104-10012-10136 _ Si “gBaKcEs eo, " METHODS INVOLVED _ seoaednwtna pees aparece e ae oe co cr ea Doe cere - oR” MEMORANDUM FOR: Me. J. Lee Rankin UBIECT: —  Anonypmous Telephone ¢ Catia to Untied & States ©  . -_Embagay in Canborra, Australia, Relative to / O. Plooned Aeaassination of President Renaedy i? steiner a ate ae A sete eNRP N Bo Babee sean Le aE EL oe earn ernment ete ys BER DORDL IN rit eR APOE Hetmat RR REP TIBEN 8 is a , i. 2 vefer again to perageaph two of your » memovendorm,~ ” dated 12 Fabruary 1964, relative to disserminations te the Seeret Service made by CIA, L . 2. Cn 24 November 1963, CIA received trom the Department I| of the Navy a copy of a cable from the Naval Attache in Ganborea,' Australia (IN 67327, Top Secret, later downgraded te Becket}. reporting a telophone conversation the previous day with ani -- ancnymous individual who had degeribed himeelf as a Pollsh — chauffeur for the Soviet Embassy in that city. This individeal, 7°" while discuecsing several mattsra of intelligance interest, touched -.~. on the posalbility that the Sovict Gevernment had financedthe assagsination of President Remedy. Reference was. anne in this ; cabiz to Shs: receipt of a similar anouymeous telephone, | | - WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE SOURCES ANO METHODS 1. BO ate aada: ate the natetindrmee meena + 3. Upon receipt of hte cable frora Navy CUA tack the | folloeing ection: a. Cabled to Canberra aeking full detaite of the ‘ telephone conversation of 23 November and the call made - . oa 15 Cetober 1952. It should be noted that CEA had not ; previously limown of the 1962 telephone ¢ coll.
13-00000 te Miceli. Sreoven eeemaremensmal i { » fect nnd eithsentoneny ute Ahlan. ater oe + Pte amy ty Sig yoo, ane vas lat ek neem to cht SD REE ORE AAR ats HVS dbl rare rte abe + igecos fot. te e oom t son. a 2 BEB wha ee Ue = ae aa: ‘esx ‘SOURCES. AND | METHODS INVOLVED b. The CIA Station tn Canberras on 1 29 November, furniched all available information oa the 1962 telephone ca. Ie eppeare that sources on that occasion efated that “Iren Custals Gountries" plaones te pey a hundeod theusand deflars for the acsessination of President % ennedy. ce Ca 27 November, the CIA Canberra Gtatton else furstabed complete detail on the ancnymeas telephone call of 23 November 1967. ad. On 29 November, cls Gsseminsted this information, 3s 7 supplied by its Canberra Station, to thas7hite Hote, Department of Etate,~and Fedoral Bureau of Investigation, with a copy ta the Secret Service. A copy of this discemization ia ite essct text... de. attached ty this memorantam. 4. The CIA Station ta Ganbersa for étecuaeten of the : calle with: In the opinion ef tha” Australian authorities, the caller was a crank, In any sven. hey . ware not able to identify exy Polich employee of the Bevilet | > pe the automobile dsscribed ty the caller as the one he dvoves ar the 5, i Heansa plate number given by him. No further isformation on this=* coll bas ben received. Avallabio evidense woald tend te. skew chat” the caller was some type of cranks This conclusions however: camnet be confirmed. §. Please uote thot the nature ef the information in this * memorandam and its attachment # requires the see of a esusltivity | WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE SOURCES AND METHGOS ! IVOLVED
