AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 HW 45907 Docld: 32324514 JFK Assassination System ° Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90029-10006 HQ CR 100-407808-1 Document Information FBI MI HQ 12/24/1953 3 "KENNETH D. HEITKAMP THOMAS R. PEASNER PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Unclassified 3 Redact 09/15/1998 APPROVAL OF USA MEMO; Page 1 Date: 6/8/2015 Released under the John Kennedy Wssassination Records oOllection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). asef# iN 45907 Date: 4-11-2018
7 am , ane Soya aTio| sranonne FORM NO, 64 ; GEraiNTY fee Cia! u bani . ware Office Memorandum - ° _UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO : DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: December 24, 1953 00-0) FROM bye , MIDVAUKEE a | SUBJECT: TN ae 3 fo emt RECAP -K PART II ° (oe Piers Oe PH | ne et DP aif By letter dated November 24, 1953 Lt. Col. GORDON D. Y- of BUCKLEY, Chief, Counter Intelligence Division; G=2 Section, 5th Army sD /F Headquarters, Chicago, enclosed the record of the interrogation of G-~ 46 Subject as a returning POW. He advised that.the Subject was cisenereed (JFK) ‘from the Army on_October i Tllinois and his. home address is The Subject . is not’considere a security risk by the ° “Act 6 (3) Pertinent paragraphs from the Subject's Army interroga~ ~ tdon are set forth: mS "Subject was captured by unknown forces on kR February . “1951 when his unit was overrun at Changhong, South Korea. He was : _ released at Kaesong on 22 August 1953. He is 22 years of age, | Caucasian,.and has had 10 years of education. The Phase II inter- \ rogation was” gonducted | on 29 August 1953 aboard the USNS General John » Popes, plas Committee. . 1 ey men were selected by the Chinese and ‘then a _S vated SH ont “By the members. of the company. Kent (EAR a age 26, 1 home address Texas, and a ET ome. a ress Texas visited with tié-tamp BAY 7 ©}. was later transferred to _ / + Camp 3 Sey ine assigned to” the camp band. The following men were the most recent, frequent visitors to camp headquarters and their visits were voluntar . - W.VA. ‘ KehEA ar yy — réceived better ‘RBrecs COPIES DESTROYS Dallas r O°. New Orleans +e) AUG « 7 Pittsburgh | [ HW 45907 Docld:32324514 Page 2?
Llowing addresses were obtained from the diary of - ra POW and Subject of another case, which may be of Value vo € Bureau: HW 45907 & ay? a ; an id + MI 1OO--0 received special instruction and training. apparently believed | in the ttrue value! of Communism and Subject believes that these men did ! not support Communism merely to gain personal favors. These men voluntarily attended study group meetings. collaborated with camp . | authorities by supplying answers to any and all questions the Chinese had. acted as informants and reported all incidents to the camp authorities as a matter of loyalty to the camp / ‘ officials. voluntarily chose to re ‘with the Chinese andq had no desire to return to the United States, These men were very friendly with the Chinese, had pro-commmnist leanings and reflected these leanings by applying themselves and cooperating with the Chinese... Subject does not know of any pro—conmunists among. other United ‘Nations prisoners. “ : "Subject hates the word Communism and what it stands for, and does not think that it would work ‘in the United States, He states that he never listened to the lectures given while he was a prisoner and does not know what Communism really is or the reason. that it won't work in the United States, “ ’ “ "All of the captured personnel of Subject 's platoon have not been repatriated. a United States Army . personnel, voluntarily chose to remain with the Chinese and were last seen at Camp #1." ~2- Docld: 323274514 Page 3
at era oe a? ‘ . e 4 ie e al . te e vd | li ve, he . ro = : g « MI 100-0 JFK Act 6 No further investigation will be conducted at Milwaukee UACB. é ~ HW 45907 Docld:32324514 Page 4