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"For your further infonnation, this LST boat will
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REPORTING OFFICE OFFICE.OF ORIGIN DATE INVESTIGATIVE PERIOJDNE-=1 ORLEANS , - M§MPHIS V u./3,=su I u/1/64
TITLE OF" CASE92/-' REPORT MADE BY 6 7 < _ *1-Kvpgg BYIE
dkSUB, aka. R.A. Wagner; . CHARA _MELVIN M;7BELLI VICTIM ', .
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will contact USA and determine if instant <3letter is a violation of the extortion statutes.If so, will conduct appropriate investigation and reportresults of FBI Laboratory examination.
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APPROVEDSPECIAL AGENT . _ ' " A m cmxnsecomes MADE: '
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V .. will, in the eventrinstant letter_is deterl' I ' AImined to be a violation,will contact Mr. MELVIN M.BELLI to determine who handled same, provided the FBI ,Laboratory is successful
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ADMINISTRATIVE:in developing any fingerprints
On 4/1/EH, the letter from Mr. BELLI was acknowl-edged by the New Orleans Di " .on i.6 75; of the Memphis Division, SA hasnoticed several letters to tie e 1 or pu ishe in §§§the Clarion Ledger and the Jackson Daily News, daily ;newspaper son, Mississippi, from a person, "b last name NU, and mailed from State College,Mississipp . .ese letters generally concern topicsof current interest. In
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MELVIN M. BELLI VICTIM
Character: EXTORTION '
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Jackson, MiSSiSSippi, Resident_Agency from Victim,San Francisco, California. Victim enclosed letterhe had received postmarked 3/2%/6 at Starkville, -
Mississippi, bearing return address R.A, WAGNER, 1302 E. Capitol Street, Jackson, Mississippi. This letter j .referred to Victim in derrogatory manner and stated g"if youire not careful, somebody's going to put aslug of hot lead between those beady eyes of yours". i@e@-This letter bears typed name "The Committee". Letter a_ and envelope typed. Letter forwarded to FBI Laboratory. § "
Investigation Jackson, Mississippi, reveals 1302 E. 1Capitol Street is a non-existent address, as numbers~ of this street do not run higher than 500 block.No record of ii wAiHE@ ~-~ -
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AT JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
On the afternoon of April l, 19611, the
following letter, addressed to "F.B.I. Jackson,Mississippi", postmarked March 31, 196$ at San Francisco,
and mailed Airmail Special Delivery was received at
the P O. Box of the Jackson, Mississippi, Resident- Agency, "Gentlemen: Enclosed herewith is _a recent
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- letter with envelope for your files, information, and
considerationh It,should be noted, in case of further- ~> "~~~developments, that this has been received by me as Qof this date: R.A. WAGNER, 1302 E. Capitol St., Jackson,Miss.". This letter is signed MELVIN M. BELLI andis written on letterhead stationary of BELLI, ASHEand GERRY, 722 Montgomery Street, San Francisco,
California. ,-
The letter enclosed with Mr. BELLI'S letteris typed, as is the envelope also enclosed. The envelopeinvolved is postmarked March 2H, 196k at Starkville,Mississippi, and bears a return address of R,A, WAGNER,1302 E. Capitol Street, Jackson, Mississippi, Itis addressed as follows: "Mr. MELVIN BELLI, Attorneyat Law, San Francisco, California.
The letter states as follows: Old DagoBelli says of Dallas, This city stinks! we havenews for you, Jelly belli -- that's your upper lipyou smell. Furthermore, if you're not careful, some-body's going to put a slug of hot lead between thoseheady eyes of yours." A typed signature "The Committee"appears on the letter, followed by "Remember, SanFrancisco is no_sanctuary."
By airtel of April 3, 1964, the above letterand envelope were forwarded to the FBI Laboratoryfor appropriate examination.
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This documem cgnlalna neither recommendations nor conclusion: ol me P51 In 4; the property of the FBI and la loaned Your uqency 1; and 1;; cgnlnnls are non to be distributed outside Your qqency?-. -
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b7£/ on April 1, 196% SA:L examined_the Po1k's City Directory or Jackson, Miss-issippi for 1963, the latest availah1e,and there is
no listing which could be identified with R,A, WAGNER
and no WAGNER listed whose first and middle names
started with R.A.
ervation of E, Capitol Street in Jackson57 Q by slrevealed that there is no 1302 E. Capitol
Stree in ackson, Mississippi. Capitol Street isthe main business street of Jackson and on E. Capitol
Street the numbers do not go higher than the 500 block.
