ALBANIAN CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL.
Originator: CIA
From: DCD/MIAMI, CIA
To: DCD/HEADQUARTERS, CIA
Document date: 08/31/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

SECRET 3IIAIDZ AUG 76 STAFF

28312

CITE DCD/MIAMI 13488

TO: PRIORITY DÉD/HEADQUARTERS.

03

TO: OPERATIONS SERVICES GROUP/OSB (FRENCH)] FROM HENNESSEY]

WNINTEL

SUBJ: ALBANIAN CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL

REF : DOD/MIAMI 13477, 24 AUGUST 1976, SAME SUBJECT

1. [ROBERT MORGANI OWNER, [SAFARI SPORTS, P.O. BOX 133J NORIHO&

MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AND LANGUARD RESEARCH,

MIAMI, FLORIDA, HAS ADVISED US THAT SUE SEGUENT TO REFERENT FRANK

STURGIS TOLD HIM THAT THE ALBANIAN CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL CONSISTS

OF A COLLECTION OF OFFICIAL ALBANIAN GOVERNMENT MEMORANDA THAT

HAD BEEN SENT IN CODE AND WERE DECODED.

THESE MEMOS HAD BEeN

SENT OUT TO BE BURNED, BUT WERE INTERGEPTED APPARENILY BY. MARITA

LORENZ OR A FRIEND.

STURGIS TOLD MORGAN THAT THE. MATERIAL HAD

BEEN SENT®

IN TWO LOTS TO MIAMI.

HE CLAIMED THAT (ENU, FONZI, AN

ATTORNEY IN MIAMI AND AN ASSOCIATE OF SENATOR RICHARD SCHWEIKER

OF PENNSYLVANIA, AND A NEWSMAN IN NEW YORK NAMED PRESCOT OR WESCOI

BOTH KNOW OF THIS MATERIAL.

STURGIS INDICATED TO MORGAN THAT HE

HAD DISTRIBUTED COPIES OF

VARIOUS PAGES OF THE ALBANIAN MATERIAL

TO THESE PEOPLE TO PROVE THAT HE INDEED HAS THE MATERIAL HE CLAIMS

STURGIS MENTIONED TO(MORGAN)THAT HE HAD NOT YET RECEIVED A

RESPONSE FROM SENATOR ROBERT BAKER OF TENNESSEE CONCERNING STURGIS®

OFFER TO TURN OVER THE ALBANIAN MATERIAL.

STURGIS SAID THAT A

MEMBER OF SENATOR BAKER'S STAFF (UNNAMED) IS VERY INTERESTED

THE MATERIAL, BUT COULD DO NOTHING UNTIL BAKER RETURNS TO

WASHINGTON, D.C.

3. (MORGANTADVISED THAT STURGIS HAD GRANTED A '"LENGTHY..

INTERVIEW WIT COLUMNIST JACK ANDERSON ON THE EVENING. OF

AUGUST 1976.

ANDERSON APPARENTLY IS DOING A STORY ON CASINO

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GAMBLING IN HAVANA, CUBA, DURING THE PRE-CASTRO PER IODOS THE

INTERVIEW WITH STURGIS CENTERED ON THIS SUBJECT. MORGAN DOES

NOT KNOW. WHETHER THE ALBANIAN CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL WAS DISCUSSED

IN THE INTERVIEW.

MET WITH

THIS MEETING. E2 IMPDET CL BY D11668

MORGAN DOES NOT KNOW THE REASON FOR

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