Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: LEG, PA
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 2/7/61
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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

DATE: 11-14-2017

JFK Assassination System

Date:

6/17/201

Identification Form

Agency Information

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

FBI

124-10199-10056

HQ

92-3182-106

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

FBI

LEG, PA

DIRECTOR, FBI

DATE: 02/07/1961

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

GAL, ASSOC, TRA

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS:

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 03/03/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE .

COMMENTS :

v9.1

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 Use 2107 tote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

EMBASSY OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERI

Paris 8, France

Date:

To:

From:

Subject,

February 7, 1961

Director, FBI (92-3182)

Legate

Paris (92-4)

GUS

ALEX

AR

ReBulet 2/1/61.

Relet requested that Paris attempt through appropriate

sources to resolve the question as to subject's itinerary after

leaving Geneva and to secure any further details a vailable as to

subject's contacts in Geneva, including any banks he may have

visited.

Paris letter 2/3/61 indicated that while the subject

was at the Hotel Richemond, Geneva, 1/18-20/61, he was in con-

tact with one EDMOND COHEN, a French national, who is a resi-

dent of Istanbul, Turkey.

The police advised that the signi-

ficance of the contact with COHEN was unknown, since COHEN had

not come to their attention previously.

The police have now

advised in an additional report that COHEN, who was born in

1909, a French national, is a habitual client of the hotel.

stated that an interview with the detective who

conducted

the investigation indicated that the meeting with COHEN may

have been a chance meeting in the bar of the Hotel Richemond,

and that it appears that there is no significance to the contact

It was also indicated that ALEX had been in touch with

one PAUL BINER, the superintendent of a business building in

Geneva, and that the significance of this contact was likewise

unknown, since BINER had not previously come to the attention of

the police.

The police advised that BINER, a Swiss national.

who resides

at 30 Rue de Vermont, Geneva, was born 12/30/08 in

Geneva.

ALEX was under police surveillance during the entire

time he was in Geneva and did not visit or contact any banks in

that city.

The police have confirmed that ALuX departed Geneva

on 1/20/61 at 6:37 A.M. by air, arriving in Munich, Germany,

at

10:15 A.M.

ee plane stopped en route at Zurich.

According

RUC

108611

BEG 66

3 - Bureau

 Chicago

92-373)

- 3182

1 - Bonn (sent airect) D/A•

Paris

10/

10 FER

101961.

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (11 USe 210/ Note).

DATE: 11-11-2017

•Li

Director

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to the Swiss Police, they have been advise

"by the German

Police at Wiesbaden, Germany,

that ALEX arrived at Munich

and stayed at the Hotel Vier

Jahreszeiten.

On 1/25/61,

after having rented an automobile, a Mercedes Okven M- CV

281,

he departed

Munich accompanied by a blonde woman in the

direction of Rosenheim and Salzburg.

He had indicated that

he wished to visit Innsbruck and Kitzbuehl, Austria.

Austrian Police at Vienna were advised by

the German Police

at Wiesbaden.

The Swiss Police also advised that on 1/24/60 ALEX

made reservations for 1/30 or 31/61 via Air France from Munich

to Montreal and Detroit, via Paris.

-2-0

92-3182-1061

Wd-1038

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