104: 10534 10044 j es snip inn gba suicide (leant he entlestomnonesatnt ss bimanensees iri oidoiaiat iL stasidl | =. i foo c. le “Ih response to referenced. roquist,'an original tyrewritten . letter end envelope ofdressod 46 the American Embassy, Stockholm, © were exemined in order to determine ‘the “origin of whe Aetten’ ‘end ‘the nationality: of the writer. * “the: £olLowing’ conclaatons’ wore aren concerning: 0 letter | and eavelopar, —— on cal a cane typouriter: tn" a question 4 is S eqtipped + with « an 4 obsolete” etyte of Germonemaide type Which, according to our references, vas . £itted.on a number of typevriters made in Germany during the agz08:" . gud early 1930s. The possible makes would be Stoswer, Torpedo, oh ‘Mereedea, Rheinmetall, Urania, Orga; ‘Fortuna, Continental, Keppel, ‘Groma, Triumph, Merz and posmibly: oom others. . Of these mikes, the: Torpedo, Mercedes, - Rhedainotet ‘and Ertumphy wore: @: probably. the \ nest: widely distributed. “lh or. a [pee oi. ee The machine dun n queatdon’ ‘is equipped with gq ‘black and red “ 7 pibbon. oThe keyboard ia. ‘very: ‘probably. Svediah, ° ag ‘shown by two. - trike-overs:: “unleut-a for hyphae umd "es" for: "a". These ' gheracters are adjacent ‘onthe whandard’ Swedish keyboard, bet not On the Germane:' Tha uslant-a wae ‘no}-used in the street address,  “Strendvagen" (vhere’ the dotm. should have: been placed over the - neeond “a"). This hight be aithox a ‘simple oversight or an attonpt tO conceal the y writer's fantlierity with’ ‘the correct. ‘Spelling. a na whe ae wt oh ee! tne apes of the Letter’ ty of the’ Anternational ‘stendard (on) size "Ak" vhich is almost universally used in Sweden. ‘he. \ linen=textured stationery tawms'to be rather common in Sweden.” - vat ~ .” fhe two emaller pieces of blank paper match the letter paver with. “respect, to width, thickness, color, texture and lock-t-rrough, ‘and Ucyere probably cut trom another sheet of the same. tyne. Ths envelope matches specimens of Swedish snvelopes teken from DB/5-Postal.. Intelligence files.
13-00000 we Le inmenaten cee memenme da te : Ge > The letter was posted from tue, ‘Stockholm: Ban post. office, centoeh. is located tu 'the central ratlwmy terminal in Stockholn. : Aad madd Gsposi tad | in etpagt ead bose i Pade ame or in the post a : ~The cancolletion S eaaher 0 on the, 3 envelope te 5 tdenticaL in all respecte (format, postmark, nunihex atyle and. length of killer bars) to exemplars available ‘in cut office.: ic cebu! | tele £. The postage is correct for Swedish internal mail and the postage stamp ia of current imaaue. @ A possible irregularity is the time leg between the internal aste of the letter, the date of the postmark and the date of receipt in the American Embassy. The total time from the internal date of the letter to the time of recaipt ia eight days, the time between the date of posting and the dete of receipt is more than three days. fais transit time of more than three days for intra-city mail appears ixrreguler when compared with the sverage trensit time of only twoe i + three. days ‘for arrival between Stoukholm and the United States. 30 the text of the letter warrants acme comments beceuss a muber of paculferities were noted « aside from yure spelling or typing errors = which geem to indicate.a Swedish writer. ane following words represent either Swedish spelling or modification: “reserv”, “etablished”, “murded", “Krustjay".s , Other examples of Swedieh graumar and syntax would be: “met” (as Fast tense), “in Sowiet" (Swedich form but not spelling), “he was spy”. (without indefinite art: Lele), "FBI, USA" (without definite article),. “ehowla” (rather than “woula"}, “outsmgglea” (Sveiich past participle fora), ond "whole tiw worla” (pure Swedish form). 4, Another significant detatl te the name given, “Ryo Liang Yuan". “Ryo” 16 not @ standard spelling in any knewm Remanization system used for Chinese. . "R" 4s sean in the vew Chinese Communist national systen, but never in combination with “yo”. "Ryo" is a Japaneses spelling. In the name given it is not know whether tha Chinese or Western presen- tation is used, in other voris, whether “Ryo” or “Yuan“ is meant to te the surname. Among Chines syllables which could be represested by the Japenses "Ryo" are Liao, Ldang awaxi lung. Cf these Lung (10:7893) end Idang ('0:2733) ere used as surnamed, In either case, "Ryo is hardly & nese by which ea real Chinese would idwntify himself, 5- In summary, end based on the above iaformation, it ia concluded that the letter was tranmeltted via normal Swedish postal chamels. The lettcr is probably a “cronk letter", moat likely written by a Swide, using o Swedish-keyboard typevritur and Swedish stationery.
versace . . é i an on wont i 6 . = : | i re * “ane hae i P, ® 3 i DS Meme 76585 = Page 3 & For further information concerning the typewriter and payer ‘ analyses, end the Swedish style of lanmuwgs usage, contact Mr. Jan Beck on. x2009. Fox further information on the of the ostensible writer's nawa, you may contact Nr. Gereld Worth on x2608. For further information regarding the Postel aspects of this case, please contact Mr. Robart H. Bawks on 12303. Ts The original letter and envelope are being retarued herewith. ALBIN R. TRECIOKAS Chief, TaD/DB Attachsents (1) As stated : Distribution: Orig & 1 = Addressee 1 = TSD/GARB/ARR - - TSD/DB/3 : 1 - DB files . i - PI chrono 1 - Case 4361 ws) /oB/$-P1 /aiBenks /x2303/ery goer wee