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U.S. Department of Justice
April 20 , 2017
In response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request submitted to the FBI, enclosed are
processed documents responsive to your request.
Material consisting of eight pages has been reviewed pursuant to Title 5, U.S. Code 552, and this
material is being released to you in its entirety with no excisions being made by the FBI.
For your information, Congress excluded three discrete categories of law enforcement and national
security records from the requirements of the FOIA. See 5 U.S. C. 552(c) (2006 & Supp. IV (2010) . This
response is limited to those records that are subject to the requirements of the FOIA. This is a standard
notification that is given to all our requesters and should not be taken as an indication that excluded records
do, or do not, exist.
A search of the FBI Headquarters electronic surveillance indices has been conducted , and no
responsive record which indicates that Henry Heimlich has ever been the target of electronic surveillance
was located .
Records (105-WF-19994 and 105-HQ-53656), which may be responsive to your FOIA request,
were destroyed on an unknown date. Since this material could not be reviewed, it is not known if it was
responsive to your request. Record retention and disposal is carried out under the supervision of the
National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Title 44 , United States Code, Section 3301 and Title
36, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter 12, Sub-chapter B, Part 1228. The FBI Records Retention Plan
and Disposition Schedules have been approved by the United States District Court for the District of
Columbia and are monitored by NARA.
For your additional information , a record that may be responsive to your FOIA request has been
transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) . You may desire to direct a request
to NARA, 8601 Adelphi Road , College Park, MD 20740-6001 . Please reference the file numbers 105-HQ-
55659 and 105-HQ-55652.
For questions regarding our determinations, visit the www.fbi. gov/foia website under "Contact Us."
The FOIPA Request number listed above has been assigned to your request. Please use this number in all
correspondence concerning your request. Your patience is appreciated .
You may file an appeal by writing to the Director, Office of Information Policy (OIP) , United States
Department of Justice, Suite 11050, 1425 New York Avenue , NW, Washington, D.C. 20530-0001 , or you
may submit an appeal through OIP's FOIAonline portal by creating an account on the following web site:
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transmitted within ninety (90) days from the date of this letter in order to be considered timely. If you submit
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David M. Hardy
Section Chief,
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Records Management Division
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F'D-350 (Rev. 12578)
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Date: 10/28/82
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! 11-level employes of Kassim at several of .tions were either sold. or used to obtain
i ~ Detroit clinics that the government several million dollars worth of ,pills that
c . !IDS were no more than prescription were peddled in Detroit and Washington,
m1lls for junkies and drug dealers.
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. D.C., testimony indicated.
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Shirley Bradley Danner, .Maggie Cur: y, 1
Linda Ricks and John Zellner, all ide: ti- I
fied as employes of Kassim, and Ber-n~rd
Levine, a pharmacist.
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FD-350 {Rev. 12-578)
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ne wspaper, city and state.)
Detroit Free Press
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Edition: 10/29/82
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Title: NELLIE BELL KASSIM
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Heittilich associate director:of the Heimlich Institute at Xavier-university,
said:. ''where ;he would have directed research and.medical work." .
But Heimlich said.he:learned Krebs .was lnterested in a similar
. Krebs is post at the Scripps Clinic inCaiiforhia, Whicl:l Heimlich said is one ;
:Yah~oiu.te;, of the finest -clinics in the COtll;ltcy-. . ' .
h_onest_ :~rebs also attertded;matches at aDavis Cupteimi_s-to~rn;fmei}t
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in Cinchniati that weekertd; Hehnlfch sa!O.
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:can't . t)Nm;R QUES'i'IO~NG from I<r~bs' .at~orney -- ~!tiled at .
:conceive establis)ling-the chestsurgeon as actedible.character witness- .
Heimlich sai4'ne ha~ established several' medical procedures:and '
::of him . ,d~vices aiong with.theHeiinllch maneuver.-inchtdh_lg ;i cMst tub!!
:-straying) :he used .to save theHfe !)fa.Chinese guerilla White serYing bellihli
~ . . . I Japanese lines in Jntiet Mong6lj;i in World Wat 11. The qevice was
l_~ter 1,1sed to s~:tve the lives of'huhdreds of~ wounped sol9i!lr~ 'lil :
: -cah'~ Vietnam, Heimli~h said. ~
accept . Heimlich ~aig he h!!d won military pecorations, honorary
doctor;ites,-huma!iitarian awa,rds and an-Emmy Award for "Di'.
any of the Henry's Ernergency.LessQijS for People;" an educational televi
thi11gs sion program. _. . .
, that l've District _ 'HeinU!ch'~ testimortyis.e~petec:lto con~inue tM~y betoreu.s . . '
Judge Anna D!gg$Taylot. . _ ..
.heard Other defendants irt: the case are Shirley Bradley Dant~r,
. _ ch~.ged . employes
Maggie Curry, Linda Ricks an!! John Zellner ..... ~1!-ldentifieq as
of Kassim's - and Bernard Levine,-a-pharmaCist. T;1 o
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'h'' : The trial is inwere
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other people ordered acquitte~Wednesday by DiggsT!!yior. .
its fourthweek. ''' J
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FD-350 (Rev. 125-78)
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Detroit Free Press
Detroit, Michigan
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Edition: 11/23/82
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.netted afortune of several millfon dol'
Jar$: .for K!!sslm, who once pulled
$23,000 from a paper bag to pay for a
new:Llnco!n, testimony ingicated.
~~ conspirac~ Heimlich - author, television per
sona1lty and in.ventor of the Heimlich .
maql:!uver designed to save -the lives of
i*drugring choking victims ..... testified that in the
decade he had known Krebs, .be had
founil him to be "absolutely honest ... a
.K-A~SIM~ from .Page 3A marvelous young man," and a brilliant.
oi Kassim's testimony. 'However, she medjcal student. Heimlich said he had
'di~appeared" inmidtrial, thejury was
met the doctor through Heimlich's son,
~ Krelis' classmate at Stanford Universf
tol<fby Ken Robinson, Krebs' attorney.
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A PLUMP, often smiling woman, I<;asslm, however, depicted Krebs a.s
. Kas$imgrew up In Ne}V YorkCity and arr lnltlally 'naive young intern who,
moY.ed to Detroita dozen ye(lrsago. The once:he learned the scppe .of tQe Qrug:
I ~ fotiller nurse testified th~t her criminal .oper{ltlon, Wanted to be part of.it and .
"mq~e .a. million dollars" as fast aSj ;.... -- ....J
,areer started with welfare fraud and . ljOssible.
fiim-flam schemes and evolved into a ~ ~ "the .government claimed phar.ma-
. pharmaceutici!l drug ring that cha!l . ist ~evine aided thef!ow of dr.ug~ froll)
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neled hundreds of thousands of .pills
fromsever~l clinics to drug de~lers and . glt~n,ate pharmaceutical.manufactu~l1~
jun~ies In Detroit, Washii!gton, New
rsto-junkies on-the.street. Danner an
Yer'k and North Carolina. ~ . leks were employes in Kasslm's eli.
I{assim said she started her drug ' ,.1 ~~: I ~-~ ,.,. ~.,. ,, . . ,., A" JO'-/ ' ' _. .,...., ,_. - :OJ' _,....
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