I H ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ l f l H l MICHIGAN" TECHNOLOGICAL ;. "-*

UNIVERSITY,' ADVISED S ^ H H ^ N FIVE TWENTY ONE SIXTY EIGHT THAT; '

HATJGS AROUND THE CAKPUS BUT DOES HOT ATTEND,THE UNIVERSITY. .

HE SAID HE UNDERSTANDS SHE ORIGINALLIY CAKE FROM IRAN, AND HE KNOWS - •

SHE HAS THE REPUTATION OF BEING "RIOTHER" TO A GROUP OF "HIPPY TYPE" '

STUDENTS.. ALSO .THAT SHE I S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF SEVERAL ,

WIMEOGKAPHED PUBLICATIONS WHICH ARE ANTI VIET, KAK WAR, AGAINST"NARCOTIC

LAWS AND GENERALLY TEND TO BURLESQUE RELIGION AND POLICE AUTHORITY. .

, .ADVISED TODAY.

HE COTVTACTEI^B^^HFTSY PHONE. HE DESCRIBED HER AS A *KOOKM.' HE

SAID IN "CONVERSATION SHE. RAM3LED, WAS' EVASIVE AND SKIPPED FROM'O/IE . '• : - - : > V . . - • ' . • i « V : L - ; - ' " - " - ' - - - - - : '••'•• ''••-'""• t - . - . • ' - > " • . •-. \ • • • - » - • • - ' : ' . - . • - . V " • '•-•--.

TCPJC TO ANOTHER. SHE CLAIMED SHE HAS INTERCEPTED KESSA6SS ON TV •

IwblCATlNG THAT'SENATOR FULLBRIGHT WOULD BE NEXT BUT DUE TO HIS w ^ - 1

RECENT SPEECHES "THEY"-MAY LET HIM'Gp. ALSO THAT/NOW DEGAULLE

ANGELES PD, ^

THEY GOTpHDM SHE KAS KNOWN POM THE. PAST.' SHE SAIp SHE T O L j B ^ i

? TH&' WRONG, iftNADD THAT tHERE WAS .*_ ' "?« ^ 8 " BETWEEitHE PERSON"1

w.v?.;^

l ^ ~ ? " 7

MAftTI1^ LUraER;>I«Gi'AMD THE SHOOTING"X)FVENATOR ROBERT KEKNEDY.

^

- . • .»„•

ASXED;HER IF'THE FBI COULDTALK'TO HER AMD SHE SAID

ALSO' I « ON THE COHSPlRAjCY'V HE SAID SHE DID NOT GIVE THE• ' " ' • A . f' "-

v" KAMES OF ANY-PERSONS SHE'HAD TALKED TO IN PASA15EKA REGARDIKG SIRHAK' CtCUAM AUn »JilIf lift *««»»*»»•.•• « • - - - -»•

• '•'.'•'.&SIRHAN A(*D GAVE KO ADDITIONAL BASIS FOR HER CALL TO T H E ' L O S ANGELES PD.

KO FURTHER;j ^K',;;'i»'WEW'OF"_THE INFORrtATIOK DEVaOPED R!

* . ; AcnoHi i s BEING TAKER BY THE DETROIT OFFICE^•''£? ;: ; • . •, -=^ ^ * > . v ^ i . ^ ^ ; ; , ; • : i - ; • s - ; > . . ^ . • • < • - • w - - . * - . • : : • • • • • : V ; V ' ; • - - : . . - • • . - • • • • • ' ' • ' * • - , • ' . ! * ? • - : ? ; " '.. •':.-.. •'•:.

**;,-,- E N D . ; • * * / £ • * . • ' . : . : . , ^ : • • : • • , - . . ; - ; . • v , , . v . . ^ . - . " . - ; • • • - v c . - ^ " r - ^ - - / , • • . . • • - - • • - • \ o • - . - • \ - - i i - •

- s - ' t i p - - - - ^ ' • - - ' - . • . 4 - ' ? , » * « " - - ' . • • > . . : , ' - . . • - . - - ' .-• • T f t s * - . J . - . y . if. • < - - • • . < • , , . . - - r - . . ' , •-... v - • ' . •.•• . - L ••••

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TOl DIRECTOR* FBI AND SACS WASHINGTON FIELD AND LOS ANGELES

FROM* SAC* SACRAMENTO ( 6 8 - 7 6 ) IP

•fe KENSALT*

THIS IS TO CONFIRM TELEPHONE CALLS TO THEI BUREAU AND

LOS ANGELES INSTANT DATE PERTAINING TO TRANSPORTING OF

S!RHANfS FINGERPRINTS VIA PACIFIC SOUTHWEST AfiRLINES (PS)

FLIGHT ONE EIGHT TWO* CAPTAIN IVING L05

ANGELES ONE FIFTY P . M . , INSTANT DATE. LOS ANGELES WILL

TRANSFER BUREAU'S COPIES OF FINGERPRINTS ONTO TWA FLIGHT

NINE EIGHT, WHICH IS TO ARRIVE AT DULLES AIRPORT TEN FORTY

P.M. . » .

LOS ANGELES IS REQUESTED TO ADVISE WFO IN THE EVENT

THAT THERE IS ANY CHANGE AS TO GETTING FINGERPRINTS ON TtfA

FLIGHT NINE EIGHT.

END. T.

SMS

FBI LOS ANG

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RE WFO TEL TO DIRS AND CHICAGO JUNE SEVEN, LAST.»"•' ^ i - A

THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING ifcuSE, ONE NINE TWO SIX NORTH '

WAIN, WHEATOK/ ILLINOIS NOT OPEN SATURDAYS. LIBRARIAN

ABOVE LOCATION ADVISED BOTH BOOKS LISTED IN REFERENCE

AVAILABLE THROUGH PUBLISHING HOUSE. PUBLISHING HOUSE - «.

MANAGER UNAVAILABLE UNTIL JUNE TEN, NEXT AT WHICH TIME TWO .

COPIES OP ABOVE BOOKS WILL BE OBTAINED AND FORWARDED BUREAU

W:

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LOSANQELEI

A. 'J- • >FBI LOS ANG

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1107 PI4 6 / 6 / 6 B URGENT LAL

TO LOS ANGELES < 5 6 - 1 5 6 )

FROM SACRAMENTO C62-76> .,"

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KENSALT

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RE LOS ANGELES TEL TODAY.

DOLORES

SACRAMENTO, ADVISED INSTANT DATE THAT SHE AND HER HUS9AND, STATE

SENATOR ftNTHONY C- » " " • " ' ? " " - Aapnign AT HOTEL AMBASSADOR TOWARDS

END OF SENATOR ROBERT F . KENNEDY*S SPEECH. . THEY REMAINED IN MAIN

BALLROOM ONLY A SHORT TIME AND FINDING IT TOO CROWDED, RETURNED TO

KITCHEN PASSAGEWAY. FOLLOWING SPEECH, THEY POSITIONED THEMSELVES

IN PASSAGEWAY SO AS TO SEE THE SENATOR AND BE ABLE TO GREET FRIENDS

AS THEY CAME OUT. SENATOR BEILENSON DID NOT OBSERVE THE ASSAILANT

OR SENATOR KENNEDY AND WAS NOT AWARE THAT THE POPPING NOISE HE HEARD

WAS SHOTS. MRS. BEILENSON STATED THAT AFTER SENATOR KENNEDY PASSED

HER, SHE TURNED HER HAAD BACK TO SEE IF SHE WOULD BE ABLE TO SEE

MRS. ETHEL KENNEDY. SHE TURNED HER HEAD BACK IN THE DIRECTION

OF SENATOR KENNEDY* SHE COULD NOT SEE HIM* HOWEVER* AS SHE TURNED

SHE INSTANTANEOUSLY OBSERVED THREE FLASHES EMANATING FROM A GCJN.

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GUN APPEARED TO BE HELD AT WAIST LEVEL, AND THE ARM WAS NOT

EXTENDED. AT THE SAME MOMENT SHE HAD A QUICK OBSERVATION OF

THE PERSON HOLDING THE GUN* BUT ONLY FROM MID-THIGH UP. SHE COULD

NOT RECALL WHAT OBSCURRED HER VISION SINCE OTHER THAN THAT SHE HAD

A CLEAR VIEW OF THE MAN. SHE STATED SHE WAS APPROXIMATELY TWENTY

FEET AWAY. SHE DESCRIBED THE MAN AS SHORT STATURE* SLIM. TWENTY-

FIVE TO THIRTY YEARS OF AGE* DARK COLORING* APPEARING TO BE OF

MEXICAN-AMERICAN EXTRACTION. UPON HEARING ADDITIONAL SHOTS SSHE

IMMEDIATELY LEFT AREA. DUE TO FACT THAT HER OBSERVATION OF THE

GUNMAN WAS MOMENTARY* SHE DOES NOT BELIEVE SHE COULD POSITIVELY

IDENTIFY HIM. NEITHER SHE NOR HER HUSBAND RECALL SEEING ANYONE

ELSE IN PARTICULAR OUTSIDE THE UNIFORMED KITCHEN HELP, KENNEDY

STAFF, AND FRIENDS. SENATOR BEILENSON ADVISED HIS WIFE FURNISHED

HIM DESCRIPTION ABOVE PRIOR TO ANY DESCRIPTION BEING GIVEN IN THE

NEWS. MRS. BEILENSON HAS FURNISHED ABOVE INFORMATION TO THE

LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPT. SENATOR BEILENSON ADVISED THEY WERE

ACCOMPANIED BY TWO MEMBERS OF HIS LOS ANGSLES OFFICE, ROBERT

Arsa.AND MISS BARBARA SH\W* BOTH OF LOS ANGELES. THEIR ADDRESSES

MAY BE OBTAINED THROUGH H I S OFFICE* THERE* CALL TWO SEVEN SEVEN -

SIX TWO TWO S I X ,

FD THREE ZERO TWO'S FOLLOW. '

? E N D, ' ' • • " ' • • " . ' - . * . ' ' • " ' \ • . i

:; • • " • • • • ; *

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4-38 PM URGENT 6-7-68 WPK

TO DIRECTO AND LOS ANGELES (CODE)



FROW NEW YORK 1 0 0 - 1 5 1 9 8 7 SENT IYCOO©

V.E.B. DU BOIS CLUBS OF AMERICA. IS - C.

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LHW FOLLOWS.

END

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A / t n SEPHTiL TO EVZZt.V AK3 h'E'v.ARK SIX SEVJT* SIXTY EI3tt

.:.:'•" OSTjUHS SEVEfJ SIXTY EI3KT

Ki HJ, ADVISED THAT OK JUNE SIX SI/ITY.E.J3HI.

