Agency: FBI
Originator: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
From: CIA
To: HQ
Document date: 9/11/62
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Agency Information

AGENCY:

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-90147-10079

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

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Document Information

ORIGINATOR: CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

FROM: CIA

TO: HQ

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DATE :

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SUBJECTS :

09/11/1962

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RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 10/19/1998

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-CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC

WASHINGTON 25, D.C.

GIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO

DECLASSIFIGATION AND/OR

RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION

IN THIS DOCUMENTAS SANITIZED

94622/98-1824198

$ 1 SEP 1962

TO

:

Director

Federal Bureau of Investigatio

Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich

FROM

: Deputy Director (Plans) fAR

SUBJECT : Richard

GIBSON, Fair Play for Cuba Committee

1.

Reference is made to conversations between Mr.

Victor

Wallen of this Agency and Mr. William Cregar of the

Bureau concerning

Subject.

The substance of this report

has been discussed with Mr. Cregar.

2. This Agency received a letter dated 4 July 1962, on

suggested Montreat, Canada, as a discreet location for a

meeting if this Agency were

interested in discussing the

possibilities of cooperation; asked that this Agency arrange

for his transportation and expenses while in Montreal; and

requested

that he be personally contacted by phone at

Committee's address or at his home.The Committee stationery

letterhead contained two names, Robert TABER, Executive

Secretary, and Richard GIBSON, Acting Executive Secretary.

From the letter there was no way to determine whether TABER,

This Agency

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3. Mr. Wallen made Gallable a copy af the above letter

to Mr. Gregar on l& July 1962. fr

5 SEP 18 1962

On 19 July 1962

Reiss,

Department of

Agriculture, Code 11l, Extention $660,

requested an inter-

view with a representative of this Agency.

Reiss, a former

employee of

this Agency, was subsequently interviewed on 20

July 1962, at which time he produced a personal letter,

dated 16 July 1962, from Richard GIBSON, Fair Play for

Virginia,

Hogeet, 2Rd15. Columbia, Falls OBSC

Falls Church,

was a friend of phoNE and apparently at sometime

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in the past his stepbrother had told GIBSON that he (Reiss)

was a former employee of this Agency.

In the letter GIBSON

asked Hagert to tell Reiss to inform his " (Reiss') former

employers that he (GIBSON) had written a letter several weeks

ago discreetly trying to get in touch with the Agency; time

was running out; it was a matter of life or death; suggested

Montreal as meeting place; and suggested this Agency contact

phone YU 2-6011.

him at his office in New York (799 Broadway) or his home,

5. Mr. Wallen made available a copy of this second

letter to Mr. Cregar on 22 July 1962. Reiss was informed

on 24 July 1962 that he (Reiss) would be contacted by the

F.B. I. with regard to the letter.

6. Richard GIBSON has been the subject of previous

correspondence received from the Bureau; this Agency's

security file on Philip K. Reiss, a former employee, contains

no derogatory information,

and this Agency has no record of

Thornton Hagert.

7.

Attached are copies of Richard GIBSON's letters

dated 4 July 1962 and 16 July 1962.

CSCI-3/772, 384

Attachments: Herewith

As stated above

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