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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

SECRET

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zile: SSCLA

20 May 1976

MEHORANDUM FOR: Special Assistant to the DDO

FROM

: Jackson R. Morton

Chief, Domestic Collection Division

29,6

SUBJECT

SSC Request for Information on Lykes Brothers

Steamship Company and Owen Johnson

Darnell

REFERENCE : Review Staff Menorandum 76-0421/A dated 19 May 197€

29 to The domestic collection Division (DeD) utilizes the Lykes

brothers steamship Company primarily as a source of forelan intelligence

information.

secondarily, it provides

antroductions for lover anc

commercial staff officers to Lykes Brothers officlais for operational

discussions and, on occasion, obtains assessment data fron/Lykes 29

Brothers/sources on foreigners of potential operational Interest.

correpondence in the uld file on this company for tie year 1962.

1965 and 1964 was confined to responses.

or the registrat on of a on bother ayers les requests

interagency source register

tire an employee otes Brothers, do caser eer roasts."

delegation to the USSR,

for the collection of foreign intelligence

informatton on the Soviet Union.

2. DCD. records Indicate that /Owen Johnson Darnell/was considered

& "source lead in years prior to 1965 but he ras never used as a

His file was routinely destroyed in dune 1911, along with

other files on "source leads" which had been inactive for five years.

as authorized by Chief, DCD.

Jacion fa listend

JACKSON R. HORTON

CERACT E 2 INDET CL BY 010650

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