104-10404-10210 Ts, ale bette ty we . wr | as oo a . x . : > 22 APR 1964 Federal Surecau of Investizatioa JSTSOT : t8sa3sination of rresident Jonna F. iennedy 1. wveference is made to tie report of Special Agent Aobert i. GEMBEDRLING, dated 30 November 1963, Field <tiice File Nux.bder: OALLEAS (89-43), Subject: LEE WNEVSY Gor2lLbD, Assassination of evesident JORN FITZGERALD RENNEDY, 1:/22fo03, Callas, Texas. fhie communication reported an interview by your office of MP XK Georse / he SLUHE on 23 November 1903 in which hr. GUUS relerred toa Ktydia DIVYTRUY of Fort “orth, Texas, who allegedly had associated with hiarina N, COWVALS, 2. The Glea of tale Agency contain tne foNuwing pertinent information on one Lydia OCYMITRJM who may be identical with the cydia De YEA referred to above: a. Lydia , ee LERDYANSHAYA aka BERJANSSAYA) DYMITRUK was born on 3 April 1926 in tostev, USia, She rer.ained ia dostov with her parenta until she wae 16, when she was deported dy the Germans toa work campin Germany. “shea the var ended she entered a camp for dlaplaced persons in Duesseldorf, Germany, where she met and married one Karel Lodwijk VaARhizlol, a Delzian citizea, With her husband she entered Belgium at an onknown date and resided in Antwerp, Reportedly she was a member of the Juion af Spvtet iatriots in Belgium from 1946 to 1952, Sometin.e in early 1952, while still married to VERHELST, Lydia began living withY Vasiliy @rewemreme ' Gaverilovieh (aka Favel) KOSTENKO in Prossels. A Belgian Folice Jinveatigation of her GROUP 1 Excloded from aztotatic cowterafisg a1 éeclasailicaties
13-00000 gue ») everT , ) wewWeShi pation G2 ner vraustionsni. ahh. oboe re cubed ain ler eeiu,, fined for adultery in De.gemner i952, lav was divorced hy Youd in Nover- oer i953 and continued living wita WoL Pen, - Qu pareotiy as conmmoaeiaw wife, votil late 1954 or i335. | Vasiliy Cavrilovich (aia savel} sLSTL NAO, allegedly sora on 5 september '}aZin Tula, JOR, served in tae Soviet ‘roy in orld 2 2 before joining the Viassov iorces in fighting against tae Soviets. After the war he lived in Germany and Lelgium and was active in several ant-Communist Russian emigre orzanizatione including the National Labor Alliance (NTS). In 1955 HCSTENHKO waa identified aa a Soviet agent in clandestine contact with the Soviel Lmbassy in Brussels. He was expelled ‘from the NTS in February 1957 and on 20 August 1937 he left Brussels for Moscow. Ins radio bréadcast frum East Berlin on i7 September 1957 sponsored by the Soviet Cammittee for Return to the Homeland, MUSTEONKS bitterly attacked Russian emigre organizations in the “:est, i-rioy to leaving Selgium for the USSR KRCOTING.O reportedly revealed that ha had worked for Soviet intelligence since 1942 and that he was trained in the Hoviet Union for intelligence work aad dispatched to the Weat aoa Soviet agent. } D>. wn 2? June t95%, in ixnelles, a suburb of Srusselea, Lydia snarxvied ravel CYMITRUEK wae was born 23 February 1924 in Ctariye- Doreni, USSR [ Stariye-Derogi, Belorussian S54), and who was described ag a Selorussian student at the. University of Louvain in Belgium. Atan unknown date, possibly before his marriage to Lydia, favel DYMITRUK immigrated to the United ctates. It was reported that in July 1957 he returned to Belgium to attempt to expedite a visa for Lydia to join him in the United States. As of August 1957, wYvITRUS'sa U.S. residence was Nsted az 159 Ease Division Street, Rockford, biichigan. . c, Inan interview in Fesruary i957 in Antwerp, Belgium, concerning her application for a visa to the United States, Lydia SYNITRUK disclosed that: {1) Her father manayed a macaroni factory in Rostov-Don | during the war and did not serve in the army. In 1945 he was arrested by the NiiVD and held for five or six montas ona {charge ceneerning his ates engage «shen ihnnenneynnnpetenntnennnetnnnenpenepeienghn eins gegen ht tt A es
13-00000 TUMAE ie comeernans nis activines during the war {Lydia claimed wal sie wAS USaeare vi tag exact Chasey ade anauingt hes father). ile was also temouved from is pasidiun aad manager of rhe smacaroal factory. (2) She wrote to her rovther often and cccasionally received correspondence from her, Her mother is jlad that Lydia is in the yest, , , {3) She had been associated with tae Uaien of Soviet Fatriots for about two years but deniad knowing that the Union of Soviet Fatriots was politically motivated or waa in contact with the Communist Party of Selsium. (4) Her visa application, which she submitted on 27 July 1956, was drawn up for her by her husband, Favel DYMITRUK. Ia filling out the application form her husband had indicated a negative response to a question Concerning association witha Communist Farty or an organization affiliated with a Communist Party because she had not been "an actual member" of the Union of Soviet Patriots, and furthermore, it was her husband's belief that she waa not a Comreunist. (5) She arrived in Jrussels from Antwerp in February 1952 and Uved with her sister,\innia SUUCHAT, for several montha. rer sister was in contact with one (fnu) MARKACHUR, an officer with the Soviet Repatriation Mission in Brussels who had been attempting to have the sister repatriate to the Soviet Urion. Shortly after her arrival at her sister’s, a wornan from Liege (not further identitied), gave her an address to go ta for aid in resettling in Brussels. Lydia went to this address and was surprised to find: _ that it was the Soviet Repatriation d.ission, There ashe met AMARKACHUK who tried to persuade her to return to the USSR Aga result, she and her sister wrote to their mother for her opinion on the matter and the mother advised them to atay in the West. /(6) She lived with ee ebay : cen ewe at
13-00000 ve ley : Kaensede ad > en qed oe abvead wet Vela we et aes we Dor bee ur Laroe io ae & Le err oe, 4 re re a le - =e te o, tat pe VER Lr Trib avs. ee @th ic. Geeause “he drink too unoch ywinka,‘ che desurised ..c. fiNo.. S53 ta tative Radletlomawaise. 3. tas We of this cyesty om Lydia oY) ifs bas no entries tevamd 1 jJ57 waen she was sil livin, in Brussels. 4. Ubia \zoncy haw furnianed the fore:cing information to the -resideai's Carnilasian on the Assassination cf resident John F, Febk THE SESUTY OIGEC TOR FOR « Lens: CSC] « 3/780, Sut Distribution: Orig. & 1 - Addressee L-C/CI pre- C/CI/SIG Le C/CI/REA C/SR c/SR/C1 ‘C/SR/CIU/R (hold cy & comeback cy) ~ SR/O/US/dl . 201-289, 248 RI/ SI (201-159, 620) a § SR/CI/ Research: AWB 21 April 1964 Excluded {rom aciorctl. dowrgraaidy 29 Gels