124-90137-10357 AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90137-10357 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: SEE TITLE Document Information ORIGINATOR: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY FROM: CIA TO: DOS TITLE: [Restricted] ) | DATE: 08/16/1963 PAGES: 2 | u | SUBJECTS : | | CIA LIAISON MATERIAL _ HENRYK IGNACY JANIKOWSKI | DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Secret RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C CURRENT STATUS: = Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 09/28/1998 OPENING CRITERIA : INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS : MEMO v9.4 HY 50953 Bocld: 323374591 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information Page i Date: 417/201
. 3 oN A | i Set CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE. AGENCY a sO - WASHINGTON 25, D. C. S.No osyecTOn 10 a ne ros SSF CATION AND/OR, | aT ae 8 AUG 1963 ae Ser ease Ge iA INF UNG, Leake mg “IN THIS ‘DOCUMENT, teey e a TO: | Deputy Assistant Secretary Se ne Department of State FROM: ° | Deputy Director, Plans SUBJECT: © JANIKOWSKI, Henryk Ignacy DOB: 4 Sept. 1921 og ul POB: Wiele, Bydogoszez, Poland por N° 2¥ | - ' 1. Reference is made to the name check request, dated‘ Sad ‘18 June 1963, subject as above, whose name you desired checked against | the.files.of this office. The files contain the Ts ~ 2 geet, “following information concerning Subject. ON i dated 23 March 1961 the Bremer Bank in Bremen Germany, Feportved That they Ned received a check for onest § thousand dollars from one Hal pino PRIETO of the) Mexican Embassy in Moscow, USSR,] o be deposited to the ~ sh account of one Erik SCHOTT, an architect residing at Gins erweg l,; . Bremen Munthe, West Germany. 3.__On the basis of this infgrmation, SCHOTT was inter-- "7 rogated[ |on 21 November 1961 for (S$) possiblé intelligence invcivement. During the interrogation, SCHOTT provides the following insoraation concerning -Subject: SCHOTT first same acquainted ¢ Subject in 1940 when he resided in Subject's home in Gex uy. Subject, who had moved to Poland, wrote to SCHOTT in and asked him to buy used cars and ship them to him, Su UES - ane transmitted to SCHOTT \ dollars and dollar checks for puvesasing the cars via an unknown Polish sailor, Subject cold SCuc??r that he had’ obtained - the money on the black market and from exhibitors at the Poznan - _FPair. SCHOTT believed ‘that Subject obtained the money from ° Poles who had relatives in the United States. Buring a:visit ‘to Belgium in 1957, Subject purchased seversi second-hand taxis < and cars for shipment to Poland, Subject visited SCHOTT in - late 1957 and purchased a Renawilt to take Sack withhim to Poland. \ ‘For the purpese of avoiding the custome “cy on the car, SCHOTT gave Subject a statementito the effect: cat he was,a Take ae amy e ABP ous ay ve ee bos oe fips SEP eres HW 50953 DBocld:32337591 Page ?
that he had dollars in his house. As far as SCHOTT knew, af! ‘France, and returned with her to Bremen in a new. Peugot which : Che shipped the car to Poland. . . wo re hy According to o evidence — oy! _ Was uncovered that would indicate SCHOTT was Involved in . i Encl, 1. name check CC; Federal Bureau of Investigation In.1959 SCHOTT visited Subject in Gdansk, Poland. Subject toid SCHOTT that he could obtain dollars from "an employee — | of an enbassy”™ which he would send to SCHOTT for desposit in his account at the pees Bani, , subject obtained the dollars for zlotys aft Bis Ghee pk market exchange rate. SCHOTT's | wife, who was also ist. sated 3 stated that checks arrived by mail from an so iftetts of the Mexican Embassy in Warsav, Poland, which her husband deposited in Subject'’s account. Among documents obtained Sfficially) from the: Bremer Bank was(5) a letter from [Mexican AmbiSsador in Warsaw, Eduardo ESPINOSA ¥ PRIETO] accompanying a check for one thousand dollars for ($ ; deposit. to the account of Erich SCHOTT. Subject told SCH , that in 1950 his maid had reported to the Polish authorities subject was investigated but was never sentenced. On 24 June — fo 1861, Subject again visited SCHOTT and from Germany went to fo! Zelzate, Belgiun, to settle a debt from automobile buying Joi Operations in 1957. Subject visited his sister in Paris, . ; / 7 he had bought in Holland in his sister' S name. Subject then |. . i intelligence activities, ._ ob ° oo | CSCI-3/777 ,478 HW 50953 DoclTd: 32337591 Page 3