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SUBJECT:
SCHLUMBERGER WELL SURVEYING CORPORATION
(See Houma Munitions Bunker
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ALLEGATION:
GARRISON has charged
that the burglary of the
Houma munitions bunker was
*CIA-inspired." He issued
arrest warrants for Gordon
NOVEL and-Sergio ARCACHA
SITE charging them with
the Houma burglary.
SOURCE:
Enclosure 24 of
CI/R&A memoranium of
7 August 1957.
CIA CONNECTION:
CIA had no connection with the
alleged burglary of the Houma Munitions
Bunker or any connection with the
bunker itself.
However, Pierre SCHLUMBERGER, prezident
of the SCHLUMBERGER CORPORATION, was of
contact interest in 1950 for routine
exploitation as a foreign intelligence
source. The FBI advised they had no objection
to the Agency's interrogating Pierre
SCHLUMBERGER who was an alien. In 1962
DAYSTROM, INC. was acquired by SCHLUMBERGER,
INC. The Agency had a contract with DAY-
STROM for an unclassified item ($49,000
contract for the production of Mark II
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limpet mines);] Agency interest was classified
Secret. SCHLUMBERGER, LTD. is a Dutch firm
controlled by French nationals. After the
merger, it was determined that future relation-
ship with DAYSTROM must be governed by
Agency policy not to place classified contracts
with a foreign firm. In 1963 the same
decision was reached concerning Agency con-
tracts with Electro-Mechanical Research, Inc.,
⚫a subsidiary of SCHLUMBERGER, LTD. EMR
dealt in all phases of telemetry.
Contact
clearances for other personnel of SCHLUMBERGER
are set out below.
OF INDICES RESULTS:
The SCHLUMBERGER COMPANY was the subject of a name: check in
1947 bec: use of a contect request, and it was determined that there are
- mumber of SOLLUMBERGER corporations in Latin America which are domi-
nated by French nationals. SCHLU BERGER has a patented operation for an
oil well "shooting" service which is subscribei to by various oil companies.
The SCHLUMBERGER WELL SURVEYING CORPORATION in Houston was controlled by
Henri Georges DOLL, & French national. He was of contact interest in
1956 and 1957. His wife is the doughter of Conrad SCHLUMBERGER.
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In August 1951 the Agency was interested in contacting Professor
Edouard POLDINI, a geophysicist and professor at the University of
Geneva and formerly an employee of the SCHLUMBERGER CORPORATION in
Paris, for operational use. He was to be used as a channel to a Janus
KANTAS who could give information about the fate of the previous employees of
the Jersey Company in Hungary, the production figures and extent of
exploitation of existing oil fields and exploration of new oil fields
together with the names of the officials of the Russian Hungarian Company
who took over the Jersey Company.
In March 1953 the SCHLUMBERGER file reflects that an FBI source
furnished information that one Maurice Henri MARTIN, employed as an
engineer by the SCHLUMBERGER Company, Paris, France, received a letter
dated 27 July 1951 at Moscow from one Siegfied Stefanovitch MOROSOFF,
asking MARTIN for specialized information concerning geophysics. The
letter requested that MARTIN's reply be forwarded to Moscow through an inter-
mediary. From January 1932 until April 1937 MARTIN represented the SCHLUMBERGER
Company in Russia as an engineer, and it was thought that the correspondence
from MOROSOFF may represent a Soviet attempt to resume contact with MARTIN
The FBI conducted an investi-
and develop clandestine relations with him.
gation dated June 1953 and determined that Maurice Henri MARTIN resided
at Nod Hill, Wilton, Connecticut and was employed by the SCHLUMBERGER
Informants advised that
Well Surveying Co., Ridgefield, Connecticut.
although MARTIN was strongly nationalistic toward France, he have every
indication of being anti-Russian and there was no evidence of CP activities.
When DAYSTROM, INC. merged with SCHLUMBERGER, LTD., research was
done on the directors and officers of SCHLUMBERGER, LTD. The results
are as follows:
OS indices reflect a record on Dillon ANDERSON, a trustee of
Electro-Mechanical Research, Inc. (a subsidiary of SCHLUMBERGER, LTD.)
who was also a proposed trustee of "NEW DAYSTROM" when it merged with
SCHLUMBERGER. ANDERSON is an attorney from Houston, Texas who was
appointed by President EISENHOWER as an advisor to the National Security
Council from 1953 until 1956. He was considered for a special clearance
in August 1955 but the briefing was not given. He was granted a covert
clearance in December 1953 and April 1954 for use as a covert associate
on Project LPFUNNEL. ]
Pierre SCHLUMBERGER, President and Chief Executive Officer,
SCHLUMBERGER, LTD., Houston, Texas, French citizen, was of contact
interest in 1950.
Charles C. PARLIN, Director of SCHLUMBERGER, LTD., and a member
of the law firm of SHEARMEN, STERLING and WRIGHT, Englewood, New
Jersey, U. S. citizen, was of contact interest in 1962 but was
security disapproved. PARLIN was allegedly the boy friend of Johanna
BEKER who was in contact with known Soviet Agents, ROBERT and JACK
SOBLE. BEKER advised the FBI in 1957 that she received, paid for and
transmitted to Robert SOBLE, OSS information which was given her by
two former OSS employees. She also advised the FBI in 1957 that she
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had given a very general outline of her activities to P/RLIN ani
it is reliably reported that PARLIN and ER shared hotel roon
in Holland in 1957. PARLIN recommended William Wart LANCASTER
for OSS employment. LANCASTER was a member of the same law firm as
PARLIN and had a long record of Communist, front affiliations.
in 1955 traveled to Russia as a member of a delegation under the
He was also the
sponsorship of the National Council of Churches.
lawyer for a Swiss zacent industrialist who sold erms to the
Nazis and the Communist countries since that time.
