[tod-t07t9-t0244) ~ ne! = ¢ yy” Chief, SRS 25 April 1967 THRU: Deputy Chief, SRS THRU: Chief, FIOB/SRS Mu. D. ens ¢. Svetlana STALINA # 505112 1. Reference is made to the attached clippings regarding Svetlana STALINA, which reflect that the editor of the book she has written is to be Evan Welling THOMAS, 2nd, the son of Norman THOMAS; and that its translator is Mra. Priscilla Johnson Mac- MILLAN, aka: Priscilla Mary Post JOHNSON, #71589 DL. who is also currently working on a book with Marina OSWALD, widow of _ Lee Harvey OSWALD. The then Priscilla JOHNSON was of interest in the OSWALD case, in that she met Lee Harvey OSWALD and inter- viewed him in Moscow soon after his arrival there and renunciation of his U. S. citizenship. After the assassination she wrote a number of articles about him. ‘@. Priscilla JOHNSON's file makes no mention of her marriage to George MacMILLAN, a free lance writer, and no check on him has been made. She was Security disapproved for staff employment in 1953 because of her questionable associations and activities, and in 1956 a request for her clearance as a legal traveler in the USSR (Spotter) was - cancelled by CI/OA when a summary of information regarding her was furnished that office. Shewas again of operational] interest in 1958, but the Division again cancelled. She was granted @ covert security approval on 3 May 1963 to permit SR to debrief her concerning her contacts while in the Soviet Union. oe . 3. STALINA's lawyer is Edward S. GREENBAUM, # 354817, re- garding whom no summary has ever been prepared but whose reference cards indicate the possibility of question as to his political sympathies. GREENBAUM also representa Harper and Row who will publish STALINAS book and who also published William MANCHESTER's Death of a President, which was edited by the above referred to Evan THOMAS who is the Subject of § 164032. His file, which fails to indicate that his father is Norman THOMAS, reflects that in 1957 he was associated with Harper Brothers RETURN TO CIA Background Use Only Do Not Reproduce
14-00000 SERET and wae the subject of a request for a Covert Security Clearance to per- mithis use on QKENCHANT. However, the division cancelled prior to the issuance of the clearance requested for him. A check on him at the FBI at that time was NIC. Im August 1961, Evan THOMAS was again of interest 6 one of the individuals at Harper Brothers who were to be in- terviewed regarding a book which Pawel MONAT, @ 166824, intended to | publish, which was highly critical of CIA and the FBI. kt was hoped that publication of the book could be stopped but there is no iadication in THOMAS's OS file as to whether it was or not. .@. Alan Uriel SCHWARTZ, # 168207, a 35 year old partner in the law firm GREENBAUM, WOLFF, and ERNST, § EE 6832, who ac- companied STALINA to New York, was of interest'te WH/I] in February 1958, at which time it was indicated that he was employed by Morris L. ERNST in GREENBAUM, WOLFF, and ERNST. Edward 8. GREENBAUM is @ senior partner in this firm, as also ia Morris L. ERNST, ¢167982 and EE-6832-A. There is much seriously derogatory information on ERNST, including the fact that in December 1939 he attended a secret meeting at Communist Party headquarters in Chicago, Dlinois, at which time he was identified as the Counsel of ACLU in New York City. Alan SCHWARTZ, who appsrently was brought inte GREENBAUM, WOLFF, | and ERNST by Morris L.. ERNST, is said in the 1967 volume of Martindale- Hubbell to be a graduate of Yale University Law School, to have written -Censorship—the Search for the Obscene with Merris ERNST, and to have | been Counsel to the Radio and Television Committes of ACLU since 1959. - it is interesting to note that in March 1958, Security recommended against ERNST's use in connection with the GALINDEZ case; and that WH/II's xT interest in SCHWARTZ, at the same period of time, was ‘to review some Cuban government files in connection with (a) case being handled by firm of C-68017." A notation on C]/OA's request for a PCSA on SCHWARTZ reads "On 24 Feb. '58 Mr. eff C1/OA advised that upon Subject's return to New York ’ appro- priate division will contact him there on a fairly continuing basis." There is no further indication in SCHWARTS's file as to what use has been made of him. SCHWARTZ in 1957 was registered as an Agent of the Dominican Republic in connection with his employment by Morris L. ERNST, Special Counsel for that country; and he was also registered some- time during the period 1955-1959 as an Agent of the Dominican Republic im connection with his association with a William H. MUNSON. 6. HILL and KNOWLTON, “a public relations firm coordinating the publicity attending Mrs. ALLIZLUYEVA's arrival her," is the sub- ject of Security files ¢ 162356 and @ EE 13791.. This firm, which is said z SECRET
to be one of the largest public relations firms in the world, was of interest in November 1957 and again in May 1960 in connection with persistent re- ports that it represents the interests of the Japanese Socialist Party in the United States. In November 1957, the Prime Minister of Japan was attempting to find out whether or not the reports were valid; and in May 1960, FE/JAO/OPS advised that that office wamin receipt of information that the firm was registered with the Department of Justice os an agent of the Socialist Party of Japan and requested information as to the nature of the relationship, the identity of the individuals involved, etc. Each time, Security advised that HILL and KNOWLTON, Inc. had assumed contrel of Edward W. BARRETT and Associates, Inc., & public relations counseling firm, in March 1955; that this firm served as public relations counsel for the Office of the Consulate General of Japan from October 1953 to March 1955, and that HILL and KNOWLTON had continued this — relationship "to the present time" (January 1958). It was noted that HILL and KNOWLTON alee represented the Sues Canal Company, the Societe de L'Exposition Universelle et International de Bruxelles, and the Develop- ' gnent Beard of the Bahamas. In 1956 the firm announced the formatica of a new public relations firm HILL and KNOWLTON INTERNATIONAL with headquarters in The Hague and offices in Dusseldorf . 7. . The only reference in Security Indices to HARPER and ROW, pablishersof STALINA's book, is that ‘in two Indices ecards, copies of which are attached. 8. The individual who appears to be masterminding STALINA's visit te this country and the publication of her book is George F. KENNAN, #31883.(0 & C), éormer U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Unien. It was he who recommended Priscilla Johnson MacMILLAN to HARPER and ‘ROW ae one of five Russian-speaking experts. Mr. KENNAN seems to be acting in concert with Edward 5. GREENBAUM, who became STALINAS personal counsel after visiting her in Switzerland. M. D. Stevens Attachments - 2 Att 1 - Clippings Att 2 « Coptes of 2 Indices cards MDS: apk