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I SUBJECT: UNSUB; _ . A . /WAGNER; "/ ¬MELVI.1}6]!gELLIVICTIM /
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. _- , .3 I/' , .At approximately 3:20 p.m. A/1 6H, an airmail4 g,, gspecial delivery letter postmarked 3/31 64, from San §:;§" ~e*Francisco, Calif., was received at the Jackson, Miss. _ 5Resident Agency. The letter was directed to FBI Jackson, /,/ Mississippi andis from MELVIN I-I. BELLI, Attorney, 722Montgomery St., San Francisco, Calif. This letter is dated 3/30/B4, and stated as follows; Enclosed herewith /is a recent letter with envelope for your files, information, ; 6and consideration. It should be noted in case of further 92~* 5developments that this has been received by me as of thisdate: R. A. WAGNER, 1302 E. Capitol Street, Jackson, Miss. zThis letter is signed MELVIN M. BELLI. A §
iA copy of same was directed to the U. S. Post IOffice, Jackson, Miss.- The enclosed submitted by Mr. 'BELLI was mailed to him in an envelope postmarked 5Starkville, Miss., 3/24/64. The envelope bears a return address of R,92A. WAGNER, 1302 E. Capitol St., Jackson,Miss. It is addressed as follows: Mr. MELVIN BELLI,__,v®§Attorney at Lew,-San Francisco, Calif. Both the envelopec§;5~and letter ar§_typewritten.
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- The letter, which is undated and bears no -autographic signature, stated as follows: "Old DagoBELLI says of Dallas This city stinks! we have newsfor you Jelly BELLI-That's your upper lip you'resmelling. Furthermore, if you're not careful, some-body's going to put a slug of hot lead between thosebeady eyes of yours. This letter bears the typedsignature 9The Committee" and the following sentencefollows the above: "Hemember San Francisco is no II sanctuary.
The original of the above letter will beforwarded to the FBI Lab, with copies for Memphis andSan Francisco. For the information of the Bureau, SanFrancisco a d M h ' ~ , n emp is, tnere is no record of a R, A.WAGNER or any person who could be ide-tif'-o .'th _, those initials '1 1- _- -§_¢ ¢-- = ~f.g up .,4.14cl lrec or " ° . v " ' J ies of Jackson, Miss. Likewise, theaddress of 1302 Capitol St. in Jackson is fictitiousas E. Capitol St. does not run higher than the 500block.
Receipt of the above letter has been acknowledged 'by the New Orleans Division. . -
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will determine from the USA if instant letterconstitutes a threat and will conduct any indicated ~investigation. .
. For the information of the Memphis Division,SA Jackson, Miss., recalls thatoc y in e pas letters to the editor of theJackson, Miss. papers have been printed bearing ab'7<_lsignature of FNU_ from State College, Mississippi.
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Re my airtel of U/1/6A.
Enclosed herewith for the Bureau is the original
letter and envelope referred to in referenced airtel.The envelope is postmarked Starkville, Mississippi,March 24, l96H, and bears a return address of R.A. WAGNER,
1302 E. Capitol Street, Jackson, Mississippi. It is
addressed to Mr. MELVIN BELLI, Attorney at Law, San
Francisco, California. The letter is signed "The
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for,latent fingerprints, and to compare the type withb7Cspecimens on file in the aeffort to identify same. SA
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Q1 Envelope postmarked "STARKVILLE, MISS, MAR 24 PM 1964" bearingtypewritten address "Hr. Melvin Belli, Attorney At Law,San Francisco, California"
Q2 Accompanying one-page typewritten letter beginning "Old DagoBelli says..." and ending "...is no sanctuary."
