(404-10176-10020 Silt Ha 9 September 1960 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, FI/Division D SUBJECT: ZRGRACE - Tokyo Aspect; George PERIS aka George PERISTEROPOULOG aka George PARIS, Ideatifiad Contact of Valentin HAHN aka Valentine Vasiliyevich KHAN aka Won-shin HAN, Self Confeesed Soviet Agent 1, Fellowing information was made available to the writer by eel, lle or om TOTS 4B GAWt GP af rR jena Formmn 6b we © a awe whom PEsiam Film am emDep as an eD ae eo ¥V tentia HAHN. The information herein reported was provided by oral brief- ing only, and the writer was not permitted to review the HAHN file itself. . Following details are therefore based entirely on notes taken during the meeting whick teok place in CARRICO’s office on 6 September. 2. Valentin HAHN, who was born as Valentine Vasiliyevich KHAN on 22 April. 1908, Slavyanka,. Russia, and who ie a Russian of Korean origin, admitted in the course of a Polygraph examination administered on an ewnepecified daie, that be had acted as am agent ia Gehaif of ths Sovists. HAHN bas been in the employ of CIA since approximately 1952, originally in Secul, Korea, later in Tckyo, Japan, aubsequéntiy being transferred to Okinawa. | He was terminated on unspecified date ae a contract agent of the SR Division, and currently le or has been-resetiied in Hokkaids, where he has heen given a job as a translator with the FBIS listening post at Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. During the debriefing which accompanied his Pelygraph testing, HAHN advised that during hie service in Tokyo, Japan, his closest associates had been the following imdividuals in the order listed: rl @. Arseniy YANKOVSKY and wife. wT cin stat easton ol Ye @ been terminated on unknows date. He was identified as a Japanese Intelligence agent. @. John Mc COY and wife - Me cor was or still is an employee of GR Division, stationed ia Japan. SECRET res, ae "sf zt ; bs a Like.
14-00000 ad. Vadim MED = Cla Centract Agent in employ of 6R Division stationed in la process of being terminated after identification as former NKVD agent, a former Abwehr agent, and subsequent agent activity in behalf ef the Soviets while in DP campa. e. Kasua KANAZAWA - Cousin of Valeatin HAHN; at. one time wae proposed for operational use by this Agency. f. Charlotte BERGHOLTZ - Close friend of Anustasiya SNOW neo YANKOVSEIY. g- Golli-Grigorevna and Marguerita PODSTAVINA - PODSTAVINA ia the Godmother of Arseniy YANKOVSKIY. bh, Misbales &nstat- COTY toa = oes employee of SR Division ii unde cover. Former FBI employee. 4. George PARIS (Spelling as picked up originally by Office of Security in written report of Polygragk examination repert, and therefore likely phonetic. } - Greek busineseman in Tekyo. 3. Is the course of further debriefing in connection with his Polygraph Test, HAHN elzimned that George FZHIS or PARIS wae the individual whe had introduced HAHN te a club in Tekyo lecatei off the Ginza, the name of which - ¢lud tranelated into English ie ‘Tomorrow ie Teo Late". At this club HAHN ‘ met a Japanese hostess by the name ef Noriko AWAJI, whose real name was later established to be Noriko MATSCZAKAYVA, whem he subsequeniiy dated. There is no further information curreatly available on this hostess. Im the interim, HAHN has obtained a divorce from his wife, whe had been a witting participant in his agent activities for the Soviets, and is known currently te be Civing {mn a common-law relationship with a Japanese qirl who may be identical with Norike MATSUZAKAYA. Aa indicated above, HAHN and hia current mistrese are currently in Sapporo, Hekkaido. 4. The ex-wife of Valentin HAHN, whose full name is nat known te the weiter, and the two HAHN sons, are currently being sponsored for resettle- ment by the Agency in the United States, where all three are scheduled to recelve their U.S. citeenship under CLA sponsorship. &. With reference te the 'Tomerrew ie/Too Late* Club, HAHN etated that @ number of CIA Staff Employees of [requent or have frequented this establishment and have dated the Japanese hustesses employed SEGRT EVES E77 CR ee ee om meagan on . ° see sane mg vee rr
