Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, WMFO
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 10/25/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

6/1/2015

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER: 124-10279-10217

RECORD SERIES :

HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 105-106958-50, 52

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: SAC, WMFO

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE :

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

10/25/1963

11

PPIM, TRA, RUSS, FELLOWSHIP GRANT, STUDY, SOVIET

LAW, NEWS ARTIC, US MAGAZINE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS:

1B; 1C

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/20/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS:

INC MEMO

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/Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Aot of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

OPTIONEL FORM NO. 10

5010-106

MAY 1902 EDITION

GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES GE

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Memorandum

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (105-106958)

DATE: 11/1/63

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Approximately 30 Year Old.

Female

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for Possible Recruitment

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Remylet 10/25/63 concerning PRISCILLA JOHNSON./ U

As noted in Page 4 of rèlet, Miss JOHNSON, on

various occasions, submitted to the American Embassy.,

Moscow, information she had developed through contacts

with Soviet legal experts.

A review of WFO files suggests

that two of these Soviet legal experts are presently in the

United States, one in Boston and another in New York.

The!

following information concerning these experts and Miss

JOHNSON is set forth for the assistance of Boston and New

York.

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DECLASSIFT

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Classified by_

Declassify on:

Foreign Service Dispatch

423 from the Embassy

in Moscow to the Department of State dated 3/19/56

transmitted a memorandum prepared by Miss JOHNSON concerning

an interview she had 1/30/56 with several

One of the Soviet jurists was BORIS SERGEYEVICH NIKOFOROVE

DIFK

(criminal law).

NIKOFOROVE is the subject. of

WFO file 105-55775

SHe was scheduled.

or about 10/18/63 to

9/9/97

lecture on Soviet criminal law at Harvard Law School

RELEASE IN FULL

RELEASE IN PART

TOTAL DENIAL

until 12/21/63 when he is to return to Europe.

$000

sponsor is Professor HAROLD J. BERMAN, Harvard Law School.

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (14 USC 2107 Note).

DATE: 11-14-2017

WFO 105-47870

SECREY

He visited the United States in 1962 as a member of the

63rd Soviet tourist group which was composed of highly

placed Soviets in professional fields.

The foregoing information was furnished to

Boston in Bulet 9/27/63 under the NIKOFOROV caption.

MR. BAGINYAN

Foreign Service Dispatch 173 from Moscow, to the

Department of State dated 9/15/58, enclosed a number of

memoranda which reported interviews had by Miss JOHNSON.

with various Soviets in the legal field. The dispatch

noted that Miss JOHNSON had continuously advised the

Embassy the results of her interviews and had also asked

a number of questions posed by the Embassy.

Among the

interviews enclosed with the dispatch was one with Mr.

BAGINYAN, an expert in international law.

BAGINYANmay be identical with KONSTANTIN

ABRANOVICH BAGINYAN, Bufile 105-114293, NY 105-59762,

WFO 105-50505.J6)At the time he requested a visa to enter

the United States as an employee of the U. N. Secretariat

he was described as a Senior Scientific Worker, Institute

of State and Law, USSR, Academy of Sciences.

He arrived

New York City 10/8/62; his wife arrived 12/9/62; they left

the United States 4/20/63; and he returned to New York

City 7/15/63. He resides at 147-25 Northern Blvd., Flushing,

Long Island.

48 Brattle St. Canbridge, Hass

STATE DEPARTMENT SECURITY FILE

CONCERNING PRISCILLA JOHNSON

concerning her.

By telegram dated 6/10/60 the Embassy in

Moscow notified the Department of State that Miss JOHNSON,

a North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) correspondent,

had been informed that her accreditation as a correspondent

had expired and would not be renewed. She was convinced

that the action was not based upon any action of hers.

The Embassy did not believe that further representation

on its part would be helpful at that time.

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