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124-10191-10015 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch31429 and id is 1 raw text is: LOUIS STOKES, OH RICHARDSON PREYER., H.C. As WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C. STEWAR, 3. MC KINNEY, CONN. YVONNE BRATHWAITE BURKE, C-AktF. CHARLES THONE, NER. CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, CONN. HAROLD S. SAWYER. MICH. HAROLD E. FORD, TENN. Z I d nt FLOYD J. FITHIAN, IND. ROBERT W. EDGAR, PA. (202) 225-4624 Lo 3369 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX Z WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515 December 13, 1978 ~~ Pubi ANS, Off. __ ' k Director's Sec'y__ CWilliam H. Webster Director ' dFederal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D. C. 205352 Dear Mr. Director: Chairman Stokes asked me to respond to your letter of December 6, 1978 in reference to materials furnished to the Bureau by the Department from Harold 'Veisberg. I, too, share your concern that materials that are of a !sensitive character not enter the public domain. My letter to Mr. Weisberg, of course, is not sensitive, nor are his two letters to me, both of which he apparently re- 7 tained copies of. The other material, a copy of which was attached to your letter, constitutes the typewritten notes that one Oliver Patter- son gave to the Federal Bureau of Investigation while he was serving as an informant for the Bureau, providing the Bureau information on J. B. StonerEdward Fields, and the National States Rights Party. I do'not know if Mr. Patterson retained copies of the materials he provided t ureau. In any event, in the course of this Committee's investi- gation of the possible involvement of Stoner and the National States Rights Party in the assassination of Dr. King, Oliver Patterson was identified as a possible witness. He was inter- viewed by staff investigators and he acknowledged that he had been an informant for the FBI. He also provided to the Com- mittee a waiver of his confidential relationship with the Bureau. It was based on this waiver that my letter of January 26, 1978 requested access to Mr. Patterson's informant files, in order that the Committee could verify Mr. Patterson's present recol- 2C lection of events of a number of years ago. I understood, at the time, that your release to the Committee of these mf:E1ials was done with the understanding that since they stemmed fromI '/ Mr. Patterson, it was contemplated that there was noeabjeetion- to Mr. Pattirson having what he had originally given to the Bureau.

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