IK A

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HIM REGARDING THIS ACTIVITY. RESULTS OF ABOVE INTERVIEW AND

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THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION,* A*SV-A RESULT OF

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SIXTY-EIGHT AT THE COTTAGE MOTEL. LAYTOMVILLE, CALIFORNIA, AND HE

ADVISED THAT HE WAS IN SANTA ROSA DURING THE ROSS FESTIVAL PARADE ON

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* HEAD OFFICE WORKER, SENATOR KENNEDY'S CAMPAIGN HEAD3UA3TERS,

SANTA ROSA, ADVISED ON JUNE TEN, NINETEEN SIXTY-EIGHT THAT THE PERSON

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HAD P0SSI3LY TALKED TO KR. GRAHAM WAS MRS. DIANE VANDER30F,

o in in n n m H m B m n i ^ '"'DIANE VANDERBOF WAS CONTACTED ON JJNE TEN AND SHE ADVISED SHE

WAS THE PERSON THAT HAD TALKED TO DON GRAHAM, NOMINEE FOR CONGRESS, WHO

RESIDES IN LAYTONVILLE, CALIFORNIA."KRS.VANDSRBOF STATED THAT ON SATUR-

DAY, MAY EIGHTEEN, NINTEEN SIXTY-EIGHT, SHE WAS WORKING IN CAMPAIGN HZM

QUARTERS OFFICE AND A30JT ELEVEN O'CLOCK AM, A KIDDLE-AGED

WOMAN STOPPED AT THE HEADQUARTERS AND SAID SHE HAD GON£ TO SANTA ROSA

TO SEE THE ROSE PARADE. SHE STATED THAT SHE HAD HEARD THAT V7HEN SENA-

TOR KENNEDY WAS SPSAKIMG IN EUREKA, CALIFORNIA, A A'EEK PREVIOUS,

SOMEONE HAD TAKEN A SHOT AT HIM. THE WOMAN SAID THE MATTER WAS NOT

REPORTED TO THE PRESS AND SHE FELT BADLY ABOUT THIS BECAUSE SHE HAD

THE GREATEST ADMIRATION FOR SENATOR KENNEDY. MRS. VANDERBOF SAID THE

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WOMAN WAS ALMOST IN TEARS AND THEN SHE WALKED OJT ON TH2 STREET AND

IRS. VANDER30F NEVER SAW HER AGAIN AND CANNOT REMEMBER HER DESCRIPTION

OTHER THAN SHE WAS MIDDLE AGED WITH RED HAIR. MRS* VANDERBOF ALSO STATEl

THAT SHE WAS ALONE AT CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS WHEN THE WOMAN CAMS

IN AND SHE COULD FCJRNISH NO FURTHER INFORMATION WITH THE EXCEPTION

THAT SHE DOES HECALL TELLING DON GRAHAM A80UT THE INCIDENT AND SHE

REKEM3S3S THAT GRAHAM STATED THAT WHAT THE WOMAN WAS TALKING A30JT

COULD NOT BE TRUE BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN IN THE EUREKA* CALIFORNIA

AREA WITH KENNEDY.

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K E N S A L T ; ' • • • '•* - • \

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COMPANY PUBLISHES THE GROCERS BEACOi!, GROCERS SPOT LIGHT AiSD

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TO ALL SUPERMARKETS AND GROCERS IN OHIO.

DJf.IIv: LAST TEN YEAnS f v 4 . " £ ^ m p - ; A S MEVER CCKE TO HIS

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3ETSY ROSS FOODS STORES, AKROK, OHIO, ALL ADVISED

UNFAMILIAR VITH K A M E ^ J f ^ H s BEING AFFILIATED WITH SUPERMARKETS

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BUREAU AMD ALL OFFICES REQUESTED TO FURNISH ANY INFORMATION

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IF WANTED IN SEATTLE 03 BIG STONE GAP* VIRGINIA.

NO ATTEMPT BEING XADE TO INTERVIE-^

UNTIL RESULTS FROM 3U3EAJ AMD ALL OFFICES.

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TO DIRECTOR AND LOS ANGELES 5 6 - 1 5 6 (PLAINTEXT)


FROM NEW YORK 4 4 - 1 6 4 0 3P •

KEISSALT

RE NEW YORK TEL TO BUREAU AND LOS ANGELES DATEDX

JUNE TEN INSTANT AS TO

AT ELEVEN THIRTY FIVE PM ON JUNE NINE, NINETEEN

CARINA DEL RAY, LOS ANGELES,CALIFORNIA, TELEPHONE NUMBER*

CALLED FBI , NEW YORK,

FROM CALIFORNIA AND SAID H ^ M S H B WAS 0N AMERICAN

AIRLINES FLIGHT NUMBER FOUR DEPARTING LOS ANGELES,

•FOUR THIRTY PM AND ARRIVING NEW YORK TWELVE SEVENTEEN

AM, JUNE TEN INSTANT. " . , " , '

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?S PHOENIX AIRTIL TO LOS AKGELES, JUf.T SEVEN1 LAST, '

NEW YOTiK TELETYPE TO E'JHHftU, FKOEKIXCAKD LCS A»!GELES .

JUKE TEt; LAST AMD BUF:EAU PKOBE CALL TO PKCIKIX ICSTAKT ' DATE

For; IliFO OF 2U3EAU AND KEW YORK IE BEFEFEKCED AIRTEL

TO LOS AEiGELES THE FCLLOV.'ING IKFOKtJATIOK WAS REPCnTED TO

THAT DIVISIOK.-

=-IEH*.~.A ri^KAK 51/??, DG3 JULY FIFTEEN KIKETEEtf

FORTY TK7.EE, PL<.C2 Or SIHTH JERUSALEM, JOr.DAfi, VHITE TALE,

OKt FIFTEEN POUKDS, SIXTY.FIVE INCHES TALL, BLACK HAIR,

3f.OslN EYES, A S S E S S SIX K1HE SIX S#(ST HOWARD STREET,

PASAEEW., CALIFCRKIA, DAVID MYgfe,'-JR.» WHITE, MALE, DATE

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BLUE EYES, AIDnESS fl^UHlHHHHHHI O W A . . •

AAGVE AA'REST I f . T I C A U SIRHAK

Cr; M'.Y TKIKTY RINETEEK SIXTY S I X VAS SEKTEI.'CED UNDER

AF.IZOKA VASF;AfJCY STATUTE TO FIFTEEN CAYS IU JAIL AS WAS

T TIME

OF AnftEST MYESS CLAIMED TO BE A HITCHHIKER AKCCTHAT CLEVEKGES,

SIF.HAB" AKC HCULEK CLAIMED TO BE TC3ETHER, CLEVEKGER VfAS

/CITED FOK NO nCTOR VEHICLECREGISTRATIOK AKD CHARGE WAS

DISMISSED ON t'AY TWO SEVEK NINETEEN SIXTY S I X .

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INSTANT

"*"""" KIS ALIASES PER REFERENCED'NEW

YORK TELETYFE ABOVE WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS. PHOEKIX .

1KHICES NEGATIVE OK ALL FIVE KAKES ABOVE.

S1KCE IHVISGIGATIOU PHOEKIX DIVISIOK INDICATES

SIRHAK, CLEVE15C-Eri, CTEHS AHD HOULEti WERE It: TRANSIT

AT TIKE OF ARREST IT IS LEFT TO DISCRETION OF LOS AKGELES

AS OFFICE OF OMGIK TO SET CUT LEADS TO HAVE ASSOCIATES

CFCSIRHAK IKTERVIEWEDCASCIKITULLY SET OUT BY BUREAU IN

REFELEMCED PHOKE CALL TO PKOEKIX.

FZI LCS AKC.

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URGENT 6-10-68 EFH

TO LOS ANGELES (PLAINTEXT)

FROM DIRECTOR 2P

KENSALT

3 3 5 1 3 ) BV CODED TELETYPE

NINE SIXTY-EIGHT DATELINED CAIRO I S

QljOTED AS FOLLOWS:

"THE SEMI-OFFICIAL MIDDLE EAST NEWS AGENCY (MENA) REPORTED

FROM BAGHDAD SUNDAY NIGHT THAT INFORMED SOURCES SAID IRARQI

AUTHORITIES ARRESTED THE BROTHER OF SENATOR ROBERT F . KENNEDY'S

ACCUSED ASSASSIN MONTHS AGO ON CHARGES OF SPYING KpR ISRAEL.

•MENA QUOTED THE SOURCES AS SAYING SOLIMAN SIRIIR RAH, BROTHER

OF SIRHAN EISHARA SIRHAN, WAS AN ENGINEER WORKING FOR A PRIVATE

COMPANY AND CARRYING A JORDANIAN PASSPORT,

"ACCORDING TO THE SOURCES, SOLIMAN WAS ARRESTED NEAR THE

. JORDANIAN BORDER WHILE CARRYING MAPS OF IRAQI MILITARY AIRPORTS.

\ "THE SOURCES SAID SOLIMAN WAS HANDED OVER TO JORDAN AFTER

HIS ARREST BECAUSE HE ALLEGEDLY WAS ACONNECTED WITH A SPY RING

DISCOVERED IN JORDAN.

"THE MENA DISPATCH SAID IRAQI AUTHORITIES DISCOVERDED FIVE

; 'SPY' RINGS. • IT SAID SOLIMAN'S RING Vf.S STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION&>>*,

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AND INCLUDED ARAB ELEMENTS WITH HEADQUARTERS IN LONDON.-

LOS ANGELES IMMEDIATELY DETERMINE AND ADVISE WHETHER

THERE IS, IN FACT, A BROTHER NAMED SOLIMAN. IT IS NOTED

THAT ACCORDING TO INFORMATION PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED, SUBJECT

WAS KNOWN AS "S0L"Z TO SOME OF HIS ASSOCIATES,

END ' ^ . , • , .

CORRECTION: P 1 L 13 W 7 SHLD BE "CONNECTED"

P 1 L 15 W 7 SHLD BE "DISCOVERED-

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FBI NEW YORK

7 l i a PM URGENT 6 - 1 0 - 6 8 AW5

TO DIRECTOR, PHOENIX AND LOS ANGELES

FROM NEW YORK 4 4 - 1 6 4 0

MS ALT

ON1 JUNE TEMTH NINETEEN 5IXTYEIGHT

NEW YORK ADVISED

SAC JOSEPH PONDER THAT LIFE MAGAZINE WAS GOING TO

RUN AN ARTICLE ON SIRHAN SIRHAN AND THAT LIFE

MAGAZINE SAID THAT PHIL LEE CLJB^SMSSSj

RONALD H X E N CALL OF FLAGSTAFF,,ARIZONE AND ASSOC-

1A CPHONETIC)IATED WITH HORSSRACING) AMD FRANK.

OF CORONA, CALIFORNIA ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH HO.iSERACING

WERE ALL INSOWE WAY ACQUAINTED WITH OR KNEW OF SIRHAN

AND THAT LIFE WANTED TO KNOtf W H A | B ^ ^ H A D ON THESE

FOUR. m m H I ^ B fcSCO.IDS NEGATIVE AS TO FIRST

THREE. LIFE SAID THAT SIRHAN SIRHAN A N D . D A N V ^ R A , AKA

\Y.\ _KN£W EACH OTHER AT TRACK AT

CORONA.

RAM^TEJLJLA AKA

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SOCIAL SECURITY NJM3S3

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DURING FALL NINETEE?

IN SEPTEM3ER, NINErES

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PASS TOUR

IN JULY NINSTS

IN JULY, NINETEEN

IN JANUARY NINETEEN

HE ALSO SAID THAT IN NINETEEN

END PAGE FOUR

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TO KNOW IF THE BUREAU HAS AMY

OBJECTION AS TO HIS FURNISHING THE INFORMATION

[TO LIFE MAGAZINE.

RECORDS MADE AVAILABLE TO FEDERAL BJRSA'J OF INVESTI-

GATION 3 ^ J J B P S H O W NO ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SIR HAN SIRHAN

WISED ON THE AM OF JLJNE ELEVEN

NINETEEN SIXTYEIRHT THAT THE 3JRSAJ WOJLD INTERPOSE

NO OBJECTION TO HIS FURNISHING FROM HIS RECORDS THAT

INFORMATION WHICH HE WOJLD NORMALLY FURNISH TO A NEWS

PEDIA. UACB.

PX WILL CHECK INDICES AND LOGICAL SOJRCSS AS TO

BACKGROUND ON CLEVSNGER; JJJfERS; AND HJLEN AND AS TO ANY

CONNECTION BETWEEN THEM AND SIRHAN SIRHAN.

END

LCS

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FROM DIRECTOR (62-587 IP

KEWSALT RE: INTERVIEWS WITH MEMBERS OF OFFICIAL KENNEDY

PARTY.

