ALBANIAN CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL
Originator: CIA
To: PRIORITY DCD/HEADQUARTERS
Document date: 08/24/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

SECRET 24133DZ AUG 76 STAFF

CITE DCD/MIAMI 13477

TO: PRIORITY DOD/ HEADQUARTERS.

TO: OPERATIONS SERVICES GROUP/OSB (FRENCH) FROM HENNESSEY

WNINTEL

SUBJ: ALBANIAN CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL

REF: HENNESSEY FRENCH TELECON, 23

AUGUST 1976, SAME

SUBJECT

THIS IS TO CONFIRM REFERENCED TELECON.

ON 23 AUGUST 1976,

WE RECEIVED A CALL FROM ROBERT W. MORGAN, OWNER OF SAFARI

INDICATED THAI HE HAD HAD A VISIT ON

STURGIS HAD. TOLD MORGAN THAT HE HAD JUST RETURNED TO

MIAMI FROM NEW YORX CITY, WHERE HE HAD BEEN INTERVIEWED

THE "TOMORROW SHOW" ON NBC.

CTHIS INTERVIEW WAS SUPPOSED TO

HAVE BEEN TELEVISED AT BIDD HOURS, 24 AUGUST, BUI WAS NOI.)

SILRGIS SAID THAT WHILE IN NEW YORK HE HAD STAYED THE

WEEKEND ( PRESUMABLY 21 AND 22 AUGUSI) WITH MARITA LORENZ,

WHO STURGIS SOMETIME AGO PUBLICLY CLAINED TO HAVE HIRED TO

POISON CLAN PRIME MINISTER FIDEL CASTRO.

LORENZ GAVE STURGIS

A BOOK CONIAINING CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL

THAT SHE SAID SHE HAD

STOLEN FROM THE ALBANIAN MISSION IN NEW YORK.

MORGAN' WAS

SHOWN MACHINE COPIES OF THREE OR FOLR PAGES OF THIS MATERIALS

WHICH CONSISTED OF FIVE DIGIT NUMERICAL GROUPS IN SERIES ACROSS

THE PAGES.

EACH. OF THE GROUPS HAD A SINGLE LINE DRAWN THROUGH

AS IF A DECODING OPERATION HAD BEEN PERFORMED.

MORGAVE THAT HE HAS DISTRIBUIED PAGES OF IHE BOOK IN VARIOUS

PLACES IN MIAMI FOR SAFEKESPING UNTIL HE CAN TURN ALL OF IT

OVER TO SENATOR

A CALL TO BAKER'S SIAFF ON 23 ALGUSI.

LORENZ HAD GIVEN HIM IHE BOOX BECAUSE ONE OF HER MAFIA CONTACIS

YORX TRIED IO BLACKMAIL HER (FOR SOME REASON UNKNOWN TO

MORGAN CR ORSELVES), AND SUBSEQUENTLY BEAT HER SEVERELY AND

THREATENED HER LIFE.

AS A RESULI, SHE NO LONGER WANTED ANY

PARI. OF IHE CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL IN QUESTION.

STURGIS

-PROMISED TO GET

IT INTO OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT HANDS.

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relationship with a Foreign Government

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source

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6. Information pertaining to intelligence methods

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