CABLE RE DEFECTION OF SLOBODA.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 8/9/60
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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•PERSONAL INVESTIBATION RELATIVE TO SLOBODA INDICATES FOLLOVINGS

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III COLLECTION OF PUBLICATIONS•

- 62) SUBJECTS DUTIES CONFINED TO CLASSIFYING, FILING AND LISTENS

OF PUBLICATIONS COLLECTED THROUGN OVERT MEANS. HE DID NOT CONTACT

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SOURCES FOR MATERIAL. HE DID SOME TRANSZATINE OF DOCUMENTS.

DUTY OF THIS SOLDIER WAS LEAST SENSITIVE IN UNIT®

"13) DISCUSSION WITH CAPT KELNIKOST, @-8, V CORPS, INDICATES

THAT SUCHICT VAS OFFICER. IN THE POLISH INTELLIGENCE PRIOR TO DEFECTING

FROM POLAND. CAPT MELNIKOFF FURTHER STATED THAT THIS WAS COMMON

KNOWLEDGE AT FORT BRAGG. NO INDICATION OF THIS IN RECORDS THIS KOS.

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