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124-10279-10209

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

JFK Assassination System

Date:

Identification Form

Agency Information

6/1/2015

AGENCY:

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10279-10209

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 65-67406-20

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

CIA

FROM:

EDWARDS, SHEFFIELD

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE:

DATE: 04/09/1963

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

PPJM, RECRUITMENT, AMERICAN CODE CLERK A/O

DIPLOMAT IN MOSCOW, KGB

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS :

1B

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/22/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF CIA

COMMENTS:

50953

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Subject advised that Nina and Eet

evens do a lot of entertaining

but he had never attended any of their partles. Subject stated that he

wöuld not trust Nina Stevens as far as he could throw an elephant. Subject

stated that he had no proof but believed Nina to be a Soviet informant.

Subject advised that Aline Mosby was a newspaperwoman in

Schapiro's office.

Mosby, during the past year, had been in the hospital

on several occasions and one didn't see too much of her. Subject also

advised that Mosby stuck mostly to the foreign circuit rather than the

Embassy circuit. Subject stated that one of the reasons Mosby was in

the hospital on one occasion was the fact that she had an abortion, accord-

ing to gossip.

Subjeet stated that another newspaperwoman in Moscow was

Priscille Johnson. Subject advised that Johnson had the reputation of

being a fairly good reporter and one whom the Soviets kept on a month

to month visa basis. Subject indicated that it was highly possible the

Soviets had attempted to recruit Johnson as she spent a lot of time with

Soviet nationals.

Subject was queried as to whether he had ever made an unauthorized

disclosure of classified information in the Soviet Union, to which he replied

that he had not disclosed classified information as such. He stated that his

cover, which he had used for the period in between State DepartmentS)

assignments, was that he was a consultant of the ABC, particularly to

he had indicated to individuals, when questioned, that he had done economic

research and analysis in the soviet field and that he had done this ever

since he had first become a State Department employee. Subject stated

that among others he had discussed this with Ray Hutchins, his countey-

part in the British Embassy J

Subject was asked for his itinerary on his return trip to the United

States Subject stated that he had long planned to come home via the Far

East and it was a well publicized plan.

He stated that when he left Moscow

he stayed over in Delhi for a week to see if there were any objections from

Headquarters as to his itinerary. He stated that when he received no in-

structions to the contrary, he returned to the United States via his previously

announced plans and the differences in fares being borne by him.

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