PIRLIN
Clark Drouillard GOODMAN, Vice-President of SCHLUMBERGER,
Itd., Houston, Texas, U. S. citizen, was security disapproved for
use by TSD in 1952 and for contact use in 1955 based on his support
of Professor Dirk STRUIK, = colleague at MIT, who was indicted on
charge of having been a Communist conspirator and identified as a
formnist Party member. In March 1959 the same derogatory information
wa furnished the Contuct Office to be considered in determining any
use of 30ODIAN. Also, a book written by GOODMAN's wife, Kay Ellen
GOODX AN, was favorably reviewed by the "DAILY WORKER
" in 1956.
Jean C. LEGRAND, Vice-President of the SCHLUMBERGER WELL
SURVEYING CORPORATION, Piigefield, Connecticut (U. S. citizen,
naturalised Houston, Texas 1941) was approved for contact use in May
His file is clear. There is a notation that one Mrs. J. 
C.
1957.
TEGRAND, 5319 Mantell Street, Houston, Texas, in November 1944 was
President of the Houston Chapter, France Forever, The Fighting French
Committee in America.
Everett STRATTON, Sales Manager, Houston Area, SCHLUMBERGER
WELL SURVEYING Corporation, Houston, Texas, U. S. citizen, was security
1 proved (CAUTION) for contact use in October 1950. His file 
is clear.
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Daniel
Daniel SCHLUMBERGER, French citizen, archeologist and teacher
t the University of Sir sbourg, France in 1955, was granted un
per tional approval (for use of contract rent in Kabul in April
1930 but the clear ace vis cincelled 20 September 
1956. His file 
is
clear.
However, in file on Nicholas HAGA, French financier, 
and
suspected Soviet pent, which contains detailed study of the inter-
relationships and Jerily connections existing in French firms,
information on Daniel SCILU FERER is contained therin
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SCHLU BERGER, a rember of the CU PERCER WILL SURVEYING Corporation,
vas head of the French Archeological Delegation in Igniston (
1948-
1954). An associate of Daniel SCHLUMBERGER WAS Reoul CURIEL 
of 
wealthy
Jewish banking family in Chiro, Egypt. Raoul and his brother, Henri
CURTE. J Communist rounds and their mother wist to George
BLAKE E lived with
FLAE Inch Dovier elected to Russia.
the TURIE' in Ciro. Also Cilbert PONTECORVO, known Communist,
relative of the CURIEL family
wis in cont et with Demento (FRIEL,
Fruno PONTECORVO, (ilbert's brother,
involved in the Georecise.
in the atoric scientist who defected to Russic in 1950, worked for
the Well Surveying for or tion, Tulsa, Oklahor, from 1940 to 1942 but
it was not known if the SCHUBERGER Well Surveying Corporation is in any
WAY connected with the Well Surveying Corporation in Tulsa.
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SCHLUMBERGER and Company and another SCHLUMBERGER subsidiary
firm, Machine Bull (Competitor of IBM), are connected with Schneider
and Company, 42 rue d'Anjou, Paris. Francois SAAR-DEMICHEL, manager
of Compagnie Internationale de Commerce, represents SCHNEIDER for
the USSR and is a Soviet agent. In September 1961, an investigation
conducted in France disclosed that "everything that takes place in
the Elysee is known in Moscow within 48 hours and the originator of
such intelligence is Francois SAAR-DEMICHEL. Machines Bull is
controlled by General Electric Company of the U. S. and SCHNEIDER
and Company is affiliated with U. S. Westinghouse Corporation
under the name SCHNEIDER-Westinghouse.
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The Study in KAGAK's file contains the following additional
information concerning SCHLUMBERGER and Company:
Maurice and Remi SCHLUMBERGER are affiliated with Lazard
Preres and the Worms Bank. Lazard Freres controls SCHNEIDER-
Westinghouse and has a New Orleans Branch Office. Closely associated
with the SCHLUMBERGER's is Charles DOH. DOH was born at Odessa in
1911 and arrived in the United States in 1937 to join the SCHLUMBERGER
Hell Surveying Corporation at Houston, Texas. He became a U. S.
citizen on 6 September 1950. Charles has a brother, Jean, who was
closely associated with Leonard BOUND, & suspected Soviet agent.
HOUN U was closely associated with Francois S/AR-DEMICHEL, previously
reatione Soviet egent connected with SCHLUMBERGER and Company.
Charles DOE was approved for Agency contact use in September 1955 es
a member of the SCHLUMBERGER Well Surveying Corporation. His file
is clear.
Roger Robert Henri HENQUET, Executive Vice-President,
SCHLUMBERGER Well Surveying Corporation, Houston, Texas, was approved
for contact use on a limited besis in October 1950. He had been an
employee of OSS from 1943 to 1945; was given American citizenship
und the Congressional Medal of Honor for his deeds during World War II.
Arthur Fenry FRENTROP, an employee of the SCHLUMBERGER WELL
SURVEYING CORPORATION, Ridgefield, Connecticut, was of contact
interest in June 1956. Information concerning his spouse's critical
attitude towards American customs and institutions and the dominant
position she exercise over her busband was furnished the contact
office.
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