Originator: FBI
From: HQ
To: CIA
Document date: 02/02/1962
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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124-90137-10005

2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

JFK Assassination System

Date:

Identification Form

Agency Information

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FBI

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AGENCY FILE NUMBER : CR 105-104066-6

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

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TO: CIA

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CIA LIAISON MATERIAL

SATTVA STEINER

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

09/28/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS :

MEMO

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DECLASSIZICATION AUTACAITY DERIVED ERCU:

EBI AUTOMATIC DECLASSIZICATION CUIDE

DATE 03-20-2023

BL: 2042098742

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Director

Central Intelligence Agency

A source who has furnished reliable information in

past advised in Octeber, 1952

that the National Compass

Club, also known as the Compass Club International, was formed

in March, 1951,

by netbers of the comunist Party with the

approval of the "higher committee" of the Commist Party,

According to this source,

the aim of this Club was to hold

Cormunist Party meetings

under the guise and name of the

Compass Club and at the same time watch the policies of the

New York daily newspaper, "bally Compass."

another source who was in a position to

reportorial starts of

the "Daily Conpass" were composed in the

majority of commists and connist sympathizers.

In view of your request to receive any information

concerning the communist or procomminist activities or the

(V)

subject for passage to an argentine Liaison service, this

Bureau has no objection to your reicasing the above

infornation

provided that meither this bureau not the sources or the

material are identified.

For your information in this matter.

your attention is invited to our menorandun and its accompanying

memorandun or evaluation dated hoverber 21, 196l, at New York,

New fork,

captioned "Sattva

Steiner" which was sent to your

Agency on November 22, 1961

NOTE:

This conmunication is classified "Secret" inasnuch as

aSSocIation with an Argentine

(U)

CIA has requested to receive intornation regarding

subject

(tor passage to an Argentine liaison service. Their request

restricted to information concerning commnist or procommunist

activities of the subjecty

our investigation disclosed subject is

employee of Prensa Latina and

subject or a recently opened case

as well as a closed Security of Government Employees investigation

which was

discontinued in January, 1250.

That investigation was

membership in a communist organization.

instituted on the basis of imformation indicis mel fered cia's

request has been satisfied by identifying subject as a Premsa

Latin? employee and by furmishing data regarding possible nembership

in a communist organization e

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