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 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10211-10459 HQ SEE TITLE Document Information FBI TEETER, FRANKLIN B. DIRECTOR, FBI [Restricted] 10/16/1959 5 DLH, ASSOC, MED/PERS HIST, RES, EMP PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 1B; 1C; 4 Redact 05/14/1998 INDEFINITE Date: 5/26/201
» JBesiy _SEORET. | | i FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION = a f Bo Ne NA “e i — Reporting Office | NEW YORK. TITLE OF CASE Office of Origin NEW YORK O) | : fe ID APANASTEVICH KovaLEy [(S) Investigative Period TAA /59-9/18/5 “Gers 6 1958 Report made by FRANKLIN B, TEETER ” CHARACTER OF CASE Typed By: im a (INTERNAL SECURITY. - Ry (33(u a, Report, of SA FRANKLIN B, TEETER dated 7/24/59, at ah | New York. i. ~ ; m3 Upon learning that the viet ot man occupied a C53 | ; 5 eee partment 9c at 40 West 84th[Street, NéW York City, C+ Lo CER gh he ae \ or the summer, had moved out! (9/9/59), New York Office [oss a tcontacted the owner of (40 west 84th] Street, New York CS. foo , ty, and.also the building superintendent at LS) robe : Approved | a x LW en oharse : Do not write in spaces below Copies nade: ef T i, 4 FEN 4 | oe pup¥au 105 - comalie o ~ \ieX | sopms pase lea x » PETS 50 wr aS Seek SER AT Y#e [0-BO- TH IS ps, NGEINED By 56S std es ey cnt Lh Bie oh. LASSIE ¥ ON: Z5X es Declassify err’ GARR B/L & qperty of FBI — This report is loaned: to ‘you by ‘the: "EBI,and neither it nor its contents are to be distributed outside ° thes agency jte_, which loaned. * ru. S. (GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1986 O-——-S85319 r , } ° tye ‘ i |
by FOREMAN as being acquainted with|KO be fsecren XK) fe 105- 27651 |@) [apumnrsnattve (CONT'D) eC) With reference to the A carne DN, identifie ALEV,{ attention is (s called to the fact that the New York Offic s currently conducting background investigation regarding this individual and plans in future to give consideration to developing “her as a PSI. However, attention is called to New York airtel dated 9/10/59, captioned "BURTON VAN HORN FOREMAN; PSI - DESECO - R", which reflects derogatory information concerning some of EPSTEIN'S Rélatives. This information will be taken me consideration in evaluating] ner double agent potential ys <s) For the information of the Bureau, W You does not plan to give consideration to developing Dea I -| who FOREMAN also identified as an associate of [Kov aa a(S) PSI because of his ad@egedly having undergone psychiatfic treatment in past. However, NY has opened a contact case . on HARBER and wiil upon the completion of this investigation ao | will evaluate this (individuals double agent potential] (S) ‘In connection with the party given bv [ROvAnEY Om in December, 1958, as reported by CSNY[268 T-6)(s) it is noted that this is undotbtedly the same Christmas Party about which NY 2601-S andPSI LAW pCi: LESTER giHBTTEN have previously furnished information. ‘ 2 that _Ny 2601-S_is MARY LOUISESBRACH, one of the individuals identified by CSNY Ts as“being present at the party (9) Concerning th ther iddividual:.. identified by Y (208s 318, as being present at the December, 1958 party, Peme JERRY VERNER, attention is called to the fact that VERNER is the subject of NY closed file 105- 2998! (K) The Bureau's [ovrsE se is directed to the fact f COVER PAGE PAGE | peo “BR AE i atte oa Seve
nat aert ota Wo serene five 105-27651 JG) INFORMANTS Identify / of Source aa! po perantendent [40 w. 8 Street ($7) ‘| New York | (By Request) {BURTON VAN HORN FOREMAN 160 Claremont Avenue, New York City, Instructor of Japanese, | Columbia wey ey (By Request ) [secret fp AY File Number Where Located — Instant. report - pg. 8 Furnished orally to SA FPRANKLIN B. TEETER 105-27651-174, 185 Mm 105-27651-173 105-27651-196 ©) 105-27651-172, 189 ang Instant report - pg. 6-8 u _ Furnished telephonically AW to SA JOHN C. HESSIN (205-27651-188 [(<) COVER PAGE Raf bare OR bow BE
