(104-10219-10071 ene | te ORME RA ETT rer es PRUE ARGV FOR eR RI SRI AED at Ae PHYO LaneE ReeterreemmememRe Mam A nate A tn! ae EON Epa re He hae SERSTSE Ag ta. BAM age ‘- a agg Sie en OREO OI cme BB ~ oe wast a6 it ace _ es a. MMOS CEKT RAs INSELLIGENCE AGENCY . a oo oo qe boo ’ a oe he Wasgrimeten.D.G. 29535 eerect $3i bois 23 we Oe we “s ‘Cah dun hee 3 0 Sew B 6 AUG MEMORANDUM FOR: KEational Security Agency ATTENTION : Mr. James BE. Lear, M-5 SUBJECT 0.8. oe Defector Berson Ferguson Mitchell (\* i. fhe information which follcws was provided by Rudolf Sheptelevich Tenenbaum, a Jewish cmi- grant from the Soviet Union who has obtained a U.S. imnigrant visa and plan City area during August in Leningrad, he vas a language teacher in Len ture from the USSR in H -2. In 1973, when who could speak to some & to resettle in the Kew York 1375. Bors on 16 April 1936 technical translator and English insrad from 1960 until his depar- Sesenbaum wes seeking an American ef his English language classes, he was introduced at the Louse of a student in Leningrad to Bernon Ferguson Mitchell, an American who had defected to the Soviet Union in 1S60. 3. Tenenbaum visited Mitchell several times during the period between 1973 and May 1975. Mitchell lived in Leningrad at Prospekt Rizmskogo-Korsakova Number 16, Apartment 1, in a large was 16-58-80. private hocse; his telephone number 4. Mitchell is married to a woman named Galina, iast name unknown, who is dean Leningrad Conservatory. of the siano faculty at the they have ro children. 5. Tenenbaum states that Mitchell is very unhappy, . drinks a lot, regrets his Gefectic:, and would like to return to the U.S. or sone other English-speaking country. Siiitiye weysctiy: VE . ibareurs a ~ Re a Oe | E r 2B FETE SS : &, s  § £8433 See > eo : 2 ere t eee ve 3 a z z Date immossible. to. . determing, SJ \ ~ (unter @retont, Lind EAR Be =i! __ 7g.5° cone ee ee ee ini ats? Been Soe me OP net Cifera fr - La tgead 9 Ae 8
14-00000 q ee sae. Fe, vf « ° 1 & soy “ Mitchell dislikes Soviet life, speaks little Russian, and is unable to read Russian books. He receives a pension of approximately 500 rubies (about US$715) a month, and has regular visits from the KGB. hte ae ne recreate 0 TE MB $ he 4 6. Im May 1973, when Tenenbaum was teaching English to a number of prospective Jewish emigrants in Lesingrad, he was subjected to a recruitment atterpt by the KI which wanted him to report on alleged Zionist instigators of the Jewish exodus from the USSR. Tenenbauz refused to report on his students, rejected this attempted recruitment, and subsequently openly recounted the recruitment atterst to four groups of his students totalling about 40 Jews. : Tenenbaum felt’ that this was the best way to ensure that the KGB would never bother him again. 7. When he later described his reaction to the recruit- ment attempt to Mitchell, Mitchell told him he had acted wisely, particularly in revealing his signing of a secrecy agreement which the would-be KGB recruiter had dictated to him. @. Just prior to Tenenbaus’s departure from the Soviet Union in May 1975, he again visited Mitchell to return a book. On that occasion Mitchell was morose, and asked how he could leave the USSR illegally. Mitchell mentioned using the documents of a sailor on a foreign vessel as one possibility in this regard. FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS: CIOL~00111~75 Distribution: Orig & 1 - Addee 1 = C/CI 2 = CI/R&A/T Sources| _ 42212 (IN 639172) “ rp _ , SEORET SENSITIy fz | Bbx oc oie eater ise eecm terran g RRA SEP-OE SHOE PPA Ca treat PAS recounts aes gases apemmirianttnmnerecmemnttiarnnys nn oan een eee NS ee sd we pe we . aNd a