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From: LEG, LO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 12/19/1963
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DIRECTOR, FBI SECRET.

FROM

LEGAT, LONDON (62-359) (P)

SOR

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

JOHN F.

KENNEDY

T и

Re London cable 12/19/63.

Remyairtel 12/2/63 reporting an individual had called

the American

Embassy and identified himself as HASSAN.

He said

the UAR was behind President KENNEDY's death. This information

was

immediately furnished to British Security Service, MI-5, witha

JFK

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On 12/18/63 the following report, classified Secret

was furnished by MI-5: (S)

"HASSAN had already been in touch with the police and

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he told them that one TEWFIQ had stayed with him the night before

and had boasted of being involved in the shooting of President

KENNEDY.

TEWFIQ, according to HASSAN, was probably sailing on

the SS

"EL GISA"

, an Egyptian ship, from London that evening.

The ship was searched but no trace of any individual resembling

TEWFIQ was found (S)

Erit

"HASSAN's full name is YAKLA ZAKARIA HASSAN Tof

whom we have no trace).

He came to this/country in 1953 and as

regards his contact with TEWFIQ I do not think that I can do

better than to give you below verbatim Special Branch's reportS&

" HASSAN

told me that about two years ago, when he was

the 'restaurant manager? at the Egyptian Club in London,

he met an Egyptian named TEWFIQ, who was a fairly frequent

visitor to the club.

obtained

He had the impression that TEWFIQ

regular sums

of money from the UAR Embassy and

drew the

inference that-he must be some kind of government

employee. (S)

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Section 6 of the "President John F. Kennedy Assassination

Records Collection Act of 1992.".

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[] Subsection 1B (intelligence source or method)

[] Subsection 1C (other matter relating to military

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'He saw no more of TEWFIQ until Wednesday,

11/27/63, when they met in an Arab cafe in Leman Street,

nuch used by Arabs of various nationalities and classes.

They exchanged

few words on that occasion, and TEFlo

asked for HASSAN's home address, promising to visit him

there shortly (S)

"The next day, Thursday, HASSAN was invited by an

Egyptian acquaintance to visit the Egyptian ship "El

Gisa?

then lying in West India Dock; as they were leav-

ing the ship later on, HASSAN saw TEWFIQ making his way

towards it.

and assumed that he was known to members of

the crew(S

•That

evening, TEWFIQ visited HASSAN at the latter's

home.

During the course of conversation, TEWf1@ mentioned

that he had recently been in New York, visiting a friend.

Later, after he had been drinking heavily and while a

program on President KENNEDY was being shown on television,

he made offensive remarks about Americans in general and

about Mr. KENNEDY in particular, producing a revolver from

pocket, he said,

'We have completed our work in America -

we shall be returning to Egypt." HASSAN is in no

doubt that this remark referred to the assassination.

(5)

"By the end of the evening TEWFIQ was fairly drunk

and insisted on staying the night. As HASSAN and his

vife were frightened by his manner they complied with

is demand, and a bed was made up in one of the rooms.

TEWFIQ left early the next morning and HASSAN has not

seen him

since.

Two letters and a photo were found in

flat by HASSAN, evidently left behind by TEWFIQ;

the letters, in Arabic, contain nothing of interest,

while the photos showing TEWFIQ talking to a young girl' (s

is, according to HASSAN, a reasonably good. likeness.'

"The police have made inquiries and they state that

"im the Egyptian Army and to be now working as an

Intelligence Officer. According to further information, so far

unverified, he was in the U. S. a short while ago. He is also

believed to have a brother,

ALI SHAWKI EL-HADIDI, who may be an

official at the UAR Embassy in Vienna.(J)

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ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT

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Re London cable 12/19/63.

Remyairtel 12/2/63 reporting an individual had called

the American Embassy and identified himself as HASSAN. He said

the UAR was behind President KENNEDY's death.

This information

was

immediately furnished to British Security Service, MI-5, with

the request that it be followed.

On 12/18/63 the following report, classified Secret

furnished by MI-5: (S)

"HASSAN had already been in touch with the police and

he told them that one TEWFIQ had stayed with him the night before

and had boasted of being involved in the shooting of President

KENNEDY.

TEWFIQ, according to HASSAN, was probably sailing on

the SS "EL GISA"

, an Egyptian ship, from London that evening.

The ship was searched but no trace of any individual resembling

TEWFIQ was found. (S)

"HASSAN's full name is YAKLA ZAKARIA HASSAN (of

whom we have no trace).

He came to this country in 1953 and as

regards his contact with TEWFIQ I do not think that I can do

better than to give you below verbatim Special Branch's report.

(S)

'HASSAN told me that about two years ago, when he was

the 'restaurant manager' at the Egyptian Club in London,

he met an Egyptian named TEWFIQ, who was a fairly frequent

visitor to the club.

obtained regular sums of money from the UAR Embassy and

drew the inference that he must be some kind of government

employee. (S)

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Deletions were made pursuant to the postponement

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available for disclosure.

All references relate to

Section 6 of the "President John F. Kennedy Assassination

Records Collection Act of 1992."

[] Subsection 1A (intelligence agent's identity)

[] Subsection 1B (intelligence source or method)

[]

Subsection IC (other matter relating to military

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[]

Subsection 2

(provider of confidential information)

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Subsection 4

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(cooperating individual or foreign

government)

[] Subsection 5 (security or protective procedure)

Information pertained to a matter unrelated to the JFK

Assassination investigation.

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(Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 744 USC 2107-

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'He saw no more of TEWFIQ until Wednesday,

11/27/63, When they met in an Arab cafe in Leman street,

much used by Arabs of various nationalities and classes.

They exchanged a few words on that occasion, and TEWFIQ

asked for HASSAN's home address, promising to visit him

there shortly. (S)

"The next day, Thursday, HASSAN was invited by an

Egyptian acquaintance to visit the Egyptian ship "El

Gisa", then lying in West India Dock; as they were leav-

ing the ship later on, HASSAN saw TEWFIQ making his way

cowards it

the crew. (s)

and assumed that he was known to members of

'That evening, TEWFIQ visited HASSAN at the latter's

home.

buring the course of conversation, TEWFIQ mentioned

that he had recently been in New York, visiting a friend.

Later, after he had been drinking heavily and while a

program on President KENNEDY was being shown on television,

he made offensive remarks about Americans in general and

about Mr. KENNEDY in particular, producing a revolver from

pocket, he said,

'We have completed our work in America -

now we shall be returning to Egypt." HASSAN is in no

doubt that this remark referred to the assassination.

(S)

'By the end of the evening TEWFIQ was fairly drunk

and insisted on staying the night. As HASSAN and his

wife were frightened by his manner, they complied with

his demand, and a bed was made up in one of the rooms.

TEWFIQ left early the next morning and HASSAN hag not

seen him since.

Two letters and a photo were found in

the flat by HASSAN, evidently left behind by TEWFIQ;

the letters, in Arabic, contain nothing of interest,

while the photo, showing TEWFIQ talking to a young girl, A

is, according to HASSAN, a reasonably good likeness. (5)

"The police have made inquiries and they state that

• TEWFIQ is known to his Egyptian and other Arab acquaintances as

TEWFIQ SHAWKI EL-HADIDI and was understood to be or to have

been a Captain in the Egyptian Army and to be now working as an

Intelligence Officer.

According to further information, so far

unverified, he was in the U. S. a short while ago. He is also

believed to have a brother,

ALI SHAWKI EL-HADIDI, who may be an

official at the UAR Embassy in Vlenna (5)

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"There is no record of TEWFIQ SHAWKI EL-HADIDI having

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