Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: NY
To: HQ
Document date: 6/4/58
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Mote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

5/27/201

Agency Information

AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER : 124-90080-10051

RECORD SERIES: HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: CR 100-352386-2191

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO :

TITLE :

FBI

NY

HQ

DATE:

06/04/1958

PAGES:

4

SUBJECTS :

HAROLD ISAACS

JACK SOBLE

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Confidential

RESTRICTIONS: 4

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/07/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

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Released under "the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (41 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

CONSIDENMAL

NY 100-86896

one being mailed from New York City. In TROTSKY circles it was

considered that KLEMENT had been kidnapped by the G.P.U. (Soviet

Intelligence) and forced to write the letters.

VAN HEIJENOORT

continued that in about september, 1938, the body of KLEMENT was

recovered from the Seine River in Paris.

Inquiry by the French

police never solved the disappearance and death of KLEMENT.

and SENIN (JACK SOBLE) were

then agents

of the G.P.U., the

following items in the Archives folder relating to RUDOLF KLEMENT

appear to be significant.

France

1. JEAN ROUS, Paris attorney and TROTSKY associate, gave

information to the Frenen police in 1930. ROUS mentioned as

nown fact that ROMAN WELL was "shortly

7P.U. work cormuting between Paris are before that time" doing

Barcelona!

VAN HEIJENOORT

noted that WELL is mentioned in KrEMENT's letter and the KLEMENT'S

letter was mailed to LEON. TROTSKY from Perpignan, France, a town

near the French-Spanish border and on the route to Barcelona.

VAN HEIJENOORI said he did not know the basis for ROUS' allegation

re ROMAN WELL.

In this connection it is recalled that JACK SOBLE has

stated that the difficulty he encountered in France in the late

1940's in legalizing his

stay was due to the police record of a

SOBOLEVICIUS who visited France in 1938. JACK SOBLE claimed that

this trench police record pertained to ROBERT SOBLE. It will also

be recalled that records furnished to the Legat,

Paris,

• by French

sources show that ROBERT was in Paris during 193807C)

2. a letter fron ivanine

(VAN HEIJENOORT stated he does

not know the true

identity of

"NATIE") to JAMES P. CANNON, American

Trotskyite leader, dated July 19, 1938, states:

"To the best of our knowledge KLEMENT was in Paris at about

noon on Wa. (Wednesday ?), July 13... He picked up his mail at the

Librarie.

He also picked up the mail belonging to ETIENNE.

reports

that it was

customary for KLEMENT to pick up ETIENNE's mail

if the two had an appointment for a later hour in the day. This

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ETIENNE

was the case at this particular tine since, as reported above,

KLEMENT had an

appointment with ETIENNE for 6 P.M. that same evening -

which appointment KLEMENT missed".

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