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9 September 1960
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, FI/Division D
SUBJECT:
ZRGRACE - Tokyo Aspect;
George PERIS aka George PERISTEROPOULOS aka
George PARIS, Identified Contact of Valentin HAHN
aka Valentine Vasiliyevich KHAN aka Won-shin HAN,
Self Confessed Soviet Agent
1. Following information was made available to the writer by
Tralee from the Conlan file an
V lentia HAHN. The information herein reported was provided by oral brief-
ing only, and the writer was not permitted to review the HAHN file itself.
Following details are therefore based entirely on notes taken during the
meeting which took place in CARRICO's office on 6 September.
2. Valentin HAHN, who was born as Valentine Vasiliyevich KHAN on
22 April 1908. Slavyanka, Russia, and who is a Russian of Korean origin,
admitted in the course of a Polygraph examination administered on an
unspecified date, that he had acted as an agent in behalf of the Sovists. HAUN
has been in the employ of CIA since approximately 1952, originally in Seoul,
Korea, later in Tokyo, Japan, subsequently being transferred to Okinawa.
He was terminated on unspecified date as a contract agent of the SR Division,
and currently is or has been resettled in Hokkaido, where he has been given a
job as a translator with the FBIS listening post at Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
During the debriefing which accompanied his Polygraph testing, HAHN advised
that during his service in Tokyo, Japan, his closest associates had been the
following individuals in the order listed:
a. Arseniy YANKOVSKY and wife.
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b. [Basil EFREMOFF - CIA Staff Employee of [Tokyo Station] who
has been terminated on unknown date. He was identified as a
Japanese Intelligence agent,
e. John Mc COY and wife - Mc COY was or still is an employee of
SR Division, stationed in Japan.
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d. Vadim MEDISH CIA Contract Agent in employ of SR Division
stationed in Tokyo. In process of being terminated after
identification as former NKVD agent,, a former Abwehr agent,
and subsequent agent activity in behalf of the Soviets while in
DP camps.
e. Kasua KANAZAWA - Cousin of Valentin HAHN; at one time was
proposed for operational use by this Agency.
f. Charlotte BERGHOLTZ - Close friend of Anastasiya SNOW neo
YANKOVSKIY.
g. Golli-Grigorevna and Marguerita PODSTAVINA - PODSTAVINA
is the Godmother of Arseniy YANKOVSKIY.
h. Nichol-3-- samporr - 27 ôl employee of SR Division
in Tokyo under Department of State cover. Former FBI
employee.
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1. George PARIS (Spelling as picked up originally by Office of
Security in written report of Polygraph examination report, and
therefore likely phonetic.) - Greek businessman in Tokyo.
3. In the course of further debriefing in connection with his Polygraph
Test, HAHN claimed that George PERIS or PARIS was the individual who had
introduced HAHN to a club in Tokyo located off the Ginza, the name of which
club translated into English is "Tomorrow is Too Late". At this club HAHN
met a Japanese hostess by the name of Noriko AWAJI, whose real name was
later established to be Noriko MATSĘZAKAYA, whom he subsequently dated.
There is no further information currently available on this hostess. In the
interim, HAHN has obtained a divorce from his wife, who had been a witting
participant in his agent activities for the Soviets, and is known currently to be
living in a common-law relationship with a Japanese girl who may be identical
with Noriko MATSUZAKAYA. As indicated above, HAHN and his current
mistress are currently in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
4. The ex-wife of Valentin HAHN, whose full name is not known to the
writer, and the two HAHN sons, are currently being sponsored for resettle-
ment by the Agency in the United States, where all three are scheduled to
receive their U.S. citzenship under CIA sponsorship.
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5. With reference to the "Tomorrow is Too Late" Club, HAHN stated
that a number of CIA Staff Employees of the Tokyo Station frequent or have
frequented this establishment and have dated the Japanese bustesses employed
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Date of HAHN's introduction to the Club and to Noriko MATSUZAKAYA
by George PARIS aka George PERIS was estimated by Mr. Sayle to have been
somewhere between 1954 and 1957. With regard to Valentin HAHN's own
inclinations toward sharing his knowledge of romance with others, Mr. Sayle
advised that Security Office had established that while employed as a contract
agent of the [Tokyo Station! HAHN had pimped for CIA Staff personnel in Tokyo.
