[towtonig-ort7] - - ae ‘ > - if . en, : fim ct eee 2 ve i . - soho Rha ad ee tht ates SB . . . -a ae 3 November 196: MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. James K. Hunt, Jr., Deputy Chief, Ci Staff QUBI ECT: Mir aael C. SUMAN (201- 308566} - Mutual Gentact of Willlam Hamiltes MARTIN and ef AEMUSICAL matinee ARSE onto REYERENCE: Your Memorandam dated 13 Octeber 1961 Bo . s+ => wer “The MM fe Mf Case" % x een 4 i. Thsaek you very much for your memorandum ef 13 October, referenced above, and for the enclosed contact report, including AEMUSICAL'o report on the information he acquired from Subject eonceruing the latter's interview by OXI and contact with Willian Hamiltes MARTIN, Noither the bicgraphic data on SUMAN contained therein, cor hie close scsoctation with beth MARTIN and Bernea Forguscn MITCHELL were keown to us hitherto. Neither were we -awere of his apparently extensive correspondence with MARTIN, I¢ . hae net been possible te date te verily through special sources whether Subject's covreependanca with MARTIN continued alter MAATIN's disappeavance from the United States. We have net as yet received the latest NSA repert of investigation, which would include the CRI report of interview of Subject, since this document apparently has | -.... bees delayed in publication and transmittal, However, we have been advised that the document in question should be available im spproni- mately one week te ten days, at which time we shall provide you wits the ONI report of their interview of Subject. 8 tn vepty to the query outlined to paragraph 3 of your memo- fandum, we see little point in attempting ta discourage AEMUSICAL from passing this information te the Soviets, both on basis of his past performance ia veporting, and because the KGB undoubtedly already is - aware of SUMAN's relationship to MARTIN, MITCHELL and AEMUSICAL. Aé & Consequence, if would not appear necessary to request ONI to elear this information for passage to the Soviete by AZMUSICAL, pare ticularly simce it must be assumed that the KGB is monitoring all mail sent ami received im the USSR by MATIN and MITCHELL. Ia order te simplify the handling of this information both within thie Agency aad the customer agencies mene is is suggeated that a straight cscl i : a | a ay . of a rev a4 - bab 2 nat weeks com ga Tea I eae necernee nee we anor mene nD wardiemtee edie cane, Foe sO ket Derive cept alee erred Nhe Cee IK ae ntl 0 made esfeninnteti te natten accom APNtaine ere tree wR SSO NAT tu MER AE nr eraph ‘namerearsecaat Ae ase, eet ee AE AREOEEG OHARA Hw Mette 2 He AEN BUE Ad Ao wah ree apn any ¥ . ye ' ssa Sctag gtr be Vee AE eaen lt GEIS mt Be ee AE EE ave “Leet + - = S : A ate a et a tee *, on eee "ett Pa . 1h ” aod ee Ms ae PS dept caches opuy oo vee | Aefsee eh be Bane dete bere anata TDN gS i pages EG HET Mee RE A MATA aa tl gad wanett al 2G ve pts es Habe sepa ete
14-00000 diesemination of the information obtained by the agent from Subject be ; prepared by WE/i lor ON], with copies to HSA, the FSi and this office, each dissemination to be coordinated with Chief, F1/B, prior te release by the CI Staff, Sech handling, we believe, will enable WE/1 to provide ths appropriate source description and references to eartler corresponde eace with UN] oa tals case, in such inanner as to pormit ready internal ONI coordination in this matter, and to protect the identity of the ageat . as well as te joint operational equities of beth the F Zi and thie égeney im thie case. Mr. Ludlem of your staf, whe ie farnitlar to some extent with the TICRAMA/AZMUSICAL casa, has indteated that this method of handliag. the information will.simplify any further coordinae.