RELATEL SIX ELEVEN LAST.

t THIS PHASE OF THE INVESTIGATION SHOULD BE

AGGRESSIVELY PURSUED SINCE IT IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE,

PARTICULAR EMPHASIS SHOULD BE PLACED ON DETERMINING WHO

INITIATED ANY CHANGE IK ITINERARY OR PLANS RELATING TO

ACTIVITIES OF KENNEDY AND HIS PARTY OK NIGHT OF JUNE FOUR

IVDASH FIVE SIXTYEIGHT.EXPEDITE,

ONE COPY TO WFO BY SPECIAL- MESSENGER.

END ^ ;

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I FBI LOS ANG.

FBI JDETKOIT

U 4 B AW IEGERT 6 - 7 - 6 8

TO LCS ANGELES

FROM DETROIT ( 6 2 - 4 1 7 7 )

SFB

M C H . , ADVISED SPENT SUMKERS AT HARBOR POINT,

KICH., AND ATE AT LITTLE HAHBOR CLUB, HAK3OR SPRINGS, MICH.,

MANAGED B Y S H H H H B Y WHEtJ M I B ^ H ^ ^ ^ ^ t e A W PHOTO

OF SUBJECT CN TELEVISICK,SlKEY FELT IT WAS ONE OF GROUP OF

JORDANIAN EOYS EBOUGHT FROfXcALIFORKIA B ^ j B B B ^ A C H YEAR

THROUGH NINETEEt; SIXTYFIVE T \ WORK AT C L U B f t ^ ^ ^ k A D V I S E D

PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA, TELE

PHONE

WOULD KNOW IF IDENTICAL.

LOS ANGELES INTERVIEW

LOS ANGELES — I — 421AM MSE

352AM URGENT 6-10-68 V . ' .

TO DIRECTOR (62-587) AND LOS ANGELES (56-156) (ENCODE)


FROM NEW YORK (44-1610) 2P

ENSALT

, RE NY TEL CALL TWO AM THIS DATE.

biD /JIHHHHHHI^^HiiHfl^HHmV^DvisED

NYO THAT AMERICAN AIRLINES AT APPARENT INSTRUCTIONS

FROM LOS ANGELES PD TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED HIS OFFICE

STATING THAT AN I N D I V I D U A L / ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H ' AlFURTHER IDENTIFYING DATA, REPORTEDLY

ABOARD AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT FOUR ENROUTE TO JFK

AIRPORT, NYC HAD "INFORMATION ABOUT ASSASINATION".

NET THIS FLIGHT WHICH ARRIVES ONE TEN AM HOWEVER

NOT ABOARD.

'UESTIONED AT JFK AIRPORT WHEN FLIGHT FOUR

ISARRIVED SINCE HE "LOOKED SUSPICIOUS".

EMPLOYED BY

CALIF. THIS INDIVIDUAL RELEASED

AFTER EMPLOYMENT VERIFIED.

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" ^ ^ " ^ • ™ ( OF AMERICAN AIRLINES!

JFK AIRPORT NY STATED LA PD OFFICER

FURNISHED SANTA MONICA AMERICAN AIRLINES OFFICE INFORMATI

THAT fljj^HHHB^ WAS ABOARD AMERICAN AIRLINES

FLIGHT FOUR ENROUTE TO JFK. THIS AMERICAN AIRLINES OFFICE

RELAYED INFORMATION T 0 M ^ V W H 0 CONTACTED NYO

AND STATED THERE WAS NO LISTING FOR THIS PERSON ON MANIFEST

FOR AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT FOUR. NYO INDICES NEGATIVE

[RLINESf v

LOS ANGELES PD DETERMINE WHAT INTEREST IT

HAS i r ^ H ^ ^ | H H H A K A AND WHAT CONNECTIONS SHE HAS

TO INSTANT CASE.

END •

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FBI OKLA CT

920PM IMMEDIATE ^ 1 3 - 6 8 . LLD

TO DIRECTOR, FBI DALLAS, DETROIT, LOS ANGELES, AND

PHOENIX.

FROM OKLAHOMA CITY ( 8 9 - 6 4 ) - P - I I P

, •

KERSALT.

RE PHOENIX TELETYPE DATED JUNE ONE THREE INSTANT.

OH JUNE ONE THREE INSTANT,•

H L H L H ^ H H H P WILBURT0N' OKLAHOMA, A&VISED THATBEGINNING IN OCTOBER FIFTYNINE, HE

CALIFORNIA,]

DURING THIS PERIOD HE WORKED VITH A

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. DURING

THIS TIN

HE STATED THAT III PHOENIX,

ARIZ. SHORTLY AFTErf THE ASSASSINATION OF ROBERT KENNEDY, HE

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OC 8 9 - 6 4 .

SAW A PICTURE OF THE ALLEGED ASSASSIN ON TELEVISION AND

STATED IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS V1FE AND MOTHER AND FATHER-

IN-LAW THE FACE LOOKED FAMILIAR TO HIM. HE BELIEVED HE HAD

SEER THIS INDIVIDUAL AROUND EITHER PASADENA CITY COLLEGE

OR PASADENA HIGH SCHOOL WHILE ATTENDING SCHOOL IN PASADENA.

HE DID NOT AND STILL DOES NOT RECOGNIZE THE NAME SIRHAHN

SIRHAHN. IT WAS HIS OPINION THAT OF ALL THE ORGANIZATIONS

AT PASADENA CITY COLLEGE, THE BEST POSSIBLE SOURCE OF AN

ASSASSIflATION ATTEMPT WOULD COME'FROM THE ARAB STUDENT

HE ADVISED

ASADENA CITY COLLEGE

WIGHT HAVE~~nURE DETAILS CONCERNING SUCH INDIVIDUALS\ I

AND OR ORGANIZATIONS. F

;TATED THAT THE ONLY TIME HE HAD BEEN IN LOS

ANGELES, C A L I F . , IN THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS WAS ON

MONDAY, MAY TWENTYSEVEN L A S T . ON MAY TWENTY LAST, HE HAD

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PICKED (P A CADILLAC AUTOMOBILE IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN

FROM THEiîîîîîîîîîîî^KOMPANY FOR DELIVERY

SAN GABRIEL,

CALIFORNIA. • HE STATED THAT HE HAD DRIVEN THIS AUTOMOBILE

FROM DETROIT TO PHOENIX AND ON MAY TWENTY SEVEN LAST FROM

PHOENIX TO SOUTH SAN GABRIEL, CALIFORNIA. HE RECALLED

THIS DATE BECAUSE THIS WAS THE LAST DAY ON HIS CONTRACT

TO DELIVER THE AUTOMOBILE. HE ARRIVED AT THE AUTOMOBILE

OFFICE AT APPROXIMATELY TWO TEN P.M. WHERE HE TURNED. IN

THE CAR, RECEIVED A CASHIERS CHECK ON THE BANK OF AMERICA

FOR APPROXIMATELY

TOOK A BUS TO LOS

ANGELES, CALIF. IN LOS ANGELES, HE WENT TO THE OFFICE OF

H ^ m ^ m H H H H H H H B W H E R £ HE ARRIVED ATAPPROXIMATELY THREE TO THREE FIFTEEN PM. EH TALKED WITH

P ^ ^ ^ H B p O N C E R N I N G A POSSIBLE TRIP OF HIS BACK TO

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OC 6 9 - 6 4 .

LEBANON CAUSED BY HIS FATHER'S ILLNESS AND DEPARTED AT

APPROXIMATELY FOUR THIRTY PH. HE WALKED SEVERAL BLOCKS' • 1

TO; THE GREYHOUND BUS DEPOT WHERE HE PURCHASED A TICKET

TO PHOENIX, ARIZ, AND DEPARTED ON THIS BUS TO PHOENIX AT

APPROXIMATELY SEVEN TEN PM THAT DATE. 0 H H H B HE

HAD NOT BEEN BACK TO LOS ANGELES, CALIF. SINCE THAT TINE

FOR ANY REASON. HE STATED HE HAD NOT SEEN NOR TALKED WITHfill- Alf/oTHER PERSON ON THAT OCCASION IN LOS ANGELES, AND THAT

HE HAS NO FRIENDS OR ACQUAINTANCES CURRENTLY LIVING I B

THE LOS ANGELES AREA WITH WHOM HE HAS VISITED RECENTLY

OR WITH WHOM HE CORRESPONDS.

I H H H B H J R N I S H E D A TUBE WITH A PRESCRIPTION ON

IT VHICH INDICATED IT HAD BEEN ISSUED

TELEPHONE NUMBER

JUKE THREE LAST, PRESCRIPTION NUMBER]

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WITH PHARMACIST'S I N I T I A L S H ^ ^ ^ ^ H ^ M S T A T E D THAT

THIS WAS A HEDICINE PRESCRIPTION TO HIM FOR A SEVERE SUN

BURN HE HAD GOTTEH BY SLEEPING IN THE SUN IH PHOENIX,

ARIZ. HE SAID THAT WHEN HE ORI6INALLY OBSERVED THE PHOTOGRAPH

OF THE ASSASSIN ON TELEVISION, HE HAD CONSIDERED

CONTACTING THE FBI, BUT HIS WIFE HAD PERSUADED KIM NOT TO

BECAUSE OF THE SEVERE SUN BURN AND BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN

IOULD NOT LOCATE HIS TICKET FROM LOS

ANGELES TO PHENIX BUT DID PRODUCE A CONTRACT WITH

[TO DELIVER A CADILLAC TO

SOUTH SAN GABRIEL, CALIF.

THIS CONTRACT INDICATED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS PICKED UP ON

HAY TWENTY LAST IN DETROIT, MICH. AND WAS DUE ON HAY

TWENTYSEVEN LAST IN.SOUTH SAN GABRIEL. THIS FORM

END PAGE FIVE.

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OC 8 9 - 6 4 .

INDICATED THAT AFTER HIS ARRIVAL I B SOUTH SAN GABRIEL,

HE COULD BE REACHED IN CARE OF.

VAN NUYS, BOULEVARD, VAN BUYS, CALIF.

STATED HE DID NOT EVEN KNOW I F J I ^ H B F T I L L RESIDED AT THAT

ADDRESS OR NOT; THAT HE HAD NOT CONTACTED HER AND THAT HE

ONLY USED HER HAKE B E C A U s / l T WAS REQUIRED ON THE CONTRACT

Or- TO HAVE A CONTACT POINT IN CALIF.

AFTER HIS RETURN TO PHOENIX, HE OBTAINED A COPY OF HIS

MARRIAGE LICENSE ON MAY THIRTY ONE LAST AND TALKED WITH

POSSIBLE TRIP BACK TO LEBANON*

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PROVIDED A COPY OF A REISSUED GREYHOUND

BUS COMPANY TICKET DATED JUNE NINE LAST NUMBER ZERO S I X

SIX FIVE SIX FIVE THREE FOR TRAVEL FROM DALLAS, TEXAS TO

VILBURTON, OKLA., IN THE AMOUNT OF FOURTY THREE DOLLARS.

THIS TICKET VAS MARKED AS A REISSUE. f H H ^ | s T A T £ D

IT WAS THE ONLY BUS TICKET REMAINING IN HIS POSSESSION

FOR ANY OF HIS TRAVELS FROM LOS ANGELES TO PHOENIX AND

FROM PHOENIX TO VILBURTON, OXLA.

I ^ ^ ^ ^ D E N I E D THAT HE HAD EVER MADE ANY COMMENTS

CONCERNING THE POSSIBLE ASSASSINATION OF VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY OR

ANYONE a S E . STATED HE HAD NEVER COMMENTED ABOUT TALKIk/WITH

ANYONE IN LOS ANGELES ABOUT ANY ASSASSINATION. HE STATED THAT

WHEN FIRST MARRIED, H ^ l ^ f l ^ ^ l H ^ A D NOTIFIED THE FBI IN

PHOENIX THAT HE UASJ

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[HE WAS RUNNING HIS

)ETROIT, MICHIGAN, PRIOR TO H I S

DEPARTURE MAY OF THIS YEAR.

