</s>APPROVED FOR RELEASE 2025 UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER 14176 Greg Roberts P.O. Box 8491 North Hollywood 27 August 1975 Mr. -It, Gen. Vernon Walters Deputy Director Central Intelligence Agency Washington D.C. Press Officer Cia - Same Address Dear Mr. Walters: On 20 August 1975, you spoke before the national VFW at the L.A. Convention Center. I was credentialized to cover the speech, but my car broke down en route to the Convention Center, But did hear it on KPPK later that day. Could you please send me a copy of the speech. and a photograph of yourself? I guess if I were "paranoid" about the CIA, I would assume that the breaking down of my 1955 Buick was a CIA plot. Needed to say, one item that you ignored in your speech, which I thought one of the best about the CIA by any CIA official in recent years, was the Kennedy assassinations. Whether CIA agents like it or not, there is the question that the CIA or any subdivision thereof participated in the JFK Murder. Also, in the RFK assassination, two LAPD officers who investigated the assassination were CIA training agents in one one named LAPD Lt. Manuel Pena, and another investigation agent in the 1960s. One Hernandez, a polygraph operator, (Pena and some investigation in 1964 on the JFK assassination). Do they show he had a CIA connection? And Sirhan Sirhan's passport applications are classified. Your speech assumes that the CIA represents the United States, and that the KGB solely represents the USSR, Thus, those attacking the CIA in the U.S. are, in your opinion, pro-communists or communist dupes. But what about the thesis which states that the chiefs of groups like the Council on the Foreign Relations (CPR) are really running both the CIA and the Foreign relations or at least key (but not all) clemening various government agencies in or at both the US including parts of intelligence services? Your press officer, Mr. Thermer, never responds to these questions. more

Summary: The document is a letter dated 27 August 1975 from Greg Roberts to Vernon Walters, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Roberts requests a copy of Walters' speech delivered at the VFW National Convention in Los Angeles and a photograph of Walters. He references the CIA's role in the JFK assassination, suggesting potential involvement by CIA agents, including LAPD officers Manuel Pena and Hernandez, who were allegedly trained by the CIA in the 1960s. Roberts also mentions Sirhan Sirhan's passport applications being classified. The letter includes conspiracy theories linking the CIA to both JFK and RFK assassinations, alleging connections between anti-Castro plotters, the Mafia, and CIA operations. It references FBI raids on a CIA facility in Lake Pochrantham and ties Oswald's activities to CIA and KGB involvement. The text also critiques the CIA's portrayal as representing the U.S. exclusively and questions the influence of CFR members on U.S. foreign policy.  

Key People: Greg Roberts, Vernon Walters, Manuel Pena, Hernandez, Lee Oswald, Marina Oswald, David Ferrie, John and Robert Brewer, Governor George Wallace  
Key Locations: Los Angeles, Dallas, Lake Pochrantham, New Orleans, Rio de Janeiro, Washington D.C., Hollywood  
Key Events: JFK assassination investigation, RFK assassination, FBI raid on CIA facility, anti-Castro plots, Sirhan Sirhan's passport applications, VFW National Convention speech  
Key Organizations: Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)

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