Result of examination: -
Specimens Q1 and Q2 were searched through the appropriatesections of the Anonymous Letter File but were not identified withother specimens in the file. '
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Will contact Mr. MELVIN M. BELLI to determine whohandled the letter in question and forward to the FBI Identi-fication Division, Latent Fingerprint Section, elimination *1prints relative to the individuals who handled the letter in *&<question,so;that they may be compared Qlth~§h8 one latent .w§¥fingerprint of value which was developed on the}outside;of the I »¢5gienvelope which contained the letter on which this case 1S " ff* based; '
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MELVIN M. BELLI VICTIM
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Swwmk USA, NDM, Oxford, Miss., is of opinion that aviolation of the extortion statutes exists andwould consider prosecution in event subjectidentified. One latent fingerprint of valuedeveloped by FBI Identification Division fromoutside envelope. No R. A. WAGNER located __ t0ktibbeha County, Miss. No R. A. WAGNER locatedMissis ' i St ' ity, State College,
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Specimens Q1 and Q2 were searched through the ap-propriate sections of the Anonymous Letter File but were not~ .identified with other specimens in the file. _ A
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,For the information of Knoxville and San Diego, bothoffices of which have not previously received correspondence inthis case, on the afternoon of 4/l/64, the Jackson, MississippiRA.h was in receipt of a letter postmarked 3/3/64, at SanFrancisco, California; marked AMSD; from'Attorney MELVIN BELLI,722 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, California. BELLI enclosed5 to the Jackson RA the original of a letter he had received on _3/Bl/oh which bore the return address "R, A. WAGNER, 1302 East Capitol Street, Jackson, Mississippi."I
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are being made at the San Francisco Post Office to determine
the identity of the postal carrier on BELLI's route in order
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analysis in line with the latent fingerprint found on the
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4 AT CHATANOOGA, TENNESSEE: Hill, at the Chatanooga PD,obtain the fingerprint card for EILEEN PURSLEY, DOB 1/16/23,
and forward same to the Bureau Laboratory for analysis in line
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receptionist for Attorney BELLI, when she returns to her
employment sometime after the first week in June, and makeinquiry at the San Francisco Post Office concerning the identity
of the postal carrier who handles BELLI'§ mail route at
722 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. will then question thisindividual to determine if he has been fingerprinted_andfurnish same to the Bureau Laboratory1_
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BELLI advised that he was fingerprinted on one92 occasion by the San Diego PD and he was arrested there onZ/21/33 on a vagrancy charge under the name of LOUIE BACHIGALUPI.BELLI advised that this arrest was in connection with his workat that time since he had recently completed law school and wasworking with the U.S. Government. BELLI was not queried inE "detail regarding this arrest, however. He advised that hisfingerprint-classification according to the above arrest wasas fdllows: _ 3 l R IIO 17 'A - rzewrs 1' I
- Mrs. EILEEN WALLETT, personal secretary for BELLI,stated that she recalled having handled the letter and that shehad been fingerprinted by the Chatanooga PD in a 1 yV progect that the PD was conducting involving high school studentsin Chatanooga during 1939. Mrs. WALLETT advised that she was.fingerprinted under the name EILEEN PURSLEY, and that her dateof birth was 1/16/23 by the Chatanoga PD.
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Enclosed herewith for the FBI Laboratory is aphotostatic copy of a fingerprint card for LOUIE BACHIGALUPI,as received from the San Diego, California, Police Department.
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, _ , LATENT FINGERPRINT SECTION WORK SHEET' Recorded: 6-9-'64/11:00AM I Reference No: 9-550
. FBI File No: 9-42096- IReceived: 6-9-64/dab Latent Case No: 49706
Answer to: SAC, SAN 01200 I '
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RE! UNSUB; R.A. WAGNER;
MELVIN BELLI - VICTIM
EXTORT-ION
Date of reference communication" '7 > - Letter 6-6-64 "Specimens: 1| 5/2%/0, :_.'_>,_F!
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' LOUIE BACHIGALUPI. MELVIN BELLI! .
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REPORTING OFFICE OFFICE OF ORIGIN DATE I INVESTIGATIVE PERIOQJACKSON JACKSON ' ' 8/3/64 5/14 - 7/27/64
TITLE OF CASE REPORT MADE av ' ' ' _ TYPED av I.- ' < ' - .' SA I976-K MJH-UNSUB, aka R. A jNagner{ CHARAGHROFCASMELVIN M. BELLI - VICTIM
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[K REFERENCESI ' '~b.7LRep0rt of SA dated 5/20/64 at Memnhis
San Francisco e - mphis dated 5/28/64. IO!
San Diego letter to Bureau dated 6/6/64.
Bulet to San Diego dated 6/ll/64.
Knoxville air-tel to Memphis dated 6/26/64. IO!
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KNOXVILLE DIVISION
AT DUNLAP, TENN.
Will locate and
' . It is noted that considered a
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~ topics of current interest.