HHk^BADVisED J

T H A T MHHHIHBLHBHiCURRENT LOCATION UNKNOWN, A NATURAL BORN AMERICAN CITIZEN,

HAD PREVIOUSLY]

> HE STATED HE HAD APPLIED TO THE FBI FOR A POSITION '

AS TRANSLATOR IN DALLAS, T E X . , ON ONE OCCASION, BUT

HAD NOT BEEN HIRED BECAUSE HE WAS IN THE COUNTRY ON A STUDENT

VISA. '•

M M H H B T H A T WHILE IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN,

HE ~~

ITATED HE WOULD COOPERATE WITH THE FBI IN

ANY MANNER POSSIBLE AND I F DESIRED, HE MIGHT BE ABLE TO

END PAGE EIGHT - .

if

IPAGE MINE - v \- ' . •

OC 6 9 - 6 4 <

PROVIDE HELPFUL INFORMATION IN THIS HATTER I F HE COULDi

REVIEW HIS OLD REPORT! _

NO RECORD ^ I ^ I ^ B B O C INDICES.

FILES•NROLLED JUNE TEN LAST WHICH US ONE WEEK PAST

BEGINNING OF CLASSES. HE GAVE REASON FOR LATE ENROLLMENT

AS LACK OF FUNDS BECAUSE OF DELAY IN RECEIVING CHECK FROM

OVERSEAS. HE HAD PREVIOUSLY APPLIED TO-ATTEND THE COLLEGE

TEN YEARS AGO BUT COULD MOT LEAVE HIS COUNTRY AT THAT TINE

BECAUSE OF A REVOLUTION. HE PLANS TO ENROLL AS A FULL-

TIME STUDENT IN THE FALL SEMESTER. HIS HOME ADDRESS VAS

GAVER AS

ADMINISTRATIVEt OKLA. CITY SECRET SERVICE, AT CAMELOT INN, TULSA,

OKLA., ADVISED ALL INFORMATION BY TELEPHONE THIS DATE.

DALLAS: AT DALLAS, TEXAS.* REVIEW ALL RECORDS CONCERNING

I P P L I C A T I O N FOR A POSITION AS TRANSLATOR AND

CONDUCT LOCAL AGENCY CHECKS.

END PAGE NINE. •

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o1 PAGE TEN

OC 8 9 - M

DETROITl AT DETROIT, MICHIGAN.t CONDUCT INVESTIGATION

TO DETERMINE BACKGROUND AND REPUTATION OF

LOS ANGELES: AT LOS ANGELES, CALIF.t CONTACT § • § ^fc/"*

H H H I H H H i H H H I I i ^ B 7 0 OBTAIN BACKGROUND

INFORMATION AND REPORTS SUBMITTED TO HIM B Y M ^ H ^ ^ h V E R I F Y

DATE AND KIND OF LAST VISIT VI

LOS ANGELES* AT SOUTH SAN GABRIEL.t VERIFY DATE AND TIME

OF DELIVERY OF CADILLAC AUTOMOBILE TO

LOS ANGELESS AT PASADENA, CALIF.I IF APPROPRIATE, CONTACT

PASADENA CITY COLLEGE,

H H H FOR ANY INFOR

NATION CONCERNING SIRHAHN S I R H A H N , 0 H H H | £ N D OTHER

POSSIBLE ORGANIZATIONS OR PERSONS INVOLVED IN KENNEDY

END PAGE TEN

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j ASSASSINATION.

LOS ANGELESt AT VAN NUYS, CALIF.t INTERVIEW

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AND ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING KENNEDY'S ASSASSINATION.

PHOENlXt AT PHOENIX* ARIZ.t ONE. REVIEW FILES FOR

BACKGROUND INFORMATION O N m ^ ^

TWO. R E I N T E R V l E W m m i H ^ ^ b N C E R N I N G THE

CONFLICTS IN DATES C ^ H H I B ^ ^ ' I S I T TO LOS ANGELES.

THREE. REINTERVIEtf £ H | Q H | c O N C E F ! N I N G STATEMENTS

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FOUR. VERIFY DETAILS CONCERNING WHO OBTAINED PRE-

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JUNE THREE LAST, PRESCRIPTION NUMBER

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INSTANT DATE ^

^PHOENIX* ARIZONA, WAS INTERVIEWED AT HER

PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT* ^ ^ ^ ^ H PHOENIX, AT HER REQUEST. SHE

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• ON SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY WHILE

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PURPOSES OF THIS ORDER'AND PHILOSOPHY EXPOUNDED, **• :

.";• LOS ANGELES, IF NOT ALREADY.DONE, IMMEDIATELY SET FORTH

LEAD TO HAVE ^ H H H i H l H H k CALIFORNIA, CONTACTED

FOR ANY INFORMATION SHE MAY BE ABLE TO FURNISH CORCERNING / v' •• . . . . . • • • , - • • , • - .

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ORDERS OF CALIFORNIA, I N C . , NO. TWO TWO FOUR ONE EIGHT THREE EIGHT,

,IN THE AMOUNT OF SIXTEEN DOLLARS, FOR BACK DUES. A SECOND

MONEY ORDER WAS RECEIVED ON MARCH TWENTY S I X , SIXTY EIGHT, FROM THE

SAME COMPANY, NO. TWO THREE ONE THREE FOUR NAUGHT NINE, IN THE AMOUNT OF

TWENTY DOLLARS, ALSO FOR DUES. DUES ARE FOUR DOLLARS PER MONTH. . . ;

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RECEIPT OF THE ABOVE DUES MADE SIRHAN AN ACTIVE

MEMBER OF THE ORDER* AND HE NOW RECEIVES ALL LITERATURE AND MAGAZINES

FROM THIS ORGANIZATION.

iDVISED THAT TO THE BEST OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE .

AND FROM TALKING TO OTHERS IN THE ORGANIZATION IN SAN JOSE* SIRHAN WAS

NOT AFFILIATED WITH A LODGE IN PASADENA. THEY ADVISED HE MAY HAVE

VISITED THE PASADENA LODGE. THEY ADVISED ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ B OF

CALIFORNIA, PHO*

COULD FURNISH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONCERNING HIS CONTACTS IN THE

PASADENA AREA. -

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AND HAS NO ASSOCIATION WITH SIRHAN.

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CALIFORNIA. INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO THE BUREAU INDICATES "~; !

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ROSICRUCIAN ORDER.

,ROSICRUCIAN PARK, SAN JOSE, C A L I F . , FURNISHED ON JUNE TWELVE, LAST,

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:' , '

THIS ORGANIZATION I S A WORLD-WIDE FRATERNAL ORGANIZATION

ESTABLISHED AND OPERATING ON A LODGE SYSTEM. IT I S NONSECTARIAN,

IS NOT A RELIGION ALTHOUGH THE ETHICS OF THE ORDER ADHERE TO THE

PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIANITY. THE TEACHINGS OF THE ORGANIZATION DO

NOT INTERFERE WITH THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM OF ITS MEMBERS.

ANY LAW-ABIDING CITIZEN OVER TWENTY ONE OF GOOD REPUTE AND

HAVING A FIRM CONVICTION IN A SUPREME BEING I S ELIGIBLE FOR MEMBER-

SHIP IN THE GRAND LODGE OF THE ROSICRUCIAN ORDER. A CROSS SECTION

OF ALL CLASSES OF PEOPLE ARE MEMBERS, INCLUDING MANUAL LABORERS," • • - ' /

BUSINESSMEN, DIRECTOR OF INDUSTRIES, PHYSICIAN, ATTORNEYS, SCIENTISTS,

ARTISTS, EDITORS, EDUCATORS, AND AUTHORS. THE ORDER I S NONPOLITICAL

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AMD I S NOT ALIGNED OH ASSOCIATED VITH ANY GROUP HAVING POLITICAL

ACTIVITIES. THE ROSICRUCIAN OATH OF WEKBERSH1E I S AS FOLLOWS*

•THAT I WILL HONOR AHD RESPECT THE FLAG OF HY COUNTRY AND THE

COUNTRY IN WHICH I LIVE; THAT I MILL NEVER BE GUILTY OF TREASON}

THAT I VILL BE A GOOD AND USEFUL CITIZEN CONTRIBUTING TO THE ADVANCE-

MENT AND WELFARE OF THE COUNTRY IN WHICH I ENJOY THE PRIVILEGE OF

BEING A RESIDENT*"• • • • . i

' THE ORDER TRACES I T S ORIGIN TO THE MYSTERY SCHOOLS OR SECRET

SCHOOLS OF LEARNING ESTABLISHED IN EGYPT ABOUT FIFTEEN HUNDRED

B . C . DETAILED HISTORY OF ORDER REPORTEDLY SET FORTH IN ENCYCLO-

PEDIA BRITTANICA, FOURTEENTH EDITION (NEW STANDARD ENCYCLOPEDIA),

AND IN BOOK ENTITLED "ROSICRUCIAN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS VITH

COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ORDER," BY DR. H . SPENCER LEWIS, WHICH I S

AVAILABLE IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES. .

ORDER HAS LODGES AT LOS ANGELES, LONG BEACH, WHITTIER, SAN

FERNANDO, PASADENA, AND POMONA, CALIFORNIA. POMONA LODGE HAS BEEN

SOMEWHAT INACTIVE AND POSSIBLY RECENTLY DISSOLVED. fl|^H||Hftt

fALIF., SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REPRESENTATIVE,

HAT SIRHAN SIGNED VISITORS' LIST IN CONNECTION WITH

ATTENDANCE AT LODGE MEETING ON ONE OCCASION AS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED.

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APPROXIMATELY NINETY THOUSAND, OF WHICH NUMBER APPROXIMATELY •';'•

I FORTYFIVE THOUSAND ARE I I THE UNITED STATES. WHILE NO RECORDS ARE

I MAINTAINED WHICH WOULD INDICATE STATUS OR PROFESSION OF INDIVIDUALS

I MEMBERS, SINCE MEMBERSHIP NOT PREDICATED ON PROFESSIONAL OR ECONO-

. [^MICAL STATUS, I T I S ^ 1 ^ R E C O L L E C T I O N THAT MEMBERS OF CONGRESSHAVE IN PAST BEEN MEMBERS OF AMORC. HE~ STATED THAT THE ORDER WOULD

IMMEDIATELY OUST ANY MEMBER CHARGED WITH COMMISSION OF FELONY OR "t

..;. GUILTY'OF SERIOUS BREACH OF MORAL ETHICS. - > :•'•,_ -':. . ^ . J ^

;: LHM SUBMITTED WITH AIRTEL TRANSMITTING SIRHAN'S ORIGINAL

APPLICATION TO FBI LAB. ; ^

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AUGUST, S I X S I X WHltf RIHGLISG SHOW^ WAS PLAYING AT LOS ANGELES

IMPLOYED Q i ^ f l B B w i T H SHOW AS A BUTCHERBROUGHT A YOUJTC MAN TO HIM WHO APPEARED T O . B E OF LEBANESE

: " - ^ ' - i ••••'. : • • t . / - ' • • • • . - • • " • ; . • • ' • - , * • • . " . . ' - • • - . . - . - • - : . - ' : - " • • ' . . - - • • - • ; • "

EXTRACTION, SLENDER BUILD, FIVE FEET FIVE INCHES, FOR *

•EMPLOYMENT WITH THE' SHOW, .A/BUTCHEJT I S A CIRCUS EMPLOYEE , .

