MEMO: ROCKEFELLER COMMISSION CONTACT
Originator: CIA
From: ELDER,  WALTER
To: MEMO FOR THE RECORD
Document date: 05/23/1975
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1704-10418-10010.

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

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Rockefeller Commission Contact

Mason Cargill told me today that the reference

in the Commission report to an employee who was fired

because he abused a defector came from a deposition by

Dick Helms.

Helms

could not remember an exact name,

but from the description which he gave on his deposition,

it is clear that the employee who was fired was John

Torpats. He was discharged by Allen W. Dulles in 1960.

Torpats, himself a Lithuanian

"refugee, was working

in the Defector Reception Center in Frankfort, Germany •

In the course of interrogating another Lithuanian •

defector, Torpats beat him.

After Torpats was fired,

he sued the Director (then McCone) • He lost the case.

Wast Elder

Walter Elder

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