- then with the Navy en matters with whick ke is concerned, ; Le nee RAE war ory rote ae renner yne yee 3. Fer your convenience we are forwarding for your information . as Enclooure A, herewith, a reconstructed chronological outline of the KGB keowledge of the relationship between AENMUSICAL « Subject « MARTIN aad MITCHELL, Enclosure Ale based upon information cone tained in those documents on the case, which were made physically avellable to this alfice for review through the efforts cf bar, Hal Granquist, WE/YCE, who holds the actual 201 file on thie case, inctade fag ali cperational reporting beginning with January 1968. Cur review, therefore, was limited te the three-volurme TIDNAMA Operational Filea, eovering the peried 1557 through Lecembeor 1960, which files were found in the custedy of Mira, Gertrude Wecker of SR/CI/RED. Me.. Granquist advised that it would:not be -posaible for us to haves -.. sieiler can of the material aince December 1960, for reagens cutlined ia hie aste, which te iecluded ia A2nciosure B. However, Mr, Granquist volunteered te review the entire 201 file in our behalf, and to extract the pertinent informaiion op SUMAN fram-said file, and te forward such -: 1: °-- - jafornnation to thie office, To date, such review has produced only one evel extract, copy of whichis attached as gnelosure B, Serene ori te ek gat Me nM Oe a Les eee emote ee rng mE Sete 8 Bence ae orn mgr etonienytae and 4. Your particular attention io invited to the fact that review of the TIDRAMA Operational Files revoaled that the bulk of the reporting oa this case, including the identities of TIDRAMA-1/ALEMUSICAL's persenai acquaintances, contacts, and operational reporting targets on whom he bas pasaed information ta the KGB, have never been indexed into AID indices, and therefore are not reflected in a name eheck submitted by other desks of divisions to the Central RID/Index Section. As a consequence such aame check will nct in any manner reflect to the requestor that there is any information on euch individual held io WE/1, even though extensive information may be available, and even indexed in WE/1l card Hles. This velume of unindexed reporting ingludes interaal CIA comimunicationa between Headquarters and Field stations, as well as reports te and from the F Bl and other U. &. Agencies, , Some of which inclade. extensive background data on certain of the agont'a. eh ng AEB ob lps et tg SP op toe - be he Ente sleet shoe ¢ Uwe | Oy pan AL ast 1A or oes al SB rer BOTT 4 t t % din Bi, te ot yey ot ioe Ae Rha cleat pen sont Fink ees Oto ae Gaeaet pen Bee ote ag see neg pee x or Fay St omy ST APY rgettongrbtanyge eye seg, oie Phang oti rh aero Bees ety apes Gaale Pyaiitte iipatagited! Laven), - at
an ne eM ee Re ee heen oe eas eee a tone net Bet Reeds 6 vede woke td as, ke ate wera Athos Senewe sles! , $e oe og, ERASE IA TE ou we elie RAG HAM Miah ate em eb natal sete? ERIE Deel A IRtnlbenh eee a bet a Rimbet , rs ro. : . . ; SFeuie. + dian ttt me Lose, . a BE tap ccln baat? Cr add edge ata nee at Ck eB gi Megnen ee AP ce wt ee Sb enn ar eee | ' oi te tt he eontacts, The failure of WE/1 to provide for AYBAT carding of the identities mentioned in the AZMUSICAL reports, for which there ie ample proviclon undar.C3N-43-35, dated.tl. May 19599, has resulted. im the dispatch is Subject's case, of an officia: Agency memorandum dated 2 Novernber 1940, addressed to the National Sacud ty Agency and the FBI, advising that CIA indices contained no references ideatie (lable @tth Michsel C. SUMAN of Sierra-Madre, Calileornia, who was @ Usted reference-of Willlam Mamiltes KIARTIN, For your convenience @ copy of this memorandum is attached as Enclosure C, Undoubtedly a& copy of the memorandum iteeli, cr of the fafsrmation relayed thereia was made available to UNI by NSA pricr to actual ONE contact and intere wiew ef BUBLAN. Ae a reault of our receipt of the informatica forwarded with your referenced memorandum, a phyeical recheck was conducted oe 19 Cctober 196) af all ZID/Index carda on file in Central RID/Index in the surname of SUMAN, This exercise revealed that as of that date there were absolutely uo carda filed under the naine of Michael C, - SUMAN se of that date. This check was made prior to our contacting of Mr, Granguiat tater that day or shortly thereaftor, with regard to peseible price reporting on SUMAN, which may have keen provided by the agent in advance of the latest report. Mr. Granquiet readily adraitted that there had been some previous reporting, but stated that none of theee refeyences