Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: SAC, NY
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 4/6/64
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

5/4/2015

AGENCY :

FBI

RECORD NUMBER:

124-10286-10182

RECORD SERIES: HQ

•AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 100-339235-163

Document Information

ORIGINATOR:

FBI

FROM:

SAC, NY

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

TITLE :

DATE: 04/06/1964

PAGES:

SUBJECTS :

[Restricted]

DOCUMENT TYPE :

PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION :

Secret

RESTRICTIONS: 1B; 1C; 4

CURRENT STATUS :

Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW :

08/21/1998

OPENING CRITERIA: INDEFINITE

COMMENTS :

INC MEMO

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107

Notel.

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EX 031

(IS) 100-339235 - 163

Date:

April 14, 1964

To:

Administrator

Bureau of Security and Consular Alfaire

Departuent of

State

Washington, D. C.

Fron:

John Edgar Hoover,

Director

Subject:

SUSAN BEILIGUAN FRANK

INTERNAL SECURITY - CHINA

INTERNAL SECURITY ACE OF 1950

(PASSPORT SANCTION)

BY COURTER SERVICE

1 - Liaison

Mr. Ruehl

1 • Vr. Shubatt

7191976000013

Reference is made to my letter deted April 3, 1964,

which advised that inguiries were being conducted to determine

if three former sources of this Bureau could be made avallable

to testify at an administrative hearing in the Passport Office

regarding the possible Conminist

Party menbership of

Susan Hellignan Frank.

The source identified as T-6 in the report of

Spectal Agent Daniel A. Flynn dated July 2, 1903, at New York,

Nev Yort, is not avallable to testify at an adninistrative

hearing.

BY COURIER SVC

1 APR1-5

The source identified as T-15 in the report of

Special Agent

Gerald P. Reidy dated Novenber 25, 1959, at

Key Forks;

is a former source of the Bureau.

And Vice Tore kelt We has Previous testllied

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as a Government witness before the Subversive Activities

Control Board.

MCS.

Neuton advised on April 3, 1964,

that

she is avallable and willing to

testify at an adninistrative

hearing in the Passport Office.

The matters regarding which lin's. Newton has testified

have not been finally adjudieated and you nay desffertg contact

I - New York (100-42479)

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Administrator

Bureau of Security and Consular Afzaire

Department of State

Assistant Attorney General & Walter Tengley, Internal Security

Division, Department of Justice, prior to instituting any

action involving Mre. Newton.

Inquiries are continuing regarding the avallability

of the source identified as T-9 in the report of Special

Agent Dantel A. Flynn dated July 3, 1963, at New York,

New York,

and you will be promptly advised regarding the avallability of

this

individual

to testify at an administrative hearing in the

Passport Office.

1 - Mr. J. Walter Yeagley

Assistant Attorney General

NOTE:

Subject is on Security Index and applied for a

passport on 2/18/64. State Department by letter 3/25/64

requested advice as

to whether ten specific sources previously

utilized in Bureau reports could be made available to testify

at an administrative hearing regarding the subject's Communiet

Party menbership.:

The sources listed by State Department relate

to seven sources

of this Bureau.. Our letter of 4/3 advised

State Department that four of the sources were not available

to testify and the remaining three informants of interest vere

former sources and inquiries were being made regarding their

availability.

Former NY 3234-S has advised she is not willing

to testify for personal reasons.

of Aaron Cohen who recently testified before the Subversive

Activities Control Board in New York City. Former NY 1086-

is Ethel 'Klein Newton,,

who is willing and

an administrat Ve roaring and, therefore, svate blar ent ily at

being advised of her identity.

This letter is classified "Confidanttel" as information

defense.

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FD-36 (Rev. 12-13-56)

FBI

Date:

4/6/64

Transmit the following in

(Type in plain text or code)

Via

AIRTEL

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-339235)

FROM:

SAC, NEW YORK (100-42479)

SUBJECT: ^ SUSAN HEILIGMAN FRANK

IS-CH

ISA OF 1950

(PASSPORT SANCTION)

CLASSIFIED BY 5668 SLO/CL

ReBuairtel 4/1/64.

DECLASSRO 1526)

Former NY 3234-S advised SA THOMAS J. DEVINE on 4/3/64

that she is not willing to testify in any proceedings. She

stated that her past experiences in testifying have left her

in a very nervous condition.

She also stated that she has two

small children and she is not inclined to leave them for any

period of time.

Former NY 1086-S advised SA JOHN B. COULTON on 4/3/64

hat she is witting ana available to testill in an administrativ

hearing in the Passport Office, Washington, D.C.

NY 1086-S ha

successfully testified in the past and it is recommended that

she be released for this testimony.

., Apt. 2,76

Ios Angeles,

California

HUANG KuO-haOS NY [2724

subject and her husband

information of Los Angeles,

has identified a photograph of the

those individuals who displayed

3-Bureau (100-339235) (RM

-LOS Angeles 005-15920) (HUANG KUO-haO (RM)

I-New York* (134+2563

1-NEW

York 1100-42479 InT-

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Let State:

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it's salsa

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G'APR N 1964

Approved:

Special Agent

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NY 100-42479

slides of their trip to China at an anniversary celebration at

the offices of the "China Daily News" in NYC in July 1962.

contain no intormation to the contrary,

to determine his availability and willingness to testify at an

administrative hearing in the Passport Office, U.S. Department

of State. This information should be promptly forwarded to the

Bureau and should include any comments which the Los Angeles

Office considers pertinent regarding the suitability of the

informant to testify at an administrative hearing:

The Los

Angeles Office should also set forth its specific recommendations

as to whether informant should

be released for such testimony.

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SECRED

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