124-90062-10012 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: COMMENTS : v9.1 (HW 50959 Docld:32327314 TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE: CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : JFK Assassination System Date: Identification Form Agency Information FBI 124-90062-10012 HQ CR 105-85082-NR Document Information CIA CIA HQ 10/26/1960 2 MARVIN KANTOR SOVIET CONTACTS WITH AMERICANS IN DENMARK . PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Secret . 1B Redact 11/04/1998 INDEFINITE, APPROVAL OF CIA MEMO Page 1 5/$/2015
Gio CONTROL 7 epg CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON 25, D. Cc, 26 ocT 1960 Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich FROM: Deputy Director, Plans SUBJECT: Soviet Gontacts with Americans in Denmark 1. Reference is made to your letter entitled David Allan BOOTH, dated ly October 1960, your file mmber 100-)32027, and to various memoranda fran this office concerning Soviet contacts with American students in Demark,. Specific references among our reports to you are CSCI-3/758,793, dated 20 September 1960, and CSCI-3/761,97h, dated 20 Segtecber 1945, The following — information concerning the subject matter has been provided by an 2. BOOTH's contact with members of the Soviet Embassy in Copenhagen first came to official attention when, Se Ootober 1959, ne was contacted by Vladislav Mikhailovich ABARCHALIN., k at the Soviet Embassy in Copen- hagen, and made arrangements to meet ' ABAR HALIN and the latter's "two wives" at a theater that evening. ABARCGHALIN initiated this contact in a manner frequently used by KGB officern in Copentiagen. They met at the theater as planned, the party also ineluaing ABARCHALIN's wife and Yuriy Alekseyevs IVANOV, born 30 March 192 in Brianak, USSR. who was an Attache and KOB cea at the local. Soviet se ea 5 ‘ ie JOS 257 pS OF a. NOT TF RECORDED ~~ : 48 Nov 9 1960 - 100 MBA OIZ = Te | ORIGINAL COPY FILED IN | I i} ~eerrentn emcee H¥ 50953 Docld:32327314 Page 2?
NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL 1956, after which he entered military service. He was released after six months as a Second IAeutenant in the United States Army Signal Corps. In his work in Denmark, for a firm doing military construction in Greenland, ALLEY does not have access to classified documents, but he does have access to unclassified blueprints and other papers and he is in contact with a mmber of people working on the Greenland projects. l. It appears that ALLEY was the individual through whom ABARCHALIN came into contact with Marvin KANTOR, inasmuch as ALLEY indicated to ABAR= CHALIN on 5 November 1959 that he would introduce him to KANTOR that evening. It 1s believed that on that evening ALLEY and ABARCHALIN walked together to KANTOR's address but failed to see him. According to official travel records, KANTOR had Left Denmark for the USSR on 25 May 1959. He returned on 10 Septem- ber 1959, presumably having spent the intervening period in the Soviet Union, 5S. On the evening of 16 November 1959, howevery, ABANCHALIN was observed entering a local restaurant with ALLEY and KANTOR. The three sat dow at a table with two unidentified foreigners of oriental appearance. All members of _ the group apparently knew each other, since they inmediately entered into rather animated conversation. They also looked at some papers or magazines, one of which bore the title, Soviet Film. Later in the evening KANTOR left the restaurant alone, carrying a newspaper or magazine, and ALLEY and ABAR-} CHALIN left together soon thereafter, ALLEY separating from ABARCHALIN after a shorv time and returning to his residence alone. The two oriental-looking foreigners remained in the restaurant and later joined two other men who also appeared to be foreigners. Ome of the latter two left the restaurant at about 0050 hours and drove off in a car registered to William VALENCIA, an education student born on 9 March 1936 in Chicago. The other unidentified foreigner was a Negro who left the restaurant at 0015 hours. 6, We will forward to you any additional information that may be received concerning the matters reported above. CSCI~3/762 23h 2 NOFORN/CONTINUED CONTROL HY 50953 Boctd: 32327314 Page 7