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FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) (indicate page, name of Al newspaper, city and state.) THE BUFFALO NEWS (Mount Chipping in Space Below) BUFFALO, NEW YORK MARCH..6, 1985 Rutkowski, Date: Edition: CITY Griffin Also PUBLIC AFFAIRS MATTERS Tite: Got Threats S891-yb Character: 80-2206 Mayor Griffin and County --Moanwhile, a spokesman-tor Classification: BUFFALO Submitting Otfice: ceived exact copies of a death- senator is angry at the FBI for dis-. threat letter that has also been closing that he had received the let. sent to Sen. Alfonse M. D'Ama. ter. Indexing: to. R-N.Y., and twoU.S.Su- The senator and his'staff have lice sources confirmed today. receiving the letter, the.spokesman The letters, postmarked in said, but declinedto elaborate. Buffalo, refer. to the writer's ."We are a little concerned," the. unhappiness with how the'offi- spokesman said, "that we learned .cial' is doing his job, makes that the FBI is putting thehighest reference to a possible gunshot priority on this matter from an arti- assassination and suggest that cle in The Buffalo News. .the writer will attend the offi- The spokesman said the senator cial's funeral,lawmen said. would have liked to have the cour- They'said the letters were tesy of hearing directly from the dentical to those sent to Sen. FBI that it was disclosing the D'Amato and Supreme Court threat. Justices Harry Biackmun and MichaelKogut, spokesman for Lewis Powell. All the letters the bureau office in'Buffalo, sa ous return addresses. said agents interviewed people Mr. Kogut later referred all in 'Supreme Court Justices Black- is "pretty well assured they mun ,and Powell also received had not mailed the letters. Mr. Baker also said the FBI threatening letters in envelopes Shas"not found any link" be- bearing Buffalo postmarks. Justice.Blackmun, the target of tween the letters and a shooting Jncident at Justice Blackmun's. death threats sincehe wrote the 1973 decision legalizing abortion, partment in Virginia. I said Monday a bullet had been fired U.S. Attorney Salvatore R. through his apartment window on Martoche said today that the Thursday. He lives with'his wife in Department of Justice gives suburban Arlington, Va. * high priority to arresting and The typewritten letter to Sen. prosecuting persons who are in- D'Amato said, I do not like the volved in threatening officials. way you are doing your, job. I am ',.. A suspect accused of threat- coming to see you some day and shoot your brains out. I am going to. ening a federal judge and other officials in Rochester was shoot you dead and I will be coming. named in a sealed indictment to your funeral. Tuesday by a.federal grand The spokesman 'said'the letter. 9A1683 3 jury in Buffalo, he pointed out. received in Washington Feb. 28, im-. mediately was referred to the U.S. The case, not linked to the Secret Service, which acts as a threats against the mayor. clearinghouse for .such investiga- HDEXED county executive, .senator and tions. The Secret.Service.referred judges, involves letters mailed the letter to the FBI and to the to U.S. District Judge Michael Capitol police, which has.the pri- A. Telesca and to a banker. mary responsibility for- protectimg The indictment was made members of Congress. public today when George F. "We do get these letters from. Stroubridge, 57, of Rochester time to time," said Sen. D'Amato's b6 as brought here for arraign- aide. "But we don't care to com- b7C nent before U.S. Magistrate ment on them. We don't like to Edmund F.Maxwell. exacerbate these situations." roG/!es