had been indexed in or for HU/Index, since he docen't believe in iadexing every name that appears in operational ' paperting as a contact cf ths agent, thatis “unlesa.we have eome operational izterast in.such person, and heretofore we have never had -. any euch interest in SUMAN, ' He also indicated that SUMAN's name hsd been passed to the AGB by ALMUSICAL ‘some time ago, probably around the turn ef the.psar, '' but was. not able to-coms up. immediately with a epecific. date or ralerence in which details of thig report te the = - 2G5 wae recerded. Ne alae indicated.that despite passage seme time . ago (actually about £8 monthe prier to the report forwarded with refer ence) by ALMUSICAL. of Michagl-C. SUDMAN's ame te the KGB ae an individusl with whom the agent maintalned personal contact, he did not ', feel that thie fact, por se, transformed SUMAN into the category of persores “ol eperational intereat to us.'' When queried for further detaila on such reporting, Granquist indicated “that he thought ha knew . Just about «here these reports were located in the file, "' and volunteered te sztract the pertinent infeormaticn and forward same te this office. However, he indicated that he did not believe he would be able to let ae borrow the actual 201 file, which is on permanent charge te W E/1, and to permit ua further detailed study of the material thereia, since the filee were in constant use at the desk. However, he went en to state thet he would be perfectty willing to let us berrew the earller TIDRAMA files held by ire. Weckar, if we preiarred to. conduct such review  eureetves, rather than relying upon his:review and extracing of pertinent ve om af PP TBS Tage ate ene San aCe Re en er aw epee en eon gece aen aa emia eeu yanueen mee paneetn + eens & sens ‘ nN 4 RUREE PONT C0 pe EM CMNTD ORT 1 eee She grt cig tt Oe bee neato. pe basiaen ah, Sitro init ee eat Me ee ates ange bel
14-00000 subcequently borrowed the files held by Mrs, Vecker; the results of thie check ravealed the datalls of ALMUSICAL's reporting en hie cone tacts with SULMAN, insofar as such detaile are reflected in the TIDRAMA operational files, and are summarised in Emclosure A. -- - | ‘ materials from these files, This effer was accepted, and Mrs. Potecki | ; ; %. Wis obvious [rom even a relatively superficial review of theee i materiais, that ALMUSICAL has never been questioned in detail by his ; . GIA cease olficere on hie relatlonship «with er to SUMAN and a number of j ether individuals, whoze names appear throughout this correspondence. i Beither dees he appear te heave beon debricfed in depth on the aubstance i of the information he paseed te the Soviets om auch persons during the | individual meetings he had with the KGS, much lese regarding the i> +. . weaction of the KGB handler to any of the names, or the follow-up querics put te him by the soviet Case Cificer erally during the course ef any particular meeting whee euch information was passed. This | etatement, of courses, is based upon the operational reporting prepared i by the Case Officer, dane is obviously subject to poesible eorrecticn in the event euch details are covored in the individual cone tact reports prepared after each meeting by the CIA handler, such reports not having boan ccanned of read in the course of thie review, | Uniess serch details ds appear in the contact reports, it would appear | that source has withheld much of the detail af his conversations with | bie Soviet bandiey, cithsr oa a witting basis the motivetion for which must be cotcblished, or unwittingly, possibly because he-was not asked | for these dotaila, Under the circumstances, you may wish to consider _ eadertakieg.a therough CL veview of the entize ALMUSICAL case, in order that a detailed debriefing of the agent may be undertaken upon bie return to the United States, and prior te hie re-trassfer te the cone trot cf the F Gl. We note that despite indications to the field that the  - desk was preparing traces on AEMUSICAL'es multitudinoas centacts, the files reviewed reficct tha rasulta of such tracing efforts on oaly a guaall Proportion