Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 JFK Assassination System Date: $/27/201 Identification Form a Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-90146-10075 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: — 105-93072-NR a Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM:  PAPICH TO: BRENNAN TITLE : DATE: — 12/04/1962 PAGES: 1 SUBJECTS : RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B CURRENT STATUS: —Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 12/08/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS : a eaten v9.1 Docld: 32339235 Page 1 17
“R cg a eitaed “mnier tne Tine rs “Ke medy As sassination Records” Collection Act of 1992 (44 ‘USC’ 2107 DATE: _iLi- -14- -2017 “ASIA REVOLUTION" a ET re eet, rw wo. . a : j rare Qe & ve Reports received from a number, ‘Sf sources make it clear ; _.. that "Africa, Lavin America, As Revolv ition" bas been in difficulties : for several months and it apy that the’ last issue was No. ll dated March 1964. The trouble began, . apparently, whet the French authorities © seisod copies of issue No. 7 of the Preach edition, "Revolution", dated : . March 1964 because of an article it contained on French overseas: 7 ‘ territories Creditors decane alarms fearing that the publication | might be banned, and demanded etvidyght of their debts which were then estimated to exceed £10; O00. VERGES , the publication' s Director, tried to ef: x are" eemiomies \i/order to cope : ~ with the situation but, accors 2 to VE ERCES Richard yet she Editor, argued that hinese snovld be Laster ‘Matters worsened necording to VORCES, GIBSON persuaded. the Lausanne printer ing and ask the Chinese to settle the “publication's debt ‘S vesarded GIBSON's activities as '. deliberately disruptive and designed to produce proof of China's support for the publicavion. ve! .2. Also VERGES complained that GIBSON -was working. ! ‘Communist splinter groups in Curope to the detriment of the / international Communist movement, and that he was dealing tactles _ with the magazine's agents and contri butors> Me situation was suck.’ that VERGES visited U.K. in mid-July te discuss the position with! BABU, a member of th itorial Board. BABU; who is now Minister of | - “State for Development Planning of the United Republic of. Tanganyika : and Zanzibar, was in London for the Sommonwealt he Prime Ministers! 7 Conference. _ . = 3. in there were rumours that the English edition had gone bankrups , yere denied by GIBSON who sugzested that the Bnglish and Fr itions should be made quite separate, and that . “the former should 7 be shed in London. At about this time the spla ; between VERGES and SIS WY became complete and the- latter. was removed . from his position as Editor and from the Editorial Board, which issued the following "warning":s- - “Comrades from New York, London and. Acera (G have raised up grave charges against Richard GIBSON. : “These charges have been confirmed and underlined by ‘Richard CIRSON's presenv di: sruptive activities. Revolution's Scitoricl Board has decided to dismiss “ Richard CTRSON from all his veepongibdilities and expell “chim. from 4 Sg similar stable stat A July-August ~Docld: 324539238 Page 2
“Released-uider the Tonn’F-Kennedy Assassination “Records” Collection | ‘DATE: 11-14- 2017 ee oe a ; Ce ee ay ‘ w 7 2 ~ ode With GIBSON out of eee way, VORCES and his suvporters “) were hoping to resume publication of the Dnglish edition. GIBSON also “seemed determined to carry ‘on and it has been reported that as early. as June 1964 he was enquiring into the possibility of publishing an English version in the Netherlands. _ . Oo > 1964 has been the resignation from the Editorial Board ALAVI | who objected to the publication's ; pfo-Chinese attitude. 7 "africa, Latin: anorica, Asia I Revolution” shows that he enotner Pakistani tne 78 year ol Maulana Abdul Hamid SHASHANT, who lives on Bast Pakistan, is the . ami Party. sqcoeeneeres nereweteteneninertcnonie fo. arteries oe The only other change of sienificance which | has: TOG n Act of T 9927 (44 usc 2107 Hotey> | DocId: 32339238 Page 3