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et ate ‘UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE @ FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGAgEDN "Copy to: _ 1 USA, Kansas City, Kansas (Enc. 2) 1 Secret Service, Kansas City, Missouri Report of Lo Offi: KANSAS CITY Field Office File # KC 174-1558 - ‘Buresu File #: 174-4201 | Title: RONALD DEAN KESSENICH, also known as Ronald D.. Kessenich; President RICHARD M. NIXON, et al - VICTIMS Character: EXTORTION ; BOMB THREATS; THREATS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT; , CONGRESSIONAL ASSASSINATION STATUTE Synopsis: Clerk, U. S. District Court, Madison, Wisconsin, ived three threatening letters from inmate | U. S. Penitentiary (USP), Leavenworth, Kansas. ese letters threatened to blow up the Federal building “if a certain individual was not released and kill _ various public figures, as well as the President. Various congressmen, Washington,’D.C. received similar _ threatening letters against their lives. All letters Signed "For victory" with a swastika symbol. USP Leavenworth inmate RONALD DEAN KESSENICH contacted USP Leavenworth staff and admitted writing numerous threatening letters. KESSENICH interviewed and repeated this statement, stating that he wrote seven threatening letters to a random selection of congress- men Washington, D.C., and three to the U. S. District Court, Madison, Wiseonsin. He admitted placing another inmate's number on the envelopes. KESSENICH ‘identified four of these letters as his own and furnished handwritingsamples. AUSA, Kansas City, Kansas, to present this case to next Federal Grand Jury June 1973, Kansas City, Kansas. P This document contatns neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. : : : U, S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1968 O - 351-076