of the agent's associates aad contacts. Nace Yt ete Uae me ede ee oe Fine 6. Itts requested that the writer be hept advised of any farther action contemplated in this case, aa well as of any further information developed obout source's contact with SUMAN or any other persens .5 - ' Giguring in the ZRGRACE case. J WILLIAM K,. HARVEY os ~~ Chief, FI/Divisioa D Se Eaclosuress — FI/D/APotocki:zmem “ty Ne Oe ~ ~Qrig.k lwfenc, - addressee aa _& B,C. De Ee Fran Good L w/enc.. = OS/SRS LE ASA IRGLAP ALSO Me ten ciahot bk ADELA canon eneeenet aco mr nm emcee Sanaa AML EASAS ote eam de : Ge “Pw/enc. = 201-282338” Toey ggrry Iewlenc. - 100-6- 124/3 4 wienc. = 201-308366 2.05 2! ; eran sii deat “ jase “ = . ; - Key et odie eed aed sa Pe Ae aaeensmearins t wert ae ae . - o Tae ‘ ‘ x t ~ 7 ' “ + . omen =. aoe . bears Baty ga he ery Wee etieae beta . Sports Fae AULA big ag Sites MWe re Th tip KF csv s, cod ape estar eee copied mete eA TENGE wfc Gao RE po eg hPa 0's Fog wang ioe nyt tm dette pe PY TB Meg aie Saat VRE AD AUR iy neice Ra antes ay 7 . a se jane tith Y poral Sera gre * " on te ~ : . 1 pp omi E se
14-00000 me a ‘ wipe Tew hannbanbas shea le “ “a SSP Nm pe oda an H . Met kee we a ‘ene Reconstructed Chronology of KGS Knowledge of Michael C. SUMAN's Connection with AR MUSICAL and with ZRGRACE -Principale: I 4 oat “ et 3 i wo 1. Per CSCI-3/766, 672, dated 12 July 1960, addressed to tha FBI, on puge ll thers ia mentioned 2 “ganaral questioning by SLABOV ef AEMUBSICAL with regard to hile contacte ia the U.S. duriny the meeting between SLABOV and ALMUSICAL on 15 biay 1939. It must be presumed that SUMAN's name likely came up at thia time, in ght. of information developed at a later date showing SUMAN ts have been the person who exerted the most influence over AL MUSICAL fa hie youth, sccording to AL MUSICAL's own adraiselon. fee ab thn a 9 Ran tacctemthasinnie we a net ene a 2. Atthe 16 July 1999 meeting with SLABOV, his KGB handler, AEMUSICAL was inetructed by SLARCV te prepare and submit to SLABOV at the next meeting a “very complete life histery of himself, (ef para. 9, OSSA-8814, dtd 24 July 1939) According to the eame geference, the GIA Case Clficer, Timothy F. Neggle met with ADMUSICAL on IY July, at which tins he ebtained tas above info, snd ia para 17 the CIA handier states: vo! ENCLOSURE A —" “37, We gave T/i the green light ow his Ufe history telling hira to furnish a complete.and truthful report to. TIDRAMA/3.. The portent of -T'/3's ‘higkelevel! schame lor T/l-ie hard to deduce and harder yet to accept at face value. For the time being it soume beet to maintain our walt-andesee policy, particularly because the Sovict trip should produce a rm decision on the Soviet side as to whether or not T/l is worth all thie bother...." Slace the next AEMUSICAL (then still TIDRAMA/1) contact with the KGB was schedalad-for'3} August 1959, te be followed by a meeting with Noggle on 6 August, it must be preaumed that af least at thie time AEMUSICAL's cloee friendship and continuing contact with Michael C. SUMAN was brought to the attention of the KGB. However, it ls aote- . { worthy that throughout the operation, there 4s very little detailed a Seen AOETIND Tie eeetattine cate tine tt Set aR NSE MA i oe Eo et nw ert Be bt reporting from the field on the exact details of what AKMUSICAL told the RGB handter at each meeting regarding each of his personal con- tacts. Subject's case is a perfect ezample. Actually there is no detailed record of exactly when or what AEMUSICAL told the KGB about his (rlendship with Subject, cther than the Items contained in _ this chronology. Neither does there appear to be any reporting of the depth to which KGB representatives probed inte this relationship, the reaction shown by the KGB handler whon ALMUSICAL firat indicated he ROBIN « Nalefen Ga A legate Bek hae anne yo aN mn ee gt ition | Agetes anise Woe edb et an eee tas : ° La hinedte waste. vulete SS bewabte puaeie Rckeriacghom ea Cras ee ara, Bake otted jRuoenetie abil tye A} RRL Bratt Mage seer Muadine media Lap (oA hippo aie POI DT HSS BRT eg 4 Sips 0 eng ee Se re at es, wo fal .
