CABLE & MEMO RE JOHN PITTMAN AND MARGARETE ADLER PITTMAN
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 10/1/59
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Attached is

a memorandum received 1 October from

We have no further information on Subjects.

OBEIVY, (Parts)(201 768708)

Chief, ODENVY, Parisinformed the undersigned that he had notifled

his counterpart in(London and that no action was required from KUBARK.

Incidentally, Chief, ODENVY, Paris, commented on the good quality

of support he had received from/UNBOUND) on this case.

DOX

DUDLEY P. JENIONS

Enclosure:

Memo, h/w

1 October 1959

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Subject:

October 1, 1959

JOHN PITIMAN;

MARGARETE ADLER PITTMA?

Reforence is made to letter from our headquarters

dated september 11, 1959, to the bilice of security, Department

of State, a copy of which was designated for your headquarters.

PITIMAN, a male Negro, born September 17, 1906, at

Atlanta, Georgia,

an old-time communist farty official,

his wife, MARGARETE ADLER PITIMAN, White, born October 7, 1919.

at Frankfurt on Main, Germany,

a naturalized citizen, are

travolling with their two children and appear to be on route

to Moscow, where it is belleved he intends to serve as corres

pondent for the "Worker", East Coast Communist publication.

She, Ilkowise, has been an active Communist.

Information has been obtained from rellable sources

In Paris that the subjects arrived in Paris on September 23,

1959, and are presently staying at the Hotel Gallic.

departed Paris on the evening of September 30, 1959, for London

and Intend to return to Paris on October 4.

been received that they intend to depart for Moscow on an

unspecified date shortly after their return to Paris.

will be furnished any additional information received regarding

their plans to travel to Moscow.

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