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CITE NR/IOS ANGELES 24682

TO: NROC INFO DIRECTOR.

FOR: LIMIT DC/ NRER INFO CE/RC

SLUGS: WNINTEL MXLETTER GTOPPOSITE VZOPTIC

SUBJECT: YEVGENY RUNGE - NAME APPEARS IN BOOK

REF: NONE

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1. ACTION REQUIRED: FYI.

2.

ON 16 JULY, SUBJECT WAS MET IN COSTA MESA BY IC FORTAW

(IN PNINFINITE ALIAS D.B.D.) TO PROVIDE SUBJ WITH INFORMATION

CONCERNING. THE APPEARANCE OF HIS NAME IN THE RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK

"THE MAN WHO KNEW TO MUCH", BY DICK RUSSELL (CARROLL

HERS/RICHARD GELLEN,

THE BOOK IS A "CONSPIRACY THEORY" INVESTIGATION INTO THE

* ASSASSINATION>OF. PRESIDENT<JOHN>F. <KENNEDY> THROUGH INSIGHTS

PROVIDED

THE ACTIVITIES OF RICHARD CASE NAGELL, ALLEGEDLY A CIA

* (INTERALIA) "AGENT" AND ASSOCIATE OF <LEB HARVEY OSWALD, >WHO CLAIMS

*TO HAVE INFORMED THE US GOV'T OF THE PLAN TO<ASSASSINATE › THE

PRESIDENT.

SUBJ HAD BEEN MET ON 29 APR AT HIS REQUEST, AT WHICH

TIME HE ASKED THE RCO TO DETERMINE WHY SUBJ'S NAME HAD APPEARED IN

THE BOOK AND WHAT SIGNIFICANCE IT MIGHT HAVE.

3 .:

RCO OBTAINED A COPY OF THE. BOOK AND AFTER REVIEWING IT,

PROVIDED SUBJ THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ON 16 JUL. REQUEST HQS

COMMENTS ONLY IF IT IS BELIEVED NECESSARY.

4.

THE NAME APPEARS ONCE IN THE BOOK, SPECIFICALLY, IN

CHAPTER 29 "NAGELL'S DISAPPEARANCE BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN:

1968-70, " ON PAGE 657, IN THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH:

NAGELI WAS ALSO QUESTIONED IN THE USSR ABOUT A KGB LT COL,

YEVGENY RUNGE, WHO HAD SOUGHT ASYLUM FROM THE CIA IN WEST

BERLIN IN THE

EARLY FALL OF 1967. RUNGE'S DEFECTION WAS SAID TO

HAVE EXPOSED THE WIDESPREAD USES OF "ILLEGAL," AGENTS, UNATTACHED

TO ANY EMBASSY, BY SOVIET INTELLIGENCE (RUNGE HIMSELF HAD

POSED AS A TRAVELING JUKEBOX SALESMAN) . (24)

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FOOTNOTE 24, CHAPTER 29 STATES: NAGELL MENTIONED RUNGE, BRIEFLY AND

CRYPTICALLY,

IN ONE OF HIS LETTERS TO (ARTHUR) GREENSTEIN. FOR

BACKGROUND ON THE RUNGE CASE,

SEE DAVID BINDER, "BONN EXPERTS SAY

DEFECTOR WAS ONE OF THE SOVIETS' ABLEST AGENTS, " NEW YORK TIMES (27

OCT 67); "THE SPIES THAT WERE LEFT BEHIND, " TIME (27 OCT 67)

P.35; BENJAMIN WELLES,

"DEFECTION OF A SOVIET SPY VIEWED IN US AS

WINDFALL, " THE NY TIMES (10 NOV 67) P.1.

CIRCUMSTANCES LEADING UP TO NAGELL'S INTERROGATION BY THE

KGB IN MOSCOW: ON I0 JUN 68, WHILE ENROUTE TO WEST BERLIN THROUGH

EAST GERMANY, COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES DETAINED AND THEN IMPRISONED

NAGELL. HE SUBSEQUENTLY WAS SENT TO THE SOVIET UNION FOR FURTHER

INTERROGATION, EVENTUALLY BEING RELEASED AT THE BERLIN BORDER TO

AMERICAN AUTHORITIES ON 23 OCT 68.

6.

GREENSTEIN, A PERSONAL FRIEND OF NAGELL'S, ORIGINALLY MET

NAGELL IN MEXICO CITY IN 1962 WHILE GREENSTEIN WAS

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO. GREENSTEIN, WHO EVENTUALLY OPENED AN

ADULT BOOKSTORE IN WILLMINGTON, DELAWARE, WAS THE RECIPIENT OF MANY

*LETTERS FROM NAGELL CONCERNING THE<KENNEDY ASSASSINATION>BOTH WHILE

NAGELL WAS IMPRISONED AT LEAVENWORTH DURING THE PERIOD JUL 67 TO APR

68, AND SUBSEQUENTLY. IT APPEARS THAT AT NO TIME DURING THE COURSE

OF

GREENSTEIN'S ASSOCIATION WITH NAGELL, THAT GREENSTEIN WAS

PERSONALLY INVOLVED IN ANY CLANDESTINE OR ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.

GREENSTEIN'S MENTIONING OF RUNGE'S NAME WAS SOLELY IN THE CONTEXT OF

IT HAVING BEEN MENTIONED BY NAGELL AS ONE OF THE NAMES THAT THE

SOVIETS BROUGHT UP IN THE COURSE OF NAGELL'S INTERROGATION. NAGELL

HAD NO INFORMATION CONCERNING RUNGE.

7. FILE: 6LG-006-200 (FPF/RMB) : DECL OADR DRV DEF 2-82.

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