Originator: FBI
From: BRANIGAN, W. A.
To: BELMONT, A. H.
Document date: 1959-10-19 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10210-10362

RECORD SERIES : HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 105-81285-19, 20, 21

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

FBI

BRANIGAN, W. A.

TO : BELMONT, A. H.

TITLE :

DATE: 10/19/1959

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

REW, RENOUNCED, US CITIZENSHIP, LTR, SOURCE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION:

Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 02/24/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS: INC TTY, A/T

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FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56)

FBI

Date: 10/17/59

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AIRTEL

AIR MAIL

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

TO:

FROM:

RE:

DIRECTOR, FBI (105-81285)

SAC, CLEVELAND (105-3792)

ROBERT EDWARD WEBSTER

IS

(00:

CLEVELAND)

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

Re Cleveland airtel 10/7/59, Bureau airtel

10/15/59, New

York teletype 10/17/59.

on 10/17/59, NICHOLAS GRAZIANO (protect identity), Treasurer,

Rand Development Corporation, contacted the Cleveland Office

and advised that on 10/16/59, he had received a cablegram

from JAMES H. RAND in Moscow, USSR.

In this cablegram RAND

stated he was to meet with the subject in company with (FNU)

SCHNEIDER, U.S. Diplomatic Representative in Moscow on

10/17/59.

GRAZIANO said that he had just received a long-distance ca

from RAND on 10/17/59 and that RAND said that he and U. S

Consular Representative met with the subject and a Russiar

Diplomatic Representative at a Russian Police Station in

Moscow, USSR on this date.

RAND stated that the subject was

in apparently good health

and under no form of duress or

restraint and the subject formally renounced his U. S.

citizenship, stating he wished to remain in the Soviet

Union

inasmuch as he likes the soviet system better than the

¡American system.

The Russian Diplomatic Representative

advised the subject in the presence of RAND and the U. S.

Diplomatic Representative that if he remained in the Soviet

Union, he would have less than one per cent chance of ever

REC- 4

105-812852

- Bureau

- Cleveland

JFC/bab

(4)

15 OCT 1.9 1959

10 AS UN D20

Approved

Sent

_M

Special Agent in Charge

Per

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HESE SE

INVESTIGATI

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

OCT 17 1959

TELETYPE

ALE INPORMATION CONTAISIEO

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED EXCE

WHERE SHOWN OTHE WISE

12-22-94

Tolson

"Mr. Belmont

Mr. DeLoach_

Mr. McGuire_

Mr. Mohr_-

Mr. Parsons_

Mr. Rosen-

Mr. Tamm

Mr. Trotter.

Mr. W.C.Sullivan

Tele. Room.

Mr. Holloman_

Miss Gandy-

Мастя

URGENT

10/17/59

1-51

PM

MP

TO DIRECTOR AND SAC, CLEVELAND

FROM SAC, NEW YORK 1P

ROBERT EDWARD

WEBSTER, IS DASH R. [NEW YORK ONE FIVE ONE NINE [S]

DASH S ASTERISK, A HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE, ADVISED OCTOBER

SEVENTEEN, FIFTY NINE, ROBERT EDWARD WEBSTER HAD RENOUNCED

HIS AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IN WRITING AT A SOVIET POLICE STATION

BELIEVED TO BE IN MOSCOW, USSR, ON THIS DATE. ACCORDING TO

SOURCE, JIM /LNU/ POSSIBLY JAMES H. RAND /PRESIDENT RAND

DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION/ AND THE AMERICAN CONSUL ACCOMPANIED

SUBJECT TO RUSSIAN POLICE DEPARTMENT. SOURCE ADVISED SUBJECT

STATED HIS REASON FOR RENOUNCING US; CITIZENSHIP WAS QUOTE

SOVIET LIFE IS BETTER THAN AMERICAN LITE END QUO/E

END AND ACK PLS

812185-20

REG. 22

1-53 PM OK FBI WA JDS

12 ОСТ 22 1959

TU DISCO

900C128 104

EX 100

TITTIES

CC--MR. BELMONT

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