5 there, Date of HAHN's introduction to the Club and to Noriko MATSUZAKAYA by George P4RiS aka George PERRIS waa estimated by Mr. Sayie to have been somewhere between 1954 and 1957, With regard to Valentin HAHN's own inctinations toward sharing his knowledge of romance with others, Mr. Sayle advised that Security Office had established that while employed as a contract agent of the HAHN had pimped for CLA Staff persomel in Tokyo. 6. As attachment herewith, the writer appends additional background data on the professional intelligence activities and contacts of Valentin HAHN and family as noted during the oral briefing by Sayle. 7. Om basie of the above, it can be safely asaumed that the George PARIS known to HAHN is identical with George PERIST ERGPOULOS aka George PERIS, well-known Tckyo businessman and Honorary Deputy Consal of the Royal Greek Consulate in Yokohama, Japan, as reported in SCTGEKY-63 and SCTOKY-64. i ia noteworthy that PERRIS’ contacts throughout hie career, commencing ¥ ‘tn Oia oFfiginal reported employment in Tientsin, China, through hie activities and cortacts in Shanghai, Caina, and later in Tokyo, net exclud- ‘ing his marriage to Aurelia CZERWINSKA, have been exclusively with individuals of Russian or Eastern European background, many of them of Russias Jewish background, whe are either highly suspect or have been iden- tified as long-time agents of Soviet intelligence. PERIS‘ reported route of arrival in Tokyo via Harbin, Tientsin and Shanghai, as well aa his employ- ment by Sondovich Brothers and.contacts with individuals who tle in with th< Boris SOLOMONIK complex and Bersol Fur Trading Corporation, smacke very strongly of the old Comintern Apparat of the 20's and 30's, Also it parallels the travel patterns of a number of individuals involved in the SOBLE case, principally the SOBLES themselves who were exfiltrated from the Soviet Union via Toxyo, Japan, to the U.S.A. and who, most notably of all, ales were under cover of operating a Bristie Business as is Sondovich Brothers. 8 According to earlier reporting is the ZRGRACE investigation, ‘George PERIS is alleged to have been a contact of William Hamilten MARTIN in Tokyo, and to have offered MARTIN seme type of job or business partner- ship deal in connection with the rug business. 9. Mg. Carrico informally indicated that he personally suspects that MARTIN‘s introduction to the fine art of masochistic torture by an unidenti- fled Japanese female, as reported by Mre. Ardelle GASDA to FBI agents, may have been effected at or through his patronage of the “Tomorrew is Too Late” Club te which he may well have beon taken or intreduced by bis friead PERIS. This possibility, however, is subject to further inveetigation. , 19. Ae initial follow-up t les sn be. outgoing cable of 7 Sept. 60 requesting further check-out of the Club, etc. was prepared. 3 5 | 3
14-00000 Shim ates d itale We a ts Lin. oon A second cable ta be sent by Privacy Link to Seoul, Korea, has also been drafted, and requests check of PERIS' arrival, activities and contacts, departure from Korea subsequent to 28 January 1960. This cable bas been presented separately for your approval and may lkely be eunject to revision, wierefore no copy is attached. It is further suggested that Cifice of Security be authorized to pass to NSA Security Officials working on this case the information on PERIS relayed in above ables, sauce information te be properly sterilized of course, and that NSA in turn be requested to check and obtain from U.S. Navy Personnel Records ful copies in duplicate of the ouginal reports on the specific duty stations or assignments, including dates of service at each, to which MARTIN and MITCHELL were detailed, also detailed leave records, travel recorda, and other pertinent background data contained in such files, te cover the entire period of their reapective service with the U.S. Navy. It is also euggested that NSA officials be requested to obtain similar detailed original reports in duplicate from the Denartmant of. the Army tc ewecs cas poriea Of MAAMLIN's civilian employrent in Japan, with apecial emphasis on any reports of MARTIN's extra-curricular activities, contacts, club memberships, identified personal contacts with persons sot employed in his own office, leave travel, etc., which may be reflected in efficial records. One copy of all such reports are requested for thie Agency, to permit further checking of known or newly identified contacts he may have had in Japan. ANITA POTOCKI ' i Attachment: es stated Fi/D/AP:mem Distribution: Orig & 1 - ZRGRACE File 1 - MARTIN 201 file / 1 - PERIS file 1 - chrono a METRE, aR voy ‘ laid Wide i NestnneRiraneasetttins caren eT eed . . ‘ . 5 one anthers; ~