SELLS CONCESSIONS DURING,THE PERFORMANCE. THE INDIVIDUAL

BROUGHT TO H I M " B 1 | ^ ^ ^ K . T A S HIRED AS A BUTCHER AT LOS

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APPEARED AT tHERINGLIMG CIRCUS.LOT IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS , AND

REQUESTED EMPLOYMENT OF ^ ^ ^ B AS BUTCHER WITH SHOV,|

: DETERMINED THAT THJS INDIVIDUAL HAD STOLEN A WATCH FROM, .

ANOTHER CIRCUS EMPLOYEE AND HE WAS NOT HIRED. B S f c HAS -

. SEEN PHOTOGRAPHS IN NEWSPAPER OF SIRHAN BISKARA SIRHAN WHO* '• i " • i • t , . * - • - • • • I . . . . •

-, T T * - ' ' . " . "^ ' . r • V - - , ' " " ' " - ; ' . » • ' " , * * ; - . - '

.^XILLED SENATOR KENNEDY'AND ALTHOUGH HE CANNOT BE CERTAIN/" 1

r:VHE FEELS THAT AFOREMENTIONED INDIVIDUAL BROUGHT TO HIM FOR :

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" ET1PLOYMENT B Y ^ ^ ^ B l S IDENTICAL TO SIRHAN

HAVE SUFFICIENT^CONTACT WITH THIS INDIVIDUAL IN ONE

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ASSOCIATIONS OR. TO OBTAIN INFO RE HIS BACKGROUND.!

ADVISED THAT AS THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS ONLY HIRED ON ONE - :

OCCASION FOR ONE DAY THERE WOULD BE NO RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT

OF, HIM WITH RINGLING BROTHERS -CIRCUS STATED,THAT

FROM TOLEDO, OHIO, AND HE LAST SAW THIS

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DOES NOT KNOW WHETHER • • • WAS EMPLOYED BY *THE " . .

SPECTRUM OR I S TRA ELIHG WITH RIKGLING SHOW WHICH I S NOW

SHOWING AT JOHKSTOWN, > A v ;:V; / M ; ^ ; , . } ; , : '[.' > ; . ' / "••""• ;

• PHILADELPHIA CONTACT SPECTRUM OFFICIALS AND CHECK

RECORDS FORVINFO l i ^ H H H ^ N D PITTSBURGH ATTEMPT TO

L O C A T H H ^ V O R INTERVIEW AT CIRCUS AT JOHNSTOWN, PA.

••;•" -AIRMAIL COPY BEING SENT CLEVELAND WHERE CREDIT AND

ARREST SHOULD BE MADE AT TOLEDO, OHH), R E ^ B B IN EFFORT

T O L O C A T E . ''"'• ' ' . ' • • . : . '. "' • " - . • • • ' . . '* • . • • ' • • - . - . - . . .

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LLOYD EVERETT i?HtfER, RACE HORSE OWNER AND TRAINER, INTERVIEWED

AT RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA >HIS DATE AND DENIES ANY KNOWLEDGE OF SIRHAN

SIRHAN. HOWEVER, AM EXERCISE BOY WHO RESEM3LED SIRHAN WAS A FRIEND

OF HIS JOCKEY, GILBERT /NoDACA AND GILBERT'S YOUNSSS BROTHER, PHILIP

JDACA, WHO ARE MEXICAN, AND THE U.VKNOWN PERSON ALSO SPOKE SPANISH

AND*i7AS BELIEVED TO BS A MEXICAN. H£ ADVISED THAT HE HAS NOT S'iSN THE

UNKNOWN EXERCISE BOY IN ABOUT TWO MONTHS, BUT THAT HE WAS AHOUND THE

GOLDEN GATE FIELDS TRACK FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE MEET WHICH VAS MARCH

FOUR TO ABOUT KAY FOUR, NINETEEN SIXTY-EIGHT, OR ABOUT TWO MONTHS.

HE ADVISED THAT THIS UNKNOWN EXERCISE BOY NAD A VERY SHORT HAIR CUT,

ALMOST A >fBALDY", BUT IS P05SI3LE THAT HIS HAIR COULD HAVE GROWN

LONGER DURING THE TWO MONTHS SUNCE HE HAS SEEN HIM. HE ADVISED THAT THE

APODACAS ARE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW AT BARN NUMBER TWENTY-ONE, GOLDEN

GATE FIELDS RACE TRACK, ALBANY, CALIFORNIA, FROM SEVEN AM TO NINE

THIRTY AM. FD THREE ZERO TWOS FOLLOW-

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IT IS REQUESTED THAT LOS ANGELES IMKEIDATELY ADVISE IF SIRHAN'SJI WHEREABOUTS FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH AND APRIL ARE KNOWN. THE LEADS TO

' INTERVIEW THE APODACAS WILL BE HELD IN ABEYANCE. SUTEL*

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IS AN aDERLY RETIRED PAINTER WHO I

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«*.. WHEN OBSERVING PHOTOGRAPHS OF SIRHAN IN NEWSPAPERS AND

TELEVISION AFTER THE ASSAULT OF ROBERT F . KENNEDY, PETERS DID

NOT CONNECT SIRHAN AS INDIVIDUAL HE KNEW AS SAUL. PETERS

TO FURNISH ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING ANY STATEMENTS flfcDE BY"

SIRHAN CONCERNING RELIGIOUS OR POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. PETERS

UNAWARE OF ANY ASSOCIATES OR ORGANIZATIONS SIRHAN HAY HAVE BEEN

CONNECTED WITH. PETERS FOUND SIRKAN TO BE A VERY QUIET/ ' '

COURTEOUS INDIVIDUAL AND AN EMPLOYEE WHO KEPT HIMSELF BUSY. .;.IT VAS PETERS UNDERSTANDING THAT SIRHAN LEFT EMPLOY OF

WEIDNER TO ATTEND SCHOOL FULL TIME. ' IT VAS BELIEVED THAT SIRHAN

HAD RECEIVED A SETTLEMENT FROM AN ACCIDENT LITIGATION AT THE TIMEBF HIS RESIGNATION. ^ ' ; \ : ,

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NEW YORK *44-1640), AND PHILADELPHIA ' / , PLAINTEXT

i '. : LOS ANGELES VIA WASHINGTOLKAFROM NEWARK (44-872* .

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K E N S A L T * - , : • • - • > - ' : . :.:• - ! . : - : < • • - • • • • . . . > • • • ; . ' . • . • - : - . : : > . • - ; • • - • ; . / • -. • - - - . • , - , - , • - , • . - .

XM . *RE LA TEL TO BU AND NEWARK, JUNE ELEVEN L A S T , " •

RE BURMINGHAM TEL TO B U , JUNE TWELVE LAST., . ; , . -., '•

U ; '•'*" FOR' INFORMATION OF NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA : " * -

SIRHAN SIRHAN WORKED AT GRAWJA VISTA DEL KTO FAPWS. ;

RIVERSIDE C O . , FROM JUNE TWO, SIXTY S I X , TO DECEMBER' . / •*- .

TEN, SIXTY S I X AS EXERCISE BOY WITH THOROUGHBRED H O R S E S . ,

'THE TRAINEG WAS A FRANK. DONNARUMflA. •. IKFO FROM THE FARM AND

FROM OTHER SOURCES INDICATED THAT D0NNARU1WA WAS FAIRLY WELL -'- ' " • " - • ' • . . . . " • > • . • . • • • " > ,

ACGUAISTED WITH SIRHAN. ONE PERSON ADVISED THEY BELIEVED SIRKAN

LIVED PARTUTIME WITH DOHNARUMMA AND H I S W I F E , ."r'"'./.'-/.;. t :. . ; . .

, BERT A L T F l V l S C H , MAKAGER.OF FARWS, STATED DONNARUMMA".. . ••;=

III II III III |l I , Ihil'l'l'JIIIIIIlllliilil,^ B j j j B i ABOUT THREE

BOMTHS AGO, HE RECEIVED LONG DISTANCE CALL,FROM DONNARUMMA. "• .' * • - . : • • . . ' • • • • • • - ; . ' ' • . • • - - • - ' • • - , . = ; • • • - - . • . : - • • - • . : - . :

HE STATED.HE «AS INQUIRING ABOUT TRAINERS JOBS, BUT WAS ; V

PRESENTLY LIVING AND WORKING IN EITHER NEWARK OR WEST HEW - '

J7.yi«kf" NEW JERSEY. HE CLAIMED HE WAS.

'.. . / ; . ' . ' - • • • ! T . ?.- • - ".'. '1 • ' - > « i • * • - - - <•

HANUFACTURWQCO. ALTFILLISCH SAID THAT DONRARUWAWS ^

EFT RIVERSIDE AMD IS PROBABLY • •:,,

THE SKVE SITUATIOB IN THE NEWARK AREA^ '':-"- ->:v : " . ; , .

RECORDS, I

BE WHITE MALE, BOBS

FEET SIX INCHES, ONE THREE.ZERO POUNDS, BLACK HAIR,SOLUS EVES,

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STATE OF ,NEtf J E R S E Y i ^ y ^ ^ / p f ^^ ';^y y<~rff? ?. ^\'.-/:}j;'; ,'•;< ''"'/'•_ '';•.' iK--'- 1

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fJS,EXHIBITED^ liiym:AND SHr REPLiEp THAT'"SHE WAV»EVER SEE* 'C

HIM NOR DID HE LIVE AT THIS ADDRESS, ^ ^ ^ i ^ ^ i ' - j l .•}.}.':i

^ 'HEVARK INDICES REFLECT T H A T H B ^ B ^ ^ H ^ I N .NIKETEEN 'W.-s/'"-:-1- **••-'--*« v .^-4-v^; , ' ^ • • ^ . . J - ^ f ^ ' f . ? • • • •••V/--:L.

,/JFTY.'EIGHT'«O\KE!

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THIS

. - ; - • ' - ' - ' • -

INJ, A\VISED THAT ON MAY SIXTEEN, OR

SEVENTEEN, SHE WAS A MEMBER OF A TOUR, NAME NOT RECALLED,: • > . . • • - ' , . ' . ' - " • • - . . . - . " . • . • ' . ' _ • . • • . - ' • • *

IN JERUSALEM AND WHILE IN THE JORDANIAN SECTION AN'/, -i /

"J-" UNKNOWN ARAB WALE'TOLD THEM THAT SENATOR ROBERT, KENNEDY . /

; y... HAD BEEN SHOT. ^ m i ^ m S A I D THE MAN GAVE NO FURTHER .'

.-;/•:" DETAILS AND VAS NOT SEEN AGAIN. SHE SUPPOSED IT TO BE A

I,; j. HOAX AND LATER AFTER SENATOR KENNEDY WAS SHOT DECIDED TO UOTIFY

•/."•., AUTHORITIES OF THE\ABOVE. ^ ' '*'*'^:.:. ~- - ;^ : ...; -"'-. •"'.

\\ HOLLY, NJ.t ADVISED SHE\VIAS ON THE B^ TOUR IN JERUSALEM

. . v-.

.DURING MAY, NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT, BUT AT NO TI ME HEARD THEIR •;/.-••

GUIDE OR ANY OTHER PERSON MENTION THAT SENATOR KENNEDY HAD. BEEN SHOT.

'-".,.; NEW YORK, AT BROOKLYN, NY,;WILL INTERVII

AND DETERMINE IF

IS KNOWN JO HIM.;^:

PHILADELPHIA, AT PHILADELPHIA, VILL INTERVJJ

"* CONCERNING ^.-s;l^V-

THE ABDVE LEADS IN AN EFFORT TO

-** •••". LOCATE AND INTERVIEW OKCERNING SIRHAN

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FBI LOS ANGELES ; • 1

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SAC, LOS ANGELES C56-15$>

SAC, PHOENIX C175-i?>

FROMt SAC, DETROIT (62-4177> ' :

K E N S A L T r ; . :v - ' ; ; " , " ; * : \ \ y . •' %/', ) : " " • ' • ' • • ' , . " • ' - v

RETEL JUNE THIRTEEN INSTANT FROM PHOENIX TO DIRECTOR,

DETROIT, LOS ANGELES AND OKLAHOMA CITY. V /

LOS ANGELES REFER* TO URFILES

AND

PHOENIX RZFZR TO URFILE FORTY SEVEN DASH ONE SIX EIGHT NINE.

