v9.1 124-90092-10039 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information AGENCY: FBI RECORD NUMBER: = 124-90092-10039 RECORD SERIES: HQ AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 65-67235-782 Document Information ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: WMFO TO: HQ TITLE : DATE: 04/26/1963 PAGES: 8 SUBJECTS : WILLIAM K. HARVEY DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 3 CURRENT STATUS:  Redact DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 03/30/1999 OPENING CRITERIA: . APPROVAL OF CIA COMMENTS : INC LHM HY 50953 Bocld: 32330794 Page 1 Date: 5$/26/201
: Ly Otay - =. ; / _ mA : te “UNITED STATES oe“ "RNMENT. | | are as . a Mos . ! Loe ‘a s a Memorandum ce pe 8 BOS DIRECTOR, FBI (65- 67235) "2 pare: 4/26/63. > | f) jo : te, emo co-8017) @ sod fae rn a oe a ea fe _ . ; ; ; . 2 7 ; . / . : — < ~ oi - . ‘ a, as Sr . RET © S SBE susyect: - UNSUB; phon. Agent Known as “SASHA Pf 4 (er | 2oeh oo. ESPIONAGE.- R ° Steers fp es } ot O25u' 5  - ~ (00: WFO) is 7 _ BEC B EQ. L ze Dk ; wa - Vint . a = =z : é _ , . , GS ecUsTED e seventh Cena ., ° ~ Wes : ae sesh oe > ReBulet 3/12/63, ain san fds case instructing - Ne ee Of Ss WFO ‘to contact the Office of Secur ty,, CIA, and to interview, ,: nN = Fig, GD HARRY ROSITZKE, CIA for information in his possession BSE . \9 a 222 ake negarding the: recruitment details and. the documentation of. <a) Ye: cai FE SPENCER EUGENE ROBERTS~for his ‘services. in Moscow. and’ to" on oA se Bs ascertain. the. relatiénship in this regard of. ROLAND E. “DULIN a Te =e and ELIZABETH KARLOW, nee ‘RAUSCH,, Sot rs Ce oy 8 , | (BWA SSA a _ There are attached ‘for: the Buredu seven copies of | |/ Le aa a LEM vente ae ate EUGENE -ROBERTS"}'disclosing the ;~,-, #N . | -results of interview with#ROsiTz Three copies of enebely NE _ LEM are > being: forwarded the New, York myer inge iN Ye. —s iNT: as BRUCE: SOLIE, “CIA, was present during the interviews z(\ “whitch. were, ‘conducted. “by SA’ ALEXANDER We - NEALE, SR o f PG =x “ EUGENE ODER TSO HO. ‘on 1/3/50, received a ably metf st ca -an unidentified individual who. stated thatfARTHUR SHAR. employee of-CIA was a homosexual; .that this could. be verified _ by contacting his associates for the previous five years,  ° principally those. with whom he had been associated in the. vig eo This in ormation was furnished by letter to the Bureau - > ‘on. 4/3/50. / Blur ; : : 3 Bureau | ox 7° “4 _-GtLo0~ 431694), (SPENCER EUGENE | ROBERTS). os Sink 3 = New #0847689) ~21430) (Enc,. 3). @RM) - of, aan 1105-47669) (SPENCER EUGENE ROBERTS} co oy, Wop 4. 2 ona wee i alll J G- -105~ 5036) (SPENCER ‘EUGENE nosen sy) ae 39 Qo rn As ati sr ae Sate OT . HOW Rath onuad Classified by. \ ea oo jee ~G3 3ceg K é Can Lf Mes 15 196: 1 rom GDS HW 50953 Boctd: 32330794 Page 2?
