AGENCY INFORMATION - AGENCY: — FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10156-10020 RECORD_SERIES: HQ | AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  105-82555-4718 DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BRANIGAN, W. A. TO: SULLIVAN, W.C. | TITLE: DATE: 08/12/1964 PAGES: 2 SUBJECT: LHO, RP, JR, ASSOC DOCUMENT _ TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT ORIGINAL . Secret NEW CLASSIFICATION: CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: — 10/22/1998 | UPDATE DATE: — 02/12/2001 STATUS _ Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (1)(C) JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: Docld: 327164549 Page 1
— eT! RM NO. 10 : 5010-106 ‘\ RE! ; : . me Set re a nz aS ‘; “ GSe EG, NO, 27 ~ : . : C —™ : Tolson ; ; - Belmont = <= EMED STATES CO 8 _AENT i Moh M di / i —. ~BSimont ; caseet ; l- - Rosen sntad | EMOTANaAUM o | 1 ~. Sullivan h. i TOS We. C,. Sullivan we pate: August 12,:°1964 | 7 CRET 1 ~ Malley : FROM : we ay BebsiSan . SECK 8 J] =| Liaison Mer a oN 1 Branigan le fp SUBJECT: (p- o-Ps, many van ” Chascified bw Lie pO usse og, tee : This recounts” ‘information reesived' 8/10/64 f from MI-5 Gritish Ss ae “Embassy, - ‘Moscow, and claimed that he met Lee Harvey Oswald in Gorkiy, Russia, in April and May, 1960, that Oswald talked to him about his old friend.,Ruby..and that he believed that Marina Oswald was a KGB (Committee of State: Security). ‘agents . The interview was conducted jointly by the ‘2*O. a second: ‘secretary of the American ‘Embassy. . Details. follow. .Serghevsky, aged 29 (no record in Bureau files), came to. ‘the British Embassy, Moscow,. on 7/29/64, stated that: he knew. Oswald. . He asked. to ‘be placed in contact with the. American ‘Embassy whereupon a Mr. We Morgan, Second Secretary of the United. States. Embassy, jointly interviewed Sergievsky with a member of the British staffs _Sergievsky © ey claimed to have met..0swald in Gorkiy, Russia,.: ‘in’ ‘April and May, 1960. suWizHe said Oswald spoke about an old friend called: Ruby .who he described , beets a shady night club owner and that Oswald asked What he thought would 2 Zhappen if the President of the United States would’ be assassinated, o 4 uid | | Oswald allegedly claimed that Ruby would give him help in the future) sg Sereiovsky also said that his. sister, who wW; rked. for KSB, lived with HON  CONTAINE ° . During the interview he handed over a slip of ‘paper, the “Griginal of ‘which is in the possession of the State Department repre=- 2) gentatives on which he wrote that Ruby was an old friend of Oswald, ~ that. Oswald*s wife was a KGB worker and that a. group of people directly © assisted in the murder (apparently a reference to the assassination). The British reported that Sergievsky appeared nervous and spoke of . having ‘been given powdered poison when ll years . .of age, which. had the effect of Anducing an: oxygen starvation of his brain. . He also ‘spoke | of. experiencing. mental blanks and to have undergone a brainwashing pro-= cess in ‘which a. form. of semihypnosis was induced by smoking dis ised opium . cigaretts. , ‘Sergievsky asked the British—for_ asylum hich} refused whereupon he left the embassy, % . ehh fj 105-82555 eo ENTS |< : CONTINUED-< OVE 7 pf UD NM err 3 Ts PL é/e*1 f + whe AUN sO icy rom GDS tet). SEGRE wrrd tA, « FB Bart ‘ fro Docld: 327164549 Page 2?