SOFT FILE: AMERICAN DEFECTORS TO THE USSR.
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: MFR
Document date: 12/05/1966
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

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5 December 1966

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: "American Defectors to the USSR"

1. The aitached material was part of a soft file entitled

"American Defectors to the USSR", which was set up by SR/6

(Support) around 1960 and maintained by various SR components

until ca. 1963.

The compilations we:r derived from a variety

o' sources, and contain both classified and overt data.

In the fall of 1966, the files were turned over to CI

In most/instances, basic information was then abstracted

{or the US Defector Machine Program.

In all instances in which

the material was unique, or represented a valuable collation effort,

It has been incorporated into the «ppropriate 201 file, along with

& copy of this memorandum.

3o it is suggosted that any diaseiination of this data shoula

be coordinated with SB Division and with CI Stall (CI/MRO), in

viow of the froquently inadoquato sourcing and of tho fact that

alasominations have alroady boon mado through the US Dufector

Machino Program.

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