mder the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 (44 USC 2107 Hotey> CONFIDENELAL . tant 1 - Wannall - CONFID ENT IAL Wing b> Ldaicon Lorine OO SE . - ree ; ossture LERWISES a . s June 25, 1964 A RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON jg 2 Meg Declesiy aris ain ‘oe Richard Thomas Gibson is a male Negro who was f in Los Angéles, California, on May 13, 1931. He is five feet nine inches tall, weighs approximately 150 pound« and cerved in ‘the United States Arey from December, 1952, to Becember, 1954. Gibson presently resides in Paris, Prance, and is employed as an editor of the publication, “Africa Latin America Asie Revolution.” Sources who have furnished reliable. information in the past have furnished the following information concerning Ric chare » Thomas Gibson: | . fe / Lf aH) ; a == = In 1960 Gibson was forced to resign az a Columbia | Broade cacting System newsman for publicly expressing himself being sympathetic to the regime of Fidel Castro in Cuba. ‘pes being war aleo one of the founders of the Fair Play for Cuba etbson we (FPCC), a characterization of which is attached; In fh 1969 Gibson vas the president of the New York Chapter of the FPCC and in 1961 became the acting national’ executive secretary of ‘the FPCC, Gib<on was aleo aceredited to the United Netion=- as a correspondent for the Cuban new-paper, “Revolucion ," in 1961. 27 — went to Algeria where he remained until April of 1963. While residing in Algeria, Gibson was the English -language editor for ¥  ”-Sn September, 1962, Gibson left the United states and “Revolution Africaine," a weekly publication which had been created UNRECORDED COPY FILEDIN | eee, by the political branch of the Algerian Goverment. In April. of \e 1963 Gibson went to Switzerland where he became associated with Predy. Gilbert: Nike Andersson, Siiss representative of the monthly rokon ———eview, "Revolution Africaine.” Gibson, subsequently, moved to Paric, won —__“Prance, where he is employed by the "Afries Latin America Asia Callahon Revolution,” a publication which: reportedly is fi anes ad by 1} aS.) A Conrad Gao Pe “GR RUP . meer “DeLoach ____LALnese Comm Se Government . } \ y Evans i i voule — wee COR VFIDENTIALL sis #803 (Africa Latin Am ri a aN Revolution belesadeh | nd 6s O64 SHRRET CONFIDENTIAL. °“CNOTE Cofepestye ; Tele. Room —— Pd 4a oe ROTS: friginal and one furnished|Hr. Bazowski nese Je) Gandy MAIL room L_1 TELETYPE UNIT UNIT Cby 9-14 Porm dated June 255° L964 051, iy a | ~ | Docld: 32339271 Page 2?
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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC DATE: 11-14-2017 REGISTERED ot we NY ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO BE + . ADDRESSED: . J We COMMISSIONER, XB. C. MS POLICE, NL OTTAWA 8, CANADA ANS pa: Fite no._D -1328 HEADQUARTERS ‘ ' OT TAWA. 8, CANADA f | { | | | { | { June 18, 1964. CONFIDENTIAL 4 TO: The R.C. M.Police Liaison Officer, 2450 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20008. Re: Ri chard AIBSON, —____New York, N.Y. Attached please find single copy of a clipping taken from the March 5, 1964 issue of the "Christian Seience Monitor", Lo We would be interested to learn whether or not to Richard GIBSON, who, in 1961 was Executive Secretary of the American Fair’ Play for Cuba Committee. a Pecboed b/7.— Lape MILE og BI, . Sour File: 62-1- 431 : a i ty Np Neazowars, Ins , ROMP Liaison Officer A, ‘SN IN OX ) ~ VRE AS . & alee gy SRW. Bordeleau), O-/4 ts a in rca waeae & 5 Ws: 470] 2" Rood 6:2 B-6Y from i Luse: BRazowskt eroce 9 JUN 29 1964 Canadian Joint Staff (W), oo . | Hel KN ENCLOSURE . sO _ se Me" the Richard GIBSON referred to in the clipping is identical . | Docld: 32339271 Page 4 2107 Hotey>
” One aw 5 Scien Cé Ne ni lor. oe 3. _ Peking Base e Ste ee a ee ies, asserted to be larger than RS 7 By Harry Be Ellis | Slick Voice any other left-wing ‘publica- iy do. .Chtef of the Parts Bureau of © fe r a an The Christian Science Monitor o tion in France, : The Chinese Communists, : fr, Gibson said, buy no copies |i .; of this edition. But inside the oy Paris ° , “Tn a large apartment on the sen Bina’ of the fashionable Rue Prangois Pre- ‘of Angola. coy cover of ‘the February, 1964, of Dior, the Chinese Com- .Mr. Babu now is Fareign ‘issue (No, 6), subscribers are | munists have headquartered a Minister of the new revolution-- offered, free, a’ weekly sum- | massive propaganda _ effort