DETROIT

POSSIBLE UFAP, WAS CLOSED IN DECEMBER,

SIXTY SEVEIT, AFTER BUREAU ADVISED THAT FUGITIVE INDICES,

RECORDS OF NCIC AND IDENTIFICATION DIVISION FAILED TO SHOW

SUBJECT WAS BUREAU FUGITIVE OR WANTED LOCALLY.

' \ ONLY OTHER PERTINENT RECORD DETROIT INDICES SHOW£

INTER VIEWED!

DETROIT, AS POSSIBLE VICTIMS IN• ' • • • I - ' . ' • • • • -••" '

POSSIBLE FRAUD - I T S P .CASE ENTITLED UNSUB, AfCA

THIS CASE CLOSED IN JUNE, SIXTY SEVEN, WITHOUT EVIDENCE OF ITSP

SOHAUffD I £*IUDJUNi ^

ANGELES

TO DIRECTOR, LOS

FROWST. LOUIS ( 4 4 - 7 8 2 )

E L E S ^ ^

82) 1 ^ > '

RE ST. LOUIS TELS JUNE SIX AND JUNE

IDENTIFY PICTURE OF

AMD

ST.LOUIS UNIVERSITY STUDENT AS INDIVIDUAL THEY K>^W. THEY ARE

UNDECIDED DUE TO POOR TTUALITY OF PICTURE; BUREAU REQUESTED

TO ADVISE IF AUTHORITY GRANTED TO LOCATE AND INTERVIEW >

0 ESTABLISH IDENTITY AND CLARIFY CIRCUMSTANCES

REPORTED BYi

END

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ON JUNE TWELFTH, KIWETEE8 SIXTY EIGHT, MRS, FRANCES -J'••••-,/

ESCONDIDO,' CALIFORNI/v/;

t i , . \ ADVISES THAT SHE I S SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRAND COUNSELLOR

; OF THE R O S V R U C I A N ORDER, ALSO KKOWS AS A>^1ENT MYSTICAL ' «• i'-3ORDER ROSAE CRUCIS <A«ORCJ* SHE SAID STATE AffD INTERNATIONAL"v-"''

; : : ; HEADQUARTERS OF: AMORC-HAVE DESIGNATED KER TO HANDLE. ANY. '^%';î ':~\x'-*:^Sl;.\, . 'ÎNQUIRIES. CONCERNING S IRK AN .SIRHAS' S. "MEMBERSHIP IN" AMORC^" ":'T^>;'}.; j

..'"X"' ^ WHICH i V A CpRREWplJDJHQîiEWBERSHiP."'AliD'^ i

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• HOLLAND SAID THE. SAB JOSE OFFICE MAINTAINS A COMPLETE

1FILE OF CORRESPONDENCE WITH ALL MEMBERS WHICH FILE CONTAISS.

;;.. .. MEMBER'S* ORIGINAL APPLICATIOB FORM. SHE UNDERSTANDS THAT' .;

FBI AGENTS AT'SAM JOSE WERE PERMITTED TO REVIEW SIRHA ITS ?\

AND WERE GIVE A DUPLICATEDrpOPY.OF HIS APPLICATIOB / , J - f:

\\\

AHORC HAS LOCAL LODGES A»D CHAPTERS TO WHICH SOME

MEMBERS BELONG*, ALTHOUGH MEMBERSHIP IS A LOCAL GROUP IS7i/-'.'

NOT REQUIRED. MRS. HOLLAND SAID SHE HAS CHECXED AND /•;,.';

DETERMINED THAT SIRHAH WAS SOT A WEM3ER OF "THE PASADEN.A '; -

CHAPTER OR ANY OTHER LODGE, OR CHAPTER. HE DID, HOWEVER,' "'..

ONCE, AND ONLY ONCE, VISIT ONE^OF THESE SUBORDINATE BODIES.

HE ATTENDED THE WEEKLY MEETING OF THE PASADENA CHAPTER OH.;. . - • . - ' • • - • - . . • • : • • ' • ' • - ' - . , v - - ' \ - ; ' • • . , ! • * . . • : • ; • " • . - ; . . " • - * . . • • . ; . , " • . - • ; ' : :

EIGHT. MRS/'.' ;.;

V

THE EVENING OF JUNE FOUR, NINETEEN SIXTY

:-, . i l HOLLAND MADE AVAILABLE A PAGE. OF.THE.GUEST REGISTER OF

SIGNING I K , SIRHAN SHOWED HE WAS FIRST DEGREE. MRS

SAID THAT T H I S I S A BEGINNER'S DEGREE WHICH WOULD ~

MEMBERSHIP OF L E S ? THAR ONE! .YEAR^.;;-^'-;.''-!'•,i ••&;'-...•-.;

AMORC HAS NO FULL TIME HALL IN PASADENA. THE CHAPTER

EVERY TUESDAY NIGHT; MASTER OF THE CHAPTER I S |

OS ANGELES, •'

TELEPHONE NUgEER^

MRS. HOLLANDSAID SHE WILL CALLJ

OJJ EVENING; OF JULY TWELFTH, NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT, TO INSTRUCT •

THEM'T0 COOPERATE IN ANSWERING INQUIRIES FROM THE FBI,. SHE :.

SAID.WIVES OF BOTH THESE INDIVIDUALS ARE UPSET WITH BAD • /

PUBLICITY GIVE AMORC IN THE PRESS ANDl

SHOULD BE CONTACTED BY TELEPHONETO^ARRANGE APPOINTMENT.

LOS ANGELES WILL HANDLE IHTERVIEWS OF

>OR INFORMATION CONCERNING SIRHAN'S VISIT. TO THE PASADENA "

CHAPTER BEFORE THE ASSAULT OF KENNEDY^^

P A G E T H R E E '_ - /•,••'. ••.••' : •': \-'..:'.'' '"•.:.;

SIX KINS SIX EAST HOWARD, PASADENA, AND REFLECTS THAT HE 18

A MEMBER OF AHORC, WITH MEMBERSHIP NUMBER EIGHT DASH FOUR ONE

' THREE DASH FOUR SEVEN SEVEN. ON DATE COLUMN OF THIS FORM, ,;> • • • . - - -

/; . SIRHAN ENTERED THE DATS APRIL SIXTEEN, NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT.

MRS. HOLLAND SAID ISIS IS AN ERROR AND SIRHAN PROBABLY USED

THIS DATE BECAUSE THE LAST PREVIOUS REGISTRATION WAS ON THAT

DATE. MRS. HOLLAND CONFIRMED BY TALKING TO THE SUPERVISOR

OF THE PASADENA CHAPTER THAT SIRHAN VISITED THAT CHAPTER -• : • • ; , • ; - • - ' A - . . < • • • •- . , . : • : • • • •

ON THE EVENING OF JUNE FOUR, NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT. OTIS },D* SUPERVISOR IS

^PASADENA, TELEPHONE NUMBER!

HOLLAND HE RECALLS

SIRHAN TELLING PEOPLE AT THE MEETING HOW TO PRONOUNCE HIS

NAME. H H U H p O K ^ * R SIRHAN AFTER THE MEETING BUTWAS UNABLE TO FIND HIM. : * '

• *

sr>P A G E F I V E • • • " • . - i • - / ^ / • • . • / • • . " . - / ' „ • ' . . ' ' ' : - . : V - ' " •

ORIOINAL VISITOR Slffil d SHEET TO LOS AHOELES VIA AIR

HAIL, TWO COPIES TO OrREAir VIA AIR MAIL. ; ;

P E N D I N 3 . •""•• •'. ".'• •• - V • - • . _ • • - • " ' • ' - ' • • ; • • • ' • ' • : • ' - . , - • > ' • •

• ; > • • • - ' . - . . - \

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TO LOS ANGELES C56-156) ,• CODE• - • • / ;

i " •• •

• - A

REMMTEL JUNE ELEVEN, LAST, AND LATEL JUNE TWELVE, LAST,

) '•' * REGARDING MEETING .OF" PEACE GROUP AT THREE EIGHT ZERO ZERO ;

L , AMES3URY, HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA, -I IF ADDITION TO LEADS * ,

OUTSTANDING RELATEL, LOS ANGELES WILL CONTACT ALL INFORMANTS

SOURCES PRESENT OR. WITH KNOWLEDGE OF MEETING ATTENDED BY

JOS_E_ DU/RTE.' PURPOSE OF INTERVIEW IS VERIFICATION .OF V••;"•- \__:..*'J

ALLEGATIONS MADE BY DUARTE. LOS ANGELES WILL ALSO INITIATE \; '

- INVESTIGATION TO IDENTIFY OTHER INDIVIDUALS IN ATTENDANCE AT

MEETING AND INTERVIEW TO RESOLVE WHETHER FACTS FURNISHED ARE '.

ACCURATE AND COMPLETE, AND WHETHER ARAB PRESENT WAS DEFINITELY

"SIRHAN B. SIRHAN, INTERVIEW SHOULD ESTABLISH IN DETAIL WHETHER

HE .ATTEMPTED TO STRIKE DUARTE AND THE SPECIFIC.COW/EBF WHICH

'WERE MADE WHICH DUARTE'DESCRIBED AS CRITICAL OF U.S. GOVERNMENT

AND PRO-CUBA* LOS ANGELES INVESTIGATION SHOULD. RESOLVE WHEH^R

;, THIS FUNCTION. ATTENDED BY DUARTE WAS AJ1EETING OF. THE

FREEDOM PFLRTY. THE FR?Z 'STUDENT

FULLY CHARACTERIZE SUCH

\

OR OTHER GROUP A

FBI LOST ANGELES

11-17.AM IMMEDIATE 6 / 7 / 6 8 CLV /..-.*

TO: SAC, LOS ANGELES C56-156) v• * ' - " • • • ' • - ' T • • • , • - , ' • / • • • " . ' -

-•I.,'. FROM: SAC, SACRAMENTO ( 6 2 - 7 6 ) - IP

A- - . : - : V V- ; / • / •

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\ ' h ; >. RELABEL TO .SACRAMENTO JUNE SIX LAST, REQUESTING INTERVIEW

'•* OF CEASAR C ? V E Z OF NATIONAL FARM WORKERS, DELANO, CALIFORSIAi" " ' ^ r . . - ' * • • • ' • • ' • • . • ' . • • •••' ' •••

Jl lQblRY AT DELAUQ REVEALED CHAVEZ WILL LEAVE LOS ABGELES ;

FLIGHT EIGHT AT TWELVE NOOS TODAY FOR NEW ' •>

YCRK TO ATTEND FUNERAL, HIS PRESENT EXACT WHEREABOUTS HOT'."

KNOWN NOR DID HE LEAVE1 FORWARDING ADDRESS FOR NEW YORK. : '* • - " • ~ • ' ' - - • • ? - • ' - • ' •

LOS ANGELES CONTACT CHAVEZ AT LOS ANGELES AIRPORT AND

INTERVIEW PER REQUEST" IN RETEL SINCE HIS VHEREA30UTS' FOR ' '

•...;.. NEXT SEVERAL DAYS'tflLLBE UNKNOWN

FBI LOS ANG

FBI SAN FRAN

10:53PM DEFERRED 6 / 7 / 6 8 JXR

TO: LOS ANGELES C56-156)

FROM: SAN FRANCISCO ( 6 2 - 5 0 8 1 )

KENSALT

ON INSTANT DAT~ vf lHH^^^HURCALISTOGA* CALIF., TELE-

PHONIC ALLY ADVISED T H A T J i H H H H i l l A G ^ S l J H 0 T £ L ' CALISTOGA, HAS

[POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED A PHOTOGRAPH OF SIRHAN SIRHAN AS IDENTICAL TO

REGISTERED AT HIS HOTEL IN SEPTEM3ER, SIXTY SEVEN.

