Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 23107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System _ Date: 6/15/20] Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: — FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10286-10082 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: — 100-30067-IST NR 131, 2ND NR 131, 3RD NR 131 Document Information ORIGINATOR: — FBI FROM: DIRECTOR, FBI TO:  LEG,PA TITLE: DATE: 12/23/1959 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : JOP, REL, NCK, EMP, CP PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret RESTRICTIONS: = 4 ‘ CURRENT STATUS : Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 02/20/1998 OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE COMMENTS : INC 2 MEMO v9.1 7 Docld: 32304452 Page 1
Released under the John F: Kennedy Assassination Records Colleetion Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 ‘ wat zat e ws GAC, San Francisca (1001465) g Original & 2 San (200~40286) OcURER a ae aneisco l Jackson December 30, 1959 Director, FBI We PGB FOE. neehe ( ee wider AL) INFORMATION COMTATNED J oR PITTRAN er KE WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE. INTERNAL SECURITY ~ € Jp-20 os (ORBIK. RE. Declassify on: GABR (52 Reference ie made te your letter dated 1202159 and Bureau letter dated 12-23-59 to the Legal Attache, furis, with coptes te you, In the captioned matter. LERGARELE PITTMAN INTERNAL SECURITY = 48s noted in Bulet of reference, many of the names( ¢ontained in Pittman’a Saareea pockard, or oso have been, Comaunist Farty functionartes. This was te be expected and it ig not believed that any particuier significance could be attached te those entries in view of Pittman’e long history of communist activities 7 and associations. . Consequently, in your review, your primary purpoge should be to ascertain whether any of Pittman’s contacts are with tndividuals concerning whom there ts good reason to suspect that there is some subversive connection other than their normal coxuaunist affiliations. — For example, if you fing & person in a delicate position line luded in the aeddresa bosk concerning whom there ie no khown normal reason for Pittman to ai ie matter should be pureued. NOTE? ubjects key figures San Francisco Office. Are. currently residing Moscow, Russia, where John Pittman is — employed as Moscow correspondent for "The Worker," communist publication. (French authorities obtained old. address books of Pittman during his visit in Paris while _f en route to Russia. The'address books in question contained ae hundreds of names of individuals, for the most part known CP members or functionaries, that Pittman has associated with during his long history of CP activity. San Francisco Office is currently analyzing the information contained in the address books pursuant. to Bureau instructions. //s) JAS: baw . (6) t YELLOW DUPLICATE | 7 | DEC 39 1959. {2; JVB BBW oho oa Docld: 32304452 Page 2?
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. DATE: 11-14-2017 . ; S ra Director, FBI (100-333702) (100-30067) JOHN PITTMAN [5-C MARGARET: PITTMAN 1s-C (00: SF) ReBulet dated 10/28/59, captioned as above, which enclosed a gopy of a letter from the Legal Attache, Paris, dated 10/15/89, Ctogether with 97 photographs of material obtained from the effects of JOHN PITTMAN in Paris by the Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire . | (DET) ) (6! (ene photographs contain names of hundreds of individuais GS together with a few addresses, both demestic and foreign.) The San Prancisco Office appreciates the imterest of the Bureau ‘in cooperating with the request of the Legal Attache, Paris, regarding the nanes of possible espionage ents|among the names contained im the lists CS 3 maintained by PITTMAN janmd toward this end is searching all names through the San Frantisco indices in an effort te obtain further identifying data, (since im Many imstances there are no addresses ana &S_) in all instamces there is no identifying data.) The San Francisco Office has volumes of search slips and is diligently reviewing the references, the results of which will be furnished the Bureau and auxiliary offices aS soun as possibie tin order that the significamce of the appearance of 5} the mames in the effects of PITTMAN can be analyzed) and furnished the. \Q Bureau and interested Legal Attaches, When furthex identifying data is obtained, or possible identifications are obtained, the Bureau nay then ~& desive to check the names through Bureau indices and have ficid offices Y covering the residences of the individuals furnish information available in their indices, . , \ The Sam Francisce Office will give this matter continuous attention and advise the Bureau as soom as possible. C6sBureau AIR MAIL - REG. (2 = 100-333702) \{2 = 1060-30067) we wet, YX EA we ° a ~ 100-1465) - NOT RECORDED A CL = 10040388) epee n nr 78 DEC 24 1959 Q WHE: Lom ee CY B z “- Ofy oes. eee OG 3 Docld: 32304452 Page 3
| Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 vO : neat ee a Legal Attache, Parte (100-1058) SECRE] Hecenber 23, 1959 ew Direetor, FR (20008827082 100=30087} RT TRFORMATION CORTATWED 7 7 Pia HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED BEOMPS , OMN PISTTMAR it UR SHEE SHORR OSHERMIGE. ee ENVERNAL SECURETY « GOL TERR 4° . BARGARETE Apnga Pr vouas ; d O ea ty er LUPEREAL SECURITY = Pesta: _ A " | Declassfy on: OAD 3 Bade to your letter dated Novenber 19, 1958, aencleatng a menerandual recetued from the French Dorieottio Counter= sa tnteliligense Espionage Tervice |\dated November 4, 1959, which wes trangiated at the Bureau and the names listed therein cheeked egatnes Bufileg. hie check could not be 1004 complete because in aerteth of the names were illegible and there was a lack of — ‘e) Supfietent identifying dave concerning o number of others. However, ai @ result of hts scarch and in respense te the aspectfic questton ¥ (Geked by the french a9 t0 whether any Seviet agente could be identi sted! roa the naaca listed tm Pittman’s address books ,/ the answer ts ta tw the negattve. , 5 /s £9 ss Fou nay destre to gtve[the French) the followtng tnfornattonal\ AS waa t¢ be expected, @ great majority of the tndividuelea wke Gourde pw, jeferenee te be tdentifted ere known to d¢ or te have been connected with the a Communtet Party, USA, tn varying degrees, hie tneludes a considered 32°) munber of tndtviducie who have contributed articice to cemmuniss © publications. There wore also mmerous names of individuals who were | apparently bugtness cewtects af Pittman’ i” the publishing and _— literary fielda. | (00 * 2006 F— 1 5 | & = San Francteco (100-1468) (100-0286) 8 DEC 3, D ee — 1 0. 1 =~ Foreign Liatson Unit (route through for review) | DEG 23 1959 | Ne Subjects, husband and wife, are key Jigures of San Francisco. Office, Both are currently residing in Moscow, Russia, where John: - Ee Pittman is the Moscow correspondent for the "Daily Worker." While _ Fy en route to Moscow during a stopover in Paris, France, (the French Cs) authorities obtained phatographs of address books of Pittman's dating E: back to the early 1950!) Investigation of Pittman has been conducted over many years and vas revealed that this subject has been most active in the Communist Party particularly in the communist Y publishing field. His wife has also been associated with communist publications for years and was editor of the "German American," a German communist publication in New York City. She is currently . rt we 2 preparing articles forthe "P8oples World,” a west coast communist a bie publication, while in Moscows..! | 8 denegAN (99 1880 2 5, SECRET ORIGIN Docld: 32304452 Page 4