a fe Rees 7, PARRE Eres, — -ahLnan a icine ae cca eli renee i omen vee eee F ‘ : PROCESSING ACTION MARKED FOR INDEXING NO INDEXING REQUIRED . ONLY QUALIFIED DESK CAN JUDGE tNOEXING Chief, WH Division Chief of Station, Mexico City MICROFILM SUBJECT ‘ — BEDOX BEVISION/BECOMPLEX/opérational -~ Status Report on investigation of f ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES . Ryszard LICHOCKI 7 Action: See paragraphe 7, 8 9, 16 and Li. Reference: A. DIR 79031 B. HMMW-11969, 16 Oct 63 C. HMMA-22043, 30 Aug 63 ey y a. Since the preparation of reference C, the Station has ingtituted telephone coverage of Subject, intercepted his mail, made inquiries about possible trips outside of Mexico by Subject aince his arrival, and pursued other leads which - are described in more detail below. All of this detailed investigative effort haa not thus far developed concrete proof of any clandestine activity on the part of Subject, although it is certainly poesible that open code messages — . are being passed by mail or by phone. The ons pogsible exception is described in paragraph 6c below <- a faint indication that he may have left the country _ in mid-1959.. WEGRZYN was rechecked in HBFINCH files, but there istetill — no record of him, - LIFEAT Coverage 2. LIFEAT coverage on Subject was instituted on 17 August and terminated on 23 October 1963. It was decided that an adequate pattern of Subject's associations had been obtained, and there wae no positive indication of | clandestine contacts arranged vis thie means. Following is a list and (continued) ; GO sven g igo god Tait 3 “ atten yeas ae OS, ae Distribution: (2-EE 1- WH % DATE DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER HMMA-22479 CLASSIFICATION f CROSS REFERENCE TO 14 November. 1963 ae _ HQS FILE NUMBER ene 53199 DocId: 32355923 Page - Ae gad erage OL,
Abrahars ZLoT LIBALSA discussed .thig matte whose wife Adel Adela then Passed Hogina ia the siete HMM -8395 dated fall information on mation on her. along ¥ ef Ad Subject. recommended Su the tip to Reging @. Arquitecto ROSEN. ®KONSTAT Markowleh, Edgar Allen Poe 30/501 (4) Pe & message for him ¢  Staties traces, FORM USE PREYBOUS EDITION. 10-57 53q REPLACESIFORMS 51-28, 51-384 AND 31-29 WHICH ARE CaSOLETE, : <a HW 53199 DoclaT32355923—Page (40) dre ®GOMEZ bat he is te ¢ ob | NIK. Telephone 12. 38/409-10, This is Subject's buginess asgoeia business decneged in reference C, 4 with the police comman. bject ag @ SPeclaligg Telephone !4~37- Calle for Subject on 2 all Aurora, Reking fo & trying to get a ne Embasey,. SLUSAR & to Subject fz 34, Nuevo Leen 3g, 83-20, Isabella la Catalica © in the land development . ; . & Atrora and No Station traces, 3 September and leavee * BALDIVA. No identical * BCCording to | Ww Polish Passport — 2 Whe not very helpful The daughter’ | er chemist now working |. 128/46, Streets it
en in Detzoit. ghe was dora in poliad, ame: ie ; foxde 7 yaly 19ST, ed. to the U.S. in August 1969. BEVISION recalled a cage of a female. agent in the © U.8., a chemist, epecialiat in rubbor' and sulpher, who wad, aa agent of a ; Branch 2, Department i. Hae thig cage ever beea resolved? - - he Bogdan MIBLNIE. MIRE: ‘B. 2 Polioh phystetet hore: fin Moxico a working under Jeray PLEBANSE! af the Palitecaice; lves- ‘gith the: ROGACKIs, ant becauee of this, has social. contact wists’ Sebject and hie wife, There-ave*.° - several calle indicating @ cocial relationship, . Lidia. bag invited MIBLNIK. of for dinner, and Subject and MIS LNEK chat on the ‘phone occasionally. LIrkat coverage was instituted oa MIELNIK‘'e phone aiad vail bs reported. separately. i, faa RODE from Chiapauecas calis Subject regarding 8 house. RACES: There ié a ¢ard on a Fraucieco Jose RHODE, German national, _ living im the State of Chiapas and Meted ad a pro-Asie element in Tapachala, Chieanas in 1942, The decumente have bean destroyed. peta j. Dr. Mouricio eOCHSHORN. Subject called ROSEN and asked for OCHSHORN's number on 29 August. After. obtaining it, he called OCHSHORN.. The conversation, which.wao in Polish, was not translated.” “TRACES: - PE OCHSHORN was bora 12 May 19M ia Kesowa, Poland, anil wae medical coneultant oo to employees of the Soviet Bmbagsy during the period 1953-56, and pashaps =” longer. An investigation of: COHSHORN was conducted by LIFTS SR, the results. — ef which are contained in. TMM<2339, 3 Jul-5i, p14. La brief, tho investigation. indicated