Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: NY
To: HQ
Document date: 09/23/1952
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

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Identification Form

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Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-90123-10092

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 124-8218-15

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM:

NY

TO:

HQ

TITLE:

DATE: 09/23/1952

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SUBJECTS :

PAUL M. RAIGORODSKY

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

-CLASSIFICATION: Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/12/1998

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Form NO. 1

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT

REPORT MADE AT

NEW YORK

GamMon - C

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

BUREAU

SECRET

FILE NO. PH™

DATE WHEN

MADE

9/23/52

PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE

9/4,5,10-12/52

REPORT MADE BY

DEAN E. KEIL

TITLE

PAUL MARK RAIGORODSKY

CHARACTER OF CASE

EUROPEAN RECOVERY PROGRAM

9/2497

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

CLASSIMED BY 5668-5/rde

4x95

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X

(1)

lassified bu

GEESLIEN

JFK

RAIGORODSKY In contact with one

Declassity ats CADR JFK)

NEONILA SHEVKO MAGIDOFF In 1945.

classication upheld

6855 den 3/8/18

эту рес

Information regarding HAGIDOFT

set outo Confidential Informants

have no knowledge of RAIGORODSKY'S

familjo No credit or criminal

record, NYC, on RAIGORODSKY, his

daughter, or his son-in-lan.

' ATI. INFA

RMATION CONCATIOD

FOSFIN

-RUC-

011222

REFERENCE:

AUT IXPOTMATION CONTAINED

SEREIN IS UNCIASSIFIED EXCEPT

PHERB SHOWN CETERATTE.

DETAILS:

Bureau letter to New York, 8/28/52.

Philadelphia teletype to New York, 9/5/52.

IPPROSTIATE dEENCIES

ADVISED BY ROUTING

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DAR 3-14478 0314

Confidential Informant I-1, of known reliability, advised

in 1945 that on Jane 29, 1945 one PAUL M. RAFGORODSKI

contacted MILA HAGIDOrE (fall name NONILA SHEVKO

MAGIDOFF • RAIGORODSKI advised Mrs MAGIDOFT that he

was staying at the Savoy Plaza Hotel at 58th Street and

Fifth Avenue, New Jork, New Yorke

He informed her that

he was to be in New York for only & short time; that-he

had heard quite a bit about her; and that he would be

delighted to meet her.

FORWARDED:

SPEcIAl AGENT

IN CHARGE

COPIES OF THIS REPORT

DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES

82/8-15

RESORDED

INDEXED

3 - Bureau

I - New York

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(124-8218)

(124-4570)

AGENCY TO WHICH LOANED.

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The July 31, 1945 issue of the "Daily Worker", an East

Coast Communist publication, reflected that NILA MAGIDOFF, Russian wife of

ROBERT MAGIDOFF, was soon due to leave for Moscow as correspondent for an

American newspaper®

This article reflected that MAGIDOFF since arriving

in America in November, 1941 had made more than seven hundred and fifty

speeches throughout the United States and Canada on behalf of Russian War

Relief.

In regard to the above tour of Mrs. MAGIDOFF as a

speaker for the Russian War Relief the following is noted

pertaining to

this organization:

It is to be noted that Mr. BENJAMIN MANDEL, Director

of Research, Committee on Un American Activities in 1942, advised that

Russian War Relief was a Communist Controlled frort organization. He further

advised that Russian War Relief was started at a rally held July 2, 1941,

in New York Cityo

This rally was sponsored by the American Council on Soviet

Relations which later became the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship,

which organization was declared by the Attorney General to be within the purview

of Executive Order 9835.

Continuing on background information of Mrs. MAGIDOFF:

Confidential Informant I-2, of known reliability, advised

in 1945 that NILA MAGIDOFF, who was described as

'a "Soviet writer and stylist",

was the main speaker at a public meeting of the National Council for Canadian

Soviet Friendship held in honor of the 27th aniversary of the Red Aruy o

T-? stated that Mrs. MAGIDOFF delivered a twenty minute

speech using only meager notes and it was stated she did not make one mistake

in Soviet Party Line or in conventional Soviet emotional appeal. T-? stated

that the dramatic perfection of her performance indicated training as a

propagandist 5)

Confidential Informant T-l, aforementioned, stated that

on June 30, 1945 NILA MAGIDOFF was in contact with her brother-in-law at which

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SECRET

NY 124-4570

AUUINISTRATIVE PAGE

INFORMANTS

T-1

T-2

T=3

T-4

NYT 313, referred to various times in the

investigation of NEONILA SHEVKO MAGIDOFF.

Bureau file 100-138350.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police as set out in

Bureau letter to New York, March 27, 1945 under

the heading "NEONILA SHEVKO MAGIDOFF: IS - R".

LEON DENNEN designated as I-, in the report

of SA GEORGE V. SCHNEIDER dated December 27,

1949 in New York City entitled "NEONILA SHEVKO

MAGIDOFF; ESPIONAGE R".

JOSEPH ZACK CORNFEDER designated as Confidential

Informant T-13 in the report of SA CONLY Lo

PURCELL, dated March 14, 1952 at Louisville,

entitled UNEONILA SHEVKO MAGIDOFF; ESPIONAGE R".

are as follows:

Confidential Informants mentioned on page 5 of this report

NY - 363-S(R)

as contacted by SA RICHARD H. BLASSER.

NY - 388-S, as contacted by SA RICHARD H. BLASSER.

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NY 1244570

ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE CONTINUED

NY - 38L-S, as contacted by SA RICHARD H. BLASSER.

NY - 319-S, as contacted by SA RICHARD H. BLASSER.

