AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : v9.1 PDoclda: 32302972 Page 1 AGENCY FILE NUMBER : JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-10282-10484 HQ 105-82933-1ST NR 4 Document Information FBI SAC, NY DIRECTOR, FBI. 07/28/1960 ) 3 [Restricted] PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 1B; 1C; 4 Redact 05/15/1998 INDEFINITE Date: 5/26/201
= ae me CHOBE. the er Ora ee at Kansas Clty, a » etating that. c a he had been kidnapped by PIPE! CASTRO's agents but had escaped ‘| \ and 4 thas the Soviets wore algo “efter” hin, The subject was “\ asked about HARBE Rig possible relation to] Guba and the Soviets G _ Subject stated that HARBER had been his roommate pub Sf i ° that he waa "natty" and hed been eonfined in the mental wards , of numerous Veterans Administration hospitals. % ‘ . * Subject said that HARBER taught English at the Berlite a School of Languages, Rockefeller Center, NYC, and while there Sy came inte contact mith three or feur[Soviets.| We said that he( “ t(LBONID KovaLeVlence at Perlite when he want there to arte) Geer fs ; \\ HARE ER, and that Sebsequentiy he sauf KOVALEV lagain at a part ety NNEITE EPSTEIN, in 1958; he supplied ZPSTEIN's Pasidence then ee Weat 79th St., NVC. He sald that Ae - aN Docld: 32302972 Page 2 ORIGINAL FILED IN “ ‘SECRET DIRECTOR, FBE (105-86307) duly 68, 1960 BSE SAC, REW YORK (2105-39681) - 8 SY ae mn nee JOSEPH SATatBe Desi an’ an. ORR I/27/AE (oye i/ + eum i0- 27359-F - ReBulet dated 6-20-60. oc NO an 300 On (~21-60, subject was interviewed ay yt sidense & 28 oy 8 Sas FRANKLIN 3 ._ TEETER and RICHARD W. HI nif. “jntervi ew et that_DENNIS-HAREER (DENNI ; 37990), subject's Eee Poors, 7 at B accompanied HARBER to this party and that the guests were oli S 2 4 Herlite teachers or Stidents; he steted that EPSTEIN was a a BS Berlitz teacher, an acquaintance of HARBER' s 2 ) eae eae Subject stated that he last aaw(Kovarsvlat epsternt ds a ome party and thet HARBER hed introduced him to one other[Soviets (s) ao ge re at Berlitz, whose name he_cowld not recall. Subject said that ' Bing a @.nad not met any other v [Sovaets] ang that hie as =e ; Bos, g Was limited te that abov R) MT fp wy pie the eg ar a Se (pr Bureae (2065-86307) (RM * oN S886 s = Ties-6h ce / y} o- ri 29s oN . i 1OF ag NOT | RECORDED 3« New York pe 265 52765) (wovarary ¥S) ‘OCAUG & 1960 (4095-21653) (RARER) . a ~ Rots sif oT — \V BOAUG 8 1980 ¢ i\ LS SECRET mays aN,
ee Tr wy | ‘WaS, weforring to MISHUKOV]G)y _ ~ SECRET: : NY 105-3968 Subject stated that HARSERta association with the (Bovicts|vas purely scetayand that he does not believe HARBER lnew any Sete art from othode he taught at Borlita. 7%) . Subject related thet HARBER had been in Havana, Cube, for two days in 1956, when subject accompanied him to Colombia where HARBER was employed to teach English to a wealthy person. They stepped in Havana on the way in exder: that subject could visit seme of his relatives, and MARBER,. who does. net speak Spanish, wae with subject constantly, Subject stated that, to . nis Knowledge, CASTRO was unknown at that time and that he - and HARBER apent thelr time theré visiting subject's ra Satives Gy u) Subject advised that he has a security Giearance in connection with his. employment by Lockheed, that he loves this country very much, and, that if he had believed that [KOVALEV AS had an “evil” purpese in hig asseciation with HARBER or himsel! he would have immediately called. the FBI, He said that HARBER knew many foreéten nationals and ‘that he therefore thought nothing of meeting [a Soviet gyone HARBER's acquaintances. 6) | As WiAt be noted, ANNETTE SYLVIA EPSTRIN (former PST), the source. of thie case, advised that subject told her that he ook (KOVALEV, YURIY I. MISHUKOVY and VADIN (INU), (probably VADER KIRILYUR),| to a party given by LIBBY HOLMAN REYNOLDS in 3) the summer of 1958. These eatherings were said to eoritinue into the suimer-of 1959. In addition, subject told both EPSTRINn and BURTON VAl HORN FOREMAN (former PST), that (Kovatuv [nad CS visited the apartment he and HARBER shaved, and subject war ~ present ‘at. several parti: IV, \ the Lest know contacts) ) MAN, At this. - mmly and asked how|["¢ ace in April, 1060, party, subject greeted [KOVALEV with (KOVAL 2 24 & barty given by POs Suoject wae given every’ opportunity Go voluntéer informm- ation ro his activities with the[Soviets}but he would. relate( only that he encountered[ KOVALEV Jtwice and was introduced to S) anoths ‘Soviets| whose name he could not recall. He aagured the interviewing agents of his cooperation and stated that he would be glad to be of further help if needed. Af) SECRET oe / | \ SECRET) S ws Os A oo oa roa Docld: 32302972 Page 3