Agency: HSCA
Originator: HSCA
From: FBI, FILES
Document date: 16/3/79 00:00
Document type: OTHER TEXTUAL

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

10/13/20

AGENCY: HSCA

RECORD NUMBER:

180-10107-10488

RECORD SERIES :

NUMBERED FILES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

014939

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: HSCA

FROM:

FBI, FILES

TO:

TITLE:

DATE: 03/16/1979

PAGES:

2.

SUBJECTS :

AMERICAN DEFECTORS

FBI, FILES

DUTKANIEZ, JOSEPH

DOCUMENT TYPE: OTHER TEXTUAL

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: Consulted

CURRENT STATUS : Withhold

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/06/1993

OPENING CRITERIA:

COMMENTS :

Typed notes from FBI file. Date derived from routing slip. Box 288.

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Johanna Smith

Notes from the FBI File on Joseph Dutkanicz

September 6, 1952 - Married Mary Louise Dutkanicz and lived

off the army base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina where

stationed for one year.

1954 - Enlistnent terminated.

Reenlisted and stationed at Camp Gordon, Augusta, Georgia.

court-martialled by the U.S: Army on charges of possible

subversive activities, specifically concerning a visit to

the Soviet Embassy in Washington, D.C. in 1952, listening

to Soviet radio broadcasts and making pro-Russian

statement. Acquitted

and resumed normal Army activities.

1955 - Transferred to Fort Benning, Georgia; remained there

while receiving ranger training

with the Army.

June 1957 - Transferred to Germany.

August 1957 - Wife and children moved to Germany:

1959 - Wife reported to the CIA concerning affairs, illegitimate

child, photographing U.S. Army manuals, requests to copy

U.S. Signal Corps code books, and Russian notes hidden

under rug.

Moved to military quarters from off base due to wife's

(and CIA's) insistence.

Wife states he often made comments about wanting to flee

to the Soviet Union.

June 1960 - Took wife and children on short trip two weeks

before their scheduled return to the United States.

Drove to Vienna, visited the Czechoslovakian Embassy,

entered that country.

After considerable talk with border guards, entered the

Soviet Union to visit father in lyov.

Escorted by guards to Bratislane where Dutkanicz spent

the entire day speaking to individuals in the Russian

Embassy.

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FBI Notes - Joseph Dutkanicz...page 2

June 1960 (Cont'd)

Escorted to the Ukraine - Usgraod - where Dutkanicz spent

the day speaking to a general.

Driven to Idov and given first-class accommodations while

Russian agents contacted them daily for six months.

Visited Moscow twice during this period to make broadcasts

on Radio Moscow.

After one

Year Dutkanic? wanted to return to the United

States asphis wife had and began contacting the u.s.

Embassy •

Told wife to say they had been blackmailed by threats

against his family in luov.:

1962

Wife returned to the United States.

Wife received notice of husband's death in a hospital

Luov on 11/15/63.

April

:30, 1964 - Three children were permitted to return to the

United States.

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