a : " : Ke oe — a 7 Da, June 14, 1956 - [x (9 Le pegs iif ow NEWARK OO ae a - \ ae NEW YORK ee 4 . ‘ j : ofS Uy 30 VIEL WATT ONAL ATTEMPTING FO SECURE HEPATRIATES IN NEWARK, ‘NEW JERSEY, URS. ALEXANDRIA TOLSTOY, rwroruante’ FRE be ABE HEL ~ JUNE TWELVE LAST. | IMMEDIATELY ARRANGE WITH NEW YORK FOR RUSSIAN | SPEAKING AGENT fO INTERVIEW WIKOLAT, PETUCHOW, WITHOUT. As WIFE BEING PRESENT, AND I WAN MACK. 3 s UTEL RESULTS AND PROMPTLY FOLLOW . ee “EVERY DETAIL IN EFFORT 10 IDENTIPY uwsUB. _ | . eI _ HOOVER - g pn - co ALL | INFORMATIC en cote 7 — “pare Has pi Bowe  ¢/ NOTE: Cover memo Branigan to Belmont prepared by Ria: nih on 6- 14-56 & in connection with this ourgoing mail. i . 2) s i = af ny FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ~ U. $. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE COMMUNICATIONS SECTION JUN 14 1956 TELETYPE Tolson Nichols Boardman —__ Belmont Mason ‘Mohe parsons — se 20 5 Sod 7 760 eA Tele. Room... a Holloman” Gandy HW 53130 DBocld:323022713 Page 2?
FEDERAL BUREAU OF tNVESTIGATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE : : _f“ COMMUNICATIONS SECTION All INFORMATI HEREIN IS UND a c ONTAY Ep. 12 1956 DATE SHS. BG, WA. PNY 2 FROM NEWARK G= 12656 7°56 P. DIRECTOR FBI AND SAC NEW YORK = 8 = URGEN Ww, Y pad Tele. Room UNSUB,, SOVIET. | NATIONAL ATTEMPTING TO SECURE REPATRIATES 7 eee net Aensincy IN. NEWARK, Node, MRS, ALEXANDRIA’ ‘TOLSTOY, INFORMANT, TSeR, no ene apne ern mei ae SS : RE NEWARK TEL JUNE SEVEN LAST, GERTRUDEXPETUCHOW, -paeies (aot PETOCHOW) : REN, INTERVIEWED JUNE SEVEN LAST BY. SA THIS OFFICE WHO SPEAKS GERMAN LANGUAGE, SHE REITERATED INFO PREVIOUSLY REPORTED RE UNSUB VISITING HER THOUGH DENIED TELLING ) HAHN REINTERVIEWED JUNE Lo | cue KNEW uNsuB ‘AS ‘FNUKQUROGHUK, sae PHONETIC BNDCPHREN, “AND: 30 THAT GERTRUDE SAID. UNSUB GAVE. HER HIS, ADDRESS, _ HAHN SAID: HAHN SUGGESTED HE HE ACCOMPANY SAeS To [REINTERVIEW PETUCHOWS - SO HE COULD EXPLAIN IN RUSSIAN LANGUAGE WHAT HE" UNDERSTOOD. | PETUCHOWS TO SAY. RE “‘UNSUB, - ON JUNE ELEVEN LAST NIKOLAT. AND oo ‘ GERTRUDE PETUCHOW INTERVIEWED BY SAeS THIS OFFICE, ONE OF WHOM | ak SPEAKS GERMAN, IN- PRESENCE OF ;HAHN, SAeS EXPLAINED. TO. PETUCHOWS | ae 5. FBI WANTED TO “WELP* THEM BY LOCATING ‘UNSUB AND SAeS ASKED FOR — 8 ; ‘ND PAE ONE” ne anes “INDEXED - 96 HW 53130 DBocld:323022713 Page 3 . y . Winterrowd. | ‘| Mr. Holloman___ Miss Gandy._. ORBER COPY FILED Ih” INDEXED - 96 o Sin ae 1986 ere eo) a Banta Lede A ~ a 'R " SO 0 -~ o « 52 a tart Caatty f° ete ee a et . ios : UNREC Ma ( here
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i vo 0 NaS e Oppice M tad morandum A. H, Bermonty “TO G FROM W. A. Branigan We supject: UNSUB., SOVIET NATIONAL A TTEMPTING TO SECURE HEPATEIATES-TN-NEWARK, a8. “TS - RB New York, by airtel 5-26-56, reported that Mrs. Alexandria Lolstoy, president of Tolstoy Foundation, 989 telephonically advised on 5-26-56 that Afanasy Hahn, stated unsub was around his resi Newark, New Jersey, attempting to get Russians to répatriate. reported this information to Ne 5-25-56, reported that Mrs. informed she was contacted to return to Russia; that Mrs. Newark, advised she was contact her husband must return to Russia. predicated on the information furnished b to advise if same was true. Newark tel 6 and Newark advised that Hahn advised Mrs. Petuchow told him in Germany as (FNU) Durochuk, a advised Hahn and Mrs. Petuchow would be effort to determine if Durochuk could be Newark tel 6- 12 Mrs. Petuchow and indicates she denied. she tol Hahn reinterviewed 6--9-56 and emphatically stated that she did and that her husband also told him same story. . Mrs. Petuchow, when interviewed 6-11 refused to cooperate. Newark will not attempt but will interview her husband, she allegedly told same story, Wi Newark being instructed by Butel. to pinterview Nikolai Petuchow and Iwan Macuk in fe) }information be deve loped’jin: an effort to ident =: g ores <2 : iH : “Rb oe 4! Hi RY Enclosure ° = RECORDED ce .- Belmont - yw Branigan. - . ev oh ¥ WcCasl in aa RWM nih we eee @ HW 53130 DBocld:323022713 Page 5 Pet * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Inasmuch as data furnished in Newark a in German she believed she knew unsub member of General Vilasov's army. further interviewed 6-7-56 in unsub. ; -56 sets forth results of reinterview wit away from home, and Iwan Mac to resolve this matter. ~\ DATE: June 14, 1956 Tolson Nichols Boardman Belmont Mason Mohr Parsons : ay ppm: Nease a oo t4c SWipterrow “Gandy — it BD Bo, Oth Avenue, New York City, 291 Morris Avenue, dence 5-26-56 New York telephonically wark on 5-26-56 Elizabeth Macuk, 46 14th Aven by unsub who said she and her Gertrude Petochow, ed by unsub 5-15- Newark, by airtel ue, Newark, husband had ~ 59x South 11th Street, and informed that ‘ Ww irtel appeared to be y Hahn, Bureau instructed Newark. -7-50 answered in the affirmati was recontacted at his home at his request on 5~27-563 that KertrEdééuchow and husband, Nikolai, were present. Es Hahn | i a % B Newark ~~ See CaPY h BS a Hahn she knew unsub. ae OS -56,. became emotional and — Na reinterview with her uk, to whom: | LE65-“£S 38 -/2 immediately arrange to rder that all possible ify unsub promptly. ake = on i 8 JUN 15 1956