14-00000 ¥ : . 4 Co. yr Meg caw ne i * aa SF ae tad Do bee ‘ - 1 — Spee og : . pon, nat Zoot wets was a friend of SUMAN's, ete, Since AEMUSICAL (then TIDR AMA} actually was in centact with the KGS Resident tn Stockholm, Ivan BORIZOYV in 1957 price to hie contact with KU BARK through the lecal ODACID installation, there always remains the posaibility that SUMAN may in some yet unexplained manner ‘have played serne role in BORISOV’s contact with AEMUSICAL of which source either ia wiiting but to which he does not admit, or of which the agent ia entirely unwitting. woe 3 3 4 4 a og 4] 3, CYCI-3/756, 896 addreused te the F Bl under date of 9.Ccteber 1989, page 5, para 5, indicates that TIDRAMA did in {nct provide SLABCY with the requested detalied personal biographic hletery statee ment, such isformation presumably having been passed, as planned, oe 3 August 1959. If SUMAN's name bad not previously come up in the oval questioning of AEMUSICAL referred to in para t, above, it surely faust have come out ea this eccasion. { 1 i : | 4 Ineemuch as SLABOV requested AEMUSICAL te previde him | with an adérese at which he could be reached while in the U.S. in the | fall of 1959, although the record indicates merely that he thereupon sappiled SLABOV with bis mother's addresa in Callforaia, in view of | the information reported te his headquarters handlers in Cetober 1959 | price te leaving Washington, if must be pravumed that ALMUSLAL | aloo provided SUMAN's name and address to the KGS, se one of the | persens he planacd te contact and vielt with while in the U.S. i i | { | i i 4 | i &. WE/1 and the FBI wore aware,.in.advance, of TIDRAMA's . plane to contact SUMAN while oa the WestCoast duriag the peried ~~ a7 Ceteber through 5 November 1959, according to the original plans, as indicated in attached memorandum dated 29 October 1959, addressed by WE/i to Myr. Milor of Cl/Opa/Sovaat. (incl. D) The original ofthis. decament was found interiiled ia the TIDRAMA Operational Files held by SR/CI/RED. ; fel incaare San tebnten mls ene ou nteent hath eth perenornethemmenemaeniee antnunennfet te cinta ateian niente hese se tneite stent Anette easiness amenetamnetemmenttnate sin Httmrns alte tao te mete enneng en nant bene wen mem of Ste : 6.- Follswing TIDRAMA‘'s retura from above referenced West . Coast trip in October-November 1959, during which time he was - atiempting to obtain certain claesified information from bie California Couiacts in order to ¢umply with the KGB requiremenis gives him by : SLABGY before he left Stockholm, TIDRAMA was again debriefed and i briefed by the headquartere case officers of WE/1, with report of his ‘ U.S. trip forwarded to the fieid as OSS W -6379, under date ef 13 November 1 1959. Apparently this pouch wae not coordinated with Mr. Miler, and 4. it is apparent that no copies of the complete pouch were previded te bins d. following dispatch to the field, in Light ef varlous memoranda referring : toe OSS W -6379, ali of which are addreseed to Cl/Ups Soveat and begin i i ee eee ee aaa rani ts et een o 5 BARA Rang gene ay Pe age ea seb atndne eds oS Spy reo tt Aegis oh tra whe tec grail seeth Beh nhlen tea er 9 Mba sy ARE we emma 8 Letra tye waite ewe PS De Sosa SPR bre TA a ey 3