that OCHSHONM got hie medical degree in Poland and went to France. in 1935, reportedly because of hig cémentmict activitics. In Paris he kept ia touch with loftiat groupes, and particularly with exiled Polish communists. He went to Spain in 1937, returned to France in 1938,. where he was arrested and imprisened. Upon his release, -he applied for entry to Mexico aad entered. Mexico ae a political refugee on 2 March 1942. -Since hie arrival in Mexico, he has maintained leftist contacts, although he is said to he not active in politics. Cayoacan 703/501.. k. Ing. Ignacio HOLTZ Hale, /Subject tried urgently on 10 September to reach HOLTZ at 43-07-23 and 14-34-54. He did mot make contact by phone. Tho firet number listed to HOLT and the second te D.C, CONSTRUCCIONZS, Coahuila 223/408. No traces. i. {mu RONSHKI, fs0 JOMASKI. Subject called 1-73-84 on Ml September twice, the first time agking for RONSKI and the second time asking fer JOMASKHI, neither of whom were im. The aameos may be garbled ag they were transcribed by the Spanich monitor. Tho tebphona ia listed to Mexican i Soavenire, Ixtlaccibuatl 4/201. (For tracds see 2.p. below). ta'Gamiv ER. Called Subject oa 13 September regarding a land deal. No traces. s. Halina “GORDON. Friend of Lidia. Secial chit-chat. ® Ignacio SEDELSTEIN, Subject called EDELSTBIN on ¢ October te ask him for a ride out to aome property, and algo whorw to get Pelich. crystal. The two men ceem to be friands. Ne tracag. p- fou HALAMSKI. (Note: This man may be identical with the - . RONSKI er JOMASEKI ef l above. MALAMSEI is the Polish monitor's varaion of a call that eamo day which may be ideatical with the ones noted above.) On 9 September Subject called HALAMSKXYI aad teld him that he kso to. wait 36 . meanths for hie U.8, vise. He then sald that hie Baglish teacker ia the daughter | of a Mexican woman and a Sceteman. She Mves near Subject... The Station has | not thus far been able te identify thie English teacher. TRACES: fou ROMS, fan JOMASHI, fau HALAMSEL, fas GOLAMSKI. Possibly identical. with “USE PREVIOUS EDITION. . CLASSIFICATION REPLACES FORMS . c at 51-28, 51-284 AND 5}-29 —f-<¢-2-2 Tt. : tat cs. | CONTINUED .--“ WHICH ARE OBSOLETE. t iW 53199 DoclId:32355923 Page 4
hagk 20: the 1940 te indizaniag that Giibjoct agadeintad with leltewing ond Cominuntet. elementa, in Berlin in the 30e and aldo in Pazis.. HALAMSEI and his wifo’ applied: : fer a'U.S.. visa in 1961, at which time thay we ‘Living at. iutlacgihuatl 6/505: and. bad an office at letlaceibuatl 6/201, Sebjeat Bac is, the pags bad a ahop ‘galling - heather goods and Mazican curios. The slosensen. al this address to chat: Mated — - to the phone N-73-86 aad the fact that fac LICHOCMis once Mved at Iatlaccthuadl - 85, aaggest that Jeray HALAMSEI ‘4g the HALAMSEL in contact with LICHOCKI. qe faa *WALL. On 1 October WALL calten Subject and said that fan’ GOLAMSEI had recommended thas, WALL talk to Gubjece about seme legal problems: ‘WALL was having over an catate in- Poland, Sabject says he wilh come over gon help him aed gota the-address; Avenida Mexico, Plaza Sante Smurte, Apt. 301. No Station traces on WALL. (Note: Poeaibly GOLAMSEL hs the BALAMSEL of . &p. above. ) $ (40) poet ne -aqW) 53199 FORM USE PREVIOUS EDITION. |Z.7 BAL ald CLASSIFICATION 10-57 53a REPLACES FORMS ‘ ‘ 3. According te LIFZAT information, Sebject's wife rented a room in Sheir house at Cucraavaca 452 to an Anavicas Jow named Hyman'CAUN, born. eirca 1902. He was recommended by Lidia by a fou LEVENSEKE, who deseribsd CAHN asa iatellectual, eerious, an American fram Loe Angeles who planacd to. be in Mexico about aix monthe. The indications are that CAHN was a. complete atvranger t© the LICHOCKIs whea.e moved into their houses. Ho meved in about ’ 7-8 Soptembor. Mail coverage oi the address hag produced some letters from a girl {rieud in California named Gladys TOOMBS, ether miscellansous letters, and a cashic#ie check for $5,032.00 from the Great Western Savings and Loan Assotiagion in Los Angeles, California, whieh apparently represented CAHN's entire gavinge im that inetitution. Ina phone conversation between Subjects wile and Ignacio RICHTER, Lidia said that CAHN wanted to invest about $27, 600. im Mexican banks, where he could get 10% interest. A later call to CAHN from a Miss FLORES from Credito Burcatil indicates that CAHN is buying Mexican gtocks. The Station hag aot beam able