JFK Assassination System Date: 4/30/201 Identification Form Agency Information '» AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: _ 124-10210-10362 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: — 105-81285-19, 20, 21 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: BRANIGAN, W. A. TO» BELMONT, A. H. TITLE: DATE: — 10/19/1959 PAGES: 4 SUBJECTS : REW, RENOUNCED, US CITIZENSHIP, LTR, SOURCE DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 4 CURRENT STATUS: — Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 02/24/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : INC TTY, A/T nnn v9.1 € \aW 45984 DocId:32293086 Page 1
c FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56) FF FF TTT ooo ——AES EF: | . | —_— | : I I . | \ | ~ FBI Date: 10/17/59 PLAIN TEXT (Type in plain text or code) Via ___ AIRTEL AIR MAIL (Priority or Method of Mailing) | Transmit the following in TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (105-81285) FROM: SAC, CLEVELAND (105-3792) wo _ 3 =| RE: ROBERT EDWARD WEBSTER by, / IS - R a a \ TION CONTAH C (60: CLEVELAND) ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED 4 HEREIN {S UNCLASSIFIED pated? -F WLS Marae 75 Re Cleveland airtel 10/7/59, Bureau airtel 10/15/59, New York teletype 10/17/59. . On 10/17/59,[___ sds (protects identity), Treasurer, Rand Development Corporation, contacted the Cleveland Office and advised that on 10/16/59, he had received a cablegram from JAMES H. RAND in Moscow, USSR. In this cablegram RAND stated he was to meet with the subject in company with (FNU) SCHNEIDER, U..S. Diplomatic Representative in Moscow on 10/17/59. | L—_|saia that he had just received a long-distance ca rom RAND on 10/17/59 and that RAND said that he and U. S$ Consular Representative met with the subject and a Russiaf Diplomatic Representative at a Russian Police Station in Moscow, USSR on this date. RAND stated that the subject was gin apparently good health and under no form of duress or jrestraint and the subject formally renounced his U. S. citizenship, stating he wished to remain in the Soviet Union inasmuch as he likes the Soviet system better than the American system. The Russian Diplomatic Representative adVised the subject in the presence of RAND and the Uv, 8. Diplomatic Representative that if he remained in the Soviet Union, he would have less than one per cent chance of ever (3) - Bureau REC. 4 HME SLELE | , “1 =- Cleveland ‘ tay DB py. ‘ gg OCT 191999 =f me Approved7¢ Ff Sent. MCOPer HW 45984 DocId:32293086 Page 2 OTHER 4
cae C ( SEGRE som XO . i a U. S. DEPARTMENT OF wustice\_} * , COMMUNICATIONS SECTION OGT 17 1959 jo TECETYPE r . Trotter A . | Mr. W.C.Sullivan ; Tele. Room ! | Mr Holloman— | Lig iss Gandy HEREIN 18 pesos Bn - URGEN 10/17/59 1-51 PM MP DIRECTOR AND SAC, CLEVELAND FROM SAC, NEW YORK iP ROBERT EDWARD WEBSTER,: IS DASH Re (NEW YORK ONE FIVE ONE NINE Cs DASH S ASTERISK,|A HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE, ADVISED OCTOBER SEVENTEEN, FIFTY NINE, ROBERT EDWARD WEBSTER HAD RENOUNCED HIS AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IN WRITING AT A SOVIET POLICE STATION BELIEVED TO BE IN MOSCOW, USSR, ON THIS DATE. ACCORDING TO SOURCE, JIM /LNU/ POSSIBLY JAMES H. RAND /PRESIDENT RAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION/ AND THE AMERICAN CONSUL ACCOMPANIED SUBJECT TO RUSSIAN POLICE DEPARTMENT. SOURCE ADVISED SUBJECT STATED HIS REASON FOR RENOUNCING US; CITIZENSHIP WAS QUOTE SOVIET LIFE IS BETTER THAN AMERICAN LIFE END QUOTE. END AND ACK PLS Me _ 3128S ~3-0 ae 2 1-535 PM OK FBI WA JDS TU DISCO 9.0061 2. HW 45984 DocId:32293086 Page 3 ‘\ \