124-90140-10031 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : vol HY f0953 Docld:329338074 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90140-10031 HQ CR 100-391429-11 ~ Document Information CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY CIA HQ 06/22/1961 3 CIA LIAISON MATERIAL GENE DECASTRO PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 1B Redact 09/28/1998 APPROVAL OF CIA MEMO Page i Date: 4/17/201
" a sorOoRN/CoreritaD CONTROL, ( CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RECEIVED FROM . WASHINGTON 25, D. C. JUN 23 96) ‘CIA SJR) BR JUN 1969 TO: Director 6-95 = COPIES MADE _ - Federal Bureau of Investigation tS om PICA Attention: Mr. S. Je Papich eee ed v2 °weweese tee REVIEW AT FRIRO By FROM: Deputy Director, Plans <(” Kg “A REEL E. REQUEST, ) @ a ASER BUFILE #62-117290) oN SUBJECT: Gene DE CASTRO Eanke CASIRO . fey ds ee ; 1, An official o as recently re | on the above Subject, wi0 Is an applicant For "a position of trust" () We note that this man has been the subject of previous corresponden etween this office and your Bureau, including our SQ DB~53386, dated 29 May 19526 [He | is the subject of your file number 100=391L29} Rae FCM | 2a In connection with his inquiry, ow] [eee has furnished the : following biographic data on DE CASTRO, which Is poSsibly merely what DE CASTRO ' himself provided to the Swedes: . . Date and Place of Birth: Born 3 October 1919, Blackpool, England | Citizenship: United States: Home Address: 4391 Revera (sic) Drive, Coral Gables, Florida Swedish Address: c/o RAMBERG, h6 Ostmarksgatatf, Harsta C(stoektelm)) DECLASSIFICATION AN Passport: United States No. SuBLO RELEASE OF ik INFORMATION, ae Date of Arrival in Sweden: 30 January 1961 IN THIS DOCUMENT, veey7y bi Chees KP 5-11-98 In asking for information on DE CASTRO, enar'ked, without elaboration, that DE CASTRO is possibly a Communist. Ss 3e In reply to quiry we have received on the Subject, we believe it would h some extracts from the report made by James Delk Leland at New York, dated 5 June 19535 We have in mind the following items of informations EX-116 & owe 3 Lo Vf “2B 2s yo 2 was Ae SFI Y od if ae . are. a 17 JUN? 196i | NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL a reer iA ALL FBL INFORMATION CONTAINED firey 7 . HEREIN JS U SH Oe i 48 AE DAT de - ; « “oy, HW 50953 DBocld: 32336074 Page 2
we), NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL , ORAL E | Subject studied Russian and other Eastern European languages. While in Finland, he also taught English,. Source did not know what income Subject had, but wondered how he could manage to make enough money from teaching English to be able to afford a room costing $0.00 per month, a telephone and riding lessons, plus the usual normal living expenses, — be DE CASTRO returned to Sweden, penniless, in about 1958, Ona visit to Helsinki later that year he stated that he had not been able to find a job in Sweden, During the course of his entire stay in Finland for about seven years, he gave no indication why he was remaining there for that length of time and he did not advance himself in any discernible way. He never visited his mother in England, although he did receive a visit from his aunt, who is also an Englishwoman. Cc, Subject never expressed any political opinions, but his entire behavior aroused unfavorable speculation as to why he was in Finland, de In the summer of 1958 DE CASTRO was hired by Pan American World Airways to work at the Helsinki Airport, but he was discharged for in- competence. Subject also was given a job teaching English for the Tampere (a city in Finland) Finnish-American Society, but lost this position, too, because of incompetence, 5a Please advise whether the information in paragraph 3 above may be furnished to| ich is interested in Subject. We would also ing whether you have received a separate inquiry fron intthis matter. © | CSCI-3/765, 93h 3 NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL ePARE oh CECBEL HW 50953 Docld: 32333074 Page 3