Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: PA
To: HQ
Document date: 04/21/1961
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

Confidential

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Released under the John T. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 711 USC 210x Hote):

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In Reply, Please Refer co

File No.

UNA, ED. STATES DEPARIMENT OF DSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

CONFIDENTIAL

WASHINGTON 25, D. C.

April

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ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED EXCEP)

WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE

RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON, aka

April 18, 1961, T-l, a confidential source abroad,

provided

the following information

concerning the subject and

his activities while in France:

IBSON

142/94

Massined

SOSMACIGAT

Declassity

on:

DARR

JFK

July 12, 192 at London, England. They have two children,

26, 1956

Payon 3. 1950, 46 PO BEN NCE

Paris, and FREDERIC, born

LARNCE

IXC IBSON

After having studied at Kenyon College in the

State

of Ohio, GIBSON came to Europe in 1952 and resided in Rome,

until February 1953.

After fulfilling his military

obligations in the United States, he spent a short time

West Germany

and came to France on December 15, 19546

In Paris, GIBSON resided successively at 15 rue

Delambre, 31 rue de Seine and 93 rue Belliard, prior to

purchasing a small house at 10 Allée des

Pommiers, Rosny-sous-

Bois, near Paris, on November 9, 1957.(C

When he first came to France, GIBSON was enrolled

at the College of Letters of the University of Paris and at

the Ecole Supérieure de Préparation et de Perfectionnement des

Professeurs de Français à l'Etranger (Advanced School for Pre-

paration and Improvement of Foreign French Teachers), 46 rue

St. Jacques, Paris. 0

nalist,

Press Card No. 15,481, he went to work for the Agence

Française de Presse as

In August 193danElat in

having become a professional jour-

a translator, art and

book critic, and,

in particular

handling Far bastern maters.

• BENCH

MARRINGON

On January

• 31, 1958,

OLIVER WA HARRINGTON,

another

Parts, filed

a complaint

against

forgery and use of forgery.

GIBSON

was

"X"

This matter is summarized as follows:

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Released under the John T.

DATE: 11-14-20176

"Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19y2, (14 ust 2107 Note):

CONFIDENTIAL

HARRINGTON; who was away from Paris for several

months, had allowed GIBSON, who was then single and living,

in a hotel, the use of his apartment.

Violent arguments

took place

between the two men in connection with the apartment,

and GIBSON resolved to seek revenge by trying to bring about

the expulsion of HARRINGTON from France.

For this purpose he

sent to a weekly American publication and to the British daily

"The Observer"

, over the signature O. HARRINGION, violently

anti-French articles which were printed in these publications

and were of such nature that they could have brought about the

expulsion of their author from Franco. (C)

Upon being informed of the publication of these

articles of which he was not the author, HARRINGTON located

proof of the very probable guilt of GIBSON and filed a complaint

The resulting investigation, which was conducted by the Police

Judiciaire (Criminal Police)

of the Sûreté Nationale, quickly

led to the confession of GIBSON, who admitted having tried to

bring about the expulsion of HARRINGTON, to whom he apologized

and who accepted the apology before withdrawing his complaint.(C

Although the 'Agence France Presse did not so specify,

it appears logical that it was

as a result of this incident

that GIBSON ceased working for that agency. (e)

The investigation in connection with the above matter,

in addition to reflecting GIBSON's lack of principles, also

developed the

following additional details: C

It was learned from a source in the Agence France

Presse that GIBSON was the animator of a group for aid to

This report confirms another, received from an American

source, to the effect that GIBSON was chairman of the New York

section of a crypto-Communist organization called "Fair Play

for Cuba Committee" which had as its purpose agitation in lavor

of the CASTRO regime in Cuba. (C)

OLIVER W. HARRINGTON,

a to do taste a nita the he come an an e

as being ter wing,

This report fits in with a portion of the statement

made to the French police by GIBSON in which he claimed that

HARRINGTON was a friend of

Korean, PETER

HUYN, who

was a

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• Released under the John F.

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2107 Hotel:

DATE: 41-14-2017*

CONSENTAL

11.3;

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as favoring the Communist Party.

Both GIBSON and FARRINION have been reported

The various persons interviewed in connection with

this matter, including RICHARD WRIGHT, the American Negro

writer who recently died; WILLIAN SMITH, an American journalist

with the Agence France Presse

with whom GIBSON lived for

time at 93 rue Belliard, Paris; and JOHN FLINT, another

•American journalist with the Agence France Press, with whom

also lived at 31 rue de Selne, Paris; all

took sides

with HARRINGTON, praising his neutrality.

They also affirmed

GIBSON's neutrality, although they did not approve of his.

behavior in this matter. (C)

GIBSON left his residence

at 10 Allée des Pommiers,

Rosny-sous-Bois, in the latersummer of 1958, claiming that he

was returning to the United States, where his grandmother was

very seriously ill.

His wife

after having sold

*their house. (C)

departed In the spring of 1959,

This document contains neither

recommendations nor condusions of

the FBI.

It is the perpet

the FElt is land to

it and its contents are not to be

distributed outside your anor.

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