THE FILE OF THE SUBJECT PERSON REVEALS THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 1/1/55
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

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AGENCY : CIA

RECORD NUMBER

:104-10130-10366

RECORD

SERIES

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AGENCY FILE

NUMBER

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TITLE : THE FILE OF THE SUBJECT PERSON REVEALS THE FOLLOWING

INFORMATION.

DATE: 01/01/1955

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SUBJECTS : WITHHELD

TARASOFF, BORIS

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SUBJECT: TARASOFF, Boris Dimitri - #104887

The file of the Subject person reveals the following information:

STATUS

Subject is being considered for the position of Intelligence Analyst,

Gs-7,1

in DDP/FI/Division D, Project PBJOINTLY, Washington, D. C.

Clearance for

Special Intelligence duties was requested on 18 August 1955.

BACK GROUND

Subject is 47 years of age, married, and naturalized Fussian-born of natural-

ized Russian father and Russian mother (both deceased). Subject's stepmother is

naturalized Russian-born. His wife is native born of naturalized kussian-born

parents. Subject. has no relatives by blood, marriage or adoption who-live abroad

Subject attended elementary school

in fussia until 1920; and from 1920 to 1923 he attended British College, Constanti-

Turkey.

Subject entered the United States in and and became aU. S. citizen

in 1?36.

From 1924 to 1926 Subject attended Fussian University, New York City.

From 1929 to 1941 he was engaged in private employment. Turing the period of 1941

to 1945 Subject served honorably in the United States Army, which included a period

of service as a Special Agent in CIC in Germany. Since 1945 Subject has been

privately employed.

OTHER: PERTINENT INFORMIATION

Investigation was conducted in accordance with current CIA procedures.

Name

checks conducted at FBI, ONI, State, CSC, HUA, OSI, RI and Source K were negative

concerning the Subject; spouse checks conducted at FBI, CSC, and HUA were likewise

negative.

Source K checks regarding Subject's parents-in-law were also negative.

AGO records confirmed Subject's honorable military service. Military records

also revealed that Subject was granted Secret and Confidential cryptographic clear-

ance on the basis of a four-way record check and limited investigation conducted

in 1944 by the Post Intelligence, Ft. Knox, Kentucky. The files also indicated

that Subject had attended the Cadet Corps Training School of his Imperial Highness

Alexander III in Russia for 24 years.

I & NS files confirmed the U.S. citizenship of the Subject in 1936; of his

father-in-law in 1936; and Subject's mother-in-law (now deceased) in 1954.

Immigration records disclose no derogatory information concerning the Subject or

his parents-in-law.

MID records revealed a favorable applicant investigation conducted concerning

the Subject in 1945, during which tine thirteen informants were interviewed. All

informants endorsed

Subject's loyalty and reputation for a position of trust. It

was disclosed that Subject's family had fled from Russia in 1920, and that his

father had been a Colonel in the fussian Army. OS Indices were negative concerning

the Russian Cultural Club and the Russian Democratic Club of New York City in which

Subject was a member, according to MID records.

Subject's PHS noted membership in

the Circle of Youth "Russian Culture," New York City, from 1936 to 1940.

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During the current investigation eleven developed informants and six listed

references

were interviewed. No informant questioned Subject's loyalty or trust-

worthiness; and no informant questioned or commented adversely on Subject's

character, personality, associates or relatives.

Subject appeared to be a very

well-read

individual who had never been involved in any trouble or scandal. Two

neighbors observed that Subject was unusually quiet and that Subject has many

"Russian friends who call at their home from time to time."

However, the neighbors

reflected no derogatory information concerning Subject's visitors.

Subject is

known to speak Russian well and has some knowledge of German and French. One

informant believed that Subject's family was of the military aristocracy in fussia

under the Czar; and that the family lived in Russia during the Revolution.

Informants advised that Subject is active in the Oakland, California CIO

labor union.

He attends meetings regularly and participates in union economicat

boycotts.

The local union shop steward states that Subject takes an average member!s

interest in the affairs and proceedings of the local unions. Another informant

volunteered information that Subject shows more interest than does the average

citizen in political elections.

He gets a

sample ballot and studies and discusses

qualifications of the candidates.

Subject lists on his PHS membership in the CIO

Greater Alameda County, Oakland, California, from February 1954 to Present (June

1955).

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