to develop any further infermetioa on . GAHN to date. 4 Mail Covera vorage. In addition ta the letter deseribed in MEXI-6322, 30 September 1963, Sadject hae received the following letters: . a Letter dated A October 1963 from Gubject's daughter, Kryotyna, writing from Warsaw. Subject apparently gave kis daughter the mezey for a two-week trip to Vienna, and she writes a vary fond thank-you letter to him: upan her retarn to Wargaw. b. & bisthday card dated 4 October te Subject fram Lydia *KLEIMAN, 7628 Carlyle Avenue, Miami Beach, Plorida. c. A letter to Subject's wife dated 3 October from a Miss or Mes. SZALECKA, Leds, Poland. The letter merely urgea Lidia to write, talke aboug health and family. a. A letter to Gubject dated 3 October from the fan “ZALECKA of 4.¢. abeve. Thanke subject for gift to Z's mother, mentiona other memberé of the family: Jurek, Wojtek, Ania. 2 has been taking a sewing course and. expecte te start working in Pebruary after finiching the course. Z urges Sobjact to. write and aske why tie didn’t anewor her letter. The lettera from Poland can, of course, be interpreted as open code meseages irom the Center indicating ungatiofactery communication from Subject. They may also be. perfectly ordinary family letters. ot 5. LIBALSA Conustact with Subject. LIBALSA has boen out of town for two weeks recently, bug has. ta the lact twe months developed o friandly reldtionship., with Subject, who drope in e shop guite eften. Subject has cox: Od + 51-28, 51-28A AND 51-29 WHICH ARE OBSOLETE. * oe cE : . + ri y Fa] con nto . . Docld:32355923 Page 5 Sony ; oes os
, of a | - that he wiehee his wife could find a batter paying job than the one she new has with ignacto RICHTER. MIBALSA hag, guggested that eho come around to hie _ shop and he will hive her. Mothing definite haa happamed about thie offces, ae | yet, however. LIBALGA still plans to take Subject out on the tows, per pagsgraph 28 of refersace C, but hag act yet had the opportualty to do eo. Ons interosting thing which LEBALSA haa discovered id the nanie of Gubject's.bank: -- Banco Comercial Mexicane. He dese set know at which branch Subject does his banking, however. Efforts wil be made through Station ageste to find ovt more about this FORM - USE PREVIOUS EDITION. 10-57 53a, . REPLACES FORMS 51-28, 51-28A ANO 51-29 642-62 (40) _ a! 34199 bank account. a. The eae fact in the entire cace which is meat susceptitie of = investigation Js the alleged trip Subjec took to Burege to meet his caso officer fz late 68.~ early 39. AM available gources on Subject have boon checked for iefermation en this telp and have barned aut negative, with one exception. GABBOTT (ps) recalled that Subject had either warked fox or had been aseaciated with a Ladislaw “DROZDOWGKI during the carly part of hia etay in Mexico and therefore might know lukesther be had bees out of the country for any longth of time. b. TRACES: According to Station (les, DROZDOWSE! was bora on 28 April 1925 in Poland. He was a Captais ia the Polish-Ruasian Army (2ic} - duying World War Mi and entered Moxies in January 1944. Because of hie failure to register properly, DROZDOWSEKI was ordered by the Monicas Govermment te leave the country in 1948. (Mote: He is still here.) Source alleged that when. DROZDOWSEK! entered Mexico, ho had connectiong with the Polioh Legation, bud severed these connections, posaibly duo to financial matters. Subject claime.- te be a veternarian. (Geurce: LIBIDO, 2) April 1948.) e. The LEFIREs were sont out to interview Mr. and Mre. DROZDOWSKI who own a clenning establishment im the Polanco area of Mexico. According to the statemente of DROZDOWSKIs, Subject never worked for them, but had sought assistance from them circa mid-1935 when he ect up his causage-making shop soon after hig arrival in Mexico. The D's did aot thisk much of Subject and stated that they thought he might have left the country to go to Israel sometime im mid-1959 for the purpoge af getting married. it is difficult to evaluate this information at present, ao it ia nat clear from tho report whether the LIFIREs led the DROZDOWSEle in their questioning. Kt might have beea that the D's would “remember” such a trip if they thought it might get Subject into trauble, sinee they ebviewoly disliked him. The LIFIREs will be sent back to the DROZDOWSKIe for more detailed discuesion of thie alleged trip. The alleged nmrriage is clearly false -- Subject was married to Lidia here in Mexico on 12 Jane 1962. 