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Robert F Kennedy — Part 3
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' Re: BUDD WILSON SCHULBERG
: JERRY WALD
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_ BASIS FOR MEMORANDUM: | =o
a" Los Angeles advised by teletype on 3-23-61 that
; —_.: advised Los Angeles that several members of the Screen Writers Guild
ms : start a smear campaign against Budd Schulberg, script writer for the Attorney
/ Gene i's book "The Enemy Within."" The plan is to plant stories that Schulberg is a
& member of the Communist Party (CP). Wald and Schulberg were to dine with the Attorney
, General the evening of 3-23-61.
: GENERAL BACKGROUND:
| Wald wrote to the Los Angeles Office on February 16, 1961, stating he
had received an anonymous call the previous day at the 20th Century-Fox Studios from
@ man who stated "This is the Wald Lodge family. Are you the SOB who is going to
¥=-, Photograph that SOB's book ‘The Enemy Within'?'' Wald received another anonymous
Xxa?- Call at 10:30 p.m. that night and was subjected to a flood of four-letter words concerning
atid , the Attorney General, Wald and 20th Century-Fox.
=: Memo on this was immediately furnished to the Attorney General. Los
<, Angeles has been following and has maintained personal contact with Wald to insure
; being informed of any matters within our jurisdiction.
— Ab SAC Simon, of the Los Angeles Office, at 5:05 p.m., 3-23-61, advised
. Mspector Wick that he had just received a copy of an anonymous letter addressed to
Jack Warner of Warner Brothers which had been mailed to the Los Angeles Office by
, Mr. Simon said he had not yet heard as to whether Jack Warner had
‘ receive e original letter. It is only presumed that he has received the original.
received the copy. It is a five-page letter, typewritten, which is very scurrilous an
_ attacks the whole Kennedy family, particularly the President and Attorney General
.Kenneay. The letter stated that Warner Brothers has been considering making a movie
involving the PT boat incident, that Warner Brothers should not make this movie because
President Kennedy was gotten ‘out of this mess by his own father. The writer character-/
izes the President as a sex maniac and
= ; e President is known as a sex pervert. e letter then goes
‘on to "pan" Bobby Kennedy and Joseph Kennedy, the father, and the whole Kennedy
} a family. The writer stated he represents ma in the United States and this
a _, material will be made known.
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