124-90146-10091 JF Assassination System Identification Form Date: 5/27/201 AGENCY : Agency Information FBI RECORD NUMBER: 124-90146-10091 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: _105-93072-101 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: HQ TO: CIA TITLE: DATE: 09/30/1963 ‘PAGES: 5 SUBJECTS : ‘RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 12/08/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS: INC MEMO ghee ee ee ES EPO ener ee ee ee ee ee Pe sry eps unaenens v9.4 BW 50953 Doctld: 32339259 30 Page i
- - Liaison a 1 - Mr, Anderson . & ee (8) 105-93072-/ 2 | z. REC- 124 s Date: September 30, 1963 ne To: Director C. a Central Intelligence Agency Re Attention: Deputy Director, Plans is ShasT 7. y o Prom: John Edgar Hoover, Director Ce ’* Subject: RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON Sed od INTERNAL SECURITY ~ CUBA Bh) Reference is made to your letter dated September 10, ThA 1963, your reference CSC1-3/777, 806 f w\ Permission is granted for your Agency to furnish the 2 L official source the data as requested. OR 7 it is desired that any addit 1 information received through your sources concerning the whereabouts and activities of the subject be furnished to this Bureau. uw 2 - Legat, Bern (Enclosure) ‘ ee aA << a - New York (Enclosure) , ASAT a = E at | Enclosed for Bern is a copy of referenced CIA letter, re | which is self-explanatory. One copy is also enclosed for the information of New York, Office of Origin in., this, sease. U) fay » iit: re oleon 1 - Foreign Liaison Unit ° ‘SEE NOT CONTINUED PAGE WO FOR Belen (Route through for review)  LEGAT, BERN, ANR SAC, NEW vom Casper 5 i ally N f Callahan othe. ' ae “Wd Bel oach oe Aca ui ah ~ _\ Boat cy: A 7 V4 OCT 4 1963 crORET: | i fer Holmes — MAIL roomL_] TELETYPE unit Lo > », 4 | A 50957 Boclda: 323392759 Page 2?
- o d y a . Loe or ye f> me, tet o . : : £ Director Central Intelligence Agency NOTE CONTINUED FOR LEGAT BERN, AND SAC, NY: COPE 2 For Bern's information, Gibson, a Security Indes! sub jet of the New York Office, is former Acting Executive Secretary o pro-Castro organization, Fair.Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC), In view of CIA's information indicating subject is presently in Lausanne, Switzerland, and its previous interest in this matter, authority is being granted for CIA. to pass the requested . information to their source in this instance. By separate commu- nication pertinent reports concerning the subject are being . furnished for Bern's information and future assistance in this. matter, Bern should alert sources for any ‘additional ,information regarding subject's activities and meee ‘’A\ NOTE: oe ae _ £3) | _ “GTA advised that |furnished information” indicating subject had rétently arrived in Switzerland from Algiers. Subject reportedly came to Swiss attention through association with and working for an. individual who has had numerous contacts in international leftist circles “of all shades," CIA's source | “Fequested background data re. subject. “NO We. previously requested State Department and CIA to alert their seurces when Gibson left the U.S. for Algeria. Subsequently, CIA advised by Liaison that (it was giving ‘ consideration to possible utilization ef Gibson on an intelligence mission inside Cuba and future utilization of Gibson by CIA would depend on his performance in Cuba [$Jlt is noted subject, during previous FBI interview in the U. indicated he would assist ~~ FBI. and/or .CIA.in return for financial remuneration but not due to allegiance to U, s1G@)He stated he did not like the FBI fand matter was referred to CIA,@)Ordinarily, we would furnish information from Bufiles to sources abroad through our Legal Attaches; however, in this instance it is felt CIA should be authorized to so handle in view of its previous interest in subject. Further, this is first indication of subject's residence in Switzerland and, Legat, Bern, has no prior background concerning this matter. Boctlda: 323392759 Page 3