ary “government of Zanzibar. ‘mary of Chinese Communist}. reaching out*to the Middle An editorial footnote in’ the news called “Peking Informa-|. °7 East, Africa, Latin America, latest French ‘issue of Revolu- tion.” Also offered free of att and the United States. : _ ,tion sends him the warm con- charge are any of all of some i At No. .40 of this street, in 8tatulations of his editorial col, 60 titles of books and other |)’ oO. 9 Ss stree "the leagues and. wishes him and ‘publications published in une | the heart ares Paris, near ton the “people of Zanzibar new French language at Pcking/ i Champs Elysées, ~ the ‘suecess in the struggle against’ Neither edition of Revolution i asks the concierge for the eudalists and neocolonialists. » Stree Cavertising, ahaa hed 4 ae - other Communist publications | ; iy The. English edition of Revo. friendly to Peking. A copy; ot} either edition costs 75 cents, Ox iy" its’ equivalent in other curt: ‘rencies. Given ‘the quality of their printing and small cir-]!, culation, both editions must be}! rab a lish language editions of Rev-- olution, a slick paper monthly ‘magazine committed {fo the ment recently b ‘| Chinese Communist point of The magazine is in its ninth lyiew, OT “monthly issue and has ay aa ‘heavily’ subsidized. y . { foe . " . “a circulation, according to Mr 5 panish Edition .. y Gibson’ s Role. an . Gibson, of about 6,900-copies. pe . ‘ Mr. Gibson asserted that no|’ ‘,one party dictated the editorial |. ine ‘of Revolution,. though the {- magazine agreed with’ the Chi- : se. Communist position in Marxist disputes.” The" mag=|"4 zine would be considered an|.. ntruder by the Soviet-orient-} "Ahead of me on the stairs. Of .this. monttily: total: two Chinese men. disappeared, ‘oles Communists buy: ‘| through. the unmarked door of. throughout Eng : the Verges , apartment, Inside, Africa. About 1 ,050 Fin a foo’ ecacked high with. the island of Zanzi copies’ ‘of Revolution . and Nigeria also récé jadorned with pictures, of copies,’ Mr. Gibs¢ Lenin, Mao Tse-tung, and Ho Ghana none, for..the’ r ied French Communist Party. - Chi-minh, I was, greeted by a reason that periodical d u-" Now in. tr I-plan- ‘} young, merican{Richard Gil Gib- tion in that country is handled ning. stage. ish _edi- | sony/ ey, the London: pally Mirror .tion, t ig J an evolution has en aimed _ primarily” "a 7 ot precy sthe over: al divection | able to crack the distribution “America, and an’ Ital nat ‘| charge of the English language ’ reircuit. ho erly. edition, to 1 Jedition of Revolution, He is Printed in Paris. ~—-2'aly. Both are schedilled to | listed on the masthead of. both ' appear this year. A_German} ? editions as a member of the , Apart from the 3,000: copies _language ‘edition, “probably to | “editorial - ‘committee, - along’ taken by the Chinese, Commu- be “printed” in ‘Hamburg 5” also with Ham Alavivof Pakistan, nists, "300- subscribers in Egypt is planned, according: “to” Mr. Mohammed Babuyst Zancibie buy Revolution. About 1,500 Gibson, - Amilcar Cabr rafot Venezuela, copies go to t the. Un | States, 4 Articles in the latest 1 Eng aa ietham, Has— pr. y anguage evolution include ‘Nguyen Kienfof of Vietnam a8 “The Class Struggle in Africa,” | “What Kind of Independence} . 4 4” Mr. Verges: ts variously. re- for Angola?* “Support the} / ported to have been born in Panamanian People’s Just} jj ‘Reunion Island, a French over- Struggle,” and “The Meaning ; seas department in the Indian’ of Black Revolt in the U.S.A. | v4 Ocean, or in Thailand, of a ‘Appearing in the February is-! 1Cr eole father and Vietnamese sue of the French “Revolution” | 4° mother, Mr. Verges’s brother are “15 Days With the Venezu-| (| Paul, also a Communist, was elan Maquis,” “Songs “Revolt: i defeated for a seat in-the in South Africa, ” ain in: .;Erench National Assembly by Movement,” ' “Pakistih: the} ‘former French Premier Michel Burden of ‘American Aid,” andj." iDebré in a by- election on Re~ others.. i: .j union Island in May, 1963. -- On the ground floor of thes The French langifage édition Verges apartment building is a/* ‘(of Revolution, a larger and shop selling expensive “furs. slicker presentation than . .its.Across the street is Dior, an jcounterpart in English, - is .ultimate symbol’ of capitalism. i {printed in Paris and has a cir- A few doors away is the Nor-{ - 4 eulation of, 17,000-19, 000 < _wegian Embassy. 7 the we ee a - Docld: 32339271 Page 5