INTERVIEW OF SUBJECT WHO DENIES VISITING COUNTRIES OUTSIDE EUROPE AND LIVING IN CUBA FOR SEVEN YEARS OR VISITING HAITI AS ALLEGED. DENIES HE HAD FORETOLD ASSASSINATION OF KENNEDY.
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
Document date: 09/18/1964
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

## Page 1

manan

1104-10005-10098

2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

for 2

TOTAL

CLASSIFIED MESSAGE

CARIES

RI

SECRET

FAOM

PRASON/UHIT NOTARIED

STOCKHOLM

ACTION

c/ust 4

ADVANCE

I ISSUED

COPY

TIME

I copy 1b

DIMMAY

REPRODUCTION PROHIBITED

6

BY

SECRET 18095OZ

DIR CITE STOC 5244 (CARGOULD ACTING)

#·04T GPFLOOR

REF STOC 5179*

IN 61547

18 SEP 641476768

1. AFTER REPEATED QUERIES TIPSTAFFS ON 17 SEPT HANDED US REPORT

ON SUBJECT REF. ACCORDING REPORT HE INTERVIEWED 9 SEPT AND GAVE

FOLLOWING:

A HAD NEVER VISITED COUNTRIES OUTSIDE EUROPE AND HAD NOT

"LIVED IN CUBA FOR SEVEN YEARS" OR VISITED HAITI AS ALLEGED.

B. HAD DISCUSSED POLITICS AND SPOKEN OF SWEDISH COMMUNISM

AS WELL AS FIDEL CASTRO GOVT AND REVOLUTIONS SUPPORTED BY CASTRO

IN MEXICO AND VENEZUELA. HOWEVER POINTED OUT THESE TOPICS ALL IN

SWEDISH NEWSPAPERS.

C. WHEN ASKED WHETHER HE HAD FORETOLD ASSASSINATION OF KENNEDY,

HE DENIED QUOTE ASCRIBED TO HIM AND SAID COULD NOT RECALL ANY SIMILAR

RECORDS OFFICER

STATEMENEE STAGAID HE KNEW NOTHING OF ASSASSINATION BEFORE IT HAPPENED.

•ie following action 1s

nuthorizod: DE SENSITIZE

Signed

SECRET

- 289248

201-289248

п.0.

iote:

- VAst CI/RXA

-arian, cite

reasons and

coordinate

11 appropriate

D-200-5-41

CS COPy mont Numbor 863-892

for FOlA Review on

JUL 1975

---

## Page 2

13-00000

• CLASSITIED MESS."GE

SECRET

2I48 PAGEZE 2

2. TIPSTAFT/A SAID SUBJÉCT HAD APPEARED SLIGHTLY EMBARRASSED AS

IF ASHAIED STATEMENTS HE MADE WHILE DRUNK, BUT WAS NOT DEFENSIVE OR

BELLIGERENT. TENDED BELIEVE SUBJECT BUT IN ANY CASE FELT FURTHER

FOLLOWUP FRUITLESS:

3. THO STATEMENT PARA IA ABOVE APPARENILY CONTRADICIS EARLIER

TIPSTAFF REPORT THAI SUBJECT WAS IN CUBA IN 1956 (STOC 4397)

BELIEVE SUBJECT WAS ONLY DENYING SEVEN YEAR RESIDENCE. WILL DOUBLE

CHECK WITH TIPSTAFFS.

4.

POUCHING COPY TIPSTAFF MEMO 18 SEPT..

SEM

BE I

C/S Comment: *Subject of Ridderstrale investigation will will be

-re-opened with Foreign MinistA in early September.

SECRET

---