tt seGRET ean va a GIA HAS NO ORJE cTON TO CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY . DEC! ASSHTS oA HON AND/OR, WASHINGTON 25, D.C, RELEASE GF CIA INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT S$ SAMITIZED mM blaulas Be | £0 SEP 1963 ney, by MEMORANDUM FOR: Director mF Federal Bureau of Investigation — Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich /, él) FROM : Deputy Director. (Plans) yx? x SUBJECT 3 Richard —, GIBSON ouree has provided the following information ; “Be Richard “Thomas nas’ GIBSON, aU. 5. citizen, porn 13° May 1931. in . Los Angeles, occupation: Journalist and translator, arrived in™ Lausanne, Switzerland from Algiers in late April 1963 and he has ope resided there ever since. GIBSON, who holds U. S. passport — ; ri B-131994 issued in Washington on 25 January 1961, is married to Joy y Marjorie’ GIBSON, nee. » KAYE, a journalist and British Subject “who |} holds British passport Cc 156546. be Subject came to the attention of (‘the aie) recently through his association with Fre Lb WL SOR ANDERSSON, a Swedish citizen born 1) Fe’ “1533 in Lausanne, witz. : editor-publisher of "La Cite" and editor-secretary of "Societe TS | eoroperative CLARTEE EDITIONS" th has offices at 10-11 Metropole, Lausanne. ANDERSSON has been known to have had for the past ten years numerous contacts in international leftist circles of Pe all shades, including FLN-Algerians, Congolese, Angolese, other™ i a \) African polltscans, Spanish emigrees, French ‘etractaares es colamialtstes”, ote » ete. EX ] 16 REC 95 jeu Eo) 7aae JO j PAG Ne ee )\ ce Despite ali the aforementioned contacts, amicceon san be wi<g-\° definitely labeled as a communist and is viewed with some reserve . ‘}, by the Swiss Commmnist Party (PaA) prominency. More recently — A ANDERSSON came to special notice for his close contacts with © “. ‘the CHICOM embassy in Switzerlend, particularly with LAO Hain, the Cultural Attache. In April 1963 it was learned that ANDERSSON ' ‘published a luxury-edition of. a brochure » entitled "“Leninisme et. ° AR, Revisionnisme Moderne" on CHICOM orders. This brochure Paised i - ALL EBL INE gRMAT | CONTAIN by unfavorable reactions in PaA circles. Three thousand GEA ; } mere habs iS Unc eo ¢ bb A chure are reported to have been | shipped.st GhPnk 7 tTINT AIAN An ser BW 50953 Doctld: 32339259 Page 4
4 wee | ad. ‘When’ Vide=Prestaento Chun of ‘the Committee for Cultural Relations With Foreign Countries stayed in Switzerland in April , 6 reportedly met ANDERSSON and placed more orders for . ANDERSSON to publish Chinese Communist brochurés supporting the CHICOM line in the present Sino-Soviet ideological controversy. 6. ANDERSSON is the distributer for Switzerland of the monthly —_ review "Revolution Africaine" which is published in Paris. Richard GIBSON and his wife are employed by ANDERSSON (ive. for the Parie publishing firm) and they are responsible for translation, proof- — reading, etc. of the English-language edition of "African Revolution" which is printed in Lausanne. . Be Thef/ frdurce hag_no pr s record of the GIBSONs ~~ nor any adverse information to date. [They nmveflequested information on “S. them. Permission is requested to pass the following summary on Subject, taken from reports of your Bureau, to te eae, (refer=_ ence is made to your file on Roethnes 1061, 2h » No. 105-93072 and specifically to the reports on him dated 5 Oc £1961, 2b ‘ January, 4962 27 August. . 19625 17 September 1962, al September-1962, and 20 May. 19633: ae Richard Thomas Gibson, American Negro journalist, porn 13 May 1931 in Los Angeles, California, was active in the New York chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) from the time of ite organization in the spring of 1960 until his departure for Algeria in the fall of 1962. The FPCC has been supported by the Socialist Workers Party (SwP) and Gibson has busied himself as well with other front groups in the United States supported by the SWP. (The Socialist Workers Party has been designated by the Attorney General of the United States pursuant to Executive Order 10450. ). b. Gibson apparently began to lose interest in the FPCC ; , partly because of inadequate pay and operating funds, by the spring of 1962 when he stated that he intended to leave the organization in the fall. Gibson left Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, ‘in September 1962 for Algeria where he planned to work as a journalist for several. o South American and European newspapers (none identified) and to. \ travel to Moreeco, Ghana, Guinea and Mali before returning to the . United States. Eventually, both Gibson and his wife were given posts with Revolution Africaine a Journal reportedly Pinanced by the Algerian Government. . oP ly oe a oo. ec. Gibson's English wife, Sarah, / was jdentified with the "English Bureau" of Revolution Africaine as of February 1963. Prior to his departure from the United States Gibson served as Executive Secretary 50953 Daoctd:32339259 Page 45