' Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: 4/15/201 Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10369-10016 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER:  62-117290-ADMIN FOLDER-D9 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BRANIGAN TO: SULLIVAN TITLE: DATE: = 12/29/1967 ‘PAGES: 182 SUBJECTS : HSCA ADMINISTRATIVE FOLDER, LEE HARVEY OSWALD OUTGOING COMMUNICATION VOLUME 17 DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 02/17/1999 _ OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE . COMMENTS : INC FOLDER, COVER PAGE, MEMO, A/T, NOTES, LET, TTY, NEWS RELEASE, O-17, S/S, CABLEGRAM, NEWS ARTICLES / v9.1 14 | Docld:32319382 Page 1
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 Usc 3107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-7017 aoe Obes i af ¥ - Vo ere lente “ é i piette er, ae ee Cys 3 (> a _4 > MY. Raupach rns iy 1 - Mr. Lenihan 1 - Mr. Papich ~sAeenetnn 1 - Le H. Martin (Ss) 65-71534 BY LIAISON Date: December 4, 1967 To: - Director Central Intelligence Agency Attention: Deputy Director, Plans From; John Edgar Hoover, Director Subject: JOMN DISCOS SMITH eet one he eee Tae Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report for November 21, 1867, states that Tass International Service in English at 1411 GuT om Heveaber 21, 1967, pointed out that in an Ixvestia interview, John BD. Smith esid he was convinced that the late President John F. Kennedy “fell victim to a broad conepiracy in which the CIA was involved.” . Could you supply a translation of the Isvestia article to which this refers? The “broad conspiracy" line ig one which is currestly in vogue among certein critics of the Warren Coumission Report. It is aleo noted that in the FBI6 Daily Repert for November 20, 1967, on page bb18, a footnete to a broadcast by Homcow Radio Peace and Progress, relating to Emith states: “The Toilisi Domestic Service in Rusaian at 0850 GuT 18 November reports that in the newspaper MOLODEZH GRUZII you will find the confession of the former agent of the U. 8. Central Intelligence Ageucy entitled ‘I shot at the President.'" Since thie would appear to be part of a build- up of disinformation regarding te assaseination of John F. Kennedy and involving John Discoe Smith, would it be possible for you to identify the newspaper MOLODEZH GRUZII and furnish a translation of the "confession?" 1 - 62-109060 LW:as (9) SEE NOTE PAGE TWO Docld: 32319382 Page 2?
eased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 199? (44 UsSc 7107 Hotey. DATE: 11-14-2017 LF ARE? __ UeunE! Director VEVAE Central Intelligence Agency _ NOTE: Smith, born 3/31/26, Quincy, Massachusetts, a eryptographic technician for the Department of State 1950-59, disappeared abroad in late 1960 or early 1961. He was characterized as a paranoiac and a drunk who thought his wife was a CIA agent and that he was under constant surveillance by the CIA. Tass, the Soviet news agency, announced in Moscow 10/24/67 that John Smith of Quincy, Massachusetts, a former CIA agent, had acquired Soviet citizenship and was writing an expose of CIA in the Moscow publication "Literary Gazette.” Since that date installments of his expose have appeared in "Literary Gazette” and interviews (purportedly) of Smith by Soviet broadcasters have been primarily beamed to India where Smith was assigned to the ¥. 8S. Embassy, New Delhi, 1954-59, | The Bureau had ap interest in Smith because [our Shamrock source furnished a film roll containing a KG document dated in Aprjl1, 1961, which set out thumbnail (s) character sketches of jnumerous State Department personnel; many of whom had served in India and the adjoining areas. Bureau investigation prior to the Soviet publicity determined that Smith would have had knowledge of the various individuals fin the KGB document.) (<) CRE gs CMe gi a, a?) (7) GD ! W | LW a7) } 3 ’ fee Docld: 32319382 Page 3