[REGISTERED* HE GAVE HIS ADDRESS AS CO^SXRYSIDE HOTEL, LA

tANGE, ILLINOIS. WHILE IN CALISTOGA HE WAS EMPLOYED AT THE CO\ONIAL

CAFE AND WHEN HE DEPARTED HE GAVE FORWARDING ADDRESS O F |

HOLLYWOOD> CALIF.

DISCOUNTS IDENTIFICATION 0 | B ^ H | INASMUCH AS

CAFE W H E R ^ H ^ W A $ EMPLOYED^ SAID

HE IS NOT IDENTICAL TO SIRHAN.

LOS ANGELES ADVISE IF SIRHAN WAS OUT OF THE LOS ANGELES AREA

DURING SEPTEM3ER* SIXTY SEVEN. IF UNABLE TO DO THIS, CONDUCT APPRO-

iOLLYtfOOD, TOPRIATE INVESTIGATION AT

ASCERTAIN I ^ p l ^ IDENTICAL TO SIHHAN

END*

FBI LOS ANG

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3 * - : : -

BUREAU ADVISED^SUBJECT REQUESTED BOOKS "SECRET DOCTRINE**

AT THE rEET OF THE MASTER" BT -* "II_LJ ITIM n i l * - in - '-inrii i—11 • - nr uTmnrtiTi - ^ A i ' V>

C. wT EATER. THE BOOKS HOT AVAILABLE IN WDC. "SECRET

DOCTRINE'* PUBLISHED Bt TREOSOFRICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE, P. O.

BOX TWO SEVEN ZERO/VHEATOW/ ILLINOIS.- 'TALKSAT THE rEET OP

THE MASTER" APPARENTLT OUT 0T PRINT AND PUBLISHER UNKNOWN BUT

THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE tlSTED AS PUBLISlfER OF OTHER 3

LEADBEATER BOOKS. CHICAGO OBTAIN TWO COPIES EACH BOOK AND

O. NEV YORK AHD LOS ANGELES < TELElYlf:

?#'i^3i^ i'-,7RELATEL JUHE SIX LAST AND SCTEL JUNE^

SUSPECT OBSERVED BY PIERRE SALINGER AND' i

•••:<',.* . FOR INFORMATION NEW YORK^ SACRAMENTO ADVISES]

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. DAVIS,

ADVISED INSTANT DATE THAT WHEN SENATOR ROBERT XENNEDY SPOXE AT -^- = . ; ^ . • • " . . . . , • ' ' • - • - • - . ; . . . . . : - ' - , . - . - . . . . . . • , • • • • - . • . "

DAVID CAMPUS, HE HAD HAD TO REQUEST THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO ;

ORDER A.YOUNG MAN, AGE IS EARLY fvERTI£St DARK SXIN WITH ACHE,

BLACK WAVY HAIR, FIVE FEET SIX TO SEVEN, AWAY FROM THE HALL NEAR

STAGE WHERE KENNEDY VAS TO ^ I ^ INDIVIDUAL

APPEARED TO BE OF MIDDLE EASTERN EXTRACTION" AND SPOKE IN A SOFT; "

HE COULD NOT STAND CROWDS AND•V-'. •'•:•"•

VOICE. INDIVIDUAL TOLD

WOULD 60 TO AUDITORIUM WHEN KENNEDY APPEARED, INDIVIDUAL ORDEREDW':*'^'-'•?:*>'--i-: ;:i' •'•• "V •-•''•.:,s':.'^v-.-;;.-1.v-:-.;;Vs.". . . ' ^ ^ ' : ' , , ^ ^

OUT OF HALLWAY BY UNIVERSITY PQLICE OFFICER^

Iff LOS ANGELES TIRES CLOSELY RESEMBLES INDIVID DAf CONCERNED,j i \ > . • > • V • - " . • ' ; * i ~ : - * - - - m •• : • "*• • ^ • • ' • " ' • . . V ; " , ' = - ; » V - " ' " - . " A ; ; f " i ! ".• • ' • * - - ^ • l - J ^ i * * ; • . , : , • • -. - . .

,BUT WOULD HAVE TO SEE OTHER PHOTOS FOR POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION.^ J ^ ' . " - ' • ' • • • - . • - , " - - . : - • • . ; . > ' • i - • . • • " . ' : . - - . • • - • . • • : - • ; * . — . . ; . • . - . - • • . • . - . . ; • • . . . _

INDIVIDUAL VIEWED BY SALINGER AND HANKIEWICZ POSSIBLY,• •:'" • ' , ; - ' V - ' - * A - ••;• • • - . : - - - \ " i . • ' i > - . ..-.;•.:• -,-, / . : . ' . , . . '• .'j, ^'.- - . •..'.'_ •••

EXPEDITE^ V ^ ^ ; ^ X :-,T7>;, ,J/..;":'..'. •^/;;; i:,-,: ';;;<

IRMAIL COPY TO SACRAWENTO,r

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HEED CORRECTION > ' 4 \ V

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MMTHAT SHOULD BE

INCIDENT ETC':';'. .'£. ~ • . ' • • " . ' . . " - ' + .

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, SAC, LOS AKGELES

• £ ^ f " "FROM"SAC, SEATTLE < 8 9 - $ 2 U i PAGE:'.f ;;. H •l:':*• y-.C-i''"'• •'"' ;'>'.. .; '"" '/,'/•'• . .

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' • ; - ^ i - • • ' " / : • : . ' • > - - R E S E A T T L E T E L E T Y P E T O B U R E A U J U N E S I X S I X T Y - E I G H T ; •'•' - " V *i. ; ON^JUNE TEN SIXTY-EIGHT

BOEING COMPARY, SEATTLE, ADVISED THAT

THE

AND A COLLEAGUE^

SOEING, WERE ENGAGED IN MAKING

A SURVEY OF UNITED ARA3 AIRLINES' I B MAY NINETEEN S*IXT.Y-EIGHT.

ON MAY ELEVEN SIXTY-EI GH^OftRECT DATg:'i

BCAF.DED A. UNITED ARAB AIRLINES FLIGHT IK'•J.ONtOH FOR CAIRO \/IA PARIS '

AND ROME.. ALL (JREW MEMBERS DESCRIBED AS .EGYPTIANS. OUTSIDE OF PASIS .

THE CAPTAIN OF R I G H T , ^ | j | m ^ p AND A CREW MEMBER ASKEDl

THEY KNEW- OF AN ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATIOM ON ROBERT KENNEDY.

THEY REPLIED SUCH AN ATTEMPT UNKNOWN TO THEM, A N q ^ ^ B UPON REACHING

CAIRO FOUND NO>_ IHFGRKATIOBI REGARDING SUCH >N ATTEMPT'JB CAIRO KEWS-

fem&ss

RE LOS ANGEtES TEL JUNE EIGHT LAST AND CRAMENTO TEL

JUNE SEVEN LAST REQUEST TO INTERVIEW CESAR

L U N I T E D .FARM WORKERS ;

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, DELANO, C A L t F . , TODAY ADVISED CHAVEZ• A 5 ' v - " ' • * " ' : - , ' : 4 - ' ~ : - : * : . : i ~ ' • • • • ' ' • • • - : • • v •••'%•-'• ' ' - v . ' - ' 1 ; - v > . - - ' • - - • • • • ' • • • • • • . „ • • • • , • • : ' - ' :

;

WOULD BE AT UFtfOC AT LOS ANGELES THIS AFTERNOON AND IN INDIO,1

- 1 - . ? - • • -

C A L I F . , THIS EVENING.1 SAYS HE WOULD BE

.-.fc-;;",.AT TRAVELODGE MOTEL, INDIO, THIS EVENING AND WOULD BE IN

"'" 'CONTACT WITH CHAVEZ T H E R E i ^ V - - ^ 1 1 ' ' ^ "

; LOS ANGELES MAKE IMMEDIATE ARRANGEMENTS TO INTERVIEW

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FROM: CHARLOTTE {176-1)

PLAINTEXT

URGENT; / . • • _ • - • ; • • • • ? • . * . - ; • • * • •

i

KENSALT

3, RE ATLANTA TEL TO LA ET AL, JUNE SEVENTHS TANT.

FOR INFO HONOLULU ^ H ^ H | j | H f t ^ A R L 0 T T E : WAS ABOARD

DELTA FLIGHT EIGHT ElGftT FIVE " ATLANTA ~TO LOS ANGELES, JUNE FOUR

LAST. A PASSENGER ABOARD THIS FLIGKTf REPORTEDLY OVERHEARD WHITE

FEMALE, FIVE FEET SIX INCHES, DARK l & I R , SLENDER BUILD, LATE

TWENTIES, COMMENT TO ANOTHER WOMAN THAT SHE WAS GOING TO LOS

ANGELES QUOTE TO BE THERE WHEN THE BULLETS FLY ABOUT KENNEDY

UNQUOTE. INVESTIGATION AT CHARLOTTE REFLECTS | ^ H | ^ f t I S

STUDENT AT JOHNSON C . SMITH UNIVERSITY, CHARLOTTE AND WAS

ENROUTE TO HONOLULU TO V I S I T HER HUSBAND AT ARMY REST AND

RECREATION CENTER. HUSBAND DESCRIBED A!

CURRENTLY ASSIGNEt

JRRENTLY SCHEDULED TO MEET WIFE AT R AND R

CEMTER HONOLULU, i * .

"' HONOLULU WILL ATTEMPT TO L O C A T ^ f l H H H T H R O U p H HUSBAND K i

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FOR ANY INFORMATION RE HER RECOLLECTION OF UNKNOWN FEMALE ON• • *

DELTA FLIGHT EIGKT EIGHT FIVE DESCRIBED AND QUOTED ABOVE.

, AIR HAIL COPIES TO ATLANTA AND LOS ANGELES.

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TO DIRECTOR ( ? 2 - 5 8 7 > AND LOS ANGELES

FROM PITTSBURGH ( 4 4 - 5 8 3 )

KEVSALT

ii RE PITTSBJRGH TELETYPE TO BUREAU AND LOS ANGELES DATED SIX

TEN LAST.

V|HHflHHfl|Hfl|HB^^HH|HHHH|H|&A VENUE >

PITTSBURGH TELEPHONE H ^ | H ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ | ^ ^ ^ H | H H H | H B

INTERVIEWED THIS DATE AND ADMITTED CALLING CIA HEADQUARTERS EARLY

IM AY OM SIX EIGHT L A S T - ^ H ^ SAID KE IS CO^C^MSD THAT SEMATOR

KENNEDY'S ASSAILA>TT WILL NOT RECEIVE PJNISHMiNT HZ DESERVES, BLIT

WAS EVASIVE Wt*ZVI Q'JESTIO!SJ£D IF HE PERSONALLY PLANS TO ATTEMPT ANY

ACTION AGAIVST SI R H A N . ^ ^ ( P o 3 V I O r J 3 L Y MENTALLY DERANGED AND

ADMITS 32IMS TREATED AT STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL IN PETERS3JRG* VIRGINIA,

AMD VA HOSPITALS IN RONOAKE* VIRGINIA AND P I T T S B ' J R G H ^ m ALSO

CLAIMS TO HAVE LEVSTHY ARREST RECORD,

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CLAIMS TO BE PRACTICING WITH HIGH POWERED RIFLE AND

TELESCOPIC SIGHT BELQ^ING TO 3IRLFAISND WHOSE^NAWSHE REFUSED^ X°

SEARCHEDSERIALIZED—_, .

