Released under the John fF. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote}. DATE: 11-14-2017 . JFK Assassination System Date: 5/1/2015 0 Identification Form Agency Information ; AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-10277-10120 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILENUMBER: —100-401762-145 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: FLYNN, DANIEL A. TO: DIRECTOR, FBI TITLE : DATE: — 04/03/1967 PAGES: 12 SUBJECTS : RCF, SHF, RES, EMP, POLIT AND SUBV ACT, CP, TRA, ASSOC DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION : — Top Secret RESTRICTIONS: — 1B;-4 CURRENT STATUS: = Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 10/01/1998 OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE COMMENTS : ! v9.1 86 Docld: 32300765 Page 1 .
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 2107 Wo E el. DATE: 11-14-2017 vs, (Rev. 5-2-66) i . an . ' ‘- aare f a . . ' ~ 1 . . NY 100-107383 lL Subject’s name is included in the Security Index. 2. [X] The data appearing on the Security Index card are current. 3. [_] Changes on the Security Index card are necessary and Form FD-122 has been submitted to the Bureau. 4, (X) A suitable photograph [x] is [_] is not available. Date photograph was taken —— SSS 5. {7] Subject is employed in a key facility and is charged with security responsibility. Interested agencies are ! 6. [Xj This report is classified Top Secret because (state reason) 4% contains information from[HI-5"]@) which is classified "Top Secret". 14 62 and 6 28 62. 7. [X] Subject previously interviewed (dates) 5/ / / / CX] Subject was not reinterviewed because (state reason) subject is presently under investigation in regard to Chinese Communist activities in the United Statcs.. ‘An interview of the subject may alert him to our interest in him and jeopardize this investigation. 8. This case no longer meets the Security Index criteria and a letter has been directed to the Bureau recommending cancellation of the Security Index card. 9. [3] This case has been re-evaluated in the light of the Security Index criteria and it continues to fall within such criteria because (state reason) 4nformant has stated subject is a staunch pro-Chinese Communist (8/15/66). 10. Subject’s SI card (yj is {_] is not tabbed Detcom. (%] Subject’s activities warrant Detcom tabbing because (state reasons) i subject is known to have been in touch with TANG Ming-chou, a suspected Chinese intelligence agent. ” a SECRED [o-YOL16219S Doclda: 32300785 Page 5
[F leased under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote;. DATE? | ii: 14-2017 204 (Rev. 3-3-59) : 7” } F ao, ain a mo UN. =D STATES DEPARTMENT OF Jt TICE 6 t ” FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Copy to: 1 - Secret Service, NYC (RM) Repon of DANIEL A. FLYNN Office: New York, New York te: ° APR 3 1967 _ : Field Office File #: 100-107383 Bureau File #: 100-401762 Title: RICHARD CYRIL FRANK | CLASSIFIED BY She Sww/eee a ect ae Or Character: INTERNAL SECURITY ~ CHINA aoe CN “ee vA ate : Synopsis: - Subject resides at 110 Christopher Street, NY, NY, with his wife and is employed as a free-lance assistant director working out.of the Directors Guild of America, Subject arrived in the US from London on 1/14/67. [WILLIAM ASH of London, England, reported to have made arrangements for the subject to n bondaagf@)Sub ject. in eo of the New China News Agency in Lond Subject in contact with JACOB ROSEN and JUDY VAN BU of the Progressive Labor Party. Subject reported to supply films to be shown at ) Progressive Labor Party meeting. — nt2,{2 Me _ , Zan on _pemassity git DETAILS : Residence and Employment ANDREW SERKANIC, 125 CaristopheF Street, New York, New York, advised SA DANIEL A. FLYNN> on.Mrch 3Q, 1967, that a the _Subjec continues to_reside in Apartment 30, 110 hee Ise GE CIA Ir ORMATO yp Go Ye Gre iA HAS NO ¢ OBJECTION TO a | coe | | ao“ 6-me 4-30-99 oe a SLO/K 77) Dn,-48 (ory) _— , This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to -, your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. i Docld: 32300785 Page 6
(Released ler the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 3107 Hotes. DATE: 11-14-2017 NY 100-107383 NY T-3 advised on February 10, 1967, that the subject continues to be employed as a free-lance assistant director in the film business working out of the Directors Guild of America, mo Travel Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), New York, New York, reveal that the subject entered the United States on January 14, 1967, on Flight 101, Pan American World Airways, from London. - NY T-4 advised on February 14, 1967, that on January 26, 1967, the subject and his wife told him that they had recently been on a trip to North Africa and Europe and that this trip was entirely recreational, NY T-4 said that they described to him tourist sitgs in Morocco and a visit to an art gallery in Paris. Ge “w) NY T-3 advised on January 15, 1967, that on that date RICHARD FRANK said that he and his wife spent most of their time recently in Marrakecn, Morocco, NY T-6 advised on March 10, 1967, that on December 17, 1966, the subject had been at Churchill's Club, London, England. Contact with the New China News Agency It is to be noted that the a New China News Agency is the official Chinese Communist Government news bureau. NY T-5, a confidential source abroad, advised on January 23, 1967, that RICHARD FRANK arrived in London on December 14, 1967, and stayed at the Normandie Hotel, 163 Knightsbridge Southwest 7, where he was joined by his wife on December 21, 1966. They were both in London on the following day.(¥§) “a a ye lo0-Yo) 162-15 iui ocunch eee Aas Soy ae Docld: 32300785 Page Ff
‘Released under the John F. Kennedy “Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 2107 Hotes. DATE: 11-14-2017 NY 100-107383 NY T-5 advised that a reliable source. cor that RICHARD FRANK was in touch with WILLEANAST who made arrangements for the subject to contact a representative of the New China News Agency in London, ASH assured the New NY T-5 did notlknow whether FRANK and the New China News Agency man subsequently met.(f3) - NY T-5 advised that the subject and his wife left their hotel on December 25, 1966, and it is possible that NY T=¥7, another government agency that conducts intelligence investigations, advised on March 15, 1966, that SAN FRANK while in Europe injéAnuary, 1966, | | contacted one W..B KASH and some ao jo. other people involved in the Society for Ango-Chinese Understanding, a British organization which seeks ~~ to promote, friendship and contacts China, u with Communis date JACOB ROSEN contacted the subject. The February, 1964 issue of " Progressive Labor," a publication of the Progressive Labor Party, lists JACOB ROSEN as the Southern editor of this publication, The Progressive Labor Party (PLP) is characterized in the Appendix.pages to this report. aie | . ug |b0-¥O19G2.—-S ' . dur ovondl \ : Nee oe Docld: 32300785 Page & China News Agency: representative of the subject's reliability. they may have departed from the United Kingdom on that dated 7) Contacts with JACOBYROSEN ub : NY T-3 advised orf January 16, 1967, that on that ~~ N! \. SNA,