HW 53217 - a | CAM HCROF LECTIONS wie ey i \ cist WAR oo 24 August 1998 MEMORANDUM FOR: . Executive Director, ARRB FROM: J. Barry Harrelson JFK Project Officer, HRP/OIM SUBJECT : CIA-IR-19, Request for Information on Fourteen Individuals and Two Entities 1. This is in response to referent request for the files of a number of individuals and entities and is further to the information previously provided. The purpose of this memorandum is to document the above and to briefly summarize the information as to what files were found and reviewed. 2.. A request for searches with respect to the named individuals and entities was made. Searches were conducted and responses provided. In some cases, extensive information was found; in others there appears. to be no identifiable record at all. All of the materials located have been reviewed, or made available for review,. by ARRB staff. The individuals are listed first in alphabetical order; the two entities follow. - 3. ‘The Individuals: Jsearches fofind an Office of Security file y? Clarence . erson,” a staff employee, and. failable for ARRB review. No other Anderson” were found. , gf - Within thg JFK collection there are numerous referegtes to Anderso#f’s but almost all of them are ist Jack Anderfon. b. Brown, George Stanley -- - An official Office of Personnel File was found which reflects subjects employment history with the Agency. An “A” file which post-dates the relevant time period was also found. Subject was employed by the Agency as an analyst 1952-1962; assigned to Moscow 1960-1962. - Subject is mentioned several times in documents within the JFK collection. DoclId:32404591 Page 3
HW 53217 c. Brown, rna Deane -- - files were foyhd on subject file.. - - Subject is mentioned within her husband's file, next above. She apparently worked as a contract employee of the State Department in Moscow during 1962. d. Butler, Ed -- _. 7 The searches revealed that Edward Butler is referenced. in volume II of a three volume Office of Security file entitled “Garrison Case.” These materials are within the JFK collection. An “A” file was also found. No other files were found on subject. - Subject is mentioned in a number of documents within the JFK collection as someone associated with the Information Council of the Americas, Inc. (INCA) a New Orleans based corporation, and the Garrison investigation. e. Cheatham, Marie -- ~ The -searches turned up no files on subject. - Within the JFK collection there is a 2 November 1959 “Office Memorandum” which records several phone calls of the same date from subject (in her capacity as an employee within the Embassy in Moscow) to Oswald informing him of two telegrams from his brother. '£. Cherne, Leo (aka Leopold Chernetsky) -- - Via the searches, the official Office of Personnel Contract Personnel Folder, the Office of Security file and a 201 file were found. At one time there was an “A” file on subject but it has been incorporated into the 201. , - The JFK collection contains approximately sixty documents which mention subject; the 201 and security files are within JFK microfilm collection. - The contract personnel file indicates an independent contractual relationship with subject in 1988-89. There is no information which would link subject to the JFK assassination or any of the subsequent investigations. NO DoclId: 327404591 Page 4
HW 53217 g. Garbler, Paul -- ~ The search found an official Office of Personnel File on subject as well as an Office of Medical Services file. a ~ Subject. was a DO operations officer for his entire career, 1952 through 1977, and served as COs Moscow from 1961 to 1964. Garbler is mentioned several times within the collection. h. Guebler, Howard ~- - The search found no files on subject. One index card was found which may or may not be identical with subject. 1. Leake, Hunter -- - The search located the official Office of Personnel and the Office of Medical Services files on subject. No other identifiable records were found on subject. . - Subject was a contact specialist with 0O0/Contacts and later Domestic Contacts Staff, New Orleans, Louisiana from. May 1948.to July 1968... ©. j. McVickar, John Anthony _- Within the JFK files there are approximately fifteen documents on the John A. McVickar who was a State. Department employee. Most of tHese have been released in full. They were within what was originally an Office of Security subject file, not an official Office of Security file on an employee. ae , ~ No other files (201 or A file) were found which are identical to John A. McVickar, State Consular Officer, Moscow during 1959-1961. Files were found on another individual with the same first and last name but different middle initial. - No files were/found on subject either by the i collection. He is mentioned in epartment officer. DoclId: 327404591 Page 5
es on subject were found. An index ‘record to a medj@& article dated 1971 from “Computers and automation, ” ntains the statement that subject was Lee Harvey Oswalg@’s cousin and that she possible engaged-in espionage tivities in Russia and Asia. m. Novel, Gordon Duane -- - The search located an Office of Security file and a 201 file on subject. These files were reviewed by an ARRB staff member who selected materials from them to be included within the JFK collection. Also found were references to an “A” file which had been incorporated into the 201. Further, references were found to Novel in a three volume Office of Security file on the “Garrison Case.” These materials are within the JFK collection. No other files were found. ~ Within the JFK collection, subject is mentioned approximately fifty times. n. Raikin, Spas -- - The search found an Office of Security file and on subject. No other files or information on subject were found except for those within the JFK collection. No Personnel file was found. There also is a DO 201 file on subject, 201~282538. It was opened on 16 August 1960. The file is within the JFK collection. - The Office of Security file reflects subject ‘was granted clearance by the Office of Security on two occasions (August 1957 and January 1967) to work on an unwitting basis with the Joint Publications Research service (JPRS) in. New York City. Both of these documents are in the JFK collection and were released in 1993. The ARRB status letter of 27 July 1998 states that the Raikin part of the -request is complete. 4. The Entities: a. INCA (Information Council of the Americas) -- - There are approximately thirteen references to INCA within the JFK collection . 7 No other files on INCA within the relevant time frame were found. There are much later trace results on an INCA which may or may not be identical with the Information Council of the Americas. HW 53217 DBoctld:32404591 Page 6
b. Permindex -- - Within the JFK collection, there are several references to Permindex which reportedly was a Swiss corporation, registered in Bern and headed by “former” Hungarian Prime Minister Nagy. The searches revealed one reference to Permindex in a FOIA case. , - No other files were found via. the searches. 5. This concludes Agency action with respect to this request. If you have any questions, please advise. J. Barry Harretson mo, JFK Project Officer ’ HW 53217 DBocld:32404591 Page 7