L WFO 65-8517 id On 6/1/45, Headquarters, Military District of Washington, forwarded to WFO a memorandum on ARTHUR. NORMAN SHARP, ASN-31171664, born 5/10/99, West Somerville, Massachusetts, The. memorandum in question was dated 5/2/45, and originated at the Tenth Naval District, San Juan, Puerto Rico, It stated as Follows: (xf "1, Information has been recei ved from a source rated A that ARTHUR NORMAN SHARPE, Sgt. U. S. Army, Stationed in Washington, D. C., home address, Windsor, Connecticut, has been, for a number of years, very pro-German and feels that the German people have been mistreated. It is reported that he is *angling' for a job with UNRRA to be stationed in Germany where he hopes to alleviate some of the injustices that have been done to the German people, The informant reported that his own relatives feel that SHARPE should not be given a position in which his feelings for the Germans could be exercised. “@) The memorandum stated that more definite identifying information regarding the above individual was not available. QEBRUCE SOLIE, CIA, advised SA JOHN L, STANLEY on 4/22/63, that SHARP was not polygraphed re his homosexual behavior and there was no formal report of SHARP's interview on 2/15/50, at which time he resigned from the Agency; that there was no information indicating homosexual acts by SHARP with other CIA personnel, C On 4/23/63, BRUCE SOLIE, CIA, advised that his office had not been able to locate copies of the letters which ROBERTS was instructed to mail from Moscow but that he would continue efforts to do so, 76 ayes A) On 4/23/63, Mr, SOLIE made dvailable the security file of ROBERTS. A perusal of the file indicated numerous memoranda from ROBERTS while in Moscow, directed to ROSITZKE -under the latterS Agency cryptonym. -It is of interest to’ note that ROSITZKE could recall no details regarding reports from ROBERTS when it is realized that ROBERTS represented CIA's initial efforts to place personnel in Moscow. It was noted that several memoranda appeared in the file instructing ~ that certain sums of money be given ,to ELIZABETH RAUSCH, for forwarding to ROBERTS in Moscow. Vi 1 UW : : yee Hi 50957 BDoclda: 32330794 Page 7 ed
UNIT. 4 STATES DEPARTMENT OF JL ICE Ne FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVE STIGATION ; ar os 29g . in Reply, Please Refer to . WASHINGTON 25, D.C. File No. be eee tay April 26, 1963 . eed Noe! SPENCER EUGENE ROBERTS : ea Mr. Harry 2ositzke, Chief, Covert Activities/Staff, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), advised a Special Agent of the FBI on March 28, 1965, and April 3, 1963, that during the period 1945 - 1950 he was Chief of Foreign Division/S in CIA and aS sucnowas responsible for a number of Agency activities involving the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, (x\ 6-1 tA) Rositzke advised that during the Summer of. Fall of 1947 Admiral Hillenkotter, then Director of CIA, decided tnat a CIA representative should be stationed in the Soviet Yaion under suitable cover, It was made perfectly clear by Admiral Hillenkotter that the employee, who was to be the first such Agency representative in Moscow, would under no circumstances be operational in behalf of CIA, (H)G-1)h A ) The inst:uctions given, according to Rositzke, were that Rositzke should find a person proficient in the Russian language who would be suitable to fulfill a Department of . State role in the American Embassy at Moscow, Rositzke added taat during the 1947 - 1948 era the obvious place to search for someone proficient in the Russian language was the Russian Language Institute at Columbia University and that it was his recollection Spencer Hugene Roberts was ultimately selected from the Institute as a candidate for the CIA position, Rositzke could not remember the name of the CIA representative who had conducted the preliminary work connected with the recruitment of Roberts, Upon inquiry he stated he could not recall Roland Ernest Dulin's having engaged in any role connected with Roberts’ recruitment but Rositzke did not exclude this possibility, mentioning that Dulin had been performing some CIA versonnel work during the late 1940s. Rositzke could not recall William Ky Harvey, a CIA official, having been connected witn the recruitment or training of Roberts. , ° C64 Kf AL7 364 pola] GCA Bor) 19 ealw HY 50953 Boctld: 323350794 Page #
