Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USé 2107 Hotey. DATE: 11-14-2017 ah 2, a LF g \ L 7 4d g oe _ WFO 105-26269 ° es. ’ reo opt. TQ further advis at one IRVING DAVIDSON LY eas an fiquch with Colonel K-ASALMAN (Colonel KATRIELP. Zon >? SALMON,” former Military, Naval da Air. Attache, Israeli Vo Kh /HRB@SSy) of. the Israeli Embassy¥n April, October, Ve November. and December, 1956, and. January, 1957, but -on these occasions failed to furnish the informant with full details fof the nature of their contacts Sven as they did on later’ occasions-in July and August, 1958 /( . co ‘On August 20, 1958, Miss MARIAN CARLE, Office of Munitions Control, Department of State, Room 2115-D, Building T-3, furnished to SA SHANNON the file on I, IRVING ' DAVIDSON, registration number 3929, Examination. of this. file reflected the effective date of this registration as Cctober 12, 1954; The application was filed for the registration of a person engaged in the business of manu- facturing, exporting or importing arms, ammunition or implements of war pursuant to Section 12.of the Joint.Resolution of © Congress approved by the President of the United States on November 4, 1939, Se a ms oo, At the time of filing of this application DAVIDSON’s address was Suite 324 Wyatt Building, Washington, . D. Cy. He advised on the application that he had been established in business since 1945 (individual) and could. provide personally whatever capital:is meeded. for: each transaction; He designated MORRIS G, AVIDSON, 820 Highview woereet, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a United States citizen, ~ _ ““as a partner in. designated’ tranSactions, chiefly: for financing. DAVIDSON advised that he was in public relations work and was chiefly engaged in buying and selling of United: States surplus property, both domestically and abroad, for resale | ; both. domestically and abroad, and in. addition, . purchased surplus property from other surplus dealers for resale: He listed as these types of surplus property spare. parts . for rifles and United States surplus Army vehicles, -~lia~ , Docld:32340934 Page 4
“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC’ 2107 Hotey- DATE: 11-14-2017 ‘ 1 Beattie ee WFO 105-26269. SECHEL, Washington, formed to combat juvenile delinquency, had visited him on January 8, 1950, in the Ohio State : Penitentiary, He said DAVIDSON became interested in his _ case following the visit to Washington by LICAVOLT?-s wife, | | He advised that his brother, PETE, had no if fieesi at that time other than gambling,’ "ei - tet we Se ee . On January 17, 1955, I, IRVING DAVIDSON, then | occupying Suite 234 Wyatt Building, advised SAs ANDREW J. i SHANNON and JOSEPH A, GENAU, at~the Washington Field Office | of the FBI, that he sponsored an International Sports Show in March, 1954, at the District of Columbia Armory in . 4 Washington, Ds Ce . | ; 4 oe 6 advised that on March 19, 1954, the Subject 0 Cana NATWAyABINHOR: of the Polish Embassy, an Assistant ae Vie “Attache for Cultural Affairs, }¢ried unsuccessfully t ae / contact each othér“at™the “International Sports Show . . On March 22, 1954, T-6 re1ato, hat NATHAN EINHORN. disclosed hefhad been in touch with DAVIDSON and tol DAVIDSON that an exhibit was on its way/from Poland,Sbut was late; that it contained material showing canoeing, Vacation homes, and was mostly pictorial, and that it might arrive after the beginning of DAVIDSON's show (International Sports | Show.) DAVIDSON, according -to T-6, advised (EINHORNJ@about 20 countries were participating in the show, including Japan, and Egypt, and that it was being done mostly through the - airlines, T-6 added that fEINHOR entioned that DAVIDSON indicated he would like to get a visa to[visit Poland#éhnd - {that EINHORN ndicated there would be no great difficulties in this respect¢jS T-6 could furnish no additional information CZ). in this matter, a 7 ps [a7 advisedXin March, 1954, that DAVIDSON extended - an inyitation to [the Russian Embassy] Oo participate in his sports~ shows spect furnish no further information in (x) this’ respect, : T~8 advisedfthat IRVING DAVIDSON was [in contact JS) with {Colonel JULIO C, MORALES, Military Attache of the Nicaraguan Embassy,|during September and October, 1956, -18- x rR aba if eS I | Docld:32340934 Page 5
"Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USCTSIOT Wotey. DATE: 11-14-2017 WFO 105-26269 [Aecording to the informant, the contacts Zopeared to « be in connection with DAVIDSON's representing the “ks Nicaraguan Embassy as a public relation epresentative, andfsome of the contacts were inquiriesf@bnce ning the ~ health of President A, SOMOZA of Nicaragua: » ~ On January 18, 1949, the name of one IRVING - {DAVIDSON appeared in the address book of one IRVING AHALPERIN, found in the possession of HALPERIN when “arréstéd that date by Washington, D, Cs, Metropolitan Police Department, nn nemaebaneees ' = In January, 1949, one JANE BACON (not further identified) advised the Washington, D. C.,; police that she knew IRVING. DAVIDSON as a dealer in surplus property. She advised that IRVING HALPERIN is primarily a. gambler. who resided at the La Salle Apartments, 1028 Connecticut Avenue, Ns W. She identified approximately 35 individuals in HALPERIN's address book, the majority of whom were women whom she described as “high class prostitutes," BACON advised that several of these girls were invited to’ HALPERIN's card parties as dates for the players, | “ T-5, another Governmental agency which conducts personnel and sSecurityy type investigations, advised that T-1l had advised that agency on September 10, 1955, that in July, 1955, he called on DAVIDSON. He advised that DAVIDSON at that time was in the market for aviation parts forthe ,( Nicaraguan Government, During this contact with DAVIDSON, pul” T-11 noticed a brochure of DAVIDSON's advertising a National ote Travel Show,‘ T-11 formerly sold aviation supplies | the ge” Yugoslavian Government, and had contact with PETARYMIHALDINEC, * a former Yugoslavian Assistant Military Attache in Washington, 4 Ds.Ge, then Chief of the Foreign Division of Putnik Dragoslava vanovica, a Yugoslavian travel and tourist agency. At the time of his contact with DAVIDSON T-ll suggested to DAVIDSON that the two of them might underwrite the New York Office of Putnik, According to T-11, DAVIDSON spoke to MIHALDINEC by telephone and realized that Pitwik was an official agency of the Yugoslavian Government, and there would be a need for him, DAVIDSON, to register with the Department of Sustice. ot (i) \ Bo ~19- BN | Docld: 32340934 Page 6 |