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2 4 FPD-204 (Rew .:3-3-59) ; Se @ e a ‘UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION i t Copy to: 1-USA, Kansas City, Kansas 1-U.S. Secret Service, Kansas City, Missouri Repos of a Of: Kansas City Date: 5/28/75 , . Field Office File # KC 174-1558 . Bureau File #: 174-4201 | Title: RONALD DEAN KESSENICH,; ‘PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON; SENIOR JUDGE ARTHUR J. STANLEY, JR. District of Kansas ETAL - VICTIMS Character: EXTORTION; BOMB THREATS; THREATS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT; CONGRESSIONAL ASSASSINATION STATUZE;. OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE; BRIBERY Synopsis: RONALD DEAN KESSENICH declared competent to stand trial. A letter signed by RONALD D. KESSENICH to Senior Judge’ ARTHUR J. STANLEY, JR. U. S. District Court, Leavenworth, Kansas, asks Judge STANLEY to dismiss the charges against KESSENICH for which he will be paid $10,000 a-year.for life. AUSA, Kansas City, Kansas declines prosectition, . P DETAILS: On March 21, 1975, Senior Judge ARTHUR J. STANLEY, JR. United States District Court, Leavenworth, Kansas, contacted the Leavenworth, Kansas Resident Agency of the FBI and advised that he had just received infor- mation that RONALD DEAN KESSENICH has been found competent to stand trial in this matter. Judge LEY advised that just this morning his. secretary, re- ceived a letter from the Springfield, Missouri Medical Center of the U. S, Bureau of Prisons, signed RONALD D. KESSENICH. Judge STANLEY stated that due to the nature of the letter he felt that it is a possible violation of law and requested t that the letter be investigated by the FBI, 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 : ‘1969 © - 351-076