Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: BRANIGAN, W. A.
To: SULLIVAN, W. C.
Document date: 8/12/64
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Callection Act af 1992 114 USC 2107 Hatel

DATE: 11-14-2017

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

• AGENCY:

RECORD_ NUMBER:

RECORD SERIES:

AGENCY FILE NUMBER:

FBI

124-10156-10020

HQ

105-82555-4718

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: BRANIGAN, W. A.

TO:

SULLIVAN, W. C.

TITLE:

DATE:

08/12/1964

PAGES: 2

SUBJECT:

DOCUMENT TYPE:

ORIGINAL

CLASSIFICATION:

REVIEW DATE:

STATUS

LHO, RP, JR, ASSOC

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Secret

10/22/1998

Redact

NEW

CLASSIFICATION:

UPDATE DATE:

02/12/2001

RESTRICTIONS:

JFK Act 6 (1)(C)

JFK Act 6 (4)

COMMENTS:

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DATE:

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This recounts intormation receive 8/10/4 rom MX-5

• MI-5 (British

foreign intelligence) concerning allegations of Konstantin Petrovich

In Gorkly, Russia;

in April and way, 1960, that Oswald talked to him

about his old friend ruby and that he believed that Marina Oswald was

a KGB (Committee of State Security) agent. The interview was conducted

jointly by the British

and a second secretary of the American Embassy•

Details follow.

Sergievsky, aged 29 (no record in Bureau files), came to the

British Embassy, Moscow, on 7/29/64, stated that he knew Oswald. He

No co do ta 7/23/6

asked to be placed in contact with the American Embassy whereupon a

CONTAINED

Mr. W. Morgan, Second Secretary of the United States Embassy, jointly

interviewed Sergievsky with a member of the British staff.

claimed to have met Oswald in Gorkiy, Russia, In April and May, 1960.

LASSIFIED

He said Oswald spoke about an old friend called Ruby who he described

Sas a shady night club owner and that Oswald asked what he thought would

Chappen If the President of the United States would be assassinated.

AIRATION

Oswald allegedly claimed that ruby would give him help in the future.

Sergievsky also said that his sister,

= Mrs. Oswald before she met Oswald.

wha porked far KOR lIved with

During the interview he handed over a slip of paper, the

original of which is in the possession of the State Department repre-

road.

wine in

sentative, on which he wrote that ruby was an old friend ot Oswald,

that Oswald's wife was a KGB worker and that a group of people directly

assisted in the murder (apparently a reference to the assassination).

yin.

effect of inducing an, oxygen starvation of his brain. He also spoke

of experiencing mental blanks and to have undergone a brainwashing pro-

opium cigaretts.

Sergievsky asked the

citish for

refused whereupon he left the embassy

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