ALBANIAN CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL.
Originator: CIA
From: DCD/MIAMI, CIA
To: DCD/HEADQUARTERS, CIA
Document date: 08/24/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SECRET 24183DZ AUG 76 STAFF

55,

CITE DCD/MIAMI 13477

TO: PRIORITY DCD/ HEAD QUARTERS.

TO: OPERATIONS SERVICES GROUP/OSB TERENCHS FROM HENNESSEY?

WNINTEL

SUBJ: ALBANIAN CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL V

REF : HENNESSEY/FRENCH TELECON, 23 AUGUST 1976, SAME SUBJECT

THIS IS TO CONFIRM REFERENCED TELECON

• ON 23 AUGUST 1976,

MORGAN, OWNER OF SAFARI

SPORTS, POO. BOX 135, NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, AND VANGUARD

RESEARCH, INC. , P. 0.

BOX 312, MIAMI, FLORIDA,

HE HAD HAD A VISIT ON THE SAME DATE BY FRANK

STURG IS~ STURGIS HAD TOLD MORGAN THAT HE HAD JUST RETURNED TO

MIAMI FROM NEW YORX CITY, WHERE HE HAD BEEN INTERVIEWED FOR

THE "TOMORROW SHOW" ON NBC.

(THIS INTERVIEW WAS SUPPOSED TO

HAVE BEEN TELEVISED AT DIDA HOURS, 24 AUGUST, BUT WAS NOI.)

STURGIS SAID THAT WHILE IN NEW YORK HE HAD STAYED THE

WEEKEND (PRESUMABLY 21 AND 22 AUGUST) WITH MARITA LORENZ,

WHO STURGIS SOMETIME AGO PUBLICLY CLAIMED TO HAVE HIRED TO

LORENZ GAVE STURGIS

POISON CLEAN PRIME MINISTER FIDEL CASTRO THAI SHE SAID SHE HAD

A BOOK CONTAINING CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL

STOLEN FROM THE ALBANIAN MISSION IN NEW YORK.

MORGAN WAS

SHOWN MACHINE COPIES OF THREE OR FOUR PAGES OF THIS MATERIAL,

WHICH CONSISTED OF FIVE DIGIT NUMERICAL GROUPS IN SERIES ACROSS

EACH OF THE GROUPS HAD A SINGLE LINE DRAWN THROUGH

AS IF A DECODING OPERATION HAD BEEN PERFORMED.

STURGIS TOLD

MORGAN THAT HE HAS DISTRIBUTED PAGES OF THE BOOK IN VARIOUS

PLACES IN MIAMI FOR SAFEKEEPING UNTIL HE CAN TURN ALL OF IT

OVER TO SENATOR

HOWARD BAKER.

A CALL TO BAKER'S STAFF ON 23 AUGUSI.

AUGUST. STURGIS TOLD MORGAN THAT

ST URGIS TOLD MORGAN

LORENZ HAD GIVEN HIM THE BOOK BECAUSE ONE OF

HER MAFIA CONTACIS

IN NEW YORX TRIED TO BLACKMAIL HER (FOR SOME REASON UNKNOWN TO

MORGAN OR OURSELVES), AND SUBSEQUENTLY BEAT HER SEVERELY AND

IHREATENED HER LIFE.

AS A RESULT, SHE NO LONGER WANTED ANY

PART OF THE CRYPTOGRAPHIC MATERIAL

IN QUESTION.

PROMISED TO GET

IT INTO OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT

E2 IMPDEI CL BY B11668

SECREI

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