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FBI INFO
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CLASSIFIED BY 5668 SLD/KSR
Director ASSIFY ON: 25X 16 RECEIVED FROM
Federal Bureau of Investigation (JFK)
Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich
27 JUL 1961
JUL 28 1961
CIA SJA
FROM:
Deputy Director, Plans JAK
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Clabel by 5/668 SLD/G
Deck
MAROADR(JFK)
SUBJECT:
1.
Espinosa y Prieto,
Eduardo Espinosa y Prieto, born 24 January 1909 in Mexico City,
Mexico
Classmed by 2803 ADDE
Baclassy ON: VADE
FBI
and info
3-1
This Agency was queried recently by the BfV (Bundesamt fuer
Verfassungsschutz · Federal Agency for the Protection of the Constitution)
Germany for information on Subject. A German citizen in Bremen, suspected
of Polish Intelligence Service activities, received a $1,000.00 deposit in
his account from Espinosa. J⑤)
2. Your permission is requested to pass the following information,
some of which was obtained from your files, to the German authorities:
Porsitte
Jateria herme
Frentes-100-185IL
(CIA) S:
Eduardo Espinosa (S)
(s)
[born 24 January 1909,] Mexico City, Mexico, appointed Mexican
Ambassador to Warsaw] during the summer of 1960. August 1957 to (5)
summer 1960 accredited to the United Nations Headquarters] in New: (S)
York City with the rank of Ambassador as an Alternate Permanent
Delegate. During his New York City tenure, he was known to write (S)
bank drafts to persons known to be active Communist workers.
was suggested that he was used as a means of financing Communist
Party activities He
wife, one
It
15 appears to be a Soviet contact, and that his
Tamara Spinosa, nee Pechkurova, native Russian (S)
was reported to have been an agent of the Soviet security
services. She was admitted to Mexico in September 1947. When
Espinosa y Prieto] was in Mexico, he was in close touch with the (S)
Soviet Embassy and expedited visas for Soviet delegations. The couple
were particularly friendly with Soviet Ambassador Kapustin during
1953. [Mrs. Espinosa's brother died in a Soviet prison in 1953, and (5)
her mother still resides in the USSR./
-Vee HNA
SPLOMB
These facts might indicate a Soviet hold over [Espinosa. Various
opinions collected from persons who knew Espinosa) when he served in
[Shanghai, Bogota, Mexico, Caracas, Togoland, and the U.S., vary from
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basically friendly to the U.S" to the following: That he had been a
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penetration agent in the Axis group (in Shanghai) on behalf of the
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USSR, that he was 100% pro-Communist and most dangerous, that
he has been an eagerly cooperative contact of the Soviets in
Mexico for several years, and so on. The bulk of opinions are
() derogatory in nature: Petrov identified Mrs. Espinosa as an
MVD agent.
an (5)
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