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6. As attachment herewith, the writer appends additional background
data on the professional intelligence activities and contacts of Valentin HAHN
and family as noted during the oral briefing by Sayle.
7. On basis of the above, it can be safely assumed that the George
PARIS known to HAHN is identical with George PERISTEROPOULOS aka
George PERIS, well-known Tokyo businessman and Honorary Deputy Consul
of the Royal Greek Consulate in Yokohama, Japan, as reported in SCTCKY-63
and SCTOKY-64. It is noteworthy that PERIS' contacts throughout his career.
commencing with ms original reported employment in Tientsin, China, through
his activities and contacts in Shanghai, China, and later in Tokyo, not exclud-
“ing his marriage to Aurelia CZERWINSKA, have been exclusively with
individuals of Russian or Eastern European background, many of them of
Russian Jewish background, who are either highly suspect or have been iden-
tified as long-time agents of Soviet Intelligence. PERIS' reported route of
arrival in Tokyo via Harbin, Tientsin and Shanghai, as well as his employ-
ment by Sondovich Brothers and contacts with individuals who tie in with the
Boris SOLOMONIK complex and Borsol Fur Trading Corporation, smacks
very strongly of the old Comintern Apparat of the 20's and 30's. Also it
parallels the travel patterns of a number of individuals involved in the SOBLE
case, principally the SOBLES themselves who were exfiltrated from the
Soviet Union via Tokyo, Japan, to the U.S.A. and who, most notably of all,
also were undēž čōver of operating a Bristie Business as is Sondovich Brothers.
8. According to earlier reporting in the ZRGRACE investigation.
George PERIS is alleged to have been a contact of William Hamilton MARTIN
in Tokyo, and to have offered MARTIN some type of job or business partner -
ship deal in connection with the rug business.
9. Mr. Carrico informally indicated that he personally suspects that
MARTIN's introduction to the fine art of masochistic torture by an unidenti-
fied Japanese female, as reported by Mrs. Ardelle GASDA to FBI agents,
may have been effected at or through his patronage of the Tomorrow is Too
Late" Club to which he may well have been taken or introduced by his friend
PERIS. This possibility, however, is subject to further investigation.
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10. As initial follow-up to SCTOKY -63 and SCTOKY 64, outgoing cable
of 7 Sept. 60 requesting further check-out of the Club, etc. was prepared.
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A second cable to be sent by Privacy Link to Seoul, Korea, has also been
drafted, and requests check of PERIS' arrival, activities and contacts,
departure from Korea subsequent to 28 January 1960. This cable has been
presented separately for your approval and may likely be subject to revision,
wherefore no copy is attached. It is further suggested that Office of Security
be authorized to pass to NSA Security Officials working on this case the
information on PERIS relayed in above SCTOKY cables, such information to
be properly sterilized of course, and that NSA in turn be requested to check
and obtain from U.S. Navy Personnel Records fuil copies in duplicate of the
odginal reports on the specific duty stations or assignments, including dates
of service at each, to which MARTIN and MITCHELL were detailed, also
detailed leave records, travel records, and other pertinent background data
contained in such files, to cover the entire period of their respective service
with the U.S. Navy. It is also suggested that NSA officials be requested to
obtain similar detailed original reports in duplicate from the Department of.
the Army to wover the periva OI MAKTIN'S civilian employment in Japan,
with special emphasis on any reports of MARTIN's extra-curricular activities,
contacts, club memberships, identified personal contacts with persons not
employed in his own office, leave travel, etc., which may be reflected in
official records. One copy of all such reports are requested for this Agency,
to permit further checking of known or newly identified contacts he may have
had in Japan.
1 Attachment: as stated
FI/D/AP:mem
Distribution:
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