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SUBJECT: YEVGENY RUNGE NAME APPEARS IN BOOK
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1. ACTION REQUIRED:
FYI.
.2. ON 16 JULY, SUBJECT WAS MET IN COSTA MESA BY IC FORTAW
(IN PNINFINITE ALIAS D.B.D.) TO PROVIDE SUBJ WITH INFORMATION
CONCERNING THE APPEARANCE OF HIS NAME IN THE RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK
"THE MAN WHO KNEW TO MUCH" BY DICK RUSSELL (CARROLL GRAF PUBLIS
HERS/RICHARD GELLEN, 260 FIFTH AVE, NY, NY 10001, COPYRIGHT 1992).
THE BOOK IS A "CONSPIRACY THEORY" INVESTIGATION INTO THE
* <ASSASSINATION > OF
'
PRESIDENT<JOHN>F.<KENNEDY>THROUGH INSIGHTS
PROVIDED BY THE ACTIVITIES OF RICHARD CASE NAGELL, ALLEGEDLY A CIA
* (INTERALIA) "AGENT" AND ASSOCIATE OF<LEE HARVEY OSWALD, >WHO CLAIMS
*TO HAVE INFORMED THE US GOV'T OF THE PLAN TO<ASSASSINATE>THE
PRESIDENT. SUBJ HAD BEEN MET ON 29 APR AT HIS REQUEST, AT WHICH
TIME HE ASKED THE RCO TO DETERMINE WHY SUBJ'S NAME HAD APPEARED IN
THE BOOK AND WHAT SIGNIFICANCE IT MIGHT HAVE.
3.
RCO OBTAINED A COPY OF THE BOOK AND AFTER REVIEWING IT,
PROVIDED SUBJ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ON 16 JUL. REQUEST HQS
COMMENTS ONLY IF IT IS BELIEVED NECESSARY.
4. THE NAME APPEARS ONCE IN THE BOOK, SPECIFICALLY, IN
CHAPTER 29 "NAGELL'S DISAPPEARANCE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN:
1968-70," ON PAGE 657, IN THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH:
NAGELL WAS ALSO QUESTIONED IN THE USSR ABOUT A KGB LT COL,
YEVGENY RUNGE, WHO HAD SOUGHT ASYLUM FROM THE CIA IN WEST
BERLIN IN THE EARLY FALL OF 1967. RUNGE'S DEFECTION WAS SAID TO
HAVE EXPOSED THE WIDESPREAD USES OF "ILLEGAL" AGENTS, UNATTACHED
TO ANY EMBASSY, BY SOVIET INTELLIGENCE (RUNGE HIMSELF HAD
POSED AS A TRAVELING JUKEBOX SALESMAN). (24)
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FOOTNOTE 24, CHAPTER 29 STATES: NAGELL MENTIONED RUNGE, BRIEFLY AND
CRYPTICALLY, IN ONE OF HIS LETTERS TO (ARTHUR) GREENSTEIN. FOR
BACKGROUND ON THE RUNGE CASE, SEE DAVID BINDER, "BONN EXPERTS SAY
DEFECTOR WAS ONE OF THE SOVIETS' ABLEST AGENTS," NEW YORK TIMES (27
OCT 67); "THE SPIES THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND," TIME (27 OCT 67)
P.35; BENJAMIN WELLES, "DEFECTION OF A SOVIET SPY VIEWED IN US AS
WINDFALL,
11 THE NY TIMES (10 NOV 67) P.1.
5. CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING UP TO NAGELL'S INTERROGATION BY THE
KGB IN MOSCOW: ON 10 JUN 68, WHILE ENROUTE TO WEST BERLIN THROUGH
EAST GERMANY, COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES DETAINED AND THEN IMPRISONED
NAGELL. HE SUBSEQUENTLY WAS SENT TO THE SOVIET UNION FOR FURTHER
INTERROGATION, EVENTUALLY BEING RELEASED AT THE BERLIN BORDER TO
AMERICAN AUTHORITIES ON 23 OCT 68.
6. GREENSTEIN, A PERSONAL FRIEND OF NAGELL'S, ORIGINALLY MET
NAGELL IN MEXICO CITY IN 1962 WHILE GREENSTEIN WAS A STUDENT AT THE
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO. GREENSTEIN, WHO EVENTUALLY OPENED AN
ADULT BOOKSTORE IN WILLMINGTON, DELAWARE, WAS THE RECIPIENT OF MANY
*LETTERS FROM NAGELL CONCERNING THE<KENNEDY ASSASSINATION>BOTH WHILE
NAGELL WAS IMPRISONED AT LEAVENWORTH DURING THE PERIOD JUL 67 TO APR
68, AND SUBSEQUENTLY. IT APPEARS THAT AT NO TIME DURING THE COURSE
OF GREENSTEIN'S ASSOCIATION WITH NAGELL, THAT GREENSTEIN WAS
PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN ANY CLANDESTINE OR ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.
GREENSTEIN'S MENTIONING OF RUNGE'S NAME WAS SOLELY IN THE CONTEXT OF
IT HAVING BEEN MENTIONED BY NAGELL AS ONE OF THE NAMES THAT THE
SOVIETS BROUGHT UP IN THE COURSE OF NAGELL'S INTERROGATION. NAGELL
HAD NO INFORMATION CONCERNING RUNGE.
7. FILE: 6LG-006-200 (FPF/RMB).
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