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DATE: 11-14-2017

Form No. 1

THIS CASE ORIGINATED AT

REPORT MADE AT

NEW YORK

SENORITY INFORMANON -

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

BUREAU

SECRET

FILE NO. PHM

DATE WHEN

PERIOD FOR WHICH MADE

MADE

9/23/52

9/4,5,10-12/52

TITLE

PAUL MARK RAIGORODSKY

REPORT MADE BY

DEAN E. KEIL

CHARACTER OF CASE

EUROPEAN RECOVERY PROGRAM

505-46

SYNOPSIS OF FACTS:

Grassitied by asLe

Declassify on: DAD UFF

class pontion upheld

RAIGORODSKY in contaot with one

NEONILA SHEVKO MAGIDOFF in 1945.

Information regarding WADIDOFF

6855023/8/18

get out. Confidential Informants

have no knomledge of RAIGORODSKY'S

ДжК DAC

family. No credit or criminal

record, NYC, on RAIGORODSKY, his

daughter, or his son-in-law.

9/29/97

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CLASSINED BY 5668-520/nd

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X_

REFERENCE:

EFK

Bureau letter to New York, 8/28/52.

Philadelphia teletype to New Jork, 9/5/52.

DETAILS:

ALT INPORNATION CONTAINED

PIS IN LE LNCLASSIFTED EXCEPT

WARRA SHOWN OTHERWISE.

APPROVED AND

FORWARDED:

Confidential Informant I-1, of know reliability, advised

in 1945. that on June 29, 1945 one PAUL M. RAIGORODSKY

contacted NILA MAGIDOFF (full name NEONILA SHEVKO

MAGIDOFF) • RAIGORODSKY advised Mrs. MAGIDOFF that he

was staying at the Savoy Plaza Hotel at 58th Street and

Fifth Avenue, New Jork, New York. He informed her that

he was to be in New York for only a short time; that he

had heard quite a bit about her; and that he would be

del shited to met her, ff(U)

SPeCIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

DO NOT WRITE IN THESE SPACES

COPIES OF THIS REPORT

Bureau

- New York

(124-8218)

(124-4570)

HER VEN

PROPERTY OF FBI-THIS CONFIDENTIAL REPORT AND ITS CONTENTS ARE LOANED TO YOU BY THE FBI AND ARE NOT TO BE DISTRIBUTED OUTSIDE OF

AGENCY TO WHICH LOANED.

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NY 124-4570

The July 31, 1945 issue of the "Daily Worker", an East

Coast Communist publication, reflected that NILA MAGIDOFF, Russian wife of

ROBERT MAGIDOFF, was soon due to leave for Moscow as correspondent for an

American newspaper.

This article reflected that MAGIDOFF since arriving

in America in November, 1941 had made more than seven hundred and fifty

speeches throughout the United States and Canada on behalf of Russian War

Relief.

In regard to the above tour of Mrs. MAGIDOFF as a

speaker for the Russian War Relief the following is noted pertaining to

this organization:

It is to be noted that Mr. BENJAMIN MANDEL, Director

of Research, Conmittee on Un-American Activities in 1942, advised that

Russian War Relief was a Communist Controlled frort organization.

He further

advised that Russian War Relief was started at a rally held July 2, 1941,

in New York City.

This rally was sponsored by the American Council a Soviet

Relations which later became the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship,

which organization was declared by the Attomey General to be within the purview

of Executive Order 9835.

Continuing on background information of Mrs. MAGIDOFF:

Confidential Informant I-2, of kown reliability, advised

in 1945 that NILA MAGIDOFT, who was described as a "Soviet writer and stylist",

was the main speaker at a

public meeting of the National Council for Canadian-

Soviet Friendship held in honor of the 27th aniversary of the Red Army S

T-2 stated that Mrs. MAGIDOFF delivered a twenty minute

speech using only meager notes and it was stated she did not make one mistake

in Soviet Party Line or in conventional Soviet emotional appeal.

T-2 stated

that the dramatic perfection of her performance indicated training as a

propagandist. (s

Confidential Informant I-l, aforementioned, stated that

on June 30, 1945 NILA MAGIDOFE was in contact with her brother-in-law at which

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DATE 0 11-14-2017

SECRET

NY 124-4570

ADMINISTRATIVE PAGE

INFORMANTS

T-1

I-2

T-3

T-4

NIT 313, referred to various times in the

investigation of NEONILA SHEVKO MAGIDOFF.

Bureau file 100-138350.

Royal Ganadian Mounted Pollearas sat out in

Bureau letter to New York, March 27, 1945 under

the heading "NEONILA SHEVKO MAGIDOFF: IS - R".

LEON DENNEN designated as T-5 in the report

Of SA GEORGE V. SCHNEIDER dated December 27,

1949 in New York City entitled "NEONILA SHEVKO

MAGIDOFF; ESPIONAGE R" •

JOSEPH ZACK CORNFEDER designated as Confidential

Informant T-13 in the report of SA CONLY Le

PURCELL dated March 14, 1952 at Louisville,

entitled "NEONILA SHEVKO MAGIDOFF; ESPIONAGE R".

(и)

are

as follows:

Confidential Informants mentioned on page 5 of this report

NY - 363-S(CR), as contacted by SA RICHARD H. BLASSER.

NY - 388-S, as contacted by SA RICHARD H. BLASSER.

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ADUINISIRITIVE PAGE CONTINUED

NY - 384-S,

as contacted by SA RICHARD H. BLASSER.

NX - 319-59

as contacted by SA RICHARD H. BLASSER.

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