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of suspects should be determined from him. 4
JACKSON DIVISION
AT STARKVILLE AND STATE COLLEGE, MISS. -
Will continue investigation to identify UNSUB in this matter.
It is noted that the investigative period of this matter
extends from 5/14 to 7/27/64. This is due to the fact that infonmationwas received by the Memphis Office subsequent to the referenced 1/.
report in this matter.
All communications in this case should be routed to the
Memphis Office until advised to the contrary.
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Tmw UNKNOWN SUBJECT, aka
R. A. Wagner;
MELVIN M. BELLI - VICTIM "
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lOne latent fingerprint of value which was found on the outside
- f th n lo d t'f' d th th b ' t ft! f EILEEN o e e ve pe 1 en 1 1e as e um pr1n e oELIZABETH PURSLEY aka personal secretary of$7 MELVIN M. BELLI. eported to be in
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Office advised that Attorney MELVIN BELLI was contacted on May l4,A
-sat¢¢*~any~furtherecommunications threatening his life¬ he should *T'*"" himmediately contact the San Francisco Office of the FBI and that
q such communications would be immediately obtained from him and
forwarded to the FBI Laboratory for analysis. BELLI advised thathe would comply with this request and that in connection with '
lathe letters which he had forwarded to the Jackson Office of theFBI, he recalls that both he and his personal secretary, EILEEN
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BELLI advised that he was fingerprinted on one occasion
by the San Diego Police Department and he was arrested there on
July 21, 1933, on a vagrancy charge under the name of LOUIE_1 .
BACHIGALUPI. BELLI advised that this arrest was in connection with
his work at the time since he had recently completed law school and
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Mrs. EILEEN WALLETT, personal secretary for BELLI,
stated she recalled having handled the letter in question and that
she had been fingerprinted by the Chattanooga Police Department
in a project that the Police Department was conducting involving
high school students in Chattanooga, Tennessee; during 1939.
Mrs, WALLETT advised.that she was fingerprinted under the name
of EILEEN PURSLEY and that her date of birth was January l6,~l923,A at Chattanooga, Tennessee. "m' ' . L _,7 .
BELLI further advised that his receptionist, PAT NAGLE,
is currently on a three-weeks vacation and will not return to
work until sometime after the first week of June, 1964.
By communication dated June 6, 1964, the San Diego
Division advised that it was forwarding to the FBI Laboratory
a Photostat of a fingerprint card of LOUIE BACHIGALUPI, as it
was received from;the~San Diego Police Department, San§Diego,, ..
1-1ah. " . By communication dated June ll, 1964, the Identification
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impression of Eileen Elizabeth Pursley, aka Eileen Wallett, white
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BUFILE 2¢0.= 9_4zo96- >n;nPI1Is FILE N !.: 9-1244
JACKSON FILE N0.: 9-10
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to the Bureau being acknowledged personally rather awriting since he appears to be confused concerning the iinvestigation being_conducted in the extortion case in whichhe was considered a possible suspect. Bureau file indicatesxThwm%thati .1ead was sent@out»to interview him re instant matter ij
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anot! that I was_,under,__investigation_ by the Bureau for alleged. extortion. ~ ' "'A "I*wrote"to=! . Ho ' " I ' ' " o ' " v"' " "
was. I came to" see in 1963 the futility of continuing my graduate education and 4 _ s , V tnhope of one day teaching university social "sciences." Idealistic--and consequently 1unrealistic-.-Ieftist philosophies have commandeered the vast maJority of our univesities' social "science", departments and faculties; he who conscientiously andobjectively cannot with integrity of intellect accept such as u=vor-ldism: 01' soairacial cerebrial equalitarianism has increas:ba_gly little place in .:?_-'respons;ible_'~~a.ndr¢aPe¢tabl8."--educational circles. Y ' ' '- ' """ '..-Q iff- Thus, not being able to teach, I found as an outlet for my alarm_at'--what wasoccuring to the sensibilities, values, traditions, and morals of this-land the writing of letters to the editor. '- ' "
._ }{y_,1etters_ overall constructive and intellectually defendible! er-i...n_ -effective; 11;. woalai . geese . .certainly those publi§hed:;fii'l~ n1s§is's1ss1';sp1'"~ possible: revenge" "a_gains't»'my"re1narksand as 1 an att=np£"'£o e§iienEef * '
pe_rsonj.or'persons evidently wrote noted or notorious! lawyer Melvin Belli a '- threatening letterieithere over my signature or else inegativelyinvolving my A I
