MEMO:ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: JAMES ANGLETON. CHIEF, CI STAFF
To: DIRECTOR, FBI
Document date: 04/22/1964
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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22 APR 1964

WILL" FOr: Lirector

Federal Buress of lavestigatios

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issassinallod of Fresident John I. jennedy

jeference is made lo te report uf Special Agent ubert i.

GEMBERLING, dated 30 November 1963, Field Ifice File Mur. ber:

0111+8 (89-33), Subject: LIE MNEVEY SS.÷LD; Assasaination

of aresidess JUAN FITIGERALD ACNNEDY, 1:/22/63, Dallas,, Texas.

This communication reported an interview by your ulice si a rACeuro

A. BubHE da 23 November 1903 in which i%. EGullü raierred to a

Lydia DIYTRuï, of For: Morts, Texas, who allegedly had associated

with Marina N. CURALE.

The blea of tila agency contain the lolluwing pertinent

information on one Lydia DEbITRIt who may be identica viti te

Lydia Di, Yius, rOlarred to above:

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Lydia (nee BERDYINSGAYA aiS BERJANSAIYA) DYI ITRUK

was born on 3 April 1926 in dostov, USui. She rerained la rostor

witis ber parenta urtil abe was lo, when she was deported by the

Cernase to a work camp in Cerzany.

when le war ended she entered

a camp for diaplaced persona in Duesseldorf, Germany, where she

cut and married ono karel iodviji VerMaL-T, 2 Delylan citizes.

with her husband she entered Belgium at an uninora date and resided

in bntsesp. Reportedly sue was a merber of tue jaion al Sortet

Latriots in Belgiura from 1910 to 1954 sometine in early 1954,

while still married to VERHEiST, Lydia began living with Vasiliy

Gavrilovich (aia javel) ¡TENkO lo Erussals. A Belgian tolico

/investigation of her

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sein, fined for adultery in arcenter 1952.

the his divorced ty

maint in Novembor 1053 and contined living wilattereo,

Lasilly Cavrilorich (aid ravel Luotirio, allegedly

sors on 5 september 1022 in Tula, Jobi, served in toe Soviet

"ry in sorld " " I besore joining ine

Vlassor iorces in

Ilghting against tao Soviets. After the war so lived in Germany

end belgius: ast vas active in leveral anti-Comminist Russian

endare organizationa lacluding the National labor Alliance (NIS).

In 1955 SCSTINO vas tdentifled as a Soviet agont in clandestine

contaci with the soviet Embassy la Brussela. tie nas expelled

from the NTS in February 1957 and on 20 August 1957 he left

Brussels for Moscow. In a radio orcadcast fruma Fast Berlin

on i7 coptember 1957 aponaored by the Soviet Committee for

Retura to the Homelard, LiSTENho bitterly attacked Russian

enigre organizationa in to "est. i rior to learing Selgiam

FOr the WESS NESTINTO reportedly revealed that he bad woried

for Goviet Intelligence since 1942 and l'aas he was trained in loa

Soviet Union for intelligenco work and dispatched to lie liest

32 a joviclagent.]

un 2? Juno ¡jou, in ixelles, a suburb ol Brusselo, Lydia

married ravel DYAlTRUk tho was bora 28 February 192% in Stariye-

Doroni, JSSR (Stariye-Dorogi, Belorussian S66) , and who was

described as a Selorustan eludent at the Usiversity of couvain in

Belgium. At an unkaown date, possibly belore his marriage to Lydie,

Favel DYMITRUK Lonigrated to the United States. It vas reported

that In July 1957 ho retured to Belgiura to attempt to expedito a visa

for Lydia to join hin in the United Stales. As of August 1957,

¿YVITRUs'a J.S. rcsidence was listed as 159 case Division Street,

¡ocklord, bichigan.

In an Interview ia Fezruary 1957 in Antwerp, Belgium,

concerning ber ayplication for a visa to the iJnitod States, Lydia

bYTRok dscloocd 23ak:

(1) Her father managed i macaroni factory in Rostor. Don

üuring the var and did not serve in the army. In 1945 be was

arrested by the HiVD and held for five or six scontas on a

/charge concerning his

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raise incerns, his activues diring is, war liydia claimed

Isther). Lie nas aso removod from is posiden ad raager

of the inacaroad laciory.

(2) She wrote to hur mother often and socasionally received

correspondence from her. Her mother i3 jlad that lydia is in

the west.

(3) She had been associated with toe aion of Soviet Fatriots

for about two years but deniad knowing that the Union af Soviet

Fatriots was politically motivated or waa in cuntaci with tbe

Communist Farty of Belgium.

(1) Her visa application, which she submitted on 27 July

1956. was drawn up for her by her husband, Favel DYKITRUK.

in filling out the application form her husband had indicated a

negativa response to a question concerning association with a

Cormusist Farty or an organization affiliated with a Communis:

Farty because she had not been "an actual member" of the Union

of Soviet Patriots, and furthermore, it was hor husband'e belief

that she was not a Communist.

(5) She arrived in brussels from Antwera in Lebruary 1952

and lived with ber sister, Minnia SwUChiT, for several montàe.

Fler sister was la contact wilh one (inu) MARKACHUN, an officer

with the Soviet Repatriation Mission in Brussels who had been

attempting to have the sister repatriate to the Soviet Urion, Shortly

after her arrival at her sister'o, a wornan from Liege (not further

identitied), gave bor an address to go to for aid in resettling is

Prussels. Lydia went to this address and vas surprised to fiod

that it was the Soriet Repatriasion Mission. There abe met

ANARKACHUK who trled to persunde her to return to the USSR.

As & result, she and her sister wrote to their mother for her

opinion on the matter and the mother advised them to stay in

the weat.

/(6) She lived with

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ne described in illino os ta artiva aiii-cooraist.

Lao ile di tuo gecey va Lyais ut ¿indá uda ro entries

wymd: 157 men sie was still iria, la ariaels.

Thia Ioncy hai turnianed the fore una ialornation to the

•residenis Coraission on the Agsassination di Hresidont John F.

190rÜy.

TON IKE DEPUTY DICICI FOR L:33:

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ILIS ANCLATON

CECI - 3/760, 36)

Distribution:

Orig. & 1 - Addressee

1. = C/CI

VI - C/CI/SIG

1 - C/C1/3&A

1 - C/SR

1 • C/SR/CI

2 - C/SR/CI/R (hold cy & comebaci cy)

1 - SR/O/US/di

1 = 201-289,248

1 - R1/F1 (201-150, 620)

SR/CI/Research: AWBrabkOBCD

21 April 1964

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