4 ; fier 105-276 de ) ‘related that among the people present.at this. A ent [KOVALEV] was . friendliest with{DENNIS HARBER, 45 secret | | 7 ae : (aur. CONTACTS AND assoctarss |i) [iwten wy 2-5 NY T- £5 [gai On July 7, 1959 and August 13, 1959, NY T-5 voluntarily furnished information to the New York Office of the FBI concerning his past association with various © Soviet nationals attached to the UN. One these Soviet nationals was Translator LEONID A. KovatEv] Ss dv Subsequently on “September 17, 1959,. the informant voluntarily furnished the. below set forth details concerning}! @™: , his original meeting with /KOWALEY and their subsequent contacts: / S} I formant first net kovaneyf2 a party which he (ny T 5) gave at-his place of residence some jt} 1958. -Infoymant ha nvited[Soviets. IVAN. : atid BORIS tvanovpe this part However unablé“to a¢tend the affair and [KOVALEV geme “In his place. pan T-5 related that most of the people present at this party were instructors and pupils from the Berlitz “School of Languages, New.York.City, at which school the ‘informant was an instructor at that time. Informant further West e2end Street, Apartment AW, New York City, who was also a Berlit instructor. NY T-5 stated that during the party HARBER became. somewhat intoxicated and began talking about Communism in Spain. NY T-5 advised that aS a result of titgis meeting at the above referred to party, he and[KOVALE ecided to exchange[snglish and Russian! anguage lessons. Thereafter, sf for approximately four weeks they met on succeeding Wednesdays (g) ma 4 7 “| ff WU |, ©) ce Fismaee * 4 ¢ aM on *S, wr Dob. | wees ee a wee nee ee a ee ee |
[re 105-27651 }) NY T-5 related that on July 30, 1959, he and ANNETTE EPSTEIN visited [KOVALEV at the UN They spent about. 30 minlibes tggether drinking and cofversing [in the UN cocktail lounge a)According to the informant, is discussion was o eneral social topics. During this necting, [EOVALEY cepted an invitation from the informant to attend a party at NY T-5's residence on August 8, 1959, but achuahhy did not attend this function. He contacted the informant on August 9, 1959, apologized for not havaingge attended the party, and gave as his excuse the fact that his automobile had broken down, and he was uhable to make the trip back to New York City from his summer residence in Rye, New York. CR) In connection with the DENNIS arBER, [Who attended the June, 1958. party, T-5 advised that h hear tha HaRBER[gad met and was friendly with(KOVALEVefore this. party,’ and that they had gone-out socially on several occasions. y Informant further advised that he had heard ® Prom anot instructor at the Berlitz School that HARBE had undergone psychiatric treatment at a veterans! hospital in the New York City area. However, NY T-5 stated that«he thought HARBER presently resides somewhere in the htiddle West. [wen wy 2-6 NY T- © Tease On August 12, 1959, NY T-6 voluntarily furnished the New York Office of the FBI with the below set forth details of his association withGoviet Translator LEONID A, KOVALEV and his wife, RIMMA KOVALEVA: 5) Jin 1958. ceciereaie ‘that fale an English instructor a (SE the UN] in 1958. [RIMMA KOVALEVA}¥4s one of severalfSoviets temales, who attend 2 of his classes. Informant Décame friendly with [ko [Kovatevagt nd as a result she invited him to attend a party which was given by her husband, ({eoNrD A. KOVALEV,| in December, 1958, at their residence: 5) ys ee on