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 : v9.1 NW 45752 DociId:32337901 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information ° FBI 124-90139-10028 HQ CR 109-12-210-3706 Document Information FBI CIA 08/15/1962 3 CIA LIAISON MATERIAL FOREIGN POLITICAL MATTERS CUBA PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 4 Redact 09/28/1998 INDEFINITE MEMO Page i Date: 4/17/201
why 109-12-210 | 47) e 4 a . , > GL-wate: ssgust 15, 1962 \ 4) Tos \ Director % 6.0, ” Central Intelligence Agency 2) Oyo 4 ee ~N Gy 6 RSQ iN Attention: Deputy Director, Plans OSE (From: John Edgar. E-sloover » Director ESS S s * ft. => } . ¢ “Qe ej nt SSubject: FOREIGN POLITICAL NATTERS - CUBA, Lad Mee m5 Se INTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA acetiiied (y)\ yeaream oy MM or On August 7, 1962, Reverend Charles Jj. ce ee oe ") Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University, Villanova, ' <3 Pennsylvania, furnished the following information on a ; Sj confidential basis. In connection with the data set forth TE = hereafter regarding the photographs taken by Pather McFadden, | a z = ,he stated he did not particularly wish to be identified as ‘=the source of these photographs, but that, if it is necessary | for another agency to further question him concerning the | photographs, he would be available. ca ryan On the late afternoon of July 2, 1962, he took photographs of the dock area in the port of Leningrad, Russia, ‘from the bridge of the SS “Argentine."' He was subsequently informed by the officers of the 5S “Argentine” that no photographs of the dock area were to be taken. Security in ~ the dock area was extremely “tight" for American tourists and it was necessary to present a passport at the gangway upon _ leaving the ship and eee SAE check point approximately a 5 ry 2 19 Qa Ne Gi, onechalf mileyirom the ‘shiigket the entrance to the pier. All passengers aboard the SS “Argentine” were shuttled ‘by bus: olsen the Astorie Hotel in deningrad. S&L assis : Fees esl es? Mohr sip; foe na) Bs f? 4-19 -41@ }- Callahan ) me PEC. fr i th 4 a Philadelphia. Rosen JID: djwh ‘Sulli Tovel—-~—Ss—« (10) Trotter \ Tele. Room —___. \- ~ Holmes | PAN WS se f \ees ae Alm. p Agow Ul FELETYPE unit L_] x ne ew / SEE NOTE, PAGE 3 SEH T (pe, Conrad —__ DeLoach ' Evans Malone NW 45752 DociId:32337901 Page 2
Director Central Intelligence From conversations with crew members of the SS "Argentine" he determined that the Greek ship “Hariklia” from Piraeus, Greece, was,.on July 2, 1962, in the process of unloading sugar from Cuba and planned to take a load of coal to Cuba. A Greek crewman stated that a Cuban ship located further up the dock planned to take a large shipment of Soviet _ tyucks to Cuba, He, Father McFadden, took photographs of these trucks. When the sugar was unloaded from the Greek ship, it was placed under a heavy tarpaulin extended one-quarter mile up the wharf. He observed the sugar being loaded into boxcars. In conversation with Captain Simmons of the 7) SS “Argentine” he ascertained that several members of a Cuban ship further up the dock had attempted to make contact with members of the American crew. of the SS “Argentine” but were stopped ‘from doing so by the Russien security forces at the docks. , The. abovesmentioned photographs taken by Pather MeFadden have been made into twelve 35 millimeter slides, I£ I: recipient agencies desire to exainine these slides, they will be made available by this Bureau. 1 - Office of Security , maven d Department of State of bv 1 + Director of Naval Intelligence 4c % | 1 + Office of Special Investigations | Air Force. Attention: Chief, Counterintelligence Division 1 + Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence Department of the Army, ; ' Attention: Chief, Security Division u . Oo NW 45752 DociId:32337901 Page 3