MEMORANDUM: SLOBODA, VLADIMIR.
Originator: CIA
From: MEREDITH, J.F.
To: CHIEF/FIOB
Document date: 09/30/1965
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

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SUBJECT: SLOBODA, Vladimir

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DATE: 30-Septenber 1965

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prepared concerntag Vadimir SLOBODA, Polish-born United States Aray

enlisted man who defected on 2 August 1960 and was granted political

asylum by the Ussk.

BACKGROUND

2. The following background information concerning SIOBODA tas.

obtained from Army Chie? of Staff Intelligence (ACSI).

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SLOBODA'S KNOWLEDGE OF CIA PERSONNEL,

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8. (George W. FINNEY, #87796, CIA staff employee essigned to the

German Station from 1956 to 1962,

stated in October 1960 that es early

as March 1960 SLOBODA Inew him by his true name '' (FINNEY)saw SLOBODA

about three times in the latter's office concerning the acquisition of

basic intelligence materials such as East German telephone books, city

plans, etc!3 FINNEY) questioned other CIA employees concerning their .

nowledge of SLOBODA. None had any personal contact with him but al

"elt that they had seen him at the Camp King coffee bar. (FINVEY) o

thought it conceivable that STOBODA could have learned the true names

of CIA employees at Camp King-

POSSIBLE RECRULIMENT ATTEMPI BY SLOBODA

9. The following information was extracted from U.S. Arty Counter-

intelligence Sunmary, dated 15 February 1961, concerning two eyproach

operations against USAREUR personnel by Soviet Intelligence Services (SIS).

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CONCLUSION®

'10. It is not known whether SLOBODA is affiliated with the Soviet

Intelligence Services at this time. According to & Foreign Service

Dispatch, dated 19 December 1962, from the Americen Embassy, Moscot,

7 John I. l'eredith

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