LePr ne ihears ark ce ee aii a  countvies «@ re toe Saad ae ray oo~N : CV Meets Nhe ava Le . v.. -t 2 eens SENSE SOURCES AN” i a MAEHBODS INVOLVED pS GUT Teletype No. 85491, dated 29 Noventer 1963, fled at 17 hours, tothe White House, Department of Stet: amd Fedeyval Burena of Investigation, with a copy te ths Secret cersica | i. Your attention is called to a ecrice ef anonymous tstephone calis made to the office of the U.S. Naval attache ip Canberra, Australia, Sy a man claiming to have h=d keewkedge about a Soviet - pict to ascacsinate the late President Keamedy. -Our firct record of this matter is a Naval Attacks cable freas Camberva sent on - “a 24 November. 1963. ae a Bt ES : chaufieur of a Soviet Exabaesy. car tn Coaberray Best phoned ia over 4 year ago, on 15 October 1962 rensst 9962. Af thet time he - tolé a story about ve Seviet subxearin-es carrying 606 to 506 Soviet” solditre om thelr way to Coba. Cos purges of this troop movement, — ho said, was to support the Governor of Misclanippl, - He added thet: - thera wae a plot to pay ons hundred thousand dallars t¢ kill President — Hemedy. Sehiad the plot, be said, wera the “Fron Cartala Countries." $. On 2d November 196) s rspoat 1954, ths éay after the | assacoaination of FP resident Kennedy and ever a year after the fleet telozhons call, a man beloved to ba the came person phoned tho: imbasty again and apoke te the azeistict Mevat Attache. The caller referred to his call a year back end stated he had sald thet the USER”. _ had pat oP 100, 666 dollars fox the scsaszlantion of Presidcat : Remmedy. 4. Giving what he cletened were farther detaile shost the assageination, the caller eaid thet about tea weeks before (which would Rave heen in carly November 194°] ke was present when an Australiaa man, 35 to 46 years old, and tell, was dispatched by - the Sovicts to the United States carrying a case about 33 to 20 centimeters long, $0 centimetars bigh, aud &.5 centimeters wide. - The name Vasyl Two wae used in sorns commection with thia man. / He was put on 2 plane in Sydecy end whils ths caller drove the two Soviet eacerta hack to Canberra, thels theetvawa radio in the car —” wae going conatardly. A shortwave radis wes going in the Embassy an ee OEY ee nee ene ee eee Pe ea WARNING NOTICE SENSITIVE SOURCES AND | METHODS INYOLY ZS
13-000 1 acy OREM RARER VOPR E a ane 4 . tae oy - a, ; - . - . a sage, 7 oF * . st . * ree oiled pees : p . ; SENS: iVE SOURCES . wD METHODS INVOLVED slze when they arrived there. Cver these radiee, ono of thece Sovietn that murniag apparently 22 Neverober 1957), & message came through and toaste were drank in Rassion Yoiks and the Resslans present gaid, “we have achieved what wa want." S. The caller then pave “information” about the favict role in sinking a U.S. Novy nuclear submarine and on Sovict subversion in Indonesian, Be would not identify himsel!, and whea he dsecribed the sar "be drives (as a navy bine 1953 Buick, Neanse plate New South Gales < 6122) he addad they often change plates, Bave fay « ects in reserve, ah can change then in five seconde. yes & The caller added some vagun information about & women... ae. employes of the American Embasey he things works for the Sovietes. re The conversation concluded with ths caller promising te write % letter to the Noval Attaches at the Amoricen Embacsy. Do 7. The caller epoke good English and his secent and yeice aid - net change throughost tks conversation, #0 8 was assumed that he: Was not disguising his voice. 6. Auctralian authorities working en thts case consiéer the eallse to bea a crank. They state that Covict offices In Australia _ do not use anything hot Soviet chauiisure: they have no record of their uring a Polish chauffeur. They are contiauing thelr lywvestigation. f GROUP 4 Exsivdeg izgm actemalic oye sewarrating eg el~' 4:8 . wesegge 4 ol & aaeemmmenn anne eons fone eee rT) Pre ne wet mmamrnr ee ee . oe . none transmitted numbers and “pointe.” Yhry remained in the Smbsasy, oni