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12-13-56 FBI Date: 7/21/60 Transmit the following in PLAIN TEXT (Type in p!ain text or code) AMSD REGISTERED HW Via _AIRTEL (Priority or Method of Mailing) TO: DIRECTOR, FBI ATTN: FBI LABORATOR 312230 SAC, CLEVELAND (9-new) RE: UNSUB:MICKEY MANTLE -VICTIM EXTORTION (0o: cv) LAB ENCLOSURES: To Bureau: Original extortion letter. To Buffalo and New York: Photostatic copy of ex. NI tortion letter. RETAINED bIC 0n 7/20/60 New York Yankees Baseball Club, 745 Fifth Avenue, New York, Telaphone No. Plaza 9-53oo, came to the Cleveland Office and fur- COPY AND SPES!MENS nished the following letter which was received by MICkEy MANTLE MANrLE, e/o Cleveland Municipal Stat. Clev Ohio. Envelope had a one cent postage due. The letter, which is handwritten in ink, is as. follows: "I had a son that was drafted with a bad leg &. bad eyes he got killed but a rotten draft dodger that could run like you gets turned down.' I have a gun with micrscopic lenses.and I'm going to get you thru both Of your lnees and its going to happen soon.. Bureau (AMSD REGISTERED)(Enc.1), -Buffalo (AM) (Enc. 1) 2-New York`(AM) (Enc. 1) 2-Cievela#d REC- 79 1 . 37632 SB 18 JUL.22 1960 Approved: Special Agent in Charge