14-00000 \ 4 3 memos are attached for your convenience as Enclosures & and F, Cane trary to the impression conveyed in Amiden’s memorandum -of G'Auguat” — 1960, ao closer reading of OSS W-6379 reveals that his visit with 5U MAN eceupied the entire period of bis stay in California, t.e. from 27 Ceteber through 6 Novamber 1969, to the exciusion even of visiting the Inyokera Ravel Station where Sourca's mother was employed, and conceraing~ which he held certain 22!'s (rom the Soviet case officer. Under the elreumstances, hie contact with SUMAN cannot be dismissed as lightly as Amiden's meme might indicate, and it la very doubtful that TINA AACA. would have been able to get off with ae superficial o report to his KGG handlor as ke appears to have dene with respect to the WE/) cage efficers responsible for hie hawdilag at the time. 7. As Enclosure G, please find a copy of the report TICRAMA propared on his contacts in California, which was prepared by the Deak aad pacecd te Mr. for clearance by appropriate U.S, Agencias foy passage. Thig memorandum was made available to this office by Mr. __—s—i@aring the week of 36 Cctaber 1961, The memorandum iteclf fo dated 17 November 1959, and according to Mr, [____—séw@ tae tien was shown te the F Bl on that date, and subsequertly returned oa 3 December 1959, Please note SUMAN's name te included. Fete baci hd bar ae Rneteeangy Reh ne + tetra ln Re hn pte ee tene meme aM ate Sete nen ae oe i} t i & According to Mr. Graaquist's memo to Mrs. Potecki, (cf. Enel, 0) there allegedly ia ne further riention of SUMAN in the i TIDRAMA/AEMUSICAL Mile other than that ferwardad by Granquist with hie note, and the report forwarded to us with releranced memege | randuin, ; ; | 9. Fellewing disappearance from tha Uaited States of MARTIN aad MITCHELL ta July 1960, and after initlel request for assistance frem this Agency, NSA mada available:in early August 1966 photocopies @ the PHS forms completed by MARTIN and MITCHELL for employment with NSA, such forme being dated 11 July 1957, three days after they reported for duty at Fort hieade. Guamiuation af MARTIN's employ- ment application revealed that he had Usted Michasi C. SUMAN ef ; Sierra Madre, Califerda, as a personal reference in one case, aud as | x & credit reference in another place, indicating that he had known him i for a period of four years, i,e. since 1953, However, inasmuch as - go there wae no indication that SUMAN had been connected in any way mort | | 4 | | 2 eto tee detente Steet tet Namen ted RAMON HERON Bet tT Z aglaw oe seagrass i -. with MARTIN’ s military service is Japan, it waa assumed that SUMAN i "> wae @ casual acquaintance and not aa intimate friend, a ‘40, Sabsequent mention of SUMAN in NSA reports dated 1] September 1961 and 1 March 1961 repeat information reported in para 9 above, and il . . 7. reflect that SUMAN's name was See eee BUA emicee en ~~ t. . ‘ ae aa sama as Fata Aiea ihn ete NH Selbes ttn e prorat s2 pin bk ton _ sete i . BES ; Fee wah they, i \ te , . te ‘ oa BS eae ota n > ee : « rit caeucppe > iggor ts . ~ . . a tt ad weg ey Be Ee wet bet ogy cope Shee ERE TI Re 0 REGRETS Eg tet RISE SO FP TA ES BUN, Lane Syed “wey a piety Fp Hehe feneesh p fw ‘ . “ . we hn : song eae Mesa ety, Seat ote ba een bh Raber ch col iaph aie a geveantessd peovonag ent shang hate. PUNE TIN PE BI Sly SN 7a Bae ah ERP meets of BLP Fb pee aesceen mae oy
2 by e at | i | & Octebor 1960 by NIA inveectigators with segative results. We have | @s yot not received the next consolidated NSA report of investigation, - | . wiieh may coutein the resales of the ONT interview of SUMAN, which en | ia mentioned ia enclosure to your msinorasdum of 13 Octeber.1961. . . | . o ‘ “ i ” . 1 . | . 7 , : : : ° . ) “ ; ere Cia . wig ots TTY pisos taste senate tele ated i at pela hart hide othe . ied te . .