</s>104-10425-10097- CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE IN FULL 1996 JFK ACT 01-19-99 14 JAN-1393 RELEASE MEMORANDUM FOR: Director Federal Bureau of Investigation RELEASE MEMORDUM FOR. Director Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich SUBJECT : GARRISON and the Kennedy Assassination: Bernard FENSTEWALD et al SUBJECT 1. A Washington UPI dispatch of 3 January 1959 reads as follows: Washington -- New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison is one of seven board members of a new national committee to investigate assassinations which is being formed here. Bernard Fensterwald, 47, of Arlington, Va ., another board member, said the committee's purpose is "To embarrass or force the government to make investigations they have been putting off since Nov. 22, 1963. That was the date of President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. Fensterwald. who said he was setting up an office which would open in a week, left the senate earlier this week after 12 years as counsel for several committees. "The committee will concentrate on the three best known assassination -- President Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King - but will leave its options open on some other rather mysterious deaths, he said. "Our position is there a conspiracy in Dallas, there were strong footprints of a conspiracy of Memphis where Dr. King was shot and nobody really knows much about what. went on in Los Angeles (where Senator Kennedy was slain) but we intend to look."

Summary: The document is a CIA historical review memorandum dated 13 January 1969, referencing an investigative committee formed in January 1959 to examine assassinations, including those of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bernard Fensterwald, a board member from Arlington, Virginia, stated the committee aimed to pressure the government to investigate alleged conspiracies surrounding these deaths. The group included William Turner (former FBI agent), Richard Sprague (computer expert), Fred J. Cook (author), Lloyd Tulling (Sierra Club associate), and Paris Flamingoade (writer). Fensterwald noted the committee would focus on JFK’s assassination in Dallas, RFK’s death in Los Angeles, and MLK’s shooting in Memphis, while leaving options open for other cases. The CIA requested verification if Bernard Fensterwald (47) was identical to Blanche Fensterwald (also known as Mrs. Bernard Bernstein), and sought information on Richard Sprague, Lloyd Tulling, and Paris Flamingoade.  

Key People: Bernard Fensterwald, William Turner, Fred J. Cook, Richard Sprague, Lloyd Tulling, Paris Flamingoade, Blanche Fensterwald  
Key Locations: Washington, D.C., New Orleans, Arlington, Virginia, San Francisco, Hartendale, New York, Englewood, New Jersey, Memphis, Dallas, Los Angeles  
Key Events: Formation of an assassination investigation committee in 1959, focus on JFK, RFK, and MLK assassinations, CIA request to verify identities and information on committee members  
Key Organizations: National committee for assassination investigations, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Sierra Club, New York Times

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