DATE: 11-14-2017 RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : COMMENTS : v9.1 Docld: 32304573 Page 1 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : ‘RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : JFK Assassination System identification Form Agency Information | FBI 124-10286-10203 HQ 100-339235-179 Document Information FBI LEG, LO DIRECTOR, FBI 06/29/1964 2 [Restricted] PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret 4 Redact 03/25/1996 INDEFINITE 213
Released under _tl _ DATE: 11-14-2017 OPTIONAL, FORM NO. 10 . 5010-108-03 EW Kennedy Assaseinati on—Recerids Colbection Act of 1999 (44 USC 710 HOt e). ! MAY 1962 EDITION j GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27;, F : _ UNITED STATES GE “RNMENT tear Memorandum | TO: Director, FBI (100-339235) DATE: 6/29/64 J FROM. OM -Legat, London (100-2198) (P) ; 5 sofar fod SUBJECT: SUSAN ‘HEILIGMAN FRANK Classified by SP2mac/ece IS - CH . Declassify on: OADR FH) equesting London to have British Security Service, MI-5 check ack records Victoria and Mayfair Hotelsfor any record of BOCK 2 and DEEGAN, Also, to determine if any officials of Chinese Peoples Republic registered at these hotels during the pertinent Dn 2 period, E 7 Xs) | , | Wa By letter dated 6/22/64 classified Secret, MI-5 advised as follows:(S ) G Re New York letter to Bureau dated 4/21/64 r MI-5 had the registers of the Victoria and Mayfair Hotels checked back to the beginning of June 1963 but as suspected no trace of BOCK or DEEGAN having stayed there was discovered, No record of any official of Chinese Peoples Republic (CPR) was discovered as having stayed at either hotel during the period in question. MI-5 points out it is very unusual for visiting Chinese ' officialsto be booked into a hotel as they are normally accommo- dated at one of the Chinese Diplomatic Mission (CDM) premises, MI-5 is confident that any exception to this rule during the pertinent period or at any other time would have come to its attention, TANG MING CHAO did not visit the UK until later in the year, that is, from 9/30 to 10/26/63 during which period he was accommodated at the CDM main building.(g) . 2: MI-5 speculates that if the names BOCK and DEEGAN are bogus, as they apparently are, it wonders whether the - references to the two hotels are not equally fictitious. MI-5 would be interested in ascertaining if the two envelopes involved ‘+ in this matter bear the hotels name in print or any other in- — Signia that might indicate a clear connection with the Mayfair and Victoria Hotels, Accordingsto MI-5 printed stationery is readily available in the public rooms of the Mayfair but in the Victo TA" Hotel “there is a guest house with no public rooms where it igfdvaitapie to guests and is used only by the management (S& @- Bird PM“ fhe BAZ B95 ITI I -- Liaison (sent gir OE ) 1 - London ~ BGJULIs 1964 U a . “ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED __ 3 JUL 11964 . Docld: 32304573 Page 2?
Released unde 1 John Ff. Kennedy Assassination Records ‘DATE: 11-14-2017 ‘on Het of L992 (44 USC Zio? Wote;~ i wee Rerae v SS GS Cd) Lon - 100- 2198 JTM:rn 4 ° MI-5 has inquired into the possibility of the Chinese having acquired samples of the hotel's printed stationery direct from the printers as.a result of which this has been ruled out. MI-5 states if the envelopes concerned can be specifically attributed to the two hotels it will consider examining its records for information pertaining to contacts of the Chinese who have in the past stayed in either of them. This, MI-5 points out, is quite a formidable task, MI-5 states over the years the Mayfair Hotel has been used by contacts of the Chinese but not as far as it can determine, the Victoria Hote1.CS) MI-5 states it was interested in the possible technique used and it might be of some significance that - according to a delicate and reliable MI-5 source, since July. 1963, fictitious, very English sounding names, that is JOHN — SMITH, FRANK BAKER, CHARLES FINCH, JOHN CARTWRIGHT, etc, have been used by the New China News Agency, London and one of its overseas contacts in circumsta 3) which suggest that their use was calculated to mislead The Bureau is © nied to furnish information concerning the envelopes as desired by MI-5 in a form suitable for dissemination to.it.(§) Docld: 32304573 Page 3