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SUBJECT: MR. HERBERT ITKIN

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DO ON 6 NOVEMEER 1973 MR.-(LESLIE V. JARVIS, (ASIO REP IN WASHING-

TONS HAND CARRIED TO HAS A LETTER FROM AUSTRALIAN EJUSTICE A. R. MOFF-

ITT REQUESTING INFORMATION ON THE RELIABILITY OF MR. HERBERT ITKIN

WHOM HE DESCRIBED AS A FORMER CIA AND FEI EMPLOYEE. THE FOLLOWING

PARAGRAPHS ARE THE GIST OF MR. MOFFITT'S LETTER, WHICH WAS ADDRESSED

'TO "MR. WILLIAM CROSBY, (SICA DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE:

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A. HOFFITT HOLDS A COMMISSION TO INQUIRE INTO THE INFIL-

=TRATION OF ORGANIZED CRIME INTO NEW SOUTH WALES. IT IS OF SUBSTANTIAL

#IMPORTANCE TO HIS INQUIRY THAT HE CONSIDER EVIDENCE GIVEN DURING A

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COURT CASE IN ENGLAND IN JULY 197I BY ITKIN.

B. IN HIS TESTIMONY IN ENGLAND MR. ITKIN CLAIMED TO HAVE

BEEN RECRUITED BY CIA IN AN "UNDERCOVER CAPACITY" IN ABOUT 1954- HE

CLAIMED HE WAS WITH THE C.I.A. UNTIL MARCH 1963 AT WHICH TIME BY SOME

ARRANGERENT HE WORKED FOR GOTH THE FBI AND CIA, JATAL MANDARY 2065.

C. MOFFITT ASKS FOR INFORMATION ON THE STATUS OF MR. ITKIN

DURING THE YEARS 1964 TO 1969 AND FOR COPIES OF MANY RELEVANT. AFFI- :"

DAVITS OF PERSONS IN AUTHORITY IN THE FBI OR CIA USED IN PROCEEDINGS, !:.

IN USA."

D. MOFFITT NOTED THAT IN THE INTERESTS OF PRIVACY HE ROUT-

ED HIS LETTER VIA THE AUSTRALIAN-DIPLOMATIC POUCH, AND ASKED THAÏ THE

REPLY BE RETURNED TO HIM BY THE AUSTRALIAN EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON.

2. MR. MOFFITT'S REQUEST WAS HANDLEED BY THE OFFICE OF GENERAL

COUNCIL COGCE WHO MADE AVAILABLE FOR MR. MOFFITT COPIES OF THREE

- AFFIDAVITS CALL OF WHICH IN PUBLIC DOMAINI RELEVANT TO HERBERT ITKIN

= AND HIS AFFILIATION WITH THE, CIA. OGE CONCLUDED THEIR REPLY BY SAY-

= ING THAT

HERBERT ITKIN FURNISHED INFORMATION TO THE CIA OVER A PERIOD

2OF MANY YEARS, BUT THAT HE WAS NOT SENT TO ENGLAND TO COLLECT ANY

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