a oe | Q oe 7 So RE: SPENCER EUGENE ROBERTS Rositzke stated that prior to being sent overseas: Roberts was put in contact with Department of State repre- sentatives who helped prepare the latter for his Moscow responsibilities as a Procurement Officer, Mr, Rositzke vaguely remembered that a Mr, Stevens (phonetic) (First Name Unknown) was one of those at the Department of State al who had dealt with Roberts during his pre-Moscow trainings 7y é-1 Rositzke could not remember any details of reports from Roberts as to the latter's activities in the USSR. He vaguely remembered that CIA had sent some letters to Roberts in Moscow, through State Department channels, which Roberts was to have mailed for the Agency but Rositzke could furnish no information as to the purpose to have been served by the Uw) letters or the nature of the communications in questions (Y (6-1) ) Rositzke did not remember any progress reports — being submitted by. the Department of State on Roberts’ assignment in Moscow but did recall having received a memorandum from Walter Bedell Smith, then Ambassador to Moscow, in which the Ambassador described Roberts as an arrogant individual, critical of others in the Embassy and that Roberts was not well liked by other Embassy personnel, - 4 Roberts, according to Rositzke, was. reportedly reprimanded by the Ambassador for this attitude, Later, Smith wrote | another report on Roberts describing the latter as having impwoved in his role as a Department of State employee and acting "like a member of the team," Rositzke commented that soon after Walter Bedell Smith became Director of CIA he had a briefing session with Smith; that he had been asked who was responsible for Roberts' being sent abroad. Rositzke accepted the responsibility for this and Smith, in a caustic tone commented, "Orchids to you." ¥) &-1 Ogle Rositzke stated it was his initial impression of Roberts that the latter was a "delicate, sensitive person,” extremely enamoured of all things dealing with Russian . ‘culture; that Roberts wanted to go to Russia where he believed it would be possible to perform services. useful to the government through his knowledge of the Russian language. & 64 Rositzke was aware that Roberts had transferred to the Department of State around 1950 and was later released from government service for homosexuality. Rositzke stated 1 he was never aware that Roberts was involved in any homosexual conduct while in CIA and was never aware that any CIA operations were affected in any manner through Roberts’ participation in the undertaking, ‘1 de . fo ehibed ¥ = ¥ ai 2 se SE an at san | iW 50953 Dactd: 32330794 Page 53
MA b> Serge Pet arlow (who later married Elizabethdi RE: SPENCER EUGENE ROBERTS f Rositzke believed = {Poland E, Dulin might have been aware of Roberts! role lose ow for CIA but he could nob speculate on the extent of Dulin‘s knowledge in this regard, Rositzke added that Elizabeth Rausch was in his office during the period of Roberts’ assignment in Moscow and it was entirely possible that she knew of the latter's activities ip-Behalf of CIA, Rositzke did not petpietiesn that /o: eterarlo Rausch) was -—-=~ ““knowledgéablée of Roberts’ i gment ‘put he coud not bebe a a co od certain of this, *(B) 6- D4 ere re Rositzke could not definitely remember whether or not Roberts had been debriefed by CIA following his Moscow assignment, He stated that Richard Suter had been head of the Office of Operational Analysis (under Rositzke) and that if Roberts had BV 6-1y debri ne it was likely Suter had parti- cipated in it. ~! smh a Pe KA DER Us AAT fe BKSHOE P Watnrespse oO ATthUT Ne Sharp mentioned by Haryy Rositzke as a subordinate who probably had talked to Roberts - in connection with the latter's CIA assignment, the files of CIA disclose that Arthur Norma arp, born May 10, 1899, at West - Somerville, Massachusetts, was employéd by “that “Agency from Maréh- 24, 1947, until February 16, 1950, when he resigned De following an admission. of having engaged in homosexual cewsinene, activities with a number of personnél then attached to the U. 5, Naval Academy band. Sharp's permanent address ° was Listed as 74 Forrest t Street, Hartford 1 5, Connecticut. He was describéd aS being five feet eight and three fourths inches tall, 170 pounds, having brown-grey hair and biue eyes, Bergeon This document contains neither na mer eonehusions of pecommonds G thea the PRi see 23 3 ees _ it and its conte antsy ag mot to + oy ee aistributed outs hae your agency. | A 50957 Boclda: 32330794 Page &