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i. One purpose of this present letter is to inquire about a-few, to me,"puzz_lingthings on this despicable matter. Why, for one" thing, did it take so "long for; theBureau to locate me? I learned through a relative in East Tennessee that the F' ' Bll
Why was I not queried on the extortion matter then y 1- "- W: n p ~» =.t was seemingly oaly after I-with growing suspicion--later.wrote the Memphis_F. B. I, office a ffwa.i'm5_,sh" letter demanding to know what was "going on" that- I wasinterviewed.-;=_I might say; ho? that the Memphis office has been quite pleasant and¢0oPerative on this'mattér'0' "eztorulospanalny supposoa connection thereto.- . . 4' 'Howi 1 _this investigation would have gone on--'-behind my back--before I de-ded to 83 £11,? "#5 §11_l.1'a_s 921e_ 8-R°"¢11¢1 question. How m,any friendsr acquaintances of mine have been contacted; on,_thisj{H!;-ge-against.-me now makesOr»inter_e_s1-118 speculation for me.. use-'o'ou le-' " " ~ sBy s_..Z92Ir.-£'5_i:_
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had contacted her seeking "my l0cation...on 2 occasions. After the first occa ion and. . ' '4 _ _< _8 1 -:;=Ply-.,1earning,of~.?it,.,I went to " ' A e F. B. I."_'and.,ing9211__;;s,1;j;1_t_-_. .-$13.wanted"--to_see me. An Agent .-- - ihi a' I recall o __-. ~'-' ".§_.as well as repeating t at the Bureau did no ave _ '_ A-- D
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infer--or openly say--about me? ~I need not tell you that cries of "police state"are rampant in this disquieted land Mr. Lester Maddox, for example, of Atlanta,Georgia, restaurant fame or infamy depending ,upon your philosophy! is quiteacquain-.ted with the "police sate" concept, I would imagine,as are a host of other bus'ines8me,?.and sundry people who have been "persuaded" to do the right thing" in the name of 5equality-or-else!. Masses of individuals in this nation are frightened for the sake 4
_ government friends, arefearful of being thought "guilty through association- of their Jobs, families, and reputations from speaking up...or, as I susgct with, my
" '_-,, Well, I spoke up and have suffered the consequences. Quite possibly- the same. sick crowd which has launched the "freedom now" campaign in Mississippi--whereextortion letter originated--is "responsible for "smearing " me. such pollyanna or isubversive types will not be content until they have elicited Federal occupation ofMississippi, and, in the inevitably tragic days ahead in that state, such may comeabout". "fr_ee_dom".-types can"be~. expected to resort to many devious techniques in "expaning their equalitarian society efforts; in time extortion may be the lesser of 'their devices.My "crime" is g extortion but--to a very small degree--pointingly an accusingfinger at those who would and may! bring social disaster to this nation...out of §-hypocritical financial and political opportunism as
tarian philosophy which has Q basis in fact to thecountry. _ ' _
" Too, I admittedly have left myself "wideopen"
"anti-semitism" charges by honestly questioning theJewry and its wealth connected with much of the prowell as out of a warped
involvement of one -worldphilosophical foundations of this
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such one-world-Jewrycontrolled publishers have criticized, as much as theavxdare, iDirector Hoover-...one of the few remaining high individuals in governmeniwhom loyal ; _and politically-informed Americans have any respect and confidence. No one 1 _from" leftist smear. One either keeps silent on what is happening to his country or "'is exempt _
else risksbeing branded an" "extremist" or worse. such accusations surely do not aid one--such as myself--in getting Federal employment
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. madeby~fSpecial-Agents' to friends-"andacquaintances clarified to the same. This is ;'ofTcourse,_prcd_icated on the "smearer" being apprehended. I certainly want this mattevi. _ I cleared up -inso far as I have been erroneously and maliciously involved; I do not 1»- Ik
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< Forthe record, I do Q1 belong to Q1 political group--"extremist" or otherwise?
send me A_ -- unsolidited Right-Wing literature most of which appeared innoculous- And, lastly, I s_E5-.v.1 éF»,
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Tm<== - UNSUB; aka R. A. WAGNER; '
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FBI Laboratory concluded that the questionedtypewriting a ' the le ters voluntarilyb7@furnished b not comparefavorably with the typewri ng appearing on theextortion material. USA, NDM, Oxford, Miss., by
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