JUNi 1196(

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"™~:X?.=IESSED HOSTILITY TOJARD SIftHAN AND JAMES

R\Y THE ACCUSED ASSASSION OF MA3TIN LJTHEH KING, GEOaGE\WALLACE*

GOVERNOa OF ALA3A!«A AND PITTSSa^GH KAYOS JOSEPH

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SIXTYSEVEN TO LAST WEEK OF JULY NINETEEN SIXTYSEVEN.

HE TOOK COURSES I N |

SEPTEMBER NINETEEN SIXTYSEVEN HE AGAIN ENROLLED

STAYED TO END OF TERM, THE

LAST OF MAY INSTANT. WHEREABOUTS AT PRESENT RAVE NOT BEEN

VERIFIED. HE APPLIED FOR SUMMER SCHOOL A T |

IT IS NOT KNOWN IF HE IS ATTENDING THIS UNIVERSITY.

HOME ADDRESS I S k ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ H RELATIVES

ARE FAT HER, ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ L MOTHER'

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RESULTS ^ m m ONLY AVAILA3LS INFORMATION

PREVIOUSLY REPORTED BY ST. LOUIS* A DUPLICATED PHOTOGRAPH OF

(STAINED AT{

AND WILL BE SHOWN T O ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ L BUREAU WILL 3E ADVISED RESULTS

AT WHICH TIKE ST, LOUIS WILL REQUEST AUTHORITY TO INTERVIEW

ATTENTION IS CALLED TO FACT THAT INS HAS

INTEREST IN HIM ALSO AMD WOULD CALL HIM IN FOR AN INTERVIEW

SHOULD BUREAU CONSIDER ADVISABLE - OUR INTEREST IN HIM NOT BE

REVEALED AT THIS TIME.

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DIRECTOR 1 0 S AKGELES SAVANNAH '

FR'OM UASHINGTON FIELD 1 7 3 - 1 5 5 Z?

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WEEKS PRIOR TO ASSASSINATION OF SENATOR'ROBERT F . KEKKEDY,- ' " • . " . • • • * • • ' • * . ' • • * • . . _ _ _

:;r. THE JEAff WAS ENGAGED IN INTERNATIONAL COKPET.ITION IN ; .

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

TO ASSASSINATE KEHKEDY PRIOR TO THE TEAM'S DEPARTURE FROM.

WITH EUROPEAN TEAKS FROM THERE AKD THE SOVIET/

ID THAT I R Q U I R I E S WERE MADE EITHER OF HIS ' " "THAT IRQU1RIES WERE MADE EITHER OF HIS7 : ' • ' • • • • .

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O3TAININ3 HIS REVOLVER FROM A LOCAL PAWN SHOP.

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UPI NEWS RELEASE OF JUNE SIX NINETEEN SIXTY EIGHT.• .

INDICATES MRS. ELSlEB&tfKO, A FORMER CO-WORKER OF SIRHAN AT• • • ' . - - - • - • * . — ' J • » • • , i , , - . • • ' - • ' . . . .

ORGANIC PASADENA,.X HEALTH FOOD STORE, WAS IRTERVIEWEDJBY*:=

NEWS MEDIA AS WAS JOHW vKlDNER, JR., OWNER OF THE STORE, -...-'.

LVINC^RX, A NEIGHBOR AND EMPLOYEE OF THE PASADENA

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LOS ANGELES, CALIF,* DURING JULY SIXTYSEVEN AND DURING

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•••«* SHE ADVISED SHE WILL RETURN TO HER APT. IB OJAI ON JUNE •

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EVEN MENTIONING ANY OF THE KENNEDYS OR WAS THE SUBJECT OF GUNS

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SF (62-5481)

EVER MENTIONED.

'-.•'..- SIRHAN WAS WORKING A QUARTER HORSE AT q^J^JA VISTA

DEL RIO RANCHNEAR CHI NO WHEN HORSE BOLTED AND SIRHAN SUFFERED

HEAD INJURIES FROM HITTING FENCE AND REQUIRED HOSPITALIZATION.

RATHKE BELIEVES THIS HAPPENED APPROXIMATELY SEPTEMBER NINETEEN

SIXTY SIX BUT IS NOT SURE OF DATE. AS RESULT OF INJURY PUPIL

IN ONE OF SIRHAN1S EYES, BELIEVED HIS LEFT* REMAINS LARGE AND

WILL NOT CLOSE AND HE APPARENTLY HAS NO PERIPHERAL VISION OUT

OF THAT EYE AND CAN NO LONGER GALLOP HORSES SO HAD TO GIVE

UP BEING A GROOM. . ,

RATHKS LAST SAW SI3HAN IN APPROXIMATELY JUNE NINETEEN

SIXTY SEVEN IN PASADENA VHSRK SIRKAN WORKING AT A HEALTH FOOD

STORE. HS ALSO SAW SIRHAN'S MOTHER DURING THIS TIME AND SHE

INDICATED SIRHAN "JUST WASN'T HIMSELF" AFTER ACCIDENT AND

RATHKE STATED SIRHAN "MORE INCOMMUNICATIVE" SINCE ACCIDENT BUT

COULD NOT EXPLAIN EXACT CHAHGES IN SIRHAN. RATHKE HAS ONLY SEEN

SIRHAN FOR SHORT PERIODS OF TIME SINCE ACCIDENT AND HAS HAD

NO EXTENSIVE CONVERSATIONS DURING THESE MEETINGS. WHEN HE

LAST SAW SIRHAN IN PASADENA* RATHKE TOLD SIRHAN HE WAS JOINING

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THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY BUT DID NOT DISCUSS VERY EXTENSIVELY

AND HAS NOW READ IN NEV5PPERS THAT SIRHAN IS READING BOOKS

PU3LISH5D BY THIS SOCIETY. -

RATHKE STATED THAT IF SIRHAN WAS BITTEH AT ANYONE

HE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE THE INSURANCE COMPANY AS

HATHKE UNDERSTANDS SIRHAN RECEIVED LITTLE MORE THAN PAYMENT

OF HOSPITAL BILL AS RESULT OF ACCIDENT.

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RE ATLANTA TELETYPE TO DIRECTOR JUNE ELEVEN, SIXTYEIGHT.

' FOR BENEFIT OFFICES RECEIVING INITIAL INFORMATION,

F CORNELIA, GEORGIA, ADVISED BUREAU AGENTS JUNE ELEVEN, ;

SIXTYEIGHT, THAT SHE WAS PRESENT IN HOLY LAUD WITH A BRQWNELL TOUR :

FROM tftY ONE FOUR TO MAY TWO ZERO, SIXTYEIGHT* ON EITHER MAY

ONE SIX OR PftY ONE SEVEN, P B H H H H l ISRAELI GUIDE, ADVISED

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HAD NO FURTHER INFORMATION. THE GUIDE MADE THE SAME STATEMENT

ON SUBSEQUENT MORNINGS IN RESPONSE TO QUESTIONING FROM TOUR " ;

ME^BERS BUT NEVER RETRACTED H I ^ S T A T E M E I T i ' > ^ # < ^

TOURS, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, TODAY

ADVISED THIRTEEN PEOPLE FROM THROUGHOUT UNITED STATES PRESENT I I

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HAVE ESTABLISHED INTIMATE CONTACT WITH ISRAELI 6UI

OFFICES RECEIVING THIS COMMUNICATION REQUESTED TO INTERVIEW

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COLLEGE WERE IN A DISCUSSION U I T H f l H H ^ STUDENT AT OLYMPIC .,

COLLEGE, ELATED THAT THE ASSASSIN OF KENNEDY VAS

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WAS PERSONALLY ACQUAINTED VITK SIRKAR BISHARA SIRHAR, HAVING MET

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PINED T H A T ^ ^ H B W A S APPARENTLY WELL INFOMRED

CONCERNING STATEMENTS OF SENATOR ROBERT KENNEDY SUPPORTING THE

AFTER ARABS WILL iOT SET

(REPLIED " WE'LL BE BACK A G A I I . % ,

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:;V THE U.S. AND BRITAIN FOR HELPING! ISRAEL. V ^ - - u^^- ^ =

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ADVISED THEY HAD NO RECORD' 6 4 M H B i A N D THE SUMMER SCHOOL *

REGISTRATION iDOES NOT START UNTIL JUNE

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EV YORK, AND VAS INFORMED OF.SHOOTING OF SENATOR KENNEDY '

WHILE EN ROUTE. BRUNO DEBARKED FLIGHT AT CLEVELAND, OHIO,

ND TOOK FIRST FLIGHT TO LOS ANGELES ON JUNE FIVE LAST.

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AR2 TO 3E INTERVIEWED A|flD IKMSDIATELY SU3MIT APPROPRIATE THREE

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INTERVIEWS SHOULD DETERMINE ANY DETAILS PERTAINING TO

ASSASSINATION WITH EMPHASIS ON ANY CHANGES IN ITINERARY AND PLANS.

DETERMINE IF SIRHAN OBSERVED ANY TIME PRIOR TO SHOOTING- SENATOR

KENNEDY'S OFFICE PRESENTLY ENGAGED IN RELOCATING STAFF PERSONNEL*

HANDLING CORRESPONDENCE AND RELATED ITEMS CONCERNING THE

SENATOR'S DEATH AND FUNERAL. OFFICIAL PARTY MEK3ERS IN PROCESS OF OR

HAVE DEPARTED WASHINGTON, D.C. FOR VARIOUS LOCATIONS. HOME

RESIDENCES BEING OBTAINED.

OVER TWENTY INDIVIDUALS INTERVIEWED WDC, NO PERTINENT INFO

RECEIVED TO DATE. DETAILS FOLLOW. INTERVIEWS THUS FAR INDICATE

KENNEDY BY OWN INITIATIVE WOULD DEVIATE FROM PLANNED SCHEDULE

AND TRAVEL ROUTES.

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REDSTONE ARSEfiAL,

ALABAMA, AND STATED HE FIRST MET SIRHAK BIRSHABA SIRHAN AT STUDEKT ;

•,-*=-" UNION COFFEE SHOP AT PASADENA CITY COLLEGE A3 OUT SEPTEMBER KIPJETEEB - 1

SIXTYFCUH.HE CANNdl RECALL LAST TIME HE SAW SIRHfcM.ST7ATED HE LEFT CITYj

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j ; KEWS PAPERS EECAUSE HE BELIEVED THEY SIDED WITH ISRAEL. ADVISED SIRHAB!

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^ > • CYEAR AND COLOR UNKNOWN)-OWNED BY SIRHAN, FULTON WAS USABLE TO REpALL ;v ^ - ' ^ ^ - ' v - : • • ' ' • • . " < • • • • • - ; : : ' 1 - : - - - - . - v 1 - / ^ ; . . ; * . v - ^ ; , - - • • • ; v . - ; . - • • - : • - . - / ' ' ' ]

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,HAME OF STATION UNKNOWN, 3UT.LOCATED ON A' KAIK STREET ONE BLOCK NORTH 0

'•" COLOR ADO STREET, KUKKING PARALLEL ; TO, COLORADO AND EAST OF FHONT

^'.> ENTRANCE TO CITY COLLEGE, STATED" HE BELIEVES SIKHAN KEMBER OF FOREIGN "

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^ A D D R E S S E S OF PERSONS-WHO KAY BE ABLE TO RECALL SOMETHING MORE SPECIFIED

ABOUT SIHHAN,.RICHRD HUTTOR,.,'V'

PASADfcWA, CALIFORNIA, ALLEN YACK

STR EET,r-. "•;.-.;

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S1RHAT). DETERMIME ANY BACKGROUND, POLITICAL LEANING, RATIONALISTIC

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!£ ARSENAL, ALA3AMA.

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RiQARDING FULTON WILL FOLLOW.

LOS ANGELES AT PASADENA* CALIFORNIA. WILL THROUGH RECORDS

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