7. The Station ie now faced with the probability that there will be ne: breakthrough in this cage before Subject’s immigration application comes up for processing. At that time, is ecems to the Station that the possible coursea of actionars: a. To call Subject in for an interview and pet prascure an him to confess his agent status, then try to recrait itm to work in place in the U.S, for a gam of meney. Given Subject's very ehaky Uimancial statue, eince his money is all tied up in land epeculation, it is felt that mesey would act as a very strong incentive for him to accept recruitment. li he agreed, it would then be necessary for ODENVY to be involved in the case. Therefora, if thi¢ csurea af actien is ddemed appropriate by Headquarters, it ie requested that ODENVY be quericd now ag to whether they weuld want to rum euch a cage in PBPRIME. (i) M Subject ceafeased to belng a PIS agent and agreedto — recrultment and if ODENVY wished to rua thie case, Subject would then be. uy CLASSIFICATION WHICH ARE OBSOLETE. Docld: 3235592753 Page 6
ws are oT ek SYMBOL AND NO. . _ggeRee | HMDMA<22479 permitted to go to the U.8. (2) if Subject ceafessed, but ODENVY does not wish to can ouch © acase, presumably Subject would then, on the bacie of hie confession, be refuaed entry tethe U.8. ~ (3) 1{ Gabject refuses to confers, because he ia either a good agent or not an ageat at all, the Station can oaly point out to bim that his life in the U.S. wilh be extremely diengreenble with this charge haaging over his bead and let him go. b. Te do nothing when Subject's immigration comes Up, theraby allowing him to proceed to the U.S. unhiadsred. The Station believes that this course of action would be appropriate only & ODENVY preferrad te conduct an javectigation on Subject after hie arrival is the 0.8. withoat alerting him to suapicions on the part of the authoritics. Fhis would be a matter which anly ODENVY could judge. The peasibility of cauging Subject's immigration vies to be sefared out af hand has not been listed since with the evidence now at hand, it is deemed extremely aplikely that the responsible authorities would consider such a refusal warranted. The Station favers the plas of action described im 7.a, above; however, Head- quarters comments and guidance in this matter weuld be appreciated. Since congultation with ODENVY will bs secessary ia any case, it ia requested that Headquarters undertake discugsions now in order to reach an understanding of how thie cage is te bo handled, 8. It would bs most helpful Wf BEVISION could be queried agais on the -baaia of the mew information now available, better pictures, ete. Tho Station -sealises that clrcamstaaces probably prevent this, but it te gerieualy doubted here that LICHOGKI is going to bo revealed as a PIS agent witheut some additienal ammunition. Headquartera states in paragraph 9 of Reforence B thas it ia probable that Subject is raaintaining contact with 2 case officer, In : eases of Polish iMegals knowa to the Station, guch contact hag ugually been kept te a minimum while the ageat was in the ataging area. If Subject is writing to the Center from tine to time, but ne? meeting a cade olfteer, the _ chance of detecting thie are extremely amallc22f he le meeting a cage officer ag all segolarly (which is theaght to be uniikely if Mexico te a staging area for " hi), the mectinge must be taking place la Meoxice because he has aot been cat of Mexico City eince Station coverage began. To date, the Station haa besitated to surveil Subject until secme Gnal coarac of action hae been determined. If Headquartere wants the confrontation to take place, it i9 planned to precede this by gome intensive surveillance, beth to determine if Gubject ia meoting any one clandestinely aad to ratile Subject a bit before hie interview. Request for Heodguarterg Aetios . 9. Headquartars dectaion wogarding parsgrgph 7 above will be awaited before any action, other than eutine investigation, is Gndertaken. 0, Hae Beadguarters boon, able to develog any information about the | LIGHOCE!'s stay in Israel (nee paragraph 29, xefereace C}. RR. Headquarters traces on above snontiimed individusts are. sequected. Ware C, CURTIS “1 FORM oO >" USE PREVIOUS EDITION. : : ; . "REPLACES FORMS 1057 53a, | 51-28, 51-28 AND 51-29 © (40). . WHICH ARE OBSOLETE. SBECZET CLASSIFICATION - [| CONTINUED