Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, LO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 6/12/61
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT, NON-TEXTUAL

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DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

4/24/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10285-10182

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 65-66266-249, 250

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: LEG, LO

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 06/12/1961

PAGES:

202

SUBJECTS :

CCL, AUTHOR, THE WAR WITHIN, REVIEW

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT, NON-TEXTUAL

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/06/1996

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INC MEMO, S/S, ENV, BOOK

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Released under, the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE Arb da 2012

Office:

Meinorandum • UNID STATES GOVERNMENT.

TO

Director, FBI (65-65266)

ATE:

June 12, 1961

FROM

1719

Legat,

London (65-1053)

SUBJECTS

GORDON ARNOLD

LONSDALE

ESPIONAGE - R

1149099

nolog

Enclosed herein is one copy of the book,

"The

War

Within" by OVERACLARKE. This is the second bour to appear on

the

English market which purports to relate the events and circumstances

of the LONSDALEjet al case (first book, Spy Trial"

sent to Bureau

5-29-61)!

"The War Within" like Its predecessor "Spy Irial" and

newspaper articles of the trial is 190 pages of misstatements,

erroneous conclusions, fantasy, and the end result of the author's

overactive Imagination with in many instances no regard or rela-

tion to the facts.

The author has run the gauntlet of past espionage case

from RICHARD SORGE through FUCHS, ROSENBERGS; ABEL, etc., and as a

result thereof the FBI is frequently mentioned. Outside of refer-

ences to the FBI In a sometimes misleading manner indicative of the

author's unfamiliarity with our responsibilities

and the facts,

only apparently critical reference is on page 106.

This reference

relates to the COHENS

and ABEL and the statement is made that in

this case it was the "American FBI which had slipped up - and badl

There is no new of startling information in the book

as pertains to LONSDALE, et al,

should be checked out or followed with our sources. 0)

nor is there any information which

The foregoing is for the information of the Bureau and

this office will obtain and review any subsequent books which deal

with this matter.

N7.001 14, 13046

C227 0221636

EX-116

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London (65-1053)/0

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DECLASSIFY ON: 25X

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ENCLOSE

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MrIONAR POR. NO. 10

UNITED STATES GOVE

ENT

Memoranduin

TO

AR. SULLIVAN RAIT

FROM

SUBJECT:

1 - Mr• Belmont

1 - N0:/30761

Sullivan

DATE:

SECRET

W. A.

ELANIGAND

1 = Mr: Lee

- Mr. Branigan

Tolson

Belmont

Mohr

Callahan

Loach

Evans

Malone

Rosen

Sullivan

Tavel

Trotter

Tele. Room

Ingram -

misfores

GORDON ARNOLD LONSDALE

ESPIONAGE - R

10/21/97

65-66266

CLASSIFIED BY 5(668 540) mac

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X.

MORRIS COHEN;

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LONA COHEN

ESPIONAGE - R

Classied i 506650k02

100-406659

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ALT. INFORMATION CONTAINED

HERCIN

Fits

SYNOPSIS:

written by Comer Clarke, Britisa author,

Lonsdale and Cohen cases. Bufiles negative on Clarke.

By letter 6/12/61 Legat, London, furnished a copy of

"The War Within."

A review of the book reveals It is full of

inaccuracies, erroneous assumptions, and conclusions and other

items which are outright lies.

He mentions the FBI in one place

in a derogatory fashion.

The author claims we had seen Morris and

Lona Cohen meeting with Colonel Rudolf Abel and had investigated

'Abel but Abel's cover was so good we decided he had no espionage

the author states

and has absolutely no basis in fact.

It is an obvious attempt

to shift the blame to the FBI for the fact that the Cohens

operated in England for over six years without being detected.

This book appears to be thrown together hastily in an

effort to profit from a timely book. It apparently relies heavily

n british newspaper accounts which were very inaccurate and prove

distruthful under an active analysis.

EC- 956566266-25

ACTION:

EX. 109 25 JUL 12 1951

For your information. A detailed revier of the efrors

in the book is attached.

JPL:ct

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DATE: 11-14-2017

Memorandum Branigan to Sullivan

Re:

GORDON ARNOLD LONSDALE

65-66266

MORRIS COMEN;

LONA COHEN

100-406659

SECRET

This is not correct. Fuchs' name and

British address were in Halperin's notebook.

page 51

The author claims that Fuchs came to the

United States in 1946 and asked fellow scientists about the

duties of a communist scientist which was reported to the

FBI.

Then the FBI watched Fuchs and reported to MI-5 that

Fuchs had been seen meeting Soviet agents.

[5]

Fuchs frof Bureau Source information sola the British, who

•We identilled

interrogated Fuchs, and he confessed. (5)

page 52

The author claims the FBI followed the Cohens

after the arrest of the Rosenbergs.

The author claims the

FBI found out that the Cohens were friends of the Rosenbergs.

This is false.

page 53

The author states Lona Cohen was co-director

of "Save the Rosenbergs"

campaign.

This is false.

pages 54-55. The author tells of Lonsdale's training in

Winnitsa which is allegedly the town in Russia which is set

up like an American town.

We have received reports of the existence of this

town, however, it has never been proven.

page 55

The claim is made that an FBI source in the

United States stated Lonsdale was trained in this town.

This is a lie.

page 61

Contains a fanciful description of Lonsdale

meeting the Cohens in Tokyo in 1954 on their way to Canada.

This has no basis in fact.

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Memorandum Branigan to Sullivan

Re:

GORDON ARNOLD LONSDALE

65 66266

MORRIS COHEN;

LONA COHEN

100-406659

'SECRET

The author claims MI-5 identified the Krogers as

the the Come it that the Fi comparid this rapes of krogers

This is completely false.

It was only after the

arrest when the fingerprints of the Krogers were compared with

the fingerprints of the Cohens which we had furnished to the

British earlier that an identification was made•j(5)

page 149

The author states that a locket found in the

shop of Cohens contained a microdot which was a newspaper

article concerning the Abel case.

Again this is wrong.

A locket was found,

however, it contained photographs and no microdots.

Bufiles negative on Clarke.

Tige

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SECRET

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